Movies like Mustang
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Mustang (2015)
39K
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Germany, Turkey, Qatar
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
In a Turkish village, five orphaned sisters live under strict rule while members of their family prepare their arranged marriages.
Style:
sad, heartbreaking, realistic, art house, bleak, atmospheric, light, inspirational, uplifting, thought provoking ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot:
sisters, teenage girl, coming of age, virginity, arranged marriage, teenager, women, sister sister relationship, orphan, female protagonist, sexism, children, dysfunctional family, islam, escape, child bride, suicide, tradition, violence, women's rights, running away from home, forced marriage, teen suicide, prison, sexuality ...
Time:
2010s, 80s
Place:
turkey, istanbul turkey, middle east, california, israel, france
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, melancholic, serious and reflective films with plots about runaway, mentor, childhood, pornography, storytelling, catastrophe and brutality mostly in Drama and History genres. Some movies like Mustang: Water (2005), The Innocents (2016), The Circle (2000), Osama (2003), Mouchette (1967). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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15K
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, India
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
The year is 1938, and Mahatma Gandhi's groundbreaking philosophies are sweeping across India, but 8-year-old Chuyia, newly widowed, must go to live with other outcast widows on an ashram. Her presence transforms the ashram as she befriends two ...
Style:
touching, bleak, melancholic, controversial, intense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
hinduism, women, prostitute, prostitution, friendship, marriage, love, politics, relationships, mentor, sin, brutality ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century, year 1938
Place:
india, canada, asia
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100%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: France, Poland
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Poland, 1945. Mathilde, a young French Red Cross doctor, is on a mission to help the war survivors. When a nun seeks for her help, she is brought to a convent where several pregnant sisters are hiding, unable to reconcile their faith with their ...
Style:
suspenseful, exciting, thought provoking, tense, captivating ...
Plot:
world war two, abbess, religion, syphilis, secret, lie, interracial relations, motherhood, catholic, hospital, gay, christian ...
Time:
1940s, post world war two, year 1940, year 1945
Place:
france, poland
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100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran, Italy, Switzerland
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Various women struggle to function in the oppressively sexist society of contemporary Iran.
Style:
thought provoking, bleak, disturbing, harsh, atmospheric ...
Plot:
pregnancy, politics, on the run, rebellion, prostitute, life is a bitch, friendship, injustice, society, women, women's rights, discrimination ...
Time:
70s
Place:
iran, middle east, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
9K
Genre: Drama
Country: Afghanistan, Ireland, Japan, Netherlands, Iran
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Teenage girl Osama cuts her hair and dresses like a boy to get a job and support her widowed mother and grandmother. When Osama is called by the Taliban to join school and military training she embarks on a terrifying and confusing journey as she ...
Style:
serious, realistic, disturbing, sincere, bleak ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens
Plot:
coming of age, dishonesty, survival, oppression, child abuse, injustice, life is a bitch, justice, brutality, religion, police investigation, women ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
middle east, poland, iran, afghanistan, pakistan
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
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12K
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 ⇓
49%
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136K
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A coming-of-age story about a teenage girl in 1960s suburban London, and how her life changes with the arrival of a playboy nearly twice her age.
Style:
realistic, sexy, romantic, feel good, talky ...
Audience:
date night, teens, girls' night, chick flick, teen drama
Plot:
age difference, coming of age, older man younger woman relationship, love affair, self discovery, betrayal, virginity, teenage girl, lolita, teenage life, adolescence, women ...
Time:
20th century, year 1961, 60s
Place:
london, france, paris france, california, oxford university ...
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47%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
A woman struggles to interact with her family and find her place in society after spending fifteen years in prison.
Style:
touching, realistic, psychological, emotional, sincere ...
Plot:
family relations, prison, physician, character study, ex convict, job seeking, complex characters, parenthood, honest, loss of son, sibling relationship, family reunited ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, paris france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Hungary
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A Hungarian family forced to flee the Communist country for the United States, must leave a young daughter behind. Six years later the family arranges to bring the absent daughter to the United States where she has trouble adjusting. The daughter ...
Style:
sentimental, touching, emotional, melancholic, stylized ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens
Plot:
justice, family relations, cold war, police investigation, family bonds, adolescence, friendship, self discovery, love and romance, human nature, on the run, parents and children ...
Time:
20th century, 50s, 60s, year 1965, year 1958 ...
Place:
hungary, california, tokyo, europe, poland ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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13K
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
63K
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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Movies similar to Gifted
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
As the Algerian War draws to a close, a teenager with a girlfriend starts feeling homosexual urges for two of his classmates: a country boy, and a French-Algerian intellectual.
Style:
erotic, realistic, sexy, stylized, unusual plot structure ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot:
gay, coming of age, male homosexuality, gay interest, friendship, homosexual, lgbtq, small town, homosexuality, betrayal, bittersweet, youth ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
france, africa, algeria, europe, south of france
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
36K
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
Teacher and novelist François Bégaudeau plays a version of himself as he negotiates a year with his racially mixed students from a tough Parisian neighborhood.
Style:
sincere, melancholic, psychological, realistic, thought provoking ...
