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Dear Prudence (2010)
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Dear Prudence (2010)
Original name: Belle épine
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 80 min.
Story: After the death of her mother, 17-year-old Prudence finds herself living alone in her Paris apartment. Then she meets Maryline, a rebel of her own age, who introduces her to the thrills of motorcycle racing on the biker circuit at Rungis. Prudence’s newfound lease of freedom becomes complicated when she falls for a boy Franck who wastes no time in taking advantage of her naivety...
Style: emotional, realistic, psychological, captivating, teen, exciting, sincere, touching, serious
Audience: teens, pre-teens
Plot: coming of age, teenage life, youth, teenage love, family problems, teenage girl, troubled youth, drug abuse, woman, car race, motorcycle race, love and romance, rebellion, rebelliousness, death in the family, dealing with death, sex, motorcycle, female nudity, male nudity, first sex, accidental death, death of friend, 17 year old, sister sister relationship ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: france, europe

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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, coming of age, teenage life, family relations, love and romance, parents and children and teenager mostly in Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like Dear Prudence: A Week's Holiday (1980), Buddha Mountain (2010), Living on Love Alone (2010), Young Girls in Black (2010), Being 14 (2015). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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A Week's Holiday (1980)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Laurence, a young schoolteacher from Lyons, takes a week's leave. During the break, she reflects on her career and her personal life.
Style: contemplative, realistic, serious, psychological, thought provoking ...
Plot: love and romance, contests and competitions, youth, couples, family relations, family gatherings, high school, sex talk, teacher student relationship, fear of commitment, school teacher, commitment ...
Time: 80s, year 1980, 20th century
Place: france, lyon
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Buddha Mountain (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Ding Bo (Chen Po Lin) and his friends Nan Feng (Fan Bingbing) and Fei Zao aka Fatso (Fei Long) are a trio of 20-something outsiders who have no intention of sitting exams and getting into universities. When they need a new home, they answer an ad ...
Style: emotional, serious, touching, realistic, sexy ...
Plot: teenage life, rebelliousness, teenage love, best friend, rebellion, youth, love and romance, coming of age, friends, urban, dealing with death
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: asia, china
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Living on Love Alone (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Julie Bataille is fed up with student jobs. At 23, with a 5-years university degree, she wants to work for real. She meets Ben by chance at a job interview. He's a guy who chose to live by the day, getting by with whatever crosses his path and ...
Style: captivating, semi serious, humorous, cynical, realistic ...
Plot: fall in love, youth, love and romance, college graduate, adolescence vs adulthood, love affair, couples, rebelliousness, clubbing, twentysomething life, nudity, coitus ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe
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Young Girls in Black (2010)
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: contemplative, realistic, tense, emotional, psychological ...
Plot: human nature, teenage life, family problems, society, youth, dysfunctional family, death, suicidal thoughts, friendship, rebelliousness, coming of age, rebellion ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe
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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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In Mom's Head (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Lulu's mother is depressed and has been as far back as she can remember, Lulu is determined to discover the truth behind her listlessness.
Style: serious, sincere, touching, emotional, captivating ...
Plot: family relations, unfulfilled love, haunted by the past, youth, life is a bitch, love and romance, parents and children, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, teenage girl, mother daughter relationship, secret, intergenerational friendship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe
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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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Lena (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands, Belgium
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Lena is a lonely, plump adolescent girl. Much to her surprise she gets a relationship with the popular but unreliable Daan. Lena moves in with Daan and his strange father Tom and is willing to do a lot for his love. More than a lot.
Style: realistic, psychological, captivating, atmospheric, serious ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, leaving home, teenage love, parents and children, teenage life, physical appearance, youth, family problems, family relations, teenager, loneliness, obsession ...
Time: 21st century
Place: holland, europe, rotterdam netherlands
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Ave (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Bulgaria
Duration: 86 min.
Story: While hitchhiking from Sofia to Ruse, Kamen meets Avé, a 17-year-old runaway girl. With each ride they hitch, Avé invents new identities for them, and her compulsive lies get Kamen deeper and deeper into trouble. Reluctantly drawn into this ...
Style: road movie, captivating, serious, realistic, psychological ...
Plot: coming of age, hitchhiking, teenage life, journey, leaving home, fall in love, rebelliousness, youth, camping, resistance, travel, girl ...
Time: 21st century
Place: bulgaria, europe
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Restless (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Maurice (Michel Piccoli) is a composer, and a longtime member of the resistance. By chance, he shares a house with his teenager granddaughter. Claire, at 17, is eager to experience all sorts of things and the sooner the better, and rebels against ...
