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11 Flowers (2011)
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11 Flowers (2011)
Original name: 我11
Genre: Crime, Drama, History
Country: China, France
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A coming-of-age story set during China's Cultural Revolution. 11 year old Wang Han finds himself entangled with a fugative and struggles to understand the adult world.
Style: sincere, atmospheric, touching, captivating, serious, realistic, semi autobiographical, independent film
Plot: boy, youth, family relations, parents and children, danger, elementary school, mischievous children, disorder, law enforcement, kids in trouble, coming of age, friendship, father son relationship, brother sister relationship, mother son relationship, police investigation, factory worker, school, murderer, painter, escape, male nudity, lie, childhood, death sentence ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, year 1975
Place: china, asia
Keyword: chinese

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, touching and captivating films with plots about youth, family relations, coming of age, boy, friendship, parents and children and society mostly in Drama, Crime and History genres. Some movies like 11 Flowers: Sister (2012), Mother, I Love You (2013), The Son of the Shark (1993), Kauwboy (2012), A Time in Quchi (2013). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Sister (2012)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Switzerland, France
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A drama set at a Swiss ski resort and centered on a boy who supports his sister by stealing from wealthy guests.
Style: realistic, serious, atmospheric, captivating, social ...
Audience: teens
Plot: coming of age, ski, dysfunctional family, life is a bitch, snow, petty criminal, mountain, boy, self discovery, society, family relations, unemployment ...
Time: 21st century
Place: switzerland, france, europe, swiss alps, alps
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100%
Mother, I Love You (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Latvia
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Raimonds, a 12 year old boy, falls into a world of petty crime while trying to stay out of trouble with his mother.
Style: realistic, serious, touching, captivating
Audience: teens
Plot: kids in trouble, childhood, coming of age, juvenile delinquency, family relations, single parent, youth, parents and children, bittersweet, mother and son, boy, financial problem ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: latvia
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100%
The Son of the Shark (1993)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Belgium, France, Luxembourg
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Brothers Martin and Simon, not yet teens, are incorrigible vandals; Martin runs away from reform school, Simon from foster homes, and they always find each other in a seacoast town of Lignan, where their destructive behavior is infamous. (It may ...
Style: realistic, serious, rough, touching
Plot: coming of age, boy, juvenile delinquency, creepy child, child abuse, children, psycho, brother brother relationship, family life, siblings relations, orphan, life is a bitch ...
Time: year 1993, 90s
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Kauwboy (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Ten-year-old Jojo lives with his father, a security guard with a volatile personality who drinks to manage the unspoken despair he feels about his wife's absence, which he refuses to discuss with his son. In the midst of so much uncertainty, ...
Style: touching, sincere, serious, melancholic, realistic
Audience: family outing
Plot: parents and children, coming of age, family problems, dysfunctional family, friendship, father son relationship, youth, pets, escape from reality, dishonesty, bird, life & death ...
Time: year 2012, 21st century
Place: holland
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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A Time in Quchi (2013)
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 relations, family problems, friends, parents and children, elderly, youth, countryside, school, boy, siblings relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: taiwan, asia
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46%
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The Rocket (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia, Thailand, Laos
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Set against the lush backdrop of rural Laos, this spirited drama tells the story of scrappy ten-year-old Ahlo, who yearns to break free from his ill-fated destiny. After his village is displaced to make way for a massive dam, Ahlo escapes with his ...
Style: realistic, captivating, sincere, touching, serious
Audience: family outing
Plot: youth, down on your luck, contests and competitions, parents and children, friendship, society, human spirit, post war, change of luck, family relations, boy, children ...
Place: asia, thailand
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45%
A Year in My Life (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 94 min.
Story: In 1950s France, a young boy is taken in by a couple after spending a few months in the care of social service.
Style: uplifting, sentimental, touching, sincere, captivating ...
Plot: friendship, adoption, orphan, youth, family relations, foster parent, foster child, father son relationship, mother son relationship, parents and children, family life, foster home ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
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44%
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LUV (2012)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Over the course of one day, a shy 13-year-old forms a bond with his troubled uncle.
Style: serious, captivating, touching, realistic, rough ...
Plot: family relations, boy, odd couple, friendship, dysfunctional family, black, life is a bitch, danger, orphan, african american, hip hop culture, hip hop ...
Time: 21st century
Place: maryland, baltimore, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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Clandestine Childhood (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina, Spain, Brazil
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Juan lives in clandestinity. Just like his mum, his dad and his adored uncle Beto, outside his home he has another name. At school, Juan is known as Ernesto. And he meets María, who only has one name. Based on true facts, set in the Argentina of ...
