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Speak (2004)
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Speak (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Freshman high-school student Melinda has refused to speak ever since she called the cops on a popular summer party. With her old friends snubbing her for being a rat, and her parents too busy to notice her troubles, she folds into herself, trying to hide her secret: that star senior Andy raped her at the party. But Melinda does manage to find solace in her art class headed by Mr. Freeman.
Style: touching, sentimental, psychological, independent film, sincere, sad, depressing, teen, thought provoking, intellectual ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: rape, high school, teenage girl, school, bullying, youth, innocence lost, family problems, life is a bitch, unsupportive friend, teenage life, sexual abuse, self harm, rape victim, high school life, drawing, art, depression, trauma, lifestyle, small town, teenager, rapist, introvert, coming of age ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century, contemporary
Place: usa
Keyword: feminist film

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Most similar movies to Speak

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, touching and independent film films with plots about teenager, coming of age, teenage girl, youth, teenage life, high school and school mostly in Drama, Mystery and Thriller genres. Some movies like Speak: Thirteen (2003), Blue Car (2002), White Oleander (2002), She Fought Alone (1995), Odd Girl Out (2005). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Thirteen (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Tracy is a normal 13-year-old trying to make it in school. After befriending the most popular girl at school, Evie, Tracy's world is turned upside down when Evie introduces her to a world of sex, drugs and cash. But it isn't long before ...
Style: tense, teen, realistic, sincere, disturbing ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, teen drama, adult
Plot: coming of age, drug addiction, teenager, peer pressure, friendship, addiction, dysfunctional family, teenage protagonist, underage drinking, teenage girl, mother daughter relationship, self harm ...
Time: year 2003, y2k, near future, 20th century, 2000s ...
Place: california, usa, los angeles, venice beach california
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92%
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Blue Car (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Gifted 18-year-old Meg has been abandoned by her father and neglected by her hardworking mother. Left to care for her emotionally disturbed younger sister, her world begins to unravel. She finds an outlet in writing poetry and support from her ...
Style: emotional, disturbing, depressing, poignant, heartbreaking ...
Audience: teens
Plot: teachers and students, power relations, teacher student relationship, teenage girl, dysfunctional family, brutality, depression, innocence lost, complex characters, character study, bittersweet, stereotypes ...
Time: year 2002
Place: ohio, florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A coming-of-age story based on the best-selling novel by Stephen Chbosky, which follows 15-year-old freshman Charlie, an endearing and naive outsider who is taken under the wings of two seniors. A moving tale of love, loss, fear and hope - and the ...
Style: touching, sincere, teen, melancholic, romantic ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, high school, teenager, adolescence, first love, friendship, youth, high school life, depression, suicide, mental illness, teenage life ...
Time: 90s, year 2012, 2010s, year 2013, 20th century ...
Place: pittsburgh, pennsylvania, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
91%
 7.1
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White Oleander (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: A teenager journeys through a series of foster homes after her mother goes to prison for committing a crime of passion.
Style: intense, touching, disturbing, realistic, serious ...
Audience: girls' night, teens, teen drama
Plot: mother daughter relationship, coming of age, bad mother, loneliness, dysfunctional family, women's prison, teenage life, murder, mother daughter estrangement, mental illness, teenager, borderline personality disorder ...
Time: year 2002, 21st century
Place: california, usa, los angeles, nova scotia, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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She Fought Alone (1995)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: All, including school administration and a friend, turn their backs on a girl who accused a classmate of rape.
Style: touching, realistic, sincere, disturbing, thought provoking ...
Audience: teens, chick flick
Plot: rape, innocence lost, high school, sexual abuse, juvenile delinquency, teenage love, youth, rebellion, fighting the system, against the odds, american football, social misfits ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Odd Girl Out (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A mother and her daughter confront the intimidation of teen peer pressure and the emotionally brutalizing social rituals of high school.
Style: realistic, serious, exciting, captivating, touching ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, kids, teen drama
Plot: bullying, high school, teenage love, school, high school life, family relations, lifestyle, buddies, friendship, friends, teenage life, teachers and students ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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2:37 (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A contemporary, ensemble drama telling the complex tale of six high school students whose lives are interwoven with situations that so many of today's youth are faced with. The story takes place during a normal school day. At precisely 2:37 a ...
Style: psychological, bleak, serious, sincere, depressing ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: high school, brother sister incest, rape, youth, high school life, teenage life, teenage love, social relations, suicide, incest rape, society, social misfits ...
Place: south australia, adelaide south australia, australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.2
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Han Gong-ju (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 112 min.
Story: After transferring to a new school, a teenage girl finds her troubled past exposed when she innocently signs up for a singing club.
Style: realistic, serious, psychological, tense, captivating ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: high school, teenage rape, teenager, haunted by the past, life is a bitch, coming of age, estrangement, investigation, uncover truth, family secret, confronting the past, society ...
