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Han Gong-ju (2013)
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Han Gong-ju (2013)
Original name: 한공주
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, suspense, disturbing, sad, bleak, gloomy ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: high school, teenage rape, teenager, haunted by the past, life is a bitch, coming of age, estrangement, investigation, family secret, confronting the past, uncover truth, teenage girl, society, secret, secret past, dark past, crime solving, cold case, school, parents, mental health, kickass, rape, friendship, gang rape ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: korea
Keyword: video

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, disturbing and captivating films with plots about high school, teenage life, youth, teenager, high school life, coming of age and society mostly in Drama, Mystery and Thriller genres. Some movies like Han Gong-ju: Silenced (2011), Speak (2004), 2:37 (2006), Blame (2017), Girl's Revenge (2020). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Silenced (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Based on actual events that took place at Gwangju Inhwa School for the hearing-impaired, where young deaf students were the victims of repeated sexual assaults by faculty members over a period of five years in the early 2000s.
Style: disturbing, emotional, serious, realistic, bleak ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: sex crime, child abuse, rape, deaf mute, disability, mute or deaf, sign language, punishment, school, life is a bitch, deaf, youth ...
Time: year 2011, 21st century
Place: korea, south korea, asia
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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 ...
Style: touching, sentimental, psychological, independent film, sincere ...
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 ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa
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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
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Blame (2017)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A drama teacher's taboo relationship with an unstable student strikes a nerve in her jealous classmate, sparking a vengeful chain of events within their suburban high school that draws parallels to 'The Crucible'.
Style: realistic, emotional, talky, atmospheric, touching ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: teacher student relationship, peer pressure, sex scene, male teacher female student affair, older man younger woman relationship, bullying, high school, cheerleader, teenage girl, life is a bitch, teenage life, protection ...
Time: 21st century
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Girl's Revenge (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 81 min.
Story: At a birthday party, a sex video is filmed without consent and Ren Li-cha is the girl in the video. The clip circulates among the students and Li-cha is mocked and bullied as a result. Wu Yun-heng, a transfer student, went to the party with Li-cha. ...
Style: disturbing, suspense, captivating, psychological
Plot: bullying, friendship, sex tape, high school, investigation, who done it, teenage life, problem, uncover truth, friends, high school life, teenager ...
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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
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The Hanged Man (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, Ireland
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Two lovers break the law and struggle to stay together when carnal obsession causes tempers to flare.
Style: emotional, realistic, serious, psychological, captivating ...
Audience: teens
Plot: blackmail, rape, mad love, haunted by the past, young lovers, teenage rape, youth, life is a bitch, teenager, love, kidnapping, coming of age ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, 21st century
Place: spain
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28%
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The Class (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Estonia
Duration: 99 min.
Story: An average guy of an Estonian high-school decides to defend his bullied classmate. This starts war between him and the informal leader of the class. As teenagers' honour is a touchy thing, everything ends in bloodshed.
Style: serious, disturbing, tense, emotional, realistic ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: school shooting, bullying, vengeance, humiliation, society, youth, friendship, life is a bitch, juvenile delinquency, social misfits, high school, teenage life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: estonia, europe
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27%
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The Tracey Fragments (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 77 min.
Story: Tracey Berkowitz, 15, a self-described normal girl, loses her 9-year old brother, Sonny. In flashbacks and fragments, we meet her overbearing parents and the sweet, clueless Sonny. We watch Tracey navigate high school, friendless, picked on and ...
Style: disturbing, psychological, serious, realistic, sad ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: borderline personality disorder, dysfunctional family, missing person, survival, high school, teenage life, youth, family problems, coming of age, mother daughter relationship, teenager, mental disorder ...
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Virgin 2: Not a Porn Movie (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Indonesia
Story: A friendship of two young girls, Tina and Nadya, who have fallen into dark professions. Friendships often come at a heavy price and end in tragic death, just when they want to change the course of their lives.
Style: suspense, disturbing, psychological, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot: life is a bitch, teenage girl, teenage life, money problems, violence, family problems, teenage protagonist, society, teenager, juvenile delinquency, social problems
Place: indonesia
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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Euphoria (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Euphoria brings together two intersecting road stories about the same person - a little girl called Lily who is taken away from home by her mother Celeste, and a young woman, Michelle, who journeys home to unravel the truth about her mysterious past.