Style: serious, atmospheric, realistic
Plot: youth, coming of age, family relations, hidden identity, school, family life, dictatorship, disorder, parents and children, dishonesty, false identity, hiding ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, year 1979
Place: argentina, latin america, buenos aires argentina
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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Stella (2008)
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 ...
Style: semi serious, sentimental, realistic, humorous, touching ...
Plot: coming of age, friendship, working class, mischievous children, misfit, disorder, power relations, elementary school, teachers and students, school, parents and children, streetwise ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, year 1976
Place: france, paris france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
King of the Hill (1993)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Based on the Depression-era bildungsroman memoir of writer A. E. Hotchner, the film follows the story of a boy struggling to survive on his own in a hotel in St. Louis after his mother is committed to a sanatorium with tuberculosis. His father, a ...
Style: touching, realistic, heartbreaking, serious, depressing ...
Plot: coming of age, hotel, childhood, dysfunctional family, against the odds, loneliness, child's point of view, children, family problems, parents and children, hopes, life is a bitch ...
Time: 1930s, year 1993, 90s, 20th century
Place: missouri, st. louis missouri
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41%
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Mystery (2012)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: China, France
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A car full of irresponsible youths hit a woman on a rainy freeway and think she is trying an insurance scam.
Style: realistic, serious, atmospheric, emotional, tense ...
Plot: infidelity, double life, dishonesty, car accident, uncover truth, murder, danger, couples, affair, accident, flashback, police investigation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: china, east asia, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
The Last Hammer Blow (2014)
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, bittersweet, single parent, teenage boy, father son relationship, orchestra conductor, father son reunion, boyhood, father, boy ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Sivas (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, Turkey
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Establishing a bleak village in Eastern Turkey as its setting, Sivas features the story of Aslan, an eleven-year-old boy, and Sivas, a weathered fighting dog who develop a strong relationship after Aslan finds Sivas wounded in a ditch, left to die.
Style: serious, sincere, captivating, touching, gloomy ...
Plot: friendship, parents and children, life is a bitch, danger, society, dog, boy, child, pets, youth, friends, family relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Kamchatka (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina, Spain, Italy
Duration: 106 min.
Story: The movie show us how life was in Argentina for dissident people, in the seventies, under the military government.
Style: serious, sincere, sentimental, realistic, political ...
Plot: coming of age, life is a bitch, family in danger, family life, youth, confined, parents and children, political unrest, isolation, society, totalitarianism, parent child relationship ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, year 1976
Place: argentina, latin america, buenos aires argentina
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40%
The Orheim Company (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A strong, human tale about a boy growing up with an alcoholic father, but also an energetic story about teenage lust, pain and passion – about liberation and redemption.
Style: realistic, serious, touching, emotional, captivating ...
Audience: teens
Plot: family relations, childhood, parenthood, parents and children, teenage life, haunted by the past, coming of age, youth, coping, orphan, criminality, mountain ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
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39%
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Dad (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Slovenia
Duration: 71 min.
Story: After a long separation, a father and his son spend the day fishing on the river bank. On a beautiful autumn Sunday, surrounded by the majestic countryside, they seem to be alone in the world. They must start all over again.
Style: realistic, atmospheric, sincere, stylized, serious ...
Plot: family relations, youth, parent child relationship, countryside, parents and children, father son relationship, nature, kids and family, father and son, separated parents, father, river ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Brooklyn Rules (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Brooklyn, 1985. With the mob world as a backdrop, three life-long friends struggle with questions of love, loss and loyalty.
Style: realistic, captivating, psychological, atmospheric, serious ...
Plot: gangster, friendship, friends, mafia, love affair, coming of age, youth, murder, revenge, city life, rivalry, danger ...
Time: 80s, year 2007, 20th century, 70s
Place: brooklyn new york city, new york, usa
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38%
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Joe the King (1999)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A destitute 14 year old struggles to keep his life together despite harsh abuse at his mother's hands, harsher abuse at his father's, and a growing separation from his slightly older brother. Petty thefts for food grow into more major ...
Style: emotional, harsh, tense, rough, grim ...
Plot: coming of age, children, dysfunctional family, child abuse, working class, youth, boy, redemption, poverty, childhood, corporal punishment, debt ...
Time: year 1999, 70s, 90s
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 7.1
 33K
Mean Creek (2004)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Teenagers living in small-town Oregon take a boat trip for a birthday celebration. When they get an idea to play a mean trick on the town bully, it suddenly goes too far. Soon they're forced to deal with the unexpected consequences of their ...
Style: disturbing, psychological, suspenseful, suspense, intense ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: prank, friendship, kids in trouble, small town, vengeance, coming of age, teenager, bullying, revenge, bully, guilt, childhood ...
