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The Little Polish (2003)
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The Little Polish (2003)
Original name: El Polaquito
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Argentina
Duration: 92 min.
Story: At age 13, a street kid known as "El Polaquito" makes his living mostly by singing tangos (originally sung by his namesake, the singer "El Polaco") on Buenos Aires commuter trains. He falls in love with a 16 year old prostitute, also working for the Mafia controlling child exploitation in one of Argentina's busiest train stations. He tries to rescue her from this cruel life with no future. But to do so, he must confront the ruthless adult gang leaders, as well as the young kids who protect them, believing that this Mafia is truly their only option. The story is supposedly based on a true story, which happened, and was discovered in Argentina in the late 90s, early 2000s. Written by Guy33134
Style: touching, serious, realistic, bleak
Plot: youth, prostitute, street kid, train, orphan, love affair, teenage life, juvenile delinquency, forbidden love, rescue, love and romance, life is a bitch, fall in love, society, rebelliousness, child rape, mafia, street life, coming of age, lgbt, sex crime, clergy, love, teenage love, juvenile delinquent ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: argentina
Keyword: argentine

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, touching and emotional films with plots about youth, society, love and romance, coming of age, teenage life, love and fall in love mostly in Drama, Romance and Crime genres. Some movies like The Little Polish: Falling Like This (2001), Under the Protection of Ka'Bah (2011), The Dream Prince (1996), A Children's Story (2004), Sket (2011). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Falling Like This (2001)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Falling Like This showcases compelling performances by two young actors, Brian Vaughan and Megan Wilson. Writer/Director Dani Minnick has crafted a compassionate examination of the ragged edge of suburban life as characterized by Boyd, a charming, ...
Style: realistic, serious, touching, emotional, independent film ...
Audience: teens
Plot: teenage love, juvenile delinquent, unlikely couple, teenage life, on the run, love and romance, youth, young lovers, juvenile delinquency, fall in love, couples, friendship ...
Time: 80s
Place: california
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95%
Under the Protection of Ka'Bah (2011)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Indonesia
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Growing up in West Sumatra in the 1920s, Hamid and Zainab comes from families from very different social classes. Hamid is poor, while Zainab is wealthy. Hamid receives a scholarship from Zainab’s father and Hamid’s mother works for Zainab’s ...
Style: touching, serious, realistic, emotional, indonesian
Plot: forbidden love, fall in love, social differences, rich and poor, love and romance, youth, society, parents and children, teenage life, religions or cults, islam, love ...
Time: 1920s, 20th century
Place: indonesia
⇓ similarity ⇓
91%
The Dream Prince (1996)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden
Duration: 107 min.
Story: 14-year old Em likes to hang around in her old play house. One day a boy, Jakob, sets fire to it, and Em catches a brief glimpse of him before he disappears. They meet again a few days later. For the first time in her life, Em falls in love. Plot by ...
Style: teen, serious, realistic, touching
Audience: teens
Plot: european, first love, teenager, family relations, parents and children, teenage love, teenage life, society, love and romance, coming of age, innocence lost, youth ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
A Children's Story (2004)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 94 min.
Story: The story focuses on the life of an 11-year old boy surrounded by criminality and poverty in the suburbs of Naples.
Style: disturbing, serious, rough, bleak, realistic
Plot: street kid, juvenile delinquency, youth, friends, danger, society, life is a bitch, coming of age, social worker, teaching the ways of the world, social decay, urban ghetto life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, italy, naples italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
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Sket (2011)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 83 min.
Story: When a young woman is cruelly and indiscriminately attacked by a notorious gang led by the violent Trey, her little 16 year old sister Kayla wants revenge and will stop at nothing to get it, even if it means joining a rival girl gang led by the ...
Style: suspenseful, rough, serious, realistic, bleak
Plot: girl gang, gang, vengeance, juvenile delinquency, teenage life, social decay, gang leader, youth, society, criminal heroes, rivalry, urban ghetto life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, britain, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
Where the Day Takes You (1992)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A group of teen-age runaways try to survive in the streets of Los Angeles. Drugs, prostitution, violence and bureaucratic indifference all pose threats to the kids, who nevertheless prefer this harsh life to going back to their families. King, ...
Style: neo noir, cult classic, independent film, thought provoking, serious ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: teenage prostitution, prostitution, homelessness, realism, homeless, runaway, hustler, coming of age, drug addiction, troubled youth, criminality, street kid ...
Time: year 1991, 90s
Place: los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
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Beautiful Fall (2004)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Ninni is sixteen and she lives in a beautiful mansion in the swedish countryside with her family.
Style: serious, realistic, touching, captivating, freeze frame
Audience: teens
Plot: family relations, eccentric family, teenage love, love and romance, fall in love, countryside, teenage life, parents and children, estate, bittersweet, youth, coming of age ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
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2 Young (2005)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A young boy from a working-class family and a bored young girl from a rich family are falling in love. Soon, she's pregnant and the teenagers have to escape from their disapproving parents.
