Movies like City Boy

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City Boy (1992)
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City Boy (1992)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Nick, a 17-year-old in search of his father, gains employment with a logging company in a beautiful and mysterious virgin forest known as the Limberlost. Through his relationships with new associates and his adventures in this new and strange environment, Nick learns the value of personal honesty and integrity and discovers what defines true friendship. He finds himself torn between his affection for Angelica, who believes with her Aunt Olivia that the forest should be preserved, and loyalty to his boss, the owner of the lumber company. In the end, this city boy must choose between his own safety and the lives of those he has come to love.
Plot: orphan, friendship between men, swamp, father son relationship, bicycle, teenage boy, first kiss, acceptance, environmentalist, coming of age, cougar, kidnapped girl, fistfight, heart attack, obstacle, kiss, bathing, nickname, revolver, pacific northwest, logging, freckles, family, chicago illinois, handicap
Time: 1910s
Place: chicago

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out independent film, serious, realistic and touching films with plots about coming of age, father son relationship, teenage boy, teenager, boy, family relations and youth mostly in Drama, Adventure and Family genres. Some movies like City Boy: A Trickle of Blood (1995), Lean on Pete (2017), Summer of the Monkeys (1998), The Cormorants (2016), Yolngu Boy (2001). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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A Trickle of Blood (1995)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 73 min.
Story: Leon has a crush on Ofelia, so he decides to steal money from his father and cross the country looking for Ofelia who traveled to Guadalajara. On his journey, Leon goes through many adventures and takes the final step from childhood into adolescence.
Plot: coming of age, sex, brothel, uncle niece relationship, trip, teenager, female nudity, father son relationship, dream, revolver, asian stereotype, nipples visible through clothing ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
 7.1
 14K
Lean on Pete (2017)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Sport
Country: UK
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Charley, a teen living with his single father, finds work caring for an aging racehorse named Lean on Pete. When he learns Pete is bound for slaughter, the two embark on an odyssey across the new American frontier in search of a place to call home.
Style: road movie, sad, exciting, light, captivating ...
Audience: teens, adult, teen drama
Plot: horse, coming of age, racehorse, teenager, teenage boy, single father, runaway, father son relationship, on the road, horse trainer, doctor, orphan ...
Time: year 2017, 90s
Place: portland oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
Summer of the Monkeys (1998)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 101 min.
Story: One summer Jay finds four chimps on the prairie who have fallen off a circus cart.
Style: independent film, realistic, semi serious, touching, feel good ...
Audience: pre-teens, kids, family outing
Plot: monkey, prairie, childhood, ape, nature, coming of age, family relations, farm, youth, small town, siblings relations, small town life ...
Time: 1910s
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
 5.6
 243
The Cormorants (2016)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 89 min.
Story: In the summer of their twelfth year Matteo and Samuele spend their days between the river, the forest and the shopping center, but compared to previous years, something is changing. The game becomes boring, imagination gives way to discovery, ...
Plot: boy, coming of age, youth, carnival, swearing, curse, female nudity, whore, persecution, teenage boy, friendship between boys, friendship ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
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 6.5
 378
Yolngu Boy (2001)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 88 min.
Story: After committing a crime for which he is likely to be jailed, a Yolngu teenager convinces two of his childhood friends to join him on a journey from North East Arnhem Land to Darwin to seek help from a tribal leader.
Style: independent film
Plot: aborigine, australian aboriginal, bad father, indigenous people, journey, hunter, alcoholism, burglary, juvenile delinquency, father son reunion, friendship between men, teenager ...
Place: australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
Sleeping Giant (2015)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A coming-of-age tale that turns on three teenagers who are having a vacation by a lakeside.
Style: cult classic
Audience: teens
Plot: boyhood, summer, water, child, gay, high school, childhood, boy, lgbtq, death, teenage boy, coming of age ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
The Savage Is Loose (1974)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: A husband, wife and their son are stranded on a remote island with no way off; as the son grows older, sexual tensions emerge.
Style: sexual, independent film
Plot: mother son incest, oedipus complex, survival, mother, island, sexual tension, incest, bare chested male, wife, mother love, teenage boy, husband wife relationship ...
Time: 1900s, 1910s
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
 6.3
 336
The Yearling (1994)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: In 1870s Florida, a rural family struggles to survive. A lonely twelve-year-old son, Jody (Wil Horneff), the lone surviving child, against his mother's better judgment eventually persuades his parents to allow him a pet fawn, which Jody grows ...
Style: emotional, serious, realistic
Plot: youth, runaway, killing a pet, family relations, coming of age, animal life, power relations, friends, orphan, pets, parents and children, teaching the ways of the world ...
Time: 19th century, 1870s
Place: florida, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Movie in collections
 6.3
 866
Exit Marrakech (2013)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 123 min.
Story: When 17-year-old Ben visits his father Heinrich in Marrakech, it is the start of an adventurous journey through a foreign country with a picturesque charm and a rough beauty where everything appears possible — including the chance that father and ...
Style: sincere, captivating, realistic, atmospheric, serious ...
