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Right On, Man! (1980)
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Right On, Man! (1980)
Original name: Täältä tullaan, elämä!
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Finland
Duration: 118 min.
Story: In the punk rock era of the late 1970s three restless teenagers, two boys and a girl, spend their time in and out of a special class for problem kids. Jussi seldom sees his parents at home, so he is free to indulge in petty crimes, pranks, and getting drunk with his friend Pete. Jussi falls in love with equally rebellious classmate Lissu (Aki Kaurismäki's favourite actress Kati Outinen in her debut role), but the lovers' plan to run away together fails dramatically.
Style: cult film
Audience: teens, pre-teens
Plot: music, broken family, troubled teen, teenager, school, prostitute, teacher, youth, death, bullying, suicide, pets, theft, family relations, security guard, juvenile delinquent, punk rock, birth, father son relationship, social problems, teacher student relationship, family problems, teenage sexuality, suburbs, drunk ...
Time: 70s
Place: finland, helsinki finland

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, touching and sentimental films with plots about family relations, coming of age, youth, father son relationship, teenager, friendship and teenage life mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres. Some movies like Right On, Man!: Frozen City (2006), You Are Not Alone (1978), Hot Cat? (1968), The Spectacular Now (2013), The Good Humor Man (2005). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Frozen City (2006)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Finland
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Looking to outrun the horrors of his past, a tormented cabbie flees Helsinki for an apartment complex in the suburbs, only to discover that new neighbors bring new problems. What ensues is a raw, realistic tragedy with an unwaveringly humane core.
Plot: nordic, children, nudity, father son relationship, husband wife relationship, mother daughter relationship, prostitute, prisoner, suicide, sexuality, drinking, female nudity ...
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You Are Not Alone (1978)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Denmark
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Young teenager Bo (Anders Agensø) is too sensitive for the hothouse atmosphere of a boarding school run by a cold, unfeeling would-be man of the cloth (an uncharacteristically grim Ove Sprogøe). Lonely and scared, he finds a soul mate in the ...
Style: touching, sentimental, erotic, realistic, serious ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, youth, gays and lesbians, first love, teenage life, gay teenager, student, friendship, lgbt teen, friends, couples, boarding school ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: denmark, europe
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90%
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Hot Cat? (1968)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Finland
Duration: 78 min.
Story: This love story finds a lonely teacher resisting the advances of an interested co-worker. She is fearful of affection and relationships due to a previous romance that did not work out. The small-town school marm tries to help a male student who has ...
Plot: school, boat, lake, student, conservative morals, director, fighting the system, school expulsion, breakup, living alone, disciple, fall in love ...
Time: 60s
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77%
The Spectacular Now (2013)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A hard-partying high school senior's philosophy on life changes when he meets the not-so-typical "nice girl."
Style: touching, teen, sincere, melancholic, independent film ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, date night, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, teenager, teenage life, youth, first love, couples, teenage love, high school, family relations, love, classmate, drinking problem ...
Time: 2010s, future, 21st century
Place: usa, philadelphia, key west florida
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75%
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The Good Humor Man (2005)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: A mischievous high school sophomore faces a conflict of conscience vs. character when his best friend becomes linked to the death of a youth from another clique in suburban Middle America circa '76.
Style: realistic, touching, emotional, serious, atmospheric ...
Audience: teens
Plot: high school, outdoor sex, teenage love, friendship, slacker, first love, wedding, female nudity, buddies, love and romance, teenage life, high school life ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: usa, los angeles
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64%
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Gotta Run! (1982)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Finland
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Juuso, Late, and Pyry return from military service to their small village in the Finnish countryside. Finding work is difficult there, so Juuso decides to take a job on a Norwegian oil drilling platform. Late could start working on his family's ...
Plot: young love, unemployment, oil rig, adulthood, misfit, coming of age, military service, factory, studying, drifter, periphery, adultery ...
Time: 80s
Place: finland
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The Home of Dark Butterflies (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Haunted by his traumatic past and cautious about the prospects of an uncertain future, a fourteen year old boy named Juhani winds up in an isolated boys' home known as The Island. Juhani (Niilo Syvaoja) has been shuttled between foster homes ...
Style: serious, touching, emotional, realistic, crying
Plot: juvenile prison, juvenile delinquent, isolation, friendship, juvenile detention, youth, school, teenager, bully, bullying, family relations, family problems ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century
Place: finland
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Little Vera (1988)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 128 min.
Story: A story about a young woman, Vera, who is somebody, living the life of a troubled teenager in the time right before the end of the Soviet Union. She lives in a very small Russian apartment with her mother and father, however being this close to each ...
Style: serious, suspense, cynical, rough, disturbing ...
Audience: teens
Plot: youth, parents and children, family life, father daughter relationship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, society, love and romance, eccentric family, perestroika, coming of age, temper, school ...
Time: 80s
Place: soviet union, moscow russia, ussr, russia
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60%
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Hamlet Goes Business (1987)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Finland
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A bizarre black-and-white film noir reworking of Shakespeare's 'Hamlet'.
