Movies like I Am David
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I Am David (2003)
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Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Based on Anne Holm's acclaimed young adult novel North to Freedom, I Am David chronicles the struggles of a 12-year-old boy (Ben Tibber) who manages to flee a Communist concentration camp on his own -- through sheer will and determination. All he has in his possession is a loaf of bread, a letter to deliver to someone in Denmark and a compass to help get him there.
Style:
emotional, sentimental, touching, uplifting, tense, sad, serious, epic, realistic, inspirational ...
Audience:
family outing, family friendly, kids, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
boy, self discovery, friendship, coming of age, rescue, children, hopes, human spirit, danger, courage, holocaust, boyhood, youth, communism, world war two, book, brutality, catholic, wilhelm scream, past, traveler, cold war, intrigue, christian, inspiration ...
Time:
year 2003, year 1951, 1950s, post world war two, year 1952, 50s, contemporary
Place:
switzerland, denmark, italy, europe, greece, eastern europe, bulgaria ...
Keyword:
bulgarian, english, swiss
Most similar movies to I Am David
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, touching and emotional films with plots about friendship, coming of age, youth, boy, family relations, father son relationship and hopes mostly in Drama, Adventure and Family genres. Some movies like I Am David: Edges of the Lord (2001), Duma (2005), Tom Brown's Schooldays (2005), King Jack (2015), Fly Away Home (1996). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA, Poland
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A 12-year-old Jewish boy hides with a family of Catholic peasant farmers to escape the Nazis.
Style:
touching, sentimental, emotional, realistic, contemplative ...
Audience:
date night, family outing
Plot:
holocaust, world war two, wartime life, catholic, nazi, coming of age, human spirit, survival, hidden identity, fish out of water, anti semitism, lifesaver ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century
Place:
poland, europe
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
An orphaned cheetah becomes the best friend and pet of a young boy living in South Africa.
Style:
sweet, touching, sentimental, captivating, inspirational ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, teens, preschool
Plot:
wild animal, lion, wilderness, rescue, adolescence, youth, boy, bully, animal, bullying, coming of age, desert ...
Time:
year 2005
Place:
africa, south africa, kenya
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100%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
The determined new headmaster of an English prep school attempts to reform the frequently unruly students, who are tormented by a ruthless bully.
Style:
realistic, touching, serious, exciting, tense ...
Plot:
bullying, corporal punishment, boarding school, coming of age, friends, self discovery, boys' school, power relations, lifestyle, misfit, dedicated educator, hardcase students ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era
Place:
england, europe
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100%
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Growing up in a rural town filled with violent delinquents, Jack has learned to do what it takes to survive, despite having an oblivious mother and no father. After his aunt falls ill and a younger cousin comes to stay with him, the hardened ...
Style:
serious, touching, realistic, independent film
Audience:
teens
Plot:
coming of age, bullying, teenage boy, friendship, small town, teenage life, brutality, violence, party, mental illness, cruelty, drinking ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york state
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Amy is only 13 years old when her mother is killed. She goes to Canada to live with her father, an eccentric inventor whom she barely knows. Amy is miserable in her new life... until she discovers a nest of goose eggs that were abandoned when a ...
Style:
uplifting, touching, serious, inspirational, sentimental ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, teens, family friendly, pre-teens ...
Plot:
goose, rescue, aviation, bird, father daughter relationship, single father, environmental, animal, childhood, heartwarming, tragedy, against the odds ...
Time:
90s, year 1996, 20th century
Place:
canada, new zealand, north carolina, new york, ontario canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A bush pilot in nothern Canada who with the aid of modernity thinks he can handle it all & knows it all. After reluctantly agreeing to transport a local indian girl to a medical facility his light plane crashes & they have to survive whilst ...
Style:
emotional, serious, sentimental, realistic, compassionate ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
survival, nature, wilderness, arctic, airplane, human spirit, friendship, rescue, hunter, isolation, friends, hopes ...
Time:
50s, 20th century, year 1953, post world war two, 1950s
Place:
canada, antarctic, persia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, War
Country: Germany
Duration: 158 min.
