Movies like The Devil in the Skin

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The Devil in the Skin (2011)
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The Devil in the Skin (2011)
Original name: Le Diable dans la peau
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Coming-of-Age drama telling the story of the strong bond between Xavier and his little brother Jacques and their struggle to remain together despite all odds.
Style: touching, sentimental, serious, realistic
Plot: coming of age, youth, brother brother relationship, rebelliousness, forceful separation, summer, family relations, life turned upside down, countryside, boy, childhood, teenager, teenage boy, brother, siblings relations, friendship, little boy
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: france

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, touching and captivating films with plots about youth, coming of age, family relations, friendship, boy, teenage life and siblings relations mostly in Drama and Adventure genres. Some movies like The Devil in the Skin: Oscar and the Lady in Pink (2009), Dummy (2008), The Grocer's Son (2007), The Good Son (2001), The Last Hammer Blow (2014). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Way I Spent the End of the World (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Romania, France
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Bucharest 1989 - the last year of Ceausecu's dictatorship. Eva lives with her parents and her 7 year old brother, Lalalilu. One day at school, Eva and her boyfriend accidentally break a bust of Ceausescu. They are forced to confess their crime ...
Style: captivating, sentimental, sincere, realistic, serious ...
Plot: youth, friendship, hopes, coming of age, siblings relations, exile, rebelliousness, human spirit, reform, family relations, warning, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: romania, eastern europe, europe
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Oscar and the Lady in Pink (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium, Canada
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Listening in to a conversation between his doctor and parents, 10-year-old Oscar learns what nobody has the courage to tell him. He only has a few weeks to live. Furious, he refuses to speak to anyone except straight-talking Rose, the lady in pink ...
Style: touching, uplifting, serious, realistic
Plot: friendship, hospital, nurse, coming of age, terminal illness, child illness, boy, wrestling, youth, life is a bitch, human spirit, unfulfillment ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe
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Dummy (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A coming of age drama about two young brothers whose lives are thrown into turmoil when their mother dies suddenly, leaving them to fend for themselves. While Danny loses himself in music, sex and drugs, his younger brother Jack transforms a life ...
Style: serious, realistic, touching, humorous, gloomy
Plot: youth, kids in trouble, brother brother relationship, teenage life, family relations, family in crisis, family problems, death in the family, death of mother, coming of age, mental illness, sibling relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, england
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The Grocer's Son (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Antoine Sforza, a thirty-year-old young man, left his village ten years before in order to start a new life in the big city, but now that his father, a traveling grocer, is in hospital after a stroke, he more or less reluctantly accepts to come back ...
Style: realistic, contemplative, thought provoking, sentimental, captivating ...
Plot: village, countryside, family relations, hospital, heart attack, self discovery, homecoming, culture clash, parents and children, conflict, lifestyle, on the road ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, lyon, europe, alps, provence
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100%
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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 ...
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The Last Hammer Blow (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 82 min.
Story: When he first enters the Montpellier Opera House, Victor knows nothing about music. Nor does he know his father, Samuel Rovinski, who is there to conduct Mahler’s 6th symphony. To change the course of his suddenly uncertain future, for Nadia his ...
Style: realistic, touching, sentimental, emotional, captivating ...
Plot: coming of age, parents and children, family relations, bittersweet, single parent, teenage boy, father son relationship, orchestra conductor, father son reunion, boyhood, father, boy ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
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All the Wilderness (2014)
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, independent film ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: boy, teenage life, teenage boy, family relations, coming of age, self discovery, single parent, youth, therapist, mother son relationship, problem, boyhood ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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100%
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Brother (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Georgia, France
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Giorgi is 16 years old when he discovers another world through American films forbidden in all Soviet Union until then. Since the post-revolutionary chaos in his home town, Tbilisi, Giorgi has wanted to have succeeded by following the path of his ...
Style: realistic, serious, touching, captivating, stylized ...
Plot: teenage life, youth, juvenile delinquency, society, political unrest, prodigy, brother brother relationship, siblings, brothers, brother, family relations, gang ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: georgia
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100%
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The Giants (2011)
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: touching, humorous, sentimental, feel good, realistic ...
Plot: youth, teenager, brother brother relationship, teenage life, friendship, coming of age, drug dealer, on the road, self discovery, adolescence vs adulthood, when the parents are away, boy ...
Time: 21st century
Place: belgium, europe
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Jack (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Although he is only ten years old, Jack is responsible for himself and his little brother Manuel and this fills him with pride. Their single mother works during the day and often goes out at night. There’s no father in sight. One day, Manuel burns ...
