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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:
childhood, judaism, friendship between boys, afterlife, friendship, coming of age, boy, youth, catholicism, mentor, rabbi, religion, parents and children, clergy, religions or cults, society, cancer, cultural difference, death of friend, belief in the afterlife, children, jewish culture, nun, friends, disaster ...
Time:
year 2002, 70s, 20th century, year 1976, future, 1930s
Place:
chicago, usa, illinois, american
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, touching, serious and sincere films with plots about youth, coming of age, friendship, family relations, boy, parents and children and society mostly in Drama, Adventure and Comedy genres. Some movies like Stolen Summer: The Chosen (1981), The Education of Little Tree (1997), My Father My Lord (2007), A Year in My Life (2006), The Steamroller and the Violin (1961). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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, serious, contemplative ...
Audience:
kids, teen drama
Plot:
father son relationship, coming of age, orthodox jew, jewish culture, religion, judaism, friendship, rabbi, culture clash, chosen one, world war two, family drama ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, 80s, year 1981, year 1944
Place:
new york, brooklyn new york city, usa, california, israel
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 112 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, scenic, melancholic, uplifting, independent film ...
Plot:
childhood, culture clash, native american, coming of age, teacher, segregation, courage, beautiful scenery, stereotypes, starting over, society, boy ...
Time:
year 1997, 90s, 1930s
Place:
appalachia, tokyo
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:
emotional, touching, sincere, sentimental, captivating ...
Plot:
coming of age, self discovery, family problems, rabbi, religions or cults, life is a bitch, introspection, clergy, hopes, society, parents and children, death in the family ...
Time:
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Place:
middle east, israel
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100%
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:
touching, sentimental, captivating, sincere, realistic ...
Plot:
orphan, youth, adoption, friendship, family relations, foster parent, foster child, mother son relationship, foster home, father son relationship, family life, parents and children ...
Time:
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Place:
france
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 46 min.
Story:
Seven year old Sasha practices violin every day to satisfy the ambition of his parents. Already withdrawn as a result of his routines, Sasha quickly regains confidence when he accidentally meets and befriends worker Sergei, who works on a ...
Style:
art house, realistic, serious, spiritual, uplifting ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
youth, friendship, childhood, self discovery, children, young adult, little boy, coming of age, spirituality, minimalism, art, boy ...
Time:
year 1961, 60s
Place:
ussr, soviet union, russia
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100%
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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, inspirational, touching, tear jerker, realistic ...
Audience:
teens, family outing, kids, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
childhood, aids, coming of age, boy, boyhood, friendship, terminal illness, sick child, children, hiv, cancer, friendship between boys ...
Time:
90s
Place:
mississippi, minnesota, usa, california, new orleans ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
The story of a relationship between a teacher and his troubled pupil. Justin McLeod is a former teacher who lives as a recluse on the edge of town. His face is disfigured from an automobile accident and fire ten years before in which a boy was ...
Style:
touching, inspirational, sincere, realistic, melancholic ...
Audience:
kids, girls' night
Plot:
coming of age, mentor, teacher, friendship, injustice, social misfits, teaching the ways of the world, false accusation, teaching, boyhood, disfigurement, children ...
Time:
60s, year 1993, 20th century
Place:
maine, usa
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Áron is a happy child in his family. But at some point things take a different turn, and his mother starts to lose her health rapidly. As this happens, the man in charge decides what's best for Áron without consulting the young boy's ...
Style:
uplifting, serious, sincere, touching, art house ...
Plot:
corporal punishment, orphan, kids in trouble, children, male bonding, coming of age, life is a bitch, human spirit, juvenile delinquency, friendship, boarding school life, teenage life ...
Time:
60s, year 1960
Place:
hungary, europe
Similarity:
100%
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:
sincere, touching, serious, melancholic, realistic
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
parents and children, coming of age, dysfunctional family, friendship, bird, father son relationship, youth, pets, escape from reality, dishonesty, life & death, children ...
Time:
year 2012, 21st century
Place:
holland
Similarity:
100%
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, brazilian military dictatorship, politics, coming of age, football, soccer, boy, children, political unrest, life is a bitch, family relations, working class ...
