Movies like Summer of '62

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Summer of '62 (2007)
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Summer of '62 (2007)
Original name: Cartouches gauloises
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Algeria
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A young Algerian paperboy with friends and associates of all ages on both sides of the conflict experiences history leading up to the March 1962 independence of Algeria, witnesses ruthless violence perpetrated by French and Arabs, sees his French friends depart or die, and tries to relate to his patriotic French soccer pal to the end.
Style: captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
Plot: coming of age, war for independence, friendship, algerian war, war, friends, wartime, life is a bitch, patriotism, struggle for survival, wartime life, prostitute, children, death, soldier, boy, father, arab, childhood, corpse, train station, soccer, friend, french soldier, railroad ...
Time: 60s, 1960s
Place: algeria

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out disturbing, captivating, suspense and suspenseful films with plots about friendship, life is a bitch, boy, coming of age, friends, wartime life and youth mostly in Drama, War and Action genres. Some movies like Summer of '62: Skipping Stones (2020), The Network of Freedom (2017), The Hidden Child (2021), Bad Roads (2020), La Influencia (2007). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Skipping Stones (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Nearly a decade after a tragic accident costs a young man his life, his sister, Amanda (Gabrielle Kalomiris) and best friend, David (Nathaniel Ansbach) are still peeling back the layers of grief and guilt that come with being left behind.
Style: suspenseful, captivating, suspense, disturbing
Plot: tragic event, relationships, life is a bitch, loss of brother, family relations, changing lives, friendship
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95%
The Network of Freedom (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 125 min.
Story: France, beginning of World War II. Hélène Studler is a nun who has been dedicated to the care of orphans and the abandoned people. But the times have changed, the people are living a whole revolt, the Germansoldiers have entered their city and the ...
Style: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
Plot: french resistance, convent, nazi officer, resistance, nun, military, war, female protagonist, world war two, military life, soldier, wartime life ...
Place: france
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90%
The Hidden Child (2021)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Gabriele Santoro is a Professor of Pianoforte at the Music Conservatory San Pietro a Majella who lives in a working-class area of the city. One morning, while shaving his beard, the postman buzzes at the intercom to tell him he has a package. ...
Style: disturbing, suspenseful, thought provoking, serious, captivating ...
Plot: camorra, friendship, friend, mafioso, friends, adult child friendship, italian mafia, mafia, child, child in peril, family relations, boy ...
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87%
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Bad Roads (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: Ukraine
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Four short stories are set along the roads of Donbass during the war. There are no safe spaces and no one can make sense of just what is going on. Even as they are trapped in the chaos, some manage to wield authority over others. But in this world, ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, serious, disgusting, disturbing ...
Plot: sexualized violence, conflict, survival horror, wartime, military, fear, life is a bitch, cultural conflict, integrity, poverty, psychological abuse, violence ...
Place: ukraine, eastern europe, russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
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La Influencia (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, Mexico
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A disoriented and vulnerable woman, overburdened with daily life problems and more: her belongings are impounded, her cosmetics shop has been closed down, and her children's future is unknown. The children's vitality draws a sharp contrast ...
Style: disturbing, suspense, tense, captivating, psychological ...
Plot: children, depression, life is a bitch, parents and children, absent parent, dysfunctional family, depressed woman, single parent, family problems, nudity, mother, store ...
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Foxhole (2021)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Unfolding over the span of 36 hours in three separate wars – The American Civil War, World War I, and Iraq – FOXHOLE follows five soldiers confined in a foxhole as they grapple with morality, futility, and an increasingly volatile combat ...
Style: disturbing, suspense, suspenseful, tense, captivating
Plot: battles, wartime life, wartime, war, world war one, alternate reality, soldier, military officer, civil war, fight, struggle for survival, american soldier ...
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79%
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Backdoor (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: Greece, France, Romania
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Athens 1966. Dimitris, 13, unexpectedly loses his father. Seeing his pampered mother collapse, the boy gets carried away and decides to skip childhood in order to stand by her. When he feels ready, he has to claim his mother back from an ...
Style: disturbing, captivating, suspense
Plot: stepfather, coming of age, second marriage, revenge, friendship, teenager, coup d'etat, death of father, prostitute, dictatorship, mother son relationship, gay ...
Time: 60s
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
And Then I Go (2017)
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: suspense, unusual plot structure, thought provoking, psychological, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: friendship, bullying, teenage boy, school shooting, boy, tragedy, police, revenge, best friend, friendship between boys, school, junior high school ...
Time: 21st century
Place: kentucky, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
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Valiant Hearts (2021)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 92 min.
Story: In August 1942, during the Second World War, Six Jewish children are trying to escape the Nazis. They are hidden by the resistance in the Chambord Castle, where paintings from Le Louvre are being stored as well. The Nazis are looking for paintings ...
Style: captivating, thrilling, psychological
Plot: world war two, jew persecution, friends, jewish family, wartime, children, life is a bitch, social problems, friendship, jewish life, jewish girl, holocaust ...
Time: 1940s
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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Miriam (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: Heart-wrenching story of a woman who takes another's identity to survive the most horrible time of the 20th Century. Miriam is the triumphant story of one woman's survival and success, which takes place in Lithuania over a period of forty ...
Style: captivating, suspenseful, suspense, disturbing
Plot: survival, world war two, survivor, holocaust, life is a bitch, struggle for survival, new identity, female protagonist, fight, prison, soldier, suffering ...
Time: 1940s
Place: lithuania
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67%
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Welcome Home (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration: 86 min.
Story: This is the story of two childhood friends - Lucas (a 16-year-old high-schooler) and Bert (a mechanic’s apprentice) - who flee the suffocating fish bowl that their killjoy families’ lives have become. Lucas, still quite immature, finds a “big ...