Style: dark comedy, neo noir, black and white, surprise ending, avant garde
Plot: shakespeare, skyscraper, hamlet, literary, tragic love, corporation, business, factory, industrialist, satire, helsinki, finland, death of father ...
Place: finland
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Being Charlie (2015)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Charlie is a troublesome 18-year-old who breaks out of a youth drug treatment clinic, but when he returns home to Los Angeles, he's given an intervention by his parents and forced to go to an adult rehab. There, he meets a beautiful but ...
Style: touching, melancholic, thought provoking, sentimental, sincere ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: drug addict, teenager, drug rehab, drug addiction, drug, coming of age, rehabilitation, hitchhiking, escape, love, intervention, heroin ...
Place: los angeles
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56%
The Virgin Suicides (1999)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A group of male friends become obsessed with five mysterious sisters who are sheltered by their strict, religious parents.
Style: disturbing, atmospheric, depressing, teen, sad ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, teen drama, adult
Plot: suicide, suburbs, depression, overbearing parent, suicide attempt, teenager, teenage girl, dysfunctional family, teenage life, coming of age, friendship, suicidal ...
Time: 70s, year 1999, 90s, 20th century
Place: michigan, detroit, yale university
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55%
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Crutch (2004)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: An autobiographical film taken from the experiences of writer-director Rob Moretti, CRUTCH is a coming-of-age tale about a young man's struggle with family problems and substance abuse. Behind a facade of suburban middle class perfection, ...
Style: psychological, serious, realistic, emotional, bleak ...
Plot: coming of age, gay, dysfunctional family, family relations, rehabilitation, suburbs, kids in trouble, dangerous attraction, lifestyle, social decay, teenage life, family problems ...
Time: 21st century
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Love is the Word (2013)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Netherlands, Belgium
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Love is the Word is a moving, romantic and funny coming-of-age drama about the magic of first love and the misery of first lost, set in 1978: the year 'Grease' hit the big screen.
Style: serious, touching, realistic, sentimental, captivating ...
Plot: coming of age, first love, love and romance, family relations, youth, first sexual experience, hopes, parents and children, village, teenager, age difference, teenage sex ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: holland
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53%
Terror in the Family (1996)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Fifteen-year-old Deena Marten wants the same freedom every teenager craves. But when she can't have her way, her rebellious temperament erupts in violence. Her parents, Stephanie and Todd, fear her new boyfriend, Garret, 17, is the cause. ...
Style: serious, realistic, emotional, touching, sincere ...
Audience: teens
Plot: trouble, substance abuse, recovery, abuse, women, victim, family relations, dysfunctional family, alcohol abuse, rape, family problems, kids in trouble ...
Time: 90s
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Mary Jane's Not a Virgin Anymore (1996)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A high schooler from suburbia gets in touch with her sexuality while working at a dingy movie theater in the city.
Style: sad, crying, independent film, underground film, grunge
Audience: teens
Plot: punk rock, punk, rock, death, coming of age, female sexuality, male nudity, teenage girl, illegal drugs, cinema, woman, suburbs ...
Place: seattle, minnesota, midwest, minneapolis minnesota, wisconsin
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Freaking Beautiful World (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Ippe and Papu are two teenagers spending the summer, when they get into trouble with their drug-dealer. They are forced to act as drug-mules. Along the way they meet a new girl, Mia.
Style: serious, realistic, bleak, rough, disturbing ...
Audience: teens
Plot: youth, drug dealer, drug dealing, addiction, hip hop, drug use, society, rehabilitation, life is a bitch, going straight, hopes, misfit ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: finland, helsinki finland
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Takiaispallo (1970)
Genre: Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 79 min.
Story: Aaro Saarinen is a foreman in the paper mill. The new generation continually questions his authority in both at work and at home.
Plot: youth culture, unfaithful husband, marital problem, troubled teen, family relations, job, father son relationship, teenage girl, mother daughter relationship, children, housewife, cheating ...
Time: 70s
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The Man Without a Past (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Finland, Germany, France
Duration: 97 min.
Story: The second part of Aki Kaurismäki's "Finland" trilogy, the film follows a man who arrives in Helsinki and gets beaten up so severely he develops amnesia. Unable to remember his name or anything from his past life, he cannot get a job ...
Style: bleak, satirical, black comedy, semi serious, touching ...
Plot: poverty, memory loss, amnesia, generosity, friendship, robbery, eccentricity, starting over, couple relations, haunted by the past, financial problem, family relations ...
Time: year 2002, 90s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: estonia, europe, helsinki finland, north korea, finland
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49%
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Run Sister Run! (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Emilia is a teenager and a good girl, who never forgets her homework or her little sister, Elsa. Siiri is just one year older than Emilia but not at all like her. When Emilia and Siiri become friends, Emilia's life changes. Siiri encourages her ...
Style: realistic, emotional, semi serious, captivating, sincere ...
Audience: teens
Plot: friendship, rebelliousness, self discovery, life turned upside down, juvenile delinquency, youth, adolescence vs adulthood, family relations, family problems, social relations, teenage life, parents and children ...
