Movies like Sleeping Giant
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Sleeping Giant (2015)
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Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A coming-of-age tale that turns on three teenagers who are having a vacation by a lakeside.
Audience:
teens
Plot:
boyhood, summer, gay, boy, childhood, child, high school, lgbtq, death, curse, lake, teenage boy, coming of age, teen drinking, weed, wrestling, suicide, theft, boat, father son relationship, teenage sexuality, death of child, sauna, peeping tom, vandalism ...
Place:
canada
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Most similar movies to Sleeping Giant
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, touching, serious and emotional films with plots about coming of age, boy, teenage boy, teenager, friendship, youth and childhood mostly in Drama, Adventure and Comedy genres. Some movies like Sleeping Giant: King Jack (2015), Stand by Me (1986), Thorn Castle (2012), Giant Little Ones (2018), Weirdos (2016). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Growing up in a rural town filled with violent delinquents, Jack has learned to do what it takes to survive, despite having an oblivious mother and no father. After his aunt falls ill and a younger cousin comes to stay with him, the hardened ...
Style:
serious, touching, realistic
Audience:
teens
Plot:
coming of age, friendship, small town, bullying, teenage boy, teenage life, school, mental illness, party, cruelty, violence, brutality ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york state
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Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
After the death of a friend, a writer recounts a boyhood journey to find the body of a missing boy.
Style:
sentimental, serious, emotional, sad, feel good ...
Audience:
teens, kids, family outing, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
childhood, coming of age, friendship, teenager, boy, youth, children, courage, young heroes, child, death, young kid ...
Time:
50s, 20th century, year 1959, 80s
Place:
usa, oregon, normandy
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: Hungary
Story:
Tutajos is an excellent student whose parents decide to reward his academic achievements with a vacation to the countryside. Robbed of his gadgets and easy city-lifestyle, Tutajos finds himself completely out of his element – until a goodhearted ...
Plot:
crab, nature, snake, ruins, teenage boy, summer vacation, classmate, boat, fish, lake, fishing, school ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Two popular teen boys, best friends since childhood, discover their lives, families, and girlfriends dramatically upended after an unexpected incident occurs on the night of a 17th birthday party.
Style:
captivating, realistic, emotional, thought provoking, meditative ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, date night, teen drama
Plot:
gay, coming of age, underage drinking, gay love, lgbtq, teenager, teenage boy, teenage girl, gay slur, sexual orientation, lgbt, mother daughter relationship ...
Place:
usa
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26%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Two Nova Scotian teens who hit the road in July 1976 accompanied by the laconic ghost of (the still-living) Andy Warhol.
Style:
captivating, sexy, psychological, unusual plot structure, tense ...
Plot:
father son relationship, little boy, mental illness, runaway, road trip, boy, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, love, couple relations, couples, love and romance, gay ...
Time:
year 1976, 70s
Place:
nova scotia, canada, nova scotia, canada
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24%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Thirteen-year-old Jesse wants to be an artist, but believes that his mundane middle-class Toronto life has left him unprepared. After reading a book on what it takes to be a "true-artist", he sets out looking for risk, ecstasy, wildness ...
Style:
psychological, touching, unusual plot structure, contemplative
Plot:
coming of age, photographer, family relations, school, father son relationship, teenage boy, alcoholic, homosexual, male female relationship, artist, peeping tom, high school ...
Place:
canada, toronto ontario canada
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24%
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Belgium, France, Luxembourg
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Brothers Danny and Zak, 15 and 13 & 3/4 are spending the summer in their deceased grandfather's house, waiting in vain for their mother, who is otherwise busy, and running low on cash. To make some money they decide to rent out the ...
Style:
sentimental, touching, humorous, feel good, semi serious ...
Plot:
friendship, youth, brother brother relationship, teenager, teenage life, coming of age, drug dealer, self discovery, adolescence vs adulthood, when the parents are away, friends, rebellion ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
belgium, europe
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24%
Genre: Drama
Country: Iceland, Denmark, Croatia
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
The story follows a 16-year-old Icelandic boy, Ari, who lives with his mother in Reykjavík, She has to leave the country for a new job, sending him back to the small town of his youth. There he finds his old friend, suddenly a young woman with a ...
Style:
captivating, sincere, suspenseful, melancholic
Plot:
coming of age, absent mother, sex scene, grandmother, small town, childhood friend, gay, lgbt, boy, child, father, boyhood ...
Place:
iceland, reykjavik iceland
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23%
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Joe Toy, on the verge of adolescence, finds himself increasingly frustrated by his single father, Frank's attempts to manage his life. Declaring his freedom once and for all, he escapes to a clearing in the woods with his best friend, Patrick, ...
Style:
touching, feel good, sentimental, emotional, funny ...
