Movies like Purgatory House
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Purgatory House (2004)
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
An inside glimpse of how it feels to be a teen in today's disconnected world. PURGATORY HOUSE chronicles the after-life journey of Silver Strand: a lonely teen who abandons her life of turmoil and drug addiction, only to find herself caught somewhere between heaven and hell. There, she must choose whether she will accept her drab existence or discover within herself the power to change.
Style:
gothic, serious, realistic, non-linear
Audience:
teens
Plot:
addiction, misfit, drug abuse, hopes, teenage life, youth, life is a bitch, family problems, social misfits, custody, society, second chance, redemption, supernatural, friendship, teenage girl, spirituality, dysfunctional family, supernatural power, surrealism, regret, teen angst, trapped, death, suicide ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, touching and gloomy films with plots about life is a bitch, youth, teenage life, society, family relations, coming of age and family problems mostly in Drama and Comedy genres. Some movies like Purgatory House: Thirteen (2003), Ashley (2013), The Toy Soldiers (2014), On the Outs (2004), Lost Angels (1989). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Tracy is a normal 13-year-old trying to make it in school. After befriending the most popular girl at school, Evie, Tracy's world is turned upside down when Evie introduces her to a world of sex, drugs and cash. But it isn't long before ...
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Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
california, usa, los angeles, venice beach california
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A teenage girl, distraught from her vain attempt to connect with her estranged mother, resorts to cutting herself. When she develops an online relationship with an older woman, she learns to accept her sexuality and the endless solitude of sprawling ...
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touching, serious, captivating, psychological, erotic ...
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Time:
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Place:
usa
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100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 143 min.
Story:
On one evening in a decade of sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll, the innocence of youth and family unravels. Five parallel coming-of-age stories dramatize the stages of grief. A youthful mother in a custody battle over her children, finds ...
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psychological, serious, sincere, suspenseful, sexy ...
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teens
Plot:
coming out, teenage life, haunted by the past, misfit, social misfits, youth, life is a bitch, family problems, custody, addiction, society, bittersweet ...
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Place:
usa, california
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25%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Follows the choices made by three young women - one a drug dealer, one an addict, one a pregnant teen - in Jersey City.
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serious, emotional, rough, touching, realistic ...
Plot:
asthma, teenage pregnancy, drug dealer, single mother, kids in trouble, teenage life, juvenile delinquency, life is a bitch, lifestyle, addiction, gang, youth ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new jersey, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Rich L.A. party brat Tim (Adam Horovitz) spins into a cycle of despair after his parents divorce, and trying to fill the void with drugs and trouble only buys him a ticket to an asylum. But with the help of a psychiatrist (Donald Sutherland) who has ...
Style:
realistic, serious, thought provoking, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot:
juvenile delinquency, gang, redemption, coming of age, life is a bitch, youth, mentally unstable, society, lifestyle, dysfunctional family, nightlife, teenage life ...
Time:
80s
Place:
usa, los angeles
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Lyle is filled with rage. After badly beating a classmate during a schoolyard fight, Lyle is committed to a juvenile mental institution in lieu of criminal prosecution. Inside the hospital, Lyle encounters a group of adolescents struggling with a ...
Style:
psychological, disturbing, rough, compassionate, depressing ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
mental institution, mental illness, coming of age, depression, addiction, psychiatry, psychology, therapy, dysfunctional family, youth, teenage life, self discovery ...
Place:
new jersey, california
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23%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Marcia always thought her overachieving daughter Zoey was the dream child. But then she discovers that her perfect teen has a not-so-perfect drug addiction. Marcia and her ex-husband go through plenty of denial as their daughter spirals out of ...
Style:
humorous, captivating, suspenseful, touching, psychological ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
rehabilitation, drug abuse, drug dealing, introspection, teenage life, doctors and patients, going straight, hopes, life is a bitch, family relations, couples, family problems ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
One Monday morning Katya, Vika and Zhanna learn that there will be a school disco, their first disco, on the coming Saturday night. The girls feverishly start preparing for the event, which rapidly becomes the most important moment ever in their ...
