Movies like Julio Begins in July

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Julio Begins in July (1979)
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Julio Begins in July (1979)
Original name: Julio comienza en julio
Genre: Drama
Country: Chile
Duration: 120 min.
Story: This is the story of a teenager at the turn of the century in the conservative higher classes of Chile and the initiation rites in his society.
Plot: teenager, teenage prostitute, coming of age, patriarch, landowner, machismo, history of chile, boy
Place: chile

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out independent film, captivating, psychological and disturbing films with plots about teenager, coming of age, friendship, teenage boy, youth, teenage girl and female nudity mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Julio Begins in July: In the Shadow of the Sun (1974), The Penal Colony (1970), Tres tristes tigres (1968), Tagged! (2011), Voto + Fusil (1971). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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In the Shadow of the Sun (1974)
Genre: Drama
Country: Chile
Duration: 70 min.
Story: Two thieves wander in the chilean desert and finally get to a small town near Bolivia. There, they try to include themselves with the townspeople but their instincts betray them and tragedy ensues. Based on a true story, this film opened one year ...
Plot: desert, escape, prison escape, indigenous people, thief, escaped prisoner, rape
Time: 1940s
Place: chile
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The Penal Colony (1970)
Genre: Drama
Country: Chile
Duration: 75 min.
Story: A foreign journalist arrives on a small Pacific island 200 miles off the coast of South America. Once a leper colony, the island was later transformed into a prison and then, under U.N. mandate, made into an independent republic. Yet despite ...
Plot: prison, dictator, penal colony, prison visit, president, military dictatorship, torture, absurdism, journalist
Place: chile
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80%
Tres tristes tigres (1968)
Genre: Drama
Country: Chile
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A rambling portrait of Chilean society.
Style: sex comedy, independent film, experimental
Plot: urban setting, drunkenness, money, violence, national identity, low life, cynicism, nightlife, alienation, drunk, stripper, brother sister relationship ...
Place: chile, santiago chile
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79%
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Tagged! (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A teenage girl, raised on her schizophrenic mother's tales of galactic wars, believes she is an alien princess in hiding and forms a Lazer Tag team to train bodyguards. When her estranged father, disfigured and crippled in the Iraqi war, ...
Plot: comic book, teenager, friendship, coming of age, arena, laser gun, war game
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Voto + Fusil (1971)
Genre: Drama
Country: Chile
Duration: 70 min.
Story: The political evolution in Chile seeing from three different times: 1937, 1947 and 1970. A film that shows how a revolution cannot be accomplished by electoral means, and how the wealthy class will always attempt to destroy that revolution, with the ...
Plot: politics, political intrigue, revolutionary, birthday, communism, presidential election, communist party, bourgeoisie, assassination, marxist, history of chile, communist ...
Time: year 1937, year 1970, year 1947
Place: chile
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63%
The Tango of the Widower and Its Distorting Mirror (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: Chile
Duration: 70 min.
Story: A man whose wife has committed suicide, appears to him as a ghost. The ghost follows him everywhere, under the bed, under tables… After seeing the ghost so frequently, the man begins to resemble her.
Style: psychological, bleak, suspense, scary, suspenseful ...
Plot: ghost, suicide, schizophrenic, ghost story, split personality, death, vengeance, paranormal phenomena, hunting, exorcism, murder, violence ...
Time: 21st century
Place: chile, santiago chile
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Flying Colors (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A 15 year old mute village girl runs away from home due to problems, lands in Mumbai city. Initially she struggles to cope up with the big city, but fights her way forward to survive and achieve freedom overcoming obstacles.
Plot: feminism, feminist, empowerment, women's rights, freedom, coming of age, teenager, women power, female empowerment
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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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Antonia (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: Chile
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Antonia, a young, beautiful, intelligent and successful executive, is in deep depression, she's dealing with an unwanted pregnancy from his previous relationship with his partner Sebastian, a young and dreamer, renowned photographer, who will ...
Plot: unwanted pregnancy, depressed woman
Place: santiago chile, chile
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Ivan & Abraham (1993)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belarus
Duration: 105 min.
