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Russkies (1987)
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Russkies (1987)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A group of American boys discovers a Russian sailor washed up on the coast of Florida and decide to befriend him, assuming that he is friendly and will bring them no danger and thus go against the ideas of their parents, as well as the government.
Style: epic, independent film, humorous, semi serious
Audience: kids, family outing, teen drama
Plot: cold war, friendship, submarine, coming of age, teenager, youth, shipwreck, manhunt, village, heroes, space and aliens, friends, misfit, village life, danger, social relations, culture clash, fish out of water, buddies, benign alien, young heroes, heroic mission, anti hero, baseball, divorce ...
Time: year 1987, 80s
Place: russia, usa, florida
Keyword: american, russian

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Most similar movies to Russkies

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, touching, independent film and semi serious films with plots about youth, friendship, friends, coming of age, family relations, society and teenage life mostly in Drama, Family and Adventure genres. Some movies like Russkies: The Golden Seal (1983), Just a Dream (2002), Sex and the USA (2008), Grandview, U.S.A. (1984), Old Enough (1984). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Golden Seal (1983)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A lonely 10-year-old boy living with his parents in a remote coastal part of Alaksa, spontaneously finds a legendary golden seal and her newborn pup. But the greed for her valuable pelt sets off the hunters, including his own father, the local ...
Style: independent film, semi serious, feel good, touching, sentimental
Audience: pre-teens, family outing
Plot: youth, legend, hunter, rescue, nature, family relations, fighting the system, coming of age, bounty hunter, friendship, seal the animal, animal life ...
Time: year 1983, 80s
Place: alaska
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95%
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Just a Dream (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Film crew arrives in a small town in Nevada desert. Ends up changing the life of a 12-year-old kid and a friend of his, a movie lover.
Style: semi serious, feel good, humorous, realistic, sentimental ...
Audience: kids
Plot: youth, coming of age, desert, filmmaking, friendship, friends, obsession, interracial relations, family life, family relations, social relations, society ...
Time: 60s
Place: nevada, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
93%
Sex and the USA (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Thirteen year old Audrey Shaw is new to Bellweather, California and certain shell never fit in when she meets Krista Rich, the pretty, popular girl she aspires to be "or be with" shes just not sure. In a conservative California town, ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, sexual, mockumentary
Audience: teens
Plot: friends, youth, friendship, lifestyle, society, teenage life, coming of age, innocence lost, high school life, teenager, drug, sexuality ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
Grandview, U.S.A. (1984)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Life in the small town of Grandview, Illinois is one that is just like any other city or town. Tim Pearson, soon to be graduating high school wants to go to Florida to study oceanography. He meets Michelle "Mike" Cody and is attracted to ...
Style: captivating, touching, sentimental, humorous, independent film ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, small town, love triangle, friendship, fall in love, human nature, society, youth, family relations, working class, teenager, betrayal ...
Time: 80s
Place: illinois
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
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Old Enough (1984)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: The 12 years old well-bred Lonnie meets the impudent Karen on the street. They spend some time together and Karen teaches Lonnie some of her favorite occupancies, like make-up, shoplifting, skipping school and lying to the parent about it, but ...
Style: independent film, realistic, semi serious, touching, sentimental ...
Audience: teens
Plot: friendship, teenager, youth, coming of age, female friendship, middle school, woman, strong female lead, age-gap relationship, family relations, female bonding, friendship between girls ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
 7.2
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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
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
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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
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
Return to Macon County (1975)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: In 1958, two teenagers take their pride and joy, a hopped-up Chevy, and start a cross-country journey to enter it in the National Championship drag races in California. Along the way they hook up with a pretty but dingy waitress who quits her job ...
Style: grindhouse, independent film, exciting, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: on the road, drag racing, classic car, car, auto racing, manhunt, redneck, waitress, car chase, friendship, chase, car accident ...
Time: year 1975, 1950s, 50s
Place: california, georgia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Letters to Elena (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 97 min.
Story: In the beautiful hills of the Copper Canyon in Chihuahua, Mexico, a young boy (Emilio) is adopted by the mailman (Teo). As part of their daily tasks, they not only deliver the mail but read letters to the villagers, as well as take dictation, since ...
Style: captivating, serious, touching, emotional, realistic
Audience: family outing
Plot: youth, protecting from truth, optimism, friendship, teaching the ways of the world, hopes, human spirit, love and romance, fall in love, village, letter, dream ...
Time: 21st century
Place: mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 7.7
 6K
The Way Home (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 80 min.
Story: The story begins on a fine summers morning, when San-woo and his mother board a bus to the country. It is soon clear that the unsophisticated rural passengers annoy the seven-year-old urban boy. His mother is taking him to live with his 78-year-old ...
