Movies like Innocence 2004
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Innocence (2004)
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Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: France, UK, Belgium
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
A look inside an offbeat boarding school for young girls.
Style:
disturbing, art house, surreal, erotic, atmospheric, stylized, suspenseful, visual, depressing, slasher ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
boarding school, friendship, childhood, coming of age, boarding school life, girls' boarding school, forest, female protagonist, society, school, spider, train, water, death, boat, tunnel, girl, garden, waterfall, dark and stormy night, escape, obsession, teenage life, children, youth ...
Time:
90s, contemporary
Place:
france, paris france, tokyo
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Most similar movies to Innocence
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, weird and atmospheric films with plots about coming of age, youth, friendship, teenager, death, runaway and storytelling mostly in Drama, Mystery and Thriller genres. Some movies like Innocence: Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975), Tomboy (2011), Cracks (2009), The Moth Diaries (2011), Ratcatcher (1999). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Australia
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
In the early 1900s, Miranda attends a girls boarding school in Australia. One Valentine's Day, the school's typically strict headmistress treats the girls to a picnic field trip to an unusual but scenic volcanic formation called Hanging ...
Style:
meditative, scenic, breathtaking, gothic, surreal ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
missing person, valentine's day, girls' boarding school, coming of age, unsolved mystery, boarding school life, adolescence, sexuality, private school, folk horror, child, wilderness ...
Time:
1900s, year 1900, victorian era, year 1975, near future ...
Place:
australia, south australia, oceania, new zealand
Similarity:
100%
23K
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
A French family with two daughters, 10-year-old Laure and 6-year-old Jeanne, moves to a new neighborhood during the summer holidays. With her tomboy ways, Laure is immediately mistaken for a boy by the local kids and passes herself off as Mickaël.
Style:
serious, crying, captivating, sincere, touching ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
childhood, gender, child protagonist, children, transsexual, friendship, youth, coming of age, society, child, sexual identity, soccer ...
Time:
2010s, year 2011, 90s, 21st century
Place:
france, paris france, indiana, europe
Similarity:
100%
22K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Ireland, Spain, France, Switzerland, USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Jealousy flares after the headmistress of an elite boarding school for girls becomes obsessed with a new student.
Style:
melancholic, atmospheric, erotic, period piece, serious ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot:
boarding school, obsession, coming of age, lesbian love, lesbian, sexualized violence, lgbtq, teenage girl, asthma, boarding school life, child abuse, lesbian relationship ...
Time:
1930s, year 2009, 20th century, year 1934
Place:
europe, england, spain
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: Canada, USA, Ireland
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Rebecca is suspicious of Ernessa, the new arrival at her boarding school. But is Rebecca just jealous of Ernessa's bond with Lucie, or does the new girl truly possess a dark secret?
Style:
gothic, horrifying, stylized, suspenseful, erotic ...
Audience:
teens, adult, teen drama
Plot:
vampire, boarding school, supernatural, obsession, making love, mysterious character, friends, youth, danger, social relations, haunted by the past, girls' school ...
Time:
year 2011, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
canada
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK, France
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
James Gillespie is 12 years old. The world he knew is changing. Haunted by a secret, he has become a stranger in his own family. He is drawn to the canal where he creates a world of his own. He finds an awkward tenderness with Margaret Anne, a ...
Style:
disturbing, bleak, crying, depressing, art house ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
children, poverty, boy, friendship, coming of age, bully, neighbor, urban decay, rat, strike, british, death of child ...
Time:
70s, year 1999, 90s, 20th century
Place:
glasgow scotland, scotland, britain, nebraska
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
A young teen and his misfit group of friends try to escape from a strict boarding school that holds dangerous secrets.
Style:
heartbreaking, atmospheric, psychological, compassionate, serious ...
Plot:
coming of age, boarding school, boy, friendship, boyhood, fighting the system, sex with a minor, confined, social relations, bittersweet, society, life is a bitch ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A sixteen-year-old boy insinuates himself into the house of a fellow student from his literature class and writes about it in essays for his French teacher. Faced with this gifted and unusual pupil, the teacher rediscovers his enthusiasm for his ...
