Movies like Hounddog

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Hounddog (2007)
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Hounddog (2007)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A drama set in the American South, where a precocious, troubled girl finds a safe haven in the music and movement of Elvis Presley.
Style: disturbing, touching, serious, stylized, controversial, crying, erotic, gothic, sad, teen ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: sexual abuse, child's point of view, child molestation, child molester, nymphet, children, youth, music, child rape, blues, child, life is a bitch, elvis presley, family problems, escape from reality, poor white trash, solace, pedophile, coming of age, innocence lost, rape and revenge, precocious child, domestic violence, psychology, sex ...
Time: 1950s, 50s, 20th century
Place: alabama, usa
Keyword: oldies, stable

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, disturbing and sincere films with plots about youth, family relations, life is a bitch, sexual abuse, coming of age, society and rape mostly in Drama, Music and Thriller genres. Some movies like Hounddog: Bastard Out of Carolina (1996), The Secret Life of Bees (2008), Precious (2009), Things Behind the Sun (2001), Gardens of the Night (2008). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Bastard Out of Carolina (1996)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Difficult tale of poor, struggling South Carolinian mother & daughter, who each face painful choices with their resolve and pride. Bone, the eldest daughter, and Anney her tired mother, grow both closer and farther apart: Anney sees Glen as ...
Style: disturbing, realistic, emotional, touching, suspense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: sexual abuse, coming of age, rape, family relations, dysfunctional family, pedophile, parents and children, life is a bitch, domestic violence, child abuse, children, child rape ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, 90s, 1950s, 50s
Place: south carolina, usa, southern usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
The Secret Life of Bees (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Set in South Carolina in 1964, this is the tale of Lily Owens a 14 year-old girl who is haunted by the memory of her late mother. To escape her lonely life and troubled relationship with her father, Lily flees with Rosaleen, her caregiver and only ...
Style: sincere, touching, sentimental, emotional, sweet ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, teen drama, adult
Plot: racism, civil rights, african american, teenage life, friendship, coming of age, children, interracial relations, haunted by the past, family relations, black, teenager ...
Time: year 2008, 60s, 20th century, year 1964
Place: south carolina, indiana, africa, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.3
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Precious (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Set in Harlem in 1987, Claireece "Precious" Jones is a 16-year-old African American girl born into a life no one would want. She's pregnant for the second time by her absent father; at home, she must wait hand and foot on her mother, ...
Style: bleak, depressing, emotional, rough, sad ...
Audience: teens, teen drama, adult
Plot: rape, dysfunctional family, sexual abuse, teacher, poverty, child abuse, aids, illiteracy, domestic violence, african american, life is a bitch, parents and children ...
Time: 2000s, 20th century, year 1987, 80s
Place: new york, america, harlem, new york city, usa, harlem ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Things Behind the Sun (2001)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A young music journalist's dark memories are awakened when he goes to interview a female rock singer, and both are forced to confront troubling secrets from their pasts.
Style: sincere, emotional, serious, realistic, erotic ...
Plot: rape, haunted by the past, sexual abuse, forced sexual contact, gang rape, teenage girl, rapist, journalist, musician's life, memory, secret, coping ...
Place: florida, usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Gardens of the Night (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: After being abducted as children, and suffering years of abuse, a teenage boy and girl find themselves living on the street.
Style: bleak, serious, sincere, teen, depressing ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: kidnapping, child prostitution, child molester, pimp, child molestation, rape, abuse, child abduction, pedophile, haunted by the past, pedophilia, child abuse ...
Place: california, usa, pennsylvania, san diego california
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.0
 3K
Accused (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 103 min.
Story: On the surface Henrik and Nina Christofferson are an ordinary family living happily. But they have a problem. Their daughter, Stine, a difficult 14 year old, has a habit of telling lies in class. When Stine accuses her father of sexual abuse, and is ...
Style: disturbing, tense, serious, bleak, gloomy ...
