Movies like The Middle of the World
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The Middle of the World (2003)
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Original name: O Caminho das Nuvens
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Romão, illiterate and unemployed, feels destiny drawing him on an odyssey to Rio de Janeiro in pursuit of a job and a decent life. A family of seven journeys 2,000 miles across the hinterlands of Brazil on bicycles. Along the way, the story explores the inner dynamics of a family facing a great challenge with the courage to pursue dreams.
Style:
road movie, sincere, touching, serious, realistic, gloomy
Plot:
virgin mary, youth, on the road, family relations, unemployment, hopes, life is a bitch, injustice, teenage life, family problems, working class, parents and children, family life, innocence lost, couple relations, bicycle, coming of age, male female relationship, husband wife relationship, travel, survival, artist, victim, escapades, society ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
rio de janeiro, brazil, latin america
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, touching and sincere films with plots about family relations, parents and children, youth, coming of age, family problems, society and life is a bitch mostly in Drama, Romance and Adventure genres. Some movies like The Middle of the World: Xenia (2014), The Great Journey (2004), Casa Grande (2014), Summer Games (2011), Once Upon a Time in Rio (2008). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Greece, France, Belgium
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
Strangers in their own birthplace, a camp 16-year-old, lollipop-sucking Dany and his 18-year-old brother Odysseus cross the entire country (along with pet rabbit Dido ) in search of their Greek father, who they only know as “The Nameless”, ...
Style:
sincere, inspirational, light, captivating, realistic ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot:
gay, coming of age, brother brother relationship, lgbt, youth, follow your dream, social misfits, hopes, society, albanian, gay brother, missing father ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
greece, europe, albania, athens greece
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100%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Morocco, Bulgaria
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Reda, summoned to accompany his father on a pilgrimage to Mecca, complies reluctantly - as he preparing for his baccalaureat and, even more important, has a secret love relationship. The trip across Europe in a broken-down car is also the departure ...
Style:
road movie, realistic, serious, sentimental, touching ...
Plot:
pilgrimage, travel, on the road, family relations, father son relationship, journey, culture clash, youth, society, golden years, hopes, human nature ...
Place:
france, serbia, europe, milan italy, italy ...
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73%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
As a privileged teenager living in an affluent suburb of Rio de Janeiro, Jean has little to worry about beyond games, grades and girls. But as his overbearing father drags the family into debt, Jean is forced into a change of lifestyle which opens ...
Style:
emotional, sentimental, realistic, serious, semi autobiographical
Audience:
teens
Plot:
teenage life, under the surface, parents and children, family problems, social differences, power relations, society, social relations, family life, unfulfillment, class differences, older woman younger man relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
rio de janeiro, brazil, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Switzerland, France
Duration: 141 min.
Story:
The story of an adult and a teenage couple during a brief summer holiday by the sea. While Nic's parents remain trapped in a precarious mutual dependency despite repeated attempts at reconciliation, their 12-year-old son tries to come to terms ...
Style:
sentimental, serious, sincere, realistic, touching ...
Plot:
coming of age, family problems, family relations, love and romance, dysfunctional family, resort, parents and children, father son relationship, mother daughter relationship, husband wife relationship, first love, teenage girl ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Situated just above the awe-inspiring Ipanema beach in Rio is the Cantagalo slum. Every day, floods of Cantagalo residents make their way down the mountain, only to disappear into their surroundings as part of the invisible working-class that cleans ...
Style:
emotional, realistic, touching, serious, sentimental ...
Plot:
love, love and romance, social differences, forbidden love, parents and children, family relations, couples, life is a bitch, fall in love, slum, step siblings, urban ghetto ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
latin america, rio de janeiro, brazil
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil, Germany
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Donato fails in his attempt to save a drowning man, and meets one of the man's friends. He decides to start his life over, but pieces of his past keep coming after him.
Style:
realistic, sentimental, psychological, captivating, sexual ...
Plot:
gay, drowning, male nudity, beach, gay love, lifeguard, gay sex, gender, oral sex, lgbt, brother brother relationship, travel ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
germany, berlin germany, brazil, portugal, northeast brazil
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
707
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
An autobiographical film taken from the experiences of writer-director Rob Moretti, CRUTCH is a coming-of-age tale about a young man's struggle with family problems and substance abuse. Behind a facade of suburban middle class perfection, ...
Style:
psychological, serious, realistic, emotional, bleak ...