Style:
suspense, witty, disturbing, surreal, enigmatic ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
writers, teacher, obsession, high school, privacy invasion, mind game, student, stalking, direction and purpose, art, desire, high school life ...
Time:
year 2012, 21st century
Place:
france, paris france
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
It's 1969 at a strict English girls' school where charismatic Abbie and intense and troubled Lydia are best friends. After a tragedy occurs at the school, a mysterious fainting epidemic breaks out threatening the stability of all involved.
Style:
serious, psychological, tense, realistic, suspense ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, incest, brother sister sex, best friend, mother daughter relationship, epidemic, bare butt, mass hysteria, friendship, brother sister incest, schoolgirl, mental illness ...
Time:
year 1969, 20th century, 60s
Place:
england
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany, Austria, France, Italy, Canada
Duration: 144 min.
Story:
Strange events happen in a small village in the north of Germany during the years just before World War I, which seem to be ritual punishment. The abused and suppressed children of the villagers seem to be at the heart of this mystery.
Style:
disturbing, breathtaking, art house, cerebral, visually stunning ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
punishment, children, sexual abuse, cruelty, physical appearance, suicide, child abuse, death, small town, authoritarianism, transgression, priest ...
Time:
year 1914, year 2009, 1910s, pre world war one, 2000s ...
Place:
germany, northern germany, europe, italy
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Takes place in a chateau, an ambiguous story of a man and a woman who may or may not have met last year at Marienbad.
Style:
surreal, mind bending, sexy, experimental, psychological ...
Plot:
hotel, surrealism, memory, obsession, uncertainty, stream of consciousness, alternate reality, amnesia, haunted by the past, dishonesty, hopes, destiny ...
Time:
20th century, year 1961, 60s
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Anna is becoming lost in the loneliness of her own world when she discovers she can visit another, a house she has drawn herself and occupied by a young disabled boy. But as she discovers more of the links between her fantasy world and the mundane ...
Style:
disturbing, atmospheric, suspenseful, psychological, surreal ...
Audience:
family friendly, teens, horror for children
Plot:
nightmare, children, father daughter relationship, mother daughter relationship, boy, visceral, supernatural, dream world, transformation, serial killer, supernatural ability, macabre ...
Time:
80s
Place:
england, britain
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Italy, UK, Czech Republic
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A group of young girls are brought up in a college within dark forests and gloomy lakes. Young Hidalla and her friends Irene, Vera, Blanka, Melusine and Rain are brought up in an isolated world: the girls don't know anything about live outside ...
Style:
sexy, psychological, realistic, suspenseful, atmospheric ...
Plot:
rebelliousness, boarding school, power relations, isolation, love affair, teaching the ways of the world, orphan, youth, teachers and students, abuse, lgbt, lgbtq ...
Time:
20th century
Place:
germany
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A prep-school student (Ezra Miller) accidentally films the drug-related deaths of two classmates, then is asked to put together a memorial video.
Style:
serious, cerebral, bleak, independent film, suspense ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
kids in trouble, voyeurism, teenage life, social misfits, misfit, coming of age, drug abuse, social relations, youth, life is a bitch, boarding school, violence ...
Time:
20th century, 1900s, 2000s, year 2006
Place:
connecticut, new york, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
37%
33K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Palo Alto weaves together three stories of teenage lust, boredom, and self-destruction: shy, sensitive April, torn between an illicit flirtation with her soccer coach and an unrequited crush on sweet stoner Teddy; Emily, who offers sexual favors to ...
Style:
atmospheric, melancholic, teen, realistic, serious ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, adolescence, older man younger woman relationship, teenage life, youth, teenager, teenage girl, crush, loneliness, high school life, high school, unfulfillment ...
