Movies like Lost Dream

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Lost Dream (2009)
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Lost Dream (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Perry Roberts is about to graduate from a prestigious private college. The son of a corrupt Congressman, Perry has lost faith in all the things he held true - his family, girlfriend, and the American Dream. He finds himself emotionally bereft and depressed. In search of self-discovery, Perry meets Giovanni, an art student with an unrealized gift, Giovanni is Perry's polar opposite. Raised by abusive parents and placed into a series of foster homes, Giovanni is brooding and nihilistic. He lives in an altered state full of drugs and sex, capped by a deadly game with a gun and a single bullet!
Style: psychological, touching, serious, suspenseful, disturbing
Plot: drug abuse, russian roulette, friendship, rebellion, self discovery, class differences, depression, freedom, self destructing, independence, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, suicidal thoughts, frustration, suicidal, wealth, nihilism, rave, breakup, traumatic childhood, wealthy family, conformity, suicide, sex, artist, high school sweetheart ...
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Most similar movies to Lost Dream

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, psychological, realistic and touching films with plots about friendship, friends, suicide, youth, self discovery, sex and coming of age mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Lost Dream: Sophiiiie! (2002), Breakfast with Curtis (2012), Wheels (2014), Pitong Dalagita (2006), Detachment (2011). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Sophiiiie! (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 107 min.
Story: The film starts in the early evening of a normal day: Sophie, a 20 year old girl, is pregnant and wanders through the night to get sure about her future life. Does she want to be a mother or do an abortion? Does she love her friend or not? Who is ...
Style: psychological, disturbing, touching, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot: new love, self discovery, self destructing, tragic event, loneliness, nightlife, drug addiction, moral dilemma, suicide, controversy, night, depression ...
Place: hamburg germany
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95%
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
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63%
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Wheels (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Two suicidal paraplegic junkies hustle their way through the city streets trying to find a reason to live.
Style: touching, semi serious, psychological, bleak, sentimental ...
Plot: junkie, paraplegic, friendship, introspection, disability, cause and meaning, self discovery, suicide, life, loneliness, society, bittersweet ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
Pitong Dalagita (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 103 min.
Story: When six girls and a guy all teenagers are found with their wrists slit on a high school playground, it's left to their guidance counselor to try to make sense of the mystery behind the apparent suicide pact. Told in nonlinear fashion, the ...
Style: touching, serious, sincere, psychological, suspense
Plot: suicide, love, friendship, self discovery, teenager, lesbian, school, muse, coming of age, life, gay, teen romance
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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 98K
Detachment (2011)
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: depressing, psychological, bleak, thought provoking, touching ...
Audience: teens
Plot: teacher, depression, suicide, teachers and students, dedicated educator, school, unhappy, social problems, life is a bitch, human relationship, teen angst, society ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Not Waving But Drowning (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Not Waving But Drowning is a chronological look at growing up, formed from two different stories. The two sets of friends represent the American dilemma between what you have known and what you hope to know; the tear between longing for the past and ...
Style: realistic, atmospheric, touching, psychological, captivating ...
Plot: self discovery, friendship, adolescence vs adulthood, starting over, couples, society, relationships, best friend, friends
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
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45%
 7.3
 6K
Goodbye Solo (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A man planning to commit suicide hires a taxi driver to take him to his jumping-off point.
Style: touching, uplifting, independent film, thought provoking, sincere ...
Plot: suicidal, friendship, depression, immigrant, taxi driver, loneliness, mentor, character study, elderly, suicide, society, regret ...
Time: year 2008, 2000s, 21st century
Place: north carolina, africa, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Aleksandr's Price (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: The life of an illegal Russian boy who, after losing his family, is pushed into becoming an escort - ultimately trying to come to terms with who he thinks he is.
Style: realistic, serious, psychological, disturbing, independent film ...
Plot: male prostitution, male escort, gay rape, male prostitute, lgbt, immigrant, self discovery, life is a bitch, life turned upside down, gay, society, hopes ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Take Care of My Cat (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 112 min.
Story: The fashionable Hye-joo is focused on her career at a brokerage house. She's making a decent living, but her co-workers look down on her. Tae-hee is sick of living under the thumb of her domineering father. She spends her time doing volunteer ...
Style: lyrical, psychological, sentimental, touching, sincere ...
