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Zerwany (2003)
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Zerwany (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Events are shown from the perspective of a boy (played by Christopher Ciupa ), which surpasses the intelligence and sensitivity of others, is the one who feels and sees more. Lost hero who is trying to find a cruel world. Children's home, foster family, another children's home, in the end reformatory.
Style: rough, serious, realistic, compassionate
Plot: boy, brutality, runaway, orphanage, reformatory, juvenile detention, kids in trouble, life is a bitch, compassion, absent mother, cruelty, police officer, violence, male nudity, foster home, 10 year old, young boy, child abuse, foster parent, little boy, shaved head, group shower

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, rough and bleak films with plots about life is a bitch, youth, boy, coming of age, society, kids in trouble and family relations mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Zerwany: 10 1/2 (2010), Baby Sellers (2013), Vegas (2009), Barbarians (2014), Camp (2013). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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10 1/2 (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Tommy, 10 years old, is well known by Social Services. He is considered a danger to society. Gilles, his guardian at this halfway house, sees potential for redemption in this kid driven by violence.
Style: serious, realistic, captivating
Plot: boy, child abuse, kids in trouble, juvenile delinquent, social worker, life is a bitch, isolation, youth, danger, redemption, coming of age, police ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada, quebec
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95%
 5.7
 461
Baby Sellers (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Inspired by true events, the Lifetime Original Movie, Baby Sellers, exposes the shocking international criminal enterprise of infant trafficking. Stars Emmy winner Jennifer Finnigan and Emmy and Golden Globe winner Kirstie Alley.
Style: serious, realistic, rough, psychological, captivating ...
Plot: babies and infants, adoption, immigrant, legal action, society, life is a bitch, kidnapping, orphanage, spy, undercover agent, abduction, tough heroes ...
Time: 21st century
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57%
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 647
Vegas (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 110 min.
Story: You don't choose your family. You choose your friends. Vegas is the story of Thomas, Marianne and Terje - three teenagers with nowhere to go.
Style: serious, realistic, captivating
Plot: friendship, family relations, coming of age, life is a bitch, social misfits, young heroes, youth, child abuse, teenage boy, teenage girl, alcoholic father, adolescence ...
Time: 21st century
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54%
 5.4
 632
Barbarians (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Serbia, Montenegro, Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Duration: 87 min.
Story: "Barbarians" is a teenage drama about coming of age in a world where there is no opportunity. A portrait of a young generation growing up in a society of lost values.
Style: realistic, serious, rough, sincere, tense ...
Plot: juvenile delinquency, social decay, realism, youth, life is a bitch, society, friendship between boys, troubled youth, coming of age, barbarian, boy, hooligan ...
Time: 21st century
Place: serbia
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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Camp (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: 12-year-old Eli finds himself at summer CAMP
Style: serious, realistic, emotional, sentimental, christian film ...
Plot: boy, child abuse, summer camp, camp counselor, youth, kids in trouble, friendship, family problems, life is a bitch, hopes, dysfunctional family, parents and children ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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49%
 6.4
 290
Ezra (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Nigeria, USA, UK, Austria
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Ezra, jeune ex-soldat Sierra-Léonais, essaie tant bien que mal de retrouver des repères pour revenir à une vie normale après la guerre civile qui a ravagé son pays. Son quotidien est partagé entre un centre de réhabilitation psychologique et ...
Style: captivating, rough, disturbing, serious, bleak ...
Plot: military, kidnapping, wartime life, youth, life is a bitch, danger, legal, against humanity, haunted by the past, starting over, kids in trouble, life turned upside down ...
Time: 21st century
Place: africa, sierra leone
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
All the Invisible Children (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Seven short films - each one focused on the plight of a different child protagonist.
Style: anthology, touching, neorealism, serious, captivating ...
Plot: kids in trouble, juvenile delinquency, homeless, child abandonment, aids, life is a bitch, young heroes, social decay, survival, danger, society, youth ...
Time: year 2005, 21st century
Place: africa, serbia, napoli italy, sao paulo brazil, naples italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Blood and Bones (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 140 min.
Story: In 1923, the young Kim Shun-Pei moves from Cheju Island (South Korea), to Osaka (Japan). Through the years, he becomes a cruel, greedy and violent man and builds a factory of kamaboko (processed seafood products) in his poor Korean-Japanese ...
Style: psychological, realistic, serious, rough, bleak
Plot: dysfunctional family, family problems, danger, life is a bitch, obsession, family in crisis, alcohol abuse, loan, violence, abusive relationship, badass, asian ...
Time: 1950s, 80s
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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Born Innocent (1974)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A constant runaway is given over to the care of the state and finds herself in a remand centre for girls. She is soon caught between the uncaring bureaucracy, the sometimes brutal treatment from her peers and her own abusive family, and only one ...
Style: grindhouse, controversial, realistic, serious, thought provoking ...
