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Last Ride (2009)
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Last Ride (2009)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A young boy travels across Australia with his father, who's wanted by the law.
Style: road movie, bleak, serious, tense, realistic, sexy, independent film, contemplative
Plot: boy, on the run, betrayal, on the road, escapades, parent child relationship, coming of age, misfit, redemption, wilderness, haunted by the past, criminal heroes, road trip, youth, father son relationship, child with gun, children, boyhood, child abuse, lgbt, lgbt teen, christian, camping, realism, sex crime ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: australia, south australia
Keyword: australian

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Most similar movies to Last Ride

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, touching and tense films with plots about youth, family relations, coming of age, parents and children, boy, life is a bitch and children mostly in Drama, Crime and Thriller genres. Some movies like Last Ride: The Return (2003), Camp (2013), L.I.E. (2001), Matching Jack (2010), Least Among Saints (2012). 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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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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L.I.E. (2001)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: In this biting and disturbing coming-of-age tale from writer-director Michael Cuesta, life is bittersweet along the L.I.E., also known as the Long Island Expressway, as suburban teen Howie Blitzer learns all too clearly. In the space of a week, he ...
Style: disturbing, bleak, controversial, brutal, enigmatic ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: gay, male prostitution, coming of age, lgbt teen, sexual abuse, pedophile, juvenile delinquent, pedophilia, gay cruising, mentor, youth, boy ...
Time: year 2001, 21st century
Place: long island, new york
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30%
Matching Jack (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A woman struggles with her son's illness and her husband's infidelity, but, after a chance encounter with an Irish sailor and his son, her life is turned upside down in a love story that defies explanation and breaks all the rules.
Style: sincere, uplifting, realistic, emotional, serious ...
Plot: infidelity, coming of age, hopes, dishonesty, friendship, parents and children, bittersweet, terminal illness, unfulfillment, life turned upside down, child illness, couples ...
Time: 21st century
Place: australia, ireland
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Least Among Saints (2012)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A haunted soldier just back from war and a boy who has never known peace in his home life embark on a life-changing journey as they become unlikely friends — and one another’s last shot at redemption.
Style: realistic, emotional, touching, captivating, tense ...
Plot: boy, friendship, haunted by the past, family problems, redemption, escapades, journey, missing person, orphan, danger, youth, boyhood ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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29%
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Black Bread (2010)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 108 min.
Story: In the harsh post-war years' Catalan countryside, Andreu, a child that belongs to the losing side, finds the corpses of a man and his son in the forest. The authorities want his father to be made responsible of the deaths, but Andreu tries to ...
Style: realistic, atmospheric, serious, emotional, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens
Plot: spanish civil war, coming of age, post war, revenge, hate, human nature, society, uncover truth, life is a bitch, moral dilemma, injustice, social relations ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s
Place: spain, catalonia, europe
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28%
Grace & Mercy (2006)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: In poor health and dead broke, Grace has a plan to provide a future for her young daughter. With the help of her sister Mercy, she robs her former employer. But an alarm goes off during the robbery and they escape into a nearby church. They hold the ...
Style: touching, serious, uplifting, emotional, contemplative ...
Plot: hostage, church, crime gone awry, unlikely criminals, self discovery, clergy, fugitives, introspection, life is a bitch, on the run, criminal heroes, redemption ...
Time: 21st century
Place: california, los angeles, usa
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28%
Underbelly Files: Infiltration (2011)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 85 min.
Story: It tells the true story of Victorian detective Colin McLaren who posed as a shady art dealer and infiltrated the Australian branch of the Calabrian Mafia.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, tense, disturbing, psychological
Plot: mafia, crime family, youth, friends, chase, family business, gang war, mob boss, gangster, murder, rivalry, vengeance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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The Postcard Bandit (2003)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 106 min.
Story: The story of notorious Australian bank robber Brendan Abbott, who according to the myth, sent postcards to authorities hot on his trail while on the run across the country.
Style: captivating, suspense, psychological, tense, semi serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: bank robber, on the run, chase, rivalry, dishonesty, law enforcement, gangster, investigation, danger, escapades, massage, bank robbery ...
Place: australia
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26%
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CrissCross (1992)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Set in 1969, a twelve-year-old grows up in Key West with his mother, who is paying the bills by stripping at the local topless bar. The boy finds out about her activities and tries to convince her to stop, to no avail. A local restaurant owner hires ...
Style: serious, realistic, gloomy, bleak, touching
Audience: teen drama
Plot: strip club, boy, coming of age, youth, oedipus complex, age difference, children, boyhood, poverty, homeless, single parent, monastery ...