Story:
The German soldier Clemens Forel - determined to be reunited with his beloved family - makes a dramatic escape through bitter cold winters, desolate landscapes, and life threatening ventures from a Siberian labor camp after World War II. 8000 miles ...
Style:
serious, realistic, tense, suspenseful, sincere ...
Plot:
world war two, survival, gulag, human spirit, pow, confined, getting home, captivity, wehrmacht, danger, jail, nazi ...
Time:
1940s, 50s, year 1939, year 1952, year 1947 ...
Place:
ussr, germany, soviet union, siberia, baltics ...
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100%
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
"End of the Spear" is the story of Mincayani, a Waodani tribesman from the jungles of Ecuador. When five young missionaries, among them Jim Elliot and Nate Saint, are speared to death by the Waodani in 1956, a series of events unfold to ...
Style:
inspirational, christian film, tense, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
christian, christianity, culture clash, murder, life philosophy, battles, family relations, coming of age, courage, self discovery, introspection, dealing with death ...
Time:
1940s, 1950s
Place:
ecuador
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100%
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, History
Country: USA, United Arab Emirates, Poland, India
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
Peter Weir's follow-up to Master & Commander (2003) is the stark & brilliant The Way Back, which takes on the theme of man's struggle for freedom. At the dawn of WWII, several men escape from a Russian gulag. The film ...
Style:
epic, realistic, inspirational, road movie, rough ...
Plot:
survival, escape, prison escape, wilderness, war, freedom, journey, world war two, desert, gulag, pow, convict ...
Time:
2010s, 1940s, 20th century
Place:
himalaya, russia, soviet union, asia, mongolia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Jack London's classic adventure story about the friendship developed between a Yukon gold hunter and the mixed dog-wolf he rescues from the hands of a man who mistreats him.
Style:
touching, sentimental, sincere, captivating, epic ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot:
dog, survival, human animal relationship, wilderness, treasure, pets, friendship, animal, dog sled, unlikely friendships, daring rescue, winter ...
Time:
19th century, 1800s, year 1991, 1890s
Place:
alaska, yukon, america, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Three Russian street kids, who live on their wits in a train station, take off to the countryside hoping to make it across the border to a better life in Poland. They are alternately looking for tenderness and pushing it away because they sense that ...
Style:
uplifting, serious, realistic, atmospheric, sentimental ...
Plot:
boy, youth, friendship, leaving home, young heroes, self discovery, obsessive quest, on the road, optimism, hopes, starting over, escapades ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
poland, russia, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: Netherlands, Belgium, UK, Spain, France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
The son of the world's greatest detective embarks on a high-stakes adventure in this action-packed adaptation of the beloved book by Israeli writer David Grossman. (TIFF)
Style:
realistic, touching, serious, detective, crying
Plot:
coming of age, escapades, child's point of view, family relations, self discovery, passion, husband wife relationship, friendship, youth, dream, child in peril, rescue ...
Place:
europe, france, holland
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23%
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 174 min.
Story:
A young Anatolian Greek, entrusted with his family's fortune, loses it en route to Istanbul and dreams of going to America
Style:
aesthetic, road movie, art house, social, existential ...
Plot:
greek, immigrant, immigration, emigration, migration, armenian genocide, american dream, boat, social injustice, time travel, yacht, refugee ...
Time:
19th century, year 1963, 20th century, 1890s
Place:
greece, ottoman empire, new york, middle east, turkey ...
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Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Canada, USA, UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Based on a true story, The Blue Butterfly tells the story of a terminally ill 10-year-old boy whose dream is to catch the most beautiful butterfly on Earth, the mythic and elusive Blue Morpho. His mother persuades a renowned entomologist to take ...
Style:
emotional, touching, serious, realistic, spiritual
Plot:
butterfly, family life, parents and children, family relations, child illness, disability, single parent, tragic hero, child in peril, husband wife relationship, male female relationship, rain forest ...
