Movies like Ratcatcher
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Ratcatcher (1999)
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK, France
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
James Gillespie is 12 years old. The world he knew is changing. Haunted by a secret, he has become a stranger in his own family. He is drawn to the canal where he creates a world of his own. He finds an awkward tenderness with Margaret Anne, a vulnerable 14 year old expressing a need for love in all the wrong ways, and befriends Kenny, who possesses an unusual innocence in spite of the harsh surroundings.
Style:
disturbing, bleak, art house, atmospheric, stylized, gloomy, controversial, inspirational, thought provoking, clever ...
Plot:
children, poverty, friendship, boy, coming of age, neighbor, bully, rat, moving, teenage boy, grief, garbage, strike, urban decay, youth, childhood, death, street gang, neighborhood, bravery, drunkenness, accidental death, death of child, friend, death of son ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
glasgow scotland, scotland
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out bleak, melancholic, harsh and enigmatic films with plots about culture clash, mentor, loneliness, runaway, suprisingly clever, melancholy and catastrophe mostly in Drama and Family genres. Some movies like Ratcatcher: Nobody Knows (2004), Pelle the Conqueror (1987), Fish Tank (2009), Kes (1969), The Selfish Giant (2013). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 141 min.
Story:
In a small Tokyo apartment, twelve-year-old Akira must care for his younger siblings after their mother leaves them and shows no sign of returning.
Style:
depressing, touching, serious, gloomy, atmospheric ...
Audience:
kids, teens
Plot:
childhood, poverty, dysfunctional family, innocence lost, young kid, children, child abandonment, boy, tragedy, coming of age, family relations, greed ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan, tokyo, india, asia, california
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Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 157 min.
Story:
The end of the 19th century. A boat filled with Swedish emigrants comes to the Danish island of Bornholm. Among them are Lasse and his son Pelle who move to Denmark to find work. They find employment at a large farm, but are treated as the lowest ...
Style:
emotional, atmospheric, meditative, compassionate, disturbing ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
father son relationship, coming of age, boy, poverty, immigrants, working class, farm, children, corporal punishment, youth, family relations, bullying ...
Time:
19th century, 1870s, 1890s
Place:
denmark, europe, eastern europe
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100%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands, UK
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
Everything changes for 15 year old Mia when her mum brings home a new boyfriend.
Style:
emotional, bleak, gloomy, sincere, disturbing ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot:
age difference, mother's boyfriend, older man younger woman relationship, coming of age, innocence lost, dancing, rebelliousness, youth, life is a bitch, fall in love, adolescence, realism ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
california, europe, england
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83%
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Genre: Drama, Family
Country: UK
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
A young, English working-class boy spends his free time caring for and training his pet falcon.
Style:
bleak, realistic, depressing, emotional, sad ...
Audience:
teens, kids, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, school, boy, childhood, working class, neglected child, child protagonist, bird, friendship, teacher, sibling rivalry, bullying ...
Time:
60s, 70s, 20th century
Place:
england, united kingdom, london, scotland, britain ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A hyperactive boy and his best friend, a slow-witted youth with an affinity for horses, start collecting scrap metal for a shady dealer.
Style:
sad, depressing, atmospheric, realistic, bleak ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
friendship, teenage life, poverty, juvenile delinquency, child abuse, youth, coming of age, brutality, realism, social misfits, misfit, society ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
england, new jersey, yorkshire, poland, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Movies similar to Thirteen
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, France, Luxembourg, Tunisia
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
In this acclaimed and gripping social portrait of immoral lives in need of rescue, Igor (Jérémie Renier), aged 15, and his father Roger (Olivier Gourmet) deal in housing and peddling illicit labor in the outlying districts of Liege, Belgium. ...
Style:
thought provoking, sincere, allegory, gloomy, affectionate ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
immigrants, coming of age, father son relationship, youth, melancholy, existentialism, dysfunctional family, empathy, boy, traumatic childhood, racism, social injustice ...
Time:
90s
Place:
tokyo, france, belgium, europe, usa ...
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100%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
After the death of her husband, the mother of Julie, Jack, Sue and Tom begins to suffer from a mysterious illness. Aware that she is going to have to go into hospital she opens a bank account for the children, so that they can be financially ...
Style:
disturbing, erotic, sexy, art house, compassionate ...
Audience:
adult, teen drama
Plot:
incest, coming of age, brother sister incest, children, siblings relations, brother sister sex, sex with sister, parents and children, teenage life, youth, dealing with death, sex with brother ...
Time:
90s
Place:
england
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100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A story of two Russian boys whose father suddenly returns home after a 12-year absence. He takes the boys on a holiday to a remote island on a lake that turns into a test of manhood of almost mythic proportions.
Style:
bleak, emotional, art house, thought provoking, road movie ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot:
russian, coming of age, brother, survival, journey, children, parents and children, father son relationship, existentialism, death, childhood, character study ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil, France, Switzerland
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Brazilian badlands, April 1910. Tonho is ordered by his father to avenge the death of his older brother. The young man knows that if he commits this crime, his life will be divided in two: the twenty years he has already lived and the few days he ...
