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After Lucia (2012)
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Original name: Después de Lucía
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico, France
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Alejandra and her dad Roberto have just moved to town. She is new at school, he has a new job. Starting over is sometimes complicated when you have left so much behind.
Style:
disturbing, serious, realistic, suspense, political, social, sad, teen, transgressive, bleak ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
bullying, society, high school life, missing girl, rape, teenage life, parents and children, estrangement, social decay, family problems, social relations, high school, coming of age, humiliation, dishonesty, danger, violence, high school student, sea, violence against women, sexual harassment, strong female lead, women, feminism, education ...
Time:
near future, year 2012, 2010s, 21st century, contemporary
Place:
mexico, latin america, mexico city
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Most similar movies to After Lucia
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, disturbing and psychological films with plots about youth, coming of age, teenager, teenage life, high school, bullying and society mostly in Drama, Thriller and Crime genres. Some movies like After Lucia: 2:37 (2006), The Class (2007), Everybody Dies But Me (2008), Cyber Bully (2011), Breathe (2014). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A contemporary, ensemble drama telling the complex tale of six high school students whose lives are interwoven with situations that so many of today's youth are faced with. The story takes place during a normal school day. At precisely 2:37 a ...
Style:
psychological, bleak, serious, sincere, depressing ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
high school, brother sister incest, incest, rape, youth, teenage life, suicide, homosexual, high school life, teenage love, incest rape, social relations ...
Place:
south australia, adelaide south australia, australia
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17K
Genre: Drama
Country: Estonia
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
An average guy of an Estonian high-school decides to defend his bullied classmate. This starts war between him and the informal leader of the class. As teenagers' honour is a touchy thing, everything ends in bloodshed.
Style:
serious, disturbing, tense, emotional, realistic ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
bullying, school shooting, youth, humiliation, vengeance, society, life is a bitch, juvenile delinquency, social misfits, teenage life, mistreatment, friendship ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
estonia, europe, eastern europe
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
One Monday morning Katya, Vika and Zhanna learn that there will be a school disco, their first disco, on the coming Saturday night. The girls feverishly start preparing for the event, which rapidly becomes the most important moment ever in their ...
Style:
touching, realistic, gloomy, serious, suspense ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot:
friends, teenage life, life is a bitch, boy girl relationship, youth, family problems, friendship, high school life, social relations, dysfunctional family, school, social decay ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
soviet union, moscow russia, russia, ussr
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico, Netherlands
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A poignant and moving urban drama, focusing on the growing problem of sexual assault in Mexico City. Director Sistach fictionalizes the true story of a friendship between two adolescent girls which is torn apart when one of them is brutally raped.
Style:
realistic, serious, disturbing, bleak, rough ...
Plot:
sexual abuse, sexual harassment, life is a bitch, family relations, social decay, woman in danger, rich and poor, family problems, city life, urban ghetto life, gender, youth ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
mexico, latin america, mexico city
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A woman tries to help her teenage daughter when she becomes the victim of online bullying.
Style:
serious, realistic, teen, sad, heartfelt ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, chick flick, kids, family outing ...
Plot:
bullying, high school, suicide attempt, teen angst, teenage life, teenager, popularity, rumor, social misfits, intrigue, socially awkward, bully ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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100%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Charlie, a 17-year-old girl tortured by doubt, is thrilled when she becomes friends with Sarah, but when Sarah tires of Charlie and looks for a new friend, their relationship takes an ominous turn.
Style:
psychological, serious, touching, realistic, sentimental ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot:
friendship, asthma, teenage love, mother daughter conflict, lesbian, young lovers, coming of age, female friendship, high school, end of friendship, psychological torment, secret life ...
Time:
year 2014, 90s, 21st century
Place:
france, south of france
Similarity:
100%
32K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Freshman high-school student Melinda has refused to speak ever since she called the cops on a popular summer party. With her old friends snubbing her for being a rat, and her parents too busy to notice her troubles, she folds into herself, trying to ...
Style:
touching, psychological, independent film, sad, sincere ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
high school, teenage girl, rape, bullying, youth, rape victim, school, teenage life, innocence lost, teenager, unsupportive friend, high school life ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
columbus ohio, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
This is a film about a troubled teen, Sean Randall, who is falsely accused of planning a Columbine shooting scenario. It all begins when an unlikely bond forms between Sean (Connor Jessup) and a preppy teenage girl named Deanna Roy (Alexia Fast). ...
Style:
tense, realistic, psychological, captivating, thought provoking ...
Plot:
school shooting, bullying, false accusation, coming of age, society, injustice, social relations, small town, perjury, school massacre, goth, school bullying ...
