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Jess + Moss (2011)
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Jess + Moss (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Jess, age 18, and Moss, age 12 are second cousins in the dark-fire tobacco fields of rural Western Kentucky. Without immediate families that they can relate to, and lacking friends their own age, they only have each other. Over the course of a summer they venture on a journey exploring deep secrets and hopes of a future while being confronted with fears of isolation, abandonment and an unknown tomorrow.
Style: atmospheric, realistic, contemplative, stylized, psychological, captivating, teen, aesthetic, sincere, touching ...
Plot: coming of age, youth, farm, friendship, self discovery, teenage life, love and romance, society, teenager, age difference, childhood, smoking, woman with a gun, memories, hopes, summer, teenage girl, memory, cigarette smoking, tobacco, cousin cousin relationship, sexual awakening, rural setting, young boy, age-gap relationship ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: kentucky, usa

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, touching and captivating films with plots about youth, coming of age, friendship, teenage life, society, family relations and self discovery mostly in Drama, Adventure and Romance genres. Some movies like Jess + Moss: All the Wilderness (2014), Brother (2014), Virgin (2003), Being 14 (2015), Milk (2008). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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All the Wilderness (2014)
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: serious, realistic, sentimental, touching, independent film ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: boy, teenage life, teenage boy, family relations, coming of age, self discovery, single parent, youth, therapist, mother son relationship, problem, boyhood ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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Brother (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Georgia, France
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Giorgi is 16 years old when he discovers another world through American films forbidden in all Soviet Union until then. Since the post-revolutionary chaos in his home town, Tbilisi, Giorgi has wanted to have succeeded by following the path of his ...
Style: realistic, serious, touching, captivating, stylized ...
Plot: teenage life, youth, juvenile delinquency, society, political unrest, prodigy, brother brother relationship, siblings, brothers, brother, family relations, gang ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
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Virgin (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: When a teenager finds herself pregnant, with no memory of having had sex, she determines that she is carrying the child of God.
Style: realistic, touching, captivating, psychological, erotic ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: pregnancy, coming of age, family relations, clergy, society, youth, teenage life, parents and children, small town, teenage girl, virginity, pastor ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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Being 14 (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 86 min.
Story: The lives and turbulent adventures of a bunch of fourteen-year-old teenagers, through the eyes of three young girls - Sarah, Jade and Louise - with one last year to go before high school.
Style: realistic, emotional, captivating, psychological, atmospheric ...
Plot: friendship, teenage life, coming of age, drug abuse, youth, sexuality, self discovery, college, best friend, strong female presence, friends, high school life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
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Milk (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey, France, Germany
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A high school graduate, Yusuf could not pass the university entrance exam. Writing poetry is his greatest passion and some of his poems are being printed in various obscure literary journals. But neither these poems, nor the rapidly falling price of ...
Style: realistic, art house, psychological, atmospheric, captivating ...
Plot: youth, coming of age, adolescence vs adulthood, teenage life, introspection, teenage love, leaving home, unfulfillment, family relations, hopes, small town, farm ...
Time: 21st century
Place: turkey
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Lebanon, Pa. (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Will, a charming 35-year-old Philadelphia ad man, heads to Lebanon, Pa. to bury his recently deceased father. He forms an unexpected friendship with CJ, his bright, newly pregnant 17-year-old cousin. As Will becomes interested in CJ's married ...
Style: realistic, sentimental, captivating, psychological, independent film ...
Plot: family relations, culture clash, society, love and romance, pregnancy, coming of age, hopes, youth, wooing, small town, road not taken, bittersweet ...
Time: 21st century
Place: pennsylvania, usa, philadelphia
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Not Waving But Drowning (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Not Waving But Drowning is a chronological look at growing up, formed from two different stories. The two sets of friends represent the American dilemma between what you have known and what you hope to know; the tear between longing for the past and ...
Style: realistic, atmospheric, touching, psychological, captivating ...
Plot: self discovery, friendship, adolescence vs adulthood, starting over, couples, society, relationships, best friend, friends
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
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Face (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Genie, a Chinese-American teenager, develops feelings for a charming African-American DJ, but her grandmother forbids their romance forcing Genie to choose between family and love.
