Movies like Mysterious Skin
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Mysterious Skin (2004)
72K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Netherlands
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A teenage hustler and a young man obsessed with alien abductions cross paths, together discovering a horrible, liberating truth.
Style:
disturbing, psychological, depressing, realistic, gloomy, rough, controversial, dark, serious, emotional ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, teen drama
Plot:
child abuse, gay, homosexual, coming of age, sexual abuse, pedophilia, homosexual rape, child molestation, youth, male rape, homosexuality, life is a bitch, teenage life, lifestyle, gays and lesbians, man boy relationship, prostitution, loss of innocence, gay teenager, gay hustler, sexuality, friendship, male prostitution, rape, gay sex ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 80s, year 1987, year 1983, year 1991, year 1981 ...
Place:
new york, kansas, usa
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Most similar movies to Mysterious Skin
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, interesting and melancholic films with plots about coming of age, storytelling, runaway, teenager, nude, violence and drinking alcohol mostly in Drama, Crime and Romance genres. Some movies like Mysterious Skin: My Own Private Idaho (1991), L.I.E. (2001), Manic (2001), Nowhere (1997), Hesher (2010). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
In this loose adaptation of Shakespeare's "Henry IV," Mike Waters is a gay hustler afflicted with narcolepsy. Scott Favor is the rebellious son of a mayor. Together, the two travel from Portland, Oregon to Idaho and finally to the ...
Style:
road movie, surreal, art house, touching, serious ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick
Plot:
gay, homosexual, homosexuality, friendship, lgbt, male prostitute, character study, friendship between men, love, gays and lesbians, prostitution, coming of age ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
idaho, portland oregon, rome italy, seattle, italy ...
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10K
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, sexy, brutal ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
gay, male prostitution, coming of age, sexual abuse, pedophile, older man younger man relationship, pedophilia, mentor, youth, suburbs, rent boy, juvenile delinquent ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
long island, new york, new jersey, california
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100%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Lyle is filled with rage. After badly beating a classmate during a schoolyard fight, Lyle is committed to a juvenile mental institution in lieu of criminal prosecution. Inside the hospital, Lyle encounters a group of adolescents struggling with a ...
Style:
psychological, disturbing, rough, compassionate, depressing ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
mental institution, mental illness, coming of age, depression, addiction, psychiatry, psychology, therapy, dysfunctional family, youth, teenage life, self discovery ...
Place:
new jersey, california
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100%
10K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: France, USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
The third film in a trilogy by writer-director Gregg Araki. Described as "90210 on acid", the film tells the story of a day in the lives of a group of high school kids in Los Angeles and the strange lives they lead.
Style:
surreal, stylized, futuristic, erotic, disturbing ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick
Plot:
gay, drugs, lgbt, coming of age, youth, gay teenager, social differences, friendship, male nudity, surrealism, teenager, estrangement ...
Time:
90s
Place:
los angeles, california, usa, southern california, cambodia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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53K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A young boy has lost his mother and is losing touch with his father and the world around him. Then he meets Hesher who manages to make his life even more chaotic.
Style:
bleak, realistic, serious, touching, dark ...
Plot:
youth, antisocial behavior, loner, depression, arson, life is a bitch, grief, family problems, rebelliousness, coming of age, friendship, dealing with death ...
Time:
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Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Difficult tale of poor, struggling South Carolinian mother & daughter, who each face painful choices with their resolve and pride. Bone, the eldest daughter, and Anney her tired mother, grow both closer and farther apart: Anney sees Glen as ...
Style:
realistic, disturbing, serious, emotional, touching ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
sexual abuse, coming of age, rape, domestic violence, family relations, dysfunctional family, parents and children, life is a bitch, pedophile, children, sexual assault, family in crisis ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, 90s, 50s
Place:
south carolina, usa, southern usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
The true story of boys being sexually abused at their orphanage ran by a religious community in Newfoundland.
Style:
realistic, disturbing, thought provoking, rough, bleak ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
child abuse, pedophilia, catholic priest, child molestation, man boy relationship, orphanage, child molester, pedophile priest, homosexual rape, childhood, underage sex, catholic orphanage ...
Time:
70s, year 1975
Place:
canada, london, newfoundland
⇓ similarity ⇓
89%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
The story of Nathan, a young teenager who tries to flourish in a romantic relationship with neighbour Roy. The two young men will have to face the brutal reality of the rural south of the United States in the late 1970s.
Style:
touching, sincere, realistic, serious, sentimental ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
gay, gay teenager, gays and lesbians, gay relationship, lgbt teen, gay couple, dysfunctional family, child abuse, gay rape, homosexual rape, closeted gay, small town ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
louisiana, usa, southern usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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43K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A suburban family is torn apart when fourteen-year-old Annie meets her first boyfriend online. After months of communicating via online chat and phone, Annie discovers her friend is not who he originally claimed to be. Shocked into disbelief, her ...