Style: captivating, disturbing, homoerotic
Plot: coming of age, friendship, youth, house, teenager, life is a bitch, relationship problems, teenage life, sexual tension, male pubic hair, childhood friend, friendship between boys ...
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66%
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Oscuro animal (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: Colombia, Argentina, Netherlands, Germany, Greece
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Oscuro animal tells the story of three women forced to flee their homes in a war torn region in Colombia. Each of their journeys, marked by terror, takes them on a trek from the deep jungle to the outskirts of Bogotá, where they will gather new ...
Style: disturbing, suspense, psychological, suspenseful, captivating
Plot: murder, soldier, women, life is a bitch, violence, wartime, violent, jungle, female protagonist, female nudity, river, little girl ...
Place: colombia
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
Nine Meals from Chaos (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Eight years after a cataclysm and disease ravaged the human race -leaving just one in every ten surviving-, all social structures have crumbled like sand castles. Too still live for anything to have been reconstructed. All remaining animals have ...
Style: captivating, serious, suspenseful, apocalyptic, suspense ...
Plot: feral child, children, post apocalypse, cannibalism, desert, struggle for survival, survival, vestiges of humanity, life is a bitch, humanity, humanity in peril, society ...
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61%
Bulgarian Rhapsody (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Bulgaria, Israel
Duration: 108 min.
Story: the story of two adolescents, Moni and Zhozho, who meet 17-year-old Zheni in 1943 and with whom both fell in love. The events that follow unfold while Bulgaria has to decide on the deportation of 11 343 Jewish citizens in Macedonia and Thrace.
Style: touching, emotional, captivating, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot: friendship, wartime life, fall in love, on the run, teenage love, holocaust, youth, love and romance, society, teenage life, anti semitism, coming of age ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century
Place: bulgaria
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
A Melody to Remember (2016)
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: South Korea
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Second Lieutenant Han Sang-yeol leads his platoon during the Korean War in the early 1950s. He carries emotional scars and pain within. So when he meets some children from a choir, who have lost everything in the war, Sang-yeol is deeply moved and ...
Style: psychological, disturbing, captivating, suspense
Plot: korean army, orphan, military, life is a bitch, wartime, soldier, children, military officer, kids in trouble, wartime life, social problems, war ...
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57%
The Fortress of Sleeping Butterflies (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Lithuania
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Monika, a middle-aged wealthy woman, goes through a marriage crisis with her younger husband Linas. A car accident leads Monika to meeting three young girls, Kristina, Egle and Gitana, who happen to be ex-prostitutes extradited from Germany. The ...
Style: suspense, disturbing, captivating, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot: middle aged woman, car accident, friendship, midlife crisis, prostitute, female protagonist, relationship problems, marriage crisis, family crisis, society, women, unlikely friendships ...
Place: lithuania
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
Goodbye to Our Kindergarten (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 135 min.
Story: One day, five kindergarten children suddenly disappear from a kindergarten in Tokyo, sending their teachers and parents into a panic. The five of them are connecting on trains and headed to an unfamiliar place for some purpose. Before their journey, ...
Style: captivating, disturbing, psychotronic
Plot: friendship, childhood, school, child, group of friends, friends, high school friend, escapades, schoolboy, child protagonist, best friend, children ...
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
The Breitner Commando (2019)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: France
Duration: 109 min.
Story: 1959, France. Colonel Breitner is given a secret mission : find the body of his former aide, Colonel Delignières, who is reported missing in French Algeria, before the French army burns the whole place to the ground. Breitner puts together a team ...
Style: disturbing, captivating, tense
Plot: french algerian war, algerian war, torture, soldier, military life, war, problem, wartime, wartime life, military, warrior, military officer ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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Park Hwa-young (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Hwa-young is an 18-year-old student living alone. Her friends call her “mom” and use her house as their place to hang out, but don’t really include her in their clique. Hwa-young pays particular attention to one of the friends, Mijeong.
Style: suspenseful, captivating, unusual plot structure, suspense, disturbing ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
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Time: 21st century
Place: korea
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A Night Too Young (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Czech Republic, Slovenia
Duration: 65 min.
Story: On New Year's Day, two preteen boys wind up in the apartment of Katerina, a teacher from their school, along with her friends, Stepan and David. As the older trio bickers, drinks and flirts, the boys gain eye-opening insight into the adult ...
Style: disturbing, suspenseful, serious, psychological, suspense
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 110 min.
Story: The story of two youths - one Algerian, one French - who become juvenile delinquents in a Paris suburb.
Plot: migration, exile, boy, petty theft, teenage boy, coming of age, juvenile delinquent, harassment, friend, suicidal thoughts, stealing a car, job seeking ...
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50%
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Ezra (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Nigeria, USA, UK, Austria
Duration: 110 min.
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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 ...
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50%
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Rocks (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A young teenage girl finds herself struggling to take care of herself and her younger brother after being abandoned by their single mother with no choice but to live out on the streets.
Style: disturbing, serious, suspense, rough, social
Audience: teen drama
Plot: teenager, brother sister relationship, teenage protagonist, coming of age, little brother, homeless, life is a bitch, grownups, absent mother, friendship, society, nothing goes right ...
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Style: suspense, psychological, disturbing, captivating, black and white ...
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49%
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Genre: Drama
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Style: psychological, tense, suspense, unusual plot structure, disturbing
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The Good Son (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 87 min.
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Style: disturbing, captivating, psychological
Audience: teens
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: With nothing more than a blazing spirit of philanthropy and his beat-up red wagon, Zach sets out to help homeless children in America. In the process, he sweeps his fractured family - and ultimately the entire country - along with him.
Style: psychological, captivating, disturbing
Audience: family outing
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