Time: year 1969, year 1992, 60s, 20th century
Place: florida, asia, vietnam, key west florida, miami
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Thursday Till Sunday (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Chile, Netherlands
Duration: 96 min.
Story: As she and her family embark on a short vacation, a Chilean teenager slowly comes to the realization that her parents might be splitting up.
Style: serious, tense, touching, sentimental, realistic ...
Plot: coming of age, dysfunctional family, family relations, family problems, on the road, parents and children, bittersweet, protecting from truth, crumbling marriage, siblings relations, under the surface, youth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: chile
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
A Perfect World (1993)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 138 min.
Story: A kidnapped boy strikes up a friendship with his captor: an escaped convict on the run from the law, headed by an honorable U.S. Marshal.
Style: road movie, sincere, suspense, touching, neo noir ...
Plot: kidnapping, life philosophy, fugitives, prison escape, prison, moral ambiguity, on the run, boy, friendship, child abuse, small town, road trip ...
Time: 60s, 20th century, 90s, year 1993, year 1963
Place: texas, usa, austin texas, birmingham alabama, alaska
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26%
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Joe the King (1999)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A destitute 14 year old struggles to keep his life together despite harsh abuse at his mother's hands, harsher abuse at his father's, and a growing separation from his slightly older brother. Petty thefts for food grow into more major ...
Style: emotional, harsh, tense, rough, grim ...
Plot: coming of age, children, dysfunctional family, child abuse, working class, youth, boy, redemption, poverty, childhood, corporal punishment, debt ...
Time: year 1999, 70s, 90s
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Jack Irish: Black Tide (2012)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Life's gone pear-shaped for Jack Irish. He's back to takeaway Chinese for one after his girlfriend Linda abandoned him for a career in Sydney, a flashy Brisvegas type is muscling in on the racetrack action, and his cabinet-making still ...
Style: realistic, serious, tense, captivating, detective ...
Plot: private detective, investigation, missing person, intrigue, uncover truth, dishonesty, danger, nypd, hidden truth, horse race, violent content, sexual content ...
Time: 21st century
Place: australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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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24%
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Highway (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Jack is caught with the wife of his employer, a Vegas thug. The thug sends goons after Jack, who convinces his best friend, Pilot, to flee with him. Pilot insists that they head for Seattle, but doesn't tell Jack why. The goons learn from ...
Style: road movie, serious, rough, realistic, cynical ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: road trip, on the road, friendship, love triangle, gangster, young heroes, unrequited love, buddies, self discovery, love and romance, older woman younger man relationship, mobster ...
Time: year 1994, 90s, 20th century
Place: seattle, las vegas, usa
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24%
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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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24%
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Kisses (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland, Sweden
Duration: 72 min.
Story: Two kids, Dylan and Kylie, run away from home at Christmas and spend a night of magic and terror on the streets of inner-city Dublin.
Style: realistic, touching, sincere, sentimental, captivating ...
Audience: teens
Plot: youth, coming of age, dysfunctional family, friendship, family problems, escapades, obsessive quest, danger, innocence lost, first love, child, love ...
Time: 21st century
Place: ireland, europe, dublin ireland
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Mad Bastards (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 94 min.
Story: TJ is a mad bastard, and his estranged 13‐year‐old son Bullet is on the fast track to becoming one, too. After being turned away from his mother’s house, TJ sets off across the country to the Kimberly region of northwestern Australia to make ...
Style: captivating, sincere, touching, atmospheric, realistic ...
Plot: family relations, father son reunion, self discovery, starting over, redemption, parent child relationship, going straight, hopes, introspection, estrangement, parents and children, human nature ...
Time: 21st century
Place: australia
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24%
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Five Star (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: After John’s absent father is struck by a stray bullet, Primo takes it upon himself to verse the young boy in the code of the streets—one founded on respect and upheld by fear. A member of the Bloods since the age of twelve—both in the film ...
Style: realistic, serious, captivating, psychological, sexy ...
Plot: gang, juvenile delinquency, haunted by the past, urban ghetto life, teaching the ways of the world, adolescence vs adulthood, coming of age, society, ghetto, gangster, violent content, drug dealing ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
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24%
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Top Dog (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Hooligan boss Billy Evans has it all - a successful business, a beautiful family and respect on the terraces. But when he clashes with gangster Mickey over a backstreet proetection racket, Billy soon finds himself out of his depth as they look to ...