Audience:
teens, kids, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot:
teacher, teachers and students, school, high school life, society, high school, education, teenager, dedicated educator, adolescence, mentor, life philosophy ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
paris france, france, latin america, california, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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 ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
91K
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Tracy is a normal 13-year-old trying to make it in school. After befriending the most popular girl at school, Evie, Tracy's world is turned upside down when Evie introduces her to a world of sex, drugs and cash. But it isn't long before ...
Style:
realistic, sincere, tense, disturbing, intense ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, chick flick, teen drama, adult
Plot:
coming of age, drug addiction, friendship, mother daughter relationship, peer pressure, dysfunctional family, addiction, underage drinking, teenage protagonist, self harm, teenager, kids in trouble ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
california, usa, los angeles, venice beach california
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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Movies like Detachment
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
A teenager journeys through a series of foster homes after her mother goes to prison for committing a crime of passion.
Style:
emotional, intense, touching, disturbing, serious ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens, chick flick, teen drama
Plot:
mother daughter relationship, coming of age, bad mother, dysfunctional family, women's prison, manipulation, teenage life, murder, loneliness, mental illness, women, family relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
california, usa, los angeles, nova scotia, mexico
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46%
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
358K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 165 min.
Story:
The film tells a story of a divorced couple trying to raise their young son. The story follows the boy for twelve years, from first grade at age 6 through 12th grade at age 17-18, and examines his relationship with his parents as he grows.
Style:
melancholic, emotional, depressing, serious, realistic ...
Audience:
teens, kids, chick flick, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
childhood, coming of age, teenager, divorced parents, dysfunctional family, youth, divorce, brother sister relationship, stepsister stepsister relationship, abusive husband, marriage, children ...
Time:
2000s, 2010s, year 2008, year 2010, year 2009 ...
Place:
texas, usa, houston texas, austin texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Iran, France, Netherlands
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
After twelve years of imprisonment by their own parents, two sisters are finally released by social workers to face the outside world for the first time.
Style:
compassionate, serious, thought provoking, sincere, sexy ...
Plot:
isolation, father daughter relationship, confined, family relations, religions or cults, society, life is a bitch, human nature, childhood, children, blindness, twins ...
Time:
90s
Place:
iran, tokyo, middle east, japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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 ⇓
45%
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Films like Mona Lisa Smile
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 ...
Style:
disturbing, bleak, art house, gloomy, stylized ...
Plot:
children, poverty, boy, friendship, coming of age, neighbor, bully, urban decay, moving, grief, garbage, rat ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
glasgow scotland, scotland
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran, France
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
After an Afghanistan-born woman who lives in Canada receives a letter from her suicidal sister, she takes a perilous journey through Afghanistan to try to find her.
Style:
disturbing, sincere, surreal, bleak, atmospheric ...
Plot:
islam, politics, desert, survival, suicide, brutality, women, culture clash, refugee, on the road, rescue, self discovery ...
Place:
middle east, afghanistan, iran, canada, california ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
559
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Romania, Belgium
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Gabita is pregnant, abortion is strictly forbidden in Romania during the communist regime. Despite this it is common practice and Gabita wants an abortion. The movie follows her and her friend Otilia during the day she has made the appointment with ...
Style:
disturbing, depressing, bleak, emotional, melancholic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
abortion, sexual abuse, rape, unwanted pregnancy, friendship, communism, depression, illegal abortion, doctor, realism, hotel, coming of age ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1987
Place:
romania, california, eastern europe, europe
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45%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
The story of Katherine Ann Watson, a feminist teacher who studied at UCLA graduate school and in 1953 left her boyfriend behind in Los Angeles, California to teach at Wellesley College, a conservative women's private liberal arts college in ...
Style:
inspirational, touching, romantic, sentimental, sweet ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, teens
Plot:
feminism, dedicated educator, teacher, art, college, women, teachers and students, coming of age, mentor, teenager, irreverence, gender ...
Time:
50s, post world war two, 20th century, year 1953
Place:
massachusetts, california, new jersey, usa, greenwich village manhattan new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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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 ⇓
44%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
Through a series of flashbacks, four young chinese women born in America and their respective mothers born in feudal China, explore their past. This search will help them understand their difficult mother/daughter relationship.
Style:
sentimental, touching, captivating, sincere, thought provoking ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
women, friendship, immigrants, self discovery, chinese, haunted by the past, hopes, golden years, culture clash, parents and children, human nature, love ...
Time:
90s
Place:
san francisco, china, asia, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, Luxembourg, France, Pakistan
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Zahira, 18, is close to her family until her parents ask her to follow Pakistani tradition to choose a husband. Torn between family customs and her western lifestyle, the young woman turns for help to her brother and confidant Amir.
Style:
tense, disturbing, unusual plot structure, anthropological, contemplative
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
muslim girl, forced marriage, brother sister relationship, muslim, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, female protagonist, father daughter relationship, runaway teen, suspense, runaway, pregnancy, pregnant teenager ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
belgium
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, France, Italy
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Sandra is a young woman who has only one weekend to convince her colleagues they must give up their bonuses in order for her to keep her job — not an easy task in this economy.
Style:
depressing, thought provoking, sincere, serious, compassionate ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
depression, injustice, unemployment, employer employee relationship, solidarity, workplace, loss of job, character study, guilt, working class, female protagonist, poverty ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
belgium, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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