Movies like Young Girls in Black
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Young Girls in Black (2010)
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Original name: Des filles en noir
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Noémie and Priscilla, two teenage girls from working class backgrounds, cultivate the same violence, the same contempt of the world. They are a source of serious concern for family and friends, who sense them capable of going to extremes. Noémie has already tried to kill herself once when with the work of German Romanic writer Kleist ringing true to her, convinces equally unhappy best friend Priscilla to make a suicide pact. The two of them can see no reason to go on living but the practicalities and opportunity to go through with that plan is harder than they envisage.
Style:
tense, emotional, realistic, psychological, sincere, serious, contemplative
Plot:
teenage life, human nature, youth, dysfunctional family, society, family problems, death, suicidal thoughts, friendship, rebellion, juvenile delinquency, coming of age, rebelliousness, dog, teenager, school, police, suicide, dream, cell phone, nightmare, old woman, suicide attempt, flutist, urban ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
france, europe
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Most similar movies to Young Girls in Black
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, sincere and touching films with plots about youth, coming of age, teenage life, family relations, family problems, dysfunctional family and society mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Young Girls in Black: Being 14 (2015), Blessed (2009), Max & Lenny (2014), Face (2002), Dear Prudence (2010). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
The lives and turbulent adventures of a bunch of fourteen-year-old teenagers, through the eyes of three young girls - Sarah, Jade and Louise - with one last year to go before high school.
Style:
realistic, emotional, atmospheric, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
friendship, coming of age, teenage life, youth, drug abuse, sexuality, self discovery, college, strong female presence, best friends, life is a bitch, high school life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france
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95%
765
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Seven lost children wander the night streets while their mothers await their return home.
Style:
captivating, touching, atmospheric, sincere, emotional ...
Plot:
missing child, teenage life, juvenile delinquency, self discovery, family relations, dysfunctional family, adolescence vs adulthood, rebelliousness, rebellion, estrangement, parents and children, youth ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
australia
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89%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Max and Lenny is the story of a friendship between two girls fighting for survival in a northern area of Marseille.
Style:
touching, realistic, sincere, serious
Plot:
follow your dream, ambition, friendship, teenage life, society, family relations, hip hop, youth, hopes, music, lesbian, strong female presence ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
342
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, sentimental ...
Plot:
teenage life, parents and children, opposites attract, family relations, friends, immigrants, love and romance, introspection, youth, single parent, coming of age, friendship ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
After the death of her mother, 17-year-old Prudence finds herself living alone in her Paris apartment. Then she meets Maryline, a rebel of her own age, who introduces her to the thrills of motorcycle racing on the biker circuit at Rungis. ...
Style:
realistic, emotional, psychological, captivating, exciting ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
coming of age, teenage life, youth, family problems, teenage love, teenage girl, troubled youth, drug abuse, woman, car race, motorcycle race, death in the family ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
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Movies like Blue Spring
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Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
Julien and his mum care for each other very much. But Julien has committed a deadly sin: he is growing into a teenager! Worse, he has found himself a girlfriend of his age. "Mummy" is not going to tolerate such an ignominy. Julien is HER ...
Style:
psychological, serious, tense, realistic, gloomy
Plot:
mother son relationship, teenage boy, puberty, psychological abuse, incestuous desire, domineering mother, dysfunctional family, parents and children, teenage life, family problems, suburban life, mentally unstable ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Tensions rise when a doctor (Daniel Veronese) pressures his teenage son to follow in his footsteps.
Style:
realistic, emotional, psychological, serious, tense
Plot:
coming of age, family problems, family relations, parents and children, teenage life, under the surface, dysfunctional family, small town, father son relationship, double life, father, favoritism ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
argentina, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
316
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
REBOUNCE is a colorful, tough and powerful film featuring Frederikke Dahl Hansen in the leading role. She plays opposite Anne Sofie Espersen and Dar Salim, and despite being only 16 years old she portrays toughness, charm, and vulnerability ...
Style:
realistic, emotional, rough, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
age difference, coming of age, parents and children, teenage life, family problems, family relations, drug abuse, adolescence vs adulthood, dysfunctional family, youth, mother, life is a bitch ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
denmark, scandinavia, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
The beloved screen legend Katy Jurado, the lights one last time in the history of a special friendship that develops between a lonely old woman and Jorge, a rebellious teenager in Mexico City in 1984. Through the use flashbacks, Jorge, now an adult, ...
