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I'm Gonna Explode (2008)
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Original name: Voy a explotar
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 himself on-stage at the big talent show. Maru is the sole member of the audience to applaud, earning both students a day of detention. After bonding during the course of their punishment, Román and Maru grab daddy's gun, steal a Volkswagen, and hit the road bound for nowhere.
Style:
sentimental, sincere, atmospheric, serious, realistic, road movie
Audience:
teens
Plot:
teenage love, friendship, teenage life, rebelliousness, youth, on the road, love and romance, rebellion, social differences, bittersweet, coming of age, outsider, college student, wanderlust, road trip, friends, misfit, first sex, chases and races, nihilism, social misfits, lovers on the run, masturbation, car theft, talent show ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
mexico, latin america
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Most similar movies to I'm Gonna Explode
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, touching and sentimental films with plots about youth, coming of age, teenage life, love and romance, friendship, society and friends mostly in Drama, Thriller and Adventure genres. Some movies like I'm Gonna Explode: Face (2002), A Beautiful Secret (2002), Just Breathe (2008), Ricochet River (2001), Our Very Own (2005). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: Romania, France
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Bucharest 1989 - the last year of Ceausecu's dictatorship. Eva lives with her parents and her 7 year old brother, Lalalilu. One day at school, Eva and her boyfriend accidentally break a bust of Ceausescu. They are forced to confess their crime ...
Style:
captivating, sentimental, sincere, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
youth, friendship, hopes, warning, coming of age, rebelliousness, human spirit, exile, siblings relations, reform, family relations, totalitarian regime ...
Time:
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Place:
romania, eastern europe, europe
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100%
355
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, touching, emotional, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
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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, ...
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serious, touching, emotional, sentimental, contemplative ...
Plot:
friendship, human nature, rebellion, rebelliousness, youth, hopes, teenage life, teaching the ways of the world, elderly, mother, mirror, flashback ...
Time:
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Place:
mexico, latin america
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32%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Sydney is a troubled teen heading for trouble. After being caught shoplifting and a case of alcohol poisoning, Sydney's desperate single mother sends her off to the country to live with her father, Ben, and his new pregnant wife, Emma. Sydney ...
Style:
atmospheric, sentimental, serious, realistic
Audience:
teens
Plot:
stepmother stepdaughter relationship, kleptomania, teenage life, self discovery, friendship, youth, parents and children, family relations, countryside, bittersweet, shoplifting, underage drinking ...
Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
hree teenagers looking for adventure find more than they expected in this coming-of-age drama. High school seniors Wade (Jason James Richter) and Lorna (Kate Hudson) have spent all their lives in the small logging town of Calamus Grove, a ...
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, sentimental, independent film ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
coming of age, interracial relations, culture clash, teenage life, love and romance, self discovery, best friend, on the road, small town, society, social misfits, lifestyle ...
Time:
60s, 90s
Place:
oregon, usa
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
In 1978, five teenagers in Shelbyville, Tennessee look to meet the actress Sondra Locke, who's rumored to return to town for the local premiere of her big Hollywood movie.
Style:
sentimental, emotional, touching, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
obsessive quest, teenage love, society, youth, lifestyle, love and romance, friendship, teenage life, parents and children, small town, suburbs, best friend ...
Time:
70s
Place:
tennessee, usa
Similarity:
26%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Three friends drive from Holland to Morocco to deliver a taxi to a family friend, but the trip turns out more complicated than expected.
Style:
road movie, serious, sincere, sentimental, philosophical ...
Plot:
friendship, taxi, friends, introspection, love and romance, taxi driver, fall in love, on the road, best friend, gay friend, party, muslim ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, africa, morocco, netherlands, barcelona
Similarity:
26%
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:
sexy, realistic, touching, serious, emotional ...
Plot:
coming of age, teenage life, teenage love, rebelliousness, best friend, love and romance, youth, rebellion, boarding house, opera singer, friendship, reconciliation ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
beijing china, china, asia
Similarity:
25%
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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:
touching, sincere, captivating, serious, teen ...
Plot:
friendship, leaving home, youth, society, life is a bitch, rebelliousness, family problems, secret place, parents and children, teenage life, dysfunctional family, coming of age ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, england
Similarity:
25%
2K
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, journey, teenage life, leaving home, fall in love, rebelliousness, youth, travel, girl, camping, resistance ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
bulgaria, europe
Similarity:
25%
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, contemplative, sentimental, captivating ...
Plot:
immigrant, coming of age, friendship, teenage life, unfulfilled love, unfulfillment, society, youth, women of color, love, couples, refugee ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada, toronto ontario canada
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Out on the lacrosse pitch, wealthy but troubled Jesse and poor but driven Tosha form an easy and deep bond, but their relationship is threatened once they enter the hallways of an elite prep school they attend in Washington, D.C. There, they must ...
Style:
captivating, realistic, sentimental, psychological, sexy ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
lacrosse, friendship, coming of age, self discovery, teenage life, youth, social differences, racism, strong female lead, teen rebel, rebel, female bonding ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, washington d.c.
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
A love story about the encounter of two drifting souls. Escaping her abusive past, a woman stays the night with an illegal immigrant friend of a friend. The two get closer and fall in love, but face turmoil.
Style:
captivating, realistic, atmospheric, emotional, touching ...
