Movies like The 4th Floor 2003

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The 4th Floor (2003)
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The 4th Floor (2003)
Original name: Planta 4ยช
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: Spain
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Growing up together. All emotions pass the revue. Friendship and hope survive all.
Style: touching, captivating, sincere, disturbing, educational
Plot: coming of age, friendship, friendship between boys, cancer, prank, doctor patient relationship, teen angst, hospital, solidarity, boy, human spirit, optimism, masturbation, medical, contest, teenage boy, x ray, little boy, child cancer, band, wheelchair, baldness

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out touching, realistic, captivating and sincere films with plots about coming of age, friendship, youth, boy, little boy, friends and teenager mostly in Drama, Comedy and Family genres. Some movies like The 4th Floor: Mickybo and Me (2004), You're My Hero (2003), Ways to Live Forever (2010), Hope Springs Eternal (2018), Goodbye Berlin (2016). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Mickybo and Me (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, France, Ireland
Duration: 95 min.
Story: The film tells the story of two boys who become friends at the start of the Troubles in 1970. The boys share an obsession with Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, with the consequence that they run away to Australia.
Style: sincere, touching, sentimental, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot: youth, friendship, kids in trouble, mischievous children, coming of age, obsession, society, political unrest, boy, friends, boyhood, human rights ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: ireland, europe, belfast
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You're My Hero (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Thirteen-year-old Ramon is on the verge of many adolescent discoveries -- and the confusion that goes along with them. Shy and awkward, he's moved from town to town throughout his childhood and believes that life is about winning and losing. ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, touching, captivating, humorous
Audience: teens
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Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: spain
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Ways to Live Forever (2010)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: UK, Spain
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Sam loves facts. He wants to know about UFOs and horror movies and airships and ghosts and scientists, and how it feels to kiss a girl. And because he has leukemia he wants to know the facts about dying. Sam needs answers to the questions nobody ...
Style: sincere, emotional, realistic, serious, touching ...
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Time: 21st century
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Hope Springs Eternal (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story: A teen's cancer diagnosis makes her more popular at school, so when she goes into remission, she decides to conceal the news.
Style: sentimental, light, semi serious, realistic, captivating ...
Audience: teens
Plot: cancer, optimism, life philosophy, lifestyle, friendship, moral transformation, new life, relationships, love and romance, group of friends, changing lives, couple relations ...
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Goodbye Berlin (2016)
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Country: Germany, France
Duration: 93 min.
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Audience: teen drama
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Short Skin (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Ever since he was a child, the seventeen-yearold Edoardo has suffered from a malformation of the foreskin that stops him from masturbating and makes him insecure and ill at ease with girls. Shut up in his sexless microcosm, Edoardo reacts with ...
Style: realistic, humorous, captivating, psychological, sexy ...
Plot: coming of age, sexuality, teenage boy, anxiety, masturbation, surgery, family relations, teenage life, teenage love, youth, misfit, teenager ...
Time: 21st century
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To See the Sea (2014)
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 Vetchรฝ) 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: melancholic, suspenseful, sentimental, disturbing, humorous
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Time: 21st century
Place: europe, czech republic
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Punch (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Sport
Country: South Korea
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Tall, exotic looking and aimless 17-year-old Do Wan-deuk lives in a shabby house in a poor hillside village with a dwarf father and a stammering uncle. One day, his teacher reveals the surprising news that Wan-deukโ€™s runaway mother was actually ...
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Time: 21st century
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The Be All and End All (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
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Duration: 100 min.
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Style: touching, realistic, humorous, captivating, sexy ...
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My Good Enemy (2010)
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 ...
Style: psychological, sincere, captivating, contemplative
Plot: boy, children, bullying, friendship, friendship between boys, coming of age, revenge, fight, scandinavian girl, school, violence, club ...
Place: scandinavia, norway, denmark
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Little Big Girl (2002)
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 ...
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Digger (1993)
Genre: Family, Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min.
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Identity Card (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czech Republic, Slovakia
Duration: 137 min.
Story: Hoล™kรก komedie reลพisรฉra Ondล™eje Trojana Obฤanskรฝ prลฏkaz na motivy stejnojmennรฉ knihy Petra ล abacha sleduje osudy ฤtveล™ice dospรญvajรญcรญch mladรญkลฏ, jejich pล™รกtel, lรกsek a rodiฤลฏ od okamลพiku, kdy v patnรกcti letech dostanou ...
Style: humorous, light, captivating, unusual plot structure, sincere ...
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Country: Spain
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Summer 1985. As every year, Rodri travels from Catalonia to Galicia and is reunited with his four friends. As real-world problems begin to undermine their friendship, the five of them embark on a nighttime adventure in search of a mythical object.
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A Summer Tale (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: Sweden, Denmark
Duration: 91 min.
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Style: sincere, sentimental, touching, realistic, semi serious
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One-Way Ticket to Mombasa (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
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Duration: 88 min.
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Time: 21st century
Place: finland
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Genre: Drama
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Duration: 88 min.
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Time: 90s
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Two and a Half Heroes (2011)
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Duration: 52 min.
Story: It is the story of the unusual friendship that develops between Luka and Umut, two very different boys who meet by chance on the streets of Stuttgart. While Luka, the mute, communicates only through a bizarre hand puppet, the talkative Umut barely ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story: A deaf actor who plays a superhero on a TV show must look beyond the cape to inspire a deaf boy to believe in himself.
Style: serious, captivating, sincere, realistic
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Style: scenic, nature documentary, touching, atmospheric, sincere ...
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Oscar and the Lady in Pink (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium, Canada
Duration: 105 min.
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Welcome Home (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration: 86 min.
Story: This is the story of two childhood friends - Lucas (a 16-year-old high-schooler) and Bert (a mechanicโ€™s apprentice) - who flee the suffocating fish bowl that their killjoy familiesโ€™ lives have become. Lucas, still quite immature, finds a โ€œbig ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 90 min.
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Style: serious, realistic, psychological, touching, disturbing
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A young, troubled city girl decides to move to her family owned horse ranch in a small, southern town for the summer to care for her dying mother.
Style: emotional, humorous, realistic, captivating, touching ...
Plot: horse ranch, coming of age, family relations, teenager, summer, mother daughter relationship, horse, farmhouse, country, self discovery, friendship, tomboy ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, chicago illinois, mississippi
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Wishin' and Hopin' (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Based on the New York Times best-selling novel by award winning author Wally Lamb. A vivid slice of 1960s life, Wishin' and Hopin' is a wise-and-witty holiday tale that celebrates where we've been-and how far we've come. In the ...
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Time: 60s, 20th century, year 1964
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
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Style: touching, uplifting, feel good, sentimental, semi serious ...
Audience: family outing, kids, pre-teens
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Time: 21st century
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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: captivating, realistic, sincere, serious, touching
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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, tense ...
Audience: teen drama
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Time: 21st century
Place: spain
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A dropout comes to the aid of a chubby and suicidal high-school kid by recruiting him as the drummer for his upstart punk-rock band.
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Audience: teens
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Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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The Dream Kids (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 86 min.
Story: JB suffers from a heart malformation .He falsifies his medical file ,so that he can enter a top athlete training center.
Style: sincere, touching, captivating, humorous, realistic ...
Plot: rivalry, friendship, sport, teenage life, follow your dream, ambition, hopes, youth, social relations, lifestyle, athlete's life, contests and competitions ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
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