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The Child (2005)
 7.4
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The Child (2005)
Original name: L'enfant
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Bruno and Sonia, a young couple living off her benefit and the thefts committed by his gang, have a new source of money: their newborn son.
Style: sincere, emotional, harsh, rough, depressing, art house, independent film, bleak, realistic, aesthetic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: homeless, poverty, youth, dysfunctional family, baby, black market, social decay, going straight, life is a bitch, society, family problems, petty criminal, regret, human nature, street kid, change of heart, adolescence vs adulthood, money, social realism, loser, european, realism, money problems, theft, morality ...
Time: 2000s, year 2005, 90s, 21st century, contemporary
Place: belgium, france, europe, tokyo

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Most similar movies to The Child

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, sincere and emotional films with plots about society, life is a bitch, family relations, coming of age, friendship, youth and friend mostly in Drama, Crime and Romance genres. Some movies like The Child: Lilya 4-Ever (2002), Rosetta (1999), Two Days, One Night (2014), 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2007), Student Services (2010). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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 7.8
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Lilya 4-Ever (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Sweden, Denmark
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Lilya lives in poverty and dreams of a better life. Her mother moves to the United States and abandons her to her aunt, who neglects her. Lilya hangs out with her friends, Natasha and Volodya, who is suicidal. Desperate for money, she starts working ...
Style: bleak, depressing, sad, harsh, brutal ...
Audience: teens, teen drama, adult
Plot: human trafficking, poverty, prostitution, suicide, sexual abuse, prostitute, life is a bitch, teenage prostitution, teenage life, youth, rape, slavery ...
Time: year 2002
Place: europe, denmark, russia, soviet union, eastern europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.4
 15K
Rosetta (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Young and impulsive Rosetta lives with her alcoholic mother and, moved by despair, she will do anything to maintain a job.
Style: serious, bleak, art house, contemplative, realistic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: unemployment, fishing, poverty, alcoholic mother, snitch, realism, loneliness, mother daughter relationship, alcoholic, life is a bitch, coming of age, family problems ...
Time: year 1999, 90s, 20th century
Place: belgium, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
Two Days, One Night (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, France, Italy
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Sandra is a young woman who has only one weekend to convince her colleagues they must give up their bonuses in order for her to keep her job — not an easy task in this economy.
Style: depressing, independent film, sincere, serious, compassionate ...
Audience: teens
Plot: depression, unemployment, injustice, working class, female protagonist, solidarity, workplace, loss of job, employer employee relationship, moral dilemma, guilt, poverty ...
Time: year 2014, 90s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: belgium, france, ethiopia, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Romania, Belgium
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Gabita is pregnant, abortion is strictly forbidden in Romania during the communist regime. Despite this it is common practice and Gabita wants an abortion. The movie follows her and her friend Otilia during the day she has made the appointment with ...
Style: depressing, disturbing, bleak, melancholic, tense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: abortion, sexual abuse, friendship, unwanted pregnancy, communism, rape, realism, communist, doctor, coming of age, young woman, character study ...
Time: 80s, year 2007, 2000s, year 1987, 20th century
Place: romania, transylvania, eastern europe, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Student Services (2010)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Laura is a 19-year-old university freshman who desperately wants to do well in school. She works a part-time job but cannot make ends meet. One evening in which she is short of funds, she answers a personal ad online by "Joe," 57, who ...
Style: realistic, psychological, sexy, erotic, romantic ...
Audience: adult
Plot: innocence lost, prostitution, prostitute, money problems, gang rape, lifestyle, student life, sexual promiscuity, university, college student, youth, lust ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.7
 9K
The Promise (1996)
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, France, Luxembourg, Tunisia
Duration: 90 min.
Story: In this acclaimed and gripping social portrait of immoral lives in need of rescue, Igor (Jérémie Renier), aged 15, and his father Roger (Olivier Gourmet) deal in housing and peddling illicit labor in the outlying districts of Liege, Belgium. ...
Style: sincere, slow cinema, thought provoking, art house, aesthetic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: coming of age, immigrant, father son relationship, youth, melancholy, existentialism, refugee, dysfunctional family, immigration, migration, exile, past ...