Story: In 1930s Poland Christian boy Ivan goes to live with a Jewish family to learn a trade. He becomes friends with Abraham, the son of the family. However, anti-Semitism is rife in their environment, and they flee to escape an upcoming conflict. ...
Plot: youth, intolerance, circumcision, runaway, gypsy, friendship, friend, grandfather grandson relationship, racism, village, mistaken identity, religion ...
Time: 1930s
Place: poland
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52%
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Arresting Gena (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A directionless teenager (Aesha Waks) becomes involved with a headstrong runaway (Summer Phoenix) and her drug-dealing brother (Sam Rockwell).
Style: independent film
Plot: female friendship, irresponsible, mother daughter relationship, terminal illness, teenager, female protagonist, sexuality, youth, teenage protagonist, coming of age, teenage girl
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49%
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Cirqo (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Chile
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Two prisoners escape execution by the police and become successful circus clowns in Pinochet's Chile.
Plot: military dictatorship, circus, clown, escaped prisoner
Time: 70s
Place: chile
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Harry Munter (1969)
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Harry Munter, a sensitive, kind, appealing man in his twenties, lives with his parents. He's an inventor, a bit of a mystic, maybe a genius, and a good son and grandson. He's offered work in the U.S. But a friend has cancer and the world ...
Style: independent film
Plot: small town, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, extramarital affair, teenager, friendship, parent child relationship, intelligence, coming of age, inventor, self discovery
Time: 60s
Place: eastern europe
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45%
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The Hunter (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Japan, Kazakhstan, Switzerland
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A Kakakh kid (12) commits a robbery with a pistol he stole from a hunter. The hunter gives him a choice: either he goes to jail or they undertake a harsh journey through the mountains. Poetic Central Asian horse opera about the laws of nature.
Plot: survival, nature, rural setting, horse riding, teenager, single mother, outdoor sex, hunter, coming of age, tent, gunshot
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Amnesia (1994)
Genre: Drama
Country: Chile
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Dreaming of a better life, a young woman leaves her country home and moves to the city where she only finds trouble.
Plot: sergeant, captain, fish, pregnancy, concentration camp, conscience, wedding anniversary, desert, memory, execution, political prisoner, amnesia ...
Place: chile
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Thursday Till Sunday (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Chile, Netherlands
Duration: 96 min.
Story: As she and her family embark on a short vacation, a Chilean teenager slowly comes to the realization that her parents might be splitting up.
Style: serious, tense, touching, sentimental, realistic ...
Plot: coming of age, dysfunctional family, family relations, family problems, on the road, parents and children, bittersweet, protecting from truth, crumbling marriage, siblings relations, under the surface, youth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: chile
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44%
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Welcome Home (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration: 86 min.
Story: This is the story of two childhood friends - Lucas (a 16-year-old high-schooler) and Bert (a mechanic’s apprentice) - who flee the suffocating fish bowl that their killjoy families’ lives have become. Lucas, still quite immature, finds a “big ...
Style: captivating, disturbing, homoerotic
Plot: coming of age, friendship, youth, house, teenager, life is a bitch, relationship problems, teenage life, sexual tension, male pubic hair, childhood friend, friendship between boys ...
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He Hated Pigeons (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, Chile
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Love is everything with a young man journey's from the north to south of Chile to fulfill a promise.
Plot: gay, latinx lgbt, lgbt, gay subtext, road trip, pickup truck
Place: chile
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Plants (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: Chile
Duration: 94 min.
Story: For a whole summer, 17-year-old Florencia has to look after her brother, who is trapped in a persistent vegetative state. She washes him, changes his nappies, and cuddles up to him in bed. From time to time she reads to him from a comic called ...
Style: psychological, captivating
Plot: teenage sexuality, sexual awakening, sex scene, brother sister relationship, nude, sexual content, sexual tension, family problems, sexual desire, seduction, female protagonist, lifestyle ...
Place: chile
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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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Night Over Chile (1977)
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A Soviet docudrama chronicling the events surrounding the military coup which toppled the leftists Chilean government of Salvador Allende. This film confines its efforts to the main events themselves and is based on interviews with eyewitnesses, ...
