Movies like The Son of Joseph

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The Son of Joseph (2016)
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The Son of Joseph (2016)
Original name: Le Fils de Joseph
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 113 min.
Story: A young man who lives with his mother and has never known his father, heads off to look for him. He finds a cynical and Machiavellian man who works as a publisher in Paris. After he attempts to kill him, he finds filial love thanks to his uncle.
Style: allegory, biblical
Plot: teenager, single mother, unknown father, revenge motive, writers, beach, hotel, rat, taxi, photograph, teenage boy, letter, publisher, laptop, novelist, emotionless, donkey, mother son relationship, key, handcuffs, talking to the camera

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, psychological, serious and realistic films with plots about teenager, teenage boy, beach, coming of age, teenage girl, friendship and family relations mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like The Son of Joseph: Mar de fondo (2020), Paul's Case (1980), Why (Not) Brazil? (2004), West Coast (2016), Lola and the Sea (2019). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Mar de fondo (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A middle-aged man calls into question his life choices and his own morals after a flirtation with a teenage girl at the beach.
Style: psychological, thrilling, captivating
Plot: teenager, couple relations, older man younger woman relationship, beach, relationships, male female relationship, marital infidelity, infidelity, beach party, writers, teenage girl
Place: mexico
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95%
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Paul's Case (1980)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 54 min.
Story: Captures the essence of Willa Cather's haunting story of Pittsburgh circa 1900. Lost in a world of fantasy, young working-class Paul dreams of escaping his dreary existence in turn-of-the-century Pittsburgh. As fate would have it Paul gets his ...
Plot: bondage, working class, infatuation, theater, thief, coming of age, teenager, snow, winter, gay interest, teenage boy, hotel
Place: pittsburgh
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92%
Why (Not) Brazil? (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A film director, whose career is going downhill, reluctantly decides to adapt an inadaptable best selling novel. Will she succeed or will the book adapt her in the process?
Plot: voice over narration, writers, female nudity, interview, sex, husband wife relationship, beach, love, police, train station, movie star, producer ...
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89%
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West Coast (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Four inseparable teenagers in a small town in Brittany (France). As lifelong fans of the West Coast, they think are real gangstas. Together as a "gang", they are invincible, respected, fearless and nothing can reach them, certainly not the ...
Style: psychological, disturbing, captivating
Plot: teenager, group of friends, friendship, coming of age, teenage boy, gangster, teenage life, small town life, small town, lifestyle, juvenile delinquency, bullying ...
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
89%
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Lola and the Sea (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Just when Lola, 18 years old and transgender, learns that she can finally have surgery, her mother, who is her only financial support, passes away. Abiding by her mother’s last wishes, Lola and her father, who are permanently in conflict and have ...
Style: road movie, queer cinema
Plot: lgbt, transgender, feminism, teenager, lgbtq, death of mother, estranged father, rain, rainstorm, hospital, sea, money ...
Place: belgium
⇓ similarity ⇓
89%
 7.4
 15K
Rosetta (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Young and impulsive Rosetta lives with her alcoholic mother and, moved by despair, she will do anything to maintain a job.
Style: serious, bleak, art house, contemplative, realistic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: unemployment, fishing, poverty, alcoholic mother, snitch, realism, loneliness, mother daughter relationship, alcoholic, life is a bitch, coming of age, family problems ...
Time: year 1999, 90s, 20th century
Place: belgium, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
89%
Princes In Exile (1990)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Diagnosed as having a brain tumor, seventeen-year-old Ryan is angrily resigned to the fact that he may not live to see another year. With time running out, he clings to two goals: publishing his journal and losing his virginity. But as Ryan finds ...
Style: independent film
Audience: family outing
Plot: summer camp, doctor, teenage boy, patient, child, teenager, death, journal, teenage girl, self pity, cancer, brain tumor ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
89%
An Independent Life (1992)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Russia, UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story: This is the second installment of a three-part series of autobiographical films about the director's life. The first, which won various awards for its maker, was entitled Zamri Oumi Voskresni and was later retitled Zari, Umri, Vokresni ...
Plot: teenager, male nudity, letter, female nudity, nudity, male objectification, female full frontal nudity
Place: russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
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The Genesis Children (1972)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A charismatic leader and a high-spirited student group are on holiday in Italy. The surreal adventures of these friends are a free-flowing, four-part "multi-sensual symphony," bereft of traditional story line. One national critic described ...
Style: art film, independent film, gay cinema
Plot: coming of age, boy, beach, youth, boyhood, skinny dipping, camping, teenage boy, surrealism, summer vacation, vacation, group ...