Time: year 1996, 90s
Place: antwerp, france, belgium, los angeles, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
 7.0
 7K
Sister (2012)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Switzerland, France
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A drama set at a Swiss ski resort and centered on a boy who supports his sister by stealing from wealthy guests.
Style: realistic, serious, atmospheric, captivating, social ...
Audience: teens
Plot: coming of age, ski, dysfunctional family, life is a bitch, snow, petty criminal, mountain, boy, self discovery, society, family relations, unemployment ...
Time: 21st century
Place: switzerland, france, europe, swiss alps, alps
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 7.4
 16K
Sweet Sixteen (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK, Germany, Spain
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Determined to have a normal family life once his mother gets out of prison, a Scottish teenager from a tough background sets out to raise the money for a home.
Style: disturbing, realistic, sentimental, bleak, depressing ...
Audience: teens, toddlers, teen drama
Plot: heroin, coming of age, innocence lost, drug dealing, juvenile delinquency, prison, drug dealer, downfall, dysfunctional family, family relations, teenager, life is a bitch ...
Time: year 2002, 90s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: scotland, glasgow scotland, europe, united kingdom
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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 7.5
 10K
The Son (2002)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A joinery instructor at a rehab center refuses to take a new teen as his apprentice, but then begins to follow the boy through the hallways and streets.
Style: psychological, bleak, compassionate, meditative, atmospheric ...
Plot: youth, obsession, redemption, forgiveness, apprentice, going straight, teenage life, family problems, working class, parents and children, teachers and students, death in the family ...
Time: year 2002, 90s, 2000s, future, 21st century
Place: france, usa, belgium, europe, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Slumdog Millionaire (2008)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Jamal Malik is an impoverished Indian teen who becomes a contestant on the Hindi version of ‘Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?’ but, after he wins, he is suspected of cheating.
Style: touching, uplifting, realistic, motivational, feel good ...
Audience: date night, teens, chick flick, teen drama, adult
Plot: poverty, childhood, rags to riches, destiny, orphan, society, against the odds, life is a bitch, love, street life, cheating, ambition ...
Time: year 2008, 2000s, 20th century, 90s, year 2005 ...
Place: india, mumbai india, asia, britain, taj mahal
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 6.7
 20K
Kidulthood (2006)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A day in the life of a group of troubled 15-year-olds growing up in west London.
Style: hood, serious, tense, rough, teen ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: urban ghetto life, bullying, gang, ghetto, coming of age, juvenile delinquency, urban, teenage life, social decay, gangster, friendship, teenage love ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: london, england, united kingdom, britain, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
American Heart (1992)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Jack is now out of jail and he meets Nick, his adolescent son. Their relationship will be complicated, because Jack has a problem with alcohol. But his love for Nick will help him to get over the past and reach his dreams.
Style: realistic, serious, emotional, touching, rough ...
Audience: manly
Plot: father son relationship, adaptation, complex characters, boy, starting over, prison, going straight, estrangement, family relations, prisoner, society, human nature ...
Time: 20th century, year 1992, 90s
Place: seattle, usa, alaska, washington state
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 6.7
 3K
Joe the King (1999)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A destitute 14 year old struggles to keep his life together despite harsh abuse at his mother's hands, harsher abuse at his father's, and a growing separation from his slightly older brother. Petty thefts for food grow into more major ...
Style: emotional, harsh, tense, rough, grim ...
Plot: coming of age, children, dysfunctional family, child abuse, working class, youth, boy, redemption, poverty, childhood, corporal punishment, debt ...
Time: year 1999, 70s, 90s
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Hurricane Streets (1997)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Marcus is a kid on Manhattan's mean streets. He's turning 15, his father is dead, his mother is in prison for smuggling undocumented aliens. His grandmother is raising him. He has four close buddies who have a basement clubhouse; they ...
Style: independent film, realistic, serious, rough, bleak ...
Plot: coming of age, gang, friendship, dysfunctional family, boy, children, violence, teenager, runaway, worship, smuggling, theft ...