Style:
serious, touching, emotional, sentimental, realistic ...
Plot:
friendship, human nature, rebellion, hopes, youth, rebelliousness, teaching the ways of the world, teenage life, elderly, boyhood, bittersweet, friends ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, 21st century
Place:
mexico, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
One summer, Dario flees the hellish environment of his home. Luismi, unconditional friend, a poor devil with pretensions of winning, and Antonia, an old woman who collects abandoned his motorcar furniture, become his new family. Three generations ...
Style:
realistic, touching, serious, captivating, tense ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
divorced parents, friendship, coming of age, teenage life, adolescence, youth, teenage boy, gay, society, shoplifting, boyhood, teenager ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Films like My Son
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
Paris, today. Dorcy, a young black Christian, wants to marry Sabrina, a young North African. It what would be a simple matter if it weren't for the fact that Sabrina has 40 brothers and that this easygoing wedding has crystallized a taboo ...
Style:
serious, realistic, sincere, tense, thought provoking ...
Plot:
interracial relations, family relations, forbidden love, society, immigrants, love and romance, human nature, family in crisis, impossible love, family problems, misfit, unfulfillment ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
paris france, africa, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
This finely acted, delicate and provocative new film by one of France’s most impressive filmmakers—working here with his son, Nathan—depicts the troubled life of an adopted boy who, as a taciturn adult, visits his birth mother and strikes up a ...
Style:
captivating, sincere, serious, tense, emotional ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
mother son reunion, youth, search for mother, foster child, disorder, parents and children, adoption, haunted by the past, family relations, family problems, mischievous children, dysfunctional family ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
445
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, emotional, serious, touching, gloomy ...
Plot:
youth, small town, introspection, friendship, human nature, family problems, family relations, family in crisis, swimming, sex crime, dysfunctional family, innocence lost ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
maryland, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
171
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil, Chile, France
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A daily, familiar, sexual and emotional drama. Based on the character Serginho, the plot is based around various aspects of this "no longer a boy, not yet a man". We follow his day to day: the recently acquired role of man of the house, ...
Style:
serious, touching, emotional, realistic, bleak
Plot:
teenage life, dysfunctional family, parents and children, youth, family problems, child as adult, family relations, teachers and students, coming of age, lgbt, gay, boy ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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:
realistic, serious, touching, psychological, rough ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot:
friendship, life is a bitch, youth, teenage life, society, high school life, family problems, dysfunctional family, social relations, family relations, parents and children, friends ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
russia, moscow russia, ussr
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Movies similar to This Special Friendship
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:
realistic, atmospheric, stylized, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
coming of age, youth, farm, teenage life, friendship, self discovery, love and romance, society, incest, teenager, childhood, woman with a gun ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, kentucky
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44%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
An outer suburb of Paris, 1972. Gilles and Christine, both sixteen, are classmates and lovers who have become frustrated with the aloofness of their families and the general monotony of their lives. When the pair are caught shoplifting, ...
Style:
realistic, touching, sentimental, serious, emotional ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens, teen drama
Plot:
youth, kids in trouble, family relations, unfulfilled love, teenage life, rebelliousness, parents and children, unfulfillment, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, dysfunctional family, teenage girl, teenage boy ...
Time:
70s, year 1972
Place:
france, paris france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Genre: Drama
Country: Georgia, Germany, France
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Eka and Natia leave their childhood behind and ignore societal customs to escape from their turbulent family lives.
Style:
realistic, emotional, serious, captivating, art house ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, family relations, adolescence vs adulthood, best friends, society, life is a bitch, civil war, dysfunctional family, youth, teenage life, parents and children, lgbt ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, year 1992
Place:
georgia, georgia (former ussr), caucasus, tbilisi, eastern europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A troubled young woman is thrown out of a convent and forms a relationship with a radical Muslim.
Style:
thought provoking, touching, psychological, atmospheric, sincere ...
Plot:
religious faith, convent, religions or cults, self discovery, love, muslim, youth, clergy, human nature, hopes, friendship, society ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
paris france, france, middle east, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, South Korea, USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
A Korean immigrant falls in love with her best friend while navigating her way through the challenges of living in a new country.
Style:
realistic, emotional, sentimental, captivating, depressing ...
