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Microbe and Gasoline (2015)
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Microbe and Gasoline (2015)
Original name: Microbe et Gasoil
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Two young friends embark on a road trip across France in a vehicle they built themselves.
Style: road movie, humorous, captivating, semi serious, sexy, psychedelic, existential, comedy drama, crying, gaming
Audience: teens, pre-teens
Plot: teenage boy, friendship, road trip, on the road, coming of age, dysfunctional family, summer vacation, school bully, socially awkward, friendship between boys, travel, erotic fantasy, masturbation, best friend, drawing, father son relationship, bicycle, high school, junkyard, antique shop, punk band, teenager, football, school, airplane ...
Time: year 2015, 2010s, year 2014
Place: paris france, france

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, realistic, touching and crying films with plots about coming of age, teenage boy, teenager, family relations, boy, father son relationship and friendship mostly in Comedy, Drama and Adventure genres. Some movies like Microbe and Gasoline: The Kings of Summer (2013), A Birder's Guide to Everything (2013), King Jack (2015), Goodbye Berlin (2016), Winter Flies (2018). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Kings of Summer (2013)
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, funny, emotional ...
Audience: teens, kids, date night, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, runaway, summer, friendship, high school, lifestyle change, teenage runaway, wilderness, teenage protagonist, forest, hospital, teenager ...
Time: 2010s, year 2013, 21st century
Place: usa
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A Birder's Guide to Everything (2013)
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: touching, feel good, realistic, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience: teens
Plot: teenage life, friendship, obsessive quest, coming of age, teenage boy, road trip, friends, escapades, sexual content, friendship between boys, bird, wildlife ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, connecticut, new england
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King Jack (2015)
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, independent film
Audience: teens
Plot: coming of age, bullying, teenage boy, friendship, small town, teenage life, brutality, violence, party, mental illness, cruelty, drinking ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york state
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Goodbye Berlin (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: Germany, France
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Two outsiders travel around the countryside during school holidays.
Style: road movie, light, entertaining, humorous, exciting ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: classmate, coming of age, friendship between boys, teenage boy, birthday party, alcoholic mother, junkyard, youth, fall in love, teenage love, mother son relationship, gay ...
Time: year 2016
Place: germany, berlin germany
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Winter Flies (2018)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: Czech Republic, Slovenia, Poland, Slovakia, France
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Mischievously self-assured Mára and somewhat eccentric Heduš set out into the frozen wastes in search of adventure – by car, naturally. After all, Mára’s turning fifteen soon. A road movie about the flies that occasionally buzz around even in ...
Style: touching, captivating, serious, humorous, crying ...
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The Road Within (2014)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A young man with Tourette's Syndrome embarks on a road trip with his recently-deceased mother's ashes.
Style: road movie, touching, sentimental, realistic, teen ...
Audience: teens
Plot: road trip, mental illness, tourette's syndrome, on the road, friendship, psychiatrist, coming of age, father son relationship, obsessive quest, mentally unstable protagonist, social misfits, escapades ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles, reno nevada
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The Good Life (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 107 min.
Story: This humorous movie charts the life of a 14-year-old (Tristan) as he deals with some major issues in his life. At the beginning of the movie, he has already decided to dedicate his life to writing and losing his virginity (while his parents are away ...
Style: serious, realistic, sentimental, touching, sexual ...
Plot: coming of age, chess, age difference, family relations, prostitute, friendship, loss of virginity, friends, couples, self discovery, love and romance, youth ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: madrid, paris france
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Barefoot (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czech Republic, Slovakia, Denmark
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Story of a small boy is forced to move out of Prague during World War 2 to a small village of Slavonice where he meets the rest of his family. He needs to make new friends and get used to a new life which is immensely different from what this city ...
Style: suspenseful, sentimental, sincere, touching, suspense ...
Plot: world war two, boy, social outcast, family relations, husband wife relationship, end of war, child protagonist, death, countryside, wartime life, abusive father, stuttering ...
