Movies like The Story of Me

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The Story of Me (2009)
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The Story of Me (2009)
Original name: O Contador de Histórias
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Based on the life of Roberto Carlos Ramos, a Brazilian teacher and storyteller brought up in a state educational institution for poor children.
Plot: children, art, rape, bullying, street kid, burglary, storytelling, child abandonment, narration, reading a book
Place: brazil
Keyword: brazilian

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Most similar movies to The Story of Me

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out psychological, captivating, disturbing and serious films with plots about children, female nudity, boy, bullying, family relations, coming of age and school mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like The Story of Me: My Good Enemy (2010), Vagabond (2003), Conception (2005), Birth of a Nation (1983), One for All (2020). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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My Good Enemy (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Sensitive 12-year-old Alf is the low man on his class' totem pole, and he's sick of it. Forming a secret, Machiavellian alliance with another student who also has grown weary of being bullied, he hatches a plan to throw a wrench into the ...
Style: psychological, sincere, captivating
Plot: boy, bullying, children, friendship, friendship between boys, coming of age, revenge, fight, scandinavian girl, retribution, violence, school ...
Place: scandinavia, denmark
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Vagabond (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Karesz has been raised in an institution, his mother has a new family, and her husband does not tolerate that she meets her first-born son. Karesz tramps, joining up with his casual pals he washes the windscreens of cars, sells newspapers; sometimes ...
Plot: dancer, burglary, street kid, arrest, dance school, street urchin, arrested, dance, practice
Place: budapest
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88%
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Conception (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A group of bored well-off young adults come up with anarchic concept of Conceptionism, that promotes absolute looseness when it comes to sex and drugs, but total rejection of money and ego. However, their movement won't last long.
Style: realistic, captivating, atmospheric, psychological, exciting ...
Plot: self discovery, sex scene, friends, buddies, male nudity, society, rebelliousness, rebellion, mistaken identity, student life, anarchism, drug ...
Time: 21st century
Place: brazil
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78%
Birth of a Nation (1983)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 79 min.
Story: A new teacher at a highly problematic comprehensive school feels that corporal punishment may just be inflaming the problems, and so begins to campaign against it.
Plot: corporal punishment, school, juvenile delinquent, riot, sex education, teacher, profanity, children, bullying, education, classroom
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One for All (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A substitute teacher takes on a job as a year 6 class teacher in a village he does not know. He has to help a student adjust back into school, although none of his classmates want him there.
Style: psychological, captivating, disturbing, social
Plot: bullying, school, teacher, teacher student relationship, school teacher, adult child friendship, children, schoolboy, high school life, high school teacher, social problems, teachers and students ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
Eternity and a Day (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Italy, Greece, Germany
Duration: 137 min.
Story: Alexander, a famous writer, is very ill and has only a few days to live. He meets a little boy on the street, who is an illegal immigrant from Albania. Alexander then takes the boy home.
Style: slow cinema, road movie, philosophical, art house, psychological ...
Plot: terminal illness, immigrant, coming of age, art, dialogue, storytelling, writers, destiny, hospital, greek, refugee, journey ...
Time: 90s, year 1998, 1910s
Place: greece
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65%
Sunday Pranks (1983)
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 60 min.
Story: Made in 1983, shelved for four years. A chilling tale about kids playing in a bombed-out Warsaw courtyard on the day of Stalin's death, while their parents are away at the church or a memorial procession.
Plot: renaissance, group of children, medal, leader, communism, stalinism, kitten, bullying, arrest, children, cat, game ...
Time: 1950s
Place: poland, eastern europe
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62%
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The Demons (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 118 min.
Story: A ten year old boy, prone to excessive worry, begins to succumb to his anxiety as a string of child abductions plague his town.
Style: stylized, weird
Plot: boy, bullying, sexual curiosity, childhood, mental disorder, child, children, coming of age, sexual exploration, child kidnapping, fear, sibling relationship ...
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Hard Paint (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil, Netherlands
Duration: 117 min.
Story: While facing criminal charges, Pedro must grapple with his sister's sudden decision to move away and leave him behind. Alone in the darkness of his bedroom, he dances covered in neon paint, while thousands of strangers watch him via webcam.
Style: suspense, melancholic, disturbing, independent film, enigmatic ...
Plot: gay, male pubic hair, gay teenager, lgbt, gay sex, bullying, lgbtq, teenager, life turned upside down, escapades, rivalry, youth ...
Place: brazil
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1914 the Glorious Summer (1996)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 117 min.
Story: An old aristocrat, short of money, who does not accept the new world ruled by the bourgeois class ,epitomized by the industrialist and by the doctor who finally grabs the the aristocrat's castle which soon will be turned into a hospital.
Plot: children, great war, male nudity, nude bathing, male pubic hair, nudity, female nudity, bathing, pubic hair
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56%
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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54%
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Hungary 2011 (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 75 min.
Story: Anthology film made as an act of protest against Hungarian government of Viktor Orban.
Style: anthology
Plot: art, sketch
Place: hungary
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53%
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I Am Maria (1979)
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A story about a strange friendship between 11 years old Maria and an older man Jon.
Style: sexual
Plot: children, male nudity, painter, friendship, small town, friend, female nudity, sexploitation
Place: eastern europe
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50%
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I Remember (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 110 min.
Story: The memories of Guiga, from early childhood to young adulthood: his family, relatives, friends, fears, dreams and reality in a still provincial city of Salvador, Bahia, from the 50s to the 70s.
Style: suspense, disturbing, psychological
Plot: coming of age, puberty, boy, erotica, family problems, dysfunctional family, social problems, childhood memory, relationship problems, family relations, mother son relationship, memories ...
Place: brazil
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47%
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Agnus Dei (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The young girl Johanne is left by her mother at a solemn convent school. The school is a strange world to her, and when she feels unable to comply with the demands of faith she faces a difficult decision.