Time: 21st century
Place: finland, helsinki finland
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47%
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Bad Company (1999)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Delphine is a sweet innocent young girl, her new best friend pulls her into a world where she falls in love with a local pretty boy. Working her hardest to make him love her drags her into prostitution.
Style: serious, psychological, realistic, emotional, sexual
Plot: friendship, young love, reggae, family relations, prostitute, adolescence, prostitution, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, first time, couples, high school, nightclub ...
Time: year 1999, 90s
Place: france, europe, jamaica
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Loverboy (2005)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A neglected daughter becomes a possessive mother in an emotional journey into the heart and mind of a woman who loved too much.
Style: psychological, sentimental, serious, touching, erotic ...
Plot: obsession, mental illness, dysfunctional family, pregnancy, parents and children, life is a bitch, single parent, family problems, family relations, teenage life, babies and infants, possessiveness ...
Time: year 2005
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The Run of the Country (1995)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Ireland, USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: An Irish lad (Matt Keeslar) who fled from his oppressive, widowed father (Albert Finney) falls for a girl (Victoria Smurfit) from an affluent family.
Style: realistic, serious, gloomy, sentimental, emotional ...
Plot: coming of age, teenager, death, father son relationship, strained relationship, police officer, ira, family relations, politics, rural area, family problems, death in the family ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: ireland, europe
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43%
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Painkillers (2014)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Casper (Gijs Blom) has never met his father and lives alone with his mother Marit (Birgit Schuurman). He likes to spend his free time playing the piano, so he is thrilled when he is chosen to become a pianist in a youth orchestra – and especially ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, sentimental, captivating, psychological ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: teenage love, family relations, parents and children, absent father, single parent, coming of age, youth, teenage life, friendship, love and romance, terminal illness, bittersweet ...
Time: 21st century
Place: holland, europe, prague, central europe
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39%
I Killed My Mother (2009)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Hubert, a brash 17-year-old, is confused and torn by a love-hate relationship with his mother that consumes him more and more each day. After distressing ordeals and tragic episodes, Hubert will find his mother on the banks of Saint Lawrence river, ...
Style: serious, realistic, captivating, touching, sincere ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: youth, gay, lgbt, homosexuality, gay son, gay relationship, gay teenager, gay sex, coming of age, family relations, single mother, lgbt teen ...
Time: 2000s, year 2009
Place: france, europe
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39%
The Dream Prince (1996)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden
Duration: 107 min.
Story: 14-year old Em likes to hang around in her old play house. One day a boy, Jakob, sets fire to it, and Em catches a brief glimpse of him before he disappears. They meet again a few days later. For the first time in her life, Em falls in love. Plot by ...
Style: teen, serious, realistic, touching
Audience: teens
Plot: european, first love, teenager, family relations, parents and children, teenage love, teenage life, society, love and romance, coming of age, innocence lost, youth ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: eastern europe
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39%
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Juha (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Finland, Germany, France
Duration: 78 min.
Story: A farmer's wife is seduced into running away from her stolid older husband by a city slicker, who enslaves her in a brothel.
Style: black and white, contemplative, serious, realistic, gloomy ...
Plot: countryside, love triangle, bittersweet, urban, city life, infidelity, couples, life is a bitch, couple relations, dishonesty, innocence lost, dangerous attraction ...
Time: 90s
Place: europe, finland
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39%
Molly Maxwell (2013)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: At Phoenix Progressive School, students take notes lying on parlor couches and are encouraged to explore their gifts through electives like break-dancing and graphic-novel writing. In the midst of all this liberal pedagogy and budding talent, Molly ...
Style: captivating, independent film
Audience: teens
Plot: teacher student relationship, age difference, male teacher female student affair, older man younger woman relationship, nymphet, coming of age, teacher, forbidden love, teenager, first love, teacher student romance, teacher student sex ...
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Dandelion (2004)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: In a small town of rolling fields and endless skies, isolated 16 year old Mason lives in a world where families exist in fragmented silence and love seems to have gone missing. Then Mason meets Danny, a sensitive and troubled girl, and their tender ...
Style: sincere, emotional, touching, sentimental, independent film ...
Audience: teens
Plot: small town, dysfunctional family, parents and children, young lovers, desperation, depression, compassion, jail, self discovery, amor, fishing village, bad father ...
Place: idaho, usa, washington state
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36%
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California (2015)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 85 min.
Story: The year is 1984. Estela is going through the turbulent phase of adolescence. Sex, lovers, friendships; everything seems very complicated. Her uncle Carlos is her hero, and visiting him in California is her biggest dream. But everything collapses ...
Style: suspense, disturbing, psychological, captivating, vintage
Plot: coming of age, lgbt, life is a bitch, teenager, family problems, teenage life, adolescence, family in crisis, teenage girl, social problems, friendship, character change ...
Time: year 1984, 80s
Place: brazil, sao paulo brazil
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Daydream Nation (2010)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Forced to move to a boring backwater town, a teenager embarks on affairs with a teacher and a stoner classmate.
Style: melancholic, witty, teen, sweet, surreal ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: high school, sexual relations, teenage life, teenage love, coming of age, love triangle, nymphet, small town, love, teenager, depression, storytelling ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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34%
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