Time:
year 2012, 21st century
Place:
canada, nova scotia, canada
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Sophomore year has been a nightmare for Jessica Burns. Relentlessly harassed by her former friend Avery Keller, Jessica doesn't know what she did to deserve the abuse from one of South Brookdale High's most popular and beautiful students. ...
Style:
realistic, serious, teen, rough, tense ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, chick flick, teen drama
Plot:
teenage girl, bullying, found footage, high school, popular girl, female bully, mean girl, high school life, kids in trouble, teenage life, suicide, humiliation ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A journey through the memories of teenager Paul Varderman as he reflects on the events leading to the fatal moment his life is cut short. Paul moves to a new school and becomes involved with 'The Freaks', a group on the periphery of school ...
Style:
realistic, serious, bleak, suspense, captivating ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
high school, gang, teenage life, youth, high school life, downfall, kids in trouble, bullying, teen angst, tragedy, coming of age, outsider ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
Tracey Berkowitz, 15, a self-described normal girl, loses her 9-year old brother, Sonny. In flashbacks and fragments, we meet her overbearing parents and the sweet, clueless Sonny. We watch Tracey navigate high school, friendless, picked on and ...
Style:
disturbing, realistic, psychological, serious, sad ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
borderline personality disorder, dysfunctional family, missing person, survival, high school, teenage life, youth, family problems, coming of age, mother daughter relationship, teenager, feminist ...
Place:
canada
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
Duct tape, electrical cables, trigger, explosives. Sebbe never planned to build a bomb. It just happened. Sebbe is 15 years old and lives with his mother in an apartment that is too narrow. He does his best. He never strikes back. Sebbe loves his ...
Style:
realistic, serious, psychological, captivating, contemplative ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
losing-it hero, single parent, coming of age, teenage boy, introspection, teenage life, bullying, youth, society, life is a bitch, juvenile delinquency, parents and children ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, eastern europe
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Soon after being named the new leader of his high school's gang system, Kujo grows bored with the violence and hatred that surround him. He wants desperately to abandon his post… but his once-enviable position of power has a strange way of ...
Style:
bleak, realistic, disturbing, serious, manga
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
high school life, society, juvenile delinquency, coming of age, high school, gang, friendship, life is a bitch, teenage life, youth, school, asian ...
Place:
japan, asia
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Two teenage outsiders are demoralized daily at school, until an idea for vengeance offers them a terrifying release.
Style:
unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, thought provoking, psychological ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
bullying, friendship, school shooting, police, boy, friendship between boys, tragedy, best friend, revenge, school, teenage boy, junior high school ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
kentucky, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Teenager Tereska comes from poor family and has to face difficult world and mean people around her.
Style:
disturbing, touching, serious, realistic, bleak ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
sexual initiation, friendship, life is a bitch, teenage life, misfit, dull life, society, youth, working class, down on your luck, unemployment, loneliness ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
poland
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A mother and her daughter confront the intimidation of teen peer pressure and the emotionally brutalizing social rituals of high school.
Style:
realistic, serious, exciting, captivating, touching ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, kids, teens, teen drama
Plot:
bullying, high school, teenage love, high school life, school, lifestyle, buddies, family relations, friendship, misfit, love and romance, rivalry ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
100%
9K
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, France, Italy
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
NEDs (Non Educated Delinquents) is the story of a young man’s journey from prize-winning schoolboy to knife-carrying teenager. Struggling against the low expectations of those around him, John McGill changes from victim to avenger, scholar to NED, ...
Style:
rough, serious, realistic, disturbing, bleak ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
juvenile delinquency, gang, street kid, bullying, coming of age, youth, gang war, social decay, teenage life, society, social problems, realism ...
Time:
year 2010, 70s, 20th century
Place:
scotland, europe
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A bullied student sees visions of a rabbit he was forced to kill as a child, and those visions propel him into a state where his imagination causes him to carry out violent acts.
Style:
serious, disturbing, rough, dark, poetic ...
Plot:
high school, bullying, mental illness, kids in trouble, rebelliousness, friendship, life is a bitch, society, imagination, teenage boy, child abuse, house ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
100%
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110K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A chronicle of three weeks in the lives of several high school teachers, administrators and students through the eyes of substitute teacher, Henry Barthes. Henry roams from school to school, imparting modes of knowledge, but never staying long ...
Style:
psychological, depressing, bleak, thought provoking, independent film ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
teacher, depression, suicide, teachers and students, dedicated educator, school, unhappy, social problems, high school life, teen angst, human relationship, social decay ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
This dramatic series follows a group of troubled Mexican teens in their last year of school, coping with such challenges as drug abuse and sexual identity. In other words, growing up.
