Movies like The Last Winter 1989

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The Last Winter (1989)
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The Last Winter (1989)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Tells the story of a young man's struggle to keep his world from changing. Placed in the rural setting of the mid 1950s.
Style: independent film
Audience: kids
Plot: childhood, suburbs, moving, grandfather, city, big city, coming of age, grandfather grandson relationship, child's point of view

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, independent film and touching films with plots about coming of age, childhood, boy, youth, family relations, friendship and society mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like The Last Winter: Finn & the Sea of Noise (2013), The Education of Little Tree (1997), Maramao (1987), Mull (1989), Russkies (1987). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Finn & the Sea of Noise (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: As Finn slips back into a groove of mindless parties, sunburn, and hangovers, he let's his life take a mind-numbing vacation. But when he's confronted with death first hand, he takes a new outlook on life, remembering his endless dreams ...
Style: mumblecore, independent film, dark comedy
Audience: teens
Plot: coming of age, suburbs, american midwest
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The Education of Little Tree (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Little Tree is an 8-year-old Cherokee boy, who, during the time of the depression, loses his parents and starts to live with his Indian grandma and grandpa and learn the wisdom of the Cherokee way of life.
Style: touching, melancholic, scenic, uplifting, independent film ...
Plot: native american, culture clash, coming of age, childhood, segregation, teacher, courage, stereotypes, beautiful scenery, starting over, society, magic ...
Time: year 1997, 90s, 1930s
Place: appalachia
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Maramao (1987)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A coming-of-age story in which a young boy resists the adult world and the inevitable loss of the joys of childhood.
Plot: coming of age, teenage girl, childhood, children, summer vacation, sexual awakening, island, grownups, skinny dipping, boy, teenage boy, girl ...
Place: mediterranean sea
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Mull (1989)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 90 min.
Story: An Australian film about a teenage girl who takes responsibility for keeping her "family" together.
Style: independent film
Plot: lgbt, suburbs, gay interest, love triangle, cancer, gay brother, precocious child, loss of mother, coming of age, girl
Place: australia
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Russkies (1987)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A group of American boys discovers a Russian sailor washed up on the coast of Florida and decide to befriend him, assuming that he is friendly and will bring them no danger and thus go against the ideas of their parents, as well as the government.
Style: epic, independent film, semi serious, humorous
Audience: kids, family outing, teen drama
Plot: cold war, friendship, submarine, coming of age, youth, teenager, manhunt, shipwreck, danger, young heroes, misfit, space and aliens ...
Time: year 1987, 80s
Place: russia, usa, florida
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63%
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Rough Winds (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Three devastating teenage stories fuse beneath the calm of a quiet, average neighborhood.
Style: teen
Plot: suicide attempt, closeted gay, anorexia, high school, suburbs, teenager, post traumatic stress disorder, coming of age
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A Quiet Death (1986)
Genre: Drama
Country: Greece
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Martha is unhappy with her life as it is at the moment, and among other issues, she has decided to give up her writing career. Along with that decision comes a need to get away from her husband and from her psychiatrist, with whom she has had more ...
Plot: truck driver, grandfather, childhood, lesbian sex, cathartic, bare breasts, city, writers, husband, female pubic hair, wine, death ...
Time: 80s
Place: greece, hellas, athens greece
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59%
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The Way Home (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 80 min.
Story: The story begins on a fine summers morning, when San-woo and his mother board a bus to the country. It is soon clear that the unsophisticated rural passengers annoy the seven-year-old urban boy. His mother is taking him to live with his 78-year-old ...
Style: touching, sentimental, stylized, rough, thought provoking ...
Audience: kids
Plot: coming of age, childhood, parents and children, grandmother grandson relationship, grandparent grandchild relationship, love, life & death, children, generation gap, friendship, village life, adolescence ...
Time: year 2002
Place: korea, asia, south korea
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Venus Peter (1989)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Produced for Scottish television, Venus Peter was financed by the Orkney Islands Council. The title character is transformed into a "sea child" when he is baptized with salt water. Though his family tries hard to accustom him to life on ...
Style: touching, semi autobiographical
Plot: teacher, boy, village, young boy, grandfather, teacher student relationship, female nudity, grandfather grandson relationship, fishing village, individualism, child protagonist, fisherman ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century
Place: scotland
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53%
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Kid-Thing (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: On the outskirts of Austin, 10-year-old Annie tears around on her BMX bike, hurls dough at cars, and smashes things up with her baseball bat. Her father, a goat-farmer-cum-demolition-derby driver, does little parenting. Annie has no friends her age, ...
Style: mumblecore
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The Steamroller and the Violin (1961)
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 46 min.
Story: Seven year old Sasha practices violin every day to satisfy the ambition of his parents. Already withdrawn as a result of his routines, Sasha quickly regains confidence when he accidentally meets and befriends worker Sergei, who works on a ...
Style: art house, realistic, serious, spiritual, uplifting ...
Audience: kids
Plot: youth, friendship, childhood, self discovery, children, boy, spirituality, young adult, coming of age, minimalism, art, friends ...
Time: year 1961, 60s
Place: soviet union, ussr, russia
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51%
The Tree with Pink Leaves (1974)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Little Marco suffers from his parents' divorce. He runs away from home and is hit by a car. He drags on but eventually dies under a tree with pink leaves, remembering a story his grandmother told him.
