Movies like Boy on the Bridge

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Boy on the Bridge (2016)
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Boy on the Bridge (2016)
Original name: Το αγόρι στη γέφυρα
Genre: Drama
Country: Cyprus
Duration: 85 min.
Story: In a seemingly idyllic Cypriot village, twelve-year-old Socrates finds himself in the centre of a murder investigation that exposes a dark family secret and changes his life forever.
Plot: coming of age, police, violence, death, murder, funeral, explosive
Place: cyprus

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out independent film, captivating, realistic and suspense films with plots about murder, death, violence, police, coming of age, gun and male nudity mostly in Drama, Romance and Crime genres. Some movies like Boy on the Bridge: Transit (2005), Long Live the Bride (2015), Hunting of Man (2003), Für den unbekannten Hund (2007), The Children's Rebellion (1992). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Transit (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story: After a graffiti artist loses his brother and fellow partner-in-crime to the hands of a vigilante killer he vows to give up graffiti forever. That lasts until he hooks up with his best friend, a tag-banger out to make a name for himself.
Style: independent film, hispanic
Plot: murder, gangster, death, violence, graffiti, death of protagonist
Place: los angeles
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Long Live the Bride (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France, Belgium
Duration: 85 min.
Story: In a despairing, fatalistic Rome, Nicola finds himself flirting with the city’s dark side. Drinking too much and living among drifters, petty criminals and anxious immigrants, Nicola becomes entwined in an insurance scam that leads him further ...
Plot: murder, police, murder suspect
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Hunting of Man (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A universal story with Latino characters told in an unconventional way (like Forrest Gump and Amadeus) about a man who's trying to keep his hot-headed younger brother from carrying out revenge.
Style: crime drama, independent film, realistic, serious, detective ...
Plot: family relations, vengeance, dangerous animal, siblings relations, family life, gang, flashback, police, murder, death, violence, gun
Time: future
Place: spain
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Für den unbekannten Hund (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 107 min.
Style: independent film
Plot: coming of age, murder, new love, drifter, dressmaker, blackmail, motorcycle, gas station, prison, police, striptease, female nudity ...
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The Children's Rebellion (1992)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 97 min.
Story: In the 19th century, children -- particularly the children of the poor -- were considered to be an exploitable resource of docile and cheap labor. Anyone who had the effrontery to steal so much as a portion of a loaf of bread for any reason would ...
Plot: boy, coming of age, child, convict, social justice, teenage boy, violence, children, nudity, rebel, prison guard, child with gun ...
Time: 1840s
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The Greenhouse Effect (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Rita is a naïve 18-year-old from the sticks who has come to Moscow to meet up with the man who impregnated her a few months earlier. Unfortunately, his name and address was written on a piece of paper in her luggage, which was promptly stolen upon ...
Plot: coming of age, boy, homelessness, female nudity, nudity, male nudity, death, teenage boy, police, singing, age difference, stranded ...
Place: russia
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Macu, la mujer del policía (1987)
Genre: Drama
Country: Venezuela
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The true story of a jealous policeman and his young wife living in a shanty-town in South America.
Plot: serial killer, police, murder, infidelity, pedophile, wife, husband wife relationship, wife leaves husband, investigation, jealous husband, coming of age, teenage mother ...
Place: venezuela
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Vasiliki (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: Greece, Cyprus
Duration: 123 min.
Story: It is based on a true story, where a young soldier and the wife of a revolutionary guy falls in love while in the background we witness political turmoils of Greece at that time.
Plot: greek civil war, soldier, love, rural setting, persecution, decapitation, rape, violence, death, murder, debt, gendarme ...
Time: 1940s
Place: greece
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Life Is Beautiful (1979)
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union, Italy
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A politically neutral man is arrested and tortured in prerevolutionary Lisbon, and forced to make, and act on, a political commitment. …
Plot: equality, murder, police, killer, politics
Place: portugal, italy
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Shadow Days (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A quasi-ghost story about a young urban Chinese couple returning to their dusty rural roots interrogates one child policy and authoritarianism.
