Movies like Boy
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Boy (2010)
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
It's 1984, and Michael Jackson is king - even in Waihau Bay, New Zealand. Here we meet Boy, an 11-year-old who lives on a farm with his gran, a goat, and his younger brother, Rocky (who thinks he has magic powers). Shortly after Gran leaves for a week, Boy's father, Alamein, appears out of the blue. Having imagined a heroic version of his father during his absence, Boy comes face to face with the real version-an incompetent hoodlum who has returned to find a bag of money he buried years before. This is where the goat enters.
Style:
touching, humorous, unusual plot structure, surreal, visually appealing, emotional, atmospheric, fairy tale, funny, light ...
Plot:
coming of age, childhood, absent father, youth, small town, daydreamer, family relations, parents and children, mischievous children, robbery, loser, siblings relations, exploitation, hidden truth, unsupportive parent, boy, treasure, reconciliation, gang, father son relationship, drunkenness, goat, summer, child, teenager ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1984, future
Place:
new zealand, oceania, tokyo
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, touching, melancholic and harsh films with plots about suprisingly clever, mentor, storytelling, runaway, culture clash, bittersweet and redemption mostly in Comedy, Drama and Adventure genres. Some movies like Boy: Hunt for the Wilderpeople (2016), My Life as a Dog (1985), The Way Way Back (2013), Kikujiro (1999), Shower (1999). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Ricky is a defiant young city kid who finds himself on the run with his cantankerous foster uncle in the wild New Zealand bush. A national manhunt ensues, and the two are forced to put aside their differences and work together to survive.
Style:
funny, touching, feel good, humorous, scenic ...
Audience:
kids, girls' night, teens
Plot:
coming of age, nature, hunting, juvenile delinquent, boy, wilderness, childhood, adoption, forest, dog, sarcasm, countryside ...
Place:
new zealand
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Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: Sweden
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A boy, obsessed with comparing himself with those less fortunate, experiences a different life at the home of his aunt and uncle in 1959 Sweden.
Style:
realistic, touching, sentimental, sexy, philosophical ...
Plot:
coming of age, children, small town, tomboy, childhood, boxing, nude model, boy, friendship, female nudity, loneliness, youth ...
Time:
50s, 20th century
Place:
sweden, europe, eastern europe, scandinavia
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24%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Over the course of his summer break, a teenager comes into his own thanks in part to the friendship he strikes up with one of the park's managers.
Style:
touching, feel good, emotional, realistic, sweet ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, kids, teen drama
Plot:
summer, teenager, friendship, vacation, coming of age, loneliness, shyness, youth, childhood, dysfunctional family, bittersweet, small town ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
Brash, loudmouthed and opportunistic, Kikujiro is the unlikely companion for Masao who is determined to see the mother he has never met. The two begin a series of adventures which soon turns out to be a whimsical journey of laughter and tears with a ...
Style:
road movie, sad, uplifting, surreal, stylized ...
Plot:
boy, on the road, summer, friendship, violence, child, children, road trip, bittersweet, youth, coming of age, yakuza ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
japan, tokyo, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: China
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
An aged father and his younger, mentally challenged son have been working hard every day to keep the bathhouse running for a motley group of regular customers. When his elder son, who left years ago to seek his fortune in the southern city of ...
Style:
thought provoking, touching, emotional, melancholic, sentimental ...
Plot:
bathhouse, father son relationship, tradition, parents and children, life philosophy, society, human nature, family relations, small town, disability, bittersweet, brother brother relationship ...
Time:
90s
Place:
china, beijing china, tokyo, asia, tibet
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Films like The Way Way Back
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
From Spike Lee comes this vibrant semi-autobiographical portrait of a school-teacher, her stubborn jazz-musician husband and their five kids living in '70s Brooklyn.
Style:
humorous, sentimental, touching, stylized, light ...
