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Goodbye Charlie Bright (2001)
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Charlie drifts through life as he and his friends enjoy a lifestyle of house parties, casual sex and drugs. However, after breaking into a house to steal a gun, three of the friends (Charlie, Justin and Damien) accidentally awaken the owner, a hefty Jamaican man who promptly chases them into the street with a golf club. The trio escape, much to the amusement of Justin and Damien.
Style:
cult film
Plot:
group of friends, friendship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, boy, friendship between men, gangsters, british, dog, chess, hospital, cocaine, male nudity, gunfight, drug dealer, interracial relations, best friend, tattoo, war veteran, unemployment, fat man, friendship between boys, working class, coming of age, childhood friend, death of friend ...
Place:
england
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, touching and captivating films with plots about friendship, coming of age, youth, boy, teenage boy, little boy and male nudity mostly in Drama and Music genres. Some movies like Goodbye Charlie Bright: Prince (2015), Best Laid Plans (2012), Wild Bill (2011), Quadrophenia (1979), Looks and Smiles (1981). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
A troubled teenager attempts to conquer the girl he's in love with, who seems out of reach. He's lured into criminal activities and becomes alienated from family and friends.
Style:
sincere, touching, serious, realistic
Audience:
teens
Plot:
juvenile delinquency, youth gang, teenage love, interracial friendship, friendship between boys, street life, teenage life, teaching the ways of the world, drug dealing, wooing, group of friends, gangsters ...
Time:
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Place:
holland
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
David Blair directs this powerful British Drama, loosely inspired by John Steinbeck's novel 'Of Mice and Men'. Set in Nottingham, the film revolves around the relationship between the thuggish Danny (Stephen Graham) and Joseph ...
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serious, rough, touching, emotional, realistic
Plot:
friendship, underground fighting, odd couple, misfit, human nature, money problems, mental disorder, sexual content, graphic violence, friends, best friends, intellectual disability ...
Time:
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Place:
europe, england
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Out on parole after 8 years inside Bill Hayward returns home to find his now 11 and 15 year old sons abandoned by their mother and fending for themselves. Unwilling to play Dad, an uncaring Bill is determined to move on.
Style:
captivating, touching, rough, suspenseful, sexy ...
Plot:
youth, drug dealer, gang, working class, gangsters, parole, starting over, redemption, kids in trouble, adulthood, society, single parent ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, london
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73%
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: UK
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Based on the 1973 rock opera album of the same name by The Who, this is the story of 60s teenager Jimmy. At work he slaves in a dead-end job. While after, he shops for tailored suits and rides his scooter as part of the London Mod scene.
Style:
surreal, stylized, depressing, melancholic, lyrical ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
motorcycle, music, coming of age, rock, rock and roll, working class, youth, dancing, gangsters, depression, character study, teenager ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, 70s, year 1965
Place:
england, london, scotland, europe, brighton ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Thatcherism and the Irish troubles provide the backdrop for this study of Mick, a well-meaning youth in Sheffield, who has, unlike Dickens' Pip, no expectations. Mick lives with his parents, works on his motorbike, looks for work, and every two ...
Style:
biting, realistic, serious, psychological, gloomy
Plot:
unemployment, boy, motorcycle, job interview, friendship, social decay, down on your luck, injustice, friends, family relations, power relations, life is a bitch ...
Time:
80s, future
Place:
england, europe, ireland
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 72 min.
Story:
A tearaway teenage girl, at war with her mum, and trying to take control of her life, forms an amazing and unbreakable bond with a new friend. They raise hell, stick two fingers up at the world, and laugh like they never have before... but can Ellen ...
Style:
melancholic, captivating, touching, rough, disturbing
Plot:
sex with a minor, teenage girl, mother daughter relationship, friendship, party, single mother, female friendship, friend, female protagonist, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, drunkenness, dancing ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
scotland, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
The story of two youths - one Algerian, one French - who become juvenile delinquents in a Paris suburb.
Plot:
boy, teenage boy, coming of age, juvenile delinquent, job seeking, suicidal thoughts, strike, unemployment, racism, police arrest, outsider, drug dealer ...
Time:
80s
Place:
paris france
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59%
Genre: Drama
Country: Greece
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
Harris, a 16 year old boy spends his day skateboarding aimlessly around Athens with his friends. Vassilis, a middle aged cop, is frustrated with his dead-end job and crammed in his small apartment with his family.
Style:
touching, sincere, thought provoking, weird
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
financial crisis, unemployment, friendship between men, skateboard, intergenerational friendship, teenage boy, midlife crisis, suspense, boy, death of protagonist, friendship between boys, teenager ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
greece, athens greece
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A hyperactive boy and his best friend, a slow-witted youth with an affinity for horses, start collecting scrap metal for a shady dealer.
Style:
sad, depressing, atmospheric, realistic, bleak ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
friendship, teenage life, poverty, juvenile delinquency, child abuse, youth, coming of age, brutality, realism, social misfits, misfit, society ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
england, new jersey, yorkshire, poland, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Jack Dodd was a London butcher who enjoyed a pint with his mates for over 50 years. When he died, he died as he lived, with a smile on his face watching a horse race on which he had bet, with borrowed money. But before he died he had a final ...