Plot: children, girl, school, convent, nun, catholicism, religion, mother, female nudity, menstruation, world, young ...
Place: denmark
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46%
Just Like at Home (1978)
Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A man and a kid are discovering beauty in life.
Plot: father daughter relationship, children, surrogate father, dog, female nudity, family relations, getting home, girl man relationship, girl, infatuation, female full frontal nudity
Place: hungary
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45%
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Speak (2004)
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, sentimental, psychological, independent film, sincere ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: rape, high school, teenage girl, school, bullying, youth, innocence lost, family problems, life is a bitch, unsupportive friend, teenage life, sexual abuse ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa
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Brazil Year 2000 (1969)
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Year 2000. Brazil was partially devastated by the Third World War. An immigrant family arrives in a small town, which they call "I Forgot." The trio is recruited by an indigenist to pretend to be Indians during the visit of a general. In ...
Plot: rocket, world war three, devastation, poverty, girl, mother, alternate history
Time: future
Place: brazil
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42%
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Stray Dogs (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran, France
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Two children are orphaned in post-Taliban Afghanistan.
Plot: boy, child, dog, children, muslim, war in afghanistan, social injustice, traumatic childhood, street kid, father, cinema, prison ...
Place: afghanistan, middle east, iran
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42%
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Delight (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 111 min.
Story: The film's main theme is obsession. An obsession with love, with art, originality, copying, with success, money and... with oneself. Sooner or later, if we lose our rational upper hand over it and let ourselves be dragged down by it, every ...
Style: unusual plot structure, thought provoking, captivating
Plot: art, obsession, female nudity, transvestite, female protagonist, sex, cross dressing, suicide, death, twins, gay, troubled relationship ...
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41%
The Fifth Monkey (1990)
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: When Cunda, a man living deep in the Brazilian rainforest, is bitten by a snake, he has a hallucination of four chimpanzees. Once he recovers, he is shocked to find the four chimpanzees waiting for him at home, and, believing them to be special, ...
Plot: chimpanzee, monkey, snake, jungle
Place: brazil
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41%
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Palunku (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Story: Monichan shifts to the city from his village to provide better education to his children. But will things go as planned?
Style: sad
Plot: children, town, urbanization, child abuse, school, lottery, money lender, village, literacy, family relations, malayalam
Time: year 2006
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41%
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Child's Play (1992)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 111 min.
Story: When Micha's mother leaves his irascible father, he tries to prevent their divorce by any means he can think of, but his attempts to hold the family together lead to a catastrophe...
Style: social, political
Plot: children, childhood, female nudity, nudity, sex scene, bare breasts, teenage girl, family relations, braless, female full frontal nudity
Time: 60s
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39%
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Latitude Zero (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Lena owns a forgotten bar next to a highway where the trucks zip by but rarely stop. She is eight months pregnant and has been abandoned by her former lover, Colonel Mattos, of the São Paulo police. One day, she meets Vilela, a former policeman ...
Plot: desolation, pregnancy, business, truck, money, rage, alcohol, bar, rifle
Place: brazil
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38%
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Fire-Eater (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: Finland, Sweden
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The twin sisters Helena and Irene are born in Helsinki during World War II. A few months later their mother, Sirkka, leaves the girls in the care of their grandmother, an old communist, and runs away with a German soldier. Their life under the ...
Plot: children, twins, control, mother daughter relationship, sibling rivalry, sister sister relationship, coming of age, motherhood, grandmother, bad mother, communist, post war ...
Time: 60s, 1950s
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38%
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Glue Sniffer (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: Venezuela, Spain
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Oliver flees from abuse of his family and seeks refuge in the violent streets of Caracas, where survival is only possible in an environment of corruption, crime and sniffing glue to escape hunger, like other children in the same situation. Soon, the ...
Plot: juvenile delinquent, homelessness, child in peril, survival, poverty, children, misery, street life, street kid, desperation, brutality, police brutality ...
Place: venezuela
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38%
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Parents (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Iceland
Duration: 87 min.
Story: The dentist Oscar has been married for five years and lives with his wife and adopted children. On the surface everything seems to be fine but Oscar is not a happy man. His wants a baby of his own flesh and blood but it's not working out. When ...
Plot: man with glasses, children, parents, woman with glasses
Place: scandinavia, reykjavik iceland
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38%
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Vacation (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 91 min.
Story: All summer long, a group of people circumnavigate each other. A group of people who are so close and yet so alienated from one another. Their isolated holiday home is the site for a resurgence of smouldering conflicts and lifelong illusions that ...
Plot: children, marriage, husband wife relationship, dysfunctional family, summer, woods, family life, mother daughter relationship, sister sister relationship, house, family relations
Place: east germany
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35%
Martha... Martha (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Having received a frosty reception when visiting her parents, Martha drags her husband Reymond and infant daughter Lise to Spain, to renew her acquaintance with her estranged sister Marie. After a quarrel, Marthe and her family return to France, ...
Style: suspenseful, psychological, realistic, serious
Plot: family reunited, family relations, dysfunctional family, mother daughter relationship, depression, sister sister relationship, husband wife relationship, mother child relationship, children, female pubic hair, female nudity, suicide ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Manifesto (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 95 min.
Story: An outstanding tribute to various (art) manifestos of the nineteenth and twentieth century, ranging from Communism to Dogme, in connection with thirteen different characters, including a homeless man, a factory worker and a corporate CEO, who are ...
Style: art house, captivating, psychological, disturbing, social ...
Plot: art, women, housewife, social problems, society, social issues, multiple storylines, lifestyle, modern art, dialogue, cinema, dark humor ...
Place: germany, berlin germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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