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Living Is Easy with Eyes Closed (2013)
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Living Is Easy with Eyes Closed (2013)
Original name: Vivir es fácil con los ojos cerrados
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 108 min.
Story: The unforgettable friendship between three people: an English teacher who travels to Almería when he hears that John Lennon is making a film there, a 16-year-old boy who has run away from home and a young girl who also seems to be running away from something.
Style: road movie, sincere, touching, serious, spiritual, realistic, gloomy
Plot: on the road, hitchhiker, english teacher, on the run, escapades, introspection, teenage life, coming of age, road trip, youth, friendship, father son relationship, hitchhiking, mother son relationship, unwanted pregnancy, travel, musician, rock, job, forgiveness, professor, mediterranean, slow burn, boyhood, the beatles ...
Time: 60s, 20th century, year 1966, 1960s
Place: spain, europe, madrid
Keyword: movie theatre

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, touching, semi serious and humorous films with plots about friendship, coming of age, youth, friends, bittersweet, family relations and teenage life mostly in Drama, Comedy and Adventure genres. Some movies like Living Is Easy with Eyes Closed: I Won't Come Back (2014), The Good Life (1996), Come as You Are (2011), You're My Hero (2003), Gueros (2014). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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I Won't Come Back (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Kazakhstan, Russia, Estonia, Finland, Belarus
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Anya, a young academic raised in an orphanage, is on the cusp of success when she’s accused of drug possession. While in limbo hiding from the police, she hits the road with Kristina, another orphan several years Anya’s junior, in search of her ...
Style: touching, sincere, road movie, serious, tragic ending ...
Plot: orphan, teenage life, friends, false accusation, odd couple, obsessive quest, escapades, friendship, young girl, escape, little girl, car accident ...
Time: 21st century
Place: eastern europe, europe, kazakhstan, russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.6
 792
The Good Life (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 107 min.
Story: This humorous movie charts the life of a 14-year-old (Tristan) as he deals with some major issues in his life. At the beginning of the movie, he has already decided to dedicate his life to writing and losing his virginity (while his parents are away ...
Style: serious, realistic, sentimental, touching, sexual ...
Plot: coming of age, chess, age difference, family relations, prostitute, friendship, loss of virginity, friends, couples, self discovery, love and romance, youth ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: madrid, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Come as You Are (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Three young guys like wine and women. They tested wine with pleasure, but the second they have never been able to taste. Under the guise of a wine tour, the three plans a trip to Spain to finally have sex. Nothing will stop them. Certainly not the ...
Style: road movie, humorous, semi serious, sincere, realistic ...
Plot: paralysis, friendship, disability, looking for sex, buddies, brothel, obsessive quest, road trip, self discovery, misfit, social misfits, escapades ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 7.0
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You're My Hero (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Thirteen-year-old Ramon is on the verge of many adolescent discoveries -- and the confusion that goes along with them. Shy and awkward, he's moved from town to town throughout his childhood and believes that life is about winning and losing. ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, touching, captivating, humorous
Audience: teens
Plot: coming of age, youth, friendship, first love, teenage life, society, idealism, snitch, high school, teachers and students, parents and children, clergy ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Gueros (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Set amidst the 1999 student strikes in Mexico City, this coming-of-age tale finds two brothers venturing through the city in a sentimental search for an aging legendary musician. Shot in black-and-white, Güeros brims with youthful exuberance.
Style: road movie, humorous, captivating, light, black and white ...
Plot: coming of age, brother brother relationship, on the road, friendship, family relations, disorder, escapades, youth, migrant, phd, latina, boy ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: mexico, mexico city
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 7.0
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Black Peter (1964)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Reality movie of a few days in the life of a Czechoslovak teenager when he starts work.
Style: avant garde, thought provoking, contemplative, biting, realistic ...
