Movies like The Italian 2005

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The Italian (2005)
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The Italian (2005)
Original name: Итальянец
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, talky, emotional, disturbing, intense, sincere ...
Plot: orphan, children, orphanage, youth, boy, adoption, coming of age, friendship, adolescence, family relations, self discovery, hopes, parents and children, loneliness, character study, family drama, drinking alcohol, corruption, runaway, little boy, boyhood, escape, capture, corporal punishment, police station ...
Time: year 2005, 2000s, year 2002, 70s, 21st century, contemporary
Place: russia, soviet union, italy, europe, tokyo
Keyword: russian, candy, reading, dreams

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, touching and emotional films with plots about youth, family relations, parents and children, coming of age, friendship, boy and children mostly in Drama and Comedy genres. Some movies like The Italian: The Return (2003), Nobody Knows (2004), I Wish (2011), 12 and Holding (2005), The Kite Runner (2007). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Return (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A story of two Russian boys whose father suddenly returns home after a 12-year absence. He takes the boys on a holiday to a remote island on a lake that turns into a test of manhood of almost mythic proportions.
Style: bleak, art house, road movie, atmospheric, cerebral ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, brother, journey, survival, children, parents and children, father son relationship, existentialism, wilderness, childhood, on the road, character study ...
Time: year 2003, 90s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: russia, soviet union
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Nobody Knows (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 141 min.
Story: In a small Tokyo apartment, twelve-year-old Akira must care for his younger siblings after their mother leaves them and shows no sign of returning.
Style: depressing, touching, serious, atmospheric, bleak ...
Audience: kids, teens
Plot: childhood, poverty, dysfunctional family, boy, young kid, innocence lost, children, child abandonment, brother brother relationship, tragedy, coming of age, family relations ...
Time: year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
Place: japan, tokyo, east asia, asia
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100%
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I Wish (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 128 min.
Story: Two young brothers at opposite ends of Kyushu devise a magical plan to reunite their separated parents in Hirokazu Koreeda's benign and superbly acted picture of family life.
Style: serious, touching, stylized, realistic, teen ...
Audience: teens
Plot: youth, parents and children, brother brother relationship, train, broken family, father son relationship, family problems, hopes, desire, child, separated parents, discovery ...
Time: year 2011, 21st century
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
12 and Holding (2005)
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
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100%
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The Kite Runner (2007)
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 ...
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Monsieur Ibrahim (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Monsieur Ibrahim is a story about a young Jewish boy in Paris who meets an old Muslim Turkish grocery store owner. The film touches the themes of friendship and love as the old man is a father figure to the boy as he teaches him of the Koran. The ...
Style: touching, sentimental, sweet, emotional, uplifting ...
Audience: teens
Plot: coming of age, muslim, adoption, religion, friendship, self discovery, youth, man boy relationship, childhood, koran, generation gap, family relations ...
Time: 20th century, 60s, 90s, year 2003
Place: paris france, europe, middle east, switzerland, turkey ...
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Siberia, Monamour (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Siberia. Late autumn. In taiga, in the deserted village there lives an old man Ivan & his seven-year-old grandson Leshia. A pack of feral dogs devours everything alive in the neighborhood. One of these dogs is Leshia's best friend. ...
Style: touching, gloomy, sentimental, captivating, serious ...
Plot: wilderness, elderly, danger, life is a bitch, isolation, orphan, woods, survival, nature, wilderness survival, post soviet, old man ...
Time: 21st century
Place: soviet union, russia
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100%
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Second Best (1994)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: The difficult relationship between a british postal officer and his adoptive son.
Style: serious, sentimental, touching, emotional, realistic
Plot: orphan, adoption, social worker, man boy relationship, single parent, absent father, coming of age, family problems, parents and children, hopes, family relations, friendship ...
Time: 90s, year 1994
Place: england, europe, wales
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23%
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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
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21%
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Abandoned (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Áron is a happy child in his family. But at some point things take a different turn, and his mother starts to lose her health rapidly. As this happens, the man in charge decides what's best for Áron without consulting the young boy's ...
Style: uplifting, serious, touching, sincere, art house ...
Plot: corporal punishment, orphan, coming of age, children, male bonding, kids in trouble, life is a bitch, juvenile delinquency, human spirit, friendship, teenage life, boarding school life ...