Plot:
coming of age, immigrants, friendship, teenage life, society, unfulfilled love, unfulfillment, youth, love, couples, women of color, korean american ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada, toronto ontario canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina, France, Spain
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Spying on her students, a teacher finds an exciting hobby.
Style:
realistic, tense, serious, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
high school life, political unrest, society, rebellion, youth, workplace, teachers and students, against the rules, social relations, workplace situations, responsibility, state affairs ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
argentina, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Ever since she broke up with Nigel, Lena soldiers on through life as best she can with her two kids. She valiantly overcomes the obstacles put in her way. But she has yet to confront the worst of them: Her unstoppable family has decided, by any ...
Style:
emotional, tense, realistic, psychological, serious ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, divorce, family gatherings, family problems, parents and children, human nature, love and romance, family relations, couples, siblings relations, countryside, brother sister relationship ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
france, paris france, rome italy, europe, brittany
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39%
Genre: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Ding Bo (Chen Po Lin) and his friends Nan Feng (Fan Bingbing) and Fei Zao aka Fatso (Fei Long) are a trio of 20-something outsiders who have no intention of sitting exams and getting into universities. When they need a new home, they answer an ad ...
Style:
emotional, serious, realistic, touching, sexy ...
Plot:
teenage love, teenage life, rebelliousness, love and romance, best friends, youth, rebellion, coming of age, chinese, dealing with death, friends, urban
Time:
21st century
Place:
asia, china
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
271
Genre: Drama
Country: Switzerland
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Fifteen-year-old Matteo is attractive, albeit somewhat girlish and frail. The whole world is against him. He has no friends and his parents seem to live in a different universe. The pressure increases as his awkward attempts to win his father’s ...
Style:
disturbing, rough, realistic, serious, bleak ...
Plot:
rebelliousness, teenage life, youth, dysfunctional family, juvenile delinquency, realism, family problems, rebellion, gang, rehabilitation, camp, family relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
switzerland
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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:
family relations, environmentalism, society, family problems, dysfunctional family, gain trust, teenage life, life is a bitch, youth, bittersweet, coming of age, teenager ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, Austria, Estonia
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
In 1914 on a family estate, Oda helps a wounded anarchist, and as their illicit friendship deepens, a family turmoil erupts as the war closes in.
Style:
atmospheric, captivating, tense, psychological, realistic ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
obsession, experimenting, world war one, estate, family relations, moral dilemma, parents and children, human nature, collector, youth, coming of age, german history ...
Time:
20th century, 1910s
Place:
estonia, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
After his parents’ death, Shawn, 19 and mildly delinquent, tries to look after his little sister to cash in on his dad’s life insurance. But you can’t buy love -- and you sure can’t ignore it. Shawn will find out he’s got more to gain by ...
Style:
realistic, serious, emotional, psychological, gloomy
Plot:
custody, family problems, coming of age, family relations, teenage life, rivalry, youth, family life, small town, dog, siblings relations, brother ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
michigan, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Bulgaria
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
While hitchhiking from Sofia to Ruse, Kamen meets Avé, a 17-year-old runaway girl. With each ride they hitch, Avé invents new identities for them, and her compulsive lies get Kamen deeper and deeper into trouble. Reluctantly drawn into this ...
Style:
road movie, captivating, realistic, serious, psychological ...
Plot:
coming of age, hitchhiking, teenage life, journey, leaving home, rebelliousness, youth, fall in love, travel, girl, bittersweet, dishonesty ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
bulgaria, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Oriol and Yolanda live in Paris with their two daughters. During a vacation they suffer a car accident that will change their lives.
Style:
realistic, touching, psychological, captivating, serious ...
Plot:
family in crisis, parents and children, introspection, family problems, family relations, life turned upside down, memory loss, accident, architect, school teacher, funeral, death ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
paris france, france, europe, catalonia
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34%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Anna, a young teenager, comes home from her Catholic boarding school for the holidays and discovers her father has left. Her mother is devastated and confined in the company of the local priest, who is also a childhood friend. Anna clings to her ...
Style:
realistic, psychological, sentimental, captivating, serious ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
coming of age, faith, dysfunctional family, religion, village, mother daughter relationship, crisis of faith, belief in god, self discovery, teenage love, family problems, clergy ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, brittany, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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