Movies like Who Saw Him Die?
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Who Saw Him Die? (1968)
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Original name: Ole dole doff
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Sören Mårtensson is a middle school teacher. His classroom occupied by half-grown children. His work is tormenting him and at night he is haunted by nightmares.
Style:
psychological, tense, sincere, mind bending, bleak, serious, realistic, weird
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, teacher, school, mental disorder, bullying, children, youth, teachers and students, mischievous children, disorder, mentally unstable, dedicated educator, power relations, nude, sea, forest, schoolboy, male nudity, nightmare, male objectification, classroom, shower, bloody body of a child, nudity (full frontal - brief)
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
europe, sweden, eastern europe
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, touching and psychological films with plots about youth, coming of age, school, family relations, society, life is a bitch and friendship mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Who Saw Him Die?: The Boys of Paul Street (1968), Simon & the Oaks (2011), Nobody Owns Me (2013), Class Enemy (2013), The Invisible Eye (2010). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
In Budapest, two rival gangs of young boys lay claim to a vacant lot. The hostilities escalate yet never quite boil over into actual violence. Just when things do get out of hand, however, the problem is "solved" by the city government, ...
Style:
thought provoking, serious, realistic, sentimental
Plot:
boy, anti war, boyhood, education, traumatic childhood, bondage, coming of age, school, mischievous children, youth, uninhibited rivalry, young heroes ...
Time:
20th century
Place:
hungary, eastern europe, europe
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Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Norway
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
Epic story about two families and their friendship and common destiny in Sweden's Gothenburg in the 1940s and 1950s. Told from the perspective of young Simon Larsson, who learns that he's an adopted child who has a Jewish father from ...
Style:
realistic, tense, touching, psychological, captivating ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
world war two, coming of age, wartime life, youth, family relations, friendship, society, culture clash, working class, boy, best friend, boyhood ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, post world war two, 50s
Place:
sweden, europe, eastern europe
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89%
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
The story of a lone father's relationship with his daughter, of the destructive power of alcohol, of a child's vulnerability, but also of love, betrayal and socialist politics in 1970s Sweden. A unique and moving story freely based on Åsa ...
Style:
touching, bleak, emotional, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
working class, parents and children, disorder, youth, single parent, life turned upside down, family relations, family problems, dysfunctional family, addiction, children, father daughter relationship ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, 70s
Place:
sweden, eastern europe
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79%
Genre: Drama
Country: Slovenia
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Relations between the students and the new teacher of German are extremely tense. When one female student commits suicide, her schoolmates blame the teacher for her death. An awareness that things are not quite so black and white comes too late.
Style:
serious, sincere, touching, realistic, tense ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
rebelliousness, youth, teenage life, teachers and students, high school life, power relations, social relations, coping, coming of age, creepy child, psychoanalyst, undisciplined ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
slovenia, central europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina, France, Spain
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Spying on her students, a teacher finds an exciting hobby.
Style:
realistic, tense, serious, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
high school life, political unrest, society, rebellion, youth, workplace, teachers and students, against the rules, social relations, workplace situations, responsibility, state affairs ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
argentina, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
Duct tape, electrical cables, trigger, explosives. Sebbe never planned to build a bomb. It just happened. Sebbe is 15 years old and lives with his mother in an apartment that is too narrow. He does his best. He never strikes back. Sebbe loves his ...
Style:
captivating, realistic, psychological, serious, mind bending ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
single parent, coming of age, teenage boy, teenage life, introspection, family relations, parents and children, escape from reality, society, youth, life is a bitch, juvenile delinquency ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
sweden, europe, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
At their 25th high-school anniversary some bourgeois citizens remember their time in school as a happy one. In reality it was quite the contrary. The school was a madhouse in which the teachers, especially Blomme, tormented the students. As a result ...
Style:
tense, realistic, serious, bleak
Plot:
murder, teenage life, lgbt, education, teacher, power relations, poisoning, social relations, under the surface, life is a bitch, teachers and students, high school life ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s
Place:
scandinavia, denmark
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
The determined new headmaster of an English prep school attempts to reform the frequently unruly students, who are tormented by a ruthless bully.
Style:
realistic, touching, serious, exciting, tense ...
Plot:
corporal punishment, bullying, coming of age, self discovery, friends, hardcase students, lifestyle, misfit, dedicated educator, power relations, teachers and students, teenage life ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era
Place:
england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Karol is a newcomer to the class and instantly called "sissy". He tries to make friends with class bully called Balon, and eventually succeeds. The group uses him to steal lollipops and later for an assault on a small child. The ...
