Movies like Wildside

If you like "Wildside" you are looking for crying movies about / with friendship, bromance, loyalty, airplane, fight, prostitute and money themes of Drama genre shot in Denmark or Iceland.
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Wildside (1998)
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Wildside (1998)
Original name: Vildspor
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark, Iceland
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Charming desperado Ossy, carryng a deadly secret, tracks down his childhood pal Jimmy in Iceland. But Jimmy, now with a family and a regular job, will do anything to hide his past.
Style: crying
Plot: friendship, bromance, loyalty, airplane, fight, prostitute, money, drug addict, loneliness, party, death, birthday, aids, male nudity, smuggling, family relations, manipulative person, hiv, smuggler, heroin, lie, masturbation, photograph, drug addiction, friendship between men ...
Place: iceland

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out crying, serious, realistic and disturbing films with plots about family relations, bare chested male, friendship, slapping, father son relationship, death and male nudity mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Wildside: Another Round (2020), Consequences (2018), After the Wedding (2006), Places (2014), The Cleaner (2015). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Another Round (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark, Sweden, Netherlands
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Four high school teachers launch a drinking experiment: upholding a constant low level of intoxication.
Style: dark comedy, social, psychological, unusual plot structure, funny ...
Audience: adult
Plot: experiment, teacher, friendship, drunkenness, group of friends, alcohol abuse, midlife crisis, drinking, teacher student relationship, marriage, dancing, existential loneliness ...
Time: 2010s, 2020s, year 2011, year 2013, 21st century
Place: copenhagen, denmark, eastern europe
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Consequences (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: Slovenia, Austria
Duration: 95 min.
Story: After being sent to a youth detention centre, 18-year-old Andrej has to fight for his place within the group of inmates while getting closer to Željko, their informal leader, and struggling to keep his repressed secret in the dark.
Style: lgbt cinema, realistic, suspense, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot: male nudity, closeted homosexual, gay, closeted gay, troubled youth, bare chested male, gay interest, lgbtq, homophobic slur, bisexual, bisexual man, teenage boy ...
Time: 2000s
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After the Wedding (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark, Sweden, UK, Norway
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A manager of an orphanage in India is sent to Copenhagen, Denmark, where he discovers a life-altering family secret.
Style: sincere, touching, emotional, realistic, melancholic ...
Plot: wedding, marriage, poverty, family bonds, wealth, family relations, nordic, family problems, family secret, couple relations, hopes, financial problem ...
Time: year 2006, 90s, 21st century
Place: denmark, copenhagen, india, bombay india
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79%
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Places (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Czech Republic, Slovakia
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A coming of age story about love, loss and revenge centers around two teenage friends, Adam (Vladimír Polívka) and Marek (Jan Cina), whose aimless lives in a small town are suddenly disrupted by the appearance of Anna (Johana Matousková), the ...
Style: ambiguous ending, suspense, sexy, tense, psychological ...
Plot: revenge, small town, love, love triangle, friendship between men, murder, teenage girl, father son relationship, prank, father daughter relationship, secret, best friend ...
Time: 90s
Place: central europe
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The Cleaner (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: Slovakia
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Just out of prison, Tomáš, a taciturn loner, takes a job cleaning houses where people have recently died. Things take an alarming turn when he begins putting in overtime: hiding behind closet doors after hours to secretly watch the homes’ ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, psychological, disturbing, crying ...
Plot: socially awkward, hiding, stalking, employer employee relationship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, dysfunctional family, estrangement, fired from the job, death, hiding place, neighbor neighbor relationship, stolen money ...
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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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Nudity (1970)
Genre: Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Young prisoner Jan, nicknamed Roughboy (Petr Cepek), tries to commit suicide. He was imprisoned for a fight in which he injured a functionary of the National Committee and for stealing material but actually by the blame for this crime was pinned on ...
Style: crying
Audience: adult
Plot: male nudity, foster parent, czech village, cheating girlfriend, childless couple, caught cheating, old man, skull, rabbit, hysterical woman, old woman, tank ...
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The Nerd's Confession (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Eugene is a teenage nerd who lives in a small Russian town. He sits in front of his computer all day long, playing games and surfing the Internet. He decides to run a small porn website and soon as he earns his first money from e-commerce. His life ...
Style: psychological, suspense, captivating, unusual plot structure, suspenseful ...
Plot: porn, student, socially awkward, teenage protagonist, family relations, flash forward, teenage boy, father son relationship, chase, friendship between men, interview, friendship between boys ...
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56%
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Eva Nova (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: Slovakia, Czech Republic
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Eva would do anything to regain the love of the one she hurt the most - her son. She is a recovered alcoholic but decades ago she was a famous actress.
Style: sincere, captivating, realistic, disturbing, serious ...
Plot: alcoholic, mother son conflict, group therapy, addiction, female alcoholic, ex husband ex wife relationship, dysfunctional family, estranged mother, estranged son, manipulative person, rehabilitation, family relations ...
