Movies like Second Best
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Second Best (1994)
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
The difficult relationship between a british postal officer and his adoptive son.
Style:
sentimental, touching, serious, emotional, realistic
Plot:
orphan, social worker, single parent, man boy relationship, absent father, adoption, coming of age, parents and children, family problems, hopes, family relations, village, friendship, mother son relationship, boy, single father, children, youth, suicide, child abuse, bad father, long lost father, postman, small village, life is a bitch ...
Time:
90s
Place:
england, europe, wales
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, touching and emotional films with plots about youth, family relations, parents and children, coming of age, family problems, hopes and single parent mostly in Drama, Family and War genres. Some movies like Second Best: Pellet (2000), A Place for Annie (1994), Goodnight, Mister Tom (1998), Rails & Ties (2007), Mondo (1995). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Duration: 88 min.
Story:
El Bola, a 12 year old boy a.k.a. "Pellet" is a 12 year old boy raised in a violent and sordid environment. Embarrassed by his family life, he avoids becoming close to classmates. The arrival of a new boy at school changes his attitude ...
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
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Genre: Drama, Family, War
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Duration: 101 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A deadly collision between a train and car lead to an unlikely bond between the train engineer and a young boy who escapes the carnage.
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Mondo is a homeless young boy, with a big smile, who wanders around Nice looking for food and a place to sleep.
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, feel good
Plot:
coming of age, child, boy, gypsy, orphan, family relations, friends, youth, social misfits, society, friendship, village ...
Time:
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Place:
french riviera, italy, france, nice france
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
12-year-old Eli finds himself at summer CAMP
Style:
serious, realistic, emotional, sentimental, biting
Plot:
boy, child abuse, summer camp, camp counselor, youth, kids in trouble, friendship, hopes, life is a bitch, family problems, teaching the ways of the world, dysfunctional family ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, South Korea
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Young Jinhee is taken by her father to an orphanage near Seoul. He leaves her there never to return, and she struggles to come to grips with her fate. Jinhee desperately believes her father will come back for her and take her on a trip. The film is ...
Style:
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Plot:
children, orphan, youth, adoption, family relations, dysfunctional family, parents and children, hopes, girl, abandoned by father, abandoned baby, family problems ...
Time:
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Place:
korea, seoul, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
europe, hungary
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
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serious, realistic, sentimental, touching, emotional
Plot:
family relations, society, introspection, self discovery, youth, haunted by the past, teenage life, family problems, friends, hopes, orphan, eccentric family ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A young father and his two children struggle to find harmony after his wife leaves them for another man.
Style:
serious, realistic, emotional, touching
Plot:
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Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
When her husband dies, Mrs. Ester Hobbes (Ellen Bry, TV's St. Elsewhere) learns that his wealth was just an illusion. Her only real inheritance is a run-down Southern home occupied by a foster family. Slowly, Mrs. Hobbes finds herself making ...
Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Place:
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Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Duration: 102 min.
Story:
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Style:
touching, sentimental, emotional, serious, realistic
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Plot:
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Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
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Country: France
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Duration: 108 min.
Story:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Story:
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Plot:
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Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
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Story:
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Duration: 107 min.
Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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