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Stella (2008)
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
1977. Stella entre en sixième, dans un grand lycée parisien. Stella entre dans le monde... Un nouveau monde, à l'opposé de celui qu'elle connaît. Presque un miracle. Elle, elle vit dans un café, un café d'ouvrier, à la frontière de Paris. Cette rentrée va changer sa vie.
Style:
sentimental, semi serious, touching, humorous, realistic, teen
Plot:
coming of age, friendship, working class, school, misfit, teachers and students, parents and children, elementary school, mischievous children, disorder, streetwise, power relations, girl, sex, teacher, childhood, discipline, mentor, child, adolescence, youth, friends, family relations, social differences, society ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1976
Place:
france, paris france, europe
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, touching, sentimental and serious films with plots about youth, family relations, coming of age, friendship, school, friends and society mostly in Drama, Comedy and Music genres. Some movies like Stella: If You Die, I'll Kill You (2011), The Dandelions (2012), Whatever (1998), Booky's Crush (2009), Hands Up (2010). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
In Paris' cosmopolitan and colorful 10th arrondissement, Philippe, who's fresh out of prison, crosses paths with Avdal, a Kurd who is trying to track down an Iraqi war criminal. Avdal, who dreams of staying in France, plans to bring his ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous, sincere, offbeat
Audience:
date night
Plot:
culture clash, fish out of water, society, nothing goes right, immigrant, disorder, kurd, muslim, dark humor, misfit, life is a bitch, communication problem ...
Time:
90s, year 2010, 21st century
Place:
iraq, paris france, europe, france
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100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A young girl is frustrated by her over-protective mom. At school, she meets another fearless little girl that is going to have a big influence on her.
Style:
semi serious, touching, realistic, humorous
Plot:
friendship, best friend, family life, parents and children, friends, couples, couple relations, children, psychologist, doll, death of friend, school ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
france
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
In the early 1980s, Anna, a New Jersey teenager faces her impending adulthood, dreaming of a life as a successful New York artist. When she gets caught up in the carefree sport of pre-AIDS sex and drugs, Anna's future becomes less certain.
Style:
realistic, independent film, semi serious, touching, humorous ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick
Plot:
coming of age, school, friendship, drug, high school, art teacher, age difference, performer's life, bittersweet, society, lifestyle, single parent ...
Time:
year 1998, 80s, future, 70s
Place:
new jersey, new york, usa, california
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
The Thomsons - parents Thomas and Francie, and children Willa, Arthur, Beatrice (nicknamed Booky) and Jakey - are a loving working class family living in the Depression era in Toronto. Arthur is showing aptitude in drawing, and although his parents ...
Style:
sentimental, feel good, sincere, touching, realistic ...
Audience:
family outing, girls' night
Plot:
youth, family relations, teenage love, teenage life, society, love and romance, family life, parents and children, working class, coming of age, first love, child ...
Time:
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Place:
canada, toronto ontario canada
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337
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
March 22, 2067. At dawn of life, Milana remembers her life, when she was a young Chechen immigrant in Paris, struggling for a better life along with her school friends.
Style:
emotional, serious, thought provoking, touching, social ...
Plot:
immigrant, friendship, family relations, parents and children, fighting the system, youth, rebellion, society, deportation, illegal immigrant, teenager, school ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe, paris france
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: France
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
The 1980s. Stéphanie grows up in La Courneuve, on the outskirts of Paris, in a home where her mother is rarely there and her step-father is brutal. She quickly decides to escape her morose everyday life. Thanks to her grandmother's love, ...
Style:
sentimental, touching, sincere, humorous, semi serious ...
Plot:
follow your dream, family relations, dysfunctional family, parents and children, hopes, youth, teenage life, adolescence vs adulthood, society, family problems, friendship, coming of age ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
paris france, france
Similarity:
37%
256
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
The story a rescue, the rescue of a bad brat's life in the post-WWII period. In 1947, Roger reaches 11 years old. He's a kid badly loved, mischievous and specializes in silly things to do. He is sent to a small boarding school in a small ...
Style:
touching, semi serious, humorous, sentimental, realistic ...
Plot:
childhood, nude boy, boarding school, hardcase students, boy, children, teachers and students, mischievous children, disorder, power relations, family relations, youth ...
Time:
1940s, year 1947, 21st century
Place:
europe, france
Similarity:
37%
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:
touching, sentimental, emotional, serious, realistic
Audience:
kids
Plot:
boarding school, dedicated educator, tragic hero, society, idealism, social differences, friendship, family relations, youth, teachers and students, boys' school, teacher ...
