Movies like Backdoor

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Backdoor (2000)
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Backdoor (2000)
Original name: Πίσω Πόρτα
Genre: Drama
Country: Greece, France, Romania
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Athens 1966. Dimitris, 13, unexpectedly loses his father. Seeing his pampered mother collapse, the boy gets carried away and decides to skip childhood in order to stand by her. When he feels ready, he has to claim his mother back from an up-and-coming star of the military regime. A brutal coming-of-age story, where Dimitris reacts in vengeance, changing thus the course of Greek history...
Style: captivating, disturbing, suspense
Plot: stepfather, coming of age, second marriage, revenge, teenager, friendship, coup d'etat, prostitute, dictatorship, death of father, mother son relationship, gay, erotica, boy, tank, female nudity, male nudity, brothel, lsd, sexuality, bare breasts, masturbation, syphilis, death of husband, sex with prostitute ...
Time: 60s, 1960s

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out disturbing, captivating, psychological and suspense films with plots about coming of age, female nudity, teenager, bare breasts, male nudity, boy and friendship mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Backdoor: Children of the Salt (2018), The Summer I Turned 15 (1976), Boy (2011), Happy Lambs (2015), Charly (2007). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Children of the Salt (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: Venezuela
Duration: 103 min.
Story: An old man, in the agony of death, asks his children to cremate his body and scatter the ashes in the sea. Willing to fulfill the last wish of the elderly, as a rite of passage the youngsters unknowingly transgress the traditions of their father. ...
Style: psychological, disturbing, suspense
Plot: incest, brother sister relationship, coming of age, first sexual experience, teenage sexuality, death of father, loss of father, sexual desire, lasciviousness, isolation, family life, social problems ...
Time: 2010s
Place: venezuela
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The Summer I Turned 15 (1976)
Genre: Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 98 min.
Story: The story Peter is telling the about a special summer, when he is invited over to summer holiday from bickering parents, to his aunt and uncle in the country. He's been there before, but this summer was quite one to remember.
Plot: adolescent boy, older woman younger man relationship, puberty, sexual awakening, coming of age, peeping, age difference, boyhood, boy, infidelity, farm, small community ...
Time: 1950s
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Boy (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 96 min.
Story: 18-year old Christian has just graduated from high school. At his summer job he is seduced by the 36-year old single mother Sanne. Soon he is drawn into a world of sensuality and his acquaintance with Sanne turns into an intense love affair which ...
Style: erotic, captivating, suspenseful, psychological, sincere ...
Audience: teen drama, adult
Plot: older woman younger man relationship, age difference, coming of age, single mother, male nudity, mother son relationship, teenager, age-gap relationship, female nudity, breakup, sex scene, jealousy ...
Place: denmark
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Happy Lambs (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story: The perfect world of a small family breaks, when Can discover that his mother works in a brothel. In a maelstrom of anger, guilt and despair Mother and son are forced to forgive himself.
Style: disturbing, suspense, captivating, psychological, sexy
Plot: prostitution, brothel, mother son relationship, dysfunctional family, family problems, prostitute, social problems, family relations, life is a bitch, mother daughter relationship, single parent, single mother ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Charly (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: No overview found.
Style: psychological, disturbing, captivating
Plot: trailer home, coming of age, teenager, relationships, relationship problems, road trip, prostitute, male female relationship, travel, female rapist, first sexual experience, teenage sexuality ...
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Love Strange Love (1982)
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Man remembers 48 crucial hours in his life when, as a teenager, he visited his mother, the favorite woman of an important politician, in a bordello owned by her, right before some important political changes in Brazil, in 1937. In those hours, he ...
Style: erotic, suspenseful, suspense, rough, unusual plot structure ...
Plot: incest, mother son incest, boy, female nudity, mother son relationship, male nudity, older woman teenage boy sex, sex, coming of age, erotica, voyeur, sex with a minor ...
Time: 1930s, year 1937, 70s, year 1982
Place: brazil
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30%
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Summer of '62 (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Algeria
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A young Algerian paperboy with friends and associates of all ages on both sides of the conflict experiences history leading up to the March 1962 independence of Algeria, witnesses ruthless violence perpetrated by French and Arabs, sees his French ...
Style: captivating, suspenseful, disturbing, suspense
Plot: coming of age, war for independence, friendship, algerian war, wartime life, war, life is a bitch, wartime, friends, patriotism, struggle for survival, friend ...
Time: 60s
Place: algeria
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28%
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Yung (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 95 min.
Story: This film follows four young girls into the vibrant, hedonistic subculture of Berlin. Janaina, 17, earns money by making Internet pornography. Her best friend, Emmy, 18, finds the whole city intoxicating, without realizing that she's getting ...
