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Breathing (2011)
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Original name: Atmen
Genre: Drama
Country: Austria
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A 19-year-old is coming out of prison and trying to build a new life but he can't deal with his guilt.
Style:
sincere, touching, serious, realistic, gloomy
Plot:
teenage boy, prison life, hopes, nudity, bare chested male, male pubic hair, guilt, youth, self discovery, starting over, redemption, haunted by the past, going straight, society, juvenile delinquency, confined, introspection, human nature, social misfits, prison, naked man, swimming pool, teenager, teenage protagonist, juvenile detention ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
austria, europe
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Most similar movies to Breathing
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, touching and sincere films with plots about youth, coming of age, hopes, society, family relations, life is a bitch and teenage life mostly in Drama and Crime genres. Some movies like Breathing: The Devil's Playground (1976), Boy A (2007), Import Export (2007), Initiation (2009), Offline (2012). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A powerful drama relating the intimate aspect of teenage boys and their priest/educators behind the walls of a religious institution where rigid discipline backfires natural feelings are deemed unnatural acts and human lives are controlled in the ...
Style:
semi autobiographical, serious, realistic, tense, crying ...
Plot:
coming of age, altar boy, adolescence, catholic school, sex, catholic, boys' school, boarding school, gay, sensuality, youth, lgbt ...
Time:
1950s, year 1976, 70s, year 1953, 50s
Place:
australia, melbourne
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 106 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, touching, suspense, heartbreaking, compassionate ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
redemption, juvenile delinquency, childhood, haunted by the past, going straight, bullying, melancholy, released from prison, teen angst, rehabilitation, violent, starting over ...
Time:
year 2007, 21st century
Place:
nebraska, britain, united kingdom, england, europe ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Austria, France, Germany
Duration: 141 min.
Story:
A nurse from the Ukraine searches for a better life in the West, while an unemployed security guard from Austria heads East for the same reason. Both are looking for work, a new beginning, an existence, struggling to believe in themselves, to find a ...
Style:
sexy, thought provoking, erotic, serious, bleak ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
illegal prostitution, female nudity, female masturbation, immigrant, voyeur, au pair, life is a bitch, starting over, self discovery, job seeking, hopes, misfit ...
Time:
90s, 21st century
Place:
ukraine, europe, austria, central europe, eastern europe
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Genre: Drama
Country: Austria, Germany
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
16-year old Axel and his clique are rioting in a residential home. There he meets the 80-year old Gustav who gains interest in the young boy, as he reminds him of his lost love.
Style:
serious, captivating, touching, emotional, contemplative ...
Plot:
racism, male homosexuality, introspection, haunted by the past, friendship, redemption, elderly, hopes, youth, juvenile delinquency, society, adolescence vs adulthood ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, austria
Similarity:
36%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
A man attempts to reclaim the life that prison took from him but his dark past threatens to ruin everything.
Style:
serious, realistic, touching, sincere, gloomy
Plot:
redemption, starting over, haunted by the past, life is a bitch, society, parents and children, family relations, family problems, estrangement, dysfunctional family, hopes, job seeking ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
belgium
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A woman discovers the man she has lived with for years is not who she thought he was...
Style:
contemplative, serious, realistic, sincere
Plot:
longing, couple relations, suicide, death, couples, hopes, betrayal, dishonesty, starting over, human nature, love, lie ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
germany, europe
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Drama
Country: Romania, Sweden, Germany
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A teenager prisoner awaits his release when two weeks before that happens he's told that his mother is returned home. Meanwhile, he finds himself in love with a Sociology student, Ana, working in the penitentiary as an intern.
Style:
serious, rough, touching, realistic, psychological ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
forced sexual contact, prison warden, teenage love, redemption, power relations, family relations, parents and children, unfulfilled love, confined, society, hopes, bittersweet ...
Time:
year 2010, 21st century
Place:
romania, europe
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Drama
Country: Austria, Germany, Italy
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Sebastian and Paul are two bored boys about 16 years of age. They drink alcohol, steal - and attend a private school. They can't find a sense of meaning in their present adolescent existence. They abduct Sonja and lock her in an old, abandoned ...
Style:
realistic, serious, disturbing, suspenseful, tense
Plot:
abduction, gay, teenage life, youth, hostage, coming of age, kidnapping, school, missing person, friendship, lgbt, older woman younger man ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
spain, new york, europe, madrid, philadelphia
Similarity:
32%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
Duct tape, electrical cables, trigger, explosives. Sebbe never planned to build a bomb. It just happened. Sebbe is 15 years old and lives with his mother in an apartment that is too narrow. He does his best. He never strikes back. Sebbe loves his ...