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, psychological, rough ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot:
friendship, life is a bitch, youth, teenage life, society, high school life, family problems, dysfunctional family, social relations, family relations, parents and children, friends ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
russia, moscow russia, ussr
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Faced with the harsh reality of growing up in the ghetto, 13-year old Benjie (Larry B. Scott) turns to heroin to escape. After Benjie hits rock bottom, his mother (Cicely Tyson) and her boyfriend (Paul Winfield) must sacrifice to help him overcome ...
Style:
serious, realistic
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
A 14-year-old girl in late 1960's America is inadvertently sucked into an odyssey of sex and drugs. She eventually seeks help.
Style:
psychedelic, serious, realistic, bleak, gloomy ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
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Time:
70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Jake Taylor has everything. He has a beautiful girl, he's the champion in basketball and beer pong, and everyone loves him. Then, an old childhood friend, whom Jake used to be friends with, commits suicide. Jake begins to think. He wonders what ...
Style:
christian film, captivating, serious, sincere, realistic ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
usa
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21%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
This film, originally made for tv, stars William H. Macy as a mute superintendent of a apartment building that is falling apart who becomes the unwilling guardian to a young girl with a bit of an attitude. The film is an updated and Americanized ...
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Plot:
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21%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Simon is an intelligent and privileged young man whose family expects him to become a Princeton graduate. Crying out for attention from his reserved and cool hearted family, Simon commits numerous petty crimes and is soon sent away to boarding ...
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Martha is a businesswoman and divorced mother of two children - Augusta and Jack. However, when docile Augusta becomes a teenager, feelings of anger and self-hate cause her personality to undergo a scary transformation, and Martha realizes that this ...
Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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20%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A withdrawn young man, Leland Fitzgerald is imprisoned for the murder of a mentally disabled boy, who also happened to be the brother of his girlfriend, Becky. As the community struggles to deal with the killing, Pearl Madison, a teacher at the ...
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
An adaptation of Bishop T.D. Jakes' self-help novel, chronciling a woman's struggle to come to terms with her legacy of abuse, addiction and poverty.
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captivating, serious, touching, emotional, sentimental ...
Plot:
redemption, sexual abuse, bishop, going straight, youth, prostitute, hopes, life is a bitch, family relations, family problems, addiction, drug abuse ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
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20%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Runaway teen Lexi find herself alone and pregnant on the streets. Seemingly beyond hope, she must turn to Devon, a woman with her own demons, to help her find a way back from her past mistakes.
Style:
rough, realistic, sincere, serious, bleak
Audience:
kids
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20%
28K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Freshman high-school student Melinda has refused to speak ever since she called the cops on a popular summer party. With her old friends snubbing her for being a rat, and her parents too busy to notice her troubles, she folds into herself, trying to ...
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Despite his dedication to the junior-high students who fill his classroom, idealistic teacher Dan Dunne leads a secret life of addiction that the majority of his students will never know. But things change when a troubled student Drey makes a ...
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depressing, talky, emotional, serious, melancholic ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
teacher, drugs, teachers and students, student, friendship, addiction, drug addiction, ghetto, loneliness, school, mentor, existentialism ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
new york, california, usa, brooklyn new york city
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19%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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realistic, serious, emotional, touching, psychological ...
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teens
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Time:
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Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Director Rocky Costanzo's searing legal drama centers on a highly credentialed child psychologist named Glen Erskine (Richard Meese) whose life is shattered when he's accused of sexually assaulting a young boy he's been treating. ...
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Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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19%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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thought provoking, realistic, serious, rough, biting ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Time:
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18%
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Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, serious, captivating, gloomy, bleak
Audience:
teens
Plot:
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18%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Time:
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18%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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