Movies like Lions
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Lions (2012)
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Original name: Leones
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina, Netherlands, France
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Deep in the forest a group of five friends wander around like a lion herd. Lost in their word games, they play and seduce each other while going back and forth into adulthood territory, in a desperate search to avoid their already written story.
Style:
gothic, experimental, apocalyptic, crying, allegory, weird, fable
Audience:
teens
Plot:
nature, friends, wilderness, forest, apocalypse, pain, adolescence, hopelessness, confusion, depression, accident, acceptance, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, drowning, walking, fatalism, helplessness, dying, holiday horror, following someone, women, woman, coming of age, teenager, sea ...
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Most similar movies to Lions
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, crying and psychological films with plots about friendship, coming of age, teenage boy, teenage girl, teenager, death and friend mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Lions: Hide Your Smiling Faces (2013), The Devil, Probably (1977), Metalhead (2013), Fate (1994), Manchester by the Sea (2016). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Tommy and his older brother Eric live in the midst of vast remote forests. The death of their friend pushes them close to the edge. Eric doesn’t know how to channel his energy. All at once, nature’s vastness feels stifling.
Style:
rough, serious, touching, bleak, gothic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
coming of age, friendship, haunted by the past, dealing with death, teenage life, family relations, tragic event, youth, boyhood, life is a bitch, life philosophy, boy ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new jersey
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
In order to be technically free of the mortal sin of suicide, a young man who has given up on the world pays a drug-addict to shoot him. Charles (Antoine Monnier), who is a student, has tried political action and investigated the claims of religion ...
Style:
slow cinema, spiritual, anthology, art house, light ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
suicide, nihilism, loser, religion, female nudity, minimalism, shoplifting, teenage boy, logic, post war, betrayal, existentialism ...
Time:
year 1977, 70s
Place:
france, paris france, ussr, soviet union, mediterranean sea
Similarity:
94%
Genre: Drama
Country: Iceland
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
It's the year 1970 and as Black Sabbath record their first album and mark the birth of Heavy Metal, Hera Karlsdottir is born on the cowshed floor at her parents farm in rural Iceland. The years of her youth are carefree until a tragedy ...
Style:
emotional, gothic, realistic, serious, poignant ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
heavy metal, grief, black metal, husband wife relationship, loss of child, priest, countryside, coming of age, lifestyle, rebel, women, brother sister relationship ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
iceland, europe
Similarity:
77%
122
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
The paths of people from various countries cross during the course of one night. They speak different languages, but they are fatefully bound together by the solitary quest for happiness and deliverance. Sloping paths are all that's left for ...
Style:
slow cinema, aesthetic, experimental, apocalyptic, crying ...
Plot:
transgression, redemption, desire, apocalypse, rape, boredom, minimalism, hate, hopes, desperation, female nudity, money ...
Place:
germany
Similarity:
74%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
After his older brother passes away, Lee Chandler is forced to return home to care for his 16-year-old nephew. There he is compelled to deal with a tragic past that separated him from his family and the community where he was born and raised.
Style:
depressing, sad, heartbreaking, touching, independent film ...
Audience:
teens, family friendly, adult
Plot:
sadness, family drama, loneliness, suicide attempt, depression, loss, death, uncle nephew relationship, dysfunctional family, guardian, nephew, grief ...
Time:
2010s, year 2016
Place:
massachusetts, boston, nebraska, new england
Similarity:
72%
47K
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, Netherlands, France
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Two thirteen year-olds have always been incredibly close but they drift apart after the intimacy of their relationship is questioned by schoolmates. An emotionally transformative and unforgettable portrait of the intersection of friendship and ...
Style:
sad, dramatic, disturbing, serious, thought provoking ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
boyhood, friendship between boys, intimacy, childhood, best friend, friendship, suicide, coming of age, teen suicide, ice hockey, friend, loss of son ...
Place:
belgium, france
Similarity:
71%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Set in the landscape of a rural southern town, "George Washington" is a stunning portrait of how a group of young kids come to grips with a hard world of choices and consequences. During an innocent game in an abandoned amusement park, a ...
Style:
bleak, independent film, meditative, lyrical, touching ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
coming of age, boy, adolescence, father son relationship, friendship, youth, kids in trouble, life is a bitch, death, social relations, society, hopes ...
Time:
year 2000, 21st century
Place:
north carolina, usa, tokyo
Similarity:
71%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Sweden
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
The story of a mistreated donkey and the people around him. A study on saintliness and a sister piece to Bresson's Mouchette.
Style:
black and white, depressing, art house, cerebral, philosophical ...
Plot:
parable, farm, minimalism, existentialism, cruelty, redemption, friendship, swing, european, spirit, countryside, saint ...
