Movies like Evil 2003
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Evil (2003)
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Original name: Ondskan
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”. In fact already Erik frequently receives a ‘good’ thrashing at the hands of his sadistic stepfather – so he is packed off by his mother to boardingschool
Style:
psychological, disturbing, touching, rough, emotional, bleak, harsh, realistic, serious, motivational ...
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, swedish, boarding school life, bullying, youth, lifestyle, school, revenge, teacher, society, human nature, hardcase students, sadism, anti conformity ...
Time:
20th century, 50s, 1950s
Place:
sweden, europe, scandinavia, eastern europe, stockholm sweden
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, sincere and emotional films with plots about youth, coming of age, friendship, childhood, society, runaway and storytelling mostly in Drama, Crime and Thriller genres. Some movies like Evil: Before the Fall (2004), The Magdalene Sisters (2002), Mommy (2014), Song for a Raggy Boy (2003), If.... (1968). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama, Sport, Thriller, War
Country: Germany
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
In 1942, Friedrich Weimer's boxing skills get him an appointment to a National Political Academy (NaPolA) – high schools that produce Nazi elite. Over his father's objections, Friedrich enrolls. During his year in seventh ...
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nazi, boxing, friendship, anti semitism, boarding school, nazi germany, war, pow, world war two, youth, military school, gay subtext ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, post world war two, year 1942
Place:
germany, berlin germany, poland, new jersey, europe ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Ireland
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Four women are given into the custody of the Magdalene sisterhood asylum to correct their sinful behavior: Crispina and Rose have given birth to a premarital child, Margaret got raped by her cousin and the orphan Bernadette had been repeatedly ...
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bleak, brutal, harsh, disturbing, controversial ...
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convent, nun, life is a bitch, human spirit, corporal punishment, mistreatment, punishment, sexual harassment, human rights, religion, sin, catholic orphanage ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, year 1964
Place:
ireland, latin america, dublin ireland, europe
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
A peculiar neighbor offers hope to a recent widow who is struggling to raise a teenager who is unpredictable and, sometimes, violent.
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melancholic, touching, depressing, emotional, psychological ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
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oedipus complex, dysfunctional family, mother son relationship, mentally unstable, juvenile delinquent, incest overtones, single mother, violence, teenager, stuttering, youth, teenage boy ...
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year 2015, near future, 2010s, year 2010, year 1982 ...
Place:
canada, quebec, montreal
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Ireland, Denmark, UK, Spain
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
William Franklin is a teacher who was born in Ireland and moved to the United States only to repatriate in 1939 after his leftist political views cause him to lose his job. Franklin becomes the first non-cleric instructor at St. Jude's, a ...
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thought provoking, disturbing, bleak, serious, sincere ...
Plot:
child abuse, juvenile delinquency, orphan, dedicated educator, reformatory, corporal punishment, child rape, gay rape, boarding school life, sexual abuse, children, discipline ...
Time:
1930s, year 1939
Place:
ireland, europe, spain
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
The film is a caustic portrait of a traditional English boys’ boarding school, where social hierarchy reigns supreme and power remains in the hands of distanced and ineffectual teachers and callously vicious prefects in the Upper Sixth. But three ...
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surreal, disturbing, controversial, stylized, sexy ...
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teens
Plot:
revolution, social satire, private school, coming of age, boarding school, boys' school, school, violence, school shooting, teacher, surrealism, corporal punishment ...
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Place:
england, europe, california
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: France, Switzerland, Germany
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Set in 1940's France, a new teacher at a school for disruptive boys gives hope and inspiration.
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touching, inspirational, uplifting, sentimental, feel good ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
boarding school, teacher, childhood, orphan, music, children, friendship, musician, teachers and students, boarding school life, boss, school ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century
Place:
france, new york, europe, paris france, england
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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.
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disturbing, psychological, depressing, realistic, gloomy ...
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kansas, new york, usa
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Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Norway, France, Sweden, Poland
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Based on a true story: Norwegian winter, 1915. On the island Bastøy, outside Oslo, a group of young boys aged 11 to 18, are held in an institution for delinquent youth, notorious for its sadistic regime. One day a new boy, Erling, arrives, ...
Style:
bleak, tense, atmospheric, visually appealing, serious ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
punishment, prison life, juvenile detention, island, prison, sexual abuse, rebellion, child abuse, isolation, survival, humiliation, riot ...
Time:
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Place:
scandinavia, poland, eastern europe, norway, japan
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50%
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Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany, France
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
At a boarding school in the pre-war Austro-Hungarian Empire, a pair of students torture one of their fellow classmates, Basini, who has been caught stealing money from one of the two. The two decide that rather than turn Basini in to the school ...
