Movies like Hurt 2016

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Hurt (2016)
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Hurt (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Mandy White is a cheerleader. Dan LaCoy is a football player. Jason Dobbs is a bully. Eli Barker is an artist. Asia Borg is a foster kid. What they all have in common however, is that they are hurting. Each one deals with their own personal issues including depression, alcoholic parents, peer pressure, academic pressures and thoughts of suicide. All the while the school counselor Professor Shepard is doing his best to meet their needs and see that their futures are well prepared for. However, despite all the direction, the right questions are not asked and one of the students slips through the cracks. Mandy, Dan, Jason, Eli or Asia commits to a school shooting...and despite their hardships, no one sees it coming.
Plot: teenager, student, depression, death, bullying, suicide, shooting, high school, alcoholism, alcohol abuse
Place: virginia

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Most similar movies to Hurt

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, teen and psychological films with plots about teenager, suicide, high school, death, bullying, teenage girl and coming of age mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Hurt: Hope Bridge (2015), Circle of Lies (2012), Pivot Point (2011), Face in the Mirror (1982), Bleak Night (2010). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Hope Bridge (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: After a high school boy learns that his father committed suicide, he begins a journey to find hope and reconciliation in the midst of his grief.
Style: teen
Audience: teens
Plot: faith, christian, suicide, bullying, depression, hopes
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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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Pivot Point (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A psychological drama that follows four high schoolers down a dark ride. As each struggle separately in their own lives they will soon discover that their lives are interconnected in ways they never would have guessed. They also effect each other in ...
Style: psychological, tense, disturbing
Plot: school shooting, justice, death, police, suicide, high school, depression, showdown, twists and turns, gay porn, car wreck, school ...
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Face in the Mirror (1982)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 65 min.
Story: The dramatic story of a group of young people’s response to a desperate teen’s cry for help.
Style: christian film
Plot: faith, suicide, pastor, ambulance, christianity, outcast, suicide attempt, christian, troubled teen, depression, teenager, hospital ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Bleak Night (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 116 min.
Story: There were three friends. Someone became the assailant and someone became the victim. Another swings his fists in anger at their broken friendship. Through the director’s creation of young actors and looking into the life of high school boys, the ...
Style: non-linear, depressing, rough, disturbing, psychological ...
Plot: high school student, teen suicide, friendship, bullying, death, high school, violence, father, student, loss of son, brutality, boy ...
Place: korea, east asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
Lighter Fluid (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 66 min.
Story: An experimental look into the lives of teens and young adults in a dysfunctional town.
Style: experimental
Plot: suicide, abandoned house, murder, skateboard, surrealism, pregnancy, death
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
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A Parting Shot (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Switzerland
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A rebellious teenager and a "border-line" young nurse will learn to tame each other and get a fresh start in life...
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful
Plot: nurse, teenager, hospital, mental illness, mentally unstable, workplace, child illness, isolation, shooting, nurse patient relationship, blood, suicide ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, switzerland
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
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After Jimmy (1996)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Story: This is a story of Jimmy, a high school senior, who is struggling with his school life, family pressures, future choices. When it becomes too much, Jimmy kills himself.
Plot: teen suicide, high school, boss, teenage boy, mourning, funeral, teenager, suicide, cemetery, grief, handgun, remorse ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Painful Secrets (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Dawn isn't like other kids her age full of typical teenage angst about boys, school and parents. Her pain goes far deeper, and to deal with her emotional overload she physically cuts herself. The problem of adolescent girls committing ...
Style: psychological, disturbing, suspense, sad, teen ...
Plot: mental illness, self mutilation, mother daughter relationship, teenage girl, self harm, psychiatrist, bullying, physical abuse, female friendship, depression, trouble, problem ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Detachment (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A chronicle of three weeks in the lives of several high school teachers, administrators and students through the eyes of substitute teacher, Henry Barthes. Henry roams from school to school, imparting modes of knowledge, but never staying long ...