Time:
year 1966, 60s, 20th century
Place:
france, europe, tokyo
Similarity:
67%
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6K
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A young teenage girl finds herself struggling to take care of herself and her younger brother after being abandoned by their single mother with no choice but to live out on the streets.
Style:
disturbing, serious, suspense, rough, social
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
teenager, absent mother, coming of age, brother sister relationship, little brother, teenage protagonist, homeless, friendship, life is a bitch, grownups, society, nothing goes right ...
Place:
east end london, london
Similarity:
66%
18K
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Austria, Germany
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A middle-class family living in Calais deal with a series of setbacks while paying little attention to the grim conditions in the refugee camps within a few miles of their home.
Style:
parody, art house, realistic, disturbing, thought provoking ...
Plot:
infidelity, divorce, boredom, emptiness, refugee, family relations, suicide attempt, mother daughter relationship, millionaire, father daughter relationship, accident, birthday ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
english channel, europe, france
Similarity:
66%
Genre: Drama
Country: Ukraine
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
Hanging out with friends, smoking a lot, spinning bottles and kissing, making mistakes, playing, refusing to accept, dreaming with open eyes - life as a teenager can be overwhelmingly beautiful and difficult at the same time. In her debut, the ...
Style:
inspirational, psychological, captivating, disturbing
Plot:
teenage life, lgbt, school, friendship, teenager, social problems, lifestyle, lgbtq, high school, woman, women, innocence ...
Place:
ukraine
Similarity:
64%
396
Genre: Drama
Country: Romania
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
An outdoors orientation contest turns into a journey to the participants' self and conscience.
Style:
reflective, psychological, intense, suspense, melancholic ...
Plot:
wilderness, competition, self discovery, character study, personal growth, journey, conscience, teamwork, nature, moral dilemma, coming of age, realism ...
Similarity:
64%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A coming-of-age story based on the best-selling novel by Stephen Chbosky, which follows 15-year-old freshman Charlie, an endearing and naive outsider who is taken under the wings of two seniors. A moving tale of love, loss, fear and hope - and the ...
Style:
touching, teen, sincere, melancholic, sad ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, high school, teenager, adolescence, first love, friendship, teenage love, youth, high school life, depression, suicide, teenage life ...
Time:
90s, 2010s, year 1991, year 2013, 20th century ...
Place:
pittsburgh, pennsylvania, usa
Similarity:
62%
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, high school student, misfit, friendship, society, youth, juvenile delinquency, social misfits, friends, kids in trouble, teenage life ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new jersey, usa
Similarity:
62%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Beth, Calvin, and their son Conrad are living in the aftermath of the death of the other son. Conrad is overcome by grief and misplaced guilt to the extent of a suicide attempt. He is in therapy. Beth had always preferred his brother and is having ...
Style:
depressing, realistic, crying, sentimental, compassionate ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
dysfunctional family, therapy, suicide attempt, suicide, grief, coming of age, depression, psychiatrist, alienation, psychotherapy, psychoanalysis, loner ...
Time:
20th century, year 1980, 70s, 80s
Place:
chicago, usa, illinois, houston texas, middle east ...
Similarity:
60%
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
The childhood of three friends, Ilya, Yacob, and Pavel, was spent in the innkeeper's house. Their three destinies are similarly unhappy. Yakob died of tuberculosis, Ilya, after robbing a merchant, committed suicide. And Pavel, who let the woman ...
Style:
melancholic, bleak, emotional, dramatic, art house ...
Plot:
friendship, death, loss, tragedy, fate, suicide, regret, pain, desperation, brothel, guilt, fatalism ...
Similarity:
58%
Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary, France, Germany, Switzerland
Duration: 155 min.
Story:
A monumental windstorm and an abused horse's refusal to work or eat signals the beginning of the end for a poor farmer and his daughter.
Style:
slow cinema, thought provoking, bleak, black and white, serious ...
Plot:
horse, poverty, survival, destiny, nihilism, desperation, philosopher, everyday life, family relations, human nature, isolation, dying ...
Time:
19th century, distant future, turn of the century, year 2011, 90s ...
Place:
turin italy, europe, seattle
Similarity:
57%
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden, Denmark
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
It's the last summer in Falkenberg for five childhood friends. David yearns to be a child again and Holger never wants to move away. Jesper constantly returns home without anybody really noticing that he’s been gone. Jörgen finances his ...
Style:
realistic, sexual, emotional, captivating, psychological ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
coming of age, youth, friendship, childhood friend, grownups, best friend, small town, summer, relocation, society, burglary, skinny dipping ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, eastern europe
Similarity:
57%
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14K
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Robert Bresson plumbs great reservoirs of feelings with one of the most searing portraits of human desperation ever put on film.