Plot:
coming of age, parenthood, dysfunctional family, poverty, family relations, child's point of view, parents and children, black people, couple relations, single parent, family problems, school ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
new york, brooklyn new york city, africa, tokyo, usa
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22%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
In the Pacific Northwest during the 1950s, two young sisters whose mother has abandoned them wind up living with their Aunt Sylvie, whose views of the world and its conventions don't quite live up to most people's expectations.
Style:
sad, realistic, atmospheric, sexy, stylized ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
small town, coming of age, suicide, orphan, self discovery, friendship, bdsm, eccentricity, crime gone awry, childhood, moral ambiguity, complex characters ...
Time:
50s, 20th century, 70s
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22%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Flama and Moko are fourteen years old; they have been best friends since they were kids. They have everything they need to survive yet another boring Sunday: an apartment without parents, videogames, porn magazines, soft drinks and pizza delivery.
Style:
realistic, stylized, meditative, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience:
teens, kids
Plot:
coming of age, friendship, youth, marijuana, life philosophy, teenage boy, girl next door, dull life, buddies, disagreement, video game, lgbt ...
Time:
70s, 80s, 21st century
Place:
latin america, tokyo, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Young Indian man Thomas is a nerd in his reservation, wearing oversize glasses and telling everyone stories no-one wants to hear. His parents died in a fire in 1976, and Thomas was saved by Arnold. Arnold soon left his family, and Victor hasn't ...
Style:
road movie, touching, feel good, sincere, bleak ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
native american, native american reservation, native americans, self discovery, friendship, on the road, adolescence, life, escapades, obsessive quest, haunted by the past, family problems ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
idaho, india, arizona, phoenix arizona, new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Steven Lidz, unhappy with his home life since his mother got sick, goes and lives with his two crazy Uncles. There he changes and gets closer to his Uncles, but his parents want him home even though he is finally happy and popular. Written by Todd ...
Style:
sentimental, emotional, touching, light, atmospheric ...
Plot:
coming of age, dysfunctional family, jewish, youth, mental illness, terminal illness, eccentricity, cancer, insanity, twists and turns, first contact, segregation ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, year 1962
Place:
los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
After her husband John dies unexpectedly, Beth Macauley is unprepared for life without him. She is unemployed with no job skills and $60,000 in debt from on-going renovations to their house located in suburban Bingham. She doesn't know what to ...
Style:
humorous, sentimental, touching, feel good, thought provoking ...
Plot:
depression, bittersweet, widow, family relations, musician, homeless, guilt, parenthood, redemption, dysfunctional family, destiny, hospital ...
Time:
80s
Place:
baltimore, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Five college buddies from the University of Texas circa 1971 embark on a final road trip odyssey across the Mexican border before facing up to uncertain futures, in Vietnam and otherwise.
Style:
road movie, sentimental, touching, humorous, emotional ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens, date night
Plot:
coming of age, friendship, travel, culture clash, adolescence, obsessive quest, young lovers, student life, adolescence vs adulthood, love and romance, buddies, on the road ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, future, 80s
Place:
texas, austin texas, vietnam
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20%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Story of the relationships between two sons and their father, who moves the family to California and becomes a tv horror show host after the death of his wife.
Style:
emotional, sentimental, touching, feel good, visually appealing ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
coming of age, children, bittersweet, dysfunctional family, redemption, hospital, single father, betrayal, farce, monster, child abduction, middle school ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
new jersey, california, usa, oakland california
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20%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, Ireland, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Set in "Barrytown", a fictitious working-class quarter of Dublin. "Bimbo" Reeves gets laid off from his job. With his redundancy, he buys a van and sells fish and chips with his buddy Larry. Due to Ireland's surprising ...
Style:
realistic, humorous, feel good, witty, parody ...
Plot:
friendship, food, working class, unemployment, irish, distopia, police investigation, dysfunctional family, addiction, transformation, creativity, restaurant ...