Style: realistic, atmospheric, touching, captivating, serious ...
Plot: boy, young heroes, teenage life, self discovery, youth, child as adult, coming of age, family relations, life turned upside down, child care, brother brother relationship, parents and children ...
Time: 21st century
Place: germany
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Local Boys (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: On Skeet’s twelfth birthday his older brother Randy buys him his first surfboard. Suddenly his summer turns to the endless search for the perfect wave, wild times and beach parties and eventually, finding his own daring adventures when Randy’s ...
Style: sentimental, serious, realistic, disturbing
Audience: kids
Plot: surfing, youth, boy, coming of age, gang, brother brother relationship, friendship, father figure, best friend, parents and children, teenage love, love triangle ...
Place: california, usa, mexico
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Drunkboat (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: After twenty years of broken bottles and empty hallways, Mort Gleason witnesses his nephew Moo being beaten while in a drunken stupor. The short contact with family brings Mort back to what are left of his senses and he returns to the last home he ...
Style: serious, touching, realistic, sincere, sad
Plot: family relations, single parent, haunted by the past, social relations, youth, parents and children, self discovery, coming of age, teenage life, suburbs, teenager, drinking alcohol ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, illinois
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The King of Ping Pong (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Rille, an ostracized and bullied teenager, who only excels in the ping pong room, descends into a life-and-death struggle with his younger, more popular brother when the truth about their father surfaces during their spring break.
Style: realistic, sentimental, touching, captivating, psychological ...
Audience: teens
Plot: fat boy, ping pong, coming of age, youth, family relations, haunted by the past, breakup, teenage life, couples, unfulfillment, alcohol abuse, family secret ...
Time: 21st century
Place: eastern europe
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Along the Ridge (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A young father and his two children struggle to find harmony after his wife leaves them for another man.
Style: serious, realistic, emotional, touching
Plot: coming of age, boy, family relations, friendship, dysfunctional family, lifestyle, siblings relations, parents and children, single parent, youth, family problems, unfaithful wife ...
Time: year 2006, 21st century
Place: italy, europe
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Call Me Elisabeth (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A 10 year old girl lives in post WWII rural France with her parents, who are about to divorce. Her older sister leaves home to finish school, and the young girl is left with a mysterious, almost silent housekeeper. Being afraid of the dark, and of ...
Style: serious, realistic, touching, sentimental, exciting ...
Plot: family relations, master and servant, couples, danger, mute or deaf, countryside, sister sister relationship, father daughter relationship, mental illness, mother daughter relationship, friendship, intellectual disability ...
Time: 20th century, 50s, post world war two, 1950s
Place: france
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100%
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Cold Water (1994)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: An outer suburb of Paris, 1972. Gilles and Christine, both sixteen, are classmates and lovers who have become frustrated with the aloofness of their families and the general monotony of their lives. When the pair are caught shoplifting, ...
Style: realistic, touching, sentimental, serious, emotional ...
Audience: girls' night, teens, teen drama
Plot: youth, kids in trouble, family relations, unfulfilled love, teenage life, rebelliousness, parents and children, unfulfillment, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, dysfunctional family, teenage boy, teenage girl ...
Time: 70s, year 1994, year 1972
Place: france, paris france, europe
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The Last Summer of La Boyita (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina, Spain, France
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Young Jorgelina feels estranged from her boy-crazy older sister, who has entered adolescence and doesn't want to hang around with little kids anymore. Finding refuge in their Boyita camper-van, Jorgelina travels with her father to the ...
Style: serious, realistic, exciting, suspenseful, melancholic ...
Plot: friendship, ranch, youth, coming of age, sister sister relationship, family relations, countryside, father daughter relationship, teenage life, parents and children, abused child, gender ...
Time: 21st century
Place: argentina
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100%
All Good Children (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland, UK, Belgium, France
Duration: 81 min.
Story: After experiencing a tragedy, Irish brothers Dara and Eoin move to rural France, where they become friends with young Bella, whose beauty and charm bewitches the emotionally unstable Dara.
Style: atmospheric, realistic, serious, psychological, captivating ...
Plot: coming of age, obsession, teenage love, family relations, youth, love and romance, unfulfillment, couples, society, friendship, cat, childhood trauma ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, france, ireland
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100%
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Yuki & Nina (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Japan
Duration: 92 min.
Story: When Yuki finds out that her parents are separating and she is moving to Japan with her mother, she and her best friend Nina devise ways to reunite the feuding adults.
Style: serious, touching, stylized, sincere, aesthetic ...