Time:
19th century, 20th century, year 1914, edwardian era, 90s
Place:
england, europe
Similarity:
36%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A nearly sightless boy is sent to a school for blind children, where he secretly discovers the possibilities of the recorded sound.
Style:
contemplative, serious, realistic, touching, educational ...
Plot:
boy, disability, hopes, blind character, coming of age, against the odds, friendship, follow your dream, rebellion, fighting the system, society, rebelliousness ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
italy, europe, tuscany
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
An outer suburb of Paris, 1972. Gilles and Christine, both sixteen, are classmates and lovers who have become frustrated with the aloofness of their families and the general monotony of their lives. When the pair are caught shoplifting, ...
Style:
realistic, touching, sentimental, serious, emotional ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens, teen drama
Plot:
youth, kids in trouble, family relations, unfulfilled love, teenage life, rebelliousness, parents and children, unfulfillment, unrequited love, dysfunctional family, teenage boy, teenage girl ...
Time:
70s, year 1994, year 1972
Place:
france, paris france, europe
Similarity:
35%
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, idealism, society, snitch, teachers and students, high school, parents and children, clergy ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
spain
Similarity:
35%
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, realistic, serious, sentimental
Plot:
boy, anti war, little boy, coming of age, traumatic childhood, bondage, education, boyhood, school, rivalry, youth, uninhibited rivalry ...
Time:
20th century, 1900s
Place:
hungary, eastern europe, europe
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Film crew arrives in a small town in Nevada desert. Ends up changing the life of a 12-year-old kid and a friend of his, a movie lover.
Style:
semi serious, feel good, humorous, realistic, sentimental ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
youth, coming of age, desert, filmmaking, friends, friendship, obsession, family relations, social relations, interracial relations, family life, society ...
Time:
60s
Place:
usa, nevada
Similarity:
35%
355
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Genie, a Chinese-American teenager, develops feelings for a charming African-American DJ, but her grandmother forbids their romance forcing Genie to choose between family and love.
Style:
sincere, touching, emotional, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
family relations, parents and children, teenage life, immigrant, opposites attract, friends, love and romance, human nature, youth, family life, single parent, introspection ...
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Various experiences of childhood are seen in several sequences that take place in the small town of Thiers, France. Vignettes include a boy's awakening interest in girls, couples double-dating at the movies, brothers giving their friend a ...
Style:
existential, aesthetic, art house, uplifting, serious ...
Plot:
childhood, child abuse, coming of age, boy, traumatic childhood, children, first love, bare breasts, child's point of view, teacher, school, professor ...
Time:
year 1976, 70s, 20th century
Place:
france
Similarity:
35%
250
Genre: Drama
Country: Luxembourg, Belgium, France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Quiet 16-year-old Louis, the high school headmaster’s son, has never been in trouble. His best friend, 18-year-old Greg, however, is his polar opposite: provocative, angry, violent, he has been kicked out of school for physically threatening young ...
Style:
realistic, suspenseful, tense, serious
Plot:
teenager, kidnapping, parent child relationship, youth, teachers and students, parents and children, single parent, hardcase students, confined, crime gone awry, disorder, social relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
The 12 years old well-bred Lonnie meets the impudent Karen on the street. They spend some time together and Karen teaches Lonnie some of her favorite occupancies, like make-up, shoplifting, skipping school and lying to the parent about it, but ...
Style:
independent film, semi serious, realistic, emotional, sentimental ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
friendship, teenager, coming of age, youth, female friendship, friendship between girls, female bonding, young girl, middle school, woman, strong female lead, age-gap relationship ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
new york
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina, France
Duration: 70 min.
Story:
In a rural school in the middle of the mountains, a girl who is starting to become a woman feels the profound need to discover her true identity. She does not know who her father is and she is determined to find him, but her mother does not approve ...
Style:
serious, realistic, captivating, atmospheric, touching ...
Plot:
family relations, obsessive quest, self discovery, on the road, family problems, hopes, youth, parents and children, teachers and students, coming of age, search for father, unknown father ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
argentina, latin america
Similarity:
35%
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A semi-autobiographical coming-of-age story set in the Cotswolds during and immediately after the First World War.
Style:
realistic, captivating, serious, psychological, touching ...
Plot:
village, coming of age, world war one, skinny dipping, childhood, youth, society, friendship, village life, teenager, military police, anti war ...
Time:
1910s, 20th century, 1920s
Place:
england, europe
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
When he first enters the Montpellier Opera House, Victor knows nothing about music. Nor does he know his father, Samuel Rovinski, who is there to conduct Mahler’s 6th symphony. To change the course of his suddenly uncertain future, for Nadia his ...
