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The Cold Lands (2013)
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
After his mother’s sudden death, a young boy disappears into the deep woods of upstate New York and takes up with an unpredictable and mysterious drifter.
Style:
psychological, touching, realistic, atmospheric, serious, independent film, f word
Audience:
teens
Plot:
woods, youth, coming of age, isolation, escapades, losing-it hero, single mother, fear, child protagonist, runaway, loss of mother, teenager, orphan, skinny dipping, afterlife, child in peril, death of mother, survival, mountain, danger, unfulfillment, dealing with death, dog, money, snake ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
usa, new york, new york state
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Most similar movies to The Cold Lands
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, independent film and touching films with plots about coming of age, family relations, youth, friendship, food, eating and money mostly in Drama and Adventure genres. Some movies like The Cold Lands: Leave No Trace (2018), The Dynamiter (2011), Little Accidents (2014), Future Weather (2012), Hide Your Smiling Faces (2013). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
A father and daughter live a perfect but mysterious existence in Forest Park, a beautiful nature reserve near Portland, Oregon, rarely making contact with the world. But when a small mistake tips them off to authorities, they are sent on an ...
Style:
psychological, philosophical, sincere, serious, captivating ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
father daughter relationship, forest, nature, veteran, trust, teenage girl, survivalist, trauma, wilderness, hitchhiking, woods, freezing ...
Time:
2010s, future, 90s, near future
Place:
oregon, washington state, xian, portland oregon, utah ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
All fourteen-year-old Robbie Hendrick ever wanted was a family. Yet as another Mississippi summer begins, his wayward mother has run off again fearing a breakdown and he's left to burn the days caring for his half brother, Fess. As the deep ...
Style:
realistic, serious, atmospheric, touching, sentimental ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, small town, youth, little boy, american football, family relations, family problems, social relations, innocence lost, small town life, siblings relations, teenage life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
mississippi, usa
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
In a small American coal town living in the shadow of a recent mining accident, the disappearance of a teenage boy draws three people together—a surviving miner, the lonely wife of a mine executive, and a local boy—in a web of secrets.
Style:
suspense, sad, psychological, enigmatic, disturbing ...
Plot:
extramarital affair, small town, teenage boy, adultery, disappearance, coming of age, solace, marital problem, investigation, husband wife relationship, tragic event, secret ...
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Abandoned by her dreamer single mom, a teenage loner becomes obsessed with ecological disaster, forcing her and her grandmother, a functioning alcoholic, to rethink their futures.
Style:
realistic, touching, captivating, psychological, sexy ...
Plot:
coming of age, family relations, environmentalism, society, family problems, gain trust, dysfunctional family, teenage life, life is a bitch, youth, bittersweet, teenager ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
39%
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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:
36%
139
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, France, Luxembourg
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A sixteen year-old girl living with her widowed father in the Ardennes forest befriends a twenty-two year old orphan whose manipulative aunt contrives to keep him immature in the feature directorial debut of filmmaker Stéphan Carpiaux. A tragic ...
Style:
emotional, realistic, atmospheric, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
fall in love, teenage life, family relations, coming of age, parents and children, family problems, single parent, unfulfillment, confined, youth, woods, isolation ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, belgium
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Myanmar
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Story of four young monks left alone in their remote monastery in Myanmar. Shot entirely in newly-opened Myanmar with non-actors, the film bridges spirit, cinema, and traditional Burmese storytelling to open a view onto an unseen world.
Style:
atmospheric, touching, serious, tense, contemplative ...
Plot:
coming of age, orphan, monk, buddhist monk, youth, imaginary, child in peril, danger, escapades, curses spells and rituals, storytelling, buddhist ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
burma
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
An 11-year-old girl watches her father come down with a crippling depression. Over one summer, she learns answers to several mysteries and comes to terms with love and loss.
Style:
sincere, intense, stylized, touching, atmospheric ...
Plot:
depression, childhood, youth, love and romance, coming of age, desert, transformation, scarecrow, family relations, eccentric family, family problems, parents and children ...
Time:
year 2003, 70s
Place:
new mexico, usa, boston, santa fe new mexico, spain ...
Similarity:
33%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
When autistic teen Ricky is scolded for skipping class, he escapes into the subway for a days-long odyssey among the subway’s disparate denizens. Meanwhile, his mother wages an escalating search effort above ground. Based on a true story and set ...
Style:
sincere, touching, melancholic, disturbing, independent film ...
Plot:
autism, self discovery, parents and children, teenage life, family relations, social misfits, youth, imagination, boy, little boy, subway, disability ...