Style:
realistic, serious, psychological, captivating, contemplative ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
losing-it hero, single parent, coming of age, teenage boy, introspection, teenage life, bullying, youth, society, life is a bitch, juvenile delinquency, parents and children ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, eastern europe
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
An elderly woman wants to meet her son’s murderer. A sixteen-year-old girl who has crossed paths with a young hoodlum needs an adult to accompany her to the prison visiting room. A young medical supplies delivery man is offered a deal to take the ...
Style:
serious, sincere, realistic, captivating
Plot:
prison, prison life, love and romance, confined, criminal heroes, hopes, haunted by the past, redemption, youth, switching roles, romancing a criminal, teenage love ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe, marseille
Similarity:
31%
431
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
The fates of three German-born Muslims in Berlin collide as they struggle to find their place between faith and modern life in contemporary western society, caught at a crossroads where alluring liberated lifestyles conflict with deeply-rooted ...
Style:
serious, sincere, atmospheric, touching, thinking ...
Plot:
rebellion, forbidden love, introspection, self discovery, haunted by the past, hopes, society, youth, love and romance, against the rules, family relations, adolescence vs adulthood ...
Time:
year 2010, 21st century
Place:
germany, europe
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia, Germany, Italy
Duration: 70 min.
Story:
20 short films about human rights.
Style:
touching, sentimental, serious, gloomy, contemplative ...
Plot:
human spirit, introspection, redemption, youth, life is a bitch, social differences, discrimination, idealism, injustice, hopes, society, human nature ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
africa, asia, usa, europe
Similarity:
31%
320
Genre: Drama
Country: Austria
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A drama centered on an 11-year-old Chechnyan refugee living in Vienna whose life is thrown into disarray when a friend of his deceased father materializes.
Style:
serious, touching, realistic, sincere, emotional ...
Plot:
coming of age, youth, refugee, interracial relations, immigrant, life is a bitch, society, misfit, family drama, grief, single mother, father son relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
austria, vienna
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A German flight attendant's life spirals downward after she leaves her husband, quits her job, and joins a radical group of animal rights activists.
Style:
realistic, semi serious, touching, sincere
Plot:
sex orgy, stewardess, starting over, self discovery, life turned upside down, looking for love, love and romance, hopes, husband wife relationship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, fired from the job, female nudity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, germany, frankfurt germany
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Shaun and Daz are vibrant kids, wasted by their experience of education. All they have is friendship and Shaun's first love Katy. From the moment Shaun steps into our world he is bound to lose. Labeled as a violent bully he destroys himself and ...
Style:
serious, emotional, touching, realistic, atmospheric ...
Plot:
friendship, disability, friends, adolescence vs adulthood, haunted by the past, self discovery, misfit, hopes, introspection, father son relationship, skinny dipping, friendship between men ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, europe
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, Germany, France, USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Meeting his handicapped son for the first time, a young father attempts to forge a relationship with the teenager.
Style:
psychological, touching, emotional, serious, contemplative ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
estrangement, parents and children, single parent, teenage life, human nature, disability, hospital, self discovery, coming of age, redemption, hopes, family relations ...
Time:
year 2004
Place:
europe, germany, italy, berlin germany, milan italy
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Drama
Country: Finland, Sweden, Denmark
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A 14-year-old boy in a stifling Helsinki slum takes some unwise life lessons from his soon-to-be-incarcerated older brother, in Finnish master Pirjo Honkasalo’s gorgeously stylized and emotionally devastating work about what we pass on to younger ...
Style:
realistic, bleak, stylized, serious, atmospheric ...
Plot:
coming of age, naked man, brother brother relationship, male nudity, siblings relations, realism, family problems, dysfunctional family, life is a bitch, urban ghetto, family relations, protecting from truth ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
europe, helsinki finland, finland
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, Luxembourg, France
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
A tale of deliverance. Laura, 27 years old, lives alone in the outskirts of a large town. She learns that her father is in a coma, after a serious car accident. She decides to visit him at the hospital as a last opportunity to settle old scores, ...
Style:
realistic, serious, psychological, captivating, touching ...
Plot:
hospital, introspection, haunted by the past, estrangement, family relations, hopes, dysfunctional family, father daughter relationship, revenge, car accident, family secret, nudity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
belgium, europe
Similarity:
28%
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Aaron, a young misfit living in a remote Scottish fishing community, is the lone survivor of a strange fishing accident that claimed the lives of five men including his older brother. Spurred on by sea-going folklore and local superstition, the ...