Plot: prison, prison rape, women in prison, runaway, female psychopath, riot, rape, brutality, psychotic, hell, children, cautionary tale ...
Time: 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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White Rabbit (2013)
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, grindhouse ...
Plot: bullying, mental illness, high school, school shooting, kids in trouble, rebelliousness, friendship, life is a bitch, society, imagination, child abuse, house ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Bloody Kids (1980)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story: The slender premise springs from the actions of two listless 11-year-old boys, the cold, manipulative Leo, and his weaker, more impressionable friend, Mike. Contemptuous of the fallible police force (Mike has already filched a police hat from an ...
Style: offbeat, realistic, serious, tense, rough ...
Plot: boy, gangster, kids in trouble, social misfits, society, youth, juvenile delinquency, prank, city life, teenage life, gory, social decay ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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1 Out of 7 (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Runaway teen Lexi find herself alone and pregnant on the streets. Seemingly beyond hope, she must turn to Devon, a woman with her own demons, to help her find a way back from her past mistakes.
Style: serious, sincere, realistic, rough, independent film ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: homeless, teenage life, kids in trouble, life is a bitch, love, dysfunctional family, society, youth, family problems, pregnancy, escape, loneliness ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, oregon, portland oregon
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39%
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The Unloved (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 106 min.
Story: The Unloved is film that gives a child's eye view of the U.K.'s government-run care system for orphans and children in danger. Lucy is eleven years old. Having been neglected by her estranged mother and father, she is placed in a ...
Style: realistic, serious, touching, sentimental, bleak ...
Plot: social worker, child care, abandonment, orphanage, isolation, life is a bitch, youth, hopes, estranged mother, child abuse, human spirit, faith ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
King of Thieves (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: Slovakia, Czech Republic, Slovenia, Netherlands, Austria, Belgium, Germany, France
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Two amateur circus kids from a poor Ukrainian village, ten-year-old Barbu and his older sister Mimma, are sold to a circus artist called Caruso who promises them a career in the West.
Style: disturbing, emotional, serious, realistic, bleak
Plot: youth, circus, boy, child prostitution, human trafficking, life is a bitch, juvenile delinquency, kidnapping, kids in trouble, hopes, dishonesty, siblings relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: eastern europe, berlin germany, ukraine, europe, germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Jet Boy (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Dave Schultz' feature debut Jet Boy is a drama about a boy attempting to figure out his future. Nathan (Branden Nadon) goes on a search to find his father after his mother dies of a drug overdose. Nathan has been prostituting himself in order ...
Style: touching, realistic, serious, emotional, erotic ...
Plot: orphan, kids in trouble, man boy relationship, child neglect, gay, youth, prostitute, boy, teenage prostitution, coming of age, lifestyle, lgbt teen ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Small Faces (1995)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Three teenage brothers, gang-member Bobby, troubled mama's boy Alan and self-assured prankster Lex, reside in a downtrodden section of Glasgow, Scotland, circa 1968. But while Bobby and Alan are beginning to experience the power of raging ...
Style: realistic, bleak, independent film, tense, serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: working class, dysfunctional family, coming of age, gang, youth, subculture, artist, violence, children, british gangster, angry, boy ...
Time: year 1996, 20th century, 90s
Place: scotland, europe
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36%
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Blood and Rain (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Colombia, Argentina
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Taxi driver Jose begins his night shift bent on revenge after his brother's murder at the hands pf a violent gang. But when an accident brings him unexpectedly closer to his party-girl fare Angela, the damaged pair must struggle against forces ...
Style: tense, neo noir, rough, suspenseful, bleak ...
Plot: murder, partner, gang, danger, life is a bitch, chases and races, vengeance, city life, revenge, doom, reluctant partners, urban ...
Place: colombia
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Macondo (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Austria
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A drama centered on an 11-year-old Chechnyan refugee living in Vienna whose life is thrown into disarray when a friend of his deceased father materializes.
Style: sincere, serious, touching, realistic, gloomy
Plot: coming of age, youth, interracial relations, immigrant, society, life is a bitch, misfit, boy, father, migration, refugee, exile ...
Time: 21st century
Place: austria
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Mother, I Love You (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Latvia
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Raimonds, a 12 year old boy, falls into a world of petty crime while trying to stay out of trouble with his mother.
Style: realistic, serious, touching, captivating
Audience: teens
Plot: kids in trouble, childhood, coming of age, juvenile delinquency, family relations, single parent, youth, parents and children, bittersweet, mother and son, boy, financial problem ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: latvia
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34%
Chronicle of a Boy Alone (1965)
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina
Duration: 79 min.
Story: The story of a delinquent eleven-year-old orphan in fascist Argentina.
Style: neorealism, depressing, crying
Plot: coming of age, boy, adolescence, children, orphanage, fascism, escape, orphan, freedom, poverty, psychological abuse, family abandonment ...