Plot: coming of age, youth, parent child relationship, adolescence, modernism, boy, communist, musician, renaissance, family relations, boys and girls, society ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: eastern europe, europe, czech republic
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
 7.3
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The Way (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain, USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: When his son dies while hiking the famed Camino de Santiago pilgrimage route in the Pyrenees, Tom flies to France to claim the remains. Looking for insights into his estranged child’s life, he decides to complete the 500-mile mountain trek to ...
Style: emotional, thought provoking, inspirational, uplifting, touching ...
Audience: adult
Plot: travel, road trip, journey, traveler, pilgrimage, death of son, self discovery, redemption, on the road, grief, wanderlust, father ...
Time: 21st century
Place: spain, france, iberian peninsula, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
The Go-Getter (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: When his mother dies, a teenager takes a road-trip in a stolen car to find his long-lost brother. Along the way he discovers a profound connection with the car-owner and with himself as well.
Style: road movie, melancholic, ironic, semi serious, realistic ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: road trip, coming of age, self discovery, teenage life, parents and children, introspection, love and romance, human nature, lifestyle, obsessive quest, friendship, bittersweet ...
Time: year 2007
Place: oregon, new orleans, reno nevada
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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Fandango (1985)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Five college buddies from the University of Texas circa 1971 embark on a final road trip odyssey across the Mexican border before facing up to uncertain futures, in Vietnam and otherwise.
Style: road movie, touching, sentimental, humorous, emotional ...
Audience: boys' night, teens, date night
Plot: on the road, coming of age, friendship, road trip, culture clash, male bonding, travel, adolescence, student life, adolescence vs adulthood, young lovers, obsessive quest ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, year 1985
Place: texas, austin texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
 6.3
 332
Four Suns (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czech Republic, Germany
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Fogi is enjoying his never ending puberty. But simultaneously Fogi is also trying to live up to his family duties and bring up Véna, his son from the first marriage. He did not get married again but lives with Jana, a post office employee. Together ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, sincere, sentimental, touching ...
Plot: family relations, family problems, human nature, crumbling marriage, infidelity, adolescence vs adulthood, parents and children, introspection, rebelliousness, guru, family in crisis, father son relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: czech republic
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Kisses for Everyone (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Three students are sent by their families to Cadiz in 1965, his last chance to pass and become what is expected of them. The appearance of some dancers disrupts their commitments: boys lose the course and girls, their work. But together they learn ...
Style: feel good, humorous, sentimental, touching, manga ...
Plot: looking for love, friendship, youth, dancer's life, medical school, pregnancy, cabaret, health, family relations, school, coming of age, prostitute ...
Time: 60s
Place: europe, spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
 4.9
 725
The Tunnel (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 95 min.
Story: The thirteen survivors of a catastrophe by a tunnel's collapse tries to balance their experience trapped along 15 days inside it with their day-by-day outside it.
Style: suspense, humorous, contemplative, unusual plot structure, psychological ...
Plot: survival, tunnel, friendship, parents, husband wife relationship, love, teenager, society, friends, danger, youth, cop ...
Time: 21st century
Place: spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
 7.2
 13K
Smoke Signals (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Young Indian man Thomas is a nerd in his reservation, wearing oversize glasses and telling everyone stories no-one wants to hear. His parents died in a fire in 1976, and Thomas was saved by Arnold. Arnold soon left his family, and Victor hasn't ...
Style: road movie, touching, feel good, sincere, offbeat ...
Audience: teens
Plot: native american, on the road, native american reservation, self discovery, friendship, road trip, native, indians, adolescence, life, escapades, obsessive quest ...
Time: 20th century, year 1998, 90s, 70s
Place: idaho, arizona, indiana, america, phoenix arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
 7.7
 22K
Kikujiro (1999)
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 122 min.
Story: Brash, loudmouthed and opportunistic, Kikujiro is the unlikely companion for Masao who is determined to see the mother he has never met. The two begin a series of adventures which soon turns out to be a whimsical journey of laughter and tears with a ...
Style: road movie, sad, uplifting, surreal, stylized ...
Plot: on the road, boy, summer, friendship, violence, child, children, road trip, yakuza, bittersweet, youth, coming of age ...
