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A Room for Romeo Brass (1999)
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A Room for Romeo Brass (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Two twelve-year-old boys, Romeo and Gavin, undergo an extraordinary test of character and friendship when Morell, a naive but eccentric and dangerous stranger, comes between them. Morell befriends with the two boys and later asks them to help him pursue Romeo's beautiful elder sister. He gradually becomes more violent after she rejects him.
Style: psychological, touching, serious, realistic, disturbing, independent film
Plot: friendship, youth, coming of age, boy, exodus, family relations, best friend, dysfunctional family, working class, rejection, friends, teenage life, family problems, human nature, teenager, fight, psychopath, violence, magic trick, betrayal, criminal, bully, loner, hospital, jealousy ...
Time: year 1999, 90s
Place: england, europe
Keyword: gangsters, flat

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, semi serious, humorous and touching films with plots about coming of age, youth, family relations, friendship, teenage life, parents and children and friends mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres. Some movies like A Room for Romeo Brass: West Is West (2010), Somers Town (2008), Anita & Me (2002), The Be All and End All (2009), Accidents Happen (2009). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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West Is West (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Comedy sequel to "East is East". Manchester, North of England, 1975. The now much diminished, but still claustrophobic and dysfunctional, Khan family continues to struggle for survival. Sajid, the youngest Khan, the runt of the litter, is ...
Style: feel good, humorous, witty, touching, semi serious ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, family relations, youth, love and romance, looking for love, family problems, society, siblings relations, teenage life, husband wife relationship, father son relationship, brother brother relationship ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, year 1975
Place: england, pakistan, europe, middle east, manchester
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Somers Town (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 71 min.
Story: Two teenagers, both newcomers to London, forge an unlikely friendship over the course of a hot summer. Tomo (Thomas Turgoose) is a runaway from Nottingham; Marek (Piotr Jagiello) lives in the district of Somers Town, between King's Cross and ...
Style: touching, realistic, semi serious, black and white, social ...
Plot: coming of age, immigrant, friendship, social differences, teenage life, parents and children, family relations, lifestyle, social misfits, single parent, love and romance, society ...
Time: year 2008, 90s
Place: london, england, europe, paris france
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Anita & Me (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Meena, a 12-year-old living in a mining village in the English Midlands in 1972, is the daughter of Indian parents who've come to England to give her a better life. This idyllic existence is upset by the arrival in the village of Anita Rutter ...
Style: touching, sentimental, realistic, humorous, semi serious
Plot: youth, culture clash, family relations, best friend, friendship, racism, family problems, hopes, teenage life, coming of age, interracial friendship, mother daughter relationship ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, year 1972
Place: england, britain, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
89%
The Be All and End All (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story: At fifteen Robbie has only one thing on his mind - losing his virginity. The problem is that he's in hospital with a fatal heart condition. And who has to overcome the odds and help him fulfil his final wish? His best friend Ziggy.
Style: touching, realistic, humorous, captivating, sex comedy ...
Plot: terminal illness, friendship, loss of virginity, last wish, looking for sex, teenage life, first sex, hospital, youth, unfulfillment, bittersweet, heart condition ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, europe, liverpool
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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Accidents Happen (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia, UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story: There are dysfunctional families... and then there are the Conways. After a family tragedy, 15-year-old Billy Conway has become the de facto glue between his bitter mom, distant brother, and stoic dad. But when Billy starts to act out, everything ...
Style: semi serious, touching, realistic, clever, humorous ...
Plot: coming of age, youth, dysfunctional family, family life, family problems, haunted by the past, teenage life, parents and children, social relations, dark humor, teenage boy, suburbs ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, 70s
Place: usa, new england
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64%
Once Upon a Time in the Midlands (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Dek, a decent but somewhat dull man, enjoys a happy existence with beloved girlfriend Shirley. They live together with her 12-year-old, Marlene: her daughter by the delinquent Jimmy, who flew the coop years ago and hasn't been heard from since. ...
