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Tree of Knowledge (1981)
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Tree of Knowledge (1981)
Original name: Kundskabens træ
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 110 min.
Story: As a group of Danish children pass into adolescence, gradually the most popular girl becomes an outcast, for trivial reasons that she never understands.
Style: cult classic, touching, serious, emotional, realistic, sexual, crying, sexy
Audience: teens, pre-teens
Plot: coming of age, children, bullying, female nudity, school, adolescence, nordic, troubled relationship, loneliness, outcast, mother daughter relationship, rivalry, teenage protagonist, sexual tension, classmate classmate relationship, teenage crush, new student, youth, misfit, family relations, love and romance, teenage life, society, love, christmas ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1958, 1950s, 50s
Place: denmark, scandinavia

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, touching and emotional films with plots about coming of age, friendship, youth, teenage girl, teenager, family relations and school mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres. Some movies like Tree of Knowledge: Lena (2011), Pelle the Conqueror (1987), Corrections Class (2014), Little Lips (1978), Beauty and the Beast (1983). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Lena (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands, Belgium
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Lena is a lonely, plump adolescent girl. Much to her surprise she gets a relationship with the popular but unreliable Daan. Lena moves in with Daan and his strange father Tom and is willing to do a lot for his love. More than a lot.
Style: realistic, psychological, captivating, atmospheric, serious ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, leaving home, teenage love, parents and children, teenage life, physical appearance, youth, family problems, family relations, teenager, loneliness, obsession ...
Time: 21st century
Place: holland, europe, rotterdam netherlands
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Pelle the Conqueror (1987)
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 157 min.
Story: The end of the 19th century. A boat filled with Swedish emigrants comes to the Danish island of Bornholm. Among them are Lasse and his son Pelle who move to Denmark to find work. They find employment at a large farm, but are treated as the lowest ...
Style: emotional, atmospheric, compassionate, disturbing, meditative ...
Audience: kids
Plot: father son relationship, coming of age, boy, immigrant, poverty, working class, farm, children, bullying, corporal punishment, youth, family relations ...
Time: 19th century, year 1987, 1870s, 1890s
Place: denmark, europe, eastern europe
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Corrections Class (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia, Germany
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Lena is a bright, disabled girl who, after years spent studying at home, is keen to get back to school. She is assigned to a special class for disabled pupils who have to present themselves before a school commission at the end of the year in order ...
Style: emotional, lyrical, compassionate, sad, disturbing ...
Audience: teens
Plot: teenage rape, teenager, school, female protagonist, handicapped, bullying, disabled person, love, political persecution, lie, ambition, friendship ...
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Little Lips (1978)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, Italy
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A writer returns home to his estate after service in World War I. He has developed a very bad case of depression due to a war wound concerning his genitalia. He contemplates suicide, but recovers after becoming interested in his caretaker's 12 ...
Style: disturbing, atmospheric, serious, melancholic, romantic ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: lolita, puberty, underage girl, coming of age, age difference, sex with a minor, sexuality, forbidden love, adolescent girl, girl man relationship, suicide, older man young girl relationship ...
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Beauty and the Beast (1983)
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 87 min.
Story: When Mette and her father are left alone over the Christmas holidays to paint the new nursery the father ends up alone most of the time. The 16-year-old Mette is always off with her friends at the disco or skating, and the father does not mind until ...
Plot: christmas, father daughter relationship, teenage girl, jealousy, coming of age, grownups, teenage sexuality, new year's eve, friends, daughter, female nudity, friend ...
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Zappa (1983)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Denmark
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Denmark, 1961. Bjørn, a middle-class boy in his early teens, wants to be accepted by Steen, a bullying peer of his with wealthy but freezingly cold parents. Bjørn's other good friend is Mulle, a cheerful and more childish working-class boy. ...
Style: serious, realistic, disturbing, emotional, crying
Plot: coming of age, boy, teenage boy, female nudity, nordic, rape, family relations, friendship, bare butt, vacation, teenager, male nudity ...
Time: 60s, year 1961
Place: denmark, scandinavia, europe
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Odd Girl Out (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A mother and her daughter confront the intimidation of teen peer pressure and the emotionally brutalizing social rituals of high school.
Style: realistic, serious, exciting, captivating, touching ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, kids, teen drama
Plot: bullying, high school, teenage love, school, high school life, family relations, lifestyle, buddies, friendship, friends, teenage life, teachers and students ...
Time: 21st century
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Psychobitch (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Frida is different. Self chosen different. Marius, on the other hand is the most perfect boy in class, and likes to show off. When they have to work together at school, it's the start of a turbulent and challenging relationship. Generation ...