Plot: friendship, adulthood, cat, loneliness, self discovery, life is a bitch, couples, parents and children, lifestyle, youth, love and romance, family problems ...
Time: 21st century
Place: south korea, korea, asia, seoul
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34%
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 11K
Morvern Callar (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Morvern Callar wakes on Christmas morning to discover that her troubled boyfriend has committed suicide, leaving behind the unpublished manuscript to his first novel and a sum of money intended to pay for his burial. Instead, Morvern attempts to use ...
Style: disturbing, talky, psychological, serious, touching ...
Plot: self discovery, suicide, christmas, friendship, writers, life philosophy, supermarket, road trip, friends, couple relations, best friend, twentysomething life ...
Time: year 2002, 90s
Place: scotland, spain, ibiza, europe, united kingdom
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33%
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Inheritance (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story: A woman learns her estranged father has died and returns with her brother and new lover to her childhood home of Belize, where she must face her past while fighting for intimacy in the present.
Style: serious, disturbing, psychological, suspenseful, psycho sexual
Plot: brother sister incest, death of father, estranged father, childhood home, brother sister relationship, family secret, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, dysfunctional family, rejection, hot and sexy, brother sister kiss, hand job ...
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33%
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Zero Day (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Two troubled adolescents chronicle the events that ultimately lead up to a terrifying assault on their school.
Style: disturbing, psychological, mockumentary, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience: teens
Plot: school shooting, found footage, vengeance, brutality, suicide, friendship, serial killer, high school, bullying, childhood, rebellion, justice ...
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33%
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Another Woman (1988)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Marion is a woman who has learned to shield herself from her emotions. She rents an apartment to work undisturbed on her new book, but by some acoustic anomaly she can hear all that is said in the next apartment in which a psychiatrist holds his ...
Style: psychological, realistic, meditative, talky, depressing ...
Plot: midlife crisis, writers, depression, eavesdropping, psychology, psychiatrist, self discovery, human nature, dysfunctional family, infidelity, melancholy, psychoanalysis ...
Time: 20th century, year 1988, 80s
Place: new york, usa
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32%
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Maryjane (1968)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A teacher trying to break up a local drug ring is framed and arrested for possession of marijuana.
Style: independent film, serious, realistic, psychotronic
Plot: marijuana, drug, hippie, juvenile delinquent, stoner, high school, friendship, school, frame up, drug dealing, drug abuse, high school life ...
Time: 1930s
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32%
Everything Is Fine (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Josh is an ordinary teen living in an ordinary suburb. One morning he finds his friend's dead body. Next, he discovers that three more friends also have killed themselves, leaving him out of their pact. As the sole survivor, Josh becomes more ...
Style: psychological, realistic, emotional, touching, bleak ...
Audience: teens
Plot: teenage life, youth, life is a bitch, lifestyle, family relations, parents and children, suicide, depression, friendship, loneliness, teen suicide, estrangement ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada, quebec
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
A Place On Earth (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Antoine is a joyful but disenchanted photographer. His only true friend, Mateo, is 7 years old and the son of his neighbor, who is often absent. One day, he hears a piano sonata coming from the building across the courtyard. Mesmerized by the music, ...
Style: realistic, touching, captivating, psychological, serious
Plot: obsession, opposites attract, self discovery, sex scene, fall in love, couples, friendship, photographer, photograph, friends, bittersweet, best friend ...
Time: year 2013, 21st century
Place: brussels, belgium
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30%
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
Plot: underage drinking, sexualized violence, children, pedophile, child molestation, teenage boy, friendship between boys, sexual awakening, friendship, sexual harassment, sex, pedophilia ...
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29%
The Bachelor Next Door (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: A newly engaged couple becomes intrigued by the young stranger who moves in next door. He's handsome, friendly and very helpful, but he's no stranger.
Style: captivating, tense, psychological, disturbing
Plot: nosy neighbor, couple relations, husband wife relationship, neighbor, relationship problems, stalking, new neighbor, family relations, neighbor neighbor relationship, male female relationship, obsession, stalker
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29%
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The Pact (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A pair of young lovers, one depressed, decide to end their lives together in a suicide pact.
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, touching, sad
Plot: price of justice, friendship, best friend, murder, family problems, voyeurism, death in the family, troubled teen, loss of daughter, suspicion of murder, mental illness, adaptation ...