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Place: central europe, prague
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Mrs. Hyde (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Mrs. Géquil is an eccentric teacher despised by her colleagues and students. On a stormy night, she is struck by lightning and faints. When she wakes up, she feels different. Will she now be able to keep the powerful and dangerous Mrs. Hyde ...
Style: thought provoking, humorous, disturbing, captivating, art house ...
Plot: teacher, high school, husband wife relationship, female protagonist, laboratory, sleepwalking, transformation, logic, lightning, school principal, person on fire, jekyll and hyde ...
Time: 2010s
Place: france
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Good Kids (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Four high school students look to redefine themselves after graduation.
Style: teen sex comedy, sexy, captivating, entertaining, humorous ...
Audience: teens
Plot: party, graduation, sexual humor, coming of age, friendship, group of friends, teenage boy, teenager, friendship between men, rivalry, student, socially awkward ...
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Monsieur Ibrahim (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Monsieur Ibrahim is a story about a young Jewish boy in Paris who meets an old Muslim Turkish grocery store owner. The film touches the themes of friendship and love as the old man is a father figure to the boy as he teaches him of the Koran. The ...
Style: touching, sentimental, sweet, emotional, uplifting ...
Audience: teens
Plot: coming of age, muslim, adoption, religion, friendship, self discovery, youth, man boy relationship, childhood, koran, generation gap, family relations ...
Time: 20th century, 60s, 90s, year 2003
Place: paris france, europe, middle east, switzerland, turkey ...
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45%
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The Half of It (2020)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Shy, straight-A student Ellie is hired by sweet but inarticulate jock Paul, who needs help wooing the most popular girl in school. But their new and unlikely friendship gets tricky when Ellie discovers she has feelings for the same girl.
Style: lgbt cinema, touching, romantic comedy, compassionate, teen ...
Audience: teens, chick flick
Plot: lesbian, lesbian teen, gay, high school life, lgbt, lgbt teen, unrequited love, lesbian love, love, lgbtq, teenager, sapphic ...
Time: near future, 2020s
Place: washington state
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45%
The Prince of Pennsylvania (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: There's nothing wrong with the Marshetta family that a little felony can't cure. Rupert doesn't want to follow in his father's blue-collar footsteps, so he and his quirky friend kidnap his father for ransom, only nobody wants him ...
Style: retro, independent film, semi serious, realistic, offbeat ...
Plot: kidnapping, older woman younger man relationship, motorcycle, older woman younger man, age-gap relationship, mine, family relations, missing person, dysfunctional family, kidnapper, friends, family problems ...
Time: 80s
Place: pennsylvania, usa
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We Need a Vacation (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
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Duration: 86 min.
Story: It is the end of the school year for the children of a dormitory town. Most of them leave the place for a vacation with their parents but not Lucien and Adama whose parents can't afford the expense. While the big brothers of the housing estate ...
Plot: youth, summer vacation, best friend, coming of age, female pubic hair, male pubic hair, bare chested male, young boy, woods, stealing, naturist, buddy ...
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Country: USA, India
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Story: Three American brothers who have not spoken to each other in a year set off on a train voyage across India with a plan to find themselves and bond with each other -- to become brothers again like they used to be. Their "spiritual quest", ...
Style: road movie, emotional, dark comedy, surreal, talky ...
Audience: family friendly
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Time: year 2007, 2000s, 21st century
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Wassup Rockers (2005)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
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Audience: teens
Plot: teenage life, skateboard, friends, society, rock, social differences, buddies, life is a bitch, coming of age, teenager, cultural difference, punk ...
Time: year 2005, 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa, south central los angeles, southern california, beverly hills
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 101 min.
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Plot: parents and children, family life, family problems, elderly, aging, disorder, three generations, monkey, family relations, sexual frustration, caught masturbating, parents separation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: germany, europe, central europe, berlin germany
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Psychobitch (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Frida is different. Self chosen different. Marius, on the other hand is the most perfect boy in class, and likes to show off. When they have to work together at school, it's the start of a turbulent and challenging relationship. Generation ...