Plot:
city life, couples, society, immigrant, redemption, friendship, youth, love, love story, family relations, age difference, life is a bitch ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, los angeles
Similarity:
24%
441
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:
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Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Style:
sentimental, serious, realistic, captivating, sincere ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
usa, texas
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Style:
sexy, serious, captivating, sexual, melancholic ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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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:
24%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
On Skeet’s twelfth birthday his older brother Randy buys him his first surfboard. Suddenly his summer turns to the endless search for the perfect wave, wild times and beach parties and eventually, finding his own daring adventures when Randy’s ...
Style:
sentimental, serious, realistic, disturbing
Audience:
kids
Plot:
surfing, father figure, boy, youth, coming of age, brother brother relationship, gang, friendship, best friend, parents and children, siblings relations, adolescence vs adulthood ...
Place:
california, usa, mexico
Similarity:
23%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, Morocco, France
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, sentimental, emotional, touching, realistic
Plot:
rebellion, rebelliousness, teenage life, love and romance, youth, society, teenage love, discrimination, feminism, political unrest, orphan, little girl ...
Time:
20th century, year 1975, year 1984
Place:
morocco, africa, middle east, belgium
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Naomi, a seventeen year-old city brat from Nagoya, finds her world turned upside down after the breakup of her parents' marriage. Packed off to the country, she reluctantly works at her aunt's inn until being asked to care for Mrs. Koide, ...
Style:
touching, sincere, realistic, sentimental, humorous ...
Plot:
alzheimer's disease, elderly, teenage life, self discovery, friendship, human nature, youth, aging, bittersweet, hotel, dementia, teenage girl ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan, asia
Similarity:
22%
152
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Morocco
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
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Style:
psychological, touching, sentimental, emotional, spooky ...
Plot:
rebelliousness, teenage life, introspection, culture clash, hopes, society, homecoming, immigrant, love and romance, youth, family life, social differences ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
morocco, france, africa
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Davide is different from the other teenagers. Something makes him look like a girl. Davide is fourteen when he runs away from home. His intuition leads him to choose Villa Bellini, a park in Catania, as a refuge. The park is a world in itself, a ...
Style:
captivating, realistic, touching, serious, queer cinema
Plot:
androgyny, social misfits, lgbt, family relations, youth, parents and children, friendship, society, gay, boyhood, leaving home, coming of age ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, italy, sicily
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Belgium
Story:
A workaholic businessman provides well for his son San, but the emotional neglect since his mother died a few years ago grimly affects the shy knave. In San's heroic daydreams, a cool father leads him into modern Quichote exploits, yet even ...
Style:
captivating, tense, sentimental, psychological, serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
teenage love, coming of age, youth, drug trade, society, friendship, don quixote, love and romance, adolescence vs adulthood, teenage life, unfulfilled love, bittersweet ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, belgium
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
This story take place in Moscow during the 1970s and unfolds around the love triangle between two young men and a girl who study at the same university. They argue, make up, and face their first disappointments and victories. While busy with ...
Style:
sentimental, atmospheric, serious, realistic, period piece ...
Plot:
young lovers, love triangle, youth, friendship, university, political unrest, lifestyle, idealism, politics, hopes, revolution, society ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
russia, soviet union, moscow russia
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Will, a charming 35-year-old Philadelphia ad man, heads to Lebanon, Pa. to bury his recently deceased father. He forms an unexpected friendship with CJ, his bright, newly pregnant 17-year-old cousin. As Will becomes interested in CJ's married ...
Style:
realistic, sentimental, psychological, captivating, independent film ...
Plot:
family relations, culture clash, love and romance, society, pregnancy, youth, hopes, coming of age, road not taken, small town, wooing, bittersweet ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
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Similarity:
20%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Slovenia
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Three friends embark on a road trip like in high school, but things have changed - Gregor is going to war mission, Ziva is going to study abroad, while Andrej is still the same. There are secrets left unsaid. Can their friendship survive?
Style:
emotional, realistic, road movie, captivating, atmospheric ...
Plot:
adolescence vs adulthood, friendship, journey, love triangle, on the road, coming of age, youth, nomad, lesbian, lgbt, picnic, love and romance ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
slovenia
Similarity:
20%
689
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Nick and Evy are in love. Knowing that Nick is deaf, Evy’s parents do not consent to their relationship. They run away and move into an abandoned submarine, hidden from judgmental eyes. Their runaway love brings them new opportunities and new ...
Style:
serious, touching, realistic, stylized, atmospheric
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
mute or deaf, forbidden love, young lovers, love affair, love and romance, youth, coming of age, rebelliousness, sign language, deaf, women, relationships ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
holland, scandinavia
Similarity:
20%
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:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil, France
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
In a small town in the countryside in the south of Brazil, a teenager that uses the codename Mr. Tambourine Man spends his time in Internet, at school, smoking pot with his best friend Diego and with his dysfunctional mother. He dreams on leaving ...
Style:
atmospheric, serious, surreal, captivating, gloomy ...
Plot:
youth, teenage life, introspection, social decay, teenage love, escape from reality, love and romance, hopes, society, life is a bitch, bittersweet, small town ...
Place:
brazil, latin america
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: Colombia, France, Argentina, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Ras is a graffiti artist from the city of Cali who works in construction, he works during the day and paints walls at night. One day he is caught stealing cans of paint from the construction site where he works, for which he is fired. With no money, ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, atmospheric, sentimental, thought provoking
Plot:
graffiti, youth, against the rules, rebelliousness, teenage life, friendship, adolescence, adolescence vs adulthood, family relations, social decay, interracial relations, social differences ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
colombia
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