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What Richard Did (2012)
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What Richard Did (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland
Duration: 88 min.
Story: What Richard Did is a striking portrait of the fall of a Dublin golden-boy and high school rugby star whose world unravels one summer night.
Style: serious, captivating, suspense, disturbing, educational, indie film, tense, atmospheric, realistic
Audience: teens
Plot: life turned upside down, lifestyle, coming of age, friendship, summer, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, danger, beautiful scenery, high school, school, sex scene, friendship between teens, bare chested male, teenage protagonist, accidental killing, brawl, youth, high school life, athlete's life, once promising, violent content, teenager, teenage sex, party, death ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century, contemporary
Place: ireland, dublin ireland
Keyword: irish

Most similar movies to What Richard Did

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, captivating and disturbing films with plots about teenager, youth, coming of age, friendship, teenage life, friends and teenage girl mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like What Richard Did: Affluenza (2014), Kissing Candice (2017), Kisses (2008), Glassland (2014), Apaches (2013). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Affluenza (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: An aspiring young photographer finds himself caught up in a heady world of money, sex, and privilege when he moves to wealthy Long Island in the summer of 2008.
Style: serious, realistic, independent film, suspense, tense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: coming of age, youth, social decay, society, rich, suburbs, suburban life, teenager, bare chested male, summer, international crisis, human nature ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york, long island
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Kissing Candice (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Candice longs to escape the boredom of her seaside town, but when a boy she dreams about turns up in real life, she becomes involved with a dangerous local gang.
Style: disturbing, suspense, captivating, bleak
Plot: teenage girl, gang, dream, friendship, teenager, stranger, escape, danger, homeless, poverty, woman, isolation ...
Place: ireland
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91%
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Kisses (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland, Sweden
Duration: 72 min.
Story: Two kids, Dylan and Kylie, run away from home at Christmas and spend a night of magic and terror on the streets of inner-city Dublin.
Style: realistic, touching, sincere, sentimental, captivating ...
Audience: teens
Plot: youth, coming of age, dysfunctional family, friendship, family problems, escapades, obsessive quest, danger, innocence lost, first love, child, love ...
Time: 21st century
Place: ireland, europe, dublin ireland
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91%
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Glassland (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland
Duration: 93 min.
Story: In a desperate attempt to reunite his broken family, a young taxi driver becomes entangled in the criminal underworld.
Style: realistic, rough, disturbing, serious, emotional ...
Plot: addiction, dysfunctional family, unlikely criminals, moral dilemma, youth, life is a bitch, family in crisis, family problems, family relations, society, oedipus complex, teenager ...
Time: 21st century
Place: ireland, dublin ireland
⇓ similarity ⇓
89%
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Apaches (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 82 min.
Story: While thousands of tourists invade the beaches, camping grounds and clubs, five teenagers from Porto Vecchio hang out. One evening one of them leads the others to an unoccupied luxury villa. They spend the night there. Before they leave, they steal ...
Style: captivating, realistic, serious, gloomy
Audience: teens
Plot: friendship, teenage life, murder, crime gone awry, youth, island, group of friends, disposing of a dead body, disorder, friends, criminal's revenge, death of friend ...
Time: 21st century
Place: corsica, france
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78%
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Being 14 (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 86 min.
Story: The lives and turbulent adventures of a bunch of fourteen-year-old teenagers, through the eyes of three young girls - Sarah, Jade and Louise - with one last year to go before high school.
Style: realistic, emotional, captivating, psychological, atmospheric ...
Plot: friendship, teenage life, coming of age, drug abuse, youth, sexuality, self discovery, college, best friend, strong female presence, friends, high school life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
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78%
Run Sister Run! (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Emilia is a teenager and a good girl, who never forgets her homework or her little sister, Elsa. Siiri is just one year older than Emilia but not at all like her. When Emilia and Siiri become friends, Emilia's life changes. Siiri encourages her ...
Style: realistic, emotional, semi serious, captivating, sincere ...
Audience: teens
Plot: friendship, rebelliousness, self discovery, life turned upside down, juvenile delinquency, youth, adolescence vs adulthood, family relations, family problems, social relations, teenage life, parents and children ...
Time: 21st century
Place: finland, helsinki finland
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74%
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32A (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland, Germany
Duration: 89 min.
Story: This story is set in the "in-between" time of a girl's life, when she is no longer a child and not yet a woman. We open with our heroine, Maeve, putting on her new snow white bra, and stepping out into the world as a young woman. She ...
Style: captivating, psychological, disturbing
Plot: 13 year old, schoolgirl, first love, teenage girl, grownups, adolescence vs adulthood, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, fall in love, couple relations, relationships, social problems, in love ...
Time: 70s
Place: ireland, dublin ireland
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67%
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Han Gong-ju (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 112 min.
Story: After transferring to a new school, a teenage girl finds her troubled past exposed when she innocently signs up for a singing club.