Style: psychological, suspense, tense, captivating, unusual plot structure ...
Plot: emotional abuse, group of friends, mother daughter relationship, school, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, socially awkward, classmate classmate relationship, shyness, small town, chase, photographer, friend ...
Place: eastern europe
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It Felt Like Love (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Fourteen-year-old Lila is experiencing an ennui-filled Brooklyn summer. She awkwardly wears a Kabuki-esque mask of sunscreen at the beach and plays third wheel to Chiara, her more experienced friend, and Chiara’s boyfriend, Patrick. Determined to ...
Style: emotional, realistic, touching, sexy, captivating ...
Plot: coming of age, teenage girl, first sex, youth, obsession, self discovery, best friend, friendship, wooing, hot guys, teenager, sexuality ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa, brooklyn new york city
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Rebounce (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 92 min.
Story: REBOUNCE is a colorful, tough and powerful film featuring Frederikke Dahl Hansen in the leading role. She plays opposite Anne Sofie Espersen and Dar Salim, and despite being only 16 years old she portrays toughness, charm, and vulnerability ...
Style: realistic, captivating, emotional, rough, psychological ...
Plot: age difference, coming of age, parents and children, teenage life, drug abuse, family relations, family problems, youth, dysfunctional family, adolescence vs adulthood, mother, nordic ...
Time: 21st century
Place: denmark, scandinavia, europe
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21%
The Solitude of Prime Numbers (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, Germany, France
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Prime numbers are divisible only by one and themselves. These numbers are solitary and incomprehensible to others. Alice and Mattia are both "prime", both haunted by the tragedies that have marked them in childhood: a skiing accident for ...
Style: sincere, emotional, sentimental, psychological, enigmatic ...
Plot: haunted by the past, love and romance, friend, loneliness, childhood trauma, outcast, mathematics, parents, coming of age, lesbian teen, disability, stream of consciousness ...
Time: 80s, year 2010, 90s, 20th century, 2000s ...
Place: italy, europe, turin italy
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50 Ways of Saying Fabulous (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Shot in and around the central Otago communities of Omakau, Ophir and Alexandra, A coming-of-age film that centers on overweight 12-year old Billy who is not interested in being a farmer and doesn't care for Rugby. His escape is the fantasy ...
Style: semi serious, sentimental, touching, feel good, realistic ...
Audience: girls' night, teen fantasy
Plot: friendship, youth, bullying, lgbt, childhood, gay, rugby, teenage love, teenage life, social misfits, lifestyle, misfit ...
Time: 70s, year 1975
Place: new zealand
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21%
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1st Love (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Antoine, 13, spends the summer vacation with his parents in a rented cottage on an island in the middle of the Saint-Lawrence River. His neighbour, 17-year-old Anna, is an enigmatic and lively young woman. Antoine begins to experience the first ...
Style: serious, realistic, touching, captivating
Plot: coming of age, youth, teenage love, teenage life, sexual awakening, family relations, parents and children, oral sex, bittersweet, teenage boy, teenage girl, nudity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
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20%
Big Girls Don't Cry (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Kati and Steffi have been best friends since they were six. Now they're both 17 and enjoying the ups and downs of becoming adults together. While Kati's parents are religious and conservative, but argue constantly, Steffi comes from what ...
Style: disturbing, serious, realistic, touching, sad ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: best friend, youth, moral dilemma, teenage life, envy, teenage crush, parent child relationship, rivalry, vengeance, puberty, innocence lost, relationships ...
Time: 21st century
Place: berlin germany
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20%
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Boys (1977)
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 83 min.
Story: This non-narrative film unveils three episodes in the psychosexual life of a neurotic man, beginning with a trip he took to the countryside over the holidays as a small boy, to visit a cousin. Later, he is shown as a high-school boy (Mads Ole ...
Style: no music
Plot: childhood, high school, boy, teenager, teenage girl, teenage boy, school, girl, children, swing, undressing, ladder ...
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Forbidden Fruit (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Finland, Sweden
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Two 18-year old girls from a christian fundamentalist community flee to a city for a summer job.
Style: serious, touching, realistic, captivating, sincere
Plot: coming of age, teenage girl, friendship between girls, best friend, teenage life, conservatism, conservative morals, religion, lifestyle, youth, fish out of water, culture clash ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: helsinki finland, europe, finland
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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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20%
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In Bloom (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Georgia, Germany, France
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Eka and Natia leave their childhood behind and ignore societal customs to escape from their turbulent family lives.