Style: touching, realistic, serious, captivating, gloomy
Plot: love and romance, couples, teenage life, family relations, haunted by the past, youth, teenage love, estrangement, elderly, relationship vs career, aging, first love ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, france
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49%
All Is Forgiven (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Victor lives in Vienna with Annette, his beautiful Austrian wife and their daughter Pamela. It’s spring. Fleeing his work, Victor spends his days outside: he plays with Pamela, pays a visit to Annette’s parents, loiters in the park with the drug ...
Style: realistic, touching, psychological, sentimental, captivating ...
Plot: drug addiction, father daughter reunion, family relations, redemption, teenager, parents and children, addiction, crumbling marriage, family problems, life is a bitch, hopes, unfulfillment ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, 21st century
Place: france, paris france, austria, europe
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I'm Glad My Mother Is Alive (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 91 min.
Story: This finely acted, delicate and provocative new film by one of France’s most impressive filmmakers—working here with his son, Nathan—depicts the troubled life of an adopted boy who, as a taciturn adult, visits his birth mother and strikes up a ...
Style: sincere, serious, captivating, emotional, realistic ...
Audience: teens, toddlers
Plot: mother son reunion, youth, foster child, disorder, haunted by the past, parents and children, adoption, family relations, family problems, mischievous children, dysfunctional family, siblings relations ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: france, europe
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Love Like Poison (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Anna, a young teenager, comes home from her Catholic boarding school for the holidays and discovers her father has left. Her mother is devastated and confined in the company of the local priest, who is also a childhood friend. Anna clings to her ...
Style: contemplative, realistic, psychological, captivating, sentimental ...
Audience: teens
Plot: coming of age, faith, dysfunctional family, mother daughter relationship, religion, belief in god, crisis of faith, self discovery, teenage love, moral dilemma, clergy, family problems ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, brittany, europe
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
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Audience: girls' night
Plot: teenage girl, single mother, stepfather, family relations, teenage love, teenage life, human nature, love and romance, youth, estrangement, couples, family problems ...
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Place: georgia, usa, new york
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Something in the Air (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 122 min.
Story: During the 1970s a student named Gilles gets entangled in contemporary political turmoils although he would rather just be a creative artist. While torn between his solidarity to his friends and his personal ambitions he falls in love with Christine.
Style: atmospheric, realistic, political, psychological, captivating ...
Audience: family friendly, teens
Plot: anarchist, coming of age, politics, teenage life, self discovery, fighting the system, rebellion, society, youth, working class, counterculture, riot ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, year 1968, year 1971, 60s
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Sisters (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 107 min.
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Atomic Age (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 67 min.
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47%
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The Hanged Man (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, Ireland
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Two lovers break the law and struggle to stay together when carnal obsession causes tempers to flare.
Style: emotional, realistic, serious, psychological, captivating ...
Audience: teens
Plot: blackmail, rape, mad love, haunted by the past, young lovers, teenage rape, youth, life is a bitch, teenager, love, kidnapping, coming of age ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, 21st century
Place: spain
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The First Day of the Rest of Your Life (2008)
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Country: France
Duration: 114 min.
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My Brother Tom (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min.
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Style: psychological, rough, sincere, emotional, captivating ...
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A Common Thread (2004)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
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The Bag of Flour (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, Morocco
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Based on a true story, this beautifully-shot epic traces the life of Sarah, from her early years in a Catholic orphanage in 1970s Belgium, through her rebellious, poverty-stricken teens in a village in the Atlas mountains of Morocco.
Style: serious, emotional, sentimental, touching, realistic
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Genre: Drama
Country: Bulgaria, Israel
Duration: 108 min.
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Place: france, europe
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No and Me (2010)
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, ...
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Genre: Drama
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Duration: 81 min.
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Style: atmospheric, realistic, serious, psychological, captivating ...
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Ponette (1996)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 97 min.
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Style: touching, realistic, talky, emotional, depressing ...
Plot: children, bereavement, little girl, child, adolescence, coming of age, grief, youth, girl, death, friendship, school ...
Time: year 1996, 90s, 20th century
Place: france, provence
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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Jess + Moss (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Jess, age 18, and Moss, age 12 are second cousins in the dark-fire tobacco fields of rural Western Kentucky. Without immediate families that they can relate to, and lacking friends their own age, they only have each other. Over the course of a ...
Style: atmospheric, realistic, contemplative, stylized, captivating ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 97 min.
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Style: psychological, serious, realistic, captivating, touching ...
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