Style: psychological, suspense, tense, captivating, unusual plot structure ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 108 min.
Story: The Chumscrubber is a dark comedy about the lives of people who live in upper-class suburbia. It all begins when Dean Stiffle finds the body of his friend, Troy. He doesn't bother telling any of the adults because he knows they won't care. ...
Style: surreal, dark comedy, bleak, independent film, black comedy ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
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The Last of the High Kings (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Ireland, Denmark, UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story: It is 1977, Dublin rocks to the music of Thin Lizzy and the world is stunned by the death of Elvis Presley. Frankie, caught between acne and adulthood, has just completed his final exams in school. Convinced he will fail, he survives the summer ...
Style: humorous, light, talky, feel good, sentimental ...
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Time: year 1996, 70s, year 1977, 90s
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, South Africa, Rwanda
Duration: 88 min.
Story: "Africa United" tells the extraordinary story of three Rwandan children who attempt to realize the dream of their life: to attend the opening ceremony of the FIFA World Cup 2010 at Johannesburg. But the problems begin when Fabrice, Dudu ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, touching, sincere ...
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15+ Coming of Age (2017)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Thailand
Duration: 104 min.
Story: With their teen hormones raging, three high school boys help one another explore their curiosity about the opposite sex and love in this raunchy comedy.
Style: entertaining, realistic, semi serious, captivating, humorous ...
Audience: teens
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Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
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Style: feel good, funny, semi serious, realistic, humorous ...
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Stand by Me (1986)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, 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, sad, emotional, feel good, atmospheric ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, family outing, kids, teen drama ...
Plot: childhood, friendship, coming of age, stephen king, boy, children, youth, teenager, camping, on the road, summer, friends ...
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Place: oregon, usa
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Pretty Persuasion (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A 15-year-old girl incites chaos among her friends and a media frenzy when she accuses her drama teacher of sexual harassment.
Style: dark comedy, independent film, biting, cynical, stylized ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: lesbian, lesbian sex, adolescence, teenager, high school, coming of age, sexual harassment, false accusation, school, dysfunctional family, sex, stereotypes ...
Time: year 2005, 21st century
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Senior Trip (1981)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A group of graduating students from a midwestern high school comes to New York City on a trip to celebrate the impending end of school. The students include: Roger Ellis, an ambitious teen aiming for success in big business; David, an aspiring rock ...
Style: freeze frame, teen comedy
Plot: tourist, horse, artist, father issues, secretary, painter, taxi, actor, fish, bus driver, gay, male objectification ...
Place: new york
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44%
That Trip We Took with Dad (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany, Romania, Hungary, Sweden
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Romania, 1968. Two very different brothers. Mihai is a secret police informant, Emil is a dedicated dissident. When they have the opportunity to have their ailing father’s eyes operated on in East Germany, the three set out on a moving odyssey.
Style: touching, serious, captivating, realistic, entertaining ...
Plot: road trip, cold war, arrested, family relations, father son relationship, brother brother relationship, fight, doctor, death of father, politics, life, lifestyle change ...
Time: year 1968, 60s
Place: central europe
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Vacation (2015)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Hoping to bring his family closer together and to recreate his childhood vacation for his own kids, a grown up Rusty Griswold takes his wife and their two sons on a cross-country road trip to the coolest theme park in America, Walley World. Needless ...
Style: funny, humorous, hilarious, realistic, not serious ...
Audience: teens, family outing, girls' night
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What a Man Wants (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 100 min.
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Style: disturbing, captivating, satirical, psychological, crying ...
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The Science of Sleep (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A man entranced by his dreams and imagination is lovestruck with a French woman and feels he can show her his world.
Style: surreal, psychedelic, psychological, philosophical, meditative ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: dream, surrealism, magic, daydreamer, artist, escape from reality, existentialism, insanity, magic realism, imagination, love story, friendship ...
Time: year 2006, 2000s, 21st century
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