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Sound and Fury (1988)
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Sound and Fury (1988)
Original name: De bruit et de fureur
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: This drama depicts the misery of neglected children in big cities. 13 years old Bruno is of a good family, but since the death of his grandmother he spends most of his time alone, in a phantasy world, while his mother is away at work. But then he befriends the violent Jean-Roger, who's from a severely disturbed family, where nobody cares what he's doing. In school Jean-Roger drives their teacher into despair just for fun. To separate the two boys, she starts to stimulate Bruno's interests by giving him extra lessons. When Jean-Roger fears loosing his one and only friend, he becomes even more aggressive.
Style: serious, neo noir, deep
Audience: teens
Plot: anarchist, mafia, children, boy, coming of age, boyhood, rape, violence, female nudity, journalist, domestic violence, theft, war veteran, basement, rage, social worker, big brother, son murders father, brother brother relationship, social issues, animal cruelty, social decay, urban violence, school teacher, teenage prostitute ...
Time: 80s
Place: france

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, touching and captivating films with plots about coming of age, female nudity, youth, boy, teenager, female full frontal nudity and children mostly in Drama, Crime and Romance genres. Some movies like Sound and Fury: Celine (1992), A Brutal Game (1983), White Wedding (1989), Softie (2021), Something in the Air (2012). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Celine (1992)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 88 min.
Story: After the death of her father, 22-year-old Céline inherits most of his estate, but gives it to her stepmother, causing her greedy fiancé to leave her. Following several failed suicide attempts, Céline is hospitalized and comes to the attention of ...
Style: art house, eros, erotic
Plot: girl, supernatural, oral sex, a vision, sex scene, female nudity, suicide, death, countryside, yoga, supernatural power, spirituality ...
Place: france
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A Brutal Game (1983)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The film follows a famous scientist (Bruno Cremer) who rules over his errant disabled daughter (Emmanuelle Debever) with an iron fist. He's meticulous and tyrannical, while she is impetuous but equally cruel in her own immature way.
Style: art house, hot
Plot: teenager, disability, darkness, handicapped, loneliness, coming of age, female nudity, sexual awakening, male nudity, daughter, father daughter relationship, father ...
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White Wedding (1989)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 92 min.
Story: The plot centres around moody 17 year old Mathilde (Paradis) who has no parents. Her philosophy teacher François (Cremer), happens to stumble across her path and is eager to help her learn more. He starts to come over to her house everyday going ...
Style: serious, sexual, realistic, sentimental, emotional ...
Plot: forbidden love, older man younger woman relationship, girl man relationship, teacher student relationship, obsession, youth, male teacher female student affair, coming of age, age difference, nudity, sex, power relations ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: france, europe, dunkirk, flanders
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47%
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Softie (2021)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Ten-year-old Johnny stands out from his family and his tough neighborhood in Eastern France. He's sensitive, intelligent and interested in all kinds of things way beyond his years. With curiosity, he observes the ups and downs of his young ...
Style: social
Plot: coming of age, gay crush, boy, lgbt, gay, teenager, lgbtq, boyhood, little boy, teacher student relationship, blond boy, museum ...
Place: france
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Something in the Air (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 122 min.
Story: During the 1970s a student named Gilles gets entangled in contemporary political turmoils although he would rather just be a creative artist. While torn between his solidarity to his friends and his personal ambitions he falls in love with Christine.
Style: atmospheric, realistic, political, psychological, captivating ...
Audience: family friendly, teens
Plot: anarchist, coming of age, politics, teenage life, self discovery, fighting the system, rebellion, society, youth, working class, counterculture, riot ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, year 1968, year 1971, 60s
Place: france, europe, paris france, florence, italy
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Dear Prudence (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 80 min.
Story: After the death of her mother, 17-year-old Prudence finds herself living alone in her Paris apartment. Then she meets Maryline, a rebel of her own age, who introduces her to the thrills of motorcycle racing on the biker circuit at Rungis. ...
Style: realistic, emotional, psychological, captivating, teen ...
Audience: teens
Plot: coming of age, teenage life, youth, teenage love, family problems, teenage girl, troubled youth, drug abuse, woman, death in the family, motorcycle race, car race ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: france, europe
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The Children's Rebellion (1992)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 97 min.
Story: In the 19th century, children -- particularly the children of the poor -- were considered to be an exploitable resource of docile and cheap labor. Anyone who had the effrontery to steal so much as a portion of a loaf of bread for any reason would ...
Plot: boy, coming of age, child, convict, social justice, teenage boy, violence, children, nudity, rebel, prison guard, child with gun ...
Time: 1840s
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The Devil in the Skin (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Coming-of-Age drama telling the story of the strong bond between Xavier and his little brother Jacques and their struggle to remain together despite all odds.
Style: touching, serious, realistic, sentimental
Plot: coming of age, youth, brother brother relationship, rebelliousness, forceful separation, summer, family relations, life turned upside down, countryside, boy, childhood, teenager ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
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Night and Day (1991)
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, France, Switzerland
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Jack and Julie live in a bare flat in Paris. At night, Jack drives a taxi while Julie wanders around the city, and in the day they make love. One day Julie meets Joseph, the daytime driver of the taxi, and soon Julie is spending her nights with ...