Style:
realistic, touching, sentimental, emotional, captivating ...
Plot:
coming of age, parents and children, family relations, single parent, bittersweet, teenage boy, father son relationship, orchestra conductor, father son reunion, little boy, boyhood, father ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Drama
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Bao stays with his grandfather for the summer and is shocked to see there are no modern appliances.
Style:
realistic, touching, atmospheric, captivating, serious
Plot:
friendship, coming of age, family problems, friends, family relations, parents and children, elderly, youth, countryside, school, little boy, boy ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
taiwan, asia
Similarity:
34%
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:
touching, realistic, gloomy, serious, suspense ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot:
friends, teenage life, life is a bitch, boy girl relationship, youth, family problems, friendship, high school life, social relations, dysfunctional family, school, social decay ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
soviet union, moscow russia, russia, ussr
Similarity:
34%
551
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
At thirteen-years-old, with an unusually high IQ and a knack for observing things about other people, Lou Bertignac is not only the youngest in her class at school; she is also the most unusual. Painfully shy, she has few friends, save for Lucas, ...
Style:
touching, serious, realistic, teen, feel good
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
homelessness, teen drinking, depression, high school, human spirit, social differences, teenage life, youth, best friend, society, life is a bitch, teenage love ...
Time:
year 2010
Place:
france, europe, paris france
Similarity:
34%
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
Teacher and novelist François Bégaudeau plays a version of himself as he negotiates a year with his racially mixed students from a tough Parisian neighborhood.
Style:
sincere, melancholic, psychological, realistic, talky ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens, kids, teen drama
Plot:
teachers and students, high school life, adolescence, dedicated educator, high school, ethnic diversity, mentor, life philosophy, social relations, workplace, self discovery, teaching ...
Time:
year 2008, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
paris france, france, europe, morocco, caribbean ...
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Coming-of-Age drama telling the story of the strong bond between Xavier and his little brother Jacques and their struggle to remain together despite all odds.
Style:
realistic, touching, serious, sentimental, poignant ...
Plot:
coming of age, youth, brother brother relationship, summer, rebelliousness, forceful separation, family relations, life turned upside down, countryside, boy, adolescence, family drama ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Life in the small town of Grandview, Illinois is one that is just like any other city or town. Tim Pearson, soon to be graduating high school wants to go to Florida to study oceanography. He meets Michelle "Mike" Cody and is attracted to ...
Style:
captivating, touching, humorous, sentimental, independent film ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, small town, love triangle, friendship, youth, human nature, society, family relations, working class, fall in love, teenager, betrayal ...
Time:
80s
Place:
illinois, california, texas, new jersey
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Drama
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Shot in and around the central Otago communities of Omakau, Ophir and Alexandra, A coming-of-age film that centers on overweight 12-year old Billy who is not interested in being a farmer and doesn't care for Rugby. His escape is the fantasy ...
Style:
semi serious, sentimental, feel good, touching, sexual ...
Audience:
girls' night, teen fantasy
Plot:
childhood, friendship, lgbt, gay, bullying, youth, social misfits, gay relationship, rugby, coming of age, teenage life, teenage love ...
Time:
70s, year 1975
Place:
new zealand
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Pete, an eight-year-old Catholic boy growing up in the suburbs of Chicago in the mid-1970s, attends Catholic school, where as classes let out for the summer, he's admonished by a nun to follow the path of the Lord, and not that of the Devil. ...
Style:
touching, sentimental, sincere, uplifting, cult classic ...
Audience:
family outing, kids
Plot:
childhood, judaism, friendship between boys, afterlife, friendship, coming of age, boy, youth, catholicism, mentor, rabbi, religion ...
Time:
year 2002, 70s, 20th century, year 1976, 1930s ...
Place:
chicago, usa, illinois
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden, Denmark, Finland
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A teenager's reputation is destroyed when she falls asleep drunk at a party and some boys take provocative photos of her.
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous, light, teen ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
love and romance, high school, social relations, teenage life, friendship, first sex, sexual relations, coming of age, party, reconciliation, society, dishonesty ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
eastern europe, europe
Similarity:
33%
244
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Lyon, France in 1970s, Sibylle, Corinne, and Georgette are sisters who share everything, as they live with their Italian mother. Sibylle is the only blonde in the family, except for their father who abandoned them, and she feels isolated. She dreams ...
Style:
realistic, serious, emotional, touching, sentimental ...
Plot:
sisters, family relations, family problems, youth, introspection, parents and children, siblings relations, dysfunctional family, self discovery, obsessive quest, single parent, coming of age ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, 21st century
Place:
italy, lyon, europe, france
Similarity:
33%
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