Style: rough, tense, realistic, serious, suspenseful
Audience: boys' night
Plot: downfall, rivalry, ambition, gang, unfulfillment, criminal heroes, blind ambition, football hooligan, hooligan, criminal, football, nationalism ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, london
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23%
The Son of the Shark (1993)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Belgium, France, Luxembourg
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Brothers Martin and Simon, not yet teens, are incorrigible vandals; Martin runs away from reform school, Simon from foster homes, and they always find each other in a seacoast town of Lignan, where their destructive behavior is infamous. (It may ...
Style: realistic, serious, rough, touching
Plot: coming of age, boy, juvenile delinquency, creepy child, child abuse, children, psycho, brother brother relationship, family life, siblings relations, orphan, life is a bitch ...
Time: year 1993, 90s
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Byways (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Spain, Italy
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Victor, a father, travels the roads with his teenage son, Felix. For Felix, the trip is a school of life, as his first romantic encounter helps him better understand his father and get closer to him.
Style: road movie, realistic, touching, serious, emotional ...
Plot: family relations, on the road, parent child relationship, parents and children, love and romance, single parent, hopes, son, father son relationship, teenager, single father, teenage boy ...
Time: year 2004, 21st century
Place: europe, france, brittany
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Ciske the Rat (1984)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 180 min.
Story: Lovable Amsterdam street urchin, 11 year old Ciske is nevertheless much in need of love as the German 1955 title suggests. He is a scamp with a heart of gold. He causes havoc in the classroom pouring ink over his teacher yet when a polio-crippled ...
Style: cult classic, epic, gloomy, bleak, realistic ...
Plot: boy, coming of age, youth, abuse, murder, childhood, loneliness, child abuse, nudity, society, social misfits, life is a bitch ...
Time: 1930s, year 1934
Place: amsterdam, europe, holland
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Three Walls (2003)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Three men are on death row. Jaggu (Jackie Shroff), a lawyer and a poet, is serving a sentence for murdering his wife because she was cheating on him with another man. Nagya (Nagesh Kukunoor), a man angry with the whole world, is arrested for ...
Style: serious, contemplative, tense, bleak, touching ...
Plot: prison, introspection, prison life, criminal heroes, hopes, redemption, twists and turns, murder, death row, family problems, prisoner, escaped prisoner ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 6.2
 983
Rivals (2008)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 106 min.
Story: The story of two rival brothers, one a pimp and the other a cop, and how the former manages to be the family favourite.
Style: serious, tense, realistic, emotional, rough ...
Plot: starting over, family relations, prison, family problems, hopes, law enforcement, siblings relations, haunted by the past, family in crisis, criminal heroes, going straight, violent content ...
Time: 80s, year 2008, 70s, 20th century
Place: lyon, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
The Boys from Marx and Engels Street (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Family
Country: Montenegro, Slovenia
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Stanko (30) has to kill a man, for the first time. The same day, his younger brother Vojo (16) has to have sex for the first time. Roads of the two brothers will cross the same day several times, in an unusual way
Style: serious, realistic, emotional, tense, suspense
Plot: loss of virginity, parents and children, rivalry, homecoming, family relations, sexual content, profanity, siblings relations, haunted by the past, vengeance, youth, coming of age ...
Time: 21st century
Place: montenegro, europe, former yugoslavia
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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The Narrows (2008)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A 19 year old Brooklyn boy who is torn between two worlds when his photography portfolio wins him a partial scholarship to NYU. He must figure out how to balance his Italian neighborhood roots with the expansive, sophisticated world on the other ...
Style: serious, captivating, tense, psychological, suspense ...
Plot: college student, moral dilemma, parents and children, city life, family relations, human nature, self discovery, society, coming of age, hot and sexy, nypd, family in crisis ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york, brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Tough Enough (2006)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 98 min.
Story: From the youth directed novel of the same name by Greogor Tressnow comes a film by Detlev Buck that is a realistic portrait of life in the section of Berlin called Neukölln. It’s about power and weakness, delinquents and victims, and the ...
Style: realistic, suspenseful, serious, tense, rough ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: juvenile delinquency, street gang, youth gang, coming of age, gang, bullying, friendship, urban ghetto, urban ghetto life, parents and children, high school life, murder ...
Time: 21st century
Place: germany, berlin germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
The Stolen Children (1992)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, France, Switzerland
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Antonio, a policeman (carabiniere), has an order to take two children (Rosetta and her brother Luciano) from Milan to Sicily to an orphanage. Their mother has been arrested for forcing Rosetta (11 years old) to work as a prostitute. First the ...
Style: sincere, thought provoking, touching, captivating, road movie ...
Plot: child abuse, coming of age, orphanage, social differences, kids in trouble, life is a bitch, gain trust, on the road, family problems, society, self discovery, custody ...
Time: year 1992, 90s
Place: italy, switzerland, europe, sicily
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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