Plot: interracial relations, impossible love, defiant, teenage boy, father son relationship, parents and children, self discovery, conflict, prostitute, family problems, estrangement, family relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: morocco, africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes (1984)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 143 min.
Story: A shipping disaster in the 19th Century has stranded a man and woman in the wilds of Africa. The lady is pregnant, and gives birth to a son in their tree house. Soon after, a family of apes stumble across the house and in the ensuing panic, both ...
Style: touching, harsh, serious, stylized, costume drama ...
Plot: tarzan, jungle, culture clash, adventurer, stranded, monkey, orphan, feral man, adoption, justice, ape, rescue ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 20th century, 1880s, 1910s
Place: africa, england, scotland, london, united kingdom ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Cider with Rosie (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A semi-autobiographical coming-of-age story set in the Cotswolds during and immediately after the First World War.
Style: realistic, captivating, serious, psychological, sentimental ...
Plot: village, coming of age, world war one, childhood, society, youth, friendship, village life, teenager, military police, anti war, girl ...
Time: 1910s, 20th century, 1920s
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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Walkabout (1971)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: UK, Australia
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Under the pretense of having a picnic, a geologist takes his teenage daughter and 6-year-old son into the Australian outback and attempts to shoot them. When he fails, he turns the gun on himself, and the two city-bred children must contend with ...
Style: road movie, atmospheric, visual, visually stunning, scenic ...
Audience: kids, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, suicide, desert, wilderness, survival, teenage girl, australian outback, rite of passage, culture clash, children, brother sister relationship, language barrier ...
Time: year 1971, 70s, 20th century
Place: australia, oceania, britain, adelaide south australia, sydney australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
 7.9
 309
Black Wind (1965)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 127 min.
Story: The building of a railroad under tough conditions from searing heat to freezing cold in the Sonora desert provokes clashes of passion and struggles between the engineers and the workers at the campsite. The workers also contend with sudden dust ...
Plot: sacrifice, desert, rural area, death, parent child relationship, engineer, worker, wind, son, father son relationship
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Lost in the Barrens (1990)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story: The story of two very different boys in the Canadian wilderness. They must learn to depend on each other in order to survive.
Audience: family outing
Plot: survival, wilderness, bear attack, nature, winter, treasure hunt, snow, treasure hunter, stranded, trapped, scenery, friendship between boys ...
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
 6.8
 262
Iska's Journey (2007)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A young girl is taken to an orphanage, which she hopes to flee.
Plot: coming of age, poverty, sea, journey, minority
Place: romania
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Freedom Is Paradise (1989)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 76 min.
Story: Young Sasha is brought into a state-run children's home because his mother died early and his father spends most of his life in prison. The conditions are like in a penal institution. Sasha tries several times to escape and to search for his ...
Style: road movie, crying
Plot: coming of age, prison, traumatic childhood, boy, childhood, father, children, female nudity, prisoner, reform school, child abuse, girl ...
Place: ussr
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 7.1
 65K
Leave No Trace (2018)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 109 min.
Story: A father and daughter live a perfect but mysterious existence in Forest Park, a beautiful nature reserve near Portland, Oregon, rarely making contact with the world. But when a small mistake tips them off to authorities, they are sent on an ...
Style: psychological, sincere, serious, road movie, captivating ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: father daughter relationship, forest, nature, veteran, teenage girl, trust, wilderness, survivalist, hitchhiking, isolation, survival, hiking ...
Time: 2010s, future, near future, 90s
Place: oregon, washington state, xian, portland oregon, colorado ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 6.6
 25K
White Squall (1996)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 129 min.
Story: Teenage boys discover discipline and camaraderie on an ill-fated sailing voyage.
Style: emotional, suspense, touching, serious, rough ...
Audience: teens, manly, teen drama
Plot: sailing, ocean, coming of age, disaster, friendship, storm at sea, male bonding, boat, teacher, mentor, life & death, danger ...
Time: 60s, year 1996, 20th century, year 1961, year 1960
Place: jamaica, south america, west indies, connecticut, cuba ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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 7.1
 8K
I Am David (2003)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Based on Anne Holm's acclaimed young adult novel North to Freedom, I Am David chronicles the struggles of a 12-year-old boy (Ben Tibber) who manages to flee a Communist concentration camp on his own -- through sheer will and determination. All ...
Style: emotional, sentimental, touching, uplifting, tense ...
Audience: family outing, family friendly, teen drama
Plot: boy, self discovery, friendship, coming of age, rescue, children, hopes, human spirit, danger, courage, boyhood, holocaust ...
Time: year 2003, 1950s, year 1951, post world war two, year 1952
Place: denmark, switzerland, italy, europe, greece ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 6.6
 2K
The Giants (2011)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Belgium, France, Luxembourg
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Brothers Danny and Zak, 15 and 13 & 3/4 are spending the summer in their deceased grandfather's house, waiting in vain for their mother, who is otherwise busy, and running low on cash. To make some money they decide to rent out the ...
Style: touching, humorous, sentimental, feel good, realistic ...
Plot: youth, teenager, brother brother relationship, teenage life, friendship, coming of age, drug dealer, on the road, self discovery, adolescence vs adulthood, when the parents are away, boy ...