Style:
disturbing, emotional, controversial, realistic, serious ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, teen drama
Plot:
sexual abuse, teenager, investigation, father daughter relationship, bullying, child abuse, rape and revenge, internet, innocence lost, child sexual abuse, teenage girl, teenage life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
chicago illinois, california, usa, cleveland ohio, milwaukee wisconsin ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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, romantic, emotional, realistic ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, high school, teenager, friendship, first love, youth, adolescence, mental illness, suicide, teenage life, depression, shyness ...
Time:
90s, year 1991, 20th century, 21st century
Place:
pittsburgh, pennsylvania, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands, UK
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
Everything changes for 15 year old Mia when her mum brings home a new boyfriend.
Style:
emotional, bleak, gloomy, sincere, disturbing ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot:
age difference, mother's boyfriend, older man younger woman relationship, coming of age, innocence lost, dancing, rebelliousness, youth, life is a bitch, fall in love, adolescence, realism ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
california, europe, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
91K
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:
realistic, sincere, tense, disturbing, intense ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, chick flick, teen drama, adult
Plot:
coming of age, drug addiction, friendship, mother daughter relationship, peer pressure, dysfunctional family, addiction, underage drinking, teenage protagonist, self harm, teenager, kids in trouble ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
california, usa, los angeles, venice beach california
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Female born, Teena Brandon adopts his male identity of Brandon Teena and attempts to find himself and love in Nebraska.
Style:
bleak, disturbing, touching, thought provoking, sad ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
gender, transsexual, lesbian, rape, sexuality, small town, brutality, gay slur, violence, prejudice, hidden identity, lesbian love ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
nebraska, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A controversial portrayal of teens in New York City which exposes a deeply disturbing world of sex and substance abuse. The film focuses on a sexually reckless, freckle-faced boy named Telly, whose goal is to have sex with as many different girls as ...
Style:
disturbing, rough, controversial, depressing, bleak ...
Audience:
teens, kids, chick flick, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, virginity, innocence lost, drugs, aids, youth, puberty, sex, underage sex, teenager, sexual promiscuity, street kid ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new york, los angeles, new jersey, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy, UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
An alienated teenager, saddened that he has moved away from London, must find a way to deal with a dark family secret.
Style:
disturbing, bleak, rough, controversial, emotional ...
Plot:
incest, sexual abuse, father daughter incest, dysfunctional family, brother sister relationship, innocence lost, loneliness, incest rape, father daughter relationship, small town, psychology, guilt ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
england, europe, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
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Movies similar to Trainspotting
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A paedophile returns to his hometown after 12 years in prison and attempts to start a new life.
Style:
disturbing, harsh, sincere, rough, psychological ...
Plot:
pedophilia, friendship, sexual perversion, starting over, ex convict, police officer, psychology, factory worker, suspicion, warden, anger, haunted by the past ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
california, philadelphia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Duncan Mudge, mid-teens, lives apart from his rural world populated by his distant father and rough local kids. His main companionship is a chicken left after his mother's death until the neighbor's son befriends him.
Style:
disturbing, touching, serious, emotional, controversial ...
Plot:
gay teenager, first gay sexual experience, lgbt teen, bullying, coming of age, gay, youth, father son relationship, gays and lesbians, lgbt, gay interest, social misfits ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
vermont
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100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
Lester Burnham, a depressed suburban father in a mid-life crisis, decides to turn his hectic life around after developing an infatuation with his daughter's attractive friend.
Style:
thought provoking, melancholic, sexy, sexual, dramatic ...
Audience:
teens, kids, chick flick, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
existentialism, midlife crisis, dysfunctional family, suburbs, obsession, coming of age, loneliness, age difference, teenager, youth, older man younger woman relationship, older man young girl relationship ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
usa, los angeles
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60%
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113K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Set in Harlem in 1987, Claireece "Precious" Jones is a 16-year-old African American girl born into a life no one would want. She's pregnant for the second time by her absent father; at home, she must wait hand and foot on her mother, ...
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bleak, emotional, depressing, rough, sad ...
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teens, teen drama
Plot:
rape, sexual abuse, dysfunctional family, domestic violence, child abuse, teacher, poverty, illiteracy, social misfits, aids, african american, life is a bitch ...
Time:
20th century, year 1987, 80s
Place:
new york, harlem, new york city, usa, manhattan new york city, harlem
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43%
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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, disturbing, touching, rough, emotional ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
rebellion, coming of age, private school, friendship, rebelliousness, corporal punishment, humiliation, life is a bitch, bully, high school, violence, boarding school ...