Plot: sexual abuse, incest, child abuse, lawyer, family relations, under the surface, parents and children, family problems, youth, life is a bitch, incestuous relationship, nordic ...
Time: 21st century
Place: denmark
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Heart Is Deceitful Above All Things (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, UK, France, Japan
Duration: 98 min.
Story: The dysfunctional twenty-three years old Sarah takes her six year old natural son Jeremiah from the home of his beloved foster parents with the support of the social service to live with her. Along the years, the boy shares her insane and lowlife ...
Style: disturbing, psychological, rough, serious, depressing ...
Plot: child abuse, pedophile, rape, sex, child molester, sexual abuse, child rape, coming of age, police, psychologist, child molestation, dysfunctional family ...
Time: year 2004
Place: tennessee, indiana, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.5
 605
Virgin (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: When a teenager finds herself pregnant, with no memory of having had sex, she determines that she is carrying the child of God.
Style: realistic, touching, captivating, psychological, erotic ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: pregnancy, coming of age, family relations, clergy, society, youth, teenage life, parents and children, small town, teenage girl, virginity, pastor ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Angela (1995)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A ten year old girl named Angela leads her six year old sister, Ellie, through various regimens of 'purification' in an attempt to rid themselves of their evil, which she believes to be the cause of their mother's mental illness. ...
Style: psychological, sincere, touching, atmospheric, disturbing ...
Plot: mental illness, dysfunctional family, girl, youth, pedophile, coming of age, spirituality, child's point of view, obsession, sister sister relationship, self discovery, mysticism ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york, usa, new york state
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.4
 13K
Fat Girl (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Elena is 15, beautiful and flirtatious. Her less confident sister, Anais, is 12, and constantly eats. On holiday, Elena meets a young Italian student who is determined to seduce her. Anais is forced to watch in silence, conspiring with the lovers, ...
Style: bleak, erotic, psychological, sexy, tense ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, innocence lost, rape, sexuality, virginity, first love, virgin, defloration, female nudity, sexual abuse, first time, rapist ...
Time: 90s, year 2001, 2000s
Place: france, south of france, rome italy, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.8
 97K
Thirteen (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Tracy is a normal 13-year-old trying to make it in school. After befriending the most popular girl at school, Evie, Tracy's world is turned upside down when Evie introduces her to a world of sex, drugs and cash. But it isn't long before ...
Style: tense, teen, realistic, sincere, disturbing ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, teen drama, adult
Plot: coming of age, drug addiction, teenager, peer pressure, friendship, addiction, dysfunctional family, teenage protagonist, underage drinking, teenage girl, mother daughter relationship, self harm ...
Time: year 2003, y2k, near future, 20th century, 2000s ...
Place: california, usa, los angeles, venice beach california
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.0
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Kids (1995)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A controversial portrayal of teens in New York City which exposes a deeply disturbing world of sex and substance abuse. The film focuses on a sexually reckless, freckle-faced boy named Telly, whose goal is to have sex with as many different girls as ...
Style: disturbing, depressing, psychedelic, independent film, bleak ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, kids, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, aids, innocence lost, virginity, youth, puberty, sex, underage sex, drug abuse, sexual promiscuity, street kid, teenager ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york, seattle, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.2
 29K
Speak (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Freshman high-school student Melinda has refused to speak ever since she called the cops on a popular summer party. With her old friends snubbing her for being a rat, and her parents too busy to notice her troubles, she folds into herself, trying to ...
Style: touching, sentimental, psychological, independent film, sincere ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: rape, high school, teenage girl, school, bullying, youth, innocence lost, family problems, life is a bitch, unsupportive friend, teenage life, sexual abuse ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Something About Amelia (1984)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The movie follows the Bennett family after Amelia tells her school counselor that her father has sexually abused her.
Style: serious, realistic, thought provoking, sincere, sexual
Plot: childhood sexual abuse, sexual abuse, abuse, woman in danger, incest, sexual content, sex maniac, life is a bitch, innocence lost, youth, family problems, kids in trouble ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.1
 297
Maya (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 105 min.