Time: 90s, year 1999, 20th century
Place: japan, east asia, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Time Stands Still (1982)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A Budapest high school in the beginning of the 1960s. Dinis suffers the torments of adolescence. His father had to leave Hungary after the uprise in 1956, and since then Dini's mother has had to take care of her two sons on her own. A friend of ...
Style: realistic, emotional, touching, rough, serious
Plot: family problems, family relations, rebellion, teenage life, high school, youth, coming of age, family life, high school life, teenager, socialism, boy ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: hungary
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
 6.8
 7K
Somers Town (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 71 min.
Story: Two teenagers, both newcomers to London, forge an unlikely friendship over the course of a hot summer. Tomo (Thomas Turgoose) is a runaway from Nottingham; Marek (Piotr Jagiello) lives in the district of Somers Town, between King's Cross and ...
Style: touching, realistic, semi serious, black and white, social ...
Plot: coming of age, immigrant, friendship, social differences, teenage life, parents and children, family relations, lifestyle, social misfits, single parent, love and romance, society ...
Time: year 2008, 90s
Place: london, england, europe, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
 6.6
 3K
Spud (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: South Africa
Duration: 103 min.
Story: It's South Africa 1990. Two major events are about to happen: The release of Nelson Mandela and, more importantly, it's Spud Milton's first year at an elite boys only private boarding school. John Milton is a boy from an ordinary ...
Style: realistic, sincere, sentimental, feel good, parody ...
Audience: teens
Plot: friendship, teachers and students, fish out of water, love and romance, private school, boy, boarding school, childhood, preparatory school, life lesson, monty python, life changing ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: south africa, africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
 6.4
 11K
Dirty Girl (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: It's 1987 and Danielle, the high school 'Dirty Girl', is running away. With her is chubby, gay Clarke, a bag of flour called Joan and a Walkman full of glorious '80s tunes.
Style: road movie, touching, teen, independent film, melancholic ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, teenage girl, high school, friendship, road trip, friends, female protagonist, on the road, honest, happy ending, sexpot, family problems ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1987
Place: usa, oklahoma, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Foreign Letters (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A bittersweet coming-of-age film, Foreign Letters is itself a love letter to the unshakeable bond between friends. Set in the pre-email era of the 1980s, young Ellie, newly arrived to the US from Israel, anxiously waits for letters from her best ...
Style: realistic, serious, sentimental, touching
Plot: coming of age, introspection, friendship, culture clash, teenage life, fish out of water, society, youth, hopes, immigrant, social relations, family life ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, year 1982
Place: usa, vietnam, israel
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
 6.7
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Cas & Dylan (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A dying Doctor, who plans to check out on his own terms, takes a reluctant detour when he inadvertently winds up on the lam with an 'anything-but-normal' 22-year-old girl.
Style: realistic, humorous, semi serious, sincere, buddy comedy
Plot: introspection, on the run, friendship, on the road, terminal illness, life is a bitch, orphan, travel, doctors and patients, inventions and discoveries, hospital, road trip
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Peppermint Soda (1977)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 101 min.
Story: In the fall of 1963, Anne is becoming a teenager. She lives in Paris with her mother and her older sister, Frédérique. They're just back from summer at the beach with their father. School starts. A turbulent year awaits them both.
Style: cult classic, semi serious, realistic, sentimental, humorous ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, school, jewish girl, female protagonist, political protest, friendship, high school, children, woman, relationships, suicide, troubled relationship ...
Time: year 1963, 60s, 20th century
Place: paris france, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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Full Grown Men (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story: A man stuck in the reveries of his youth tracks down the boyhood friend he once tormented, only to find that simpler times were more complicated than he thought.
Style: road movie, realistic, semi serious, touching, sentimental ...
Plot: amusement park, friends, family relations, couples, moral dilemma, buddies, introspection, youth, couple relations, on the road, fish out of water, haunted by the past ...