Time:
20th century, 50s
Place:
sweden, europe, stockholm sweden, eastern europe, scandinavia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
As the Algerian War draws to a close, a teenager with a girlfriend starts feeling homosexual urges for two of his classmates: a country boy, and a French-Algerian intellectual.
Style:
erotic, realistic, sexy, stylized, unusual plot structure ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot:
gay, coming of age, male homosexuality, gay interest, friendship, homosexual, lgbtq, small town, homosexuality, betrayal, bittersweet, youth ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
france, africa, algeria, europe, south of france
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 147 min.
Story:
Two gangsters seek revenge on the state jail worker who during their stay at a youth prison sexually abused them. A sensational court hearing takes place to charge him for the crimes.
Style:
disturbing, sadistic, suspenseful, harsh, serious ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
lawyer, child abuse, childhood, vengeance, rape, courtroom drama, sexual abuse, haunted by the past, pedophilia, friendship, revenge, murder trial ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, 80s
Place:
new york, usa, madison square garden manhattan new york city, new york yankees, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
After several years of living with a cult, Martha finally escapes and calls her estranged sister, Lucy, for help. Martha finds herself at the quiet Connecticut home Lucy shares with her new husband, Ted, but the memories of what she experienced in ...
Style:
psychological, disturbing, tense, bleak, dark ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
cult, paranoia, hippie, sexual abuse, religion, female protagonist, mind control, psychology, brainwashing, suspense, manipulation, character study ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
connecticut, california, new york, new york state, usa
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100%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Adapted from a 1964 novel of the same name, the film follows a day in the life of George Falconer, a British college professor reeling with the recent and sudden loss of his longtime partner. This traumatic event makes George challenge his own will ...
Style:
psychological, touching, sexy, sincere, visually appealing ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night
Plot:
gay, depression, gays and lesbians, loneliness, homosexual, lgbt, broken heart, homosexuality, haunted by the past, tragic love, death, gay relationship ...
Time:
60s, year 1962, 20th century, 1940s
Place:
los angeles, california, usa, santa monica california, denver colorado ...
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100%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Netherlands, France
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Ken Park focuses on several teenagers and their tormented home lives. Shawn seems to be the most conventional. Tate is brimming with psychotic rage; Claude is habitually harassed by his brutish father and coddled, rather uncomfortably, by his ...
Style:
disturbing, art house, sexual, rough, sexy ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
coming of age, infidelity, explicit sex, youth, strong sexual content, underage sex, incest, sex, older woman younger man relationship, teenage sex, sexual relations, masturbation ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
california, australia, usa
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50%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
An aimless teenager on the outer edges of Brooklyn struggles to escape his bleak home life and navigate questions of self-identity, as he balances his time between his delinquent friends, a potential new girlfriend, and older men he meets online.
Style:
thought provoking, realistic, captivating, disturbing, controversial ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
gay, lgbt teen, coming out, gay love, gay sex, teenager, gay interest, older man younger man relationship, lgbt, lgbtq, friendship, dating ...
Place:
brooklyn new york city, coney island brooklyn new york city, new york, atlantic ocean
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Australia, USA, China
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
The son of a Baptist preacher is forced to participate in a church supported gay conversion program.
Style:
thought provoking, psychological, sentimental, captivating, sad ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
lgbt, gay, religion, lgbtq, gay teenager, father son relationship, gay interest, coming of age, church, homosexual, lgbt teen, gay lead character ...
Place:
southern usa, new york, arkansas
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
The fictional Father Ángel de la Cruz is based on Legion of Christ
founder Marcial Maciel, whose long history of child abuse was not
addressed until 2006 and only publicly acknowledged in 2009.
But director Luis Urquiza chooses to structure his ...
Style:
disturbing
Plot:
pedophile priest, child abuse, punishment, teenager, pedophile, corporal punishment, catholic church, catholic priest, bullying, gay, seminary, confession ...
Place:
mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
The two brothers Aske (17 years old) and Bastian (12 years old) live with their father, Lasse. Their mother died seven years earlier. Every day they live in a world where fear, violence and alcohol are huge factors, but where the brothers' ...
Style:
disturbing, rough, touching
Plot:
brother brother relationship, pedophilia, child prostitution, child abuse, sexual perversion, father son relationship, incest, mistreatment, brothers, homosexual rape, boy, lgbt ...
Place:
norway
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 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:
coming of age, friendship, teenager, childhood, children, vengeance, dysfunctional family, family relations, loss of son, family problems, haunted by the past, family in crisis ...
Place:
new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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