Story: MAYA is a coming of age story set against an outlawed brutal practice of ritual rape still occurring in some parts of India.
Style: thought provoking, disturbing, sincere, emotional, grim ...
Plot: coming of age, youth, sexual abuse, religions or cults, kids in trouble, injustice, parents and children, life is a bitch, society, moral dilemma, introspection, family problems ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.9
 12K
Towelhead (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: A young Arab-American girl struggles with her sexual obsession, a bigoted Army reservist and her strict father during the Gulf War.
Style: disturbing, sensual, melancholic, controversial, compassionate ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, pedophilia, sexual exploration, adolescence, sexual abuse, sex with a minor, child abuse, older man younger woman relationship, child molestation, teenager, age difference, racism ...
Time: year 2007, 90s, year 1990, year 1991
Place: austin texas, usa, houston texas, texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Color Purple (1985)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 154 min.
Story: An epic tale spanning forty years in the life of Celie, an African-American woman living in the South who survives incredible abuse and bigotry. After Celie's abusive father marries her off to the equally debasing "Mister" Albert ...
Style: sentimental, uplifting, touching, inspirational, sad ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: african american, incest, sexual abuse, domestic violence, rape, life is a bitch, feminism, slavery, incest rape, abusive relationship, wife abuse, lgbtq ...
Time: edwardian era, 20th century, 1930s, year 1985, 1920s ...
Place: africa, southern usa, usa, tennessee, georgia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.2
 11K
The War Zone (1999)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy, UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story: An alienated teenager, saddened that he has moved away from London, must find a way to deal with a dark family secret.
Style: disturbing, bleak, rough, depressing, heartbreaking ...
Plot: incest, sexual abuse, father daughter incest, dysfunctional family, incestuous relationship, loneliness, mother daughter relationship, brother sister relationship, father daughter relationship, incest rape, small town, innocence lost ...
Time: year 1999, 20th century, 90s
Place: england, europe, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
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Black Snake Moan (2006)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: A God-fearing bluesman takes to a wild young woman who, as a victim of childhood sexual abuse, is looking everywhere for love, but never quite finding it.
Style: sexy, melancholic, emotional, rough, cult classic ...
Plot: sex scene, captive, nymphomaniac, unfaithful girlfriend, promiscuous woman, sex addict, friendship, drug, going straight, nervous breakdown, trauma, blues ...
Time: 21st century
Place: tennessee, southern usa, usa, mississippi
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Xiu Xiu: The Sent-Down Girl (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: China, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Young teen girl Xiu Xiu is sent away to a remote corner of the Sichuan steppes for manual labor in 1975 (sending young people to there was a part of Cultural Revolution in China). A year later, she agrees to go to even more remote spot with a ...
Style: depressing, emotional, disturbing, erotic, realistic ...
Plot: prostitute, underage sex, loss of innocence, revolution, innocence lost, coming of age, women of color, corruption, death, loneliness, communism, totalitarian regime ...
Time: year 1998, 70s, 20th century
Place: china, asia, tibet
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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The Woodsman (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A paedophile returns to his hometown after 12 years in prison and attempts to start a new life.
Style: disturbing, independent film, psychological, emotional, harsh ...
Plot: pedophilia, friendship, parole officer, pedophile, sexual perversion, starting over, ex convict, psychology, factory worker, suspicion, anger, haunted by the past ...
Time: year 2004, 21st century
Place: philadelphia
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 6.5
 13K
Pretty Baby (1978)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Hattie (Susan Sarandon), a New Orleans hooker, meets a photographer named Bellocq (Keith Carradine) at her brothel one night and, after he photographs her, he befriends her 12-year-old daughter, Violet (Brooke Shields). When Violet is brought on as ...
Style: controversial, disturbing, sexy, atmospheric, melancholic ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: prostitution, virginity, child prostitution, innocence lost, photographer, loss of virginity, girl man relationship, world war one, nymphet, brothel, nudity, child prostitute ...
Time: 1910s, victorian era, year 1978, ancient times, 20th century ...