Plot: pregnancy, forced abortion, cobweb, couples, blood, murder, fog, police, death, church, pregnant woman, abortion ...
Place: china
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The Law and the Fist (1964)
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 90 min.
Story: At the end of World War Two, Polish people move to the western lands vacated by Germans. But some ruthless profiteers pose as government representatives and intend to make off with loot from a deserted town they took over. One honest man stands up ...
Plot: shooting, post war, ghost town, murder, death, violence, drinking, train, world war two, death by gunshot, gun
Time: 1940s, year 1945
Place: poland
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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
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Leave Us Alone (1975)
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 82 min.
Story: For children it was an exciting adventure. But for adults it became a shocking revelation...
Style: erotic, queer cinema
Audience: teens
Plot: children, coming of age, boyhood, first love, lgbt, young love, boy strangling, bare breasts, homoeroticism, cruelty, male nudity, cooking ...
Place: denmark
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Sanctuary (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Summer 1968. 14-year-old Wolfgang is deported from his family in the secluded Church Welfare Institution sanctuary. One thing is clear for Wolfgang: His yearning for freedom, he will not soon buried in the bog.
Style: sad
Plot: stepfather, coming of age, boy, violence, lgbt, gay, nationalism, boyhood, traumatic childhood, childhood, distopia, parent child relationship ...
Time: 60s, year 1968
Place: germany
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Shiba (1993)
Genre: Drama
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A multi-lingual tour guide who owns multiple passports one day drives his wife and daughter to a desolate seashore town and checks in a secluded, spacious, ruins-like hotel. From that moment on, he throws himself into gambling, tossing the dice with ...
Plot: hooker, rural setting, cultural difference, village, seaside, dice, brother sister relationship, family relations, prostitute, hotel manager, husband wife relationship, mother daughter relationship ...
Place: taiwan
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Siembra (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: Colombia, Germany
Duration: 80 min.
Story: A man and his son move from the Pacific coast of Colombia to Cali, but have a difficult time adapting to the city. When his son is killed, the father must go through the hard process of grief while trying to find roots in a place that does not ...
Plot: funeral, church, dog, death of son, pig, singing, death, loss of son, fireworks, coffin
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41%
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Gundagardi (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 136 min.
Story: The two brothers Kalicharan & Narshima cause havoc all over the city. The police calls in Karan Singh as the most effective police man to fight against them.His sister was married to a journalist.He encounters a murder of the minister by ...
Plot: police, police officer, death sentence, brother, death, brother brother relationship, cop, hindi
Place: india
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Crossing the Lighthouse (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Two kids about ten years old meet within a very peculiar framework: both come from broken families and are in care of foster homes...
Plot: coming of age, boyhood, youth, child, first love, detention, runaway, bullying, lighthouse, police, school, sexual dysfunction ...
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Goodbye Trainmen (1992)
Genre: Drama
Country: Finland, Sweden
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Veturimiehet heiluttaa on 4. syyskuuta 1992 ensi-iltansa saanut suomalainen elokuva. Elokuva on kuvattu suurimmaksi osaksi Porissa. Veturimiehet heiluttaa sai ensi-iltansa Ruotsissa 26. maaliskuuta 1993.
Plot: train, male female relationship, self destructing, childhood friend, teenager, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, rain, friendship, drinking, friend, death, flashback ...
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Mateo (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Colombia, France
Duration: 86 min.
Story: At the impressionable age of 16, young Mateo faces a dilemma about the direction his life will take when his corrupt uncle asks him to infiltrate a local Barrancabermeja theatre group to uncover its members' political activities.
Style: educational
Plot: teenager, murder, teenage boy, uncle nephew relationship, priest, confession, death, theatrical troupe, accusation, teenage love, theater, uncle ...
Place: colombia
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Vendues (2004)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: 7 young women from Eastern Europe accept to become prostitutes for a year in exchange for a journey that will take them from Belgrade to Marseilles and provide them with a French passport. Irina, a worker from a Moscow suburb, brings along Enki, her ...
