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My Good Enemy (2010)
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Original name: Min bedste fjende
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Sensitive 12-year-old Alf is the low man on his class' totem pole, and he's sick of it. Forming a secret, Machiavellian alliance with another student who also has grown weary of being bullied, he hatches a plan to throw a wrench into the well-oiled gears of the school social order. Everything seems to go according to plan, until Alf discovers that turning the tables on his tormentors has its own dire consequences.
Style:
psychological, sincere, captivating, contemplative
Plot:
boy, bullying, children, friendship between boys, friendship, coming of age, revenge, fight, scandinavian girl, school, violence, retribution, little boy, club, rabbit, young girl, middle school, young boy, mango
Place:
denmark, scandinavia
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Most similar movies to My Good Enemy
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, touching and captivating films with plots about coming of age, boy, friendship, children, youth, little boy and bullying mostly in Drama, Family and Comedy genres. Some movies like My Good Enemy: No One's Child (2014), A Night Too Young (2012), And Then I Go (2017), Wallah Be (2002), Nothing in Return (2015). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: Serbia, Croatia
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
The movie is based on the fascinating, true story of a feral boy whom hunters found among wolves in a forest in the mountains of Bosnia-Herzegovina (BiH) in the mid-1980s. The boy was sent to the institution for children in an attempt to socialize ...
Style:
serious, touching, captivating, intense, bleak ...
Plot:
boy, neglected child, friendship, children, orphanage, forest, bullying, wolf, feral child, coming of age, child soldier, bosnian war ...
Time:
80s, 90s
Place:
serbia, bosnia herzegovina, bosnia, croatia
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100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Czech Republic, Slovenia
Duration: 65 min.
Story:
On New Year's Day, two preteen boys wind up in the apartment of Katerina, a teacher from their school, along with her friends, Stepan and David. As the older trio bickers, drinks and flirts, the boys gain eye-opening insight into the adult ...
Style:
disturbing, psychological, suspenseful, serious, suspense
Plot:
underage drinking, pedophilia, children, teenage boy, friendship, friendship between boys, sexual awakening, teenager, sexual harassment, sex, sexualized violence, boy ...
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100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Two teenage outsiders are demoralized daily at school, until an idea for vengeance offers them a terrifying release.
Style:
unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, thought provoking, psychological ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
bullying, friendship, school shooting, police, boy, friendship between boys, tragedy, best friend, revenge, school, teenage boy, junior high school ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
kentucky, usa
Similarity:
83%
191
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Denmark
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Life is not easy when you are a Danish kid called Aksel who loves meatballs. Especially when you would much rather want to be one of the cool Muslim boys who wear those golden necklaces and say cool stuff in Arabic. To worsen things, during the ...
Style:
sincere, captivating, multicultural, feel good
Audience:
kids, family friendly
Plot:
children, boy, islam, society, relationships, contest, rivalry, singing competition, social relations, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, lifestyle, family relations ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
denmark
Similarity:
100%
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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, psychological ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
friendship between boys, dog sex, voyeurism, friendship, divorced parents, juvenile delinquency, coming of age, teenage life, adolescence, youth, teenage boy, police chase ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
spain
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
As a group of Danish children pass into adolescence, gradually the most popular girl becomes an outcast, for trivial reasons that she never understands.
Style:
sexual, cult classic, realistic, serious, touching ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, children, female nudity, bullying, nude girl, classmate classmate relationship, sexual tension, loneliness, mother daughter relationship, teenage protagonist, outcast, teenage crush ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, year 1958, 1950s, 50s
Place:
denmark, europe, scandinavia
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia, Thailand, Laos
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Set against the lush backdrop of rural Laos, this spirited drama tells the story of scrappy ten-year-old Ahlo, who yearns to break free from his ill-fated destiny. After his village is displaced to make way for a massive dam, Ahlo escapes with his ...
Style:
realistic, captivating, serious, sincere, touching
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
youth, down on your luck, parents and children, contests and competitions, society, human spirit, friendship, family relations, post war, change of luck, boy, children ...
Place:
asia, thailand
Similarity:
100%
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. ...
Style:
touching, sentimental, sincere, uplifting, cult classic ...
Audience:
family outing, kids
Plot:
childhood, judaism, friendship between boys, afterlife, friendship, coming of age, boy, youth, catholicism, mentor, rabbi, religion ...