Style: humorous, melancholic, entertaining, sweet, intense ...
Plot: family drama, honest, dysfunctional family, love, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship, starting over, parents and children, family life, couples, human nature, couple relations, siblings relations ...
Time: year 2002
Place: england, europe, glasgow scotland
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63%
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Viva Cuba (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Cuba
Duration: 92 min.
Story: The friendship between two children is threatened by their parents’ differences. Malú is from a family that was upper-class before the Revolution and remains well-to-do through remittances from relatives overseas, and her single mother (Larisa ...
Style: serious, touching, realistic, sincere, road movie
Plot: friendship, youth, coming of age, children, social differences, longing, against the odds, young heroes, dysfunctional family, parents and children, family life, family problems ...
Time: 21st century
Place: cuba, latin america
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58%
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Angus (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, France, Germany, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Angus is a large, pathetic 14 year old whose thoughts are most often filled with the image of one Melissa Lefevre. Angus is shy and thinks that he has no chance of ever 'getting' her. Being especially uncool, he is incredibly surprised ...
Style: feel good, light, humorous, sentimental, teen ...
Audience: teens, date night, teen drama
Plot: friendship, coming of age, bullying, teenager, high school, prank, public humiliation, teenage life, misfit, teenage love, love and romance, parents and children ...
Time: y2k, 90s
Place: minnesota
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54%
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Bruno (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: The story of a unique young boy genius, Bruno, whose expression of his own individuality leads his family and community along an emotional journey.
Style: realistic, touching, emotional, semi serious, humorous ...
Plot: youth, coming of age, dysfunctional family, friendship, family life, parents and children, family problems, prodigy, society, hopes, eccentric family, friends ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
Funeral Kings (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: It's always a good day for a funeral at St. Mark's Middle School. Andy and Charlie, two altar servers, don't just get to miss class anytime a parishioner kicks the bucket, they cut out early and play hooky as soon as the service is ...
Style: humorous, realistic, captivating, psychological, semi serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: coming of age, youth, group of friends, altar boy, profanity, friendship, best friend, teenage boy, sexual content, teenage life, friends, buddies ...
Time: near future, 21st century
Place: usa
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52%
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Short Skin (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Ever since he was a child, the seventeen-yearold Edoardo has suffered from a malformation of the foreskin that stops him from masturbating and makes him insecure and ill at ease with girls. Shut up in his sexless microcosm, Edoardo reacts with ...
Style: realistic, humorous, captivating, psychological, semi serious ...
Plot: coming of age, sexuality, anxiety, surgery, family relations, teenage life, teenage love, misfit, youth, masturbation, male nudity, teenage boy ...
Time: 21st century
Place: italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
The Butcher Boy (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Ireland
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Francie and Joe live the usual playful, fantasy filled childhoods of normal boys. However, with a violent, alcoholic father and a manic depressive, suicidal mother the pressure on Francie to grow up are immense. When Francie's world turns to ...
Style: dark comedy, disturbing, black comedy, depressing, psychological ...
Plot: mental illness, dysfunctional family, friendship, childhood, murder, coming of age, sexual abuse, bullying, altar boy, insanity, boarding school, transformation ...
Time: year 1997, 60s, 50s, 20th century
Place: ireland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
This Is the Night (2021)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: In the summer of 1982, as all of Staten Island anticipates the opening of a blockbuster boxing movie, an Italian-American family must confront its greatest challenges.
Style: disturbing, psychological, captivating, suspense, weird
Plot: gay, teenage crush, teenage boy, teenager, dysfunctional family, family secret, teenage protagonist, life is a bitch, family problems, teenage life, friends, friend ...
Time: year 1982
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48%
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The Debut (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Filipino-American high school student Ben (Dante Mercado) works in a comic book shop to earn money to pay his way into Cal Arts. His father, a postman, is determined that his son--who has won a pre-med scholarship to UCLA--will become a doctor. The ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, realistic, touching, witty ...