Style: realistic, semi serious, touching, sentimental, humorous ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: teenage pregnancy, teenage love, on the run, forbidden love, social differences, couples, young lovers, lifestyle, youth, adolescence vs adulthood, teenage life, love affair ...
Time: 21st century
Place: hong kong
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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Aaron Loves Angela (1975)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Aaron and Angela, two young adults living in the Harlem ghetto of New York City, are deeply in love with each other. The only thing standing in the way of their love is their families. Aaron is black, while Angela is Puerto Rican, and neither family ...
Style: grim, serious, realistic
Audience: teens
Plot: blaxploitation, black, interracial romance, black love, racial issues, prostitute, interracial relations, tragic love, star crossed lovers, profanity, violent content, injustice ...
Time: year 1975, 70s
Place: new york, harlem, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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Blue (2002)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 116 min.
Story: An introverted schoolgirl falls in love and starts a relationship with one of her classmates. Set in a small seaside town in Japan, the love of her life eventually leaves her for her boyfriend in Tokyo. Kayako Kirishima of the third year at a high ...
Style: serious, realistic, touching, romantic drama
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: teenage love, teenage life, lesbian, love and romance, fall in love, youth, couples, lgbt, slow burn, lgbtq, girl, korean war ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
Once Upon a Time in Rio (2008)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Situated just above the awe-inspiring Ipanema beach in Rio is the Cantagalo slum. Every day, floods of Cantagalo residents make their way down the mountain, only to disappear into their surroundings as part of the invisible working-class that cleans ...
Style: emotional, realistic, touching, serious, sentimental ...
Plot: love, forbidden love, love and romance, social differences, parents and children, family relations, couples, life is a bitch, fall in love, slum, favela, violent content ...
Time: 21st century
Place: latin america, rio de janeiro, brazil
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
Don't Let Me Drown (2009)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: In a post-September 11th world overflowing with fear and hate, two Latino teens discover that sometimes the only thing that can keep them from drowning is love.
Style: realistic, sentimental, psychological, captivating, independent film ...
Plot: coming of age, immigrant, family relations, youth, society, parents and children, teenager, post september 11 2001, love, opposites attract, african american, young love ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
Year of the Nail (2007)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico
Duration: 79 min.
Story: A love story between a Mexican teenager and an American woman who meet one summer in Mexico.
Style: emotional, realistic, atmospheric, captivating, experimental ...
Plot: coming of age, older woman younger man relationship, love affair, couples, hopes, unfulfilled love, teenage life, friendship, society, loss of virginity, looking for sex, love and romance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: mexico, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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Serenades (2001)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A girl is born to an Aboriginal mother and an Afgan father.
Style: serious, touching, captivating, sincere, tense ...
Plot: forbidden love, interracial relations, tragic love, culture clash, human spirit, injustice, true love, parents and children, society, hopes, youth, fall in love ...
Time: 19th century, 1860s
Place: australia, afghanistan
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
 7.7
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The Classic (2003)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 127 min.
Story: Shy Ji-hae's friend is having problems expressing her feelings to the boy she loves, so she asks Ji-hae to write e-mails to him in her name. As the boy falls in love with her letters, Ji-hae discovers the story of her mother's romance ...
Style: emotional, realistic, touching, serious, sad ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: love triangle, fall in love, forbidden love, social differences, love affair, young lovers, society, youth, family relations, parents and children, diary, love ...
Time: 60s, 20th century, 21st century
Place: south korea, asia, korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Boy Called Twist (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: South Africa
Duration: 115 min.
Story: The harrowing tale of a South African street-kid's search for love, based on Dickens' classic story. Growing up neglected in a rural orphanage, Twist escapes to the unpredictable freedom of Cape Town, where he falls in with Fagin's ...
Style: serious, touching, emotional, sincere, realistic ...
Plot: youth, street kid, juvenile delinquency, young heroes, danger, gang, society, orphan, dishonesty, life is a bitch, rich and poor, cons and scams ...
Time: 21st century
Place: south africa, africa, cape town south africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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 341
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 ⇓
46%
 5.7
 2K
Sugar (2004)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 78 min.
Story: Cliff has just turned 18 and his little sister has a gift for him: booze, a joint, a subway token and the command to have sex. Heading out on the town, Cliff finds friendship -- and more -- in the person of a young hustler named Butch. But ...
Style: serious, touching, sincere, sentimental, realistic ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: coming of age, gay teenager, gay, innocence lost, lgbt, friendship, self discovery, lifestyle, fall in love, teenage life, life is a bitch, couple relations ...
Place: toronto ontario canada, canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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Buddha Mountain (2010)
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, touching, realistic, sexy ...
Plot: teenage life, rebelliousness, teenage love, best friend, rebellion, youth, love and romance, coming of age, friends, urban, dealing with death
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: asia, china
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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Winter Bay (1996)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden
Duration: 98 min.
Story: John-John is young and black, growing up with his mother and stepfather in a boring suburb south of Stockholm. On one of the last days of the summer vacation, they rescue 10-year old Patricia from drowning at a public bath in Vinterviken in Lake ...