Time: 21st century
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29%
Augusta, Gone (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Martha is a businesswoman and divorced mother of two children - Augusta and Jack. However, when docile Augusta becomes a teenager, feelings of anger and self-hate cause her personality to undergo a scary transformation, and Martha realizes that this ...
Style: suspense, rough, disturbing, psychological, teen ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: life is a bitch, lifestyle, dysfunctional family, kids in trouble, rise and fall, single parent, hopes, alcohol abuse, uncontrollable, intrigue, teenage life, mother daughter relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: maine, san francisco
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28%
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Being 14 (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 86 min.
Story: The lives and turbulent adventures of a bunch of fourteen-year-old teenagers, through the eyes of three young girls - Sarah, Jade and Louise - with one last year to go before high school.
Style: realistic, emotional, captivating, psychological, atmospheric ...
Plot: friendship, teenage life, coming of age, drug abuse, youth, sexuality, self discovery, college, best friend, strong female presence, friends, high school life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
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28%
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Cook County (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: After a stint in prison, Sonny returns to his home in East Texas, determined to repair his relationship with his son. Standing in his way is his brother, who has turned the home into a crumbling meth lab (IMDb.com)
Style: realistic, captivating, serious, psychological, atmospheric ...
Plot: meth lab, family relations, redemption, estrangement, family problems, addiction, parents and children, homecoming, drug abuse, methamphetamine, adolescence vs adulthood, small town ...
Time: year 2009, 21st century
Place: texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
 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
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28%
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A Reason to Believe (1995)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Sorority gal Charlotte's innocence is lost after she is raped during a frat party. Confused, terrified and shunned by her peers, she finds solace and the courage to confront her attacker after she is befriended by the leader of a campus ...
Style: independent film, thought provoking, serious, realistic, sexual ...
Plot: rape, fraternity, nudity, college, friendship, female nudity, rape victim, wild party, feminism, youth, self discovery, society ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Cyber Seduction: His Secret Life (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A high school kid (Sumpter) develops an addiction to Internet porn so intense that it begins to destroy his life and tear his family apart.
Style: realistic, serious, exciting, suspenseful, sexual ...
Audience: teens
Plot: teenage sexuality, friendship, addiction, high school, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, teenage love, lifestyle, obsession, youth, student, teenage girl, adolescence ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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28%
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Speakeasy (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Two men become unlikely friends after a minor traffic accident.
Style: psychological, serious, realistic, disturbing, sexy ...
Plot: family relations, self discovery, friendship, haunted by the past, drug addict, love and romance, hopes, redemption, introspection, human nature, homecoming, mute or deaf ...
Time: 1930s, 2000s
Place: los angeles
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27%
Behind the Red Door (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Set in New York and New England (but filmed in Newfoundland), Behind the Red Door stars Kyra Sedgwick as Manhattan-based photographer Natalie Haddad, who enjoys success with her strangely gloomy and foreboding camerawork. When her agent and best ...
Style: psychological, serious, sincere, touching, realistic
Plot: family relations, self discovery, love and romance, estrangement, siblings relations, family life, haunted by the past, terminal illness, parents and children, homosexual, photographer, secret ...
Place: newfoundland, boston, new york
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26%
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South of Pico (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Austria
Duration: 86 min.
Story: "South of Pico" is an emotionally charged drama in which four strangers witness an unimaginable tragedy and are catapulted into the defining moment of their lives. Set in present day Los Angeles, a chauffeur, a waitress, a doctor and a ...
Style: serious, touching, realistic, psychological, independent film ...
Plot: interracial relations, society, physician, graphic violence, nypd, violent content, cigarette smoking, wedding dress, social commentary, sex, waitress, winning ...
Time: 20th century, 21st century
Place: california, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
 5.9
 3K
Day Zero (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: The military draft is back. Three best friends are drafted and given 30 days to report for duty. In that time they're forced to confront everything they believe about courage, duty, love, friendship and honor. If called to serve, what would you ...
Style: disturbing, sincere, psychological, serious, contemplative ...
Plot: friendship, duty, introspection, coping, military, destiny, protestor, freedom, friends, gay, lgbt, erotic scene ...
Time: future, year 2007, september 11 2001
Place: usa, iraq, new york, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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
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26%
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