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, modern fairy tale, psychological ...
Plot:
lost at sea, fishing village, outcast, bullying, society, social relations, misfit, village life, boy, folk horror, death of brother, ocean ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
scotland
Similarity:
28%
297
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A young man dying in prison brings his family together for a fateful visit, and proceeds to put his life back together.
Style:
touching, emotional, serious, realistic, independent film ...
Plot:
prison, prison life, redemption, destiny, society, rehabilitation, life is a bitch, hopes, family life, parents and children, black, blaxploitation ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
28%
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, rough, sincere, emotional, captivating ...
Plot:
woods, male nudity, friendship, teenage boy, rebellion, life is a bitch, social misfits, rebelliousness, youth, friends, escape from reality, male pubic hair ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, europe
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Keeping to himself in the wake his father's death, James Charm finds refuge in solitary walks and creating morbid sketches — until a charismatic new friend and a quirky young woman begin to draw him out of his shell.
Style:
realistic, serious, sentimental, touching, independent film ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
boy, teenage boy, therapist, teenage life, mother son relationship, family relations, self discovery, coming of age, youth, single parent, problem, little boy ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A coming-of-age drama that centers on a young quarterback from West Texas, a priest in New York, and the two women in their lives.
Style:
serious, realistic, uplifting, touching, contemplative ...
Plot:
coming of age, high school, starting over, prodigy, haunted by the past, society, ambition, redemption, rivalry, youth, lifestyle, hopes ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
texas, new york, usa
Similarity:
28%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Kazakhstan, Germany, France
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
During a medical examination, 13-year-old Aslan is humiliated in front of a load of his fellow pupils. The incident unleashes his latent personality disorder. Plagued by self-doubt, he strives for cleanliness and perfection and is obsessed with ...
Style:
realistic, serious, atmospheric, disturbing, gloomy
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
boy, youth, life is a bitch, coming of age, bullying, child murder, social misfits, misfit, vengeance, teenage boy, humiliation, youth gang ...
Time:
year 2013, 21st century
Place:
kazakhstan, asia
Similarity:
27%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France, Canada, UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Three juvenile delinquents arrive at a correctional center and are put under the care of an experienced guard.
Style:
sincere, tense, sexy, realistic, serious ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
juvenile delinquency, prison, juvenile prison, teenage boy, teenage protagonist, accidental killing, male pubic hair, prison life, reformatory, sodomy, juvenile detention, youth ...
Time:
year 2010, 21st century
Place:
montana
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
The mother and the younger son in a happy family dies in a car-accident. The father and the teenage-son Jonas survives the accident. Now they have to move on with their lives together.
Style:
touching, sincere, serious, emotional, gloomy ...
Plot:
family relations, starting over, single parent, teenage life, family problems, death in the family, youth, introspection, hopes, parents and children, family in crisis, single father ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe
Similarity:
27%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Although he is only ten years old, Jack is responsible for himself and his little brother Manuel and this fills him with pride. Their single mother works during the day and often goes out at night. There’s no father in sight. One day, Manuel burns ...
Style:
realistic, atmospheric, touching, serious, captivating ...
Plot:
boy, young heroes, teenage life, youth, self discovery, brother brother relationship, child as adult, child care, coming of age, family relations, life turned upside down, parents and children ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
germany
Similarity:
27%
683
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Pip, a street kid just turning 18, receives his grandfather's World War II-era memoirs and discovers parallels to his own life.
Style:
touching, realistic, serious, psychological, queer cinema
Plot:
street kid, hustler, unrequited love, gay bar, male prostitute, father son incest, gay, survival, introspection, self discovery, estrangement, youth ...
Place:
europe, germany
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Drama
Country: Austria
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A drama centered on two men at different states in life: Ertan, an ex-con who is trying to make amends for his past actions and Mikail, a teen-aged drug runner an aspiring musician.
Style:
sincere, realistic, emotional, serious, bleak
Plot:
hidden identity, going straight, follow your dream, ex convict, family relations, hopes, teenage life, juvenile delinquency, parents and children, family problems, youth, estrangement ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
vienna, austria, europe
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 72 min.
Story:
"My Father My Lord" is an intimate and deeply disturbing story of the conflict between a father's love and his deep devotion to religion. A respected Orthodox Rabbi dotes on his only son but his religious strictures leave an emotional ...
Style:
emotional, touching, sincere, sentimental, captivating ...
Plot:
coming of age, self discovery, family problems, rabbi, religions or cults, life is a bitch, introspection, clergy, hopes, society, parents and children, death in the family ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
middle east, israel
Similarity:
27%
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