Plot: friendship, forceful separation, best friend, starting over, youth, hopes, on the run, family problems, family relations, breakup, parents and children, parents separation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, france, paris france
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The Grand Highway (1987)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Louis, a nine-year-old boy from Paris, spends his summer vacation in a small town in Brittany. His mother Claire has lodged him with her girlfriend Marcelle and her husband Pelo while she's having her second baby. There Louis makes friends with ...
Style: anthology, realistic, semi serious, touching, feel good
Plot: coming of age, female nudity, girl, childhood, summer vacation, countryside, village, friendship, boy, village life, summer, childhood love ...
Time: year 1987, 1950s, 20th century, 50s
Place: france, brittany, europe
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The Bay Boy (1984)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, France
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A Roman Catholic teenage boy in Glace Bay, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia during the 1930s faces various growing-up problems: Should be become a priest? What should he do about the murder he witnessed, committed by a local cop and upstanding ...
Style: spiritual, touching, emotional, sentimental, realistic ...
Plot: coming of age, boy, spirituality, economist, boy strangling, murder, innocence lost, first sexual experience, bittersweet, social relations, family relations, suburbs ...
Time: 1930s
Place: nova scotia, canada, nova scotia, canada
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100%
A Year in My Life (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 94 min.
Story: In 1950s France, a young boy is taken in by a couple after spending a few months in the care of social service.
Style: uplifting, sentimental, touching, sincere, captivating ...
Plot: friendship, adoption, orphan, youth, family relations, foster parent, foster child, father son relationship, mother son relationship, parents and children, family life, foster home ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
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A Time in Quchi (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Bao stays with his grandfather for the summer and is shocked to see there are no modern appliances.
Style: realistic, touching, atmospheric, captivating, serious
Plot: friendship, coming of age, family relations, family problems, friends, parents and children, elderly, youth, countryside, school, boy, siblings relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: taiwan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Last Summer (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story: During a long hot summer in the 1970s, four boys roam free through a neglected rural paradise, until a tragedy strikes that sets them against the adult world and changes their lives forever.
Style: captivating, serious, touching, realistic, sincere
Plot: friendship, coming of age, brother brother relationship, tragedy, death, summer, boy, friendship between boys, love triangle, death of mother, lake
Time: 70s
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Mother, I Love You (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Latvia
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Raimonds, a 12 year old boy, falls into a world of petty crime while trying to stay out of trouble with his mother.
Style: realistic, serious, touching, captivating
Audience: teens
Plot: kids in trouble, childhood, coming of age, juvenile delinquency, family relations, single parent, youth, parents and children, bittersweet, mother and son, boy, financial problem ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: latvia
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24%
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Absence (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil, Chile, France
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A daily, familiar, sexual and emotional drama. Based on the character Serginho, the plot is based around various aspects of this "no longer a boy, not yet a man". We follow his day to day: the recently acquired role of man of the house, ...
Style: serious, realistic, touching, emotional, bleak
Plot: dysfunctional family, teenage life, family problems, child as adult, parents and children, family relations, youth, teachers and students, coming of age, lgbt, gay, boy ...
Time: 21st century
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24%
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Chicken (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min.
Story: RICHARD, 15 with learning difficulties, longs to put down roots but his restless and destructive brother, POLLY, needs to keep moving. When the land they live on is bought by a new landowner, and the electricity supply to their caravan is cut, their ...
Style: touching, contemplative, suspenseful, sentimental, captivating ...
Plot: coming of age, teenage boy, brother brother relationship, first love, learning disability, farm, caravan, teenager, friendship, fall in love, love and romance, couples ...
Time: 21st century
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23%
Dog Days of Summer (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A mysterious drifter lures two boys into uncovering the secrets of a sleepy southern town.
Style: independent film, serious, realistic, touching, offbeat ...
Plot: coming of age, youth, small town, social relations, small town life, friendship, childhood, friendship between boys, father son relationship, male female relationship, boy, accident ...
Time: 21st century
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23%
Breakfast with Curtis (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Syd is an eccentric bookseller with delusions of grandeur fueled by red wine. He caused a rift 5 years ago between his bohemian housemates and the family next door, but now tries to recruit his 14-year-old neighbor as a collaborator.
Style: serious, realistic, touching, psychological, suspenseful ...
Plot: friendship, friends, drug, teenage boy, coming of age, death threat, depression, love and romance, love, couples, youth, family relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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21%
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Max & Lenny (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Max and Lenny is the story of a friendship between two girls fighting for survival in a northern area of Marseille.
Style: sincere, realistic, touching, serious
Plot: friendship, teenage life, ambition, follow your dream, youth, hip hop, family relations, society, hopes, music, lesbian, strong female presence ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, france
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