Movies like The New Man
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The New Man (2007)
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Original name: Den nya människan
Genre: Drama
Country: Finland, Sweden
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Sweden 1951. A new society is developing, a society where there is no room for the socially and mentally weak...
Style:
emotional, touching, bleak, serious, realistic, disturbing, biting, thought provoking, suspense
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
pregnancy, society, youth, mental illness, teenage life, misfit, mental institution, life is a bitch, injustice, confined, win over, power relations, social injustice, doctor, large family, traumatic childhood, control, wrongfully committed, hospital, suicide, poverty, motherhood, inequality, social differences, epilepsy ...
Time:
50s, 20th century, 1950s
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Most similar movies to The New Man
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, touching and emotional films with plots about society, youth, life is a bitch, teenage life, misfit, family relations and teenager mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like The New Man: Two-Legged Horse (2008), Gimme Shelter (2013), Anatomy of a Hate Crime (2001), Nobody Owns Me (2013), Edi (2002). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran, France
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A wealthy boy hires a poor child to carry him around like a horse.
Style:
serious, psychological, disturbing, bleak, islamic ...
Plot:
street kid, youth, life is a bitch, dehumanization, cruelty, poverty, parents and children, family relations, power relations, master and servant, disability, lifestyle ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
afghanistan, middle east, iran, asia
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
After running away from her abusive mother, a streetwise teen seeks refuge with her father, but he rejects her when he learns that she's pregnant.
Style:
emotional, serious, psychological, rough, cult classic ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick
Plot:
abusive mother, pregnancy, homeless, abuse, teenage mother, mother daughter relationship, survival, starting over, pregnant teenager, family problems, life is a bitch, youth ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
This MTV film dramatizes the horrific hate-crime killing of 21-year-old Matthew Shepard (Cy Carter) in Wyoming. In 1998, Shepard, a gay college student, was savagely beaten by Russell Henderson (Ian Somerhalder) and Aaron McKinney (Brendan ...
Style:
disturbing, emotional, realistic, serious, bleak ...
Plot:
youth, murder, life is a bitch, social decay, society, gay slur, gay teenager, gay, real life, gender, gays and lesbians, injustice ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
wyoming, wisconsin
Similarity:
24%
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, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
working class, parents and children, life turned upside down, single parent, disorder, dysfunctional family, family problems, family relations, youth, parents, children, addiction ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, 70s
Place:
eastern europe
Similarity:
24%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, serious, emotional, touching, contemplative ...
Plot:
friendship, teenage life, homeless, family relations, youth, life is a bitch, society, parents and children, pregnancy, drifter, destiny, false accusation ...
Place:
poland, europe
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A teenager fights to clear her name after her small Oklahoma town mistakenly assumes she is practicing witchcraft. Based on a true story.
Style:
serious, disturbing, realistic, thought provoking
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
false accusation, religions or cults, racism, high school life, youth, teachers and students, culture clash, legal action, life is a bitch, social differences, legal, rebellion ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
oklahoma
Similarity:
22%
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, serious, realistic, bleak ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
sexual initiation, friendship, life is a bitch, teenage life, misfit, dull life, society, youth, working class, down on your luck, unemployment, loneliness ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
poland
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
The arrival of a new girl causes a stir in classroom social structure.
Style:
emotional, realistic, touching, disturbing, sexual ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot:
misfit, social relations, lifestyle, teenage life, self discovery, friends, high school life, school, teenager, harassment, misled, youth ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
eastern europe
Similarity:
22%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Based on a true story, 15 year old Tina Spangler discovers she is pregnant. Her choices are abortion, adoption, or a lonely, exhausting life as a single parent. Abandoned by her boyfriend, she turns to her mother. Tina discovers although it has torn ...
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, emotional, talky ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
pregnancy, teenage pregnancy, parent child relationship, husband wife relationship, family problems, pregnant teenager, lifestyle, teenage life, family in crisis, hopes, high school, sister sister relationship ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
usa
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
The Fat Boy Chronicles is a motion picture about Jimmy Winterpock, an obese high-school student who deals with bullying and trying to lose weight. The film is inspired by a true story and was released in 2010 as a major motion picture.