Place: vienna
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Lakki... The Boy Who Could Fly (1992)
Genre: Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Surreal tale of a 14 year-old boy who dreams of escaping the loneliness from an unhappy home & sexual abuse (from his mother's boyfriend who is also his school swimming coach). One day his back mysteriously sprouts feathers and he can ...
Style: surreal, crying
Plot: coming of age, children, lgbtq, youth, lgbt, male nudity, sexual abuse, caught stealing, pub, drug, caught cheating, male masturbation ...
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48%
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Nachttocht (1982)
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 63 min.
Story: 12 year old Thomas ( Abel Claassen) and his quest for friendship and love. He takes rowing lessons and grows rather fond of his teacher...who, according to his mother, is unlike the bully trainers in the other clubs...he really knows how to work ...
Style: crying
Plot: man boy relationship, coming of age, homoerotic fight, homoeroticism, friendship between boys, gay interest, homoerotic friendship, male nudity, teenage boy, bare chested male, age-gap relationship, boyhood ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Nothing's All Bad (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Follows the lives of four longing souls. Ingeborg who feels unattractive and young Jonas who is so attractive that he can literally sell some of what he's got. Anna, a young beautiful woman with a physical disability, and Anders, a tender man ...
Style: serious, sincere, captivating, realistic, erotic ...
Plot: loneliness, father son relationship, chance meeting, multiple storylines, mother daughter relationship, sexuality, looking for love, bondage, lgbt, erotica, christmas, hospital ...
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46%
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Goat (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Reeling from a terrifying assault, a nineteen year old enrolls into college with his brother and pledges the same fraternity. What happens there, in the name of 'brotherhood,' tests him and his loyalty in brutal ways.
Style: disturbing, captivating, melancholic, suspense, suspenseful ...
Plot: brother brother relationship, college, dormitory, college campus, bare breasts, bare chested male, sibling relationship, death of friend, sexism, false accusation, party, father son relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Spare Parts (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: Slovenia
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Embittered widower, Ludvik, spends his nights transporting illegal refugees in his van from Croatia, across Slovenia, and into Italy. The young and inexperienced Rudi acts as his helpmate. Together they become a well-trained duo who almost every ...
Style: serious, realistic, disturbing, suspense, bleak ...
Plot: refugee, friendship, immigrant, widower, van, life is a bitch, working class, criminal, death of wife, border crossing, smuggling, chess ...
Time: 21st century
Place: balkan, italy, former yugoslavia, croatia, slovenia ...
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44%
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The Hunt (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 115 min.
Story: A teacher lives a lonely life, all the while struggling over his son’s custody. His life slowly gets better as he finds love and receives good news from his son, but his new luck is about to be brutally shattered by an innocent little lie.
Style: bleak, thought provoking, psychological, depressing, sad ...
Audience: adult
Plot: injustice, life turned upside down, child abuse, false accusation, divorce, social injustice, social relations, pedophile, parents and children, teacher, church, punched in the face ...
Time: 2010s, year 2012, year 2013, 21st century
Place: denmark
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Henry Gamble's Birthday Party (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Henry Gamble's Birthday Party takes place over 24 hours at the birthday pool party of 17-year-old preacher's kid Henry Gamble. The party guests include adults and teenagers from his church, as well as Henry's "secular" ...
Style: psychological, sexy, touching, lgbt cinema, unusual plot structure ...
Plot: lgbt, lgbt teen, gay, gay teenager, masturbation, lgbtq, teenage protagonist, teenage boy, friendship, self mutilation, puberty, adultery ...
Place: chicago
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James White (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: James White is a troubled twentysomething trying to stay afloat in a frenzied New York City. As he retreats further into a hedonistic lifestyle, his mother's battle with a serious illness faces a series of setbacks that force him to assume more ...
Style: sad, disturbing, psychological, sincere, captivating ...
Plot: terminal illness, mother son relationship, gay, drinking, friendship, promise, slacker, lie, chemotherapy, drinking alcohol, new life, addiction ...
Time: year 2000, year 1983, year 2013
Place: manhattan new york city, new york, mexico
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39%
So Long, My Son (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 185 min.
Story: The changes in Chinese society from the 1950s to the '80s, as experienced by two families.
Style: independent film, sexy, social, non-linear
Plot: loss of son, infidelity, birth control, family relations, suburbs, runaway, working class, teenager, hospital, flashback, father son relationship, airplane ...
Time: 2010s, year 2019, 80s, 2000s
Place: china
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Garbage, the City and Death (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 74 min.
Story: Romi (Gabriela Mícová), a prostitute, is anything but successful at her job: she is of far too gentle a nature for her clients. The more obstinately she is pushed to the streets by her pimp Franz (Stanislav Majer), the closer she is to a complete ...
Style: compassionate, captivating, realistic, serious, disturbing ...
