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As God Commands (2008)
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As God Commands (2008)
Original name: Come Dio comanda
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A 14-year-old boy and his neo-Nazi dad are both outcasts in their suburban town.
Style: psychological, sentimental, atmospheric, disturbing, touching, serious, sincere, emotional, realistic
Plot: unemployment, racism, family relations, parents and children, misfit, alcohol abuse, life is a bitch, social misfits, father son relationship, lgbt, father, youth, society, coming of age, innocence lost, violent content, school, rape, violence, murder, hospital, rain, funeral, drug use, river ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: italy

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, touching and sincere films with plots about family relations, parents and children, youth, life is a bitch, coming of age, society and father son relationship mostly in Drama, Thriller and Crime genres. Some movies like As God Commands: Darker Than Midnight (2014), The Dinner (2013), The Incredible Mrs. Ritchie (2003), Bypass (2014), Me and You (2012). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Darker Than Midnight (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Davide is different from the other teenagers. Something makes him look like a girl. Davide is fourteen when he runs away from home. His intuition leads him to choose Villa Bellini, a park in Catania, as a refuge. The park is a world in itself, a ...
Style: captivating, realistic, serious, touching, queer cinema
Plot: social misfits, lgbt, friendship, family relations, youth, parents and children, society, gay, androgyny, boyhood, leaving home, coming of age ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, sicily, italy
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The Dinner (2013)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Adapting a Dutch bestseller inspired by a shocking real-life crime, Menno Meyjes (screenwriter of The Color Purple and Lionheart) directs this excoriating assessment of Europe’s contemporary social ills.
Style: psychological, serious, realistic, disturbing, bleak
Plot: restaurant, couple relations, family relations, life is a bitch, under the surface, couples, family problems, parents and children, haunted by the past, juvenile delinquency, family in crisis, family secret ...
Time: 21st century
Place: holland, europe
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The Incredible Mrs. Ritchie (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, UK, USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A troubled teen is given the chance to redeem his criminal debt to society
Style: touching, sentimental, emotional, serious, realistic
Audience: teen drama
Plot: youth, family relations, friendship, teenage life, juvenile delinquency, self discovery, parents and children, adolescence vs adulthood, misfit, life is a bitch, society, coming of age ...
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83%
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Bypass (2014)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Sweden
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Tim has no job, but Tim ‘works’, selling stolen goods...In the face of mounting internal and external pressure, how far will he go to keep his head above water and protect those he loves?
Style: touching, serious, suspenseful, gloomy, realistic ...
Plot: life is a bitch, juvenile delinquency, society, parents and children, family relations, youth, down on your luck, terminal illness, urban, working class, criminal
Time: 21st century
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
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Pavee Lackeen: The Traveller Girl (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland
Duration: 88 min.
Story: An intimate portrait of a resilient and spirited young girl and her proud and dignified family, who are part of Ireland's "traveller" community.
Style: touching, serious, sincere, emotional, realistic
Plot: life is a bitch, family relations, realism, youth, misfit, social misfits, culture clash, parents and children, society, resilience, discrimination, single mother ...
Time: 21st century
Place: ireland, europe
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Me and You (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 103 min.
Story: An introverted teenager tells his parents he is going on a ski trip, but instead spends his time alone in a basement.
Style: touching, atmospheric, serious, stylized, existential ...
Plot: youth, teenage life, heroin addict, estrangement, dysfunctional family, dishonesty, confined, life is a bitch, family problems, addiction, parents and children, coming of age ...
Time: 21st century
Place: italy, rome italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
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Angel at Sea (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, Canada
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Louis is a twelve year old boy who lives with his parents and older brother in southern Morocco. Louis is very happy until the day his father shares a secret with him.
Style: sincere, psychological, disturbing, emotional, serious ...
Plot: mental illness, family problems, life is a bitch, parents and children, father son relationship, secret, youth, suicide, depression, hopes, danger, boy ...
Time: 21st century
Place: morocco, africa, atlantic ocean
⇓ similarity ⇓
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My Only Sunshine (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey, Greece, Bulgaria
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Hayat, her father and bedridden grandfather live in a riverside shack near the dangerously dark but breathtakingly beautiful waters of the Bosphorus. Hayat's father owns a small boat that secures the family's survival through a miscellany ...
Style: captivating, touching, sincere, sentimental, art house ...
Plot: single parent, youth, parents and children, family relations, poverty, society, teenage life, elderly, social misfits, grandfather granddaughter relationship, father daughter relationship, lonely ...