Place:
latin america, central america, costa rica, canada
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22%
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Tells the parallel stories of nine-year-old Carlitos and his mother, Rosario. In the hopes of providing a better life for her son, Rosario works illegally in the U.S. while her mother cares for Carlitos back in Mexico.
Style:
touching, sentimental, emotional, sweet, sincere ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
immigrant, friendship, survival, loneliness, obsessive quest, family reunited, escapades, young boy, society, custody, family drama, immigration ...
Time:
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mexico, los angeles, latin america, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Through the streets of Jerusalem two teenagers' stories will unite to tell the summer adventure of their lives. Tamar is an amazingly talented but very quiet and insecure girl, who leaves behind her home and all she knows, changing herself ...
Style:
serious, realistic, uplifting, touching, sentimental ...
Plot:
friendship, youth, self discovery, escapades, teenage life, coming of age, chases and races, hopes, missing person, judaism, nun, bully ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
israel, jerusalem
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
In a farmhouse in southern Italy, an old woman dies. Her husband summons their sons: from Rome, Raffaele, a judge facing a political case for which he risks assassination; from Naples, the religious and ideological Rocco, a counselor at a ...
Style:
contemplative, serious, realistic, sincere, emotional ...
Plot:
chess, terrorism, funeral, death, mafia, family relations, hopes, peasant, farm, family problems, social worker, estrangement ...
Time:
20th century, year 1981, 80s
Place:
italy, europe, rome italy, naples italy, germany ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
Teenage boys discover discipline and camaraderie on an ill-fated sailing voyage.
Style:
emotional, suspense, touching, serious, rough ...
Audience:
teens, manly, teen drama
Plot:
sailing, ocean, coming of age, disaster, friendship, storm at sea, male bonding, boat, teacher, mentor, life & death, danger ...
Time:
60s, year 1996, 20th century, year 1961, year 1960
Place:
jamaica, south america, west indies, connecticut, cuba ...
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20%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, China, USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
After spending years in California, Amir returns to his homeland in Afghanistan to help his old friend Hassan, whose son is in trouble.
Style:
disturbing, emotional, inspirational, sincere, psychological ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, adult
Plot:
childhood, friendship, muslim, coming of age, guilt, courage, islam, betrayal, rape, mission, haunted by the past, child ...
Time:
70s, 80s, year 2007, 2010s, 20th century ...
Place:
afghanistan, middle east, china, iraq, bay area ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
Two teenage boys encounter a fugitive and make a pact to help him escape from an island in the Mississippi.
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, touching, realistic, southern gothic ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, friendship, childhood, ex convict, first love, bittersweet, fugitives, obsession, river, love story, survival, small town ...
Time:
year 2012, year 2013, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
mississippi, usa, arkansas
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Movies like The Way Back
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Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Dexter, age 11, who has AIDS, and his next door neighbor Eric, a little older and much bigger, become best friends. Eric also becomes closer to Dexter's mother than to his own, who is neglectful and bigoted and violently forbids their ...
Style:
sad, touching, tear jerker, inspirational, realistic ...
Audience:
teens, family outing, kids, teen drama
Plot:
aids, childhood, coming of age, boy, friendship, terminal illness, children, hiv, young boy, cancer, boyhood, youth ...
Time:
90s
Place:
mississippi, minnesota, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
French adaptation of Marcel Pagnol's memoirs of his childhood in the countryside, early in the century.
Style:
sentimental, touching, realistic, serious, uplifting ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
summer, coming of age, countryside, childhood, children, brother brother relationship, childhood memory, country house, childhood friend, cottage, boy, heartwarming ...
Time:
1900s, turn of the century, year 1990, 20th century, 19th century ...
Place:
france, marseille, south of france, europe, provence
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 143 min.
Story:
A shipping disaster in the 19th Century has stranded a man and woman in the wilds of Africa. The lady is pregnant, and gives birth to a son in their tree house. Soon after, a family of apes stumble across the house and in the ensuing panic, both ...
Style:
touching, harsh, serious, stylized, costume drama ...
