Movies like Northern Light

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Northern Light (2006)
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Northern Light (2006)
Original name: Langer Licht
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A drama based around a boxing school owner and his son.
Plot: dancing, boxing, school, fight, sex scene, competition, swimming pool, father son relationship, adolescence, medical examination, male bonding, teenager, friendship between men, nosebleed, male friendship
Keyword: dutch

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, psychological, touching and serious films with plots about fight, father son relationship, school, coming of age, friendship, adolescence and bare chested male mostly in Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like Northern Light: Chance Meeting (1965), The Vows (1973), Dance Academy: The Movie (2017), Herbert (2015), Nie mehr wie es war (2016). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Chance Meeting (1965)
Genre: Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Wandering around wine bars and pubs drinking, thirty-year old worker Oldrich (Petr Kostka), who is celebrating the birth of his son, meets a seventeen-year old lad called Yellow T-shirt Boy (Vladimír Pucholt). Yellow T-shirt Boy is a problematic ...
Plot: swimming pool, drunkenness, pub, factory worker, fight, baby born, childbirth, adolescence, one day, alcohol
Time: 60s
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The Vows (1973)
Genre: Drama
Country: Portugal
Duration: 102 min.
Story: The gritty lives of Portuguese villagers are shown in this action drama which shows the interaction between a married couple who have taken an unusual vow of celibacy and a gang of gypsies who are terrorizing their village. The film highlights many ...
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Dance Academy: The Movie (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, Australia
Duration: 101 min.
Story: This 2017 movie follows the original dance academy TV show and tracks where the characters are in their lives now.
Style: captivating, sentimental
Audience: teens
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Time: 21st century
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Herbert (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 109 min.
Story: A former East German boxing champion reduced to working as a bouncer and debt collector is forced to reflect on his life when he is diagnosed with a fatal disease.
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Nie mehr wie es war (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 89 min.
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Style: captivating
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
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Duration: 48 min.
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Audience: teens
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Time: 80s
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Genre: Drama
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Duration: 88 min.
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Die Ministranten (1990)
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany, Austria
Duration: 83 min.
Story: The main characters of the story are Pauli, a teacher's son, and Sepp, the son of a sawmill owner. They get to know each other while serving as altar boys, become friends and decide to form their own gang with themselves as leaders. Their first ...
Plot: altar boy, fixed fight, church, easter, fight, priest, male bonding, rivalry, friendship
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Kauwboy (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 81 min.
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Style: touching, sincere, serious, melancholic, realistic
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⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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Genre: Drama
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Duration: 98 min.
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44%
 5.0
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⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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40%
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The Tree with Pink Leaves (1974)
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Duration: 95 min.
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⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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