Audience:
teens, kids, date night, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, runaway, forest, summer, friendship, high school, lifestyle change, teenage runaway, wilderness, teenage protagonist, hospital, teenager ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
california, usa, tokyo
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23%
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Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Dexter, age 11, who has AIDS, and his next door neighbor Eric, a little older and much bigger, become best friends. Eric also becomes closer to Dexter's mother than to his own, who is neglectful and bigoted and violently forbids their ...
Style:
sad, touching, inspirational, realistic, sincere ...
Audience:
teens, family outing, girls' night, kids
Plot:
aids, coming of age, friendship, childhood, best friends, boy, children, terminal illness, youth, bittersweet, boyhood, teenager ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new orleans, mississippi, minnesota, usa, california ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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The Fabelmans related movies
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Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Ben Tyler (Joshua Jackson) has been diagnosed with cancer. With a grim chance of survival in the best case scenario even if he immediately begins treatment, he instead decides to take a motorcycle trip from Toronto through the Canadian prairies to ...
Style:
road movie, realistic, sexy, meditative, philosophical ...
Audience:
teens, kids
Plot:
motorcycle, travel, self discovery, road trip, terminal illness, cancer, on the road, depression, solitude, beautiful scenery, coming of age, love story ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada, pacific ocean, toronto ontario canada, british columbia
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22%
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
In the summer of their twelfth year Matteo and Samuele spend their days between the river, the forest and the shopping center, but compared to previous years, something is changing. The game becomes boring, imagination gives way to discovery, ...
Plot:
coming of age, youth, boy, slut, bicycle, festival, summer, swimming, friendship, shopping mall, river, forest ...
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Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
Young Sasha is brought into a state-run children's home because his mother died early and his father spends most of his life in prison. The conditions are like in a penal institution. Sasha tries several times to escape and to search for his ...
Style:
road movie
Plot:
coming of age, prison, boy, traumatic childhood, children, father, childhood, female nudity, prisoner, reform school, child abuse, girl ...
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21%
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Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
When his hard-earned kicks get snatched by a local hood, fifteen-year old Brandon and his two best friends go on an ill-advised mission across the Bay Area to retrieve the stolen sneakers.
Style:
captivating, psychological, atmospheric, tense
Plot:
ghetto, african american, poverty, violence, illegal drugs, criminal, surrealism, breaking and entering, friendship, boy, shoplifting, uncle nephew relationship ...
Place:
usa, oakland california
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21%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, Netherlands, France
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Two thirteen year-olds have always been incredibly close but they drift apart after the intimacy of their relationship is questioned by schoolmates. An emotionally transformative and unforgettable portrait of the intersection of friendship and ...
Style:
sad
Plot:
coming of age, suicide, child suicide, lgbtq, gay, guilt, friendship, lgbt, friendship between men, isolation, ice hockey, classmate classmate relationship ...
Place:
france
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Movies similar to The Blue Lagoon
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Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: UK, Australia
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Under the pretense of having a picnic, a geologist takes his teenage daughter and 6-year-old son into the Australian outback and attempts to shoot them. When he fails, he turns the gun on himself, and the two city-bred children must contend with ...
Style:
road movie, thought provoking, atmospheric, surreal, meditative ...
Audience:
kids, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, desert, survival, suicide, culture clash, teenage girl, wilderness, rite of passage, children, brother sister relationship, australian outback, language barrier ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
australia, oceania, sydney australia, adelaide south australia
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20%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Des is an eleven year old kid who has had a really bad deal in life. Crime and mischief are the main staples of his life and he and his friends cruise around the city and do things like vandalize, steal, light fires, and mug people. He thinks that ...
Plot:
coming of age, childhood, juvenile delinquent, criminal, fire, boy, 11 year old boy, children's home, theft, arson, motorcycle, swearing ...
Place:
canada
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20%
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Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Nick, a 17-year-old in search of his father, gains employment with a logging company in a beautiful and mysterious virgin forest known as the Limberlost. Through his relationships with new associates and his adventures in this new and strange ...
Plot:
bicycle, swamp, environmentalist, cougar, heart attack, fistfight, kidnapped girl, friendship between men, father son relationship, obstacle, acceptance, orphan ...
Time:
1910s
Place:
chicago illinois
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20%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, Spain
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
13-year-old Pablo is a quiet, lonely boy with a troubled past. His only friend is Julia, a shameless 15-year-old girl who is more than willing to help Pablo with his transition from childhood to adolescence, and give him some advice on sex, love and ...
Style:
emotional, serious, surprise ending, captivating, disturbing ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens, adult
Plot:
coming of age, boy, stranger, masturbation, teenage girl, male nudity, lgbt child, village, flashback, surrogate father, sexual exploration, man boy relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
spain, andalusia
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20%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Dave Schultz' feature debut Jet Boy is a drama about a boy attempting to figure out his future. Nathan (Branden Nadon) goes on a search to find his father after his mother dies of a drug overdose. Nathan has been prostituting himself in order ...