Plot: father son relationship, school, boy, divorce, runaway, boarding school, family crisis, tragedy, dysfunctional family, hit and run, childhood, sexual exploration ...
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Night Has Settled (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: In 1983, Oliver Nicholas, at thirteen, is well-poised to enter the precocious teenage world of first-sex, vodka and possible-love in New York City when he is traumatized by the stroke of his housekeeper (and only true maternal figure), a ...
Style: serious, realistic, emotional, humorous, sexual
Plot: coming of age, youth, nanny, dysfunctional family, stroke, society, betrayal, survival, family life, parents and children, family relations, family problems ...
Time: year 1983, 21st century
Place: new york
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46%
The Girl from Hunan (1987)
Genre: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 110 min.
Story: The heartbreaking tale of a young girl sold into an arranged marriage with a 2 year old boy who she must raise as his nanny until he is old enough to marry her. She is expected to honour tradition and to toe the line so far as social proprieties are ...
Plot: tradition, rural setting, teenager, extramarital affair, teen angst, arranged marriage, coming of age, farmer, child's point of view
Time: 1900s
Place: china
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45%
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The Demons (2015)
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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.
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Moving Out (1983)
Genre: Drama
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Duration: 91 min.
Story: Coming-of-age story about an Italian-Australian teenager making his way in the world.
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Duration: 88 min.
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Plot: coming of age, youth, small town, social relations, small town life, friendship, childhood, friendship between boys, father son relationship, male female relationship, boy, accident ...
Time: 21st century
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In Your Absence (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, Spain
Duration: 104 min.
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Duration: 91 min.
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Jakarta, City of Dreamers (2020)
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Story: Dom came to Jakarta with a hope of becoming an actor. His encounter with Pingkan and Radit brings him deep into the labyrinth of drug trafficking. Will he abandon his dream?
Style: bleak, tense, suspenseful, captivating, dramatic
Plot: city, life, business, drug, love, dream, drug dealing, dreaming, big city, city life
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Affluenza (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: An aspiring young photographer finds himself caught up in a heady world of money, sex, and privilege when he moves to wealthy Long Island in the summer of 2008.
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Place: usa, new york, long island
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38%
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Montreal Main (1974)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A photographer finds himself falling for a 14 year-old boy.
Style: independent film
Plot: coming of age, gay, bonding, gay interest, gay subtext, male homosexuality, lgbt, closeted homosexual, photographer, masturbation, mutual masturbation
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Sebbe (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 79 min.
Story: Duct tape, electrical cables, trigger, explosives. Sebbe never planned to build a bomb. It just happened. Sebbe is 15 years old and lives with his mother in an apartment that is too narrow. He does his best. He never strikes back. Sebbe loves his ...
Style: serious, realistic, psychological, captivating, contemplative ...
Audience: teens
Plot: single parent, coming of age, teenage boy, introspection, teenage life, life is a bitch, losing-it hero, youth, juvenile delinquency, society, escape from reality, parents and children ...
Time: 21st century
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37%
Mother, I Love You (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Latvia
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Raimonds, a 12 year old boy, falls into a world of petty crime while trying to stay out of trouble with his mother.
Style: realistic, serious, touching, captivating
Audience: teens
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Time: 2010s, 21st century
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37%
Wait Until Spring, Bandini (1989)
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, France, Italy, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Rocklin Colorado, 1925. A hard cold winter. Young Arturo Bandini loves his father Svevo, his mother Maria and his brothers. Even though his bricklayer father wastes the little money he has in the Imperial Poolhall and his time with the rich American ...
Style: independent film, realistic, serious, gloomy, rough
Plot: coming of age, immigrant, family relations, child's point of view, youth, ambition, life is a bitch, society, down on your luck, family in crisis, family life, father ...
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The Devil in the Skin (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Coming-of-Age drama telling the story of the strong bond between Xavier and his little brother Jacques and their struggle to remain together despite all odds.
Style: touching, serious, realistic, sentimental
Plot: coming of age, youth, brother brother relationship, rebelliousness, forceful separation, summer, family relations, life turned upside down, countryside, boy, childhood, teenager ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
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Two of a Kind (1982)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Nolie has just turned 21 but is retarded and acts more like 8. While claiming that she only wants to help him, his "smother" actually likes things that way. One day Nolie visits his beloved grandfather in a rest home and is horrified at ...
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32%
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Martin's Day (1985)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Threatened with recapture after a prison escape, Martin Stechert grabs a 12-year-old as hostage. He proves to be named Martin, too a quiet "good little boy" always obeying the rules, whom life has given only dismal loneliness and ...
Style: independent film, serious, realistic, rough
Plot: coming of age, youth, hostage, kidnapping, escape, ocean, obsessive quest, manhunt, fugitives, chases and races, confined, curses spells and rituals ...
Time: year 1985, 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Little Man Tate (1991)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Dede is a sole parent trying to bring up her son Fred. When it is discovered that Fred is a genius, she is determined to ensure that Fred has all the opportunities that he needs, and that he is not taken advantage of by people who forget that his ...
Style: intellectual, inspirational, realistic, psychological, touching ...
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: prodigy, child prodigy, coming of age, mathematics, genius, autism, single mother, child genius, friendship, psychology, mentor, children ...
Time: year 1991, 20th century, 90s
Place: ohio, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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