Plot: military coup, dictatorship, dictator, capitalism, coup d'etat, operation condor, history of chile, soviet
Time: 70s, year 1973
Place: soviet union, chile
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41%
Listening to Rain (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Listening to Rain is a coming of age story centered around two girls who are sexually assaulted during their senior year of high school. This unique films follows Haley and Emily as they attempt find themselves and recover from unimaginable trauma. ...
Style: independent film
Plot: rape, female nudity, teenager, girl, suicide, lesbian, strong female lead, sexual assault, coming of age, women, bisexual, christianity ...
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West Coast (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Four inseparable teenagers in a small town in Brittany (France). As lifelong fans of the West Coast, they think are real gangstas. Together as a "gang", they are invincible, respected, fearless and nothing can reach them, certainly not the ...
Style: psychological, disturbing, captivating
Plot: teenager, group of friends, friendship, coming of age, teenage boy, gangster, teenage life, small town life, small town, lifestyle, juvenile delinquency, bullying ...
Place: france
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Te amo (made in Chile) (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: Chile
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Sam returns to Chile from the USA after his parents divorce. Left with a sexually-abusive nanny, he makes friends with some other neglected kids: Isabel, whose mother suffers from depression after the disappearance of her father and brother, and ...
Style: captivating, psychological, disturbing
Plot: teenager, teenage protagonist, group of friends, dysfunctional family, family problems, life is a bitch, teenage life, homecoming, relationship problems, social misfits, social problems, bisexuality ...
Place: chile
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Rip-Off (1971)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Best friends Michael, Steve, Cooly and Richie are seniors at a large Toronto high school. Foremost on their minds and that of many of their classmates are what they are going to do this upcoming summer and beyond. They don't want to waste away ...
Style: independent film
Plot: friendship, coming of age, canuxploitation, teenage boy, high school, teenager, commune, youth, media, rock band, filmmaking, high school student ...
Time: 70s
Place: toronto ontario canada
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Brothers and Sisters (1992)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min.
Story: After twenty years of marriage, Gloria discovers that her husband has been cheating on her. It' a terrible trauma and she decides to stay with her sister in USA in St. Louis. She takes with her Matteo and Francesco, her two sons. Matteo wastes ...
Plot: lgbt, boxing, wedding, adultery, teenager, masturbation, nurse, motel, taxi, coming of age, factory, urban setting ...
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Paul's Case (1980)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 54 min.
Story: Captures the essence of Willa Cather's haunting story of Pittsburgh circa 1900. Lost in a world of fantasy, young working-class Paul dreams of escaping his dreary existence in turn-of-the-century Pittsburgh. As fate would have it Paul gets his ...
Plot: bondage, working class, infatuation, theater, thief, coming of age, teenager, snow, winter, gay interest, teenage boy, hotel
Place: pittsburgh
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The Genesis Children (1972)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A charismatic leader and a high-spirited student group are on holiday in Italy. The surreal adventures of these friends are a free-flowing, four-part "multi-sensual symphony," bereft of traditional story line. One national critic described ...
Style: art film, independent film, gay cinema
Plot: coming of age, boy, beach, youth, boyhood, skinny dipping, camping, teenage boy, surrealism, summer vacation, vacation, group ...
Place: italy
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Nocturnal (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Laurie, a cynical schoolgirl, builds a secret friendship with Pete, an older handyman who is obsessed with her.
Style: realistic, disturbing, captivating, serious, sincere
Plot: older man teenage girl relationship, teenager, obsession, loner, love triangle, outsider, coming of age, secret, platonic, friendship, high school, homecoming ...
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Too Late to Die Young (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: Chile, Brazil, Argentina, Netherlands, Qatar
Duration: 110 min.
Story: In a very dry summer in an isolated community far from the city. Sofia, Clara and Lucas face their first loves and fears, while preparing the New Year's party, without knowing that nature threatens them.
Plot: women, woman, coming of age, teenager, cycling, burglary, new year, new year's eve, cigarette smoking, dog, motorcycle, bare breasts ...
Time: 90s
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