Movies like Ruby Blue

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Ruby Blue (2007)
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Ruby Blue (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Belgium
Duration: 106 min.
Story: An elderly man's innocent friendship with an eight year old girl is tarnished by the assumptions of a community when the little girl goes missing.
Style: psychological, serious, realistic, touching, crying
Plot: little girl, friendship, haunted by the past, youth, family relations, love and romance, fall in love, teenage life, single parent, working class, death in the family, false accusation, loneliness, grief, death of wife, suspicion, friends, starting over, dealing with death, cooking and food, dog, fight, train, fishing, death ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: usa, california, england, france
Keyword: french

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, touching and psychological films with plots about family relations, youth, friendship, love and romance, coming of age, parents and children and teenage life mostly in Drama and Family genres. Some movies like Ruby Blue: Vicious Circle (2009), Ponette (1996), Gypo (2005), Last Orders (2001), Breakfast with Curtis (2012). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Vicious Circle (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Story: Shot on digital , HD and 8 mm. Filmed through both sides of North America. 'Vicious Circle' pushes the limits of what can be accomplished on a bike. Featuring the first ever 65 foot 'Double Road Gap' , some of the gnarliest ...
Style: realistic, serious, touching, captivating
Plot: fall in love, lifestyle, false accusation, teenage life, family relations, youth, love and romance, destructive relationship, society, chess, skateboard, teenager ...
Time: 21st century
Place: california
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95%
 7.5
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Ponette (1996)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A four-year-old girl must come to terms with the loss of her mother and the reality of death in this award-winning French drama. Little Ponette (Victoire Thivisol) is riding in a car with her mother when they're involved in a serious accident; ...
Style: touching, realistic, talky, emotional, depressing ...
Plot: children, bereavement, little girl, child, adolescence, coming of age, grief, youth, girl, death, friendship, school ...
Time: year 1996, 90s, 20th century
Place: france, provence
⇓ similarity ⇓
91%
 6.7
 452
Gypo (2005)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Gypo is the story of a working class family in Margate, Kent, a town where immigrants have become the focus of most of the public's discontent. The film tells the story of the a couple of weeks in this family's life, beginning when a ...
Style: realistic, rough, psychological, serious, bleak ...
Plot: dogme 95, couple relations, friendship, immigrant, life is a bitch, couples, dysfunctional family, love and romance, crumbling marriage, family problems, starting over, society ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, czech republic
⇓ similarity ⇓
91%
 6.9
 7K
Last Orders (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Jack Dodd was a London butcher who enjoyed a pint with his mates for over 50 years. When he died, he died as he lived, with a smile on his face watching a horse race on which he had bet, with borrowed money. But before he died he had a final ...
Style: realistic, sentimental, touching, talky, atmospheric ...
Plot: friendship, last wish, road trip, grief, memory, life, family relations, friendship between men, self discovery, parents and children, partner, last will and testament ...
Time: year 2001, year 1989, 21st century
Place: england, europe, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
90%
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Breakfast with Curtis (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Syd is an eccentric bookseller with delusions of grandeur fueled by red wine. He caused a rift 5 years ago between his bohemian housemates and the family next door, but now tries to recruit his 14-year-old neighbor as a collaborator.
Style: serious, realistic, touching, psychological, suspenseful ...
Plot: friendship, friends, drug, teenage boy, coming of age, death threat, depression, love and romance, love, couples, youth, family relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
90%
 7.2
 66
Valley (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 86 min.
Story: This is the story of three sensitive teens who are forced to deal with violence at home, violence at school. It is a story of friendship, of love and hate, where the adolescents world is revealed as cruel and beautiful, a world where the desire to ...
Style: touching, realistic, serious, suspenseful, gloomy
Plot: teenage love, friendship, teenage life, buddies, love and romance, youth, family relations, graphic violence, violent content, coming of age, friends, love ...
Time: 21st century
Place: israel, palestine
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
 6.5
 144
You (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: You is a love story. It spans 21 years, bouncing around in time, creating a kind of family quilt that wraps around a father as he struggles to overcome the grief of losing his beloved wife and raise their daughter alone. A coming-of-age journey for ...
Style: emotional, sentimental, captivating, psychological, independent film ...
Plot: family relations, coming of age, parents and children, haunted by the past, redemption, single parent, hopes, love, loss of mother, teenager, friendship, grieving widower ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
 6.7
 285
Pope Dreams (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: In the vein of Good Will Hunting and Garden State, POPE DREAMS is a coming of age tale about a young man at a crossroads in life. Filled with heart, music, life, and loss. And a set of drums. Oh, and the Pope. POPE DREAMS is about a directionless ...