Style:
bleak, intense, serious, tense, rough ...
Plot:
family feud, coming of age, rivalry, youth, uninhibited rivalry, family problems, family values, parents and children, family in crisis, murder, death of brother, tragic event ...
Time:
1910s, 19th century, 20th century, 70s
Place:
middle east, tokyo, argentina, brazil, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, France, Italy
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Abandoned by his father, a young boy is left in the hands of an unqualified childcare provider.
Style:
sincere, realistic, meditative, emotional, disturbing ...
Plot:
childhood, kids in trouble, boy, realism, orphan, youth, coming of age, adoption, bicycle, social problems, petty criminal, life is a bitch ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
belgium, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, France, UK
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Ludovic is a small boy who cross-dresses and generally acts like a girl, talks of marrying his neighbor's son and can not understand why everyone is so surprised about it. His actions lead to problems for him and his family.
Style:
controversial, touching, sexy, bleak, rough ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, date night
Plot:
transsexual, coming of age, gay, cross dressing, gender, children, childhood, women, lgbtq, dysfunctional family, suburbs, gay slur ...
Time:
90s
Place:
france, belgium, paris france, europe
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100%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Morvern Callar wakes on Christmas morning to discover that her troubled boyfriend has committed suicide, leaving behind the unpublished manuscript to his first novel and a sum of money intended to pay for his burial. Instead, Morvern attempts to use ...
Style:
disturbing, talky, psychological, touching, serious ...
Plot:
self discovery, suicide, christmas, friendship, writers, supermarket, life philosophy, road trip, friends, couple relations, best friend, twentysomething life ...
Place:
scotland, spain, ibiza, europe
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29%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Set in the landscape of a rural southern town, "George Washington" is a stunning portrait of how a group of young kids come to grips with a hard world of choices and consequences. During an innocent game in an abandoned amusement park, a ...
Style:
atmospheric, bleak, meditative, lyrical, touching ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
coming of age, redemption, adolescence, boy, father son relationship, friendship, youth, kids in trouble, life is a bitch, death, social relations, hopes ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
north carolina, tokyo, usa
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29%
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden, France, West Germany
Duration: 188 min.
Story:
Through the eyes of ten-year-old Alexander, we witness the delights and conflicts of the Ekdahl family, a sprawling bourgeois clan in turn-of-the-twentieth-century Sweden.
Style:
intellectual, philosophical, disturbing, art house, thought provoking ...
Plot:
childhood, ghost, christmas, children, emotional abuse, brother sister relationship, grief, coming of age, abusive stepfather, child abuse, domestic violence, christmas eve ...
Time:
victorian era, 20th century, turn of the century, 90s, 1910s
Place:
sweden, tokyo, eastern europe, scandinavia
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28%
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Robert Bresson plumbs great reservoirs of feelings with one of the most searing portraits of human desperation ever put on film.
Style:
art house, bleak, stylized, gloomy, emotional ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
coming of age, suicide, existentialism, solitude, sexual abuse, betrayal, children, child abuse, youth, innocence lost, humiliation, poacher ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
france, tokyo, paris france, europe, japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
It's winter in a small Scottish village near the sea, and multiple lives intersect in a day. Frances (Emma Thompson) has just lost her husband to an early death, so her mother, Elspeth (Phyllida Law), travels to Frances' house to reconnect ...
Style:
talky, touching, bleak, sexy, visually appealing ...
Plot:
winter, mother daughter relationship, small town, nude, children, sexual abuse, destiny, creativity, culture clash, runaway, self discovery, school ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
scotland, europe, australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Grazia is a free-spirited mother-of-three married to shy fisherman Pietro and living on the idyllic but isolated island of Lampedusa in the Mediterranean Sea. She shows signs of manic depressive behavior — one moment she's laughing wildly and ...
Style:
thought provoking, sincere, talky, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
island, coming of age, family relations, mental illness, skinny dipping, villager, mentally unstable, human nature, family life, injustice, parents and children, small town life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
italy, tokyo, europe, sicily, mediterranean sea ...
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27%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, France
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
The family of Raymond, his wife Val and her brother Billy live in working-class London district. Also in their family is Val and Billy's mother Janet and grandmother Kath. Billy is a drug addict and Raymond kicks him out of the house, making ...
Style:
disturbing, rough, depressing, realistic, gloomy ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, drugs, drug addiction, heroin, working class, addiction, alcohol abuse, brutality, gangsters, drug addict, violence, drug abuse ...
Time:
90s
Place:
london, england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Three teenage brothers, gang-member Bobby, troubled mama's boy Alan and self-assured prankster Lex, reside in a downtrodden section of Glasgow, Scotland, circa 1968. But while Bobby and Alan are beginning to experience the power of raging ...
Style:
realistic, bleak, visually appealing, poignant, gloomy ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
gang, working class, dysfunctional family, coming of age, youth, artist, violence, melancholy, boy, children, adaptation, solitude ...