Place: italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
87%
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A Long Goodbye (1971)
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A single woman has put all her efforts into raising her only son, Sasha. When Sasha grows up to become a teenager, she thinks that she can have some time for herself, so she responds to the courtship of Nikolai Sergeyevich. One summer, Sasha goes to ...
Plot: letter, cemetery, family relations, woman, bad father, concert, divorced parents, tram, absent father, coming of age, teenage boy, translator ...
Place: soviet union, russia
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87%
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The Good Son (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Bonjour tristesse: Teenager Luc lives with his mother Liliane and his little brother Paul in Paris, has to cope with the fact that his mother is a prostitute and practically raise his brother alone. Luc is disillusioned. One day, little Paul wants ...
Style: disturbing, captivating, psychological
Audience: teens
Plot: teenager, friendship, teenage boy, romantic friendship, family relations, love affair, relationships, teenage life, love story, teenage love, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, love interest ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
87%
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A Kid (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Matthieu, a 33 year old Parisian who finds out that the father he never knew has died and decides to go to his funeral in order to meet his two siblings in Quebec. But once in Montréal, he realizes that nobody is aware of his existence or even ...
Style: psychological, disturbing, captivating
Plot: unknown father, brother brother relationship, brother brother conflict, fatherhood, dysfunctional family, father son relationship, family problems, relationship problems, life is a bitch, family relations, bare chested male, alternative medicine ...
Time: year 2016, 2010s
Place: quebec, france, canada, montreal
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86%
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The Hunter (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Japan, Kazakhstan, Switzerland
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A Kakakh kid (12) commits a robbery with a pistol he stole from a hunter. The hunter gives him a choice: either he goes to jail or they undertake a harsh journey through the mountains. Poetic Central Asian horse opera about the laws of nature.
Plot: survival, nature, rural setting, horse riding, teenager, single mother, outdoor sex, hunter, coming of age, tent, gunshot
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86%
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Raging Rose (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Poland
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Jozef travels from Poland to France to work and to find his son Roman, who he abandoned 15 years earlier. Jozef works for a Polish immigrant family that has successfully settled in France. Rose, the family’s teenaged daughter, volunteers to help ...
Style: captivating, psychological, disturbing
Plot: teenage girl, teenager, forbidden love, teen romance, love affair, love story, in love, romantic friendship, fall in love, romantic relationship, relationships, search for father ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
The Portuguese Nun (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Portugal, France
Duration: 127 min.
Story: A young French actress in Lisbon to shoot a movie is intrigued by a nun she sees kneeling in the chapel where she is filming.
Style: realistic, serious, atmospheric, sincere, contemplative ...
Plot: church, love and romance, lifestyle, culture clash, filmmaking, self discovery, actor's life, clergy, artists and showbiz, religions or cults, love affair, frenchwoman ...
Time: 21st century
Place: portugal, europe
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85%
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Stop Me Here (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Samson Cazalet, Taxi driver in his thirties, picks up a client at the airport. The same evening, the daughter of the woman disappears and the overwhelming evidence points to Samson. How can he prove his innocence when he is the ideal suspect?
Plot: lawyer, neighbor, prison, false accusation, police, beach, taxi, police station, gas station, hotel, courtroom, judge ...
Place: south of france
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
On the Wandering Paths (2023)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Pierre, a famous explorer and writer, travels regularly through the world. Someday, climbing a hotel frontage while drunk, he falls from high and into a deep coma. When he awakes, he has difficulties walking but, against everyone's advices, he ...
Style: captivating, uplifting, thought provoking, exciting, dramatic ...
Plot: hiking, writers, lifestyle change, cross country trip, travel and leisure, life, travel, coma, traveler, changing lives, solitude, voice over narration ...
Time: 2010s
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
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The Park (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 71 min.
Story: Summer time. Two teenagers, a boy and a girl, have their first date in a park. Hesitant and shy at first, they soon discover each other, get closer as they wander, and end up falling in love. But as the sun goes down, it is time to separate... And a ...
Style: art house
Plot: first date, shyness, security guard, deception, night, teenage girl, boat, teenager, guardian, owl, cigarette smoking, teenage boy ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
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Circle of Lies (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Once the most popular girl at Short Beach High, Denise Dixon finds her life turned upside-down after one night of terror. Rumours and violent backstabbing run rife. Life in Short Beach will never be the same.
Plot: teenager, blonde, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, beach, bullying, high school, girl, night, surfboard
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83%
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Welcome Home (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration: 86 min.
Story: This is the story of two childhood friends - Lucas (a 16-year-old high-schooler) and Bert (a mechanic’s apprentice) - who flee the suffocating fish bowl that their killjoy families’ lives have become. Lucas, still quite immature, finds a “big ...