Style:
realistic, touching, sentimental, talky, atmospheric ...
Plot:
friendship, last wish, road trip, memory, life, family relations, friendship between men, self discovery, partners, parents and children, parent child relationship, last will and testament ...
Time:
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Place:
england, europe, london, california, australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Focuses on a working class girl who is struggling to create a life for herself with her gay co-worker after becoming pregnant from a one-night stand with a black sailor.
Style:
sexy, talky, realistic, serious, touching ...
Plot:
working class, coming of age, interracial relations, friendship, social realism, family relations, single parent, single mother, dysfunctional family, mother, isolation, lgbtq ...
Time:
60s
Place:
england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 25 min.
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Story:
Harry and Cosh was a British children's television series directed by Daniel Peacock shown on Saturday afternoons on Shake! on Channel 5
It starred Harry Capehorn, Coshti Dowden, Lucinda Rhodes-Flaherty and Gemma Baker. It told the story of ...
Plot:
teacher, teenage girl, female teacher, schoolboy, school, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, child protagonist, interracial friendship, child's point of view, british, best friend, teenage boy ...
Place:
england
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, France
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
The family of Raymond, his wife Val and her brother Billy live in working-class London district. Also in their family is Val and Billy's mother Janet and grandmother Kath. Billy is a drug addict and Raymond kicks him out of the house, making ...
Style:
disturbing, rough, depressing, realistic, gloomy ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, drugs, drug addiction, heroin, working class, addiction, alcohol abuse, brutality, gangsters, drug addict, violence, drug abuse ...
Time:
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Place:
london, england, europe
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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 mechanic’s apprentice) - who flee the suffocating fish bowl that their killjoy families’ lives have become. Lucas, still quite immature, finds a “big ...
Style:
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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
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Four teenage boys devote their summer to escaping the streets of Cleveland, Ohio, by pursuing a dream life of professional skateboarding. But when they get caught in the web of the local queenpin, their motley brotherhood is tested, threatening to ...
Plot:
gangsters, gang, sport, boy, skating, bad luck, summer, teenage boy, friendship, friendship between boys, little boy, four friends ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A coming of age story of three young friends during their student years in Amsterdam.
Style:
captivating, realistic, sincere, serious
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coming of age, friendship, student, death, group of friends, friendship between boys, love triangle, father son relationship, partying, hot and sexy, gay, female nudity ...
Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A semi-autobiographical coming-of-age story set in the Cotswolds during and immediately after the First World War.
Style:
realistic, captivating, serious, psychological, sentimental ...
Plot:
coming of age, world war one, village, childhood, youth, society, friendship, village life, teenager, military police, anti war, girl ...
Time:
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Place:
england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Shaun and Daz are vibrant kids, wasted by their experience of education. All they have is friendship and Shaun's first love Katy. From the moment Shaun steps into our world he is bound to lose. Labeled as a violent bully he destroys himself and ...
Style:
serious, touching, emotional, realistic, atmospheric
Plot:
friendship, hopes, misfit, introspection, self discovery, friends, disability, adolescence vs adulthood, haunted by the past, father son relationship, coming of age, friendship between men ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
293
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A look at the bond between an illegal immigrant and a blue-collar Italian-American from Queens.
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, sincere, humorous
Plot:
friendship, social differences, society, human nature, immigrants, working class, culture clash, unemployment, deportation, interracial friendship, unrequited love, unlikely hero ...
Time:
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Place:
new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
We follow Jake and his two best friends, Kyle and Jarred through a world distorted by sex and porn. The leader is Kyle – he talks about girls non-stop, Jarred can’t stop cheating on his girlfriend and then there’s Jake, a quiet and shy ...
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sexy, psychological, unusual plot structure, humorous, light ...
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friendship between boys, teenage boy, friendship, teenage girl, coming of age, youth, couple relations, friends, couples, love and romance, society, love ...
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Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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disturbing, psychedelic, captivating, stylized, controversial ...
Audience:
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90s, 20th century
Place:
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42%
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Teenage gang member Cal, hides his sexuality from his fellow gang members despite their often violent dislike of anyone that isn't the same as them, be they unsuspecting shoppers, foreign students, gays, etc. When his world collides with ...
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Plot:
gay, first gay sexual experience, gay teenager, gay bashing, lgbt, gay slur, coming of age, gang, gay erotica, gay sex, gay love, gay interest ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
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Story:
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden, Denmark
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, captivating, psychological, emotional, sexy ...
Audience:
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Plot:
coming of age, youth, friendship, grownups, best friends, small town, childhood friend, moving, summer, society, nihilism, escape from reality ...
Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
Etienne comes to Paris to study filmmaking at the Sorbonne. He meets Mathias and Jean-Noël who share his passion for films. But as they spend the year studying, they have to face friendship and love challenges as well as choosing their artistic ...
Style:
student film
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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38%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, emotional, touching, sentimental, psychological ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
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Style:
touching, suspenseful, non-linear, homoerotic
Audience:
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
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Style:
touching, serious, atmospheric, sincere, realistic ...
Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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