Plot: love, taxi driver, cat, taxi, male nudity, neighbor, female nudity, love triangle, job, apartment, taxi ride
Place: paris france, france
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No One's Child (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Serbia, Croatia
Duration: 95 min.
Story: The movie is based on the fascinating, true story of a feral boy whom hunters found among wolves in a forest in the mountains of Bosnia-Herzegovina (BiH) in the mid-1980s. The boy was sent to the institution for children in an attempt to socialize ...
Style: touching, serious, captivating
Plot: boy, neglected child, friendship, children, orphanage, bullying, forest, wolf, coming of age, boyhood, nature, capture ...
Place: serbia, croatia
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I'm Glad My Mother Is Alive (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 91 min.
Story: This finely acted, delicate and provocative new film by one of France’s most impressive filmmakers—working here with his son, Nathan—depicts the troubled life of an adopted boy who, as a taciturn adult, visits his birth mother and strikes up a ...
Style: sincere, serious, captivating, emotional, realistic ...
Audience: teens, toddlers
Plot: mother son reunion, youth, foster child, disorder, haunted by the past, parents and children, adoption, family relations, family problems, mischievous children, dysfunctional family, siblings relations ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: france, europe
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34%
It All Starts Today (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Set in a forlorn mining town near Valencienne in the north of France, the story is about one man's struggle to bring life to his once prosperous village and its inhabitants. Philippe Torreton, who won a César for Best Actor with his title role ...
Style: social, realistic, serious, thought provoking, sincere ...
Plot: teacher, education, professor, dedicated educator, kindergarten, poverty, labor, homeless, teaching, job, corrupt system, human rights ...
Time: year 1999, 90s, 20th century
Place: france, europe
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The Moon in the Gutter (1983)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 137 min.
Story: A dockworker seeking revenge on the killer of his sister finds himself the object of desire for two women.
Style: neo noir, surreal, mind bending, psychological, serious ...
Plot: glamour, surrealism, revenge, rape, murder, alcohol abuse, vengeance, investigation, love and romance, obsession, life is a bitch, rape and revenge ...
Time: year 1983, 80s
Place: france, marseille
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Wild Reeds (1994)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 110 min.
Story: As the Algerian War draws to a close, a teenager with a girlfriend starts feeling homosexual urges for two of his classmates: a country boy, and a French-Algerian intellectual.
Style: realistic, sad, lgbt cinema, homoerotic, serious ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: gay, male homosexuality, coming of age, friendship, homosexual, gay interest, masturbation, adolescence, homosexuality, small town, lgbtq, betrayal ...
Time: 60s, year 1994, 20th century
Place: france, algeria, africa, europe, south of france
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Jack (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Although he is only ten years old, Jack is responsible for himself and his little brother Manuel and this fills him with pride. Their single mother works during the day and often goes out at night. There’s no father in sight. One day, Manuel burns ...
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Time: 21st century
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Half-Price (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 63 min.
Story: Demi-Tarif follows the low-key adventures of three young siblings, Romeo, Launa, and the youngest - Leo, left on their own in a rundown Paris apartment. One of them narrates, wistfully explaining how their mother abandoned them and calls them once ...
Plot: child protagonist, children, home invasion, boy, shoplifting, little boy, little girl, female nudity, nudity, abandoned baby, train travel, public nudity ...
Place: paris france, france
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Mouchette (1967)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Robert Bresson plumbs great reservoirs of feelings with one of the most searing portraits of human desperation ever put on film.
Style: art house, black and white, depressing, contemplative, emotional ...
Audience: teens
Plot: coming of age, suicide, adolescence, existentialism, solitude, betrayal, sexual abuse, minimalism, children, child abuse, youth, innocence lost ...
Time: year 1967, 60s, 20th century
Place: france, europe
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Don Juan (1973)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Jeanne lives in Paris and believes she is the reincarnation of Don Juan. She visits a priest and tells him she has killed a man. He comes to her elegant flat - her father has died leaving her rich - and she tells the priest stories about men she has ...
Style: manga
Plot: lesbian sex, female nudity, lesbian, priest, seduction, reincarnation, erection, gay, bare breasts, lesbianism, playing footsie, suicide ...
Place: paris france, france
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28%
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The Evening Dress (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Like many of her classmates, 12 year old tomboy Juliette has a crush on Mrs. Solenska, a teacher distinguished by stylish attire and an uninhibited, provocative classroom demeanor. Juliette's fascination turns into all-consuming obsession, ...
Plot: lesbian, obsession, teenage love, teacher, school, teenage girl, suicide attempt, school teacher, forbidden love, lgbt, lgbtq, unrequited love ...
Place: spain, france
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Neds (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, France, Italy
Duration: 124 min.
Story: NEDs (Non Educated Delinquents) is the story of a young man’s journey from prize-winning schoolboy to knife-carrying teenager. Struggling against the low expectations of those around him, John McGill changes from victim to avenger, scholar to NED, ...