Time: 21st century
Place: turkey, greece, istanbul turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
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Fly Away (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: The poignant yet humor filled story about a single mother of a teenager severely impacted by autism, forced to reckon with her daughter's future. As her child becomes an adult, what used to work, no longer does. What will sustain her daughter, ...
Style: emotional, sentimental, sincere, touching, independent film ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: autism, nursing, moral dilemma, parents and children, single parent, society, mentally challenged, life is a bitch, social misfits, youth, family problems, child illness ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
Almayer's Folly (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 127 min.
Story: A tale of an occidental merchant, Kaspar Almayer, whose dreams of riches for his beloved daughter, Nina, collapse under the weight of his own greed and prejudice.
Style: realistic, atmospheric, psychological, captivating, serious ...
Plot: obsession, parents and children, family relations, society, tragic hero, life is a bitch, unfulfillment, ambition, hopes, racism, rivalry, gambling ...
Time: 20th century, 50s
Place: asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
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Our Life (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Claudio works on a site in the suburbs of Rome. He is madly in love with his wife who is pregnant with their third child. However, a dramatic event comes to upset this simple and happy life. In a rage for life, Claudio energetically fights against ...
Style: emotional, serious, realistic, sincere, captivating ...
Plot: life is a bitch, working class, lifestyle, society, family in crisis, parents and children, family problems, family relations, husband wife relationship, brother brother relationship, desperation, social differences ...
Time: 21st century
Place: italy, rome italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
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The Ape (2009)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 81 min.
Story: A descent into hell, Jesper Ganslandt's disturbing and suspenseful second feature begins with a man waking up in unfamiliar surroundings, only to find the life he knew the day before is gone.
Style: disturbing, contemplative, psychological, serious, realistic ...
Plot: losing-it hero, introspection, moral dilemma, human nature, life turned upside down, disorder, family relations, heroes, parents and children, hell, surrealism, mental disorder ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
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When the Night (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 114 min.
Story: After meeting during their vacation, two young people with solitary lives suddenly come into a relationship that could benefit both of them.
Style: serious, realistic, touching, contemplative, gloomy
Plot: family relations, fall in love, love and romance, unfulfillment, unfulfilled love, haunted by the past, parents and children, mountain, cheating wife, brother brother conflict, unfaithful husband, snow ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, 21st century
Place: italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
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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 ...
Place: new york, czech republic
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
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Cook County (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: After a stint in prison, Sonny returns to his home in East Texas, determined to repair his relationship with his son. Standing in his way is his brother, who has turned the home into a crumbling meth lab (IMDb.com)
Style: realistic, captivating, serious, psychological, atmospheric ...
Plot: meth lab, family relations, redemption, estrangement, family problems, addiction, parents and children, homecoming, drug abuse, methamphetamine, adolescence vs adulthood, small town ...
Time: year 2009, 21st century
Place: texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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Brainstorm (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 74 min.
Story: A trip to the mental institution hell. This odyssey is lived by Neto, a middle class teenager, who lives a normal life until his father sends him to a mental institution after finding drugs on his pocket. The maconha cigarrete is just the final drop ...
Style: disturbing, psychological, captivating, atmospheric, controversial ...
Audience: teens
Plot: drug addiction, youth, mental institution, unsupportive parent, dysfunctional family, teenage life, juvenile delinquency, family problems, parents and children, coming of age, society, misfit ...
Time: 20th century
Place: latin america, brazil, sao paulo brazil
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49%
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Hi, Tereska (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Teenager Tereska comes from poor family and has to face difficult world and mean people around her.
Style: disturbing, touching, realistic, serious, gloomy ...
Audience: teens
Plot: friendship, life is a bitch, sexual initiation, teenage life, misfit, youth, society, dull life, down on your luck, working class, unemployment, loneliness ...
Time: 21st century
Place: poland
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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The Narrows (2008)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A 19 year old Brooklyn boy who is torn between two worlds when his photography portfolio wins him a partial scholarship to NYU. He must figure out how to balance his Italian neighborhood roots with the expansive, sophisticated world on the other ...
Style: serious, captivating, tense, psychological, suspense ...
Plot: college student, moral dilemma, parents and children, city life, family relations, human nature, self discovery, society, coming of age, hot and sexy, nypd, family in crisis ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york, brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany, Denmark
Duration: 94 min.
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Style: serious, realistic, disturbing, sexual, crying
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Time: 21st century
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Dad (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Slovenia
Duration: 71 min.