Style: realistic, serious, psychological, tense, captivating ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: high school, teenage rape, teenager, haunted by the past, life is a bitch, coming of age, estrangement, investigation, uncover truth, family secret, confronting the past, society ...
Time: 21st century
Place: korea
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65%
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Palo Alto (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Palo Alto weaves together three stories of teenage lust, boredom, and self-destruction: shy, sensitive April, torn between an illicit flirtation with her soccer coach and an unrequited crush on sweet stoner Teddy; Emily, who offers sexual favors to ...
Style: melancholic, atmospheric, serious, teen, realistic ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, adolescence, older man younger woman relationship, youth, teenage life, high school, teenage girl, teenager, crush, high school life, unfulfillment, older man young girl relationship ...
Time: year 2013, 21st century
Place: california, palo alto california, britain, usa
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64%
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Breathe (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Charlie, a 17-year-old girl tortured by doubt, is thrilled when she becomes friends with Sarah, but when Sarah tires of Charlie and looks for a new friend, their relationship takes an ominous turn.
Style: psychological, serious, touching, realistic, sentimental ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: friendship, humiliation, teenage love, lesbian, coming of age, female friendship, gender, asthma, high school, youth, love affair, young lovers ...
Time: year 2014, 90s, 21st century
Place: france, south of france
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Life Hits (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Christina is living in a suburb to Copenhagen. With her class mates Cecilie, Trine and Pernille she slacks her school work, living mostly for the weekends of gate crashing, getting drunk, experimenting with drugs and scoring guys. But her world is ...
Style: realistic, bleak, serious, rough, captivating ...
Audience: teens
Plot: revenge, lifestyle, life is a bitch, juvenile delinquency, teenage life, high school life, friendship, social misfits, youth, drug abuse, misfit, society ...
Time: 21st century
Place: denmark, europe
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53%
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Last Summer (1969)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: During summer vacation on Fire Island, three young people--a girl and two guys--become so close that they form a sort-of threesome. When an uncool girl tries to infiltrate the trio's newly found relationship, they construct an elaborate plot ...
Style: disturbing, slasher, controversial, sexual, spooky ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: beach, friendship, rape, teenager, love, coming of age, friends, teenage sexuality, teenage love, female nudity, realism, relationships ...
Time: year 1969, 60s
Place: long island
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53%
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West Coast (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Four inseparable teenagers in a small town in Brittany (France). As lifelong fans of the West Coast, they think are real gangstas. Together as a "gang", they are invincible, respected, fearless and nothing can reach them, certainly not the ...
Style: psychological, disturbing, captivating
Plot: teenager, group of friends, friendship, coming of age, teenage boy, gangster, teenage life, small town life, small town, lifestyle, juvenile delinquency, bullying ...
Place: france
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The Education of Charlie Banks (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: College student Charlie Banks has to face old problems when the bully he had an unpleasant encounter with back in high school shows up on his campus.
Style: serious, realistic, sincere, suspense, disturbing ...
Audience: teens
Plot: coming of age, college, haunted by the past, college life, bullying, youth, moral dilemma, buddies, roommate, love triangle, teenager, gay ...
Time: 20th century, year 2007, 70s
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city, greenwich village manhattan new york city
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To Be Fat Like Me (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Pretty, popular, and slim high-schooler Aly Schimdt had plans of earning a sports scholarship to college but a knee injury ruins her chances. She decides to enter a documentary contest in the hopes of winning money for college. She believes that ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, suspense, suspenseful, captivating ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, teen drama
Plot: teenage girl, overweight, female friendship, summer school, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, doctors and patients, youth, contests and competitions, working undercover, social experiment, bullying, follow your dream ...
Time: 21st century
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Here Are the Young Men (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Dublin teenagers Matthew, nihilistic Rez, and the deranged Kearney, leave school to a social vacuum of drinking and drugs, falling into shocking acts of transgression.
Style: psychological, disturbing, captivating
Plot: teenager, friendship between men, teenage protagonist, orgy, drug, adolescence vs adulthood, social problems, grownups, teenage life, lifestyle, summer vacation, gay ...
Place: ireland, dublin ireland
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51%
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Mall Girls (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Shopping malls - today's place of creating desires. Best jewelry, clothes, shoes. Unaffordable by young girls, but they "work" to get themselves sponsors for new items.
Style: serious, touching, realistic, tense, captivating ...
Plot: shopping mall, teenage prostitute, poverty, love and romance, teenage love, lifestyle, youth, friendship, misfit, school, adolescence vs adulthood, teenage life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: poland
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She's Too Young (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A mother/daughter relationship is thrown off balance when the mother (Marcia Gay Harden) discovers that her "good girl" daughter (Alexis Dziena) is part of a group who are engaging in sexual activities with multiple partners. Such activity ...
Style: serious, thought provoking, captivating, realistic, disturbing ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: teenage girl, mother daughter relationship, sexually transmitted disease, teenage sexuality, teenage life, parents and children, high school life, society, lifestyle, suburban life, kids in trouble, teen social issues ...
