Movies like The Drummer and the Keeper

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The Drummer and the Keeper (2017)
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The Drummer and the Keeper (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland
Duration: 94 min.
Story: The Drummer and the Keeper tells the story of the unlikely friendship formed between two young men: Gabriel, a reckless young drummer who revels in rejecting society’s rules and Christopher, a 17-year-old with Asperger’s Syndrome, who yearns to fit in. This heartwarming story shows the strength of the human bond in the face of adversity.
Style: sincere, touching, serious, captivating
Plot: friendship, teenager, mental illness, disability, mental health, first love, dysfunctional family, buddy, rock band, betrayal, goalkeeper, bipolar disorder, autism, mental disorder, autist, rock musician, self harm, male bonding, fire, mental institution, drug use, self sacrifice, loyalty, groupie, vandalism ...
Place: ireland
Keyword: buddy movie

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, sincere, touching and realistic films with plots about family relations, friendship, mental illness, teenager, coming of age, dysfunctional family and mental disorder mostly in Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like The Drummer and the Keeper: On the Edge (2001), Touched with Fire (2015), Kisses (2008), Death of a Superhero (2011), Call Me Crazy: A Five Film (2013). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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On the Edge (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland
Duration: 85 min.
Story: On the Edge is about suicidal patients discovering their true selves while going through therapy in a treatment center.
Style: psychological, touching, talky, sincere, independent film ...
Plot: mental institution, mentally unstable, human nature, friendship, love and romance, life is a bitch, haunted by the past, alcohol abuse, psychiatric ward, psychiatrist, youth, suicide attempt ...
Time: 21st century
Place: ireland
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95%
Touched with Fire (2015)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Carla and Marco are manic-depressive poets whose art is fueled by their emotional extremes. When they go off their meds, they end up in the same psychiatric hospital. As the chemistry between them stirs up their emotions, it intensifies their mania. ...
Style: sincere, realistic, captivating, emotional, touching ...
Plot: bipolar disorder, mental illness, love, mental health, mental disorder, illness, couples, friendship, hospital, hopes, special needs, real world ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york
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87%
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Kisses (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland, Sweden
Duration: 72 min.
Story: Two kids, Dylan and Kylie, run away from home at Christmas and spend a night of magic and terror on the streets of inner-city Dublin.
Style: realistic, touching, sincere, sentimental, captivating ...
Audience: teens
Plot: youth, coming of age, dysfunctional family, friendship, family problems, escapades, obsessive quest, danger, innocence lost, first love, child, love ...
Time: 21st century
Place: ireland, europe, dublin ireland
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
Death of a Superhero (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, Ireland
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A dying 15-year-old boy draws stories of an invincible superhero as he struggles with his mortality.
Style: touching, emotional, serious, sincere, teen ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: youth, life is a bitch, human spirit, family problems, family in crisis, hopes, coming of age, terminal illness, teenager, dealing with death, child illness, first love ...
Place: ireland, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
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Call Me Crazy: A Five Film (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A psychotherapist helps a law student cope with schizophrenia in one of five interconnected tales dealing with mental illness.
Style: serious, realistic, emotional, psychological, captivating ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, adult
Plot: mental illness, schizophrenia, family relations, family problems, human spirit, mental health, mental disorder, ptsd, suicidal, illness, psychology, strong female presence ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
My Friend Henry (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 93 min.
Story: When 12-year-old Elsi Björkman and her mother Paula return from a week's holiday abroad, Elsi immediately notices that someone has been in her room. She tells her mother about it, but she does not believe her. At the local supermarket Elsi ...
Style: suspenseful, disturbing, serious, sincere, touching
Plot: childhood, parent child relationship, friendship, mental health, shoplifting, child, family relations, friend, father son relationship, family tragedy, secret, responsibility ...
Place: finland
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
David and Lisa (1962)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: The emotional story of a young man in a mental institution for teens who begins to understand his psychosis in the environment of others with mental and emotional problems. He finds intimacy with Lisa, a young woman suffering from schizophrenia.
Style: psychological, social, retro, intense, spiritual ...
Plot: mental illness, multiple personality disorder, angst, mental disorder, schizophrenia, insanity, teenage love, mental institution, coming of age, psychiatric hospital, relationships, psychopath ...
Time: 60s, 50s, 1950s
Place: philadelphia
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
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Of Two Minds (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Follows the story of the challenging relationship between Billie and her younger schizophrenic sister, Elizabeth Baby. After their mother dies, Billie takes responsibility by moving Baby in with her family, including her husband, their teenage son ...
Style: realistic, touching, serious, psychological, captivating
Plot: mental illness, family life, single parent, babies and infants, couples, estrangement, adoption, moral dilemma, mental health, child care, autism, mental disorder ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
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Waking Madison (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A woman suffering from multiple personality disorder tries to piece back together her life.