Time: year 2004, 21st century
Place: oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Becoming Redwood (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A quirky coming of age story about an 11-year-old boy named Redwood who dreams that if he can beat Jack Nicklaus at the 1975 Master's of golf he'll reunite his parents.
Style: serious, realistic, touching, sincere, gloomy
Plot: youth, golf, coming of age, teenage life, life turned upside down, estrangement, daydreamer, family relations, parents and children, disorder, hopes, misfit ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: california, canada, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Mickybo and Me (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, France, Ireland
Duration: 95 min.
Story: The film tells the story of two boys who become friends at the start of the Troubles in 1970. The boys share an obsession with Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, with the consequence that they run away to Australia.
Style: sincere, sentimental, touching, semi serious, captivating ...
Plot: youth, kids in trouble, friendship, mischievous children, boy, coming of age, society, obsession, political unrest, boyhood, friends, human rights ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: ireland, europe, northern ireland, belfast
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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 10K
Aftershock (2010)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: China
Duration: 135 min.
Story: Based on the Tangshan Earthquake in 1976 that took the lives of 240,000 people.
Style: sincere, serious, emotional, psychological, factual ...
Plot: disaster, natural disaster, family reunited, parents and children, haunted by the past, adoption, moral dilemma, redemption, family in crisis, family tragedy, presumed dead, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, year 1976, 90s, 80s ...
Place: china, canada, east asia, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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The War (1994)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story: The son of a Vietnam War Veteran must deal with neighborhood bullies as well as his dad's post-traumatic stress disorder while growing up in the deep south in the 1970's.
Style: realistic, emotional, sentimental, touching, dark comedy ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: bullying, vietnam war, coming of age, childhood, father son relationship, child, friendship, boy, children, war, youth, bittersweet ...
Time: 70s, 1900s, year 1994, 20th century
Place: vietnam, mississippi, usa, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Beijing Bicycle (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Taiwan, China
Duration: 113 min.
Story: A seventeen-year-old country boy working in Beijing as a courier has his bicycle stolen, and finds it with a schoolboy his age.
Style: touching, compassionate, harsh, serious, realistic ...
Plot: bicycle, delivery, unlikely friendships, cycling, teenage life, fish out of water, youth, buddies, life is a bitch, gang, society, down on your luck ...
Time: year 2001
Place: china, beijing china, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Kim Novak Never Swam in Genesaret's Lake (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Sweden, Norway, Germany
Duration: 95 min.
Story: 14-year old Erik gets sent to live with his older brother, Henry, during the summer as his mother is dying in cancer. Henry starts dating Ewa, who is married to Berra. A few days after Ewa shows up battered and bruised from an altercation with ...
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, captivating, melancholic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: skinny dipping, friendship, power relations, family problems, who done it, youth, teenage sexuality, coming of age, teenage boy, brother brother relationship, vacation, summer ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 6.8
 34K
Oliver Twist (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France, UK, Czech Republic
Duration: 130 min.
Story: Oliver Twist the modern filmed version of Charles Dickens bestseller, a Roman Polanski adaptation. The classic Dickens tale, where an orphan meets a pickpocket on the streets of London. From there, he joins a household of boys who are trained to ...
Style: emotional, costume drama, atmospheric, serious, touching ...
Audience: family outing, teens, kids
Plot: boy, orphan, orphanage, poverty, child abuse, childhood, children, child, friendship, kidnapping, death sentence, apprentice ...
Time: victorian era, 19th century, middle ages, year 2005, 1800s ...
Place: england, london, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
I Corrupt All Cops (2009)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 112 min.
Story: In the early 1970s, the Governor of Hong Kong decided to clean up the police force. The ICAC was established, whose operation branch was headed by Yim. Bong and Unicorn also joined the ICAC. Despite threats of violence and intimidation, they managed ...
Style: tense, captivating, suspense, atmospheric, realistic ...
Plot: drug dealing, police investigation, police corruption, rivalry, gang, money laundering, society, cop, dishonesty, strong violent content, profanity, scapegoat ...
Time: 20th century, 60s, 70s
Place: hong kong, china, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 6.2
 2K
Sacrifice (2010)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: China
Duration: 122 min.
Story: For generations the Zhao family has wielded power, until their mortal enemy TU’AN GU slaughters the entire clan, determined to wipe out their influence forever. But one Zhao baby survives hidden by CHENG YING the doctor who delivered him. When ...
Style: serious, exciting, atmospheric, suspenseful, captivating ...
Audience: adult
Plot: orphan, disorder, betrayal, vengeance, master warrior, uninhibited rivalry, medieval, hidden identity, haunted by the past, murder, ancient, antiquity ...
Time: 6th century
Place: ancient china, china, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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