Time:
year 2013, 21st century
Place:
california, palo alto california, britain, usa, new jersey
Similarity:
36%
50K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, France, Canada
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Four teenagers at a British private school secretly uncover and explore the depths of a sealed underground hole created decades ago as a possible bomb shelter.
Style:
psychological, scary, twist ending, dark, psychological thriller ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
claustrophobia, obsession, psychology, twists and turns, school, youth, underground bunker, male nudity, danger, bunker, survival, teenage girl ...
Time:
year 2001
Place:
wales, england
Similarity:
36%
9K
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
A psychiatrist, Martin Dysart, investigates the savage blinding of six horses with a metal spike in a stable in Hampshire, England. The atrocity was committed by an unassuming seventeen-year-old stable boy named Alan Strang, the only son of an ...
Style:
disturbing, psychological, enigmatic, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot:
horse, sex, religion, male nudity, therapy, obsession, mental illness, psychiatrist, psychology, female pubic hair, male pubic hair, mental disorder ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
england, europe, greece, ancient greece
Similarity:
36%
120K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
After India's father dies, her Uncle Charlie, who she never knew existed, comes to live with her and her unstable mother. She comes to suspect this mysterious, charming man has ulterior motives and becomes increasingly infatuated with him.
Style:
psychological, gothic, suspenseful, bleak, twisted ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
danger, mysterious character, under the surface, antisocial behavior, fatal attraction, psychopath, attempted rape, family relations, masturbation, estate, family problems, death ...
Time:
year 2013, year 2000, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa, pennsylvania, connecticut
Similarity:
36%
11K
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 103 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, meditative, compassionate, atmospheric ...
Plot:
obsession, youth, redemption, forgiveness, apprentice, going straight, teenage life, family problems, parents and children, teachers and students, working class, death in the family ...
Time:
year 2002, 2000s, 90s, future, 21st century
Place:
france, belgium, usa, europe, los angeles ...
Similarity:
36%
107K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, UK
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, sincere, emotional, teen, independent film ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, teen drama, adult
Plot:
coming of age, adolescence, friendship, drug addiction, addiction, peer pressure, teenage protagonist, dysfunctional family, underage drinking, teenage girl, teenager, self harm ...
Time:
year 2003, 20th century, y2k, near future, 2000s ...
Place:
california, usa, los angeles, venice beach california
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: France
Duration: 141 min.
Story:
When an 11-year-old girl is brutally raped and murdered in a quiet French village, a police detective who has forgotten how to feel emotions--because of the death of his own family in some kind of accident--investigates the crime, which turns out to ...
Style:
erotic, contemplative, slow cinema, bleak, disturbing ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
small town, sex, female nudity, female pubic hair, voyeur, orgasm, masturbation, psychiatric hospital, dead body, rape, strike, police protagonist ...
Time:
year 1999, 90s
Place:
france, flanders, europe
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Charlie, a 17-year-old girl tortured by doubt, is thrilled when she becomes friends with Sarah, but when Sarah tires of Charlie and looks for a new friend, their relationship takes an ominous turn.
Style:
psychological, serious, touching, realistic, sentimental ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot:
friendship, asthma, teenage love, mother daughter conflict, lesbian, young lovers, coming of age, female friendship, high school, end of friendship, psychological torment, secret life ...
Time:
year 2014, 90s, 21st century
Place:
france, south of france
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Norway
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
The young teenager Otto is entering the summer holidays in 60'ies Oslo, without getting a real holiday, and he is not accepted in the gang or the football team. But then he meets exciting mysterious Frank, which changes everything.
Style:
contemplative, serious, realistic, gloomy
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, youth, lgbt, friendship, human nature, mysterious character, teenage life, working class, family relations, friends, kids in trouble, holiday ...
Time:
60s
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: Italy, UK, France
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Lucy Harmon, an American teenager is arriving in the lush Tuscan countryside to be sculpted by a family friend who lives in a beautiful villa. Lucy visited there four years earlier and exchanged a kiss with an Italian boy with whom she hopes to ...