Plot: prostitute, female impersonator, prostitution, man dressed as woman, transvestite, family relations, gay interest, manipulative person, nightclub, dysfunctional family, domestic violence, pimp ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, central europe, prague
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37%
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1985 (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Having been gone for three years, closeted advertising executive Adrian returns to his Texas hometown and struggles to reveal his dire circumstances to his conservative family.
Style: psychological, tense, disturbing, unusual plot structure, sincere ...
Plot: gay, aids, brother brother relationship, father son relationship, hiv, christmas, family relations, mother son relationship, stand up comedian, gay interest, gay slur, homosexual ...
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Place: texas, dallas texas
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Wasted (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A high-school track star (Nick Stahl) watches without judgment as his two best friends (Summer Phoenix, Aaron Paul) abuse heroin.
Style: thought provoking, realistic, serious, rough, biting ...
Plot: drug addict, high school, friendship, heroin, downfall, life is a bitch, teenage life, kids in trouble, hopes, rehabilitation, lifestyle, going straight ...
Time: 21st century
Place: texas
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The German Lesson (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 125 min.
Story: In a small North German village a drama played out during and shortly after the Second World War about duty versus individual conscience and morality.
Style: crying
Plot: male pubic hair, world war two, corporal punishment, coming of age, teenager, boyhood, wartime life, nazi, male nudity, striptease, cycling, death ...
Time: year 2019
Place: germany
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36%
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Drive Me Home (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Antonio and Agostino grew up together in a small town in Sicily; they dreamt of living a different life, somewhere else. Now thirty-year-olds, they both live abroad but they lost touch years ago. When Antonio discovers that the house he grew up in, ...
Style: crying
Plot: gay, lgbt, male nudity, male pubic hair, lgbtq, gays and lesbians, friendship between men, gay interest, gay subtext, drug use, bathhouse, port ...
Place: antwerp, sicily, netherlands, belgium, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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The Sheriff Behind Bars (1966)
Genre: Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A dramatic story from the setting of a youth de tention center. Youngster Jakub, out of delusory solidarity, gets convicted of theft and goes to prison in place ofthe "sheriff" of his gang. He naively hopes that the sheriff will appreciate ...
Plot: juvenile prison, nudity, male pubic hair, bare chested male, striptease, jail cell, informant, masturbation, stuttering, friendship between men, chess, female nudity ...
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35%
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Sweet Nothing (1995)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Angel celebrates the birth of his daughter by taking his first hit of crack cocaine. With the hesitant support of his wife, Monika, he joins a friend of his to deal drugs for a short time--enough time to get out of debt and buy some nice things for ...
Style: melancholic, realistic, serious, independent film, crying ...
Plot: drug addiction, drug abuse, loneliness, family problems, family relations, downfall, introspection, crumbling marriage, life is a bitch, misfit, money, addiction ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york, usa, bronx new york city
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Ferox (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Iceland
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Arnaldur, a 16-year-old boy living a normal teenager's life in Reykjavik. One day, coming home from school, he finds his brother in the bathtub, dead. Despite clear signs of a suicide, Arnaldur is convinced that his brother's teacher is ...
Style: crying
Plot: cigarette smoking, jail, male nudity, death, party, fire, violence, suicide, brother brother relationship, cocaine, vandalism, grief ...
Place: iceland
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35%
Something to Live for: The Alison Gertz Story (1992)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: An AIDS-stricken woman becomes a leader in the struggle to educate people about the disease and its prevention.
Style: crying
Plot: aids, hiv, disease, hiv positive, brat pack, old woman, cafe, artist, death, flowers, female protagonist, photograph ...
Time: year 1988
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34%
River Made to Drown In (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Allen, a struggling young artist who once survived by working in the streets, is now involved with Eva, a wealthy Los Angeles gallery owner. Quite by surprise Allen receives a visit from an old john, Thaddeus, who is dying from aids and has come to ...
Style: crying, weeping, independent film, queer cinema
Plot: gay, aids, lgbt, hiv, bad father, cocaine, gay subtext, dying and death, hustler, eviction notice, mourning, drug addict ...
Place: santa monica california, los angeles
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34%
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Submarino (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 105 min.
Story: As children, Nick and his little brother take care of their baby brother while their mother drinks herself senseless. But the baby dies, and both brothers blame themselves. Many years later, Nick is out of prison after serving time for an assault. ...
Style: bleak, gloomy, thought provoking, disturbing, melancholic ...
Plot: heroin, drug abuse, dysfunctional family, childhood trauma, drug addiction, haunted by the past, redemption, estrangement, loneliness, adaptation, drug addict, family relations ...
Time: year 2010, 90s, 21st century
Place: denmark, copenhagen, europe
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34%
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Pure (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A young boy trying to deal with his mother's heroin addiction befriends a waitress who helps him cope with the tough situation.
Style: sincere, touching, emotional, serious, gloomy ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: rehabilitation, addiction, youth, drug abuse, prostitute, life is a bitch, dysfunctional family, parents and children, teenage life, going straight, drug addiction, friendship ...
Place: london, england, europe
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