Style: psychological, disturbing, captivating, hot
Plot: teenage prostitution, drug use, drug, sexual promiscuity, girlfriend girlfriend relationship, teenage life, lifestyle, friends, friendship, social problems, girlfriend, teenager ...
Place: berlin germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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Welcome Home (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration: 86 min.
Story: This is the story of two childhood friends - Lucas (a 16-year-old high-schooler) and Bert (a mechanic’s apprentice) - who flee the suffocating fish bowl that their killjoy families’ lives have become. Lucas, still quite immature, finds a “big ...
Style: captivating, disturbing, homoerotic
Plot: coming of age, friendship, youth, house, teenager, life is a bitch, relationship problems, teenage life, sexual tension, male pubic hair, childhood friend, friendship between boys ...
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28%
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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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27%
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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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26%
Private Lessons (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: An aspiring tennis player is taken under the wing of an established player as his family life falls apart.
Style: serious, disturbing, realistic, emotional, erotic ...
Audience: adult
Plot: boy, first sexual experience, coming of age, homosexual sex, gay, tennis, athlete's life, friendship, teenager, divorced parents, prodigy, teaching the ways of the world ...
Time: 21st century
Place: belgium, europe
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26%
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I Remember (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 110 min.
Story: The memories of Guiga, from early childhood to young adulthood: his family, relatives, friends, fears, dreams and reality in a still provincial city of Salvador, Bahia, from the 50s to the 70s.
Style: suspense, disturbing, psychological
Plot: coming of age, puberty, boy, erotica, family problems, dysfunctional family, social problems, childhood memory, relationship problems, family relations, mother son relationship, memories ...
Place: brazil
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26%
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West Coast (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Four inseparable teenagers in a small town in Brittany (France). As lifelong fans of the West Coast, they think are real gangstas. Together as a "gang", they are invincible, respected, fearless and nothing can reach them, certainly not the ...
Style: psychological, disturbing, captivating
Plot: teenager, group of friends, friendship, coming of age, teenage boy, gangster, teenage life, small town life, small town, lifestyle, juvenile delinquency, bullying ...
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
A Night Too Young (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Czech Republic, Slovenia
Duration: 65 min.
Story: On New Year's Day, two preteen boys wind up in the apartment of Katerina, a teacher from their school, along with her friends, Stepan and David. As the older trio bickers, drinks and flirts, the boys gain eye-opening insight into the adult ...
Style: disturbing, suspenseful, serious, psychological, suspense
Plot: underage drinking, sexualized violence, children, pedophile, child molestation, teenage boy, friendship between boys, sexual awakening, friendship, sexual harassment, sex, pedophilia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Jan Dara: The Finale (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Thailand
Duration: 138 min.
Story: Based on a famous Thai erotic novel, the film tells the story of Jan, a boy who grows up in a house lorded over by his sadistic and debauched father, Luang Wisnan. Set in the 1930′s the story recounts the growing pains of Jan, whose mother dies ...
Style: erotic, sexy, disturbing, psychological, suspense ...
Plot: brothel, prostitute, revenge, rape, hate, violence, life is a bitch, domestic violence, vengeance, family problems, violent, social problems ...
Time: 1930s
Place: bangkok thailand, thailand
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25%
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Samaritan Girl (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Yeo-jin and Jae-yeong are two teenage girls who are trying to earn money for a trip to Europe. To reach this end, Jae-yeong is prostituting herself while Yeo-jin acts as her pimp, setting her up with the clients and staying on guard for the police. ...
Style: captivating, touching, serious, realistic, erotic ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: prostitute, coming of age, murder, couples, vengeance, parents and children, revenge, female friendship, illegal prostitution, family relations, love and romance, redemption ...
Place: korea, east asia, europe, germany, south korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Seeds (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 88 min.
Story: The coming of age story of a boy that after a traumatic event is taken to beautiful Cuernavaca, where he has to find his father while trying to adapt to life with his grandmother, who has problems of her own.
Style: disturbing, suspense, captivating, psychological, queer cinema
Plot: grandmother grandson relationship, gay, coming of age, father son relationship, boyhood, dysfunctional family, family problems, boy, grownups, kids and family, life is a bitch, family relations ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Criminal Desires (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min.
Story: A beautiful reporter gets caught up in the deadly and erotic world of an online 'murder club' in this red-hot thriller.
Style: disturbing, suspense, captivating, tense, sexy
Plot: erotica, murder, murderer, strip club, eroticism, online dating, seduction, reporter, private club, hitman, police, female pubic hair ...
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24%
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Little Secrets (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Luxembourg, Austria
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The story beginns on 24 October 1962, at the height of the Cuban missile crisis. The Second World War with its hardships and bombs...