Style: psychological, tense, captivating, disturbing, suspense
Plot: troubled past, secret past, confronting the past, female protagonist, family secret, uncover truth, multiple storylines, investigation, tragic past
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The Invisible Eye (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina, France, Spain
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Spying on her students, a teacher finds an exciting hobby.
Style: realistic, serious, tense, captivating, psychological ...
Plot: high school life, political unrest, society, youth, rebellion, workplace, teachers and students, against the rules, social relations, workplace situations, responsibility, state affairs ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: latin america, argentina
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27%
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
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26%
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Toxic (2022)
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 108 min.
Story: The massive scandal comes to light through a father's unwavering search for the truth behind the sudden death of his family.
Style: suspense, disturbing, psychological, captivating
Plot: doctor, fighting illness, physician, medicine, medical examination, illness, male doctor, private investigation, family problems, uncover truth, medical, investigation ...
Place: korea
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Heart of America (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, Germany
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Starring Jurgen Prochnow ('The Replacement Killers' 'Air Force One' and Patrick Muldoon 'Stigmata' 'Starship Troopers'), 'Heart of America' is a powerhouse of a contemporary drama and essential ...
Style: disturbing, rough, serious, realistic, tense ...
Plot: school shooting, high school, bullying, vengeance, juvenile delinquency, psychopath, teenage life, bully, life is a bitch, society, youth, social misfits ...
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Life Hits (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Christina is living in a suburb to Copenhagen. With her class mates Cecilie, Trine and Pernille she slacks her school work, living mostly for the weekends of gate crashing, getting drunk, experimenting with drugs and scoring guys. But her world is ...
Style: realistic, bleak, serious, rough, captivating ...
Audience: teens
Plot: revenge, lifestyle, life is a bitch, juvenile delinquency, teenage life, high school life, friendship, social misfits, youth, drug abuse, misfit, society ...
Time: 21st century
Place: denmark, europe
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Everything Is Fine (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Josh is an ordinary teen living in an ordinary suburb. One morning he finds his friend's dead body. Next, he discovers that three more friends also have killed themselves, leaving him out of their pact. As the sole survivor, Josh becomes more ...
Style: psychological, realistic, emotional, touching, bleak ...
Audience: teens
Plot: teenage life, youth, life is a bitch, lifestyle, family relations, parents and children, suicide, depression, friendship, loneliness, teen suicide, estrangement ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada, quebec
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26%
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Blackbird (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 103 min.
Story: This is a film about a troubled teen, Sean Randall, who is falsely accused of planning a Columbine shooting scenario. It all begins when an unlikely bond forms between Sean (Connor Jessup) and a preppy teenage girl named Deanna Roy (Alexia Fast). ...
Style: realistic, psychological, tense, serious, captivating ...
Plot: school shooting, false accusation, bullying, coming of age, society, social relations, injustice, small town, perjury, school massacre, boyhood, criminal justice ...
Time: year 2012, 21st century
Place: canada, nova scotia, canada
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Our Song (2000)
Genre: Drama
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Duration: 95 min.
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Style: disturbing, sincere, touching, thought provoking, independent film ...
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Time: 90s
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Duration: 94 min.
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Time: 21st century
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 89 min.
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Style: semi serious, realistic, suspense, suspenseful, captivating ...
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Time: 21st century
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26%
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Nocturnal (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Laurie, a cynical schoolgirl, builds a secret friendship with Pete, an older handyman who is obsessed with her.
Style: realistic, disturbing, captivating, serious, sincere
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The Knife That Killed Me (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A journey through the memories of teenager Paul Varderman as he reflects on the events leading to the fatal moment his life is cut short. Paul moves to a new school and becomes involved with 'The Freaks', a group on the periphery of school ...
Style: serious, realistic, suspense, captivating, bleak ...
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Place: england
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Duration: 95 min.
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Country: Spain
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Sex and the USA (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
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Style: captivating, serious, psychological, realistic, disturbing ...
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Place: usa
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25%
The Toy Soldiers (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 143 min.
Story: On one evening in a decade of sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll, the innocence of youth and family unravels. Five parallel coming-of-age stories dramatize the stages of grief. A youthful mother in a custody battle over her children, finds ...
Style: serious, psychological, sincere, suspenseful, sexy ...
Audience: teens
Plot: teenage life, haunted by the past, family problems, youth, life is a bitch, social misfits, misfit, addiction, custody, society, bittersweet, homosexual ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: usa, california
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25%
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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 ...
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The Pregnancy Project (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
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Style: realistic, serious, touching, sentimental, independent film ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
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