Style: psychological, suspenseful, realistic, serious, mind bending ...
Plot: mental illness, confined, mentally unstable, twists and turns, doctors and patients, power relations, dissociative identity disorder, dominatrix, psychiatrist, dishonesty, friendship, family relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new orleans
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60%
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Sling Blade (1996)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story: Karl Childers is a mentally disabled man who has been in the custody of the state mental hospital since the age of 12 for killing his mother and her lover. Although thoroughly institutionalized, Karl is deemed fit to be released into the outside ...
Style: independent film, southern gothic, neo noir, serious, bleak ...
Audience: manly, date night, teen drama, adult
Plot: small town, dysfunctional family, friendship, murder, mental institution, redneck, redemption, death threat, father figure, disability, mental illness, domestic violence ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, year 1996
Place: arkansas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
Lost Transmissions (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: When an acclaimed music producer goes off his medication for schizophrenia, his friends chase him though the LA music scene to help commit him to a psychiatric hospital, revealing the troubling inadequacies of the mental health care system.
Style: suspense, realistic, disturbing, suspenseful, touching ...
Plot: schizophrenia, medication, record producer, songwriter, music industry, mental illness, friendship, help, social realism, mental patient, music, treatment ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
The Kids Aren't Alright (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland
Story: Ross is trying to come to terms with the suicide of one of his classmates, as he finds his life falling down around him. Suddenly he finds himself involved in a new friendship with the new girl in school, Róisín. She helps to lead him in the right ...
Style: psychological, lgbt cinema, sincere, unusual plot structure, captivating ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: suicide, school, teenager, youth, homosexuality, love and romance, friends, lesbian, sexual orientation, love, lgbt, friendship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: ireland
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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Rain Man (1988)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story: Selfish yuppie Charlie Babbitt's father left a fortune to his savant brother Raymond and a pittance to Charlie; they travel cross-country.
Style: road movie, sincere, uplifting, touching, inspirational ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: autism, road trip, redemption, disability, runaway, brother brother relationship, mentally challenged, siblings relations, family relations, casino, mental illness, mathematics ...
Time: 20th century, year 1988, 80s
Place: las vegas, california, ohio, cincinnati ohio, missouri ...
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51%
Hut in the Woods (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Two misfit males, one man-child, one boy, find each other, building a small cabin in the woods to create a new life. Their daily struggle for survival creates a strong bond between them until the hut is destroyed and one of the boys carted off. The ...
Style: rough, serious, touching, realistic, gloomy
Plot: woods, misfit, mentally unstable, young heroes, friendship, leaving home, life is a bitch, mental illness, mental institution, loneliness, psychology, mental disorder ...
Time: 21st century
Place: germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Pitong Dalagita (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 103 min.
Story: When six girls and a guy all teenagers are found with their wrists slit on a high school playground, it's left to their guidance counselor to try to make sense of the mystery behind the apparent suicide pact. Told in nonlinear fashion, the ...
Style: touching, serious, sincere, psychological, suspense
Plot: suicide, love, friendship, self discovery, teenager, lesbian, school, muse, coming of age, life, gay, teen romance
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49%
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Arcadia Lost (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Story: Two teenagers wander rural Greece after being stranded by a car crash. They encounter an itinerant vagabond on their travels.
Style: sincere, serious, captivating, touching
Plot: teenager, mountain, train conductor, travel, escape from reality, countryside, past, rural setting, coming of age, stepbrother stepsister relationship
Place: greece
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48%
My Skinny Sister (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden, Germany
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Just as Stella enters the exciting world of adolescence she discovers that her big sister and role model Katja is hiding an eating disorder. The disease slowly tears the family apart. A story about jealousy, love and betrayal told with warmth, depth ...
Style: psychological, serious, touching, realistic, sincere ...
Audience: teens
Plot: anorexia, mental illness, eating disorder, teenage girl, family relations, siblings relations, sisterhood, kids in trouble, youth, parents and children, mental disorder, coming of age ...
Time: 21st century
Place: eastern europe
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47%
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Zig Zag (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: An autistic 15-year-old boy steals money from his boss to provide rent for his abusive father, who uses the money to repay a loan shark.
Style: serious, touching, rough, sincere, independent film ...
Plot: rebelliousness, life is a bitch, teenage life, society, terminal illness, underdog, mental illness, family in crisis, parents and children, loan, urban ghetto life, autism ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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Red Roses and Petrol (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A dysfunctional Irish family gathers after the death of their patriarch.
Style: sincere, captivating, touching, psychological, serious ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, family relations, family reunited, secret, family conflict, family gatherings, father son relationship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, love, husband wife relationship, brother sister relationship, family tragedy ...
