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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
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, sincere and disturbing films with plots about singer, singing, cigarette smoking, friendship, musician, youth and song mostly in Drama, Music and Comedy genres. Some movies like Boy's Choir: Cat's Play (1974), August Rush (2007), DonT Stop (2012), The Devil's Playground (1976), Lackawanna Blues (2005). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Country: Hungary
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
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Duration: 114 min.
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teens, chick flick, girls' night, kids, family outing ...
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music, musician, orphan, dancing, childhood, child prodigy, adoption, prodigy, child protagonist, youth, chance meeting, children ...
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Genre: Drama, Music
Country: Czech Republic, Slovakia
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A powerful drama relating the intimate aspect of teenage boys and their priest/educators behind the walls of a religious institution where rigid discipline backfires natural feelings are deemed unnatural acts and human lives are controlled in the ...
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tense, serious, realistic
Plot:
boarding school, coming of age, adolescence, altar boy, gay, youth, lgbt, boy, male objectification, catholic school, boyhood, sensuality ...
Time:
50s, 70s, year 1953
Place:
melbourne australia, australia
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Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
In a story fueled by rhythm and blues, a young boy's life is shaped by love and the stories of a cast of characters in the boarding house where he lives in 1960s Lackawanna, New York.
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serious, touching, realistic, sincere, captivating ...
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coming of age, friendship, family relations, family problems, lifestyle, youth, parents and children, friends, husband wife relationship, mother daughter relationship, mother son relationship, rock and roll ...
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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.
Style:
captivating, unusual plot structure, melancholic, psychological, contemplative
Audience:
teens
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18 year old, friendship, teenage boy, underage drinking, drug dealer, teenager, black american, loss of father, musician, african american, male camaraderie, love triangle ...
Time:
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Place:
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74%
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 ...
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Time:
21st century
Place:
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70%
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:
gay, coming of age, lgbt, catholic, boyhood, childhood, youth, lgbtq, school, religion, altar boy, teacher ...
Time:
1930s, pre world war two
Place:
france, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
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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:
atmospheric, meditative, intense, serious, psychological ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, music, bullying, alienation, high school, friendship, internet, school, melancholy, youth, mind game, social misfits ...
Time:
2000s, year 1999, year 2001, year 2000, 21st century
Place:
japan, tokyo, india, okinawa, asia ...
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Genre: Comedy, 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:
touching, inspirational, uplifting, sentimental, feel good ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
boarding school, teacher, childhood, orphan, music, children, friendship, musician, teachers and students, boarding school life, boss, school ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century
Place:
france, new york, europe, paris france, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
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Genre: Drama, Music
Country: Germany
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Beyond Silence is about a family and a young girl’s coming of age story. This German film looks into the lives of the deaf and at a story about the love for music. A girl who has always had to translate speech into sign language for her deaf ...
Style:
realistic, touching, sexy, visually appealing, unusual plot structure ...
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kids, teens
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Time:
18th century, 90s
Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
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Genre: Drama, Music
Country: UK, France
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Set against the background of the 1984 Miner's Strike, Billy Elliot is an 11 year old boy who stumbles out of the boxing ring and onto the ballet floor. He faces many trials and triumphs as he strives to conquer his family's set ways, ...
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inspirational, touching, feel good, uplifting, emotional ...
Audience:
date night, family outing, kids, girls' night, teens ...
Plot:
coming of age, ballet, gay, father son relationship, friendship, dancing, working class, childhood, audition, follow your dream, boxing, dancer's life ...
Time:
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Place:
england, northern england, london, europe
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59%
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
Audience:
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Plot:
boy, music, music school, choir, boys' choir, teachers and students, dedicated educator, orphan, classical music, boarding school, troubled teen, death of mother ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
texas, usa
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Denmark
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 ...
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captivating, realistic, serious, sentimental, sincere ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
coming of age, female nudity, older woman younger man relationship, traumatic childhood, family relations, pregnancy, friendship, hide and seek, friends, couples, dealing with death, youth ...
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Place:
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Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama, Music
Country: Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Italy, Finland, Germany, Austria
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
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Genre: Drama, Music
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A traumatic event sends a musician (Sedgwick) back to her hometown in an effort to reunite with the daughters she abandoned. To do so, she must confront her abusive ex-husband (Quinn), from whom she fled years ago.
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captivating, disturbing, psychological, sexy
Plot:
husband wife relationship, friendship, musician, mother daughter relationship, family relations, troubled marriage, family problems, musician's life, dysfunctional marriage, family reunited, mother daughter reunion, family life ...
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Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
When Jewish songstress Fania Fénelon is plucked from the stage and sent to Auschwitz, she and other musicians find themselves assigned to a terrible task – using their talents to soothe fellow prisoners who are sentenced to die in the gas ...
Style:
dark, disturbing
Plot:
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germany, paris france
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Genre: Drama, Music
Country: France
Duration: 115 min.
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Genre: Drama, Music
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 100 min.
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Story:
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Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Tensions rise when the trailblazing Mother of the Blues and her band gather at a Chicago recording studio in 1927. Adapted from August Wilson's play.
Style:
uplifting, serious, rough, queer cinema
Plot:
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Time:
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Genre: Drama, Music
Country: UK, France, Germany, Spain
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Young Soul Rebels is a 1991 film by Isaac Julien which examines the interaction between youth cultural movements in Britain. Skinheads, Punks & Soulboys along with the political and cultural tensions between them. The film received the ...
Style:
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Genre: Drama, Music
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Duration: 111 min.
Story:
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Genre: Drama, Music
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Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Plot:
maid, life is a bitch, haunted by the past, injustice, society, against humanity, woman in danger, genocide, gender, tragedy, illness, magic realism ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Country: UK, USA, Canada
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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