Style:
art house, black and white, depressing, contemplative, emotional ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
child abuse, coming of age, suicide, adolescence, minimalism, betrayal, sexual abuse, solitude, existentialism, children, poacher, humiliation ...
Time:
year 1967, 60s, 20th century
Place:
france, europe, japan, tokyo, paris france
Similarity:
57%
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
When Mette and her father are left alone over the Christmas holidays to paint the new nursery the father ends up alone most of the time. The 16-year-old Mette is always off with her friends at the disco or skating, and the father does not mind until ...
Plot:
christmas, teenage boy, teenage girl, jealousy, father daughter relationship, grownups, coming of age, new year's eve, friends, holiday, sex scene, daughter ...
Similarity:
53%
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Hwa-young is an 18-year-old student living alone. Her friends call her “mom” and use her house as their place to hang out, but don’t really include her in their clique. Hwa-young pays particular attention to one of the friends, Mijeong.
Style:
suspenseful, unusual plot structure, captivating, suspense, disturbing ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
boyfriend girlfriend relationship, couples, teenage girl, friendship, youth, friend, betrayal, jealousy, danger, infidelity, party, revenge ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
korea
Similarity:
53%
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, pre-teens
Plot:
coming of age, snow, male pubic hair, male nudity, student, teenager, father son relationship, school, teen violence, scandinavian girl, sadness, suicide by hanging ...
Place:
denmark
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
In Anaconda, Montana, a strong-willed teenage girl navigates a loving but volatile relationship with her veteran father. In a desperate search for independence and her own identity, she risks family, heartbreak, and her standing in the only place ...
Style:
psychological, tense, unusual plot structure, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Plot:
teenage girl, father daughter relationship, addiction, teenager, incest, war veteran, father daughter incest, family relations, parents and children, life is a bitch, rural setting, illness ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, montana
Similarity:
51%
Movie in collections
33K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Palo Alto weaves together three stories of teenage lust, boredom, and self-destruction: shy, sensitive April, torn between an illicit flirtation with her soccer coach and an unrequited crush on sweet stoner Teddy; Emily, who offers sexual favors to ...
Style:
atmospheric, melancholic, teen, realistic, serious ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, adolescence, older man younger woman relationship, teenage life, youth, teenager, teenage girl, crush, loneliness, high school life, high school, unfulfillment ...
Time:
year 2013, 21st century
Place:
california, palo alto california, britain, usa, new jersey
Similarity:
51%
11K
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Oppressed by her family setting, dead-end school prospects and the boys law in the neighborhood, Marieme starts a new life after meeting a group of three free-spirited girls. She changes her name, her dress code, and quits school to be accepted in ...
Style:
sentimental, serious, touching, captivating, hood ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, friendship, teenager, youth, society, poverty, peer pressure, street gang, against the rules, dull life, teenage life, black ...
Time:
2010s, 90s, 21st century
Place:
paris france, africa, france
Similarity:
50%
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:
captivating, disturbing, psychological
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
friendship, teenager, teenage boy, romantic friendship, teenage love, family relations, relationships, teenage life, love story, love affair, love interest, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Teen Akiko (Akane Oda) returns to her home village in Japan after seven years in South America, where she contracted AIDS from a blood transfusion. The town, thick with paranoia, is quick to ostracize the ailing Akiko. With only her best friend ...
Style:
crying
Plot:
aids, hiv, discrimination, time capsule, fear of death, teenage girl, train station, high school, music box, grandmother granddaughter relationship, prejudice, hospital ...
Place:
japan, south america
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
After tragedy strikes Henry and Penny, he befriends a tenacious young girl and discovers she is constructing a raft to sail across the Atlantic to find her lost father. Together, along with some unlikely friends, they set forth to construct the ...
Style:
touching, captivating, psychological, contemplative, teen ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens
Plot:
car accident, death, accident, architect, quitting job, husband wife relationship, friendship, teenager, help, homeless, mourning, love ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Basque Country, Spain, 1985. Four teenage friends must face life and death, social upheaval and political violence as they try to enjoy their summer vacation.
Style:
thrilling, captivating, psychological, emotional, dramatic ...
Plot:
friendship, adolescence, summer vacation, coming of age, youth, loss of innocence, teenage life, friends, group of friends, lifestyle, best friend, life is a bitch ...
Time:
80s
Place:
basque country, spain, iberian peninsula
Similarity:
45%
68K
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Netherlands
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
Everything changes for 15 year old Mia when her mum brings home a new boyfriend.
Style:
sexy, emotional, sincere, bleak, gloomy ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot:
adolescence, age difference, coming of age, teenage girl, rebelliousness, mother's boyfriend, hopes, dancing, youth, sexual content, older man younger woman relationship, fall in love ...
Time:
year 2009, near future, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
europe, england, california
Similarity:
44%
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