Style: rough, serious, realistic, bleak, disturbing ...
Plot: juvenile delinquency, street kid, bullying, coming of age, gang war, youth, social decay, teenage life, society, realism, social problems, rebellion ...
Time: year 2010, 70s, 20th century
Place: scotland, europe
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Standing Tall (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 120 min.
Story: The film tells the story of Malony and his education as he grows from a six-year-old into an 18-year-old. A minors’ judge and a caseworker work tirelessly to try to save the young offender.
Style: disturbing, touching, suspenseful, suspense, serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: juvenile delinquent, social worker, teen angst, juvenile delinquency, teenage boy, judge, nervousness, delinquent, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, imprisonment, compassion, anger ...
Time: year 2015, 90s, year 1997
Place: france
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Martha... Martha (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Having received a frosty reception when visiting her parents, Martha drags her husband Reymond and infant daughter Lise to Spain, to renew her acquaintance with her estranged sister Marie. After a quarrel, Marthe and her family return to France, ...
Style: suspenseful, psychological, realistic, serious
Plot: family reunited, family relations, dysfunctional family, mother daughter relationship, depression, sister sister relationship, husband wife relationship, mother child relationship, children, female pubic hair, female nudity, suicide ...
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My Good Enemy (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Sensitive 12-year-old Alf is the low man on his class' totem pole, and he's sick of it. Forming a secret, Machiavellian alliance with another student who also has grown weary of being bullied, he hatches a plan to throw a wrench into the ...
Style: psychological, sincere, captivating
Plot: boy, bullying, children, friendship, friendship between boys, coming of age, revenge, fight, scandinavian girl, retribution, violence, school ...
Place: scandinavia, denmark
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A Thousand Months (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium, Morocco, Germany
Duration: 124 min.
Story: 1981, Morocco. A village in the Atlas mountains. A city in the distance. A child. A family facing its destiny.
Audience: teens
Plot: little boy, authoritarianism, teenager, teacher, young boy, rural setting, school teacher, oppression, boy, wedding, suicide, death ...
Place: morocco
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Going Away (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Two unlikely friends — a supply teacher and a lonely young boy suspended between two estranged parents — embark on a weekend motorcycle voyage full of surprises and unforeseen consequences in this surprisingly tough, unsentimental drama.
Style: realistic, serious, tense, touching, captivating ...
Plot: haunted by the past, hopes, redemption, weekend, loneliness, women, neglected child, family problems, dysfunctional family, young boy, manor, existential loneliness ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, french riviera, south of france
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26%
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Heat Wave (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 88 min.
Story: One hot afternoon in the south of France, several paths are converging towards a tragic conclusion. Those involved are: Stéphane and Luigi, two cousins who have just emerged from adolescence; Georges, a retired old man; Amélie, Luigi’s ...
Style: atmospheric, realistic, serious, emotional, gloomy ...
Plot: boyfriend girlfriend relationship, introspection, unplanned pregnancy, family relations, human nature, youth, adolescence vs adulthood, parents and children, elderly, coming of age, hot guys, nude women ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, marseille, europe
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Secrets of the Heart (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, France, Portugal
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Javi and his friend Carlos visit an old house on the outskirts of a small Spanish village. According to his brother Juan this is a haunted house and one can hear the voices of the dead. Later he is intrigued with a room which is always closed (the ...
Style: emotional, realistic, serious, touching, sincere ...
Plot: dog sex, coming of age, youth, boy, friends, village life, boyhood, trippy, friendship, village, aunt nephew relationship, family relations ...
Time: year 1997, 90s, 60s
Place: spain, europe
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26%
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10 1/2 (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Tommy, 10 years old, is well known by Social Services. He is considered a danger to society. Gilles, his guardian at this halfway house, sees potential for redemption in this kid driven by violence.
Style: serious, realistic, captivating
Plot: boy, child abuse, kids in trouble, juvenile delinquent, social worker, life is a bitch, isolation, youth, danger, redemption, coming of age, police ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada, quebec
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No and Me (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: At thirteen-years-old, with an unusually high IQ and a knack for observing things about other people, Lou Bertignac is not only the youngest in her class at school; she is also the most unusual. Painfully shy, she has few friends, save for Lucas, ...
Style: serious, realistic, touching, teen, feel good
Audience: teens, girls' night
Plot: homelessness, depression, high school, human spirit, teenage life, social differences, teen drinking, youth, best friend, society, life is a bitch, gain trust ...
Time: year 2010
Place: france, europe, paris france
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Harmony Lessons (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Kazakhstan, Germany, France
Duration: 120 min.
Story: During a medical examination, 13-year-old Aslan is humiliated in front of a load of his fellow pupils. The incident unleashes his latent personality disorder. Plagued by self-doubt, he strives for cleanliness and perfection and is obsessed with ...
Style: realistic, serious, atmospheric, disturbing, gloomy
Audience: teen drama
Plot: boy, coming of age, youth, life is a bitch, village, bullying, social misfits, misfit, vengeance, teenage boy, humiliation, youth gang ...
Time: year 2013, 21st century
Place: kazakhstan, asia
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