Time: year 1997, 90s
Place: new york, new mexico, lower east side manhattan new york city, manhattan new york city, alaska
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
The Architect (2006)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: An architect engages in conflict with an activist who lives in a dangerous complex the architect designed.
Style: serious, emotional, melancholic, absurd, realistic ...
Plot: architect, dysfunctional family, social differences, lifestyle, family problems, parents and children, society, human nature, youth, life is a bitch, gay interest, lgbt ...
Time: year 2006, year 2005
Place: chicago, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 7.5
 11K
All or Nothing (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, France
Duration: 128 min.
Story: Penny's love for her partner, taxi-driver Phil, has run dry. He is a gentle, philosophical guy, and she works on the checkout at a supermarket...
Style: depressing, emotional, realistic, serious, bleak ...
Plot: working class, taxi driver, dysfunctional family, loneliness, depression, poverty, family problems, injustice, parents and children, couples, unwanted pregnancy, family in crisis ...
Time: year 2002, 21st century
Place: england, london, europe, florida, algeria
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 7.2
 32K
Tsotsi (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK, South Africa
Duration: 95 min.
Story: The South African multi-award winning film about a young South African boy from the ghetto named Tsotsi, meaning Gangster. Tsotsi, who left home as a child to get away from helpless parents, finds a baby in the back seat of a car that he has just ...
Style: sincere, bleak, emotional, harsh, captivating ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: baby, poverty, urban ghetto life, society, slum, friendship, childhood, coming of age, murder, street life, robbery, african ...
Time: 21st century
Place: south africa, africa, johannesburg south africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
The Kid with a Bike (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, France, Italy
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Abandoned by his father, a young boy is left in the hands of an unqualified childcare provider.
Style: sincere, realistic, meditative, emotional, surreal ...
Plot: childhood, kids in trouble, boy, adoption, realism, orphan, youth, adoptive mother, coming of age, social problems, petty criminal, life is a bitch ...
Time: year 2011, year 2012, 2010s, 21st century
Place: belgium, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
10%
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In a Better World (2010)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 118 min.
Story: The lives of two Danish families cross each other, and an extraordinary but risky friendship comes into bud. But loneliness, frailty and sorrow lie in wait.
Style: thought provoking, touching, bleak, harsh, gloomy ...
Audience: teens
Plot: bully, bullying, father son relationship, friendship, revenge, divorce, loneliness, childhood, youth, parenthood, society, alienation ...
Time: year 2010, 2010s, 21st century
Place: africa, sudan, scandinavia, denmark, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 7.2
 17K
A Better Life (2011)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A gardener in East L.A. struggles to keep his son away from gangs and immigration agents while traveling across town to perform landscaping work for the city's wealthy landowners.
Style: touching, realistic, sincere, thought provoking, inspirational ...
Plot: immigrant, single father, u.s. mexico border, american dream, truck, father son relationship, single parent, parenthood, character study, teenage life, working class, life is a bitch ...
Time: year 2011, 2010s, september 11 2001, 21st century
Place: los angeles, california, mexico, southern california, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 6.4
 16K
Baby Boy (2001)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story: The story of Jody, a misguided, 20-year-old African-American who is really just a baby boy finally forced-kicking and screaming to face the commitments of real life. Streetwise and jobless, he has not only fathered two children by two different ...
Style: hood, stylized, intense, light, emotional ...
Plot: womanizer, single parent, gang, african american, black, unlikely friendships, gangster, urban, organized crime, twists and turns, ghetto, hip hop ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles, california, south central los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 5.7
 308
Love Child (1982)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: It's an extraordinarily touching true-story about Terry Jean Moore, the determined, independent and young woman who is imprisoned for 7 years on account of a "five dollar" robbery. In the prison she will be pregnant by a jailer and ...
Style: thought provoking, realistic, serious, sincere
Plot: coming of age, pregnancy, prison, gang, women in prison, prison life, heist, adoption, custody, love affair, infidelity, family relations ...
Time: year 1982, 80s
Place: florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 6.4
 23K
The Yards (2000)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: In the rail yards of Queens, contractors repair and rebuild the city's subway cars. These contracts are lucrative, so graft and corruption are rife. When Leo Handler gets out of prison, he finds his aunt married to Frank Olchin, one of the big ...