Place: new orleans, america, louisiana, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 7.3
 4K
Songcatcher (2000)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: After being denied a promotion at the university where she teaches, Doctor Lily Penleric, a brilliant musicologist, impulsively visits her sister, who runs a struggling rural school in Appalachia. There she stumbles upon the discovery of her life - ...
Style: sentimental, touching, lyrical, sincere, emotional ...
Plot: lesbian, culture clash, music, self discovery, fish out of water, social differences, love and romance, opposites attract, human nature, isolation, writers, sister sister relationship ...
Time: 1900s, 20th century
Place: scotland, appalachia, england, spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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The Ballad of Jack and Rose (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Jack Slavin is an environmentalist with a heart condition who lives with his daughter, Rose, on an isolated island. While Jack fights against developers who wish to build in the area, he also craves more contact with other people. When he invites ...
Style: melancholic, disturbing, sentimental, touching, emotional ...
Plot: incest, father daughter relationship, single parent, depression, single father, isolation, parents and children, incestuous relationship, rebelliousness, teenage life, coming of age, family drama ...
Time: 80s, year 2005, 20th century, year 1986
Place: usa, vermont
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 6.7
 3K
Smithereens (1982)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A narcissistic runaway engages in a number of parasitic relationships amongst members of New York's waning punk scene.
Style: independent film, sexy, indie film, psychological thriller, grim ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: punk rock, punk, feminist, rock, rock and roll, coming of age, price of fame, visceral, bad girl, underground, feminism, pain ...
Time: year 1982, 80s
Place: new york, usa, new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
We Are the Best! (2013)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: Sweden, Denmark
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Three girls in 1980s Stockholm decide to form a punk band -- despite not having any instruments and being told by everyone that punk is dead.
Style: touching, stylized, lyrical, feel good, semi serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: music, punk, teenager, coming of age, teenage girl, friendship, punk rock, rebellion, adolescence, children, girl power, teenage life ...
Time: 80s, year 1982, year 2013, 20th century
Place: seattle, europe, eastern europe, scandinavia, stockholm sweden
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Return to Innocence (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Director Rocky Costanzo's searing legal drama centers on a highly credentialed child psychologist named Glen Erskine (Richard Meese) whose life is shattered when he's accused of sexually assaulting a young boy he's been treating. ...
Style: psychological, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, serious ...
Plot: pedophilia, coming of age, courtroom, man boy relationship, redemption, life is a bitch, sexual abuse, parents and children, dysfunctional family, teenage life, custody, family problems ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
What's Love Got to Do with It (1993)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: A film about the singer Tina Turner and how she rose to stardom with her abusive husband Ike Turner and how she gained the courage to break free.
Style: inspirational, sincere, intense, emotional, serious ...
Audience: chick flick, date night
Plot: music, black woman, domestic violence, biopic, african american, musician, rock and roll, violence against women, african american woman, showbiz, childhood, musician's life ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, 60s, 80s, year 1993
Place: usa, africa, tennessee
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Violet Perfume: No One Is Listening (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico, Netherlands
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A poignant and moving urban drama, focusing on the growing problem of sexual assault in Mexico City. Director Sistach fictionalizes the true story of a friendship between two adolescent girls which is torn apart when one of them is brutally raped.
Style: realistic, serious, disturbing, bleak, rough ...
Plot: sexual abuse, life is a bitch, family relations, social decay, woman in danger, rich and poor, family problems, city life, urban ghetto life, gender, youth, sexual harassment ...
Time: 21st century
Place: mexico, latin america, mexico city
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
A Cowgirl's Song (2022)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: An aspiring but adrift teen singer goes to live with her grandmother, once a country music legend, but has fallen on hard times after the death of her husband five years earlier. Together, they overcome adversity and find redemption through their ...
Style: psychological, captivating, disturbing
Plot: musician, country music, teenager, family relations, family problems, kids and family, teenage girl, teenage life, grandmother, lifestyle, female singer, relationships ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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