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Time:
1910s, pre world war one, turn of the century
Place:
germany, europe, vienna
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100%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany, France
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A school teacher discusses types of government with his class. His students find it too boring to repeatedly go over national socialism and believe that dictatorship cannot be established in modern Germany. He starts an experiment to show how easily ...
Style:
psychological, philosophical, emotional, political, disturbing ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A teenage girl, Jessica, befriends a teenage boy called Tom, who is bullied by a local gang. She is abused by Jack, who is both her neighbour and school teacher, and Tom is sexually abused by his father. Together they bond in the woods, creating a ...
Style:
psychological, emotional, rough, sincere, captivating ...
Plot:
male nudity, friendship, rebellion, teenage boy, forest, life is a bitch, rebelliousness, social misfits, youth, friends, escape from reality, dysfunctional family ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, europe
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100%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Estonia
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
An average guy of an Estonian high-school decides to defend his bullied classmate. This starts war between him and the informal leader of the class. As teenagers' honour is a touchy thing, everything ends in bloodshed.
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disturbing, serious, tense, emotional, realistic ...
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teens, teen drama
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Place:
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Derek Vineyard is paroled after serving 3 years in prison for killing two thugs who tried to break into/steal his truck. Through his brother, Danny Vineyard's narration, we learn that before going to prison, Derek was a skinhead and the leader ...
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
When David Greene receives a football scholarship to a prestigious prep school in the 1950s, he feels pressure to hide the fact that he is Jewish from his classmates and teachers, fearing that they may be anti-Semitic. He quickly becomes the big man ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A chronicle of three weeks in the lives of several high school teachers, administrators and students through the eyes of substitute teacher, Henry Barthes. Henry roams from school to school, imparting modes of knowledge, but never staying long ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
Teacher and novelist François Bégaudeau plays a version of himself as he negotiates a year with his racially mixed students from a tough Parisian neighborhood.
Style:
sincere, melancholic, psychological, realistic, thought provoking ...
Audience:
teens, kids, pre-teens, teen drama
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teacher, teachers and students, school, high school life, society, high school, education, teenager, dedicated educator, adolescence, mentor, life philosophy ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
William Hundert is a passionate and principled Classics professor who finds his tightly-controlled world shaken and inexorably altered when a new student, Sedgewick Bell, walks into his classroom. What begins as a fierce battle of wills gives way to ...
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touching, realistic, emotional, sincere, serious ...
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kids, teens, girls' night
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teacher, coming of age, dedicated educator, boarding school life, youth, ethics, boarding school, hardcase students, friendship, cheating, mentor, school ...
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washington d.c., new jersey, pennsylvania
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
When principal Joe Clark takes over decaying Eastside High School, he's faced with students wearing gang colors and graffiti-covered walls. Determined to do anything he must to turn the school around, he expels suspected drug dealers, padlocks ...
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inspirational, feel good, realistic, sentimental, intense ...
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teens, girls' night, kids
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22%
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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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Place:
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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 ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
The determined new headmaster of an English prep school attempts to reform the frequently unruly students, who are tormented by a ruthless bully.
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Despite his dedication to the junior-high students who fill his classroom, idealistic teacher Dan Dunne leads a secret life of addiction that the majority of his students will never know. But things change when a troubled student Drey makes a ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
The story of a young ex-con Jack, newly released from serving a prison sentence for a murder he committed as a child.
Style:
psychological, disturbing, heartbreaking, emotional, touching ...
Audience:
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Time:
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Story:
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Audience:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A hardcore American racist skinhead who, because of his intelligence, leads a gang dedicated to fighting the enemy: the supposed American-Jewish conspiracy for domination. However, he's hiding a secret: he's Jewish-born, a brilliant ...
Style:
disturbing, emotional, thought provoking, bleak, realistic ...
Plot:
skinhead, judaism, racism, anti semitism, neo nazi, nazism, hate, jewish, bomb, identity crisis, anger, introspection ...
Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A story about a troubled boy growing up in England, set in 1983. He comes across a few skinheads on his way home from school, after a fight. They become his new best friends even like family. Based on experiences of director Shane Meadows.
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Country: USA
Duration: 136 min.
Story:
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Genre: Drama
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Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Teenage girl Osama cuts her hair and dresses like a boy to get a job and support her widowed mother and grandmother. When Osama is called by the Taliban to join school and military training she embarks on a terrifying and confusing journey as she ...
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serious, realistic, disturbing, sincere, bleak ...
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girls' night, teens
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Time:
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20%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Idealistic engineer-trainee and his experiences in teaching a group of rambunctious white high school students from the slums of London's East End.
Style:
touching, realistic, sentimental, romantic, inspirational ...
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