Time: 60s, year 1960
Place: europe, hungary
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21%
The Keys to the House (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, Germany, France, USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Meeting his handicapped son for the first time, a young father attempts to forge a relationship with the teenager.
Style: serious, psychological, emotional, touching, realistic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: parents and children, single parent, estrangement, teenage life, human nature, disability, hospital, self discovery, coming of age, hopes, redemption, family relations ...
Time: year 2004
Place: germany, italy, europe, berlin germany, milan italy
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21%
Chronicle of a Boy Alone (1965)
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina
Duration: 79 min.
Story: The story of a delinquent eleven-year-old orphan in fascist Argentina.
Style: neorealism, depressing, crying
Plot: coming of age, boy, adolescence, children, orphanage, fascism, escape, orphan, freedom, poverty, psychological abuse, family abandonment ...
Time: 60s
Place: buenos aires argentina
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20%
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Pellet (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 88 min.
Story: El Bola, a 12 year old boy a.k.a. "Pellet" is a 12 year old boy raised in a violent and sordid environment. Embarrassed by his family life, he avoids becoming close to classmates. The arrival of a new boy at school changes his attitude ...
Style: serious, realistic, emotional, disturbing, social ...
Audience: teens
Plot: child abuse, friendship, kids in trouble, abusive father, school, boy, youth, social worker, life is a bitch, self discovery, childhood, family problems ...
Time: 90s
Place: spain, europe, madrid
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
A Year in My Life (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 94 min.
Story: In 1950s France, a young boy is taken in by a couple after spending a few months in the care of social service.
Style: uplifting, sentimental, touching, sincere, captivating ...
Plot: friendship, adoption, orphan, youth, family relations, foster parent, foster child, father son relationship, mother son relationship, parents and children, family life, foster home ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
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Camp (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: 12-year-old Eli finds himself at summer CAMP
Style: serious, realistic, emotional, sentimental, christian film ...
Plot: boy, child abuse, summer camp, camp counselor, youth, kids in trouble, friendship, family problems, life is a bitch, hopes, dysfunctional family, parents and children ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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Evelyn (2002)
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
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An American Rhapsody (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Hungary
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A Hungarian family forced to flee the Communist country for the United States, must leave a young daughter behind. Six years later the family arranges to bring the absent daughter to the United States where she has trouble adjusting. The daughter ...
Style: sentimental, touching, emotional, melancholic, heartbreaking ...
Plot: immigrant, justice, family relations, cold war, police investigation, family bonds, adolescence, friendship, love and romance, self discovery, human nature, on the run ...
Time: 20th century, 1950s, year 2001, 60s, 50s ...
Place: hungary, california, europe, austria, usa ...
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19%
The Dream Catcher (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: An abandoned teen jumps a freight train in Philadelphia intent on reaching his uncle in Indiana, whom he believes will help him with financial difficulties including a pregnant girlfriend. In Ohio, he meets another homeless teen, who escorts him to ...
Style: independent film, contemplative, serious, realistic, sincere ...
Plot: coming of age, family relations, friendship, on the road, father, prison, friends, self discovery, social misfits, youth, society, hopes ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: indiana, usa, oklahoma, salt lake city utah, philadelphia ...
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18%
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Standing Up (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Based on one of the most beloved Young Adult novels of all time: Two kids are stripped naked and left together on an island in a lake - victims of a vicious summer camp prank; But rather than have to return to camp and face the humiliation, they ...
Style: touching, realistic, sincere, serious, sad ...
Audience: family outing, teens
Plot: youth, friendship, child's point of view, coming of age, summer camp, children, self discovery, family relations, parents and children, child, on the road, runaway ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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18%
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Tokyo Sonata (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan, Netherlands, Hong Kong
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Ryûhei Sasaki (Teruyuki Kagawa) is keeping a secret from his wife, Megumi (Kyôko Koizumi), and his two teenage sons. Even though he leaves the house every day, he's not really going to work. He's going to an employment office. He ...
Style: lyrical, stylized, talky, serious, touching ...
Plot: family relations, unemployment, rebellion, youth, job seeking, housewife, layoff, hopes, family secret, chinawoman, human nature, dishonesty ...