Time:
20th century, year 1970, 70s
Place:
brazil, latin america, south america, sao paulo brazil, israel
Similarity:
100%
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:
operation condor, coming of age, life is a bitch, family life, family in danger, dictator, youth, confined, parents and children, political unrest, isolation, society ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1976
Place:
latin america, argentina, buenos aires argentina
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands, UK, Belgium, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
While escaping from Nazis during the WWII, a Jewish man dug suitcases full of things dear to his heart in the ground two. The war deprived him of his family, and afterwards he endlessly turns over the soil of Antwerp to find the suitcases, which ...
Style:
touching, sentimental, emotional, inspirational, compassionate ...
Plot:
judaism, holocaust survivor, orthodox jew, racism, skinny dipping, life, tragedy, nazi, justice, culture clash, depression, mentor ...
Time:
20th century, year 1998, year 1972, 70s
Place:
europe, israel, antwerp, belgium, poland
Similarity:
100%
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, touching ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
sign language, deaf, coming of age, deafness, hearing, youth, family relations, spouse leaving, family problems, disability, hopes, mute or deaf ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
ohio, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A young boy who lives in an old folks' home strikes up a friendship with a retired magician.
Style:
touching, emotional, depressing, sentimental, realistic ...
Plot:
coming of age, friendship, youth, loneliness, character study, aging, retirement home, justice, adolescence, reconciliation, elderly, magic ...
Time:
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Place:
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441
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
The friendship of two 15-year-old boys – one black, one white – begins to fall apart under the stress of a changing world.
Style:
serious, sincere, captivating, emotional, realistic ...
Plot:
farm, friendship, teenage life, social relations, social differences, family relations, youth, love and romance, coming of age, friends, interracial relations, boy ...
Time:
20th century, 60s
Place:
australia
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Germany, France, Italy
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
touching, emotional, sincere, depressing, intense ...
Plot:
fascism, catholicism, youth, dysfunctional family, domestic violence, unemployment, starving child, sin, society, family problems, parents and children, family in crisis ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century
Place:
england, ireland, liverpool, middle east, europe ...
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100%
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, friends, friendship, obsession, family relations, social relations, interracial relations, family life, society ...
Time:
60s
Place:
usa, nevada
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel, USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Based on the novel "Panther in the Basement" by the world-renowned author, Amos Oz, the movie takes place in Palestine in 1947, just a few months before Israel becomes a state. Proffy Liebowitz, a militant yet sensitive eleven year old ...
Style:
realistic, thought provoking, sentimental, touching, emotional ...
Plot:
friendship, rebellion, british military, military, friends, state affairs, soldier, youth, coming of age, child protagonist, man boy relationship, boy ...
Time:
20th century, year 1947, 1940s, year 1977
Place:
middle east, israel, palestine, jerusalem, london
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, Turkey
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Establishing a bleak village in Eastern Turkey as its setting, Sivas features the story of Aslan, an eleven-year-old boy, and Sivas, a weathered fighting dog who develop a strong relationship after Aslan finds Sivas wounded in a ditch, left to die.
Style:
serious, sincere, touching, captivating, gloomy ...
Plot:
friendship, parents and children, dog, danger, life is a bitch, society, coming of age, child, boy, little boy, pets, family relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
turkey
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
On Skeet’s twelfth birthday his older brother Randy buys him his first surfboard. Suddenly his summer turns to the endless search for the perfect wave, wild times and beach parties and eventually, finding his own daring adventures when Randy’s ...
Style:
sentimental, serious, realistic, disturbing
Audience:
kids
Plot:
surfing, father figure, boy, youth, coming of age, brother brother relationship, gang, friendship, best friend, parents and children, siblings relations, adolescence vs adulthood ...
Place:
california, usa, mexico
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Tommy and his older brother Eric live in the midst of vast remote forests. The death of their friend pushes them close to the edge. Eric doesn’t know how to channel his energy. All at once, nature’s vastness feels stifling.
Style:
rough, serious, touching, bleak, gothic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
coming of age, friendship, haunted by the past, dealing with death, teenage life, family relations, tragic event, youth, boyhood, life is a bitch, life philosophy, boy ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new jersey
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
The story of an aspiring young filmmaker's encounter with a grumpy fount of movie lore.
