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Someone to Run With (2006)
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Someone to Run With (2006)
Original name: מישהו לרוץ איתו
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Through the streets of Jerusalem two teenagers' stories will unite to tell the summer adventure of their lives. Tamar is an amazingly talented but very quiet and insecure girl, who leaves behind her home and all she knows, changing herself unrecognizably -from her looks to her attitude- to brace herself for a dangerous mission to help a loved-one. Asaf, a clumsy, naive, and very shy boy working a boring summer job at City Hall, is given quite a mission himself : to take an uncontrollable stray dog from the pound, put it on a leash, and let it lead him back to its owners to be fined. The more stories Asaf hears about this extraordinary girl, the more he falls for her, and as he and Dinkah continue their journey Asaf becomes aware that Tamar is in grave danger.
Style: sentimental, sincere, uplifting, touching, serious, realistic, gloomy
Plot: friendship, youth, self discovery, teenage life, escapades, missing person, chases and races, coming of age, hopes, judaism, nun, dog, fight, money, escape, kidnapping, addiction, running, bully, restaurant, sleeping, book, job, singing, poverty ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: israel, jerusalem

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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, friendship, family relations, teenage life, hopes and friends mostly in Drama, Adventure and Family genres. Some movies like Someone to Run With: Tomorrow Will Be Better (2010), Beautiful Wave (2011), Finding Friends (2005), Valley (2014), The Little Traitor (2007). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Tomorrow Will Be Better (2010)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Three Russian street kids, who live on their wits in a train station, take off to the countryside hoping to make it across the border to a better life in Poland. They are alternately looking for tenderness and pushing it away because they sense that ...
Style: uplifting, serious, realistic, atmospheric, sentimental ...
Plot: boy, youth, friendship, leaving home, young heroes, self discovery, obsessive quest, on the road, optimism, hopes, starting over, escapades ...
Time: 21st century
Place: poland, russia, europe
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Beautiful Wave (2011)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: In Santa Cruz for the summer, a young woman discovers the sport of surfing -- and a family secret as well.
Style: sentimental, contemplative, psychological, captivating, sincere ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: surfing, self discovery, coming of age, youth, escapades, teenage life, surf, society, friendship, on the road, secret, woman ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, california
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Finding Friends (2005)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: Norway
Duration: 89 min.
Story: This kid has to move to a farm in his summer vacation and don't get to go to Norway Cup as he had planned for. Out on the country there is bad cellphone reception, cow smell and inbreed farmers as far as the eye can see. The family Volvo get ...
Style: serious, realistic, captivating, sincere
Audience: family outing
Plot: coming of age, friendship, pets, teenage life, fish out of water, save the day, youth, escapades, young heroes, family relations, immigrant, farm ...
Time: 21st century
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 66
Valley (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 86 min.
Story: This is the story of three sensitive teens who are forced to deal with violence at home, violence at school. It is a story of friendship, of love and hate, where the adolescents world is revealed as cruel and beautiful, a world where the desire to ...
Style: touching, realistic, serious, suspenseful, gloomy
Plot: teenage love, friendship, teenage life, buddies, love and romance, youth, family relations, graphic violence, violent content, coming of age, friends, love ...
Time: 21st century
Place: israel, palestine
⇓ similarity ⇓
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The Little Traitor (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel, USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Based on the novel "Panther in the Basement" by the world-renowned author, Amos Oz, the movie takes place in Palestine in 1947, just a few months before Israel becomes a state. Proffy Liebowitz, a militant yet sensitive eleven year old ...
Style: realistic, thought provoking, sentimental, emotional, touching ...
Plot: friendship, rebellion, military, friends, state affairs, soldier, youth, coming of age, child protagonist, british military, book, judaism ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, year 1977, year 1947
Place: israel, middle east, palestine, jerusalem, london
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I Am David (2003)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Based on Anne Holm's acclaimed young adult novel North to Freedom, I Am David chronicles the struggles of a 12-year-old boy (Ben Tibber) who manages to flee a Communist concentration camp on his own -- through sheer will and determination. All ...
Style: emotional, sentimental, touching, uplifting, tense ...
Audience: family outing, family friendly, teen drama
Plot: boy, self discovery, friendship, coming of age, rescue, children, hopes, human spirit, danger, courage, boyhood, holocaust ...
Time: year 2003, 1950s, year 1951, post world war two, year 1952
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Bilal's Stand (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Bilal, a Muslim high school senior works at his family's long-owned taxi stand. "The Stand," as they call it, has been the source of all activity and money for the family for the last sixty years. It seems like Bílal is about to ...
Style: realistic, sincere, sentimental, touching, independent film ...
Plot: coming of age, follow your dream, self discovery, teenage life, family business, society, youth, human spirit, hopes, workplace, family problems, family life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: detroit, usa
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My Father My Lord (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 72 min.
Story: "My Father My Lord" is an intimate and deeply disturbing story of the conflict between a father's love and his deep devotion to religion. A respected Orthodox Rabbi dotes on his only son but his religious strictures leave an emotional ...
Style: sentimental, sincere, emotional, touching, captivating ...
Plot: coming of age, self discovery, life is a bitch, society, introspection, clergy, hopes, rabbi, family problems, religions or cults, parents and children, death in the family ...
Time: 21st century
Place: middle east, israel
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61%
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Campfire (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 96 min.
Story: The story of one woman's personal battle for acceptance, but also a portrait of a political movement that has forever affected millions of lives in the Middle East.
Style: realistic, serious, touching, crying
Plot: friendship, teenage love, teenage life, starting over, self discovery, couples, false accusation, family life, impossible love, hopes, love and romance, youth ...