Plot:
tarzan, jungle, culture clash, adventurer, stranded, monkey, orphan, feral man, adoption, justice, ape, rescue ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 20th century, 1880s, 1910s
Place:
africa, england, scotland, london, united kingdom ...
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20%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Three pre-adolescents with virginal and eager-of-signals naivety, hit headlong against monstrous and inhospitable loneliness, in the incandescent fire among the ashes of their own inocence.
Style:
touching, realistic, emotional, heartbreaking, sad ...
Plot:
teenager, coming of age, friendship, childhood, children, vengeance, dysfunctional family, family relations, loss of son, family problems, family in crisis, parents and children ...
Time:
year 2005
Place:
new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
When the experienced guide Vic accompanies the city boy Alan and his three friends on their first wilderness experience, he not only hope to teach the four boys lessons about the wilderness, but about themselves. Vic pushes them to the limit. Soon ...
Style:
intense, sincere, exciting, suspenseful, contemplative ...
Audience:
kids, teens
Plot:
wilderness, survival, river, coming of age, summer, nature, camping, friendship, youth, camp, mountain climbing, teenager ...
Time:
80s, year 1987, 20th century
Place:
manhattan new york city, usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Set in 2002, an abandoned 5-year-old boy living in a rundown orphanage in a small Russian village is adopted by an Italian family.
Style:
sentimental, touching, realistic, breathtaking, inspirational ...
Plot:
orphan, children, orphanage, youth, boy, adoption, coming of age, friendship, adolescence, family relations, self discovery, hopes ...
Time:
year 2005, 2000s, year 2002, 21st century
Place:
russia, soviet union, europe, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: UK, France, Japan, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
The children of Ballydowse and Carrickdowse engage in battles where they cut of the buttons, shoe-laces and underwear of their captured opponents. This is to get the boys in trouble with their parents. They go to battle in mass groups of dozens, ...
Style:
realistic, sentimental, touching, epic, contemplative ...
Audience:
teens, family outing, teen drama
Plot:
childhood, coming of age, boy, friendship, children, male nudity, adolescence, rivalry, youth, teacher, school, revenge ...
Time:
year 1994, 60s, 90s, 20th century
Place:
ireland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
The Charles Dickens story of Nicholas Nickleby, a young boy in search of a better life for his recently torn-apart family. A young compassionate man struggles to save his family and friends from the abusive exploitation of his coldheartedly grasping ...
Style:
costume drama, period piece, emotional, captivating, semi serious ...
Audience:
family outing, girls' night
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charles dickens, family reunited, dysfunctional family, greed, betrayal, haunted by the past, family relations, rescue, uncle nephew relationship, boarding school, fall in love, siblings relations ...
Time:
victorian era, 19th century, year 2002, 1830s, 1850s
Place:
london, europe, liverpool, yorkshire
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Germany, Ireland, UK, Netherlands
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Desmond Doyle is devastated when his wife abandons their family on the day after Christmas. His unemployment and the fact that there is no woman in the house to care for the children, Evelyn, Dermot and Maurice, make it clear to the authorities that ...
Style:
sentimental, touching, sincere, feel good, intense ...
Plot:
children, court, lawyer, mercy, family problems, unemployment, against the odds, parents and children, fighting the system, courtroom drama, 007, single father ...
Time:
50s, year 2002, 1950s, 20th century, year 1953
Place:
ireland, sydney australia, scotland, europe, dublin ireland
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama
Country: UK, USA, France, Argentina, Peru, Chile, Germany
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
"The Motorcycle Diaries" is based on the journals of Che Guevara, leader of the Cuban Revolution. In his memoirs, Guevara recounts adventures he, and best friend Alberto Granado, had while crossing South America by motorcycle in the early ...
Style:
road movie, touching, inspirational, political, breathtaking ...
Plot:
self discovery, motorcycle, travel, freedom, on the road, revolutionary, poverty, revolution, road trip, journey, traveler, biopic ...
Time:
20th century, year 2004, 50s, y2k, 2000s ...
Place:
latin america, chile, cuba, south america, argentina ...
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19%
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