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The Slingshot (1993)
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The Slingshot (1993)
Original name: Kådisbellan
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Stocholm in the 1920s. Young Roland lives with his socialist father, Jewish mother and a boxing brother. His mother sells condoms illegally, and from them, Roland makes slingshots which he sells. His rebellious ways has gotten him the special attention of his school teacher, who always makes sure that Roland is punished. Roland also tries to make extra money by repairing bicycles, a successful business that in the end lands him in hot water.
Style: bleak, serious, harsh, enigmatic, sexy, sadistic, offbeat, realistic, crying, erotic ...
Audience: teens, pre-teens
Plot: coming of age, childhood, anti semitism, bullying, working class, politics, bigotry, reform school, corporal punishment, family life, life is a bitch, teenage life, society, rebelliousness, school, youth, teacher, death, male nudity, swedish, prejudice, fascist, socialism, family relations, children ...
Time: 1930s, year 1993, 1920s, 20th century, 20s
Place: europe, stockholm sweden, eastern europe, tokyo, new jersey
Keyword: jewish, sweden, russian, gangsters

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, touching and bleak films with plots about youth, coming of age, family relations, society, parents and children, life is a bitch and school mostly in Drama and Crime genres. Some movies like The Slingshot: Blame It on Fidel! (2006), Concrete Night (2013), Tom Brown's Schooldays (2005), Abandoned (2001), Small Faces (1995). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Blame It on Fidel! (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A 9-year-old girl weathers big changes in her household as her parents become radical political activists in 1970-71 Paris.
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Time: 70s
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Concrete Night (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Finland, Sweden, Denmark
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A 14-year-old boy in a stifling Helsinki slum takes some unwise life lessons from his soon-to-be-incarcerated older brother, in Finnish master Pirjo Honkasalo’s gorgeously stylized and emotionally devastating work about what we pass on to younger ...
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Tom Brown's Schooldays (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story: The determined new headmaster of an English prep school attempts to reform the frequently unruly students, who are tormented by a ruthless bully.
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Plot: bullying, corporal punishment, boarding school, coming of age, friends, self discovery, boys' school, power relations, lifestyle, misfit, dedicated educator, hardcase students ...
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Abandoned (2001)
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Country: Hungary
Duration: 100 min.
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Style: uplifting, serious, touching, sincere, art house ...
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Duration: 108 min.
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Time: year 1996, 20th century, 90s
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
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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 ...
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Genre: Drama
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Duration: 110 min.
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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: sincere, emotional, serious, realistic, sentimental ...
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Time: 20th century, 70s
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Simon & the Oaks (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Norway
Duration: 122 min.
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Style: realistic, tense, touching, psychological, contemplative ...
Audience: teens
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Style: emotional, talky, intense, serious, thought provoking ...
Audience: teens, family outing
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Time: 1950s, 50s, year 1992, 20th century
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