Time: 21st century
Place: korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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She's Too Young (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A mother/daughter relationship is thrown off balance when the mother (Marcia Gay Harden) discovers that her "good girl" daughter (Alexis Dziena) is part of a group who are engaging in sexual activities with multiple partners. Such activity ...
Style: serious, thought provoking, captivating, realistic, disturbing ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: teenage girl, mother daughter relationship, sexually transmitted disease, teenage sexuality, teenage life, parents and children, high school life, society, lifestyle, suburban life, kids in trouble, teen social issues ...
Time: 21st century
Place: nova scotia
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
The Pregnancy Project (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: The Pregnancy project tells the real story of Gaby Rodriguez, a seventeen-year-old who attended a Washington state high-school and made her senior school project the treatment of pregnant teenagers by pretending to be pregnant.
Style: realistic, serious, touching, sentimental, independent film ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: pregnancy, teenage life, high school, family relations, youth, dishonesty, parents and children, teachers and students, teenage pregnancy, teenager, teaching, teen social issues ...
Time: 21st century
Place: washington d.c., usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
A Girl Like Her (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Sophomore year has been a nightmare for Jessica Burns. Relentlessly harassed by her former friend Avery Keller, Jessica doesn't know what she did to deserve the abuse from one of South Brookdale High's most popular and beautiful students. ...
Style: realistic, serious, teen, rough, tense ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: bullying, teenage girl, found footage, high school, popular girl, high school life, mean girl, kids in trouble, teenage life, suicide, mother daughter relationship, humiliation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
 6.2
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Palo Alto (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Palo Alto weaves together three stories of teenage lust, boredom, and self-destruction: shy, sensitive April, torn between an illicit flirtation with her soccer coach and an unrequited crush on sweet stoner Teddy; Emily, who offers sexual favors to ...
Style: melancholic, atmospheric, serious, teen, realistic ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, adolescence, older man younger woman relationship, youth, teenage life, high school, teenage girl, teenager, crush, high school life, unfulfillment, older man young girl relationship ...
Time: year 2013, 21st century
Place: california, palo alto california, britain, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
 7.3
 116K
Precious (2009)
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, ...
Style: bleak, depressing, emotional, rough, sad ...
Audience: teens, teen drama, adult
Plot: rape, dysfunctional family, sexual abuse, teacher, poverty, child abuse, aids, illiteracy, domestic violence, african american, life is a bitch, parents and children ...
Time: 2000s, 20th century, year 1987, 80s
Place: new york, america, harlem, new york city, usa, harlem ...
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50%
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Detachment (2011)
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 ...
Style: depressing, psychological, bleak, thought provoking, touching ...
Audience: teens
Plot: teacher, depression, suicide, teachers and students, dedicated educator, school, unhappy, social problems, life is a bitch, human relationship, teen angst, society ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
Welcome to the Rileys (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Years after their teenage daughter’s death, Lois and Doug Riley, an upstanding Indiana couple, are frozen by estranging grief. Doug escapes to New Orleans on a business trip. Compelled by urgencies he doesn’t understand, he insinuates himself ...
Style: emotional, touching, erotic, depressing, psychological ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: self discovery, older man young girl relationship, life is a bitch, loss of child, prostitute, family drama, depression, friendship, haunted by the past, teenage life, runaway, acceptance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: louisiana, indiana, usa, indianapolis indiana, new orleans
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.3
 65K
Fish Tank (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Netherlands
Duration: 123 min.
Story: Everything changes for 15 year old Mia when her mum brings home a new boyfriend.
Style: bleak, emotional, gloomy, sincere, disturbing ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: age difference, mother's boyfriend, adolescence, older man younger woman relationship, teenage girl, rebelliousness, coming of age, dancing, youth, life is a bitch, sex with a minor, dysfunctional family ...
Time: year 2009, near future, 2000s, 21st century
Place: europe, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.5
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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
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Never Rarely Sometimes Always (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A pair of teenage girls in rural Pennsylvania travel to New York City to seek out medical help after an unintended pregnancy.
Style: sad, social, meditative, serious, rough ...
Audience: girls' night, teens, teen drama
Plot: pregnancy, abortion, female protagonist, teenage pregnancy, teenage girl, sexual abuse, unwanted pregnancy, adolescence, teenager, feminist, abortion clinic, 17 year old ...
Time: year 2019, 2020s, 2010s
Place: pennsylvania, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 6.9
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Trust (2010)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A suburban family is torn apart when fourteen-year-old Annie meets her first boyfriend online. After months of communicating via online chat and phone, Annie discovers her friend is not who he originally claimed to be. Shocked into disbelief, her ...
Style: realistic, emotional, teen, serious, sexy ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: sexual abuse, investigation, bullying, father daughter relationship, teenager, teenage girl, rape and revenge, child abuse, sex, internet, innocence lost, teenage life ...