Time: 60s
Place: buenos aires argentina
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34%
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Wolfy (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 88 min.
Story: There are two of them: a mother and a girl. They have no names. And they are in a constant run. The mother runs away from the daughter in an attempt to start new life, and the girl runs after her mother as she has no idea how to live without her. ...
Style: rough, realistic, serious, tense, neorealism ...
Plot: life is a bitch, family problems, alcohol abuse, dysfunctional family, little girl, parents and children, negligence, werewolf, loneliness, family relations, ex convict, violent content ...
Time: 21st century
Place: russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
When Andrew Came Home (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A mother searches for five years to find her kidnapped son in this fact-based drama. Unexpectedly the boy is found, but the reunion is not as she hoped. She now has to deal with five years of abuse that the boy suffered at the hands of his ...
Style: touching, realistic, serious, emotional, sad
Plot: kids in trouble, kidnapping, coming of age, family in crisis, dysfunctional family, parents and children, captivity, family problems, estrangement, danger, confined, hopes ...
Time: 90s
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32%
Like a Puppet Out of Strings (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Two Brothers; Tom and Felipe, have moved up the ranks of the street gangs because they have no greater devotion than the protection of each other. Luis, former gang member, is now a cop, his life having been turned around by Angelica, a female cop. ...
Style: serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful
Plot: juvenile delinquency, going straight, gang, redemption, law enforcement, youth, society, urban ghetto, murder, brother brother relationship, hopes, life is a bitch ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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Elephant Heart (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Marko Stemper, 19 years old, comes from a disadvantaged background and works as a window cleaner. His father, an alcoholic, tyrannizes the whole family, so Marko's only joy in life is boxing. As he is the most promising talent in his club, Gerd ...
Style: serious, realistic, rough, suspense, captivating ...
Plot: boxer, boxing, ambition, against the odds, athlete's life, life is a bitch, youth, teenage boy, prizefighter, professional athlete, boxing match, sports man ...
Time: 21st century
Place: germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
 6.6
 2K
Crocodile (1996)
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Crocodile is a 1996 South Korean film. It was the directorial debut of Ki-duk Kim and stars Cho Jae-hyun as "Crocodile".The film tells the story of a man living at the edge of the Han River in Seoul, who saves a woman trying to commit ...
Style: depressing, realistic, serious, rough, disturbing ...
Plot: monster, suicide, performer's life, life is a bitch, misfit, betrayal, mute or deaf, friends, friendship, male nudity, street kid, woman ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: korea, seoul, south korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
 6.5
 105
7 Suns (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A man called "The Black" is hired to smuggle a group of undocumented migrants into the United States. He wants to quit the smuggling business and claims this is his last trip. His superiors, now suspicious, send Gavilan, a younger ...
Style: serious, realistic, rough, disturbing
Plot: desert, injustice, social differences, working class, life is a bitch, society, journalism, border, immigrant, death row, unlikely partners, obnoxious boss ...
Time: 21st century
Place: arizona, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
No One's Child (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Serbia, Croatia
Duration: 95 min.
Story: The movie is based on the fascinating, true story of a feral boy whom hunters found among wolves in a forest in the mountains of Bosnia-Herzegovina (BiH) in the mid-1980s. The boy was sent to the institution for children in an attempt to socialize ...
Style: touching, serious, captivating
Plot: boy, neglected child, friendship, children, orphanage, bullying, forest, wolf, coming of age, boyhood, nature, capture ...
Place: serbia, croatia
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
 7.3
 4K
Sivas (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, Turkey
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Establishing a bleak village in Eastern Turkey as its setting, Sivas features the story of Aslan, an eleven-year-old boy, and Sivas, a weathered fighting dog who develop a strong relationship after Aslan finds Sivas wounded in a ditch, left to die.
Style: serious, sincere, captivating, touching, gloomy ...
Plot: friendship, parents and children, life is a bitch, danger, society, dog, boy, child, pets, youth, friends, family relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
The King of Havana (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, Dominican Republic
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Recently escaped from reformatory, Reinaldo struggles to get by in the streets of Havana in the late 90s, one of the worst decades for Cuban society. Hopes, disillusionment, rum, good humor and above all hunger, accompany him in his wanderings, ...
Style: psychological, realistic, serious, captivating
Plot: reformatory, adolescence, poverty, murder, sex scene, sexuality, gay erotica, life is a bitch, gay, survival, rivalry, society ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: cuba
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Egg and Stone (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Meticulous in every way: the non-professional actors with incredible skills, the beautiful camerawork, the timing and dosing of the tragic storyline about a fourteen-year-old Chinese girl from the countryside. A grown-up feature film debut by a ...
Style: serious, realistic, disturbing, gloomy, no music
Plot: pregnancy, kids in trouble, estrangement, youth, life is a bitch, adoption, village, abortion, struggle, down on your luck, countryside, menstruation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: china, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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