Style: depressing, psychological, bleak, thought provoking, touching ...
Audience: teens
Plot: teacher, depression, suicide, teachers and students, dedicated educator, school, unhappy, social problems, life is a bitch, human relationship, teen angst, society ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa
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54%
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Odd Girl Out (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A mother and her daughter confront the intimidation of teen peer pressure and the emotionally brutalizing social rituals of high school.
Style: realistic, serious, exciting, captivating, touching ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, kids, teen drama
Plot: bullying, high school, teenage love, school, high school life, family relations, lifestyle, buddies, friendship, friends, teenage life, teachers and students ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
A Girl Like Her (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Sophomore year has been a nightmare for Jessica Burns. Relentlessly harassed by her former friend Avery Keller, Jessica doesn't know what she did to deserve the abuse from one of South Brookdale High's most popular and beautiful students. ...
Style: realistic, serious, teen, rough, tense ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: bullying, teenage girl, found footage, high school, popular girl, high school life, mean girl, kids in trouble, teenage life, suicide, mother daughter relationship, humiliation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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Zero Day (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Two troubled adolescents chronicle the events that ultimately lead up to a terrifying assault on their school.
Style: disturbing, psychological, mockumentary, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience: teens
Plot: school shooting, found footage, vengeance, brutality, suicide, friendship, serial killer, high school, bullying, childhood, rebellion, justice ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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Rough Winds (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Three devastating teenage stories fuse beneath the calm of a quiet, average neighborhood.
Style: teen
Plot: suicide attempt, closeted gay, anorexia, high school, suburbs, teenager, post traumatic stress disorder, coming of age
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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Our Time (1974)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Drama about students at a girls' school, their boyfriends, and an unexpected pregnancy.
Style: heartfelt
Audience: teens
Plot: good girl gone bad, high school, coming of age, christmas party, unrequited love, young love, abortion, pregnancy, girls' school, boarding school, death of friend, teenage pregnancy ...
Time: year 1955, 1950s
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
A Better Place (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A high school outcast new to town becomes friends with a violent loner still haunted by the death of his parents.
Style: art house, cerebral, independent film, serious, realistic ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: high school, coming of age, misfit, friendship, juvenile delinquency, social misfits, society, youth, friends, kids in trouble, kidnapping, teenage life ...
Time: 90s
Place: new jersey, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Her Last Chance (1996)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Drug adict teen gets out of rehab only to be accused of her boyfriend's death.
Plot: death, accident, teenager, jealousy, drug addict, drug addiction, party, drug, defense attorney, assault, friendship, cigarette smoking ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Desperate Lives (1982)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A brother and sister get caught up in the drug scene in their local high school, with tragic results.
Plot: drug addiction, high school, car crash, bare chested male, drug use, skateboard, hospital, propaganda, teenage boy, teenage girl, death, suicide ...
Time: 80s
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46%
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Hold Me Tight (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 80 min.
Story: I skoletimerne sender Mikkel prøvende blikke til klassens stille og indelukkede pige, Sara, der er smigret over opmærksomheden. Da Mikkel og hans ven Hassan leger flirtende med hende i et frikvarter, bliver Hassans kæreste, Louise, jaloux og ...
Style: crying
Audience: teens
Plot: coming of age, male pubic hair, snow, male nudity, student, teenager, scandinavian girl, suicide, father son relationship, school, brother sister relationship, suicide by hanging ...
Place: denmark
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Brothers Three: An American Gothic (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Three brothers reunite at a remote cabin in the woods, when beckoned by their father. The brothers are left to deal with the dark secrets and demons that have haunted them their whole lives. The resulting truths they must face, end in an explosive ...
Style: independent film, gothic
Plot: beer, father son relationship, brother brother relationship, death, hunting, grave, family relations, alcoholism, self-help, cabin
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Purgatory House (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: An inside glimpse of how it feels to be a teen in today's disconnected world. PURGATORY HOUSE chronicles the after-life journey of Silver Strand: a lonely teen who abandons her life of turmoil and drug addiction, only to find herself caught ...
