Movies like Stolen Summer
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Stolen Summer (2002)
3K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Pete, an eight-year-old Catholic boy growing up in the suburbs of Chicago in the mid-1970s, attends Catholic school, where as classes let out for the summer, he's admonished by a nun to follow the path of the Lord, and not that of the Devil. Perhaps taking this message a bit too seriously, Pete decides it's his goal for the summer to help someone get into heaven; having been told that Catholicism is the only sure path to the kingdom of the Lord, Pete decides to convert a Jew to Catholicism in order to improve their standing in the afterlife. Hoping to find a likely candidate, Pete begins visiting a nearby synagogue, where he gets to know Rabbi Jacobson, who responds to Pete's barrage of questions with good humor. Pete also makes friends with the Rabbi's son, Danny, who is about the same age; when he learns that Danny is seriously ill, he decides Danny would be an excellent choice for conversion.
Style:
touching, sentimental, sincere, uplifting, cult classic, feel good, serious, realistic, inspirational, dramatic ...
Audience:
family outing, kids
Plot:
judaism, afterlife, friendship, childhood, coming of age, youth, boy, catholicism, mentor, friendship between boys, family relations, rabbi, religion, parents and children, clergy, religions or cults, society, religious differences, cancer, cultural difference, death of friend, belief in the afterlife, children, nun, jewish culture ...
Time:
year 2002, 70s, 20th century, year 1976, future, 1930s
Place:
chicago, usa, illinois
Keyword:
jewish, american, irish
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11K
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Dexter, age 11, who has AIDS, and his next door neighbor Eric, a little older and much bigger, become best friends. Eric also becomes closer to Dexter's mother than to his own, who is neglectful and bigoted and violently forbids their ...
Style:
sad, touching, tear jerker, inspirational, realistic ...
Audience:
teens, family outing, kids, teen drama
Plot:
aids, childhood, coming of age, boy, friendship, terminal illness, children, hiv, young boy, cancer, boyhood, youth ...
Time:
90s
Place:
mississippi, minnesota, usa
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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
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100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Little Tree is an 8-year-old Cherokee boy, who, during the time of the depression, loses his parents and starts to live with his Indian grandma and grandpa and learn the wisdom of the Cherokee way of life.
Style:
touching, melancholic, scenic, uplifting, independent film ...
Plot:
native american, culture clash, coming of age, childhood, segregation, teacher, courage, stereotypes, beautiful scenery, starting over, society, magic ...
Time:
year 1997, 90s, 1930s
Place:
appalachia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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:
sentimental, sincere, emotional, touching, captivating ...
Plot:
coming of age, self discovery, life is a bitch, society, introspection, clergy, hopes, rabbi, family problems, religions or cults, parents and children, death in the family ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
middle east, israel
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Germany, Ireland, UK, Netherlands
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Desmond Doyle is devastated when his wife abandons their family on the day after Christmas. His unemployment and the fact that there is no woman in the house to care for the children, Evelyn, Dermot and Maurice, make it clear to the authorities that ...
Style:
sentimental, touching, sincere, feel good, intense ...
Plot:
children, court, lawyer, mercy, family problems, unemployment, against the odds, parents and children, fighting the system, courtroom drama, 007, single father ...
Time:
50s, year 2002, 1950s, 20th century, year 1953
Place:
ireland, sydney australia, scotland, europe, dublin ireland
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
Avalon is the third in Levinson's semi-autobiographical series of four "Baltimore Films": Diner (1982), Tin Men (1987), Avalon (1990), and Liberty Heights (1999). The film is set in Baltimore in the early 1950s and explores the themes ...
Style:
realistic, sentimental, cult classic, semi autobiographical, semi serious ...
Audience:
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Plot:
thanksgiving, immigrant, culture clash, american history, immigration, children, hospital, nostalgia, intrigue, culture, migration, youth ...
Time:
1940s, 1910s, 1900s, 20th century, year 1948 ...
Place:
baltimore, maryland, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A boy is left alone in a Jewish neighborhood in the year of 1970, where both world cup and dictatorship happen in Brazil.
Style:
serious, emotional, sentimental, realistic, touching ...
Plot:
dictatorship, boy, politics, coming of age, soccer, football, political unrest, children, life is a bitch, family relations, working class, dictator ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, year 1970
Place:
brazil, latin america, israel, sao paulo brazil
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia, Thailand, Laos
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Set against the lush backdrop of rural Laos, this spirited drama tells the story of scrappy ten-year-old Ahlo, who yearns to break free from his ill-fated destiny. After his village is displaced to make way for a massive dam, Ahlo escapes with his ...