Style:
sexy, erotic, teen, sensual, visually appealing ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, adult
Plot:
virginity, virgin, coming of age, first sexual experience, sex scene, innocence lost, female nudity, sex, sexual awakening, nymphet, couple relations, female masturbation ...
Time:
90s, year 1996
Place:
italy, tuscany, mediterranean sea, france, europe
Similarity:
35%
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Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
The story of a mentally anguished high school history teacher going through a complete reassessment of his life. His method for reassessing his life is to narrate it to his class and interweave in it three generations of his family's history.
Style:
realistic, atmospheric, psychological, serious, offbeat ...
Plot:
male nudity, brother brother relationship, teacher, high school, haunted by the past, teachers and students, self discovery, power relations, couples, couple relations, introspection, sex on a train ...
Time:
90s, 1940s, 70s, year 1992, 1920s ...
Place:
england, pittsburgh, london, europe, germany
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A widowed mother and her son change when a mysterious stranger enters their lives.
Style:
touching, atmospheric, sincere, sentimental, enigmatic ...
Plot:
small town, childhood, stephen king, single mother, friendship, childhood friend, coming of age, mysterious stranger, childhood memory, father figure, psychic, psychic power ...
Time:
year 2001, 1950s, 20th century, 60s
Place:
virginia, connecticut, usa, new york, boston
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: France, Japan
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
When her husband goes missing at the beach, a female professor begins to mentally disintegrate as her denial of his disappearance becomes delusional.
Style:
melancholic, stylized, atmospheric, psychological, sincere ...
Plot:
disappearance, love, obsession, relationships, coping, couple relations, female masturbation, delusion, tourist, missing person, love and romance, haunted by the past ...
Time:
year 2000, 2000s, 90s, 20th century, 70s
Place:
paris france, europe, france
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: France, Luxembourg, Belgium
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
In Paris, Dominique, a middle-aged fashion professional, solicits the services of the handsome Quentin , a bisexual bartender and prostitute who is 15 years her junior. After they first sleep together, their business transaction becomes transformed ...
Style:
sexy, erotic, sexual, enigmatic, serious ...
Plot:
obsession, sex, violence, making love, infidelity, relationships, forbidden sex, fashion, fall in love, adultery, betrayal, loneliness ...
Time:
90s, year 1998
Place:
france, morocco, paris france, tokyo
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
The year is 1965 and Danny Embling, is an awkward, underdeveloped teen suffering from occasional bouts of stuttering, attends an all-male boarding school in New South Wales, Australia. it has been some time since Danny has had any romantic ...
Style:
realistic, touching, teen, romantic, disturbing ...
Audience:
teens, date night, girls' night, kids
Plot:
boarding school, coming of age, friendship, interracial relations, love, high school, bullying, male pubic hair, white male black female relationship, teenage life, teenage love, forbidden love ...
Time:
year 1991, 20th century, year 1965, 60s, 70s
Place:
australia, paris france, africa, kenya, uganda
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
March 1992, in a small town in the suburbs of Paris. During an alcohol fueled party, teenagers discover a body hidden in the bushes of a forest. A body that seems lifeless. Two weeks earlier. Simon, a 16 year-old teenager, has not shown up for ...
Style:
psychological, tense, atmospheric, bleak, psychological thriller ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
youth, investigation, social relations, small town, teenage life, high school life, murder, teenage boy, multiple perspectives, wrestling, coming of age, high school ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
france, europe, paris france
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Kat Connors is 17 years old when her perfect homemaker mother, Eve, disappears. Having lived for so long in an emotionally repressed household, she barely registers her mother's absence and certainly doesn't blame her doormat of a father, ...
Style:
sexy, surreal, teen, independent film, stylized ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
missing person, coming of age, teenage girl, recurring dream, sex, mother daughter relationship, mysterious disappearance, disappearance, dysfunctional family, teenage life, gay interest, loss of mother ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1988, year 1991, 21st century
Place:
usa, california
Similarity:
35%
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