Style: uplifting, realistic, serious, sentimental, touching
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: racism, abusive stepfather, forbidden love, love, stepfather, european, family relations, school, painting, teenager, swimming pool, young love ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: stockholm sweden, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
The Bag of Flour (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, Morocco
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Based on a true story, this beautifully-shot epic traces the life of Sarah, from her early years in a Catholic orphanage in 1970s Belgium, through her rebellious, poverty-stricken teens in a village in the Atlas mountains of Morocco.
Style: serious, emotional, sentimental, touching, realistic
Plot: teenage life, rebellion, rebelliousness, discrimination, teenage love, society, youth, love and romance, political unrest, feminism, orphan, little girl ...
Time: 20th century, year 1975, year 1984
Place: morocco, africa, middle east, belgium
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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Liar's Moon (1981)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Matt Dillion In East Texas, the summer after high school, Jack falls in love with Ginny, the daughter of the town's banker (Jack's mom's high school sweetheart). Ginny's been at boarding school; she's headed for Vassar. ...
Style: independent film, serious, realistic, touching, sentimental ...
Audience: date night
Plot: forbidden love, teenage love, teenager, coming of age, love, infidelity, social differences, parents and children, computers and web, small town life, small town, teenage life ...
Time: year 1982, 80s
Place: texas, louisiana, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
 5.8
 318
The Painting (2001)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Heath Freeman (Tru Calling, ER) heads an all-star cast including Clifton Davis (Any Given Sunday) Ben Vereen (Roots), Stacey Dash (Renaissance Man) and Debbie Allen (Fame) in the period drama Soldier of Change, which resurrects the turmoil and ...
Style: serious, realistic, romantic, touching, independent film
Plot: vietnam war, political unrest, rebelliousness, interracial relations, love affair, fall in love, military, self discovery, hopes, society, love and romance, human spirit ...
Time: 60s
Place: vietnam, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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The Vulture (2010)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Argentina, Chile, France, South Korea, Spain
Duration: 107 min.
Story: In Argentina over 8,000 people die in traffic accidents every year. Behind each of these tragedies is a flourishing industry founded on insurance payouts and legal loopholes. Sosa is a lawyer who tours the A&E Departments of the public ...
Style: neo noir, tense, captivating, disturbing, psychological ...
Plot: lawyer, car accident, love affair, insurance, cons and scams, lawyers and clients, power relations, society, life is a bitch, mobster, politics, violent ...
Time: 21st century
Place: argentina, latin america, buenos aires argentina
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
 6.6
 4K
Love Hurts (2002)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Mexico
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Renata is a young high-class girl and Ulises is a poor guy. They both fall in love, but they must fight against everyone, specially Renata's rich parents, who want to stop their love by sending her to Canada. The story remarks the difference ...
Style: realistic, serious, sentimental, touching, contemplative ...
Audience: teens, chick flick
Plot: teenage love, forbidden love, against the odds, social differences, poverty, wealth, fall in love, youth, society, young lovers, parents and children, family problems ...
Time: 21st century
Place: mexico city, mexico, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
The Scouting Book for Boys (2009)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Thomas Turgoose (This Is England) stars as David, a young boy who lives a carefree life on a coastal caravan park with his best friend Emily (Holliday Grainger). When David learns that Emily is being forced to move away, he helps her hide out in a ...
Style: sincere, touching, serious, captivating, teen ...
Plot: friendship, leaving home, youth, society, life is a bitch, rebelliousness, secret place, family problems, teenage life, parents and children, dysfunctional family, coming of age ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
The Empty Hours (2013)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain, France, Mexico
Duration: 101 min.
Story: The second film from Aarón Fernández is a Spain-Mexico-France co-production already screened as part of Films in Progress at the 60th edition of the Festival. On the desolate coast of Veracruz, young Sebastián, 17, has to run his uncle's ...
Style: realistic, serious, touching, sentimental, emotional
Plot: coming of age, love and romance, teenage love, youth, teenage life, older woman younger man relationship, seduction, motel, seaside, couples, sex, older woman younger man ...
Time: 21st century
Place: mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Tracks (2005)
Genre: Drama, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Peter, a frustrated suburban teenager, prefers to hang out by the railroad tracks with his friends and get rid of boredom. When the young men throw the switch one day just for fun, a catastrophe of unimaginable proportions occurs. A train derails ...
Style: realistic, serious, psychological, suspense, bleak
Plot: train, prison, juvenile delinquency, going straight, redemption, confined, teenage life, youth, false accusation, prison life, human spirit, hopes ...
Place: usa, new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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The Maid (2014)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story: An emotionally troubled teenager gets into a passionate relationship with the older French woman working in his father's house.
Style: realistic, emotional, touching, serious, romantic drama ...
Plot: female nudity, love affair, older woman younger man relationship, coming of age, sex scene, love, family relations, unlikely couple, love and romance, fall in love, parent child relationship, youth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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 ⇓
37%
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