Style: tense, bleak, neo noir, emotional, intense ...
Plot: corruption, betrayal, political corruption, murder, whistleblower, character study, police corruption, false accusation, mafia, female nudity, injustice, life is a bitch ...
Time: year 2000, 2000s, 90s
Place: new york, brooklyn new york city, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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 7.4
 12K
Money (1983)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France, Switzerland
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A forged 500-franc note is cynically passed from person to person and shop to shop, until it falls into the hands of a genuine innocent who doesn't see it for what it is - which will have devastating consequences on his life, causing him to ...
Style: spiritual, slow cinema, cynical, neo noir, anthology ...
Plot: betrayal, prison, trial, existentialism, post war, modernism, labor, spirit, spirituality, entertainment, fugitive, dream ...
Time: 80s, year 1983
Place: france, europe, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 5.1
 721
Crutch (2004)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: An autobiographical film taken from the experiences of writer-director Rob Moretti, CRUTCH is a coming-of-age tale about a young man's struggle with family problems and substance abuse. Behind a facade of suburban middle class perfection, ...
Style: psychological, serious, realistic, emotional, bleak ...
Plot: coming of age, gay, dysfunctional family, family relations, rehabilitation, suburbs, kids in trouble, dangerous attraction, lifestyle, social decay, teenage life, family problems ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
Breaking and Entering (2006)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Set in a blighted, inner-city neighbourhood of London, Breaking and Entering examines an affair which unfolds between a successful British landscape architect and Amira, a Bosnian woman – the mother of a troubled teen son – who was widowed by ...
Style: sincere, heartbreaking, compassionate, psychological, stylized ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: immigrant, infidelity, architect, autism, destiny, society, blackmail, working class, social differences, depression, single parent, breaking and entering ...
Time: year 2006, 20th century, 21st century
Place: london, england, europe, sarajevo, bosnia
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
 7.6
 27K
Vera Drake (2004)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Abortionist Vera Drake finds her beliefs and practices clash with the mores of 1950s Britain – a conflict that leads to tragedy for her family.
Style: sincere, depressing, bleak, compassionate, contemplative ...
Plot: abortion, working class, unwanted pregnancy, pregnancy, neighbor, injustice, miscarriage, life is a bitch, double life, character study, abortionist, family life ...
Time: 50s, year 2004, 90s, 2000s, 20th century ...
Place: england, london, europe, dunkirk, burma ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
Or (My Treasure) (2004)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Israel
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Or shoulders a lot: she's 17 or 18, a student, works evenings at a restaurant, recycles cans and bottles for cash, and tries to keep her mother Ruthie from returning to streetwalking in Tel Aviv. Ruthie calls Or "my treasure," but ...
Style: serious, thought provoking, realistic, psychological, sincere ...
Plot: prostitution, escort, prostitute, down on your luck, family relations, coming of age, parents and children, life is a bitch, lifestyle, dysfunctional family, family problems, youth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: middle east, indiana, palestine, persia, israel ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
Yi Yi: A One and a Two... (2000)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Taiwan, Japan
Duration: 173 min.
Story: Each member of a family in Taipei asks hard questions about life's meaning as they live through everyday quandaries.
Style: touching, art house, philosophical, depressing, lyrical ...
Plot: midlife crisis, first love, existentialism, wedding, children, dysfunctional family, coma, lovers reunited, love, photography, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship, marital crisis ...
Time: 2000s, 90s
Place: japan, taipei, east asia, asia, tokyo ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
Better Luck Tomorrow (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A group of over-achieving Asian-American high school seniors enjoy a power trip when they dip into extra-curricular criminal activities.
Style: tense, disturbing, intense, depressing, rough ...
Audience: teens
Plot: high school, coming of age, gang, friendship, teenager, cheerleader, visceral, mentor, unlikely friendships, adolescence, crime gone awry, juvenile delinquency ...
Time: year 2002, 2000s, 21st century
Place: california, los angeles, usa, las vegas
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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