Plot: culture clash, coming of age, high school, friendship, couples, school, looking for love, high school life, lifestyle, love and romance, nightlife, siblings relations ...
Time: 90s
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48%
I Declare War (2012)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Summer war games between the neighborhood kids turns deadly serious when jealousy and betrayal enter the mix, in this alternately hilarious and horrifying black comedy that mixes equal parts Lord of the Flies and Roald Dahl.
Style: exciting, semi serious, humorous, disturbing, thought provoking ...
Plot: youth, coming of age, friendship, betrayal, buddies, weakness, young heroes, rivalry, human nature, contests and competitions, teenager, showdown ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
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47%
The Best Things in the World (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Everyday family life as perfectly normal madness. “As Melhores Coisas do Mundo“ follows a few days in the life of the 15-year-old Mano, who is fighting on two fronts: his parents have just got divorced and he is going through puberty. Mano tries ...
Style: semi serious, touching, humorous, sentimental, captivating ...
Audience: teens
Plot: youth, family relations, coming of age, family problems, parents and children, gender, teenage life, gay, lgbt, gay interest, father son relationship, boy ...
Time: 21st century
Place: brazil, sao paulo brazil
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45%
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Meantime (1983)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A working-class family in London's East End is struggling to stay afloat during the recession under Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's premiership. Only the mother Mavis is working; father Frank and the couple's two sons Colin, a ...
Style: surreal, mysterious, cult classic, independent film, realistic ...
Plot: working class, skinhead, dysfunctional family, unemployment, social realism, nazi, neo nazi, subculture, nationalism, hooligan, exodus, angry ...
Time: 80s
Place: england, britain, london, east end london, europe
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44%
Welcome to the Dollhouse (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: An unattractive 7th grader struggles to cope with suburban life as the middle child with un-attentive parents and bullies at school.
Style: dark comedy, disturbing, realistic, depressing, black comedy ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, bullying, dysfunctional family, misfit, humiliation, teenager, youth, school, social outcast, female protagonist, childhood, high school ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, near future, year 1995
Place: new jersey, seattle, usa
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42%
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As Cool as I Am (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A smart teenage girl comes of age in a small town with her self-centered parents who had her when they were teenagers.
Style: semi serious, touching, humorous, realistic, independent film ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: dysfunctional family, teenage life, family relations, family problems, youth, crumbling marriage, parents and children, teenage angst, coming of age, teen romance, suburbs, couples ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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40%
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Girls Town (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Four women, Patti, Emma, Angela, and Nicki are completing their last year of high school. Unfortunately for the group, one of their own, Nicki, unexpectedly commits suicide. The three remaining women, upon finding out that Nicki had been raped ...
Style: harsh, disturbing, sincere, touching, independent film ...
Audience: teens
Plot: friendship, women, high school, suicide, coming of age, teenage love, righting the wronged, juvenile delinquency, life is a bitch, human nature, death of friend, family relations ...
Time: year 1996, 90s
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40%
Someone Else's America (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, UK, France, Germany, Greece
Duration: 96 min.
Story: This tale takes place in a bar. The Spanish Alonso and his blind mother run this place. Bay, who is Alonso's friend live here too. This story tells something about Alonso and Bay and the "American Dream".
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous
Plot: immigration, american dream, family relations, friendship, immigrant, friends, family problems, estrangement, family life, urban, dysfunctional family, parents and children ...
Time: 90s
Place: former yugoslavia, new york, montenegro, serbia, europe ...
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39%
By Dawn's Early Light (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: When Mike Lewis leaves L.A. to stay with his grandfather in Colorado for the summer, he hates the old man's cowboy ways. When Mike demands to go home, the old man agrees and saddles up a couple of horses for a six week trip toward California, ...
Style: serious, realistic, emotional, captivating, independent film
Plot: grandparent grandchild relationship, self discovery, hopes, youth, family relations, teenage life, male bonding, coming of age, horse riding, friendship between men, dysfunctional family, summer ...