Time: year 2010, 2010s, 20th century, 21st century
Place: california, usa, cleveland ohio, milwaukee wisconsin, chicago ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 7.4
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Keith (2008)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Natalie (Elisabeth Harnois) is high school royalty, but her queen bee status falls apart when she falls for the new guy at school. Although Keith (Jesse McCartney) ignores her at first, they soon become friends -- even though Natalie suspects that ...
Style: sad, romantic, psychological, touching, serious ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, date night, teen drama
Plot: high school, terminal illness, cancer, love, youth, opposites attract, first love, teenager, love story, teen romance, teenage love, love and romance ...
Time: 20th century, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.1
 10K
Foxfire (1996)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: The story of five teenage girls who form an unlikely bond after beating up a teacher who has sexually harassed them. They build a solid friendship but their wild ways begin to get out of control.
Style: teen, touching, realistic, sincere, spectacular ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: friendship, teacher, feminism, teenage girl, lesbian, girl gang, high school, youth, rebellion, lesbianism, attempted rape, sexual harassment ...
Time: 90s, year 1996
Place: portland oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Say That You Love Me (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Fatou is a teenager yearning for attention and love in Sweden's suburbs. When she is gang raped by some class mates her whole world starts falling apart.
Style: serious, realistic, sincere, emotional, gloomy
Audience: teens
Plot: gang rape, friendship, teenage life, family relations, youth, life is a bitch, parents and children, cheerleader, society, high school, mother daughter relationship, rape ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Walking the Halls (2012)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: High school senior Casey finds herself seduced into the fast lifestyle of a call girl ring run by a campus police officer and must pull herself out before she loses all self-control. made for TV
Style: disturbing, realistic, serious, touching, exciting ...
Audience: teens, chick flick
Plot: prostitute, marital strife, youth, self control, parents and children, corrupt officer, chance, lifestyle, social relations, high school life, teenage life, teenager ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Everybody Dies But Me (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 80 min.
Story: One Monday morning Katya, Vika and Zhanna learn that there will be a school disco, their first disco, on the coming Saturday night. The girls feverishly start preparing for the event, which rapidly becomes the most important moment ever in their ...
Style: serious, touching, realistic, gloomy, suspense ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: family problems, life is a bitch, youth, social relations, teenage life, high school life, society, friendship, dysfunctional family, boy girl relationship, family relations, friends ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: russia, soviet union, moscow russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Mysterious Skin (2004)
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.
Style: disturbing, depressing, psychological, independent film, realistic ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: child abuse, coming of age, gay, sexual abuse, homosexuality, homosexual, pedophilia, male rape, child molestation, youth, homosexual rape, haunted by the past ...
Time: 90s, year 2004, 2000s, near future, y2k ...
Place: kansas, new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.4
 13K
Cyber Bully (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A woman tries to help her teenage daughter when she becomes the victim of online bullying.
Style: emotional, serious, realistic, teen, sad ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, kids, family outing ...
Plot: bullying, suicide attempt, high school, betrayal, teen angst, teenage life, rumor, popularity, bully, socially awkward, social misfits, intrigue ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.4
 57K
Before I Fall (2017)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Samantha Kingston has everything. Then, everything changes. After one fateful night, she wakes up with no future at all. Trapped into reliving the same day over and over, she begins to question just how perfect her life really was.
Style: bad ending, suspense, teen, sweet, meditative ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: time loop, teenager, female protagonist, friendship, bullying, strong female character, dying repeatedly, public humiliation, stereotypes, mean girl, redemption, death ...
Time: year 2017
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.5
 36K
The Class (2008)
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, talky ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: teacher, teachers and students, school, high school life, teenager, society, adolescence, high school, education, dedicated educator, mentor, life philosophy ...
Time: year 2008, 2000s, 21st century
Place: paris france, france, europe, morocco, caribbean
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Color Purple (1985)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 154 min.
Story: An epic tale spanning forty years in the life of Celie, an African-American woman living in the South who survives incredible abuse and bigotry. After Celie's abusive father marries her off to the equally debasing "Mister" Albert ...
Style: sentimental, uplifting, touching, inspirational, sad ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: african american, incest, sexual abuse, domestic violence, rape, life is a bitch, feminism, slavery, incest rape, abusive relationship, wife abuse, lgbtq ...
Time: edwardian era, 20th century, 1930s, year 1985, 1920s ...
Place: africa, southern usa, usa, tennessee, georgia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.0
 84K
Kids (1995)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A controversial portrayal of teens in New York City which exposes a deeply disturbing world of sex and substance abuse. The film focuses on a sexually reckless, freckle-faced boy named Telly, whose goal is to have sex with as many different girls as ...
Style: disturbing, depressing, psychedelic, independent film, bleak ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, kids, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, aids, innocence lost, virginity, youth, puberty, sex, underage sex, drug abuse, sexual promiscuity, street kid, teenager ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york, seattle, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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