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Turning Green (2005)
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Turning Green (2005)
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: USA, Ireland
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Set in late 1970s Ireland, it tells the story of 16-year-old James Powers, an American who finds himself lost after his mother dies and he is forced to live with his three Irish aunts. Displaced and depressed, he longs for a way to make it back to America. One lucky weekend in London, James discovers pornography and, desperate for cash, he decides to sell them back in Ireland. His success spreads wildly. After finding a possible way home, he must decide where home really is, and finds that one's place in the world is all a state of mind.
Style: sincere, touching, realistic, humorous, semi serious, independent film
Plot: follow your dream, teenage life, youth, family relations, love and romance, fall in love, getting home, society, juvenile delinquency, hopes, overnight success, danger, small town, bittersweet, coming of age, homesickness, aunt, bookies, social relations, siblings relations, small town life, kids in trouble, nudity, business, mother ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: ireland, europe
Keyword: irish

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, touching, humorous and semi serious films with plots about youth, coming of age, society, family relations, friendship, teenage life and parents and children mostly in Drama, Comedy and Music genres. Some movies like Turning Green: Mickybo and Me (2004), Calvin Marshall (2009), Screen Door Jesus (2003), Faith, Fraud, & Minimum Wage (2010), Humble Pie (2007). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Mickybo and Me (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, France, Ireland
Duration: 95 min.
Story: The film tells the story of two boys who become friends at the start of the Troubles in 1970. The boys share an obsession with Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, with the consequence that they run away to Australia.
Style: sincere, sentimental, touching, semi serious, captivating ...
Plot: youth, kids in trouble, friendship, mischievous children, boy, coming of age, society, obsession, political unrest, boyhood, friends, human rights ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: ireland, europe, northern ireland, belfast
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Calvin Marshall (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A college student is determined to become a Major League Baseball star, but finds his true calling instead.
Style: semi serious, touching, feel good, humorous, sentimental ...
Audience: date night, teens
Plot: baseball, coming of age, college, ambition, follow your dream, self discovery, underdog, youth, athlete's life, hopes, love and romance, adolescence vs adulthood ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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Screen Door Jesus (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: A vision of Jesus sighted on the screen door of Mother Harper's front porch sparks misadventures as the media and crowds gather around the phenomenon and the townsfolk start to take sides. As more people flock to the door, some for guidance, ...
Style: sincere, humorous, realistic, sentimental, touching ...
Plot: society, social relations, bittersweet, small town life, interracial relations, friendship, small town, human nature, religions or cults, religion, preacher, escape ...
Time: 21st century
Place: texas
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Faith, Fraud, & Minimum Wage (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A rebellious teenage girl wrestles with the true nature of miracles when her father begins to believe in a religious hoax which she has secretly created.
Style: semi serious, realistic, touching, humorous
Plot: hoax, life turned upside down, teenage life, self discovery, social relations, religions or cults, family relations, cons and scams, overnight success, miraculous event, parents and children, society ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
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Humble Pie (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: At nearly 400 pounds, Tracy Orbison is a wide target. When he sets out to pursue his dream of acting, the grocery clerk finds an assortment of people waiting to dash his dreams. Through it all, Tracy remains irrepressibly upbeat, convinced he's ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, touching, realistic, whimsical
Plot: optimism, follow your dream, rise to the top, physical appearance, family relations, parents and children, humble, social misfits, youth, love and romance, society, teenage love ...
Time: 21st century
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Cookie (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Adeline's Chinese housekeeper suddenly disappears, leaving behind a little boy who doesn't speak a word of French. Helped by her sister, she takes care of the child and proceeds to locate the mother.
Style: semi serious, realistic, touching, sentimental, uplifting
Audience: family outing
Plot: immigrant, society, deportation, getting home, siblings relations, youth, family relations, hopes, redemption, escapades, coming of age, kids in trouble ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, france
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American Chai (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: The film deals with an Indian American student who wanted to pursue his love of music over the more 'typical' academic endeavors of Indian Americans (e.g., medicine, engineering, law, and business).
Style: semi serious, witty, humorous, touching, realistic
Plot: college, culture clash, follow your dream, lifestyle, teenage life, parents and children, youth, society, friendship, misfit, hopes, nothing goes right ...
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Lost Islands (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A family with five kids in the 80s get into a crisis when twin brothers fall in love with the same girl.