Style: touching, sentimental, stylized, rough, thought provoking ...
Audience: kids
Plot: coming of age, childhood, parents and children, grandmother grandson relationship, grandparent grandchild relationship, love, life & death, children, generation gap, friendship, village life, adolescence ...
Time: year 2002
Place: korea, asia, south korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 4.7
 328
Ricochet River (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: hree teenagers looking for adventure find more than they expected in this coming-of-age drama. High school seniors Wade (Jason James Richter) and Lorna (Kate Hudson) have spent all their lives in the small logging town of Calamus Grove, a ...
Style: realistic, serious, touching, sentimental, independent film ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: coming of age, culture clash, interracial relations, teenage life, love and romance, self discovery, small town, on the road, youth, lifestyle, society, social misfits ...
Time: 60s, 90s
Place: oregon, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Cider with Rosie (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A semi-autobiographical coming-of-age story set in the Cotswolds during and immediately after the First World War.
Style: realistic, captivating, serious, psychological, sentimental ...
Plot: village, coming of age, world war one, childhood, society, youth, friendship, village life, teenager, military police, anti war, girl ...
Time: 1910s, 20th century, 1920s
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
The Derby Stallion (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: An alcoholic former horse-trainer perceives in a fifteen-year-old boy a unique gift of horsemanship and makes it possible for the boy to conceive his dream and pursue it.
Style: realistic, serious, feel good, touching
Audience: family outing
Plot: jockey, horse trainer, self discovery, friendship, human spirit, against the odds, teenage life, rivalry, follow your dream, youth, contests and competitions, underdog ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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Swimming (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Two girl friends in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina find their relationship changing as they encounter new arrivals to the town.
Style: sincere, sentimental, touching, semi serious, realistic ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: coming of age, friendship, youth, couple relations, fall in love, self discovery, teenage life, teenage love, small town life, best friend, lesbian sex, human nature ...
Time: 90s
Place: usa, south carolina
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
 6.2
 107
Moving Out (1983)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Coming-of-age story about an Italian-Australian teenager making his way in the world.
Style: semi serious, realistic, touching, humorous, independent film
Plot: immigrant, family relations, coming of age, suburbs, misfit, society, youth, life turned upside down, teenage life, culture clash, moving, trespassing ...
Time: 80s
Place: australia, melbourne
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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Foxes (1980)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A group of friends come of age in the asphalt desert of the San Fernando Valley, as set to a blazing soundtrack and endless drinking, drugs and sex.
Style: stylized, sexual, social, realistic, serious ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: teenager, coming of age, friendship, relationships, addiction, drug abuse, girl gang, sex, drug addiction, teen angst, hardcore, street kid ...
Time: 70s, year 1980, 20th century
Place: california, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
 6.7
 422
The Climb (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, New Zealand, Canada
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Baltimore, 1959. Danny's dad is the only man in the neighborhood who didn't fight in World War II. Danny, who's 12, gets teased and folks make nasty cracks about cowards. An old radio tower on a nearby hill is about to be torn down, ...
Style: serious, realistic, uplifting, touching, independent film
Audience: family outing
Plot: friendship, rescue, young heroes, youth, heroes, coming of age, aging, human spirit, hopes, family relations, friends, child illness ...
Time: 50s, 1950s, post world war two
Place: baltimore, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
 6.5
 445
Second Chances (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A little girl's physical and emotional reawakening after an accident claims her father and her spirit.
Style: independent film, contemplative, realistic, serious, uplifting ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: horse, girl horse relationship, youth, religion, father daughter relationship, disability, starting over, friendship, friends, optimism, young heroes, pets ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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The We and the I (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA, France
Duration: 103 min.
Story: The We and the I is the heartfelt and comical story of the final bus ride home for a group of young high school students and graduates.
Style: touching, talky, sincere, serious, sad ...
Audience: teens
Plot: friendship, teenager, group of friends, high school life, social relations, society, youth, introspection, interracial relations, adolescence vs adulthood, coming of age, bus ...
Time: year 2012, 21st century
Place: usa, new york, bronx new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
A Very Serious Person (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Jan, an itinerant male nurse from Denmark, takes a new job with Mrs. A, a terminally ill Manhattan woman raising her parentless thirteen-year-old grandson, Gil. Spending the summer by the shore, the emotionally reserved Jan finds himself oddly cast ...
Style: realistic, humorous, touching, semi serious, offbeat
Plot: coming of age, ambulance, self discovery, gender, elderly, filmmaking, family relations, hollywood, teenage life, gay, grandmother grandson relationship, youth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
The Simple Life of Noah Dearborn (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A 91 years old carpenter, who is still in completely good health, has to fight developers who are trying to force him to sell his land.