Plot:
coming of age, gay, coming out, dysfunctional family, family relations, rehabilitation, suburbs, kids in trouble, lifestyle, teenage life, dangerous attraction, social decay ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Colombia
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
A young woman raising alone her children while her husband gets drunk but when she breaks free nothing will be the same
Style:
realistic, serious, sincere, touching, gloomy
Plot:
optimism, family relations, hopes, society, family problems, unemployment, parents and children, village, husband wife relationship, loss of job, blaxploitation, strong female presence ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
africa, colombia, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Israel
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Or shoulders a lot: she's 17 or 18, a student, works evenings at a restaurant, recycles cans and bottles for cash, and tries to keep her mother Ruthie from returning to streetwalking in Tel Aviv. Ruthie calls Or "my treasure," but ...
Style:
serious, thought provoking, psychological, realistic, bleak ...
Plot:
prostitution, escort, down on your luck, family relations, coming of age, parents and children, prostitute, life is a bitch, lifestyle, dysfunctional family, family problems, single parent ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
israel, tel aviv israel, tel aviv
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
The film follows four inter-connecting stories revolving around love, drugs and poverty in Philadelphia
Style:
serious, uplifting, touching, emotional, realistic ...
Plot:
family relations, juvenile delinquency, dysfunctional family, social decay, drug dealing, human spirit, youth, lifestyle, society, hopes, teenage life, drug abuse ...
Time:
year 2007, 21st century
Place:
philadelphia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
When 21 year-old Leo, the oldest of four brothers, announces to his rural French family that he's HIV+, his family quickly rallys around him. Leo travels to Paris with his youngst brother Marcel for treatment. When Leo tries to push his brother ...
Style:
sincere, realistic, serious, touching, queer cinema
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
youth, boy, coming out, gay, gays and lesbians, friendship, brother brother relationship, coming of age, lgbt, tragic hero, hiv, life is a bitch ...
Place:
paris france, france, europe, brittany
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Finland
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Episodic study of feelings where six stories intertwine over one Saturday in a small town. Two boys save a young woman, Anni, and her baby from suicide by drowning. Esa, a down-on-his-luck musician in need of a loan, arrives to his father's ...
Style:
serious, sentimental, realistic, captivating, anthology
Plot:
family relations, love and romance, couple relations, dysfunctional family, mother son relationship, human nature, introspection, gays and lesbians, unfulfillment, youth, hopes, estrangement ...
Place:
finland
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A girl is born to an Aboriginal mother and an Afgan father.
Style:
serious, touching, sincere, captivating, tense ...
Plot:
interracial relations, culture clash, tragic love, forbidden love, human spirit, true love, fall in love, parents and children, injustice, youth, couple relations, society ...
Time:
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Place:
australia, afghanistan
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
One winter night, Pilar runs away from home. With her, she takes only a few belongings and her son, Juan. Antonio soon sets out to look for her. He says Pilar is his sunshine, and what's more, "She gave him her eyes"...
Style:
sincere, serious, touching, realistic, emotional ...
Plot:
domestic violence, violent husband, starting over, haunted by the past, fall in love, dysfunctional family, siblings relations, therapy, understanding, family problems, crumbling marriage, life is a bitch ...
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63%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Austria, Germany, Switzerland
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Following the death of Manu (Resetarits) in a car accident, the film relates the interwoven stories of several people who become indirectly connected by the events and aftermath of the crash.
Style:
serious, realistic, sincere, touching, gloomy ...
Plot:
teenage life, love affair, introspection, couples, family problems, dysfunctional family, destructive relationship, parents and children, hopes, youth, love and romance, death in the family ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
austria, europe, brazil, africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 194 min.
Story:
Follows the stories of the four men of the Kirby family. As Alex's marriage breaks apart, Toby tries desperately to start a family, and Marty tries to kick-start his faded music career as well as find a meaningful relationship with someone his ...
Style:
psychological, realistic, serious, sincere, touching ...
Plot:
family relations, introspection, family life, family problems, couples, hopes, parents and children, family in crisis, mental illness, haunted by the past, couple relations, estrangement ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
scotland
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
Cliff has just turned 18 and his little sister has a gift for him: booze, a joint, a subway token and the command to have sex. Heading out on the town, Cliff finds friendship -- and more -- in the person of a young hustler named Butch. But ...
Style:
serious, touching, sentimental, sincere, sexy ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
gay, gay teenager, coming of age, lgbt, coming out, lifestyle, self discovery, teenage life, friendship, fall in love, couple relations, society ...
Place:
toronto ontario canada, canada
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63%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Teenagers Rose and Bennett were in love, and then a car crash claimed Bennett's life. He left behind a grieving mother, father and younger brother, and Rose was left all alone. She has no family to turn to for support, so when she finds out ...
Style:
touching, captivating, realistic, sincere, serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
childhood sweetheart, pregnancy, teenage mother, loss of son, family relations, crumbling marriage, youth, family problems, parents and children, teenage life, adolescence vs adulthood, dysfunctional family ...