Style: semi serious, humorous, captivating, emotional, realistic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: family relations, twins, coming of age, love triangle, family in crisis, teenage love, parents and children, family problems, fall in love, small town, friendship, rivalry ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: israel, palestine, middle east
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Intrepido: A Lonely Hero (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A middle-aged man tries to get by in Milan while trying to retain his dignity.
Style: semi serious, humorous, realistic, touching, feel good ...
Plot: fall in love, parents and children, family relations, bittersweet, workplace situations, workplace, love and romance, society, urban, father son relationship, loneliness, kindness ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, italy
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Papa Was Not a Rolling Stone (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: France
Duration: 99 min.
Story: The 1980s. Stéphanie grows up in La Courneuve, on the outskirts of Paris, in a home where her mother is rarely there and her step-father is brutal. She quickly decides to escape her morose everyday life. Thanks to her grandmother's love, ...
Style: humorous, touching, sentimental, sincere, semi serious ...
Plot: follow your dream, teenage life, hopes, youth, parents and children, family problems, adolescence vs adulthood, society, family relations, friendship, dysfunctional family, coming of age ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: paris france, france
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The Best Thief in the World (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Izzy, the youngest son of a troubled New York family, takes a shine to breaking into people's apartments as a way to get attention.
Style: realistic, emotional, touching, sincere, independent film ...
Plot: youth, dysfunctional family, juvenile delinquency, young heroes, unlikely criminals, life is a bitch, kids in trouble, estrangement, family problems, teenage life, heist, parents and children ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york
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Lebanon, Pa. (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Will, a charming 35-year-old Philadelphia ad man, heads to Lebanon, Pa. to bury his recently deceased father. He forms an unexpected friendship with CJ, his bright, newly pregnant 17-year-old cousin. As Will becomes interested in CJ's married ...
Style: realistic, sentimental, captivating, psychological, independent film ...
Plot: family relations, culture clash, society, love and romance, pregnancy, coming of age, hopes, youth, wooing, small town, road not taken, bittersweet ...
Time: 21st century
Place: pennsylvania, usa, philadelphia
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Reach the Rock (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A small town troublemaker (Alessandro Nivola), directionless and alienated, ends up spending a night in a jail cell, where he and the police chief (William Sadler) engage in a battle of wills and wit.
Style: realistic, humorous, semi serious, suspense, tense ...
Plot: friendship, coming of age, small town, haunted by the past, society, nothing goes right, juvenile delinquency, teenage life, grudge, social decay, brother sister relationship, mother daughter relationship ...
Time: 90s
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Diggers (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Diggers is a coming-of-age story directed by Katherine Dieckmann. It portrays four working-class friends who grow up in The Hamptons, on the South Shore of Long Island, New York, as clam diggers in 1976. Their fathers were clam diggers as well as ...
Style: humorous, realistic, semi serious, witty, touching ...
Plot: coming of age, friendship, parents and children, youth, save the day, love and romance, social differences, social relations, working class, father son relationship, family relations, bare chested male ...
Time: 70s, year 2006, 20th century
Place: new york, long island, usa
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Man in the Chair (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: The story of an aspiring young filmmaker's encounter with a grumpy fount of movie lore.
Style: realistic, serious, touching, sentimental, sincere ...
Plot: follow your dream, obsessive quest, friendship, youth, aging, society, lifestyle, family relations, filmmaking, teenage life, parents and children, hollywood ...
Time: year 2007
Place: usa, los angeles
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Housekeeping (1987)
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, thought provoking, semi serious ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: small town, coming of age, eccentric woman, suicide, orphan, friendship, self discovery, eccentricity, psychopath, feminist, alienation, adoption ...
Time: year 1987, 50s, 20th century, 1950s
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My Name Is Juani (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A pair of women leave their small town and dud boyfriends behind for fun in Madrid.
Style: semi serious, touching, humorous, realistic, sexual
Plot: lifestyle, follow your dream, friendship, hopes, city life, on the road, friends, tough heroes, couples, society, love and romance, youth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: spain, madrid
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Foreign Letters (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A bittersweet coming-of-age film, Foreign Letters is itself a love letter to the unshakeable bond between friends. Set in the pre-email era of the 1980s, young Ellie, newly arrived to the US from Israel, anxiously waits for letters from her best ...
Style: realistic, serious, sentimental, touching
Plot: coming of age, introspection, friendship, culture clash, teenage life, fish out of water, society, youth, hopes, immigrant, social relations, family life ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, year 1982
Place: usa, vietnam, israel
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All That I Love (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Poland
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Follows four friends in their quest to form a punk band. As workers protests sweep across the country, Janek and Staszek, the sons of a navy man, the rebellious Kazik, and the affluent Diabel gel as a band, but their disparate lives are touched by ...