Style: realistic, touching, sentimental, psychological, independent film ...
Plot: terminal illness, follow your dream, hopes, parents and children, family relations, coming of age, young lovers, teenage life, unfulfillment, human nature, mother son relationship, death ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
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 4.7
 706
Drunkboat (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: After twenty years of broken bottles and empty hallways, Mort Gleason witnesses his nephew Moo being beaten while in a drunken stupor. The short contact with family brings Mort back to what are left of his senses and he returns to the last home he ...
Style: serious, touching, realistic, sincere, sad
Plot: family relations, single parent, haunted by the past, social relations, youth, parents and children, self discovery, coming of age, teenage life, suburbs, teenager, drinking alcohol ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, illinois
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
 6.9
 336
Dummy (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A coming of age drama about two young brothers whose lives are thrown into turmoil when their mother dies suddenly, leaving them to fend for themselves. While Danny loses himself in music, sex and drugs, his younger brother Jack transforms a life ...
Style: serious, realistic, touching, humorous, gloomy
Plot: youth, kids in trouble, brother brother relationship, teenage life, family relations, family in crisis, family problems, death in the family, death of mother, coming of age, mental illness, sibling relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
 7.0
 684
Campfire (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 96 min.
Story: The story of one woman's personal battle for acceptance, but also a portrait of a political movement that has forever affected millions of lives in the Middle East.
Style: realistic, serious, touching, crying
Plot: friendship, teenage love, teenage life, starting over, self discovery, couples, false accusation, family life, impossible love, hopes, love and romance, youth ...
Time: 80s
Place: israel, middle east, palestine, jerusalem
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
Hysterical Blindness (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Set in the 1980's, Debby Miller (Uma Thurman) goes out in New Jersey looking for a man after she is diagnosed with "hysterical blindness".
Style: psychological, stylized, serious, touching, sincere ...
Plot: friendship, working class, loneliness, character study, love and romance, single parent, couple relations, family relations, looking for love, hopes, lifestyle, unfulfillment ...
Time: 80s
Place: new jersey, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
87%
 6.4
 2K
Shell (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Abandoned by her mother when she was a child, Shell has stayed to take care of her dying father but now feels trapped within the beautiful but desolate landscape that surrounds her. With only her routine of running the decaying petrol station, ...
Style: touching, serious, psychological, atmospheric, stylized ...
Audience: teens
Plot: father daughter incest, solitude, incest, family relations, parents and children, loneliness, under the surface, youth, single parent, estrangement, teenage life, girl ...
Time: 21st century
Place: scotland, scottish highlands
⇓ similarity ⇓
87%
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
87%
 5.9
 410
Bereft (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A young Vermont widow is haunted by the memory of her dead husband, while trying to date again.
Style: touching, psychological, serious, emotional, independent film ...
Plot: haunted by the past, parents and children, friendship, family problems, estrangement, family life, impossible love, couples, solace, life is a bitch, love and romance, death in the family ...
Time: 21st century
Place: vermont
⇓ similarity ⇓
87%
 5.7
 1K
Hide Away (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A successful businessman attempting to resurrect his life buys and boards a dilapidated sailboat.
Style: realistic, sentimental, emotional, captivating, psychological ...
Plot: starting over, self discovery, friendship, hopes, haunted by the past, small town, father daughter relationship, death of wife, redemption, society, bittersweet, friends ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
87%
 6.2
 351
Face (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Genie, a Chinese-American teenager, develops feelings for a charming African-American DJ, but her grandmother forbids their romance forcing Genie to choose between family and love.
Style: sincere, emotional, touching, serious, realistic ...
Plot: family relations, parents and children, teenage life, immigrant, opposites attract, friends, introspection, culture clash, single parent, youth, coming of age, friendship ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
Of Boys and Men (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Robert Townsend stars as the patriarch of a family devastated when his wife is killed in a senseless auto accident. Reeling with grief, each family member must find courage and vision to carry on, ultimately eager to do the mother proud.
Style: realistic, psychological, captivating, sentimental, independent film ...
Plot: family relations, family life, family in crisis, parents and children, youth, car accident, grief, death of wife, accidental death, love, society, family problems ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
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Hide Your Smiling Faces (2013)
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 ⇓
86%
Mourning for Anna (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A mother deals with the violent murder of her daughter.
Style: realistic, serious, touching, psychological, captivating ...