Time:
year 1984, year 2012, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
30%
148
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Jerome is a day in the life of a dreamer. Wade Hampton has found himself trapped by responsibility and lack of understanding by those closest to him. As a result, Wade simply leaves his old life with the idea of fulfilling a repressed dream of ...
Style:
independent film, contemplative, realistic, serious, psychological ...
Plot:
petty theft, desert, on the road, factory, unemployment, workplace romance, small town life, small town, family in crisis, fish out of water, couples, estrangement ...
Time:
90s
Place:
arizona, usa
Similarity:
30%
315
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Chasing his wayward mother to Montana, fifteen year old Jake finds the picture perfect Tucker family instead who photoshop him into their lives, despite his questionable past. Too bad Jake can not stop himself from stealing, being seduced by the ...
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, independent film, crying
Plot:
family relations, small town, love affair, teenage life, forbidden love, couples, love and romance, starting over, youth, parents and children, coming of age, love triangle ...
Place:
montana, usa
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A funny, gripping and powerful drama about the post graduation summer of four lifelong friends and one night that changed the course of their lives... forever. Like Crash , Saint Elmo s Fire and it s inspiration Stand By Me, Along the WAY is a ...
Style:
offbeat, touching, emotional, gloomy, realistic ...
Plot:
best friend, college, friendship, friends, hopes, coming of age, youth, buddies, redemption, showbiz, partner, food ...
Time:
90s, year 1983, year 1996, 21st century
Place:
new york, connecticut, madison square garden manhattan new york city
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
On a summer break from college, Ivy, a young epileptic woman, struggles to balance her feelings for her fledgling boyfriend while her friend Al crashes with her for the season.
Style:
mumblecore, touching, serious, sincere, realistic ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship, lovers apart, young lovers, looking for love, disability, youth, introspection, husband wife relationship, coming of age, male female relationship, friends, party ...
Time:
year 2009
Place:
new york, brooklyn new york city, usa, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
This complex portrait of modern-day life on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation explores the bond between a brother and his younger sister, who find themselves on separate paths to rediscovering the meaning of home.
Style:
serious, realistic, touching, emotional, social ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
indian reservation, american football, american indian, society, youth, family problems, social relations, death in the family, dysfunctional family, teenage boy, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, sex scene ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, nebraska, indiana, south dakota
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Fourteen-year-old Lila is experiencing an ennui-filled Brooklyn summer. She awkwardly wears a Kabuki-esque mask of sunscreen at the beach and plays third wheel to Chiara, her more experienced friend, and Chiara’s boyfriend, Patrick. Determined to ...
Style:
sexy, erotic, emotional, realistic, touching ...
Plot:
coming of age, obsession, teenage girl, youth, first sex, sexual attraction, sexual desire, self discovery, best friend, friendship, wooing, hot guys ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa, brooklyn new york city
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A circle of twenty-something friends reunite for a weekend away to console a suicidal member of their group. Yet, despite their best efforts to enjoy themselves, a tinderbox of old jealousies, unrequited love, and widening political differences ...
Style:
independent film, atmospheric, surreal, serious, realistic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
suicide attempt, depression, reunited friends, group of friends, friendship, relationships, friends, anxiety, writer's block, life philosophy, introspection, college graduate ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa, new york state, new york
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
On the edge of a crumbling city, 11-year-old Alexander lives in a sequestered commune alongside other children, their mothers, and charismatic leader, Gregori. Gregori teaches the children how to raise livestock, grow vegetables, work as a community ...
Style:
serious, realistic, psychological, tense, captivating ...
Plot:
boy, mental disorder, mysterious character, birthday, parents and children, family problems, eccentric family, isolation, religions or cults, youth, commune, promise ...
Time:
year 2015, 21st century
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, France, Italy
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Abandoned by his father, a young boy is left in the hands of an unqualified childcare provider.
Style:
emotional, atmospheric, disturbing, realistic, independent film ...
Plot:
childhood, kids in trouble, youth, boy, realism, adoption, social problems, life is a bitch, street kid, society, parents and children, coming of age ...
Time:
year 2012, year 2011, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
france, belgium
Similarity:
25%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Alejandro, a tough and ambitious Latino street orphan on the verge of adolescence, lives and works in an auto-body repair shop in a sprawling junkyard on the outskirts of Queens, New York. In this chaotic world of adults, young Alejandro struggles ...
Style:
touching, bleak, realistic, serious, sincere ...
Plot:
street kid, coming of age, pitbull, brother sister relationship, working class, siblings relations, urban ghetto life, teenage life, family relations, kids in trouble, youth, orphan ...
Time:
year 2007, 90s, 21st century
Place:
usa, new york
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Jess, age 18, and Moss, age 12 are second cousins in the dark-fire tobacco fields of rural Western Kentucky. Without immediate families that they can relate to, and lacking friends their own age, they only have each other. Over the course of a ...