Style: serious, uplifting, sincere, touching, realistic ...
Plot: punk, friendship, music band, musician's life, revolution, society, hopes, rebelliousness, fighting the system, follow your dream, youth, state affairs ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: poland, europe
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Asphalt Playground (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Mitraillette is 12 years old and lives in Rose City, a housing estate he would not leave for anything. His whole world comprises his family, especially his 16 year-old cousin Isma, who has taken a fancy to Narcisse, the local crime boss. His older ...
Style: captivating, humorous, tense, light, bleak ...
Plot: urban ghetto life, juvenile delinquency, youth, teenage life, society, danger, family relations, hip hop, kids in trouble, gang, coming of age, urban ghetto ...
Time: year 2012, 21st century
Place: france
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Children on Their Birthdays (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Havoc is created in a small Southern community when a 12-year-old shows up, causing a couple 13-year-old friends to fall in love with her, thus possibly jeopardizing their friendship.
Style: sentimental, touching, feel good, humorous, independent film ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: youth, coming of age, love triangle, friendship, small town, teenage life, teenage love, social relations, fall in love, society, mute, teenage girl ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1947
Place: alabama, usa, chicago
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The Van (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Ireland, UK, 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, independent film, social, semi serious ...
Plot: friendship, food, unemployment, working class, restaurant, cooking, erotica, soccer, family relations, friendship between men, partner, friends ...
Time: year 1996, 90s
Place: ireland, dublin ireland
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Hardboiled Egg (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The story of Piero, from when he was a kid to fatherhood, over the background of the town of Livorno, Tuscany, where the director Virzì was born.
Style: captivating, realistic, semi serious, gloomy, humorous ...
Audience: teens
Plot: coming of age, bittersweet, working class, youth culture, dysfunctional family, factory worker, teenage love, blue collar, oil refinery, proletarian, puberty, family relations ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: tuscany, europe, italy
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The Grass Harp (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Based on the novel by Truman Capote, this often-witty coming-of-age drama looks at a young man growing up with an unusual family in the Deep South in the 1940s.
Style: semi serious, realistic, sentimental, humorous, feel good ...
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Time: 1930s, 1940s, 20th century
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: Turkey
Duration: 97 min.
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Style: humorous, atmospheric, sentimental, sincere, semi serious ...
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Place: turkey
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The Dream Kids (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 86 min.
Story: JB suffers from a heart malformation .He falsifies his medical file ,so that he can enter a top athlete training center.
Style: sincere, touching, captivating, humorous, serious ...
Plot: friendship, teenage life, ambition, follow your dream, youth, hopes, social relations, friends, athlete's life, lifestyle, contests and competitions, boarding school ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
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Swimming (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Two girl friends in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina find their relationship changing as they encounter new arrivals to the town.
Style: sincere, sentimental, touching, semi serious, realistic ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: coming of age, friendship, youth, couple relations, fall in love, self discovery, teenage life, teenage love, small town life, best friend, lesbian sex, human nature ...
Time: 90s
Place: usa, south carolina
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A Summer in La Goulette (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Tunisia, France, Belgium
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Summer, 1967. La Goulette, the touristic beach of Tunisi, is the site where three nice seventeen-year-old girls live: Gigi, sicilian and catholic; Meriem, Tunisian and Arab; Tina, French and Jewish. They would like to have their first sexual ...
Style: sexual, semi serious, realistic, touching, humorous
Audience: date night
Plot: teenage sexuality, loss of virginity, love, coming of age, female nudity, virgin, bittersweet, best friend, nudity, social relations, religions or cults, friends ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: tunisia, africa, middle east, north africa
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Lost in Yonkers (1993)
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, psychological, humorous, feel good ...
Audience: kids
Plot: dysfunctional family, youth, aunt, grandmother, bike, mental health, coming of age, candy store, brother, bittersweet, family problems, family relations ...
Time: 1940s, year 1993, 20th century, year 1942
Place: new york, usa
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Caterina in the Big City (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 107 min.
Story: When her father, Giancarlo is transferred to Rome from the small country town of Montalto Di Castro, Caterina, a 12 years old girl, will discover her new classmates, a totally new world, an ambient extremely divided politically.
Style: realistic, semi serious, touching, humorous
Plot: youth, friendship, fish out of water, social differences, teenage life, lifestyle, society, politics, human nature, hopes, city life, school ...
Time: 2000s
Place: rome italy, italy, europe
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