Style: sincere, emotional, touching, serious, realistic ...
Plot: family relations, parents and children, teenage life, immigrant, opposites attract, friends, introspection, culture clash, single parent, youth, coming of age, friendship ...
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Toe to Toe (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Out on the lacrosse pitch, wealthy but troubled Jesse and poor but driven Tosha form an easy and deep bond, but their relationship is threatened once they enter the hallways of an elite prep school they attend in Washington, D.C. There, they must ...
Style: captivating, realistic, psychological, sentimental, sexy ...
Audience: teens
Plot: lacrosse, friendship, teenage life, self discovery, coming of age, youth, social differences, racism, strong female lead, teen rebel, female bonding, rebel ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, washington d.c.
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56%
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Mamitas (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: A teenager in Echo Park deals with the loss of his mother and his attraction to a girl not considered "cool" by his friends.
Style: sincere, realistic, captivating, psychological, light ...
Plot: coming of age, teenage love, high school, youth, couples, teenage life, social relations, friendship, society, self discovery, homeless, poverty ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa
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Bilal's Stand (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Bilal, a Muslim high school senior works at his family's long-owned taxi stand. "The Stand," as they call it, has been the source of all activity and money for the family for the last sixty years. It seems like Bílal is about to ...
Style: realistic, sincere, sentimental, touching, independent film ...
Plot: coming of age, follow your dream, self discovery, teenage life, family business, society, youth, human spirit, hopes, workplace, family problems, family life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: detroit, usa
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It Felt Like Love (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Fourteen-year-old Lila is experiencing an ennui-filled Brooklyn summer. She awkwardly wears a Kabuki-esque mask of sunscreen at the beach and plays third wheel to Chiara, her more experienced friend, and Chiara’s boyfriend, Patrick. Determined to ...
Style: emotional, realistic, touching, sexy, captivating ...
Plot: coming of age, teenage girl, first sex, youth, obsession, self discovery, best friend, friendship, wooing, hot guys, teenager, sexuality ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa, brooklyn new york city
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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
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54%
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Beautiful Wave (2011)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: In Santa Cruz for the summer, a young woman discovers the sport of surfing -- and a family secret as well.
Style: sentimental, contemplative, psychological, captivating, sincere ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: surfing, self discovery, coming of age, youth, escapades, teenage life, surf, society, friendship, on the road, secret, woman ...
Time: 21st century
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Drunkboat (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: After twenty years of broken bottles and empty hallways, Mort Gleason witnesses his nephew Moo being beaten while in a drunken stupor. The short contact with family brings Mort back to what are left of his senses and he returns to the last home he ...
Style: serious, touching, realistic, sincere, sad
Plot: family relations, single parent, haunted by the past, social relations, youth, parents and children, self discovery, coming of age, teenage life, suburbs, teenager, drinking alcohol ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, South Korea, USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: A Korean immigrant falls in love with her best friend while navigating her way through the challenges of living in a new country.
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Plot: immigrant, coming of age, friendship, teenage life, society, unfulfilled love, youth, unfulfillment, women of color, love, couples, refugee ...
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Place: canada, toronto ontario canada
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Future Weather (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Abandoned by her dreamer single mom, a teenage loner becomes obsessed with ecological disaster, forcing her and her grandmother, a functioning alcoholic, to rethink their futures.
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Plot: coming of age, family relations, environmentalism, society, family problems, dysfunctional family, teenage life, gain trust, youth, life is a bitch, bittersweet, teenager ...
Time: 21st century
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The Nail: The Story of Joey Nardone (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Tony Luke, Jr. stars as Joey Nardone, an out-of-shape boxer, who after 8 years in prison for an unfortunate accident leaves prison and gets a shot at redemption by fighting for one young boy's future - 14 year old Jesus.
Style: serious, touching, realistic, captivating
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Place: philadelphia, usa
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Breakfast with Curtis (2012)
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Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Syd is an eccentric bookseller with delusions of grandeur fueled by red wine. He caused a rift 5 years ago between his bohemian housemates and the family next door, but now tries to recruit his 14-year-old neighbor as a collaborator.