Style: realistic, serious
Audience: family outing
Plot: farm, aging, african american, best friend, fighting the system, hopes, rivalry, underdog, ambition, human spirit, society, friends ...
Time: 90s
Place: georgia
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
The Last Summer (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Four good friends, all seventeen-year old, lose their innocence during their last summer together. Flanders 1996. Rik, Tim, Roel and Bart aimlessly wile away the summer days in a small village where nothing exciting ever happens. When Rik becomes ...
Style: serious, realistic, sincere, emotional
Plot: coming of age, teenage life, friendship, youth, intrigue, rivalry, domestic disturbance, buddies, lifestyle, family relations, parents and children, summer ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: belgium, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
And Then I Go (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Two teenage outsiders are demoralized daily at school, until an idea for vengeance offers them a terrifying release.
Style: suspense, unusual plot structure, thought provoking, psychological, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: friendship, bullying, teenage boy, school shooting, boy, tragedy, police, revenge, best friend, friendship between boys, school, junior high school ...
Time: 21st century
Place: kentucky, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Smitty (2012)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: SMITTY is a family film about a rescue dog. When life gets tough for Ben, a friendly paw is all it takes to pull him through. Mischievous thirteen-year-old Ben is sent to his grandfather's farm for the summer, where he crosses paths with a ...
Style: sincere, captivating, light, feel good, touching ...
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: youth, family relations, friendship, pets, coming of age, single parent, farm, dog, redemption, hopes, teaching the ways of the world, friends ...
Time: year 2010, 21st century
Place: iowa, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Whatever (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: In the early 1980s, Anna, a New Jersey teenager faces her impending adulthood, dreaming of a life as a successful New York artist. When she gets caught up in the carefree sport of pre-AIDS sex and drugs, Anna's future becomes less certain.
Style: realistic, independent film, semi serious, sentimental, touching ...
Audience: teens
Plot: coming of age, school, friendship, drug, high school, age difference, art teacher, bittersweet, performer's life, youth, society, lifestyle ...
Time: year 1998, future, 80s
Place: new jersey, new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
 5.4
 205
True Friends (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: New York, The Bronx, 1980. Two Italian boys Joey Esposito and Louie Mazerino jump to the defence of a smaller Puerto Rican boy, J.J. Lopez, when J.J. is threatened by six schoolyard bullies. The three boys soon become best friends, and they always ...
Style: independent film, realistic, serious
Plot: friendship, urban ghetto, friends, juvenile delinquency, life is a bitch, ambition, youth, drug dealing, going straight, buddies, coming of age, unfulfillment ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york, usa, bronx new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
 6.1
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Flipper (1963)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Many kids might say their best friend is a puppy or a pony. But for 12-year-old Sandy, the most special pet of all is the exuberant dolphin he rescues and who returns the favor by rescuing Sandy from sharks.The dolphin named Flipper first swam into ...
Style: melancholic, touching, exciting, feel good, semi serious ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: dolphins, youth, ocean, coming of age, healing power, animal, young heroes, friendship, danger, teenage life, boy, father son relationship ...
Time: year 1963, 60s
Place: florida, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
 6.4
 452
Love That Boy (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Love That Boy is the story of Phoebe, a socially inept overachiever, unrecognized in a world run by C students. Phoebe’s life is totally dominated by her “To Do Before Graduation” list. When Phoebe’s best friend Robyn dumps Phoebe two weeks ...
Style: humorous, captivating, atmospheric, light, touching ...
Plot: fall in love, couples, friendship, friends, youth, college, coming of age, age difference, looking for love, teenager, obsession, love and romance ...
Place: nova scotia
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
 6.4
 2K
Tex (1982)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Coming-of-age adventure about two teenage brothers and their struggles to grow up, on their own, after their mother dies and their father leaves them.
Style: uplifting, serious, realistic, touching, feel good ...
Audience: teens, family outing, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, teenager, brother brother relationship, dysfunctional family, friendship, bittersweet, small town, high school, profanity, acid, name calling, family relations ...
Time: year 1982, 80s, 70s
Place: oklahoma, usa, southern usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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 281
Tag (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Billy is the self-designated leader of a group of teenagers living in a shelter. Jacob and Rae, Billy's oldest childhood friends, live there as well as part of "the family". Billy has an AIDs-like virus, which he has passed on to his ...
Style: suspenseful, psychological, tense, contemplative, unusual plot structure ...
Plot: homeless, abusive parent, drug addict, couples, teenager, gay teenager, runaway, murder, hiv, flashback sequence, love, father son relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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