Movies like Sparrows
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Sparrows (2015)
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Original name: Þrestir
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 tricky romantic relationship; and his father has become a victim of the financial crisis.
Style:
captivating, sincere, suspenseful, melancholic
Plot:
coming of age, sex scene, absent mother, small town, childhood friend, gay, older woman younger man sex, female nudity, nudity, alcoholism, teenager, lgbt, boy, father, child, little boy, boyhood, adolescence, teenage boy, rape, male nudity, boat, bare breasts, choir, funeral ...
Place:
iceland, reykjavik iceland
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, psychological, sincere and realistic films with plots about coming of age, female nudity, teenager, male nudity, bare breasts, female full frontal nudity and youth mostly in Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like Sparrows: 100 Days Before the Command (1991), Leave Us Alone (1975), Nightmares (1979), Love Strange Love (1982), Father's Affair (2003). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Duration: 71 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Country: Denmark
Duration: 82 min.
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Man remembers 48 crucial hours in his life when, as a teenager, he visited his mother, the favorite woman of an important politician, in a bordello owned by her, right before some important political changes in Brazil, in 1937. In those hours, he ...
Style:
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Plot:
incest, mother son incest, boy, mother son relationship, coming of age, male nudity, sexual curiosity, sex with a minor, older woman teenage boy sex, puberty, corrupt politician, sex with mother ...
Time:
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Place:
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100%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Armin is in crisis. One fateful day he discovers he is infertile and has been throughout his life. From this he discovers his first wife, Monika, was unfaithful before she died. How else could she have the child that Armin thought was always his? ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, sensual ...
Plot:
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318
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Guido is an international journalist with an unusually difficult relationship with his daughter, Mimi. He hasn't seen her for several years and has just taken her away from the boarding school she was immured in. She is now 15, and for some ...
Style:
sexual, sexy, period drama
Plot:
sex with daughter, incest, puberty, coming of age, erotica, bare breasts, naked woman, troubled relationship, teenage girl, journalist, hotel, father daughter sex ...
Time:
70s
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Lily and Alison face a life-changing event after they leave their Salton Sea home and follow the boys they meet back to Los Angeles.
Style:
touching, serious, captivating, sincere, independent film ...
Audience:
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Plot:
teenage life, sex scene, sexual attraction, attempted rape, coming of age, female nudity, self discovery, rebellion, youth, estrangement, street kid, cons and scams ...
Time:
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Place:
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Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
eastern europe, soviet union, ussr
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Genre: Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Based on a novel by the late Finnish writer Timo Mukka, this simple story focuses on what happens when Milka (Irma Huntus), a girl barely out of childhood, gets pregnant by Ojanen (Matti Turunen) a rustic fieldhand. Her own mother had been hoping to ...
Plot:
stepfather, female nudity, child abuse, bare breasts, pregnant teenager, stepfather stepdaughter relationship, nudity, male pubic hair, rural setting, bare butt, pregnant woman, sexual relations ...
Place:
finland
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100%
734
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
18-year old Christian has just graduated from high school. At his summer job he is seduced by the 36-year old single mother Sanne. Soon he is drawn into a world of sensuality and his acquaintance with Sanne turns into an intense love affair which ...
Style:
erotic, captivating, psychological, suspenseful, sincere ...
Audience:
teen drama, adult
Plot:
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Place:
denmark
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Country: Netherlands
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
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Style:
serious, sincere, realistic, captivating
Plot:
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Place:
amsterdam
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22%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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351
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Style:
suspense, disturbing, captivating, psychological, melancholic ...
Plot:
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Time:
2000s
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Style:
suspense, captivating, disturbing, psychological, queer cinema
Plot:
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Plot:
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541
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Duration: 85 min.
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Story:
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Style:
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Story:
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Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
holland
Similarity:
19%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Iceland
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
An unexpected first kiss causes Gabriel to feel the electrifying "jitters" of love and lust with the free-spirited Marcus; a perfect way to end a Summer studying abroad. Realizing he is gay, Gabriel returns home and is immediately ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, emotional, realistic, queer cinema
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
iceland, manchester, england
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19%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Plot:
pedophilia, parent child relationship, father son relationship, gay, sexual abuse, unsettling, family tragedy, taboo subject, family drama, evidence, grief, guilt ...
Time:
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Similarity:
19%
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Country: Iceland, Netherlands, Croatia, France
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
iceland
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Country: Ecuador, Argentina
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
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Style:
queer cinema, gay cinema
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
ecuador
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Duration: 82 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, touching, sentimental, emotional, captivating ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
france
Similarity:
19%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Style:
psychological, captivating, disturbing, hot
Plot:
drug use, sex scene, teenage prostitution, drug, girlfriend girlfriend relationship, teenage life, youth culture, lifestyle, friends, girlfriend, teenager, social problems ...
Place:
berlin germany
Similarity:
18%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands, Belgium
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Lena is a lonely, plump adolescent girl. Much to her surprise she gets a relationship with the popular but unreliable Daan. Lena moves in with Daan and his strange father Tom and is willing to do a lot for his love. More than a lot.
Style:
realistic, psychological, captivating, atmospheric, serious ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, leaving home, older man younger woman sex, teenage love, parents and children, physical appearance, teenage life, youth, family relations, family problems, teenager, loneliness ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
holland, europe, rotterdam netherlands
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18%
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