Time: 21st century
Place: florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 5.9
 450
Dolls (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Iska, Karolína, and Vendula are eighteen-year-old girls who have just graduated from high school. Not wanting to let go of their carefree student lives or their friendship, they plan to hitchhike to Holland, where they've arranged to work on a ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, touching, humorous, crying
Plot: lesbian, asthma, asthmatic, lesbian sex, teenage sex, teenage love, on the road, love and romance, youth, gays and lesbians, friendship, lgbt ...
Time: 21st century
Place: czech republic, holland
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Truman (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain, Argentina
Duration: 108 min.
Story: When Julián receives an unexpected visit in Madrid from his lifelong friend Tomás, who now lives in Canada, the encounter is bittersweet. Diagnosed with terminal cancer, Julián is focused on putting his affairs in order, while Tomás is still ...
Style: humorous, light, tense, contemplative, unusual plot structure ...
Plot: cancer, father son relationship, terminal illness, friendship, death, friend, doctor, fired from the job, old friend, one night stand, cancer patient, father son estrangement ...
Time: 2010s, year 2015
Place: canada, amsterdam, iberian peninsula, spain, madrid
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
The Fundamentals of Caring (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Having suffered a tragedy, Ben becomes a caregiver to earn money. His first client, Trevor, is a hilarious 18-year-old with muscular dystrophy. One paralyzed emotionally, one paralyzed physically, Ben and Trevor hit the road on a trip into the ...
Style: road movie, depressing, sentimental, compassionate, touching ...
Audience: teens, girls' night
Plot: road trip, disability, abandoned by father, coming of age, writers, friendship, tragedy, justice, loneliness, depression, redemption, mentor ...
Place: seattle, salt lake city utah, idaho, utah, montana
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
The Road Within (2014)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A young man with Tourette's Syndrome embarks on a road trip with his recently-deceased mother's ashes.
Style: road movie, touching, sentimental, realistic, teen ...
Audience: teens
Plot: road trip, mental illness, tourette's syndrome, on the road, friendship, psychiatrist, coming of age, father son relationship, obsessive quest, mentally unstable protagonist, social misfits, escapades ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles, reno nevada
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
The Be All and End All (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story: At fifteen Robbie has only one thing on his mind - losing his virginity. The problem is that he's in hospital with a fatal heart condition. And who has to overcome the odds and help him fulfil his final wish? His best friend Ziggy.
Style: touching, realistic, humorous, captivating, sex comedy ...
Plot: terminal illness, friendship, loss of virginity, last wish, looking for sex, teenage life, first sex, hospital, youth, unfulfillment, bittersweet, heart condition ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, europe, liverpool
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Ave (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Bulgaria
Duration: 86 min.
Story: While hitchhiking from Sofia to Ruse, Kamen meets Avé, a 17-year-old runaway girl. With each ride they hitch, Avé invents new identities for them, and her compulsive lies get Kamen deeper and deeper into trouble. Reluctantly drawn into this ...
Style: road movie, captivating, serious, realistic, psychological ...
Plot: coming of age, hitchhiking, teenage life, journey, leaving home, fall in love, rebelliousness, youth, camping, resistance, travel, girl ...
Time: 21st century
Place: bulgaria, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 6.3
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The Dream Kids (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 86 min.
Story: JB suffers from a heart malformation .He falsifies his medical file ,so that he can enter a top athlete training center.
Style: sincere, touching, captivating, humorous, serious ...
Plot: friendship, teenage life, ambition, follow your dream, youth, hopes, social relations, friends, athlete's life, lifestyle, contests and competitions, boarding school ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Whole New Thing (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Socially isolated by his parents (Rebecca Jenkins, Robert Joy), an androgynous teen (Aaron Webber) enrolls in high school and develops a crush on his male teacher (Daniel MacIvor).
Style: sentimental, humorous, touching, captivating, disturbing ...
Plot: coming of age, gays and lesbians, gay teenager, youth, lgbt, teachers and students, gender, bullying, gay teacher, gay, school, high school ...
Place: canada, nova scotia
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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