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Boy's Choir (2000)
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Original name: 独立少年合唱団
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: Japan
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
A young teen's father dies, and he is sent to an orphanage. He's teased because he stutters almost runs away, until a beautiful, androgynous boy, Yasuo (Sora Toma), convinces him to join the choir.
Style:
psychological, captivating, disturbing
Plot:
choir, friendship, singer, music teacher, boys' school, boys' choir, gay, orphan, friendship between boys, musician, relationships, music, life is a bitch, sex, youth, gay asian, lgbtq, teenager, fight, train, forest, teacher, escape, violence, student ...
Time:
70s
Place:
tokyo
Keyword:
english, belgian
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, crying and touching films with plots about musician, youth, singer, friendship, singing, music and telephone call mostly in Drama, Music and Romance genres. Some movies like Boy's Choir: DonT Stop (2012), The Chorus (2004), Cat's Play (1974), Tokyo Sonata (2008), All About Lily Chou-Chou (2001). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama, Music
Country: Czech Republic, Slovakia
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama, Music
Country: France, Switzerland, Germany
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Set in 1940's France, a new teacher at a school for disruptive boys gives hope and inspiration.
Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama, Music
Country: Hungary
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan, Netherlands, Hong Kong
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Ryûhei Sasaki (Teruyuki Kagawa) is keeping a secret from his wife, Megumi (Kyôko Koizumi), and his two teenage sons. Even though he leaves the house every day, he's not really going to work. He's going to an employment office. He ...
Style:
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Plot:
family relations, unemployment, rebellion, youth, job seeking, housewife, layoff, hopes, family secret, chinawoman, human nature, dishonesty ...
Time:
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Place:
tokyo, japan, east asia, asia, china
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Music, Romance, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 146 min.
Story:
Charts the troubled teenage years of students Yuichi Hasumi and Shusuke Hoshino, exploring the shifting and complex power dynamics of their relationship against the backdrop of Yuichi's love for the dreamy and abstract music of fictional pop ...
Style:
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Time:
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Place:
japan, east asia, okinawa, asia, okinawa japan ...
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Duration: 107 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Nick comes to New York to temporarily live with a jazz musician friend of his late father's named Cal while his mom is in rehab. During his time in the city, he befriends a group of kids who show him what New York has to offer.
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Place:
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Country: USA, South Korea
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
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Style:
touching, inspirational, sentimental, feel good, romantic ...
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Plot:
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Place:
new york, usa, chicago, xian, san francisco ...
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Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Stet, a troubled and angry 11-year-old orphan from a small Texas town, ends up at a Boy Choir school back East after the death of his single mom. Completely out of his element, he finds himself in a battle of wills with a demanding Choir Master who ...
Style:
sentimental, serious, realistic, touching
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Time:
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Place:
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65%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Two boys in their early teens in a strictly-run pre-WWII Catholic School form a firm friendship which is troubled by an abbot who is obsessed with the younger of the students.
Plot:
altar boy, coming of age, gay, boys' school, lgbt, lgbtq, childhood, youth, boyhood, glbt, catholic, school ...
Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Duration: 95 min.
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Duration: 110 min.
Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Duration: 107 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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captivating, light, entertaining
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Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Danish teens come of age in 1963. Bjorn and Erik are close friends. Bjorn is pursued by Kirsten, a future Stepford wife, but he falls for Anna, who initiates him into love and sex. Erik is somber, caring for his home-bound mentally-ill mother while ...
Style:
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Audience:
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Time:
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Duration: 158 min.
Story:
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Audience:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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