Style:
serious, realistic, sentimental, touching, sincere ...
Plot:
obsessive quest, follow your dream, friendship, youth, society, aging, lifestyle, family relations, teenage life, filmmaking, parents and children, hollywood ...
Time:
year 2007
Place:
usa, los angeles
Similarity:
100%
544
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
After an accident in a small Maryland fishing town, 11-year-old Emma begins to question the nature of the adults around her.
Style:
sincere, serious, touching, emotional, realistic ...
Plot:
youth, small town, introspection, family problems, human nature, family relations, friendship, family in crisis, swimming, swimmer, sex crime, dysfunctional family ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
maryland, usa
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Set in 1969, Abel Shaddick, a crotchety deli owner, has a grudge against virtually everyone in his upstate New York town of Fairview, particularly against his slacker nephew Stanley who lives behind the shop. Without telling his uncle, Stanley ...
Style:
sincere, touching, feel good, semi serious, realistic ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
racism, friendship, interracial relations, society, odd couple, family life, youth, uncle nephew relationship, couples, family relations, friends, grudge ...
Time:
60s
Place:
usa, new york
Similarity:
100%
740
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:
realistic, sincere, serious, touching, sad
Plot:
family relations, single parent, haunted by the past, parents and children, youth, social relations, suburbs, coming of age, self discovery, teenage life, teenager, boat ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, illinois
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
William Hundert is a passionate and principled Classics professor who finds his tightly-controlled world shaken and inexorably altered when a new student, Sedgewick Bell, walks into his classroom. What begins as a fierce battle of wills gives way to ...
Style:
inspirational, realistic, touching, contemplative, emotional ...
Audience:
kids, teens, girls' night
Plot:
teacher, dedicated educator, coming of age, boarding school life, ethics, school teacher, schoolboy, boarding school, teachers and students, youth, hardcase students, boys' school ...
Time:
20th century, year 2002, 70s, 2000s, future
Place:
washington d.c., pennsylvania, new jersey
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Colombia, Panama
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A motley crew of young boys in Colombia lives only for one passion: soccer. But when their precious new ball rolls into a minefield, their dreams are suddenly on hold. Even as the village becomes the center of a tug-of-war between right-wing ...
Style:
sentimental, bleak, realistic, touching, serious ...
Plot:
soccer, youth, political unrest, friendship, family relations, soldier, obsessive quest, social relations, civil war, military, life is a bitch, coming of age ...
Place:
colombia, latin america
Similarity:
100%
2K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Tully Jr. and Earl live on their father's Nebraska ranch, proud and independent to a fault. While the shy, reclusive Earl spends his free time watching movies, the cockier Tully works his way through a succession of short-term affairs and an ...
Style:
emotional, serious, sentimental, touching, independent film ...
Plot:
small town, young lovers, coming of age, friendship, introspection, lifestyle, womanizer, youth, society, couples, family problems, parents and children ...
Time:
year 2000
Place:
nebraska, europe, usa, england
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Dede is a sole parent trying to bring up her son Fred. When it is discovered that Fred is a genius, she is determined to ensure that Fred has all the opportunities that he needs, and that he is not taken advantage of by people who forget that his ...
Style:
inspirational, intellectual, realistic, psychological, touching ...
Audience:
kids, family outing
Plot:
prodigy, child prodigy, coming of age, mathematics, single mother, single parent, genius, child genius, children, friendship, psychology, mentor ...
Time:
year 1991, 20th century, 90s
Place:
ohio, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
The true story of Ruby Bridges, an African-American girl who, in 1960 at age 6, helped to integrate the all-white schools of New Orleans. Although she was the only black girl to come to the school she was sent to, (and since all the white mothers ...
Style:
uplifting, political, inspirational, contemplative, serious ...
Audience:
family outing, kids
Plot:
racism, african american, civil rights, racial discrimination, black, art, blaxploitation, black history, education, school, interracial relations, injustice ...
Time:
60s
Place:
america, louisiana, usa, new orleans
Similarity:
100%
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