Time: 80s
Place: israel, middle east, palestine, jerusalem
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The Giants (2011)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Belgium, France, Luxembourg
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Brothers Danny and Zak, 15 and 13 & 3/4 are spending the summer in their deceased grandfather's house, waiting in vain for their mother, who is otherwise busy, and running low on cash. To make some money they decide to rent out the ...
Style: touching, humorous, sentimental, feel good, realistic ...
Plot: youth, teenager, brother brother relationship, teenage life, friendship, coming of age, drug dealer, on the road, self discovery, adolescence vs adulthood, when the parents are away, boy ...
Time: 21st century
Place: belgium, europe
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58%
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The Zigzag Kid (2012)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: Netherlands, Belgium, UK, Spain, France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: The son of the world's greatest detective embarks on a high-stakes adventure in this action-packed adaptation of the beloved book by Israeli writer David Grossman. (TIFF)
Style: realistic, touching, serious, detective, crying
Plot: coming of age, escapades, child's point of view, family relations, self discovery, passion, husband wife relationship, friendship, youth, dream, child in peril, rescue ...
Place: europe, france, holland
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57%
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Smile (2005)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA, China
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Introduced to a volunteer opportunity with the Doctor's Gift Program, Katie (Mika Boorem) signs up for a trip to China, where she meets Lin (Yi Ding), a girl with whom she shares a birthday. Lin has a facial deformity that discourages her from ...
Style: sincere, sentimental, touching, uplifting, emotional ...
Audience: girls' night, teen drama
Plot: friendship, social differences, culture clash, teenage life, human spirit, human nature, society, misfit, teaching the ways of the world, disfigured, journey, rich and poor ...
Time: year 2005
Place: china, california, usa, asia, malibu california ...
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57%
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Exit Marrakech (2013)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 123 min.
Story: When 17-year-old Ben visits his father Heinrich in Marrakech, it is the start of an adventurous journey through a foreign country with a picturesque charm and a rough beauty where everything appears possible — including the chance that father and ...
Style: sincere, captivating, realistic, atmospheric, serious ...
Plot: interracial relations, impossible love, defiant, teenage boy, father son relationship, parents and children, self discovery, conflict, prostitute, family problems, estrangement, family relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: morocco, africa
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The Battery (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Because of his younger brother’s poor health, Takumi and his family move to a different Japanese town. There, Takumi, an incredibly gifted baseball pitcher, gradually alienates his relatives and friends by putting sports above all else in life.
Style: realistic, serious, sincere, touching, sentimental ...
Audience: teens, family outing, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, baseball, family relations, teenage life, social misfits, youth, misfit, athlete's life, high school life, family life, siblings relations, solitary ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan
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Close to Home (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Smadar (Smadar Sayar) and Mirit (Naama Schendar), both 18 years old, are assigned to patrol the streets of Jerusalem together as part of their military service. Worlds apart in their personality their initial frosty relationship changes to ...
Style: realistic, serious, sincere, suspense
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Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 82 min.
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Style: emotional, realistic, sentimental, captivating, serious ...
Plot: dog, youth, against the odds, friendship, contests and competitions, hopes, coming of age, animal training, family relations, teenage boy, parents and children, boss and employee ...
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Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Tells the parallel stories of nine-year-old Carlitos and his mother, Rosario. In the hopes of providing a better life for her son, Rosario works illegally in the U.S. while her mother cares for Carlitos back in Mexico.
Style: touching, sentimental, emotional, sweet, sincere ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: immigrant, friendship, survival, loneliness, obsessive quest, family reunited, escapades, young boy, society, custody, family drama, immigration ...
Time: year 2007
Place: mexico, los angeles, latin america, california, usa
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52%
Becoming Redwood (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A quirky coming of age story about an 11-year-old boy named Redwood who dreams that if he can beat Jack Nicklaus at the 1975 Master's of golf he'll reunite his parents.
Style: serious, realistic, touching, sincere, gloomy
Plot: youth, golf, coming of age, teenage life, life turned upside down, estrangement, daydreamer, family relations, parents and children, disorder, hopes, misfit ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: california, canada, usa
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50%
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Genre: Drama
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A Borrowed Identity (2014)
Genre: Drama
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Style: serious, sentimental, realistic, touching
Plot: boarding school, teenage life, friendship, teenage love, hopes, introspection, bare breasts, social misfits, misfit, friends, disorder, impossible love ...
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Story: Based on one of the most beloved Young Adult novels of all time: Two kids are stripped naked and left together on an island in a lake - victims of a vicious summer camp prank; But rather than have to return to camp and face the humiliation, they ...
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Genre: Drama
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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 ...
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43%
Moon Rock for Monday (2020)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Set in Sydney, 1999, after an unlikely encounter at a train station, a young girl befriends a fugitive teenage boy and they travel to visit a moon rock that the girl believes will heal her.
Style: psychological, captivating, sentimental, touching, unusual plot structure ...
Plot: boy meets girl, friendship, boy, couple relations, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, coming of age, fall in love, runaway, love, love and romance, escapades, teenager ...
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43%
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48 Angels (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Seamus is a 9 year old boy who has been diagnosed with a serious illness. In search of a miracle, he sets off to find God before God comes for him. Inspired by Saint Columcille, Seamus sets out in a small boat without oars or sail.
Style: uplifting, touching, serious, realistic
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Style: serious, sentimental, emotional, touching, contemplative ...
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41%
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Genre: Adventure, Drama
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Style: realistic, semi serious, talky, humorous, touching ...
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Time: 80s
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