Style:
sincere, touching, emotional, inspirational, independent film ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
fat boy, teenage love, human spirit, bullying, hopes, misfit, high school, society, win over, follow your dream, love and romance, youth ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel, France
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A tragical-comedy film story that follows a young non-combatant platoon with defective fitness. Set in "Bahad 4" in the 50's, the movie focuses mainly on two characters: Alon (Oz Zehavi), who believes he was accidentally sent to Bahad ...
Style:
realistic, bleak, serious, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
military base, military life, power relations, basic training, boot camp, military, immigrant, social differences, society, humiliation, lgbt, officers and cadets ...
Time:
20th century, 50s, 1950s
Place:
israel, middle east
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, Switzerland, Austria
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Benjamin Levi (Bruno Cathomas) is a Bavarian cattle dealer traveling to pre-World War II Germany on his annual trip to a remote farming village. Levi hopes to do some business and, more importantly, win the hand of the lovely Lisbeth (Caroline ...
Style:
thought provoking, biting, bleak, emotional, disturbing ...
Plot:
holocaust, world war two, society, survival, life is a bitch, injustice, village life, social differences, isolation, wartime life, village, countryside ...
Time:
1930s
Place:
germany, europe
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
All, including school administration and a friend, turn their backs on a girl who accused a classmate of rape.
Style:
touching, realistic, disturbing, sincere, rough ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens
Plot:
rape, innocence lost, high school, sexualized violence, juvenile delinquency, rape and revenge, teenage love, against the odds, fighting the system, rebellion, youth, rivalry ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
This movie chronicles the trials of the mentally ill and their care-givers in an over-crowded ward of a hospital.
Style:
psychotronic, realistic, serious, psychological, disturbing
Plot:
medical, mental institution, hospital, psychiatric hospital, nurse, medicine, psychiatric ward, kitchen sink realism, psychopath, power relations, disability, kids in trouble ...
Time:
year 1963, 60s
Place:
ireland, europe
Similarity:
20%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
The friendship of two 15-year-old boys – one black, one white – begins to fall apart under the stress of a changing world.
Style:
serious, sincere, captivating, emotional, realistic ...
Plot:
farm, friendship, teenage life, social relations, social differences, family relations, youth, love and romance, coming of age, friends, interracial relations, boy ...
Time:
20th century, 60s
Place:
australia
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
The Pregnancy project tells the real story of Gaby Rodriguez, a seventeen-year-old who attended a Washington state high-school and made her senior school project the treatment of pregnant teenagers by pretending to be pregnant.
Style:
touching, sentimental, realistic, serious, independent film ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
pregnancy, teenage pregnancy, teenage life, family relations, parents and children, dishonesty, high school, youth, teachers and students, pregnant teenager, teenager, love ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
washington d.c., usa
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Follows the choices made by three young women - one a drug dealer, one an addict, one a pregnant teen - in Jersey City.
Style:
serious, rough, emotional, touching, anthology ...
Plot:
teenage pregnancy, drug dealer, single mother, life is a bitch, juvenile delinquency, lifestyle, kids in trouble, teenage life, youth, drug dealing, gang, social misfits ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new jersey, usa
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Story of a man Bill Januson whose pride in being the head of his family won't let him accept help from his sick daughters doctor. He has to prove to his kids that even with the death of his wife and the loss of his job that they can and will ...
Style:
crying, serious, realistic, emotional, gloomy ...
Plot:
starving child, starvation, youth, doctor, single parent, unemployment, family problems, family relations, life is a bitch, human nature, human spirit, society ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
usa
Similarity:
20%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, France
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A Canadian doctor finds her sympathies sorely tested while working in the conflict ravaged Palestinian territories.
Style:
thought provoking, realistic, disturbing, emotional, serious ...
Plot:
israeli palestinian conflict, doctors and patients, political unrest, injustice, society, wartime life, friendship, life is a bitch, doctor, terrorism, tragedy, israeli ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
palestine, middle east, israel, palestinian authority, jerusalem
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: Ukraine
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
During the final winter of WWII, as displaced persons return to their former homes in the Soviet Union, an 8-year-old boy is left alone when his mother dies en route.
Style:
realistic, serious, stylized, atmospheric, road movie ...
