Movies like Holly
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Holly (2006)
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA, France, Israel, Cambodia
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Shot on location in Cambodia, including many scenes in actual brothels in the notorious red light district of Phnom Penh, HOLLY is a captivating, touching and emotional experience. Patrick, an American card shark and dealer of stolen artifacts, has been 'comfortably numb' in Cambodia for years, when he encounters Holly, a 12-year-old Vietnamese girl, in the K11 red light village. The girl has been sold by her impoverished family and smuggled across the border to work as a prostitute.
Style:
disturbing, emotional, psychological, touching, bleak, sincere, sad, serious, captivating, realistic
Plot:
innocence lost, child prostitution, lifestyle, going straight, young heroes, life is a bitch, society, redemption, social decay, hopes, village, youth, human trafficking, organized crime, girl, child in peril, bittersweet, kids in trouble, motorcycle, virgin, virginity, caucasian, asian, minefield, swearing ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
cambodia, asia
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, emotional and touching films with plots about life is a bitch, youth, society, hopes, coming of age, innocence lost and family relations mostly in Drama and Horror genres. Some movies like Holly: King of Thieves (2003), All the Invisible Children (2005), Into Temptation (2009), Bo (2010), Jet Boy (2001). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama
Country: Slovakia, Czech Republic, Slovenia, Netherlands, Austria, Belgium, Germany, France
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Two amateur circus kids from a poor Ukrainian village, ten-year-old Barbu and his older sister Mimma, are sold to a circus artist called Caruso who promises them a career in the West.
Style:
disturbing, emotional, serious, realistic, bleak
Plot:
child prostitution, youth, circus, kids in trouble, kidnapping, life is a bitch, juvenile delinquency, sexual abuse, siblings relations, dishonesty, hopes, pimp ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
eastern europe, berlin germany, ukraine, europe, germany
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Seven short films - each one focused on the plight of a different child protagonist.
Style:
touching, neorealism, serious, captivating, atmospheric ...
Plot:
kids in trouble, juvenile delinquency, homeless, child abandonment, aids, young heroes, life is a bitch, social decay, survival, society, youth, cruelty ...
Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A call girl goes to a priest to confess a sin she hasn't committed yet: she plans to kill herself on her next birthday. Then she disappears and he goes looking for her, enlisting the help of an ad hoc congregation of troubled souls along the ...
Style:
realistic, atmospheric, captivating, psychological, serious ...
Plot:
woman in danger, forgiveness, redemption, obsession, clergy, prostitute, society, priest, sin, illegal prostitution, suicide, mysterious character ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Coming of age story about two inner city youths, who are left to fend for themselves over the summer after their mothers are taken away by the authorities.
Style:
touching, serious, realistic, emotional, clever ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
coming of age, youth, homeless, life is a bitch, lifestyle, friendship, teenage life, working class, forceful separation, urban ghetto life, redemption, hopes ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
africa, brooklyn new york city, usa, new york
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100%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Fifteen year old Deborah meets Jennifer who steers her into a career as an escort. Under the alias Bo she begins a new life that she cannot handle and starts a downward spiral that only she can end.
Style:
serious, realistic, captivating, rough, sad ...
Plot:
prostitute, teenage prostitution, downfall, destructive relationship, lifestyle, teenage life, woman in danger, life is a bitch, juvenile delinquency, society, youth, drug abuse ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
antwerp, belgium, europe
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Dave Schultz' feature debut Jet Boy is a drama about a boy attempting to figure out his future. Nathan (Branden Nadon) goes on a search to find his father after his mother dies of a drug overdose. Nathan has been prostituting himself in order ...
Style:
touching, realistic, serious, emotional, sexy ...
Plot:
kids in trouble, man boy relationship, orphan, child neglect, gay, youth, prostitute, teenage prostitution, coming of age, lifestyle, young heroes, life is a bitch ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada
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23%
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands, UK, Philippines
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Lilet Never Happened is the rollercoaster story of how a young girl, struggling to survive in the streets of Manila, spirals down into child prostitution. She is a fighter. She is a dreamer. She is a rebel and she thinks she can handle the world ...
Style:
realistic, serious, thought provoking, disturbing, bleak ...
Plot:
life is a bitch, kids in trouble, social decay, youth, prostitute, society, sexual abuse, pedophilia, social worker, prostitution, police, relationships ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
manila philippines, the philippines, asia
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41%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Incarcerated women join a band of volunteers who battle forest fires and assist during natural disasters.
Style:
emotional, realistic, serious, sincere, touching ...