Time:
90s
Place:
ireland, london, dublin ireland, new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
15-year-old deep-thinking Welsh schoolboy, Oliver Tate struggles to initiate and maintain a relationship with Jordana, his devilish, dark-haired classmate at their Swansea high school. As his parents' marriage begins to fall apart, similar ...
Style:
visually appealing, witty, surreal, touching, talky ...
Audience:
teens, date night, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, teenager, high school, school, virginity, adolescence, teenage love, high school life, youth, social relations, loss of virginity, infidelity ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
wales, england, britain
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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Films like Slums of Beverly Hills
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, France, Germany, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Angus is a large, pathetic 14 year old whose thoughts are most often filled with the image of one Melissa Lefevre. Angus is shy and thinks that he has no chance of ever 'getting' her. Being especially uncool, he is incredibly surprised ...
Style:
feel good, humorous, light, sentimental, realistic ...
Audience:
teens, kids, girls' night, date night
Plot:
friendship, coming of age, school, teenager, high school, cheerleading, bullying, prank, public humiliation, teenage life, misfit, love and romance ...
Time:
80s, 90s
Place:
california
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Iceland, Germany, UK, Denmark
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
17 year old Noi drifts through life on a remote fjord in Iceland. In winter, the fjord is cut off from the outside world, surrounded by ominous mountains and buried under a shroud of snow. Noi dreams of escaping from this white-walled prison with ...
Style:
harsh, touching, depressing, enigmatic, bleak ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
coming of age, friendship, youth, family relations, unfulfilled love, teenage life, death, hopes, love and romance, social relations, parents and children, dull life ...
Time:
70s
Place:
iceland, hawaii, singapore, cairo egypt, new york
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19%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Julia Sweeney tells the viewers the monologue about the hard time in her life when her brother fought with cancer and she was also diagnosed with a rare form of cancer.
Style:
talky, touching, humorous, witty, cerebral ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
dark humor, cancer, obsession, parenthood, dysfunctional family, depression, redemption, relationships, mentor, existentialism, life, honest ...
Time:
90s
Place:
california, tokyo, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Dispatched from his basement room on an errand for his mother, slacker Jeff might discover his destiny (finally) when he spends the day with his brother as he tracks his possibly adulterous wife.
Style:
touching, thought provoking, humorous, feel good, melancholic ...
Plot:
slacker, loneliness, midlife crisis, twists and turns, everyday life, naivete, loser, parents and children, character change, immature, existentialism, dysfunctional family ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new jersey, california, usa, new orleans
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
In the summer of 1942 two young boys are sent to stay with their stern grandmother Kurnitz and their childlike aunt Bella in Yonkers, New York.
Style:
sentimental, touching, sexy, melancholic, talky ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
dysfunctional family, youth, grandmother, aunt, race issues, childhood, redemption, violent, corruption, mentor, crime gone awry, vengeance ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, year 1942
Place:
new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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Movies similar to Welcome to the Dollhouse
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
It's a hot summer day in 1933 in South Philly, where 12-year old Gennaro lives with his widowed mom and his ailing grandpa, who sits outside holding tight to his last quarter, which he's promised to Gennaro and which Gennaro would like to ...
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sentimental, emotional, touching, dark fantasy, allegory ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
coming of age, youth, rich and poor, twists and turns, oil, teleportation, parenthood, writers, male nudity, race issues, gambling, world war one ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century
Place:
new jersey, california, philadelphia, usa
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19%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Monsieur Ibrahim is a story about a young Jewish boy in Paris who meets an old Muslim Turkish grocery store owner. The film touches the themes of friendship and love as the old man is a father figure to the boy as he teaches him of the Koran. The ...
Style:
sentimental, feel good, touching, emotional, sweet ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
coming of age, muslim, religion, friendship, adoption, self discovery, youth, childhood, koran, generation gap, family relations, teaching the ways of the world ...
Time:
20th century, 60s
Place:
paris france, europe, new jersey, switzerland, greece ...