Style:
touching, realistic, serious, emotional, sexy ...
Plot:
kids in trouble, man boy relationship, orphan, child neglect, gay, youth, prostitute, teenage prostitution, coming of age, lifestyle, young heroes, life is a bitch ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Films like Mommy
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Josh is an ordinary teen living in an ordinary suburb. One morning he finds his friend's dead body. Next, he discovers that three more friends also have killed themselves, leaving him out of their pact. As the sole survivor, Josh becomes more ...
Style:
psychological, realistic, emotional, touching, bleak ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
teenage life, youth, life is a bitch, lifestyle, family relations, parents and children, suicide, depression, friendship, loneliness, estrangement, coming of age ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada, quebec
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20%
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
The two brothers Aske (17 years old) and Bastian (12 years old) live with their father, Lasse. Their mother died seven years earlier. Every day they live in a world where fear, violence and alcohol are huge factors, but where the brothers' ...
Style:
disturbing, rough, touching
Plot:
brother brother relationship, pedophilia, child prostitution, child abuse, sexual perversion, father son relationship, incest, mistreatment, brothers, homosexual rape, boy, lgbt ...
Place:
norway
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Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
Teenage boys discover discipline and camaraderie on an ill-fated sailing voyage.
Style:
emotional, touching, serious, rough, inspirational ...
Audience:
teens, manly, kids, teen drama
Plot:
sailing, ocean, survival, coming of age, disaster, friendship, storm at sea, teacher, boat, suspense, catastrophe, mentor ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, year 1961, year 1960
Place:
jamaica, west indies, florida, south america, cuba ...
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20%
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
David Portnoy, a 15-year-old birding fanatic, thinks that he's made the discovery of a lifetime. So, on the eve of his father's remarriage, he escapes on an epic road trip with his best friends to solidify their place in birding history.
Style:
humorous, sentimental, touching, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
teenage life, friendship, remarry, obsessive quest, road trip, friends, escapades, sexual content, coming of age, friendship between boys, teenage boy, boyhood ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, connecticut, new england
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20%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Tommy and his older brother Eric live in the midst of vast remote forests. The death of their friend pushes them close to the edge. Eric doesn’t know how to channel his energy. All at once, nature’s vastness feels stifling.
Style:
rough, serious, touching, bleak, gothic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
coming of age, friendship, human nature, haunted by the past, dealing with death, teenage life, family relations, tragic event, youth, life is a bitch, life philosophy, boy ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
When the experienced guide Vic accompanies the city boy Alan and his three friends on their first wilderness experience, he not only hope to teach the four boys lessons about the wilderness, but about themselves. Vic pushes them to the limit. Soon ...
Style:
intense, sincere, exciting, suspenseful, feel good ...
Audience:
kids, teens, girls' night
Plot:
survival, wilderness, coming of age, river, friendship, summer, nature, youth, camp, mountain climbing, teenager, camping ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
manhattan new york city, new jersey, california, usa, new york
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20%
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Canada, USA, UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Based on a true story, The Blue Butterfly tells the story of a terminally ill 10-year-old boy whose dream is to catch the most beautiful butterfly on Earth, the mythic and elusive Blue Morpho. His mother persuades a renowned entomologist to take ...
Style:
emotional, touching, serious, realistic
Plot:
butterfly, jungle, parents and children, family life, family relations, child illness, tragic hero, single parent, disability, child in peril, husband wife relationship, male female relationship ...
Place:
canada, latin america, costa rica, central america
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20%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Keeping to himself in the wake his father's death, James Charm finds refuge in solitary walks and creating morbid sketches — until a charismatic new friend and a quirky young woman begin to draw him out of his shell.
Style:
serious, realistic, sentimental, touching, stylized ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
boy, teenage life, teenage boy, family relations, coming of age, self discovery, single parent, youth, therapist, mother son relationship, boyhood, teenager ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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20%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A lyrical telling of the coming of age of a 13-year-old boy who learns to cope with his new found sexuality and his unrequited love for the cool kid in school.
Style:
surreal, serious, realistic, sentimental, sincere ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick
Plot:
gay teenager, gay, coming of age, lgbt, gays and lesbians, teenage love, friendship, boy, tiger, youth, gender, teenage life ...
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19%
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Patrick Foley has been on the move all his live. Tired of drifting, he wants to spend his last days in an isolated Australian valley where he grew up. On his difficult journey he meets Shawn, a little desperate city-boy whose parents were killed in ...
Style:
surreal, serious
Plot:
coming of age, survival, youth, tragedy, homeless, nature, wilderness, orphan, culture clash, isolation, human nature, heroes ...
Time:
70s, 80s
Place:
australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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