Movies like Ivan & Abraham

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Ivan & Abraham (1993)
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Ivan & Abraham (1993)
Original name: Moi Ivan, toi Abraham
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belarus
Duration: 105 min.
Story: In 1930s Poland Christian boy Ivan goes to live with a Jewish family to learn a trade. He becomes friends with Abraham, the son of the family. However, anti-Semitism is rife in their environment, and they flee to escape an upcoming conflict. Journeying together, they demonstrate their inseparability.
Plot: youth, teenager, village, escape, friendship, religion, gypsy, racism, teenage girl, family relations, runaway, communist, hate, school teacher, christian, horse riding, odyssey, anti semitism, circumcision, runaway teen, coming of age, childhood friend, patriarch, colt, landowner ...
Time: 1930s
Place: poland
Keyword: jewish

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, touching and captivating films with plots about youth, friendship, family relations, teenager, coming of age, friends and teenage life mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Ivan & Abraham: The Chosen (1981), The Bay Boy (1984), The Good Son (2001), The Chimp (2001), Miss Sweden (2004). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Chosen (1981)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: The Chosen follows the story of two teenage boys determined to remain friends despite the deep differences between their two families. Set in New York during the 1940s, this provocative film follows the son of an orthodox rabbi and the son of a ...
Style: realistic, touching, thinking, contemplative, serious ...
Audience: kids, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, orthodox jew, religion, jewish culture, judaism, friendship, father son relationship, culture clash, chosen one, holocaust, family drama, traumatic childhood ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, 80s, year 1981, year 1944
Place: new york, usa, brooklyn new york city
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The Bay Boy (1984)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, France
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A Roman Catholic teenage boy in Glace Bay, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia during the 1930s faces various growing-up problems: Should be become a priest? What should he do about the murder he witnessed, committed by a local cop and upstanding ...
Style: spiritual, touching, emotional, sentimental, realistic ...
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Time: 1930s
Place: nova scotia, canada, nova scotia, canada
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The Good Son (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Bonjour tristesse: Teenager Luc lives with his mother Liliane and his little brother Paul in Paris, has to cope with the fact that his mother is a prostitute and practically raise his brother alone. Luc is disillusioned. One day, little Paul wants ...
Style: disturbing, captivating, psychological
Audience: teens
Plot: teenager, friendship, teenage boy, romantic friendship, family relations, love affair, relationships, teenage life, love story, teenage love, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, love interest ...
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The Chimp (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Kyrgyzstan, Japan
Duration: 98 min.
Story: The Chimp is the nickname of a teenage boy (with large ears) who lives in the small town of Balyktchy, Kirghizstan, a former part of the USSR in central Asia. His family is being torn apart by his dad's alcoholism, his emotions are being torn ...
Plot: town, teenager, friendship, friend, teenage boy, father son relationship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, flirting, family relations, autobiography, alcoholic, brother sister relationship ...
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Miss Sweden (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Moa is in her early 20s, works at a factory and lives by herself in a cottage in the forest. She is a vegan and follows her friends and demonstrations, mostly to fit in. But at home, by herself, she listens to pop music and use make-up.
Style: serious, realistic, sincere, captivating, sexual
Plot: vegetarian, small town, family relations, youth, teenage life, friendship, relationships, teenager, coming of age, feminism, aging, curses spells and rituals ...
Time: 21st century
Place: eastern europe
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Welcome Home (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration: 86 min.
Story: This is the story of two childhood friends - Lucas (a 16-year-old high-schooler) and Bert (a mechanic’s apprentice) - who flee the suffocating fish bowl that their killjoy families’ lives have become. Lucas, still quite immature, finds a “big ...
Style: captivating, disturbing, homoerotic
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The Devil in the Skin (2011)
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Country: France
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Coming-of-Age drama telling the story of the strong bond between Xavier and his little brother Jacques and their struggle to remain together despite all odds.
Style: touching, serious, realistic, sentimental
Plot: coming of age, youth, brother brother relationship, rebelliousness, forceful separation, summer, family relations, life turned upside down, countryside, boy, childhood, teenager ...
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The Last Years of Childhood (1979)
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A juvenile offender is handed over to authorities at age 13 and placed in an institution in this somber social drama. Martin is a petty thief who enjoys stealing and looks up to his older brother. When he is informed that his brother has died, ...
Plot: runaway, teenager, social problems, male pubic hair, nudity, family relations, runaway teen, bureaucracy, escape, juvenile delinquency, social realism, coming of age ...
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The Last Summer of La Boyita (2009)
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Style: serious, realistic, exciting, suspenseful, melancholic ...
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Marcowe migdaly (1990)
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 89 min.
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Duration: 86 min.
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Kissing Candice (2017)
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The Last Summer (2007)
Genre: Drama
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Duration: 95 min.
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Forbidden Fruit (2009)
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Duration: 104 min.
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Duration: 92 min.
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Mondo (1995)
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6A (2016)
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Story: As if immersed in the situation, the viewer witnesses a distressing encounter between angry parents, a helpless teacher and three schoolgirls. It soon becomes clear that certain things are going wrong in their class. There have been complaints of ...
Style: suspense, tense, contemplative, suspenseful, captivating ...
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Valley (2014)
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Style: touching, sincere, captivating, psychological, tense ...
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Genre: Drama
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Duration: 97 min.
Story: No overview found.
Style: realistic, serious, emotional, touching, contemplative ...
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Duration: 86 min.
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Style: touching, contemplative, suspenseful, sentimental, captivating ...
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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
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19%
The Perfect Gift (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A spoiled schoolgirl, her overworked executive mother, and a disillusioned young minister each receives an uplifting message about friendship, commitment, and the truest meaning of Christmas from a friendly, but mysterious drifter.
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