Style: captivating, disturbing, homoerotic
Plot: coming of age, friendship, youth, house, teenager, life is a bitch, relationship problems, teenage life, sexual tension, male pubic hair, childhood friend, friendship between boys ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
Experience Preferred... But Not Essential (1982)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 80 min.
Story: A shy, introverted young girl takes a summer job at a seaside resort in Wales, where she finds the staff, the owners and patrons unlike anyone she has ever met before.
Style: independent film
Plot: hotel, seaside, waitress, professional, beach, introvert, mine, seaside town, sleepwalking, restaurant, girl, young
Time: year 1982
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83%
Marcelo Zona Sul (1970)
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 104 min.
Story: In Rio de Janeiro, more specifically in Copacabana, the sixteen year-old rebel and reckless teenager Marcelo is a terrible student that plays hooky from school and a liar. He dreams on leaving his home and move to São Paulo to work hard, make money ...
Style: crying
Plot: coming of age, youth culture, photography, bare chested male, high school, best friend, bossy woman, maid, rebel, classmate classmate relationship, teenage protagonist, 16 year old ...
Time: 60s
Place: rio de janeiro
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
A Place Among the Living (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A mediocre pulp novelist is approached by a stranger claiming to be a serial killer with a proposition to chronicle his crimes.
Plot: novelist, roman, translator, bookseller, suicide, writers, writing a book, deal with the devil, serial killer, existentialism, literary agent, art exhibition ...
Time: year 1958, 1950s
Place: paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
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Concurs (1982)
Genre: Drama
Country: Romania
Duration: 96 min.
Story: An outdoors orientation contest turns into a journey to the participants' self and conscience.
Style: allegory
Plot: teenage boy, wilderness, contest, rape, teamwork, death, bus, murder, competition, obstacle course
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83%
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Land Legs (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Dom, 36 years old, is a sailor on board of the fishing boat Petit Gael II from the port of Les Sables d'Olonne, a small town in western France. He is used to leave for the open sea for at least three weeks in a row. Despite of his absences, his ...
Style: psychological, touching, contemplative, thought provoking, unusual plot structure ...
Plot: fisherman, father son relationship, divorced man, children, father daughter relationship, teenager, family relations, moral dilemma, storytelling, parents and children, dog, social worker ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
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The Moon Child (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 110 min.
Story: David, a professor of dermatology, has been treating 13-year-old Romain since he was a baby. Afflicted with a rare skin condition, Romain must avoid sunlight and is condemned to live in the shade. David and Romain have become the closest of friends ...
Style: serious, realistic, emotional, sincere, contemplative ...
Plot: friendship, power relations, friends, doctors and patients, life is a bitch, child illness, hospital, terminal illness, disease, teenage boy, man boy relationship, boy ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
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Conviction (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Ever since she served on the jury during his trial, Nora has been convinced that Jacques Viguier is innocent, despite him being accused of murdering his wife. Following an appeal by the public prosecutor’s office, and fearing a miscarriage of ...
Style: serious, atmospheric, tense, suspense, realistic
Plot: legal investigation, justice, lawyer, murder trial, trial, courtroom, doubt, car accident, missing person, fight for justice, suspicion of murder, wiretap ...
Time: 2000s
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
Tea in the Harem (1985)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 110 min.
Story: The story of two youths - one Algerian, one French - who become juvenile delinquents in a Paris suburb.
Plot: migration, exile, boy, petty theft, teenage boy, coming of age, juvenile delinquent, harassment, friend, suicidal thoughts, stealing a car, job seeking ...
Time: 80s
Place: paris france
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82%
I'm Going to Change My Name (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Armenia, Germany, Russia
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Based on the Armenian ‘Sharakan’, a nine-part song that brings us gradually closer to meaning, Maria Saakyan’s new film further develops the poetic invention apparent in her first feature, The Lighthouse. Focusing on the world of a 14-year-old ...
Style: romantic, captivating
Plot: coming of age, single mother, teenage girl, teenager, relationship problems, small town, mother daughter relationship, love and romance, family problems, small town life, lifestyle, teenage life ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
Every Thing Will Be Fine (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, Canada, France, Sweden, Norway
Duration: 118 min.
Story: One day, driving aimlessly around the outskirts of town after a trivial domestic quarrel, a writer named Tomas accidentally hits and kills a child. Will he be able to move on?
Style: serious, touching, psychological, emotional, teen ...
Audience: teens
Plot: redemption, introspection, guilt, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, haunted by the past, boy, car accident, life is a bitch, loss of son, tragic event, depression, writers ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
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