Plot:
redemption, youth, juvenile delinquency, power relations, human spirit, society, hopes, fire brigade, friendship, rivalry, friend, girl ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Cambodia
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
In Cambodia still haunted by the crimes of the Khmer Rouges, a 45 years old French crossdresser, Mirinda, lives as a prostitute in the backstreets of Phnom Penh. Meeting a young trafficked girl, he gradually discovers the feeling of fatherhood.
Style:
serious, realistic, touching, suspenseful
Plot:
transvestism, youth, gender, redemption, on the run, hopes, child in peril, transvestite, male nudity, little girl, gay, transsexual ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
cambodia
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
294
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
MAYA is a coming of age story set against an outlawed brutal practice of ritual rape still occurring in some parts of India.
Style:
thought provoking, disturbing, emotional, sincere, realistic ...
Plot:
coming of age, youth, sexual abuse, injustice, religions or cults, kids in trouble, introspection, society, life is a bitch, moral dilemma, parents and children, family problems ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
india, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Genre: Drama
Country: South Africa
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
The harrowing tale of a South African street-kid's search for love, based on Dickens' classic story. Growing up neglected in a rural orphanage, Twist escapes to the unpredictable freedom of Cape Town, where he falls in with Fagin's ...
Style:
serious, touching, emotional, sincere, realistic ...
Plot:
youth, street kid, juvenile delinquency, young heroes, dishonesty, gang, life is a bitch, orphan, society, cons and scams, rich and poor, negligence ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
south africa, africa, cape town south africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
758
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Caden Welles is living life as large as any 20-year-old could dream … until his eyes are opened to a world few Americans know still exists: a thriving human-trafficking trade. Spurred by a true purpose, an unlikely new friendship, and the prayers ...
Style:
disturbing, uplifting, thought provoking, suspenseful, sentimental ...
Plot:
youth, hopes, kids in trouble, life is a bitch, human spirit, family problems, injustice, obsessive quest, escapades, prostitute, society, family in crisis ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
asia, india
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
All, including school administration and a friend, turn their backs on a girl who accused a classmate of rape.
Style:
touching, realistic, disturbing, sincere, thought provoking ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens
Plot:
rape, innocence lost, high school, sexual abuse, juvenile delinquency, teenage love, rebellion, youth, fighting the system, against the odds, american football, rivalry ...
Time:
90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
538
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Authentic and committed, moving and stormy drama of street kids from Mexico City. Wonderful adaptation of successful play about street kids who have more trouble with corrupt cops, than with dirty and heavy work.
Style:
sincere, serious, touching, realistic, bleak
Plot:
social decay, gang, juvenile delinquency, kids in trouble, police corruption, urban ghetto life, society, youth, drug dealing, life is a bitch, down on your luck, social misfits ...
Place:
latin america, mexico
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, South Korea
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Young Jinhee is taken by her father to an orphanage near Seoul. He leaves her there never to return, and she struggles to come to grips with her fate. Jinhee desperately believes her father will come back for her and take her on a trip. The film is ...
Style:
sincere, serious, touching, realistic, captivating ...
Plot:
children, orphan, youth, adoption, family relations, dysfunctional family, parents and children, hopes, girl, abandoned by father, abandoned baby, family problems ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1975
Place:
korea, seoul, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama
Country: Portugal, France, Switzerland
Duration: 156 min.
Story:
After the Portuguese government demolishes his slum and relocates him to a housing project on the outskirts of Lisbon, 75-year-old Cape Verde immigrant Ventura wanders between his new and old homes, reconnecting with people from his past.
Style:
serious, thought provoking, touching, sincere, realistic ...
Plot:
family relations, life is a bitch, human nature, hopes, starting over, misfit, urban ghetto life, addiction, husband wife relationship, settler, courage, melancholy ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
portugal, canada, lisbon portugal
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Based on the true story of Benjamin Prufer and Sreykeo Solvan. The unexpected and uncertain love story of Sreykeo, a 21 year old bar girl in Phnom Penh and Ben, a young German student traveling to Cambodia on a post graduation summer trip. When Ben ...
Style:
sentimental, realistic, atmospheric, touching, gloomy ...
Plot:
fall in love, love affair, unlikely couple, social differences, society, hopes, culture clash, terminal illness, couples, love and romance, interracial relations, youth ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
cambodia, germany, europe, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A clothing store worker (Jahan) meets a poor girl named Eti. Jahan tries to help the girl and solve her problems, but…
Style:
touching, realistic, serious, sincere, emotional ...
Plot:
lifestyle, friendship, bittersweet, life is a bitch, love and romance, downfall, couples, down on your luck, singleness, city life, friends, twentysomething life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
iran
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
After her mother's death, a young girl is separated from her abusive father and is sent between her various friends and relatives, always longing to find a place to call home.
Style:
serious, realistic, uplifting, bleak, emotional ...