Style:
realistic, serious, captivating, dramatic, psychological ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
social issues, high school life, family relations, friends, social relations, high school, youth, society, sexual identity, coming of age, sexuality, drug addiction ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
mexico, latin america
Similarity:
100%
107K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Tracy is a normal 13-year-old trying to make it in school. After befriending the most popular girl at school, Evie, Tracy's world is turned upside down when Evie introduces her to a world of sex, drugs and cash. But it isn't long before ...
Style:
tense, sincere, emotional, teen, independent film ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, teen drama, adult
Plot:
coming of age, adolescence, friendship, drug addiction, addiction, peer pressure, teenage protagonist, dysfunctional family, underage drinking, teenage girl, teenager, self harm ...
Time:
year 2003, 20th century, y2k, near future, 2000s ...
Place:
california, usa, los angeles, venice beach california
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Christina is living in a suburb to Copenhagen. With her class mates Cecilie, Trine and Pernille she slacks her school work, living mostly for the weekends of gate crashing, getting drunk, experimenting with drugs and scoring guys. But her world is ...
Style:
rough, serious, bleak, realistic, captivating ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
revenge, lifestyle, juvenile delinquency, life is a bitch, teenage life, friendship, high school life, bullying, youth, social misfits, drug abuse, society ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, denmark
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
An outer suburb of Paris, 1972. Gilles and Christine, both sixteen, are classmates and lovers who have become frustrated with the aloofness of their families and the general monotony of their lives. When the pair are caught shoplifting, ...
Style:
realistic, touching, sentimental, serious, emotional ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens, teen drama
Plot:
youth, kids in trouble, family relations, unfulfilled love, teenage life, rebelliousness, parents and children, unfulfillment, unrequited love, dysfunctional family, teenage boy, teenage girl ...
Time:
70s, year 1994, year 1972
Place:
france, paris france, europe
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A mother vows to get justice when her daughter's life is destroyed by a sex video that goes viral.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, touching, realistic, emotional ...
Plot:
high school, high school life, teenage life, righting the wronged, death in the family, siblings relations, parents and children, family problems, family relations, private vs public, social relations, investigation ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
The Pregnancy project tells the real story of Gaby Rodriguez, a seventeen-year-old who attended a Washington state high-school and made her senior school project the treatment of pregnant teenagers by pretending to be pregnant.
Style:
touching, sentimental, realistic, serious, independent film ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
pregnancy, teenage pregnancy, teenage life, family relations, parents and children, dishonesty, high school, youth, teachers and students, pregnant teenager, teenager, love ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
washington d.c., usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
When a high school party goes dangerously off the rails, one teenager finds that revenge is just a computer click away.
Style:
suspenseful, serious, tense, captivating, independent film ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
vengeance, teenage life, youth, teenage love, social relations, rivalry, family relations, murder, social network, danger, blood, coming of age ...
Time:
year 2010, y2k, 21st century
Place:
australia
Similarity:
100%
392
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel, Germany, France
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Brothers Yaki and Shaul live with their parents in Petah Tikva, a satellite town of Tel Aviv. Yaki is doing military service. As for all other 18-year-old Israelis, this means he is allowed to carry a gun. This weapon gives the brothers the power to ...
Style:
realistic, tense, serious, captivating, emotional ...
Plot:
family problems, kidnapping, family relations, unemployment, society, working class, parents and children, teenage life, dysfunctional family, soldier, youth, coming of age ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
israel, middle east
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, Germany, France, USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Meeting his handicapped son for the first time, a young father attempts to forge a relationship with the teenager.
Style:
psychological, touching, emotional, serious, contemplative ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
estrangement, parents and children, single parent, teenage life, human nature, disability, hospital, self discovery, coming of age, redemption, hopes, family relations ...
Time:
year 2004
Place:
europe, germany, italy, berlin germany, milan italy
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Mexico, Spain
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Being kidnapped shatters a brother and sister's harmony, forcing them to confront their desires.
Style:
psychological, touching, erotic, sincere, eros ...
Plot:
incest, brother sister sex, brother sister incest, brother sister relationship, forced sex, shame, forbidden love, female nudity, sex scene, incestuous relationship, family in crisis, kidnapping ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
mexico, latin america, mexico city
Similarity:
67%
760
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A high-school girl is kidnapped by gang lords and held captive for several months. Over this time, she repeatedly beaten, raped, and tortured. On the 25th of November 1988, four youths abducted and held Furuta Junko in the house of one of the ...
Style:
disturbing, psychological, suspense, bleak, rough ...
Plot:
gang rape, sex scene, bullying, sexual abuse, captive, bully, kidnapping, juvenile delinquency, prisoner, serial killer, gang, teenage girl ...
Time:
80s
Similarity:
100%
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