Plot:
coming of age, boy, youth, traumatic childhood, bullying, boxing, little boy, old man, christmas, gym class, teacher, redhead ...
Place:
eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden, Denmark
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
It's the last summer in Falkenberg for five childhood friends. David yearns to be a child again and Holger never wants to move away. Jesper constantly returns home without anybody really noticing that he’s been gone. Jörgen finances his ...
Style:
realistic, captivating, psychological, emotional, sexy ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
coming of age, youth, friendship, grownups, best friends, small town, childhood friend, moving, summer, society, nihilism, escape from reality ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
sweden, europe, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Jack spends his days smoking pot, drinking and hitting on girls together with his friends. As opposed to his friends, Jack actually knows what he wants to do with his life, he wants be an author. After a long summer together with his friends Jack ...
Style:
realistic, serious, contemplative
Plot:
nude, friends, artists and showbiz, writer's life, buddies, twentysomething life, bohemian, writers, drugs, male nudity, urban, drinking alcohol
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
sweden, scandinavia, eastern europe, stockholm sweden
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Nicole (Marianne Basler) gives birth to a mentally challenged boy after she is gang-raped by American soldiers at the close of World War II in this grim dramatic tragedy. Young Ludo is hidden in the attic of the family home and continues to yearn ...
Style:
serious, psychological, realistic, touching, bleak ...
Plot:
mental disorder, isolation, parents and children, haunted by the past, dysfunctional family, kids in trouble, family problems, family relations, estrangement, misfit, single parent, youth ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century
Place:
belgium, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
A salesman and his son sexually abuse the generations of women of a poor family as payment for debt. Janni must see his mother, sister, niece and wife all being exploited, and the family grow bigger with the abuser's kids.
Style:
psychological, realistic, serious, tense, bleak ...
Plot:
countryside, sexual abuse, nude, family relations, family problems, life is a bitch, strong sexual content, down on your luck, dysfunctional family, woman in danger, parents and children, peeping tom ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
sweden, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A film between fiction and reality, highlighting questions about group dynamics and established hierarchies. A group of people meet for their high school reunion 20 years later. One of them talks about her being bullied and outcast and soon the ...
Style:
psychological, serious, realistic, sincere, thought provoking ...
Plot:
bullying, human nature, life is a bitch, adulthood, haunted by the past, social relations, realism, misfit, disorder, breaking point, party, childhood trauma ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, sweden, stockholm sweden, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Set in a forlorn mining town near Valencienne in the north of France, the story is about one man's struggle to bring life to his once prosperous village and its inhabitants. Philippe Torreton, who won a César for Best Actor with his title role ...
Style:
thought provoking, realistic, serious, touching, gloomy ...
Plot:
teacher, education, professor, dedicated educator, kindergarten, corrupt system, human rights, psychology, bittersweet, power relations, social relations, social worker ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
A twelve years old girl Lena who has come to live with her grandfather in a small Russian town is being bullied by her classmates. She took the rap of being a class traitor because she was in love with the boy who had betrayed his classmates when ...
Style:
bleak, suspenseful, sincere, touching, biting ...
Audience:
kids, teen drama
Plot:
life is a bitch, bullying, mockery, teenager, school, brutality, outcast, deception, first love, betrayal by friend, grandfather granddaughter relationship, traumatic childhood ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
russia, ussr
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
'Vidas secas' tells in vivid images the almost documentary like story of a drover and his family in the northern interior states of Brazil during the drought. A family in the search of a new hope and destiny.
Style:
realistic, serious, bleak, rough, gloomy
Plot:
revolution, food, boy, coming of age, gambling, teacher, hunger, youth, life is a bitch, injustice, farm, family relations ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
brazil, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Noémie and Priscilla, two teenage girls from working class backgrounds, cultivate the same violence, the same contempt of the world. They are a source of serious concern for family and friends, who sense them capable of going to extremes. Noémie ...
Style:
realistic, tense, emotional, psychological, serious ...
Plot:
human nature, teenage life, society, youth, family problems, dysfunctional family, death, suicidal thoughts, friendship, coming of age, rebellion, rebelliousness ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Israel, France, Italy
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Tsili is a young girl caught in the middle of World War II. After her family is taken to a concentration camp, Tsili hides in the forest, free from hatred and men, until the arrival of Marek, a stranger who speaks to her in Yiddish.
Style:
serious, realistic, bleak, disturbing, tense
Plot:
holocaust, world war two, survival, holocaust survivor, against humanity, youth, jewish, hiding, coming of age, violinist, rainstorm, rape ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s
Place:
europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
This is a story of Ida and Krister. It's about a relationship that goes to hell. They are both crazy in love but manage to strangle the supply of oxygen and adapt to each other in a way that will lead to catastrophic consequences.