Style: serious, realistic, touching, psychological, suspenseful ...
Plot: friendship, friends, drug, teenage boy, coming of age, death threat, depression, love and romance, love, couples, youth, family relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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Firelight (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Incarcerated women join a band of volunteers who battle forest fires and assist during natural disasters.
Style: emotional, realistic, touching, serious, sincere ...
Plot: youth, redemption, power relations, human spirit, juvenile delinquency, hopes, society, friendship, fire brigade, rivalry, homeless, friends ...
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Place: usa
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The Errand of Angels (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Sister Rachel Taylor of Boise, Idaho is an eager young missionary of the LDS Church who has been sent on an 18-month long mission to Austria. Rachel finds herself having a hard time adjusting to her new cultural surroundings in the foreign country. ...
Style: realistic, contemplative, psychological, captivating, emotional ...
Plot: self discovery, church, religions or cults, clergy, society, hopes, missionary, friendship, love, innocence lost, miraculous event, siblings relations ...
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Come Home Raquel (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Raquel, a 13 year old living in Queens, NY, struggles to make sense of her life after the deportation of her parents. Things quickly change upon the arrival of a new teacher and the return of her young uncle.
Style: touching, sincere, captivating, psychological, tense ...
Plot: teacher student relationship, uncle niece relationship, new teacher, missing mother, broken family, teenager, second chance, coming of age, children, latina, middle school, loneliness ...
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Choking Man (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: The social anxiety of a morbidly shy Ecuadorian dishwasher working in a Queens diner provides the psychological engine that powers this blend of drama and magical realism.
Style: realistic, touching, atmospheric, captivating, psychological ...
Plot: immigrant, city life, friendship, self discovery, restaurant, diner, workplace romance, workplace, family relations, social misfits, lonely, urban ...
Place: usa, new york
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Face 2 Face (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Over a series of video chats, a teenage outcast reaches out to his childhood friend, but finds that behind the veneer of popularity and a seemingly perfect life, she hides a disturbing secret.
Style: unusual plot structure, captivating, sincere, tense, touching ...
Plot: bullying, coming of age, childhood friend, found footage, friendship, youth, couple relations, love and romance, teenage life, love, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, couples ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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Just Breathe (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Sydney is a troubled teen heading for trouble. After being caught shoplifting and a case of alcohol poisoning, Sydney's desperate single mother sends her off to the country to live with her father, Ben, and his new pregnant wife, Emma. Sydney ...
Style: serious, realistic, atmospheric, sentimental
Audience: teens
Plot: stepmother stepdaughter relationship, kleptomania, self discovery, teenage life, youth, family relations, parents and children, friendship, countryside, bittersweet, shoplifting, underage drinking ...
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The Wise Kids (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A vivid, dynamic Southern coming-of-age drama, takes place in the transitional space between high school and college, when life seems to be all questions and no answers, and the future is scarily wide open. Set in and around a Charleston, SC Baptist ...
Style: serious, touching, realistic, contemplative, sexual ...
Plot: coming of age, best friend, single parent, family relations, self discovery, introspection, teenage life, lgbt, youth, society, direction and purpose, parents and children ...
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Crossroads (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: The life of a young Jesuit seminarian is turned upside down when he falls in love with a young woman while working as a volunteer at a soup kitchen.
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Snow in August (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: In a world filled with hatred, their only hope was magic. Believe and anything can happen.
Style: touching, atmospheric, sentimental, emotional, captivating ...
Plot: youth, culture clash, friendship, racism, bittersweet, human spirit, life is a bitch, injustice, haunted by the past, gang, rabbi, anti semitism ...
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Year of the Nail (2007)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico
Duration: 79 min.
Story: A love story between a Mexican teenager and an American woman who meet one summer in Mexico.
Style: emotional, realistic, atmospheric, captivating, experimental ...
Plot: coming of age, older woman younger man relationship, love affair, couples, hopes, unfulfilled love, teenage life, friendship, society, loss of virginity, looking for sex, love and romance ...
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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
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