Style: realistic, emotional, captivating, serious, transgressive ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: coming of age, family relations, adolescence vs adulthood, best friend, civil war, society, life is a bitch, dysfunctional family, youth, teenage life, parents and children, lgbt ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, year 1992
Place: soviet union, georgia, tbilisi, asia, europe ...
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Open Future (1983)
Genre: Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 118 min.
Story: A 16 year old boy growing up in the 60's, experimenting with life, sex, drugs and alcohol.
Style: freeze frame
Plot: lgbt, woods, bare butt, bare chested male, nudity, male pubic hair, photography, drug, cycling, striptease, anti conformist, passive aggressive woman ...
Time: 60s
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20%
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My Good Enemy (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Sensitive 12-year-old Alf is the low man on his class' totem pole, and he's sick of it. Forming a secret, Machiavellian alliance with another student who also has grown weary of being bullied, he hatches a plan to throw a wrench into the ...
Style: psychological, sincere, captivating
Plot: boy, bullying, children, friendship, friendship between boys, coming of age, revenge, fight, scandinavian girl, retribution, violence, school ...
Place: scandinavia, denmark
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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
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19%
Miss Impossible (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: They’re all nuts. Her parents, who want to send her off to boarding school. Her new teacher, who expects her to read impossibly old books. Her fellow band members, who make her sing ridiculous lyrics and dress her up in a frilly white dress for ...
Style: sentimental, suspenseful, touching, sincere
Plot: classmate, female protagonist, father daughter relationship, teenager, sister sister relationship, teenage girl, mother daughter relationship, school, friendship, teacher student relationship, best friend, classmate classmate relationship ...
Place: paris france
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19%
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Scratch (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A story of young love and early life choices.
Style: semi serious, realistic, captivating, sentimental, touching ...
Plot: youth, starting over, moral dilemma, love affair, mother daughter relationship, alcoholic mother, couples, society, love and romance, fall in love, teenage life, love triangle ...
Time: 21st century
Place: denmark, scandinavia, copenhagen, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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Evil (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden, Denmark
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Stockholm, the fifties. Though academically bright, violent pupil Erik Ponti is expelled from his state school with the headmaster’s words “there’s only one word for people like you – evil… what you need is a good thrashing, and more”. ...
Style: psychological, rough, disturbing, touching, emotional ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: rebellion, coming of age, private school, rebelliousness, humiliation, corporal punishment, friendship, life is a bitch, high school, bully, bullying, boarding school ...
Time: 1950s, year 2003, 20th century, 50s
Place: europe, scandinavia, stockholm sweden, eastern europe
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19%
Simon & the Oaks (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Norway
Duration: 122 min.
Story: Epic story about two families and their friendship and common destiny in Sweden's Gothenburg in the 1940s and 1950s. Told from the perspective of young Simon Larsson, who learns that he's an adopted child who has a Jewish father from ...
Style: realistic, tense, touching, psychological, contemplative ...
Audience: teens
Plot: world war two, coming of age, wartime life, youth, boy, family relations, friendship, society, culture clash, working class, best friend, older woman younger man ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, post world war two, 50s
Place: europe, eastern europe
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19%
Misunderstood (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Rome, 1984, Aria is nine-year-old girl. On the verge of divorce, Aria's infantile and selfish parents are too preoccupied with their careers and extra-marital affairs to properly tend to any of Aria's needs. While her two older sisters are ...
Style: realistic, touching, emotional, serious, sincere ...
Plot: separated parents, female protagonist, half sister half sister relationship, father daughter relationship, school, family problems, parents and children, youth, family life, girl, coming of age, child ...
Time: year 1984, 80s, 21st century
Place: rome italy, italy
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19%
Confetti Harvest (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands, Belgium
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Dorsvloer vol Confetti tells the story of young Katelijne, who grows up in a religious family in the countryside in Zeeland. Based on the novel by Franca Treur.
Style: realistic, emotional, captivating, psychological, serious ...
Plot: coming of age, teenage girl, farm, family relations, religions or cults, parents and children, society, village life, church, wedding, religion, rural setting ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: belgium, netherlands
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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%
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A coming-of-age story based on the best-selling novel by Stephen Chbosky, which follows 15-year-old freshman Charlie, an endearing and naive outsider who is taken under the wings of two seniors. A moving tale of love, loss, fear and hope - and the ...
Style: touching, sincere, teen, melancholic, romantic ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, high school, teenager, adolescence, first love, friendship, youth, high school life, depression, suicide, mental illness, teenage life ...
Time: 90s, year 2012, 2010s, year 2013, 20th century ...
Place: pittsburgh, pennsylvania, usa
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18%
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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