Plot: travel, death, revenge, beach, prostitute, murder, violence, hotel, female nudity, gun
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Naakaa (2017)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Nepal
Duration: 138 min.
Story: Goldie, a small time smuggler of Barhabise who is in need of a profiting consignment to recover from his current bankruptcy. He gets an emergency call from a local smuggler and businessman of the area to rescue a Tibetan girl and her transporter ...
Plot: border, jealousy, revenge, fight, chase, murder, violence, blood, police
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Kimen (1974)
Genre: Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 93 min.
Story: On a small green island out in the sea, they live in harmony - until a stranger comes. Like a hurricane this rocks the small society, and a killing lets all hidden forces loose.
Plot: mass hysteria, summer, manhunt, island, small community, revenge, fear, death, disturbed person, daughter, stranger, forest ...
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On the Verge of a Fever (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Against the backdrop of poverty, fear and the brutal dictatorship of Haiti in 1971, ON THE VERGE OF A FEVER is about Fanfan, a 15-year-old boy who just wants to experience life for himself with his streetwise friend Gégé. Having lived a somewhat ...
Plot: prostitute, dictatorship, dictator, sexual initiation, poverty, coming of age, pimp, girl next door, overprotective mother, bare breasts, sex, female nudity ...
Time: 70s
Place: haiti
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Leave No Traces (2021)
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland, Czech Republic, France
Duration: 160 min.
Story: Political thriller is based on a true story about a young student beaten to death by the police in 1980s Communist Poland.
Style: captivating, thought provoking, tense, disturbing, suspense
Plot: police brutality, police corruption, brutality, anti communist, fight for justice, political unrest, social injustice, witnessing a crime, wartime, political conspiracy, corrupt politician, violence ...
Time: year 1983, 80s
Place: poland, warsaw poland
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The Here After (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden, Poland, France
Duration: 102 min.
Story: When John returns home to his father after serving time in prison, he is looking forward to starting his life afresh. However, in the local community his crime is neither forgotten nor forgiven.
Plot: high school student, hot guys, male nudity, thoughtful, minimalism, boy, teenager, teenage boy, school, violence, coming of age, mobbing ...
Time: year 2015
Place: eastern europe
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Day and Night (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Spain, Belgium, Canada, Mexico
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Ten years ago, distinguished French author Alexandre (Alain Delon) exchanged his stressful, hectic life in Paris for a more peaceful existence upon a Mexican hacienda with his wife Ariane (Marianne Denicourt). Lucien (Jean-Pierre Kalfon) also ...
Plot: sex scene, female nudity, writers, balloon, murder, death, spanking, female full frontal nudity
Place: mexico
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Ataru: The First Love & The Last Kill (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Ataru, who suffers from “savant syndrome,” has the power to discover, observe, see through, and deduct microscopic evidence of unsolved cases. Why does he always go to the criminal sites? What explains his strange behavior? Meanwhile, a mystery ...
Style: realistic, tense, suspenseful, captivating, suspense ...
Plot: police, police investigation, mental illness, japanese woman, serial killer, mentally unstable, brutality, suspect, youth, death, police officer, psycho killer ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, los angeles, las vegas
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The Chosen Ones (1983)
Genre: Drama
Country: Colombia, Soviet Union
Duration: 140 min.
Story: A man wants to flee wartime Germany and the detested Nazis to Columbia, where his brother lives. In order to achieve his goal he agrees to become an informer for the Reich.
Plot: world war two, coming of age, tragedy, half brother, murder, rape, betrayal, wealth, doctor, nazism, horse, gunshot
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Adagio sostenuto (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 104 min.
Story: The film tells the love story between Anna and José, while at the same time approaches the intersections of urban violence and artistic creation, nature and civilization, war and peace, life and death, abandon and union, showing that in the end of ...
Style: independent film, meta
Plot: pacific war, tragedy, opera, bible, existentialism, loneliness, filmmaking, destiny, coming of age, widow, screenwriter, letter ...
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