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Broken Roads (2012)
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 151 min.
Story:
Broken Roads is a contrasted portrait of life, dealing with loss, a journey of rediscovery & the hills climbed which forever change us.
Style:
touching, serious, emotional, realistic, bleak, captivating, gloomy
Plot:
teenage life, estrangement, youth, small town life, small town, family tragedy, grandmother grandson relationship, curses spells and rituals, love, death, loss, coming of age
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
colorado
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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, teenage life, family relations, coming of age, small town, small town life and parents and children mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Broken Roads: Swimmers (2005), Lake Tahoe (2008), Buddha Mountain (2010), The Diary of Preston Plummer (2012), Absence (2014). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Country: Argentina
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
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Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico, Japan, USA
Duration: 89 min.
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Place:
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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 ...
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emotional, serious, realistic, touching, sexy ...
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teenage love, teenage life, rebelliousness, love and romance, best friends, youth, rebellion, coming of age, chinese, dealing with death, friends, urban
Time:
21st century
Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
On the day of his college graduation, Preston Plummer cannot think of a single thing he really loves. Adrift, Preston follows a beautiful but troubled young woman to a small island town where he begins to fall for her, but it all threatens to fall ...
Style:
emotional, captivating, realistic, touching, romantic ...
Plot:
love affair, haunted by the past, family relations, college graduate, young lovers, social relations, family problems, small town, fall in love, island, love, happy ending ...
Time:
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Place:
usa
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Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil, Chile, France
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A daily, familiar, sexual and emotional drama. Based on the character Serginho, the plot is based around various aspects of this "no longer a boy, not yet a man". We follow his day to day: the recently acquired role of man of the house, ...
Style:
serious, touching, emotional, realistic, bleak
Plot:
teenage life, dysfunctional family, parents and children, youth, family problems, child as adult, family relations, teachers and students, coming of age, lgbt, gay, boy ...
Time:
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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, sentimental, captivating, depressing ...
Plot:
coming of age, immigrants, friendship, teenage life, society, unfulfilled love, unfulfillment, youth, love, couples, women of color, korean american ...
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172
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Life on the Rock never seemed easy, but for Mitsy it is especially rough. The teenager has been abandoned by her mother, a particularly unfit parent prone to both the bottle and the sex trade. She is left to be brought up by her mercurial ...
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serious, realistic, emotional, touching
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A teenager must cope with a disease that causes himself to age at an astronomical rate.
Style:
realistic, serious, gloomy, touching, emotional
Plot:
youth, unfulfillment, life is a bitch, aging, terminal illness, teenage life, jazz, teenager, rapid aging
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Tensions rise when a doctor (Daniel Veronese) pressures his teenage son to follow in his footsteps.
Style:
realistic, emotional, psychological, serious, tense
Plot:
coming of age, family problems, family relations, parents and children, teenage life, under the surface, dysfunctional family, small town, father son relationship, double life, father, favoritism ...
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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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, serious, realistic, suspenseful, gloomy
Plot:
teenage love, teenage life, friendship, buddies, youth, love and romance, graphic violence, family relations, coming of age, friends, violence, teenager ...
Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
After his parents’ death, Shawn, 19 and mildly delinquent, tries to look after his little sister to cash in on his dad’s life insurance. But you can’t buy love -- and you sure can’t ignore it. Shawn will find out he’s got more to gain by ...
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realistic, serious, emotional, psychological, gloomy
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, serious, sincere, emotional, touching ...
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Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
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Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A divorced farmer takes in his troubled teenage daughter for the summer, a summer which changes the lives of the two of them, and their friends and family.
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, emotional
Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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51%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey, France, Germany, Belgium
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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Duration: 113 min.
Story:
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captivating, touching, atmospheric, sincere, emotional ...
Plot:
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Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
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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 ...
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46%
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Country: USA
Story:
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Story:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Duration: 104 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
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Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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