Time: 21st century
Place: nova scotia
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Sex and the USA (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Thirteen year old Audrey Shaw is new to Bellweather, California and certain shell never fit in when she meets Krista Rich, the pretty, popular girl she aspires to be "or be with" shes just not sure. In a conservative California town, ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, sexual, mockumentary
Audience: teens
Plot: friends, youth, friendship, lifestyle, society, teenage life, coming of age, innocence lost, high school life, teenager, drug, sexuality ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, california
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A Thousand Times Stronger (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 85 min.
Story: The arrival of a new girl causes a stir in classroom social structure.
Style: emotional, realistic, touching, disturbing, serious ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: misfit, lifestyle, social relations, teenage life, self discovery, friends, high school life, school, teenager, harassment, youth, misled ...
Time: 21st century
Place: eastern europe
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Isy Way Out (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story: 16-year-old Jonas is in love with his best friend Isy, but she likes older boys. When Isy takes drugs at a party and loses control in the intoxication, Jonas friends Lenny and Martin make fun of it with Jonas. But then the situation escalates and ...
Style: psychological, tense, suspense, unusual plot structure, disturbing
Plot: friendship, youth, friend, teenager, classmate, teenage boy, family relations, mother daughter relationship, friends, rape, rape victim, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: germany
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S#x Acts (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Gili is a teenager who decides to change schools. She is determined to improve her lame social status. Over the course of a few weeks she hooks up with several different boys, all from her new school. Their encounters get more and more sexual, each ...
Style: realistic, sexual, serious, atmospheric, captivating ...
Audience: teens, teen drama, adult
Plot: teenage life, youth, life is a bitch, sex scene, sexual promiscuity, sexual relations, male masturbation, casual sex, sexual abuse, school, surveillance, nudity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: palestine, israel, middle east
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46%
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The Mighty Celt (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Centred around greyhound racing in a Catholic community after the "Troubles" have ended but where their legacy remains strong. Donal is a 14-year old who works in a greyhound racing kennel owned by Good Joe. If Donal's favourite ...
Style: emotional, realistic, sentimental, captivating, serious ...
Plot: dog, youth, against the odds, friendship, contests and competitions, hopes, coming of age, animal training, family relations, teenage boy, parents and children, boss and employee ...
Time: 21st century
Place: ireland, europe
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Garage (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A tragicomedy set in the world of gas stations in rural Ireland, where over-diligent employee of the garage searches for intimacy during the course of a life-changing summer.
Style: realistic, psychological, melancholic, thought provoking, bleak ...
Plot: small town, society, friendship, social relations, misfit, angst, village, loneliness, friends, coming of age, village life, teenage life ...
Place: ireland, europe
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Park Hwa-young (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Hwa-young is an 18-year-old student living alone. Her friends call her “mom” and use her house as their place to hang out, but don’t really include her in their clique. Hwa-young pays particular attention to one of the friends, Mijeong.
Style: suspenseful, captivating, unusual plot structure, suspense, disturbing ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: revenge, danger, jealousy, friend, betrayal, teenage girl, couples, friendship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, vengeance, teenager, infidelity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: korea
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42%
All Good Children (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland, UK, Belgium, France
Duration: 81 min.
Story: After experiencing a tragedy, Irish brothers Dara and Eoin move to rural France, where they become friends with young Bella, whose beauty and charm bewitches the emotionally unstable Dara.
Style: atmospheric, realistic, serious, psychological, captivating ...
Plot: coming of age, obsession, teenage love, family relations, youth, love and romance, unfulfillment, couples, society, friendship, cat, childhood trauma ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, france, ireland
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40%
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How She Move (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Canada, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: After the death of Raya Green's(Rutina Wesley) sister, she gets out from her classes at school, and sees a stomp crew practicing. She meets Bishop(Dwain Murphy) which is the dance crew leader. She then meets Michelle and does a stomp battle ...
Style: realistic, touching, serious, exciting, independent film
Audience: teens
Plot: dancing, dance, coming of age, youth, follow your dream, contests and competitions, teenage life, friendship, black people, ambition, hopes, lifestyle ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: usa
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40%
The Devil in the Skin (2011)
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: touching, serious, realistic, sentimental
Plot: coming of age, youth, brother brother relationship, rebelliousness, forceful separation, summer, family relations, life turned upside down, countryside, boy, childhood, teenager ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
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40%
The Last Summer (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Four good friends, all seventeen-year old, lose their innocence during their last summer together. Flanders 1996. Rik, Tim, Roel and Bart aimlessly wile away the summer days in a small village where nothing exciting ever happens. When Rik becomes ...
Style: serious, realistic, sincere, emotional
Plot: coming of age, teenage life, friendship, youth, intrigue, rivalry, domestic disturbance, buddies, lifestyle, family relations, parents and children, summer ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: belgium, europe
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40%
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