Time:
year 2002, 70s, 20th century, year 1976, 1930s ...
Place:
chicago, usa, illinois
Similarity:
100%
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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: Canada
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
A ten year old boy, prone to excessive worry, begins to succumb to his anxiety as a string of child abductions plague his town.
Style:
stylized, weird
Plot:
boy, sexual exploration, sexual curiosity, bullying, coming of age, female nudity, precocious child, homosexuality, precociousness, mental disorder, childhood, child ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A substitute teacher takes on a job as a year 6 class teacher in a village he does not know. He has to help a student adjust back into school, although none of his classmates want him there.
Style:
captivating, disturbing, psychological, emotional, inspirational ...
Plot:
bullying, school, teacher, children, education, substitute teacher, adult child friendship, school teacher, high school teacher, schoolboy, high school life, social problems ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Iceland, Denmark, Sweden, Netherlands, Czech Republic
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
A teenage boy, raised by a mother who considers herself psychic, takes a bullied kid into his group of violent misfits. As the group’s troubles escalate toward life-threatening situations, an inner voice awakens in the boy and, with the help of ...
Style:
crying, tripping
Plot:
abuse, dysfunctional family, male nudity, male rape, friendship between boys, coming of age, violence, bullying, teenage boy, gay, friendship, swimming pool ...
Place:
iceland
Similarity:
75%
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Norway, Netherlands
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
Epic story about two families and their friendship and common destiny in Sweden's Gothenburg in the 1940s and 1950s. Told from the perspective of young Simon Larsson, who learns that he's an adopted child who has a Jewish father from ...
Style:
realistic, tense, touching, psychological, contemplative ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
coming of age, world war two, boy, youth, family relations, friendship, society, culture clash, working class, german history, aftermath, nordic ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, post world war two, 50s
Place:
europe, eastern europe
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 157 min.
Story:
The end of the 19th century. A boat filled with Swedish emigrants comes to the Danish island of Bornholm. Among them are Lasse and his son Pelle who move to Denmark to find work. They find employment at a large farm, but are treated as the lowest ...
Style:
emotional, disturbing, compassionate, meditative, touching ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
father son relationship, coming of age, boy, farm, poverty, immigrant, corporal punishment, working class, bullying, children, youth, nordic ...
Time:
19th century, year 1987, 1870s, turn of the century, 1890s
Place:
denmark, europe, eastern europe
Similarity:
100%
44K
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden, Denmark
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Stockholm, the fifties. Though academically bright, violent pupil Erik Ponti is expelled from his state school with the headmaster’s words “there’s only one word for people like you – evil… what you need is a good thrashing, and more”. ...
Style:
touching, emotional, rough, disturbing, psychological ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
private school, coming of age, violence, rebelliousness, rebellion, bullying, humiliation, bully, corporal punishment, friendship, abuse, high school ...
Time:
1950s, year 2003, 20th century, 50s
Place:
europe, stockholm sweden, eastern europe, scandinavia
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Tomas (12) gets a camera and begins making a film about his family. His enigmatic father (Ondrej Vetchý) works from home. By hiding a camera in his office, Tomas discovers that on Tuesdays and Thursdays his father leaves the house. When confronted ...
Style:
suspense, melancholic, disturbing, sentimental, suspenseful ...
Plot:
boy, friendship between boys, bully, bullying, sea, childhood, child, coming of age, found footage, family relations, adoption, secret ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, czech republic
Similarity:
100%
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:
rough, serious, bleak, realistic, captivating ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
revenge, lifestyle, juvenile delinquency, life is a bitch, teenage life, friendship, high school life, bullying, youth, social misfits, drug abuse, society ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, denmark
Similarity:
100%
4K
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%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, Serbia
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Nenad, ten years Christian boy from a Serbian enclave, determined to create a proper community burial for his late grandfather, crosses enemy lines and makes friends among the Muslim majority in deeply divided, war-torn Kosovo.
Style:
psychological, captivating, disturbing
Plot:
boy, political conflict, ethnic conflict, little boy, child, post war, teenager, muslim, life is a bitch, military, coming of age, children in wartime ...
Time:
year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
kosovo, eastern europe, balkan, serbia
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
A movie which at first seems like a simple life story of an ordinary young man slowly evolves into an extraordinarily told ballade with twofold meaning - sad and optimistic at the same time...