Place: ireland, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Capricciosa (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A Swedish drama by Reza Bagher.
Style: serious, touching, sincere, suspenseful
Plot: family relations, dysfunctional family, teenager, father son relationship, foster home, family crisis, death of mother, funeral, alcohol abuse, nordic, alcoholism, dreaming ...
Place: eastern europe
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45%
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Manic (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Lyle is filled with rage. After badly beating a classmate during a schoolyard fight, Lyle is committed to a juvenile mental institution in lieu of criminal prosecution. Inside the hospital, Lyle encounters a group of adolescents struggling with a ...
Style: psychological, independent film, disturbing, compassionate, depressing ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: mental institution, mental illness, coming of age, depression, addiction, juvenile delinquency, psychiatry, psychology, therapy, dysfunctional family, youth, mental health ...
Time: year 2001
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45%
What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Gilbert has to care for his brother Arnie and his obese mother, which gets in the way when love walks into his life.
Style: melancholic, touching, emotional, depressing, sad ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: dysfunctional family, disability, self discovery, mental illness, small town, mentally challenged, responsibility, life philosophy, brothers, coming of age, family drama, family problems ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1993, 60s, 70s
Place: iowa, texas, usa
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41%
Something Like Happiness (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: Czech Republic, Germany
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Over the course of a year, in a small town scarred and beaten down by industrialization, Tonda and Monika, friends since childhood, come to experience what life might be like if they could be with one another – which they seemingly can't. Or ...
Style: sincere, emotional, serious, sentimental, touching ...
Plot: mental illness, family problems, dysfunctional family, family relations, couples, friendship, life is a bitch, eccentric family, love and romance, single parent, working class, psychopath ...
Time: 21st century
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40%
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My Name Is Emily (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland, Sweden
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Packed off to a foster home after her father is insti­tu­tion­al­ized, a rebellious young Irish girl resolves to bust her dad out of the hospital where he's been confined.
Style: captivating, sincere, road movie, philosophical
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: foster home, foster parent, father daughter relationship, mental institution, father and daughter, friendship, teenage life, escapades, romantic relationship, love and romance, relationships, friends ...
Place: ireland
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39%
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Nocturnal (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Laurie, a cynical schoolgirl, builds a secret friendship with Pete, an older handyman who is obsessed with her.
Style: realistic, disturbing, captivating, serious, sincere
Plot: older man teenage girl relationship, teenager, obsession, loner, love triangle, outsider, coming of age, secret, platonic, friendship, high school, homecoming ...
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39%
Waterberry Tears (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: This coming of age story is about a gay boy, Goyo, as he discovers himself. Living with his Mexican family in the Coachella Valley, Goyo has a hard time hiding his sexual preferences. Although Goyo seeks acceptance from his father Ramon, Ramon ...
Style: captivating, serious, realistic, sincere
Plot: gay teenager, coming of age, dysfunctional family, gay, alcoholic father, rejection, gay son, lgbtq, lgbt teen, lgbt, closeted homosexual, homosexuality ...
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38%
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Canvas (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A woman's schizophrenia affects her relationships with her husband and son.
Style: touching, serious, realistic, sincere, melancholic ...
Plot: schizophrenia, mental illness, coming of age, family relations, family in crisis, family problems, couple relations, working class, dysfunctional family, parents and children, hospital, teenage life ...
Place: florida, usa
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38%
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Nice Girl (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 75 min.
Story: The story of young mother Joanna and her soldier husband Steve. A tale of teenage pregnancy, ill-advised marriage, betrayal and despair.
Style: serious, realistic, sincere, touching
Plot: family relations, responsibility, pregnancy, betrayal, adultery, marriage, male female relationship, teenage pregnancy, sister, teenager
Place: wales
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37%
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The Unpolished (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Stevie, a precocious 14-year-old girl must cope with the instabilities of her immoderate parents. When they decide to move to a small provincial town in Germany, Stevie attempts to slip into a normal life. Whilst her parents playfully escape their ...
Style: captivating, sincere, serious, realistic
Plot: teenage sexuality, generation gap, dysfunctional family, teenage girl, mother daughter relationship, parent child relationship, relocation, coming of age, drug use, cheating wife, bare breasts, unfaithful husband ...
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34%
 5.0
 165
Count to 100 (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 80 min.
Story: When we meet Thomas and his mother, Anne, for the first time, they are about to run away as so often before. Now, the escape brings Thomas and Anne to a cosy provincial town. They stop their car to fill up the tank and here Thomas meets Helene, who ...
Style: sincere, serious, touching, psychological
Plot: hiding, teenage boy, violent husband, mother son relationship, friendship, fight, school, father, risk, haunted by the past, fall in love, first love ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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