Style: gothic, serious, independent film, non-linear, realistic
Audience: teens
Plot: drug abuse, surrealism, teen angst, supernatural power, hopes, misfit, addiction, teenage life, family problems, social misfits, life is a bitch, youth ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
To Save a Life (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Jake Taylor has everything. He has a beautiful girl, he's the champion in basketball and beer pong, and everyone loves him. Then, an old childhood friend, whom Jake used to be friends with, commits suicide. Jake begins to think. He wonders what ...
Style: christian film, contemplative, captivating, serious, sincere ...
Audience: teens, family outing, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: religious, christian, suicide, faith, high school, friendship, bittersweet, social relations, social differences, self discovery, friends, teenage life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
The Mystery of Her (2022)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: After a near fatal car accident, a popular high school student loses her memory and gets a second chance at a more meaningful life.
Style: psychological, disturbing, captivating
Plot: memory loss, car accident, lifestyle change, changing lives, female protagonist, teenager, memory lapse, teenage life, amnesia, teenage girl, second chance, high school ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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It Gets Better (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min.
Story: Inspired by the It Gets Better Project this documentary film follows the stories of three real-life subjects who are at unique impasses related to their identities as gay or transgender people.
Plot: lgbt, transgender, teenager, lesbian, bullying, acceptance, bisexual, gay, tolerance, homosexual, hopes
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43%
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Speak (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Freshman high-school student Melinda has refused to speak ever since she called the cops on a popular summer party. With her old friends snubbing her for being a rat, and her parents too busy to notice her troubles, she folds into herself, trying to ...
Style: touching, sentimental, psychological, independent film, sincere ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: rape, high school, teenage girl, school, bullying, youth, innocence lost, family problems, life is a bitch, unsupportive friend, teenage life, sexual abuse ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa
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43%
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2:37 (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A contemporary, ensemble drama telling the complex tale of six high school students whose lives are interwoven with situations that so many of today's youth are faced with. The story takes place during a normal school day. At precisely 2:37 a ...
Style: psychological, bleak, serious, sincere, depressing ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: high school, brother sister incest, rape, youth, high school life, teenage life, teenage love, social relations, suicide, incest rape, society, social misfits ...
Place: south australia, adelaide south australia, australia
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42%
A Thousand Months (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium, Morocco, Germany
Duration: 124 min.
Story: 1981, Morocco. A village in the Atlas mountains. A city in the distance. A child. A family facing its destiny.
Audience: teens
Plot: little boy, authoritarianism, teenager, teacher, young boy, rural setting, school teacher, oppression, boy, wedding, suicide, death ...
Place: morocco
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39%
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When It Melts (2023)
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, Netherlands
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Many years after a sweltering summer that spun out of control, Eva returns to the village she grew up in with an ice block in the back of her car. In the dead of winter, she confronts her past and faces up to her tormentors.
Style: thrilling, captivating, psychological, non-linear
Plot: female protagonist, problem, social problems, life is a bitch, troubled past, confronting the past, tragic past, rape, alcoholism, suicide, teenager, horse ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Listening to Rain (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Listening to Rain is a coming of age story centered around two girls who are sexually assaulted during their senior year of high school. This unique films follows Haley and Emily as they attempt find themselves and recover from unimaginable trauma. ...
Style: independent film
Plot: rape, female nudity, teenager, girl, suicide, lesbian, strong female lead, sexual assault, coming of age, women, bisexual, christianity ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Yelling to the Sky (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: As her family falls apart, seventeen year old Sweetness O'Hara is left to fend for herself in a neighborhood where her survival is uncertain.
Style: emotional, serious, captivating, realistic, independent film ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: dysfunctional family, depression, juvenile delinquency, teenage life, alcoholic, going straight, youth, society, hopes, coming of age, parents and children, family life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: indiana, usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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