Plot:
youth, child abuse, disease, drugs, adoption, innocence lost, dysfunctional family, human spirit, hopes, life is a bitch, unfulfillment, society ...
Time:
90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
The true story of two African-American teen radio reporters and their documentary investigation of a notorious child murder.
Style:
serious, realistic, emotional, rough, controversial ...
Plot:
journalism, murder, uncover truth, juvenile delinquency, teenage life, social decay, human spirit, life is a bitch, lifestyle, youth, idealism, society ...
Place:
chicago illinois, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Chuck brought sorrow to his family when he shot his father who is now a semi-invalid. After 15 years of self destruction, he returns home to seek forgiveness.
Style:
realistic, serious, sincere, emotional, gloomy ...
Audience:
manly
Plot:
redemption, family relations, cons and scams, addiction, high school, homecoming, family gatherings, drug abuse, parents and children, family life, teenage life, youth ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
vietnam
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
A coming of age story set in 1975 working-class Brooklyn, in which two teenage brothers living with their abusive father and their well-meaning but ineffective mother are caught up in a life of petty crime. Older brother Danny concocts a daring ...
Style:
emotional, sincere, realistic, serious, bleak ...
Plot:
family problems, juvenile delinquency, life is a bitch, family life, parents and children, siblings relations, society, hopes, working class, domestic disturbance, criminal, sex ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
usa, ireland, new york
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Life as a Mormon missionary isn't what 19-year-old Brandon Allen expected: so many rules and so few successes. Los Angeles is as unrepentant as Sodom and Gomorrah. He's forced to share a small apartment with five young prank-loving ...
Style:
realistic, touching, sincere, serious, psychological ...
Plot:
missionary, self discovery, life is a bitch, redemption, youth, terminal illness, working class, couples, tragic hero, human nature, coming of age, couple relations ...
Time:
90s
Place:
california, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
As things unravel for a struggling single mother in Las Vegas, she must decide what she's willing to give up to get by.
Style:
realistic, serious, captivating, emotional, psychological ...
Plot:
life is a bitch, moral dilemma, society, working class, parents and children, family problems, down on your luck, single mother, poverty, youth, single parent, family relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
las vegas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Abandoned by her dreamer single mom, a teenage loner becomes obsessed with ecological disaster, forcing her and her grandmother, a functioning alcoholic, to rethink their futures.
Style:
realistic, touching, captivating, psychological, sexy ...
Plot:
family relations, environmentalism, society, family problems, dysfunctional family, gain trust, teenage life, life is a bitch, youth, bittersweet, coming of age, teenager ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: Brazil
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
A man falls in love with a teenage girl, who is exploited by her own grandfather, who sometimes takes her to a gas station to show her naked to whomever pays him some money.
Style:
disturbing, realistic, bleak, serious, emotional ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
rape, youth, strong sexual content, kids in trouble, prostitute, life is a bitch, innocence lost, village life, village, voyeurism, sexual torture, poverty ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
brazil
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, Canada
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Louis is a twelve year old boy who lives with his parents and older brother in southern Morocco. Louis is very happy until the day his father shares a secret with him.
Style:
sincere, psychological, emotional, disturbing, serious ...
Plot:
mental illness, family problems, life is a bitch, parents and children, father son relationship, secret, youth, suicide, depression, hopes, boy, boyhood ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
morocco, africa, atlantic ocean
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31%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Seemingly autobiographical story of a woman overwhelmed with trying to please everyone except herself, and not finding any answers until she's admitted to a rehab center by her parents. Eventually here is where she finds her answers.
Style:
realistic, touching, serious, psychological, emotional ...
Plot:
nervous breakdown, rehabilitation, family problems, drug abuse, parents and children, doctors and patients, mental institution, life is a bitch, rehabilitation center, family relations, power relations, addiction ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
usa
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31%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A mother searches for five years to find her kidnapped son in this fact-based drama. Unexpectedly the boy is found, but the reunion is not as she hoped. She now has to deal with five years of abuse that the boy suffered at the hands of his ...
Style:
touching, serious, realistic, emotional, sad
Plot:
kidnapping, kids in trouble, coming of age, family problems, estrangement, life is a bitch, hopes, confined, single parent, captivity, dysfunctional family, parents and children ...
Time:
90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
Ginko’s younger brother Tetsuro, a failed comedian, is the oddball of the family. Embarrassing, loud and plain inappropriate at times causes Ginko to disown him. The two reunite when she discovers Tetsuro is terminally ill. Tetsuro’s impending ...
Style:
realistic, psychological, emotional, captivating, sincere ...
Plot:
family relations, human nature, family problems, bittersweet, family feud, redemption, unfulfillment, brother sister relationship, brother, relationships, relationship problems, problem solving ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan, asia
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31%
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