Style:
realistic, captivating, sincere, touching, serious
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
youth, down on your luck, contests and competitions, parents and children, friendship, society, human spirit, post war, change of luck, family relations, boy, children ...
Place:
asia, thailand
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
351
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:
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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:
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Place:
detroit, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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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 ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
In 1950s France, a young boy is taken in by a couple after spending a few months in the care of social service.
Style:
uplifting, sentimental, touching, sincere, captivating ...
Plot:
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Time:
21st century
Place:
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24%
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina, Spain, Italy
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
The movie show us how life was in Argentina for dissident people, in the seventies, under the military government.
Style:
serious, sincere, sentimental, realistic, political ...
Plot:
coming of age, life is a bitch, family in danger, family life, youth, confined, parents and children, political unrest, isolation, society, totalitarianism, parent child relationship ...
Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands, UK, Belgium, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Bao stays with his grandfather for the summer and is shocked to see there are no modern appliances.
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realistic, touching, atmospheric, captivating, serious
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Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Ten-year-old Jojo lives with his father, a security guard with a volatile personality who drinks to manage the unspoken despair he feels about his wife's absence, which he refuses to discuss with his son. In the midst of so much uncertainty, ...
Style:
touching, sincere, serious, melancholic, realistic
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Plot:
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Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, Switzerland, France
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
After growing up in Switzerland, 13-year-old Marta returns to a city in southern Italy with her mother and older sister. Independent and inquisitive, she joins a catechism class at a local church. However, the games and religious pop songs she ...
Style:
touching, sincere, realistic, serious, contemplative ...
Plot:
religion, catholic, teenage life, parents and children, journey, society, coming of age, children, life is a bitch, priest, atheism, teenage girl ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
italy, europe, southern italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
When his mom deposits him at the Red Hook housing project in Brooklyn to spend the summer with the grandfather he’s never met, young Flik may as well have landed on Mars. Fresh from his cushy life in Atlanta, he’s bored and friendless, and his ...
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, captivating, independent film ...
Plot:
church, family relations, fish out of water, religions or cults, life is a bitch, society, clergy, youth, family life, disorder, coming of age, blaxploitation ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A young boy fighting cancer writes letters to God, touching lives in his neighborhood and inspiring hope among everyone he comes in contact. An unsuspecting substitute postman, with a troubled life of his own, becomes entangled in the boy's ...
Style:
christian film, sincere, sentimental, sad, spiritual ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
god, faith, letter, cancer, pastor, hopes, terminal illness, brain tumor, christian, friendship, salvation, child illness ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
uplifting, serious, touching, sincere, art house ...
Plot:
corporal punishment, orphan, coming of age, children, male bonding, kids in trouble, life is a bitch, juvenile delinquency, human spirit, friendship, teenage life, boarding school life ...
Time:
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Place:
europe, hungary
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A couple whose son had been diagnosed as mentally retarded, and was institutionalized, are shocked to discover that the diagnosis was wrong, and that their son is in fact deaf.
Style:
thought provoking, independent film, serious, realistic, emotional ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
sign language, deaf, coming of age, down syndrome, deafness, hearing, youth, family relations, disability, spouse leaving, family problems, mute or deaf ...
Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
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Style:
touching, serious, realistic, sentimental
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Style:
touching, realistic, sincere, serious, sad ...
Audience:
family outing, teens
Plot:
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Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, sincere, touching, uplifting, psychological ...
Plot:
missionary, couples, working class, terminal illness, redemption, self discovery, life is a bitch, youth, family relations, disorder, culture clash, parents and children ...
Time:
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Place:
california, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
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Style:
christian film, contemplative, captivating, serious, sincere ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
usa
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
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Style:
sentimental, sincere, emotional, captivating, serious ...
Audience:
pre-teens, teens
Plot:
horse, contests and competitions, friendship, starting over, athlete's life, parents and children, youth, ambition, rivalry, family relations, farm, fall in love ...
Time:
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Place:
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20%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Style:
semi serious, feel good, humorous, realistic, sentimental ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
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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Time:
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Place:
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20%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Robert Townsend stars as the patriarch of a family devastated when his wife is killed in a senseless auto accident. Reeling with grief, each family member must find courage and vision to carry on, ultimately eager to do the mother proud.
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Time:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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20%
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