Story: After a long separation, a father and his son spend the day fishing on the river bank. On a beautiful autumn Sunday, surrounded by the majestic countryside, they seem to be alone in the world. They must start all over again.
Style: realistic, atmospheric, sincere, stylized, serious ...
Plot: family relations, youth, parent child relationship, countryside, parents and children, father son relationship, nature, kids and family, father and son, separated parents, father, river ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe
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Norfolk (2015)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Set in Norfolk, amidst an idyllic, brooding landscape, an innocent teenage boy and his battle-weary father live a simple life. Days are spent hunting, fishing and daydreaming. Out-of-nowhere, disrupting this tranquility, a mysterious intense figure ...
Style: captivating, tense, serious, disturbing, realistic ...
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47%
I'm Gonna Explode (2008)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Tale of a young couple who throw caution to the wind and set out in search of their true fate. Román is the son of a contemptible, right-leaning congressman. Recently enrolled in a new high school, the rebellious teen clumsily attempts to hang ...
Style: serious, sentimental, sincere, atmospheric, realistic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: rebelliousness, teenage love, teenage life, friendship, rebellion, youth, love and romance, society, on the road, social differences, bittersweet, coming of age ...
Time: 21st century
Place: mexico, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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The Scrounger (1961)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 117 min.
Story: A pimp with no other means to provide for himself finds his life spiralling out of control when his prostitute is sent to prison.
Style: neorealism, realistic, serious, disturbing, talky ...
Plot: prostitution, prostitute, poverty, unemployment, robbery, family relations, life is a bitch, italian neorealism, couple relations, dishonesty, downfall, criminal heroes ...
Time: 20th century, year 1961, 60s, post world war two, 1950s
Place: italy, rome italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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Duration: 102 min.
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Style: serious, suspenseful, atmospheric, realistic, neo noir ...
Plot: private detective, investigation, haunted by the past, uncover truth, murder, sister, suicide, private investigator, family relations, urban, strong female presence, sexual content ...
Time: 21st century
Place: rome italy, europe, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 104 min.
Story: The story of a lone father's relationship with his daughter, of the destructive power of alcohol, of a child's vulnerability, but also of love, betrayal and socialist politics in 1970s Sweden. A unique and moving story freely based on Åsa ...
Style: touching, bleak, emotional, realistic, serious ...
Plot: working class, parents and children, life turned upside down, youth, family relations, single parent, disorder, family problems, dysfunctional family, children, addiction, parents ...
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Curling (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Set in a rural Quebec village in the dead of winter, Jean-François, a single father works at a deserted bowling alley at night and in a rundown motel during the day. His daughter, Julyvonne never leaves their home. Jean-François isolates her in ...
Style: realistic, sincere, atmospheric, serious, slow cinema ...
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Time: 21st century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Macondo (2014)
Genre: Drama
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Duration: 98 min.
Story: A drama centered on an 11-year-old Chechnyan refugee living in Vienna whose life is thrown into disarray when a friend of his deceased father materializes.
Style: sincere, serious, touching, realistic, gloomy
Plot: coming of age, youth, interracial relations, immigrant, society, life is a bitch, misfit, boy, father, migration, refugee, exile ...
Time: 21st century
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⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Be Sure to Share (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Shiro’s struggle with his father’s cancer and impending death leads to a realization that he must communicate his love and admiration for him before it’s too late. A series of flashbacks reveals their relationship over time, and the trouble ...
Style: realistic, touching, contemplative, emotional, psychological ...
Plot: family relations, redemption, terminal illness, coping, parents and children, estrangement, unfulfillment, family in crisis, father son relationship, asian prostitute, family problems, dealing with death ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
...And the Earth Did Not Swallow Him (1994)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Twelve-year-old Mexican-American Marcos (Jose Alcala) recalls the hardships of the previous year, reflecting on the arduous trek his migrant-worker family made from Texas to the Midwest during harvest season. Along the way, Marcos learns plenty ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
The End Is My Beginning (2010)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Germany, Italy
Duration: 98 min.
Story: When an extraordinary man who has lived through all is approaching his end, he decides to call his son to join him for the last time at his home in Tuscany. His intention is to share some valuable conversations about his life as a press ...
Style: touching, contemplative, realistic, talky, captivating ...
Plot: introspection, elderly, dealing with death, unfulfillment, life is a bitch, terminal illness, parents and children, family relations, biopic, writers, poet, son ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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