Time:
year 2008, year 2009, 21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: Russia
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A widowed aeronautics engineer, who has lost his job, travels with his son hopping freight trains from Moscow to Koktebel, a town by the Black Sea, to start a new life with the father's sister.
Style:
psychological, sentimental, touching, atmospheric, road movie ...
Plot:
boy, father son relationship, parents and children, human nature, hopes, family relations, alcohol abuse, family life, coming of age, journey, on the road, death of wife ...
Place:
russia, ukraine, moscow russia, black sea, crimea
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62%
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
'Vidas secas' tells in vivid images the almost documentary like story of a drover and his family in the northern interior states of Brazil during the drought. A family in the search of a new hope and destiny.
Style:
realistic, serious, bleak, rough, gloomy
Plot:
revolution, food, boy, coming of age, gambling, teacher, hunger, youth, life is a bitch, injustice, farm, family relations ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
brazil, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Sylvain and Pierre have been running from the law ever since a custody battle with their mother pushed their father Yves into hiding ten years ago. But now that they’re older, the two brothers are road-weary and eager to take advantage of the ...
Style:
sincere, touching, realistic, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot:
family relations, coming of age, father son relationship, brother brother relationship, teenage boy, family problems, custody, siblings relations, kidnapping, parents and children, youth, teenage life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Ireland, UK, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Five unmarried sisters make the most of their simple existence in rural Ireland in the 1930s.
Style:
emotional, light, realistic, sentimental, sincere ...
Plot:
family relations, aunt niece relationship, dancing, family life, siblings relations, parents and children, human nature, sibling relationship, life is a bitch, love and romance, sisters, brother sister relationship ...
Time:
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Place:
ireland, africa, europe, spain, england
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62%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Annecy is no tourist destination for three working-class Algerian brothers and their father, in the months after their mother has died. Marc is deeply troubled: he tries to stiff drug dealers and then plots revenge. Christophe is released from jail, ...
Style:
serious, touching, emotional, sentimental, realistic ...
Plot:
gay, transsexual, lgbt, family relations, male nudity, dysfunctional family, working class, drug dealing, going straight, three brothers, teenage life, redemption ...
Place:
paris france, alps
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
In Havana, Raul dreams of escaping to Miami. Accused of assault, he appeals to Elio to help him reach the forbidden world 90 miles across the ocean. One night, full of hope, they face the biggest challenge of their lives.
Style:
realistic, touching, serious, stylized
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
twins, lgbt, hopes, buddies, on the run, teenage life, nurse, friendship, flirting, husband wife relationship, brother sister relationship, machismo ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 165 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, serious, rough, captivating, feminist film ...
Plot:
family problems, family life, love and romance, life is a bitch, society, infidelity, small town, unfulfillment, human nature, sister sister relationship, husband wife relationship, death of father ...
Time:
20th century
Place:
russia, moscow russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, Switzerland, France
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
After growing up in Switzerland, 13-year-old Marta returns to a city in southern Italy with her mother and older sister. Independent and inquisitive, she joins a catechism class at a local church. However, the games and religious pop songs she ...
Style:
sincere, touching, realistic, serious, gloomy ...
Plot:
religion, mother daughter relationship, catholic, parents and children, teenage life, journey, society, coming of age, children, life is a bitch, church, teenage girl ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
italy, europe, southern italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
After the death of her parents, a young woman assumes primary guardianship of her special needs brother. But as she attempts to balance her new life with her brother and her own blossoming romance, it becomes painfully clear that life will only make ...
Style:
realistic, serious, touching
Plot:
family relations, dysfunctional family, family in crisis, life is a bitch, youth, family problems, brother sister relationship, autism, guardian, sibling relationship, child care, siblings relations ...
Time:
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Place:
usa
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62%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, Hong Kong
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
17-year-old Eric follows his parents to immigrate to Canada and is thus forced to confront different emotional and cultural problems. He must not only adjust to the new environment, but also come to terms with his homosexuality. Standing at the ...
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captivating, sincere, sentimental, touching, sexy ...
Plot:
gay, homosexual, immigrants, self discovery, lifestyle, culture clash, forbidden love, teenage life, family relations, human nature, youth, society ...
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62%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
We’re in the middle of a heat-wave in Fenland England. Goob Taylor has spent each of his sixteen summers helping Mum run the transport cafe and harvest the surrounding beet fields. When Mum shacks up with swarthy stock-car supremo and ladies’ ...
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Time:
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Place:
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61%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Iran
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Filmmaker Saman Moghadam details the struggles of three women living in an antiquated district of Tehran in this emotionally resonant drama. Fabria's husband has been morally corrupted, and now it's up to her to take charge of the small ...
Style:
touching, sentimental, psychological, sincere, serious ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
21st century
Place:
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61%
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