Time: 21st century
Place: belgium, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 6.9
 3K
King Jack (2015)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Growing up in a rural town filled with violent delinquents, Jack has learned to do what it takes to survive, despite having an oblivious mother and no father. After his aunt falls ill and a younger cousin comes to stay with him, the hardened ...
Style: serious, touching, realistic, independent film
Audience: teens
Plot: coming of age, bullying, teenage boy, friendship, small town, teenage life, brutality, violence, party, mental illness, cruelty, drinking ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york state
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 6.2
 2K
Kidnapped (1971)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Scottish orphan David Balfour (Lawrence Douglas) is betrayed by his wicked uncle Ebeneezer (Donald Pleasance), who arranges for David to be kidnapped and sold into slavery so that Unk can claim his inheritance. The boy is rescued and befriended by ...
Style: realistic, serious, captivating, stylized, independent film ...
Plot: sea, historical event, courage, literary, sailing, pirate, captain, intrigue, ship, kidnapping, vengeance, orphan ...
Time: 18th century, year 1971
Place: scotland, europe, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Night Creatures (1962)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 82 min.
Story: What secret lay behind the dreaded Marsh Phantoms, the ghostly riders whose silent approach in the darkness of the bleak, unwelcoming Romney Marshes causes men to die of fright? Are they a genuine manifestation or a cover for illegal smuggling ...
Style: classic horror, psychotronic, gothic horror, grindhouse, offbeat ...
Plot: ghost, swamp, supernatural, smuggling, monster, pirate, occult, folk horror, 666, village, attempted rape, scarecrow ...
Time: 18th century, future
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Movie in collections
 7.1
 820
The Journey (1992)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Argentina, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Spain, UK
Duration: 150 min.
Story: A young man living in a cold southern village in South America, decides to start a trip looking for his father. By doing this he discovers unexpected facts about his Latin American essence.
Style: road movie
Plot: travel, journey, on the road, bad father, snow, jungle, cycling, parent child relationship, bicycle, school, father son relationship, tango ...
Place: buenos aires argentina, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Giant Little Ones (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Two popular teen boys, best friends since childhood, discover their lives, families, and girlfriends dramatically upended after an unexpected incident occurs on the night of a 17th birthday party.
Style: captivating, realistic, emotional, thought provoking, freeze frame ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, date night, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, gay, best friend, friendship, gay father, father son relationship, underage drinking, first gay sexual experience, lgbtq, bisexual, teenage protagonist, sexual orientation ...
Time: 2000s
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
 7.4
 188K
Mud (2012)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story: Two teenage boys encounter a fugitive and make a pact to help him escape from an island in the Mississippi.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, touching, realistic, southern gothic ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, friendship, childhood, ex convict, first love, bittersweet, fugitives, obsession, river, love story, survival, small town ...
Time: year 2012, year 2013, 2010s, 21st century
Place: mississippi, usa, arkansas
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
The Earthling (1980)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Patrick Foley has been on the move all his live. Tired of drifting, he wants to spend his last days in an isolated Australian valley where he grew up. On his difficult journey he meets Shawn, a little desperate city-boy whose parents were killed in ...
Style: anamorphic, surreal, serious, independent film
Plot: coming of age, survival, youth, tragedy, homeless, nature, wilderness, orphan, culture clash, isolation, escapades, heroes ...
Time: year 1980, 70s, 80s
Place: australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
The Long Ships (1964)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: UK, Yugoslavia
Duration: 126 min.
Story: In this elaborately mounted seafaring adventure, Rolfe (Richard Widmark) is a Viking leader with the cunning and devious mind of a pirate. Rolfe tells others sailors of "The Mother of Voices," a mammoth bell made of gold and as tall as ...
Style: retro, semi serious, saga, epic, independent film
Audience: boys' night
Plot: viking, medieval, barbarian, ancient, knight, african american, sea, historical event, chivalry, ancient history, semi nudity, sorcery ...
Time: middle ages, medieval times, 10th century
Place: scandinavia, north africa, africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
 6.3
 834
Big Red (1962)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Wealthy sportsman James Haggin (Walter Pidgeon) lives on a Quebec estate called Wintapi. Émile Fornet (Émile Genest), handler of Haggin's hunting dogs, and Émile's wife Therese (Janette Bertrand), Haggin's cook and housekeeper, ...
Style: serious, touching, sentimental, feel good
Audience: family outing
Plot: dog, animal, animal life, youth, camping, camping trip, canine, nature, puppy love, countryside, camp, orphan ...
Time: 60s
Place: canada, quebec
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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 193
Amy George (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Thirteen-year-old Jesse wants to be an artist, but believes that his mundane middle-class Toronto life has left him unprepared. After reading a book on what it takes to be a "true-artist", he sets out looking for risk, ecstasy, wildness ...
Style: touching, psychological, contemplative, unusual plot structure, independent film
Plot: coming of age, photographer, family relations, alcoholic, homosexual, teenage boy, father son relationship, school, male female relationship, peeping tom, high school, artist ...
Place: toronto ontario canada, canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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