Style: touching, suspense, disturbing, suspenseful
Plot: coming of age, vandalism, boy, teacher, female nudity, smoking, voyeurism, rebellion, store, tomb, shoplifting, gay ...
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24%
Daydream Obsession 3: Legacy (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story: While visiting his recently-divorced father, Wylie discovers the camera and video diaries of Clayton. With his college friends over, Wylie begins to explore his desires through daydreams and reality. His roommate Greg is the object of his obsession. ...
Style: disturbing, suspense, psychological, captivating
Plot: gay, father son relationship, erotica, gay interest, gay crush, lgbt, gay subtext, male pubic hair, nudity, male nudity, sexuality, gay erotica ...
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24%
Eros, the God of Love (1981)
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A man explores the process of formation of sexuality and is looking for a woman that does not exist.
Plot: coming of age, bare breasts, erotica, affair, love, sex, female pubic hair, flashback, incest, threesome, english class, woman ...
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24%
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Open Seas (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A coming of age story of three young friends during their student years in Amsterdam.
Style: captivating, sincere, realistic, serious
Plot: coming of age, friendship, student, death, female pubic hair, group of friends, friendship between boys, love triangle, father son relationship, partying, gay, hot and sexy ...
Place: amsterdam
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23%
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Girls to Buy (2021)
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 146 min.
Story: Emi is a young ambitious girl who has been dreaming about a big world for years. Whenever an opportunity arises, she jumps into its modes without hesitation, becoming an exclusive escort. Soon it is she who, at the invitation of Arab sheikhs, begins ...
Style: captivating, disturbing
Plot: sheik, prostitute, erotica, prostitution, escort, seduction, recruitment, male nudity, forced prostitution, women, attempted seduction, high society ...
Place: poland
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23%
Songs of Love and Hate (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Switzerland
Duration: 89 min.
Story: In an idyllic wine region at the foot of the Swiss Alps lives Rico with his two daughters and his wife Anna. The charming daughter, Lili, brings turbulence into the so far harmonious family life because of the awakening of her sexuality. Her father ...
Style: captivating, disturbing, suspense, psychological, queer cinema
Plot: coming of age, sexuality, father daughter relationship, family relations, family problems, parents and children, sexual relations, family life, father and daughter, relationship problems, sexual tension, relationships ...
Place: swiss alps
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23%
It Felt Like Love (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Fourteen-year-old Lila is experiencing an ennui-filled Brooklyn summer. She awkwardly wears a Kabuki-esque mask of sunscreen at the beach and plays third wheel to Chiara, her more experienced friend, and Chiara’s boyfriend, Patrick. Determined to ...
Style: emotional, realistic, touching, sexy, captivating ...
Plot: coming of age, teenage girl, first sex, youth, obsession, self discovery, best friend, friendship, wooing, hot guys, teenager, sexuality ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa, brooklyn new york city
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23%
A Daughter's Revenge (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Elle Spencer has devised a terrifying plan. Soon her friend, Anna Bellcroft will be released from jail, where she served time for a DUI. Anna has nothing. No family, no money, no job...BUT Elle is there for her. What Elle does not reveal, is that ...
Style: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
Plot: girlfriend girlfriend relationship, stepfather, women, vengeance, intrigue, revenge, plan, secret, female protagonist, girlfriend, criminal's revenge, stepfather stepdaughter relationship ...
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Sparrows (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: Iceland, Denmark, Croatia
Duration: 99 min.
Story: The story follows a 16-year-old Icelandic boy, Ari, who lives with his mother in Reykjavík, She has to leave the country for a new job, sending him back to the small town of his youth. There he finds his old friend, suddenly a young woman with a ...
Style: captivating, suspenseful, sincere, melancholic
Plot: coming of age, absent mother, sex scene, grandmother, small town, childhood friend, gay, incest, boyhood, father, child, boy ...
Place: iceland, reykjavik iceland
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23%
Teenage Kicks (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Miklós is at the age when everything feels high-stakes. He is coming to terms with his own sexuality, and when his best friend Dan reveals that he has a new girlfriend, this puts an end to their plans to run away together.
Style: lgbt cinema, homoerotic, suspenseful, captivating, contemplative ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: gay, gay interest, coming of age, homosexual, gay youth, bisexual, accidental death, gay teenager, unrequited love, gay crush, friendship, lgbt ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: australia, sydney australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Without (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: On a remote wooded island, a young woman becomes caretaker to an old man in a vegetative state. Her isolated routine devolves into a struggle with sexuality, guilt and loss.
Style: captivating, psychological, disturbing
Audience: adult
Plot: sexuality, woman, wheelchair bound, man in a wheelchair, sexual relations, teenage girl, teenage sexuality, care, teenager, life is a bitch, relationship problems, nursing ...
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