Plot: murder, grief, death of daughter, country house, family relations, teenage life, hopes, family problems, countryside, woods, youth, optimism ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
A Touch of Fate (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: One night in a small town in North Carolina, fate brings together three lives: an entertainment lawyer returning home to his dying mother after years in escape of his past, a woman trying to reclaim her supposed love, and a boy with a penchant for ...
Style: serious, realistic, touching, independent film
Plot: hopes, friendship, family relations, starting over, redemption, human nature, love and romance, destiny, parents and children, small town, chance, legal action ...
Place: usa, north carolina, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
The Staple of News (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 94 min.
Story: The story of a destiny. Suzanne's and her family's. The ties that bind them, keep them together, and the love she pursues... to the point of leaving everything behind.
Style: emotional, realistic, touching, serious, bleak
Plot: love affair, family life, family problems, dysfunctional family, parents and children, coming of age, single parent, fall in love, siblings relations, youth, working class, siblings ...
Time: 2010s, 80s, 90s, 21st century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
Children of Love (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Shows us a weekend in the life of a family torn by disputes and disappointments.
Style: realistic, serious, touching, emotional, sexual ...
Plot: youth, family relations, custody, starting over, dysfunctional family, family life, family problems, couples, single parent, love and romance, child custody, male female relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: belgium, brussels, europe, brussels belgium
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
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Between Two Women (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Set in Northern England, this powerful tale of suppressed sexuality offers poignant and sharply observant social commentary, interlaced with a tender romance. Vetern actress Barbara Marten tugs at the heart as Ellen Hardy, a working-class mother ...
Style: serious, sentimental, emotional, touching, period piece ...
Plot: lesbian, forbidden love, love affair, female friendship, family relations, couples, fall in love, society, feminism, friendship, working class, homecoming ...
Time: 1950s
Place: britain, europe, england, northern england
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
 5.7
 107
Restless (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Maurice (Michel Piccoli) is a composer, and a longtime member of the resistance. By chance, he shares a house with his teenager granddaughter. Claire, at 17, is eager to experience all sorts of things and the sooner the better, and rebels against ...
Style: touching, realistic, serious, captivating, gloomy
Plot: love and romance, couples, teenage life, family relations, haunted by the past, youth, teenage love, estrangement, elderly, relationship vs career, aging, first love ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
 6.4
 52
Max & Lenny (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Max and Lenny is the story of a friendship between two girls fighting for survival in a northern area of Marseille.
Style: sincere, realistic, touching, serious
Plot: friendship, teenage life, ambition, follow your dream, youth, hip hop, family relations, society, hopes, music, lesbian, strong female presence ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
 7.3
 10K
The Hedgehog (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Paloma is a serious and highly articulate but deeply bored 11-year-old who has decided to kill herself on her 12th birthday. Fascinated by art and philosophy, she questions and documents her life and immediate circle, drawing trenchant and often ...
Style: contemplative, psychological, realistic, sentimental, aesthetic ...
Plot: friendship, youth, child, little girl, introspection, coming of age, hopes, social differences, restaurant, family relations, philosophy, alienation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, paris france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
Zion and His Brother (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel, France
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Zion, aged 14 and his brother Meir, 17, are facing a crisis in their relationship after a terrible accident. They keep the secret to themselves and it haunts them until, finally, Zion re-examines his loyalty towards his older brother and decides ...
Style: serious, realistic, bleak
Plot: family crisis, brother brother relationship, family relations, family problems, dysfunctional family, society, youth, introspection, siblings relations, family in crisis, haunted by the past, teenage life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: israel
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
Daniel's Daughter (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story: When a woman learns that her father has passed away, she must confront the past (and the town) she left behind.
Style: touching, serious, realistic, emotional, psychological ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: self discovery, death in the family, haunted by the past, small town life, family relations, love and romance, homecoming, last wish, wedding, redhead girl, small town, social relations ...
Time: year 2008, year 1982, 21st century
Place: usa, massachusetts, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
 5.3
 398
A Fine Step (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: A Fine Step is an uplifting family drama centering on Cal Masterson (Luke Perry, Beverly Hills 90210) an award winning horseman whose relationship with his beloved horse Fandango allows him to achieve multiple championship wins. However tragedy ...
Style: sentimental, sincere, emotional, captivating, serious ...
Audience: pre-teens, teens
Plot: horse, contests and competitions, friendship, starting over, athlete's life, parents and children, youth, ambition, rivalry, family relations, farm, fall in love ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
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