Time: year 2008, 2000s, 21st century
Place: tokyo, japan, east asia, asia, china
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18%
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Rails & Ties (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A deadly collision between a train and car lead to an unlikely bond between the train engineer and a young boy who escapes the carnage.
Style: emotional, touching, realistic, sincere, psychological ...
Plot: orphan, train, family relations, friendship, terminal illness, family problems, father figure, grief, coming of age, parents and children, collision, suicidal ...
Time: year 2007
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18%
A Brand New Life (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, South Korea
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Young Jinhee is taken by her father to an orphanage near Seoul. He leaves her there never to return, and she struggles to come to grips with her fate. Jinhee desperately believes her father will come back for her and take her on a trip. The film is ...
Style: sincere, serious, touching, realistic, captivating ...
Plot: children, orphan, youth, adoption, dysfunctional family, family relations, hopes, parents and children, girl, child abandonment, abandoned by father, family problems ...
Time: year 2009, 70s, 20th century, year 1975
Place: korea, south korea, seoul, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
The Lost & Found Family (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: When her husband dies, Mrs. Ester Hobbes (Ellen Bry, TV's St. Elsewhere) learns that his wealth was just an illusion. Her only real inheritance is a run-down Southern home occupied by a foster family. Slowly, Mrs. Hobbes finds herself making ...
Style: realistic, serious, emotional, sentimental, touching ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: adoption, family relations, family problems, orphan, society, youth, introspection, religions or cults, parents and children, redemption, self discovery, blood ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, georgia
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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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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18%
Stand Clear of the Closing Doors (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: When autistic teen Ricky is scolded for skipping class, he escapes into the subway for a days-long odyssey among the subway’s disparate denizens. Meanwhile, his mother wages an escalating search effort above ground. Based on a true story and set ...
Style: touching, sincere, disturbing, melancholic, independent film ...
Plot: autism, self discovery, parents and children, teenage life, family relations, social misfits, youth, imagination, boy, disability, illness, train ...
Time: year 1984, year 2012, 21st century
Place: new york, usa
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18%
Along the Ridge (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A young father and his two children struggle to find harmony after his wife leaves them for another man.
Style: serious, realistic, emotional, touching
Plot: coming of age, boy, family relations, friendship, dysfunctional family, lifestyle, siblings relations, parents and children, single parent, youth, family problems, unfaithful wife ...
Time: year 2006, 21st century
Place: italy, europe
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18%
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Lamb (1985)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Michael Lamb is a Father questioning his calling, in a Reform School in Ireland. When young epileptic runaway Eoin is sent to the school, the two recognise kindred spirits and escape to London together. With the police on their tail and the money ...
Style: independent film, contemplative, serious, realistic, thought provoking ...
Plot: youth, school, on the run, kidnapping, adoption, teacher student relationship, surrogate father, neurology, epilepsy, epileptic seizure, murder by drowning, juvenile delinquency ...
Time: year 1985, 80s
Place: ireland, england, london, dublin ireland, europe ...
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18%
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White Oleander (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: A teenager journeys through a series of foster homes after her mother goes to prison for committing a crime of passion.
Style: intense, touching, disturbing, realistic, serious ...
Audience: girls' night, teens, teen drama
Plot: mother daughter relationship, coming of age, bad mother, loneliness, dysfunctional family, women's prison, teenage life, murder, mother daughter estrangement, mental illness, teenager, borderline personality disorder ...
Time: year 2002, 21st century
Place: california, usa, los angeles, nova scotia, mexico
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18%
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American Gun (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Seemingly disparate portraits of people -- among them a single mother, a high school principal, and an ace student -- Distinctly American -- all affected by the proliferation of guns in American society.
Style: thought provoking, emotional, contemplative, realistic, serious ...
Plot: family relations, on the road, family problems, teenage life, single mother, human nature, single parent, dealing with death, working class, parents and children, death in the family, brother brother relationship ...
Time: year 2005, 20th century, 21st century
Place: chicago, usa, virginia, oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
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Mirage (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country:
Duration: 107 min.
Story: As Macedonia faces its difficult transition, a boy escapes into a world of his own creation.
Style: realistic, serious, psychological, captivating, art house ...
Plot: youth, coming of age, life is a bitch, friendship, teenage life, kids in trouble, society, betrayal, parents and children, dysfunctional family, family problems, poet ...
Place: macedonia, paris france, france, europe, former yugoslavia ...
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