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19%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
In an Italian seaside town, young Titta gets into trouble with his friends and watches various local eccentrics as they engage in often absurd behavior. Frequently clashing with his stern father and defended by his doting mother, Titta witnesses the ...
Style:
art house, surreal, sentimental, atmospheric, stylized ...
Plot:
coming of age, satire, fascism, surrealism, memory, family life, group of friends, social relations, human nature, life & death, art, childhood ...
Time:
20th century, 1930s
Place:
italy, rome italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Finland, France, Germany
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Marcel Marx, a former bohemian and struggling author, has given up his literary ambitions and relocated to the port city Le Havre. He leads a simple life based around his wife Arletty, his favourite bar and his not too profitable profession as a ...
Style:
sentimental, thought provoking, romantic, surreal, atmospheric ...
Plot:
poverty, friendship, refugee, human spirit, working class, elderly, society, goodhearted, social misfits, misfit, bohemian life, on the run ...
Time:
year 2009, 70s, 21st century
Place:
france, paris france, london, tokyo, latin america ...
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19%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Aidan Bloom, a struggling actor, father and husband, is 35 years old and still trying to find a purpose for his life. He and his wife are barely getting by financially and Aidan passes his time by fantasizing about being the great futuristic ...
Style:
inspirational, touching, light, melancholic, emotional ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
self discovery, direction and purpose, father son relationship, justice, tragedy, dysfunctional family, redemption, happy ending, midlife crisis, actor's life, thirtysomething life, parents and children ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
los angeles, new jersey, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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Movies like Instructions Not Included
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Yugoslavia, Italy, UK
Duration: 142 min.
Story:
In this luminous tale set in the former Yugoslavia, Perhan, an engaging young Romany with telekinetic powers, is seduced by the quick-cash world of petty crime that threatens to destroy him and those he loves.
Style:
surreal, touching, cerebral, realistic, humorous ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
coming of age, magic realism, gypsy, ethnic, vengeance, bittersweet, racism, revenge, poverty, hospital, paranormal phenomena, destiny ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
former yugoslavia, eastern europe, europe, milan italy
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19%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
In 1970s England, three blue-collar friends spend their days joking, drinking, fighting and chasing girls. Freddie wants to leave their working-class world but cool, charismatic Bruce and lovable loser Snork are happy with life the way it is. When ...
Style:
witty, inspirational, stylized, feel good, funny ...
Plot:
small town, coming of age, friendship, friends, runaway, old love, relationships, love, destiny, society, love and romance, social differences ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
england, london, europe
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19%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Earl Pilcher Jr., runs an equipment rental outfit in Arkansas, lives with his wife and kids and parents, and rarely takes off his gimme cap. His mother dies, leaving a letter explaining he's not her natural son, but the son of a Black woman who ...
Style:
feel good, touching, realistic, melancholic, emotional ...
Audience:
family outing, manly
Plot:
self discovery, biracial, family relations, betrayal, loneliness, secrets, justice, interracial relations, racism, family problems, family life, parents and children ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, 70s
Place:
arkansas, chicago illinois, usa, southern usa
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18%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Joe Toy, on the verge of adolescence, finds himself increasingly frustrated by his single father, Frank's attempts to manage his life. Declaring his freedom once and for all, he escapes to a clearing in the woods with his best friend, Patrick, ...
Style:
touching, feel good, sentimental, emotional, funny ...
Audience:
teens, kids, date night, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, runaway, forest, summer, friendship, high school, lifestyle change, teenage runaway, wilderness, teenage protagonist, hospital, teenager ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
california, usa, tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Teenager Jones has opted not to go to college and is instead renting a room in a boarding house to work on his writing skills. Soon, Jones finds himself dividing his time between two women: a young actress named Lisa and a photographer named Jane. ...
Style:
touching, light, sweet, romantic, humorous ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, date night, teen drama
Plot:
college, coming of age, adolescence, imagination, friendship, relationships, love triangle, life philosophy, love story, road trip, parents and children, teenage life ...
Place:
new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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