Style:
captivating, psychological
Plot:
coming of age, school, unrequited love, model, children, grownups, lifestyle, love story, love interest, adolescence vs adulthood, teenage love, couple relations ...
Place:
chechnya
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
There were three friends. Someone became the assailant and someone became the victim. Another swings his fists in anger at their broken friendship. Through the director’s creation of young actors and looking into the life of high school boys, the ...
Style:
non-linear, depressing, rough, disturbing, suspense ...
Plot:
high school student, friendship, bullying, high school, father, student, loss of son, teen suicide, brutality, railway, flashback, baseball ...
Place:
korea, east asia
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
While out and about tending to his herd, young shepherd Larus meets a mysterious little girl named Tinke. Quickly realizing that the girl is alone, Larus brings Tinke some food and slowly builds a friendship with her. Tinke, whose parents died ...
Style:
captivating, realistic, sincere, touching, serious ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
orphan, children, family relations, friendship, hopes, friends, destiny, human nature, coming of age, girl, teenage girl, shepherd ...
Time:
19th century, 1850s
Place:
denmark, europe
Similarity:
100%
302
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Recently released from jail, Andrés experiences an emotional rupture from his 12-year-old son, José Ramón, following a dark family tragedy that nobody is bold enough to confront.
Style:
erotic, independent film, hispanic, f word
Plot:
boy, coming of age, father son relationship, boyhood, nude boy, children, dream, school, english class, soccer, black cat, language learning ...
Place:
spain
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden, France
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
In central Gothenburg, Sweden, a group of boys, aged 12-14, robbed other children on about 40 occasions between 2006 and 2008. The thieves used an elaborate scheme called the 'little brother number' or 'brother trick', involving ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, serious, transgressive, inspirational ...
Plot:
boy, friendship between boys, kids in trouble, juvenile delinquency, gang, coming of age, youth, society, rivalry, mind game, danger, human nature ...
Time:
year 2011, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
eastern europe, europe
Similarity:
67%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Two kids about ten years old meet within a very peculiar framework: both come from broken families and are in care of foster homes...
Style:
realistic, inspirational, melancholic
Plot:
coming of age, friendship, orphan, children, childhood trauma, bonding, healing, foster home, lie, empathy, secrets, identity ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Karol is a newcomer to the class and instantly called "sissy". He tries to make friends with class bully called Balon, and eventually succeeds. The group uses him to steal lollipops and later for an assault on a small child. The ...
Plot:
coming of age, bullying, little boy, boy, 11 year old boy, youth, traumatic childhood, boxing match, school, river, boy with glasses, teacher ...
Place:
eastern europe
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
During a long hot summer in the 1970s, four boys roam free through a neglected rural paradise, until a tragedy strikes that sets them against the adult world and changes their lives forever.
Style:
serious, sincere, touching, captivating, realistic ...
Plot:
friendship, tragedy, coming of age, brother brother relationship, death, summer, boy, friendship between boys, love triangle, death of mother, social services, dog ...
Time:
70s
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Sören Mårtensson is a middle school teacher. His classroom occupied by half-grown children. His work is tormenting him and at night he is haunted by nightmares.
Style:
serious, realistic, psychological, mind bending, tense ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, teacher, school, children, mental disorder, bullying, nudity, mischievous children, youth, dedicated educator, mentally unstable, disorder ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
europe, eastern europe
Similarity:
21%
299
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
This non-narrative film unveils three episodes in the psychosexual life of a neurotic man, beginning with a trip he took to the countryside over the holidays as a small boy, to visit a cousin. Later, he is shown as a high-school boy (Mads Ole ...
Style:
erotic drama, romantic, psychological, sensual, melancholic ...
Plot:
childhood, sexual awakening, adolescence, coming of age, sexual exploration, grownups, sexual confusion, curiosity, first love, youth, innocence lost, crush ...
Time:
70s
Place:
denmark
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
A story about friendship and sticking together through tough times. The movie shows how two young girls and their families cope with their differences, how they are brought together and torn apart and how they are changed by the injury of a racing ...
Plot:
bicycle, young girl, boxing, pigeon, diving, bird, children, friendship, girlfriend, boxer, scandinavian girl, father daughter relationship ...
Place:
denmark, scandinavia
Similarity:
20%
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