Style:
serious, realistic, tense, sexy, bleak
Plot:
male nudity, losing-it hero, destructive relationship, woman in danger, couples, life is a bitch, couple relations, sex scene, love, suspense, exploitation, seduction ...
Place:
sweden, europe, eastern europe, scandinavia
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
The emotional story of a young man in a mental institution for teens who begins to understand his psychosis in the environment of others with mental and emotional problems. He finds intimacy with Lisa, a young woman suffering from schizophrenia.
Style:
psychological, psychedelic, mind bending, surreal, intense ...
Plot:
mental illness, angst, psychology, mental disorder, insanity, teenage love, mental institution, coming of age, dissociation, relationships, children, psychopath ...
Time:
50s, 60s
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A chronicle of three weeks in the lives of several high school teachers, administrators and students through the eyes of substitute teacher, Henry Barthes. Henry roams from school to school, imparting modes of knowledge, but never staying long ...
Style:
psychological, bleak, thought provoking, depressing, touching ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
teacher, depression, suicide, teachers and students, dedicated educator, human relationship, school, unhappy, social problems, life is a bitch, society, social decay ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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43%
Genre: Drama
Country: Bulgaria, Greece
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
An honest, hard-working schoolteacher in a small Bulgarian town is driven to desperate measures to avoid financial ruin.
Style:
realistic, serious, captivating, psychological, touching ...
Plot:
school, teacher, loan shark, stolen money, teachers and students, small town, lie, money problems, professor, women, chaos, education ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
bulgaria
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A working-class boy struggles to find himself through a series of jobs and romances.
Plot:
coming of age, socialism, boy, countryside, boat, labor union, teenager, foster child, on the road, working class, world war one, foster parent ...
Place:
sweden, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
An adaptation of the book "Treasures of the Snow“ written by Patricia M. St. John.
Style:
serious, realistic, captivating, sincere, touching ...
Audience:
kids, family outing
Plot:
youth, train, mountain, forest, hopes, introspection, escapades, coming of age, self discovery, teaching the ways of the world, teenage life, prank gone wrong ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s
Place:
switzerland, europe, swiss alps
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 61 min.
Story:
As if immersed in the situation, the viewer witnesses a distressing encounter between angry parents, a helpless teacher and three schoolgirls. It soon becomes clear that certain things are going wrong in their class. There have been complaints of ...
Style:
tense, unusual plot structure, captivating, suspenseful, contemplative
Plot:
teenager, school teacher, school, bullying, teacher, doubt, parents, mistrust, crisis, friendship, suspense, society ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
eastern europe, sweden
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary, Germany, Austria
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
A boy returns home from the institution where he grew up, but finds he is not welcome there. He fights to win the love of his family but ends up murdering them.
Style:
sincere, serious, realistic, tense, erotic ...
Plot:
mentally unstable, dysfunctional family, family in danger, murder, homecoming, family problems, coming of age, boy, love, little boy, reunion, deadly ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, hungary
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden, Denmark
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Stockholm, the fifties. Though academically bright, violent pupil Erik Ponti is expelled from his state school with the headmaster’s words “there’s only one word for people like you – evil… what you need is a good thrashing, and more”. ...
Style:
psychological, disturbing, touching, rough, emotional ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
rebellion, coming of age, private school, friendship, rebelliousness, corporal punishment, humiliation, life is a bitch, bully, high school, violence, boarding school ...
Time:
20th century, 50s
Place:
sweden, europe, stockholm sweden, eastern europe, scandinavia
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Genre: Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
The young teenager Otto is entering the summer holidays in 60'ies Oslo, without getting a real holiday, and he is not accepted in the gang or the football team. But then he meets exciting mysterious Frank, which changes everything.
Style:
serious, realistic, gloomy, contemplative
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, youth, lgbt, friendship, human nature, mysterious character, teenage life, working class, kids in trouble, family relations, friends, manipulation ...
Time:
60s
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
In the later years of the nineteenth century Latin master Mr. Chipping is the mainstay of Brookfields boys boarding school, a good teacher and a kindly person but he is considered to be married to the job so that it is a surprise when, on a walking ...
Style:
serious, emotional, touching, sentimental, realistic
Plot:
boarding school, dedicated educator, tragic hero, society, idealism, friendship, social differences, youth, family relations, teachers and students, teacher, husband wife relationship ...
Time:
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Place:
england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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