Time:
60s, 90s
Place:
scotland, new jersey, california, europe
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26%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, France
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
Penny's love for her partner, taxi-driver Phil, has run dry. He is a gentle, philosophical guy, and she works on the checkout at a supermarket...
Style:
depressing, emotional, realistic, serious, bleak ...
Plot:
working class, dysfunctional family, family relations, taxi driver, loneliness, depression, injustice, family problems, parents and children, couples, unwanted pregnancy, family in crisis ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, london, new jersey, europe, florida ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Movies like Towelhead
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
By turns tragic and transcendent, Akira Kurosawa’s film follows the daily lives of a group of people barely scraping by in a slum on the outskirts of Tokyo. Yet as desperate as their circumstances are, each of them—the homeless father and son ...
Style:
touching, compassionate, meditative, atmospheric, depressing ...
Plot:
poverty, redemption, social differences, life is a bitch, working class, samurai, slum, character study, unlikely friendships, tragedy, hopes, family problems ...
Time:
20th century, 60s
Place:
tokyo, japan, asia
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26%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
After many years working in the streets of Roma, the middle-age whore Mamma Roma (Anna Magnani) saves money to buy an upper class apartment, a fruit stand and retires from the prostitution. She brings her teenage son Ettore (Ettore Garofolo), who ...
Style:
neorealism, serious, realistic, art house, sexy ...
Plot:
prostitute, youth, prostitution, family relations, redemption, life is a bitch, parents and children, thief, friendship, hopes, human nature, parent child relationship ...
Time:
20th century, 60s, post world war two
Place:
rome italy, europe, italy, tokyo, mexico
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25%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Austria, Germany
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
When Anna and her family arrive at their holiday home, they find it occupied by strangers. This confrontation is just the beginning of a painful learning process.
Style:
disturbing, psychological, bleak, atmospheric, intense ...
Plot:
apocalypse, post apocalypse, society, catastrophe, end of the world, distopia, brutality, survival, chaos, countryside, human nature, life is a bitch ...
Place:
tokyo
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25%
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Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
Grandmother Mi Ja works part-time as a caretaker, and struggles to raise a teen grandson by herself. Despite her tough situation, she speaks softly, dresses fashionably, and approaches the world with child-like curiosity. Enrolling in a poetry ...
Style:
touching, sincere, emotional, realistic, lyrical ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
loneliness, self discovery, teenage rape, suicide, bullying, teenager, existentialism, introspection, juvenile delinquency, life is a bitch, society, grandparent and grandchild ...
Time:
70s, 21st century
Place:
korea, japan, asia, south korea
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25%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Maggie has had four children, by four different fathers, removed by social services because of a previous violent relationship. When she meets Jorge, a gentle Latin American refugee, she gradually sees her chance for happiness, but her history still ...
Style:
sad, disturbing, realistic, thought provoking, biting ...
Plot:
violence, suspense, immigrants, fighting the system, working class, dysfunctional family, love, nude, hospital, sex crime, melancholy, british ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
england, california, london, liverpool, paraguay
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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Movies similar to A River Runs Through It
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia, Italy, France
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A seven-year-old girl adopts a vow of silence in protest when her quarrelsome parents grow increasingly hostile to one another.
Style:
sexy, thought provoking, rough, visually appealing, allegory ...
Plot:
divorce, manipulation, hospital, idealism, prejudice, guilt, relationships, identity, runaway, fantasy world, fighting the system, finnish ...
Time:
90s
Place:
tokyo, japan, california
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25%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Three pre-adolescents with virginal and eager-of-signals naivety, hit headlong against monstrous and inhospitable loneliness, in the incandescent fire among the ashes of their own inocence.
Style:
touching, realistic, emotional, heartbreaking, sad ...
Plot:
coming of age, friendship, teenager, childhood, children, vengeance, dysfunctional family, family relations, loss of son, family problems, haunted by the past, family in crisis ...
Place:
new jersey
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25%
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
In a juvenile lockup, a new ward answers questions: she's Rosie, 13, no parents, a sister Irene, a brother Michel. In flashbacks we find out what happened. She lives with Irene, who's 27, whom Rosie knows is in fact her mother, but ...
Style:
thought provoking, splatter, cerebral, light, depressing ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
gambling, coming of age, addiction, nude, sexual abuse, glbt, gang, teenager, superhero, claustrophobia, drug addiction, melancholy ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1980, 70s
Place:
tokyo, belgium
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25%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Sweden
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
The story of a mistreated donkey and the people around him. A study on saintliness and a sister piece to Bresson's Mouchette.
Style:
art house, thought provoking, depressing, disturbing, cerebral ...
Plot:
farm, existentialism, redemption, friendship, animals, death, destiny, artist, life philosophy, life & death, art, loneliness ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
france, tokyo, europe
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25%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A young Parisian must make major decisions about pregnancy, a job and her boyfriend.
Style:
erotic, sexual, sexy, ironic, clever ...
Plot:
pregnancy, hotel, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, making love, sex scene, glbt, tragedy, weapons, nude, lust, lgbt, melancholy ...
Time:
90s, 70s
Place:
paris france, france, tokyo, europe
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25%
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