Style:
atmospheric, realistic, contemplative, stylized, captivating ...
Plot:
coming of age, youth, farm, self discovery, teenage life, friendship, love and romance, society, smoking, childhood, teenager, male female relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
kentucky, usa
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Syd is an eccentric bookseller with delusions of grandeur fueled by red wine. He caused a rift 5 years ago between his bohemian housemates and the family next door, but now tries to recruit his 14-year-old neighbor as a collaborator.
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, suspenseful, psychological ...
Plot:
friendship, friends, drug, teenage boy, coming of age, death threat, depression, couples, love and romance, love, youth, family relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Keeping to himself in the wake his father's death, James Charm finds refuge in solitary walks and creating morbid sketches — until a charismatic new friend and a quirky young woman begin to draw him out of his shell.
Style:
realistic, serious, sentimental, touching, independent film ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
boy, teenage boy, therapist, teenage life, mother son relationship, family relations, self discovery, coming of age, youth, single parent, problem, little boy ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
James White is a troubled twentysomething trying to stay afloat in a frenzied New York City. As he retreats further into a hedonistic lifestyle, his mother's battle with a serious illness faces a series of setbacks that force him to assume more ...
Style:
sad, sincere, disturbing, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
food, mother son relationship, gay, drinking, friendship, promise, slacker, lie, chemotherapy, new life, drinking alcohol, addiction ...
Time:
year 2000, year 1983, year 2013
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, mexico
Similarity:
24%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A mom and her 10 year son motor around the country as she makes ends meet by turning tricks until her car breaks down. She then temporarily takes up with a hardware store owner until she gets her own place. Then the kid's father shows up to try ...
Style:
independent film, serious, psychological, realistic, offbeat ...
Plot:
coming of age, killer child, road trip, bad father, family relations, on the road, dysfunctional family, family problems, single parent, alcohol abuse, store, parents and children ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
new york, beirut lebanon
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
In the vein of Good Will Hunting and Garden State, POPE DREAMS is a coming of age tale about a young man at a crossroads in life. Filled with heart, music, life, and loss. And a set of drums. Oh, and the Pope. POPE DREAMS is about a directionless ...
Style:
realistic, touching, sentimental, psychological, independent film ...
Plot:
terminal illness, hopes, follow your dream, parents and children, family relations, young lovers, coming of age, teenage life, unfulfillment, human nature, mother son relationship, death ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, los angeles
Similarity:
23%
937
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A young girl named Heidi who lives with her mentally disabled mother, travels across the country to find out about her and her mothers past.
Style:
sad
Plot:
mother daughter relationship, mental disorder, young girl, coming of age, cross country, mentally challenged person, family relations, foster parent, mail, cat, lawyer, ambulance ...
Place:
reno nevada
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A successful artist looks back with loving memories on the summer of his defining year, 1974. A talented but troubled 18-year-old aspiring artist befriends a brilliant elderly alcoholic painter who has turned his back on not only art but life. The ...
Style:
sincere, realistic, serious, touching, emotional ...
Plot:
painter, self discovery, friendship, family relations, youth, parents and children, unsupportive parent, artists and showbiz, inspiration, art, mentor, intergenerational friendship ...
Time:
year 2006, year 1974, year 1991, 21st century
Place:
pennsylvania, usa, new york
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Marie, a reluctant resident of a retirement community in Southern Oregon, decides to walk 80 miles down the Redwood Highway to see the ocean for the first time in 45 years.
Style:
touching, serious, realistic, feel good, sentimental ...
Plot:
on the road, family relations, obsessive quest, escapades, introspection, estrangement, haunted by the past, hopes, redemption, parents and children, strong female presence, journey ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, oregon, pacific ocean
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
An aging Tennessee farmer returns to his homestead and must confront a family betrayal, the reappearance of an old enemy, and the loss of his farm.
Style:
serious, tense, sentimental, realistic, atmospheric ...
Plot:
farm, betrayal, retirement home, parents and children, homecoming, uninhibited rivalry, danger, dishonesty, family problems, grudge, country, father son relationship ...
Time:
year 2009, 21st century
Place:
tennessee, usa
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
An abandoned teen jumps a freight train in Philadelphia intent on reaching his uncle in Indiana, whom he believes will help him with financial difficulties including a pregnant girlfriend. In Ohio, he meets another homeless teen, who escorts him to ...
Style:
independent film, contemplative, serious, realistic, touching ...
Plot:
coming of age, family relations, friendship, on the road, father, prison, friends, youth, social misfits, hopes, self discovery, society ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
indiana, oklahoma, usa, salt lake city utah, philadelphia ...
Similarity:
22%
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