Plot:
orphan, youth, little boy, on the road, wartime life, life is a bitch, human nature, society, world war two, death of mother, social injustice, boy ...
Time:
1940s, year 1944, 20th century
Place:
ukraine
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Ippe and Papu are two teenagers spending the summer, when they get into trouble with their drug-dealer. They are forced to act as drug-mules. Along the way they meet a new girl, Mia.
Style:
serious, realistic, bleak, rough, disturbing ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
youth, drug dealer, drug dealing, addiction, hip hop, drug use, rehabilitation, misfit, life is a bitch, social misfits, society, hopes ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
finland, helsinki finland
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Simultaneously nihilistic and heartening, Ward No. 6 is based on a story by Chekov, in which a psychiatric doctor becomes a patient in his own asylum. Updated to contemporary Russia, the film is a cocktail of anxieties and riddles, showcasing how ...
Style:
psychological, serious, sincere, touching, intellectual ...
Plot:
mental institution, mental illness, isolation, human nature, confined, misfit, doctors and patients, society, estrangement, social misfits, doctor, mental disorder ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
russia, soviet union
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
The teenage girl Vera left her family after an incident at home, and is now living with a middle-aged drug addict, Morgan, who is using her as a prostitute to get money for drugs and debts. Meanwhile, the rest of her family is falling apart, and her ...
Style:
realistic, serious, emotional, touching
Plot:
dysfunctional family, life is a bitch, rescue, youth, drug abuse, life turned upside down, parents and children, family problems, estrangement, society, prostitute, drug addiction ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
eastern europe
Similarity:
19%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Costa Rica
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A smart poor girl and a inmature rich boy get their life twisted when they accidently have a baby.
Style:
realistic, touching, emotional, sentimental, psychological ...
Plot:
young lovers, pregnancy, family relations, couples, youth, society, teenage life, love, teenager, grownups, responsibility, life turned upside down ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
costa rica, latin america
Similarity:
19%
792
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Kyle Peoples never wanted to be the man he has become in his 30s, an accountant stuck in a dead end job, with a lover who is more successful than he and a family that doesn't get him at all. So when a night of partying leads to a new family of ...
Style:
realistic, serious, emotional, touching, sexual ...
Plot:
addiction, mistaken identity, couples, drug abuse, society, life is a bitch, friendship, gay, lgbt, male nudity, male rape, gay subtext ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century
Similarity:
19%
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, atmospheric, captivating, controversial ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
drug addiction, youth, mental institution, teenage life, dysfunctional family, unsupportive parent, juvenile delinquency, parents and children, family problems, society, life is a bitch, misfit ...
Time:
20th century
Place:
south america, latin america, brazil, sao paulo brazil
Similarity:
19%
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, misfit, youth, social misfits, parents and children, culture clash, society, resilience, single mother, discrimination ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
ireland, europe
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Jess Gradwell and her teenage daughter boast a superclose relationship. When it comes to sex, however, Mom won't stand for anything less than premarital celibacy. So she gets a pretty healthy dose of her own medicine when she winds up getting ...
Style:
serious, realistic, touching, emotional, sexual ...
Plot:
single parent, pregnancy, love, moral dilemma, teenage life, youth, society, love and romance, lifestyle, family problems, family life, parents and children ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
nova scotia
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
18-year-old Hannah Yoder is ready to become an Amish adult - which means baptism into the Church and marriage to her boyfriend, Samuel. However, her friends convince her to visit Hollywood for Rumspringa where she meets Josh and the two hit it off ...
Style:
serious, realistic, emotional, touching
Audience:
teens
Plot:
pregnancy, forbidden love, amish, religions or cults, couples, youth, society, love and romance, culture clash, love affair, adolescence vs adulthood, family problems ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A story of a young boy who becomes an elective mute after witnessing what he believes to be the killing by his older brother of a teenage boy. The young boy's brother then tells him not to say anything because of the trouble it would cause in ...
Style:
serious, realistic, psychological, gloomy, disturbing
Plot:
children, youth, dysfunctional family, siblings relations, teenage life, family in crisis, unfulfillment, misfit, mute or deaf, doctors and patients, life is a bitch, power relations ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Similarity:
19%
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