Time: 90s
Place: colorado, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Time Stands Still (1982)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A Budapest high school in the beginning of the 1960s. Dinis suffers the torments of adolescence. His father had to leave Hungary after the uprise in 1956, and since then Dini's mother has had to take care of her two sons on her own. A friend of ...
Style: realistic, emotional, touching, rough, serious
Plot: family problems, family relations, rebellion, teenage life, high school, youth, coming of age, family life, high school life, teenager, socialism, boy ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: hungary
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39%
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Rockford (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 102 min.
Story: The movie chronicles the arrival of a (Hindu) student to a strict all-boys Christian boarding school in India and his assimilation into the school. The change is quite dramatic to the protagonist and there are a lot of events that would look ...
Style: social, light, semi serious, realistic, humorous ...
Plot: coming of age, high school, teenager, child, soul searching, boy, boarding school, best friend, family relations, friends, power relations, rivalry ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: india, las vegas
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39%
You'll Be a Man (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Leo is 10 and wise beyond his years. A solitary dreamer who seeks refuge in books. When the carefree 20-year-old Theo steps into his life, it forces Leo out of his shell. Despite their age difference, the two becomes best friends, helping each other ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, sentimental, touching
Plot: adult child friendship, youth, coming of age, family relations, parents and children, friends, friendship, adolescence vs adulthood, father son relationship, mental illness, teenager, babysitter ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
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38%
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Couch Potatoes (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Giorgio and Tito, father and son. A successful journalist and a lazy teenager apparently impossible to understand. Giorgio's dream is to take Tito to the Nasca Hill in Liguria, but Tito prefers to spend his entire day with his group of friends, ...
Style: psychological, disturbing, humorous, sincere, captivating ...
Audience: teens
Plot: father son relationship, teenager, parents and children, friends, teenage life, family relations, friendship, youth, unlikely friendships, society, disorder, happy ending ...
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37%
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Neighborhood (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A coming-of-age story in the vein of CITY OF GOD and KIDS - available for the first time in the U.S.!
Style: social, hispanic, serious, realistic
Audience: teens
Plot: coming of age, boy, juvenile delinquent, suburbs, dysfunctional family, friendship between boys, best friend, family relations, friends, kids in trouble, contests and competitions, drug dealing ...
Time: 90s
Place: madrid, europe, spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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East Is East (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story: In 1971 Salford fish-and-chip shop owner George Khan expects his family to follow his strict Pakistani Muslim ways. But his children, with an English mother and having been born and brought up in Britain, increasingly see themselves as British and ...
Style: hilarious, witty, humorous, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: muslim, tradition, family relations, gay son, domineering father, homosexual, gay interest, indians, dysfunctional family, family problems, racism, working class ...
Time: year 1999, 20th century, year 1971, 70s
Place: england, northern england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Small Time (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
Story: Follows a gang of small time crooks in an English town. Malc is in danger of losing his girlfriend Kate if he doesn't spend more time at home and the gang leader Jumbo looks like he is about to lose control.
Style: independent film, realistic, semi serious, atmospheric, offbeat ...
Plot: working class, friends, couples, dishonesty, couple relations, gang, buddies, criminal heroes, heist, cons and scams, sex, robbery ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
The Adventures of Sebastian Cole (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: In June, 1983, in Dutchess County, New York, Sebastian Cole joins his mother, step-father, and sister for dinner. Hank, Sebastian's step-father, drops a bomb: he announces he's changing sexes. Sebastian's sister splits immediately for ...
Style: independent film, semi serious, realistic, sentimental, humorous ...
Plot: coming of age, lgbt, high school, gay, transgender, small town, lgbtq, hospital, teenager, drinking, teenage protagonist, gender bending ...
Time: 80s, year 1998, 20th century, year 1983
Place: england, new york state, chicago, new york, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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