Movies like Jim, the World's Greatest

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Jim, the World's Greatest (1975)
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Jim, the World's Greatest (1975)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: One of his earlier pieces, Don Coscarelli (of Phantasm Phame) has a knack for seeing the world through the eyes and heart of a young boy. He offers a Peter Pan-esque adventure to men from the boomers to present day, with each generation being introduced to a more innocent time.
Style: independent film
Plot: troubled teen, teen angst, teenager, brother, abuse, alcoholic father

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out psychological, sincere, serious and touching films with plots about teenager, troubled teen, teen angst, family relations, abuse, father son relationship and coming of age mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Jim, the World's Greatest: The First Stone (1993), The Tribes of Palos Verdes (2017), Safe Harbor (2009), Toughlove (1985), Breaking the Silence (1992). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The First Stone (1993)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min.
Story: A story of the redemptive powers of Christ's love - a janitor becomes the leader of a high school youth group with an unconventional approach. He gradually gets through to the kids relying on his faith.
Style: christian film
Plot: faith, teenager, troubled teen, janitor, christianity, christian, church, hiding place, group
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95%
Juvenile Delinquents -- New World Order (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Broken teens trying to claim something their parents failed to provide - A Future and Purpose.
Style: dark
Plot: vengeance, gang, vigilante, blood, abuse, justice, teenager, revenge
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
The Tribes of Palos Verdes (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: When the situation at her idyllic Palos Verdes home turns volatile, young Medina attempts to surf her way to happiness.
Style: suspense, sad, depressing, touching, aesthetic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: twins, surfing, adolescence, teenager, mother daughter relationship, troubled teen, loneliness, sibling relationship, stereotypes, female protagonist, teenage girl, mother ...
Place: california, los angeles
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69%
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Safe Harbor (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Doug and Robbie are about to set sail on a long trip when they unexpectedly find themselves foster parenting a group of troubled teenage boys. The experience changes their lives for the better, and they decide to stay in town and run the foster home ...
Style: psychological, sincere, captivating, disturbing
Plot: troubled teen, social worker, juvenile delinquent, teenager, re-education, changing lives, relationships, lifestyle change, male female relationship, assistant, troubled youth, adoption ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
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Toughlove (1985)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The Charters family falls into despair over their drug-addicted son Gary. They discuss his problems through the "Toughlove" program in searching for answers.
Plot: drug addiction, group therapy, marijuana, parenting, cocaine, drug abuse, troubled teen, drug use, teenage boy, father son relationship, husband wife relationship, teenage angst ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
Breaking the Silence (1992)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Defending a teen charged with patricide drudges up dark memories for a lawyer.
Plot: patricide, trauma, lawyer, murder, physical abuse, child abuse, courtroom, teenage boy, childhood trauma, flashback, haunted by the past, incest ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
Face in the Mirror (1982)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 65 min.
Story: The dramatic story of a group of young people’s response to a desperate teen’s cry for help.
Style: christian film
Plot: faith, suicide, pastor, ambulance, christianity, outcast, suicide attempt, christian, troubled teen, depression, teenager, hospital ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
A Child Lost Forever: The Jerry Sherwood Story (1992)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A teenage mother is forced to give up her baby for adoption and, 19 years later, when she tries to contact her son, she learns that he died, under questionable circumstances when he was three years old.
Style: depressing
Plot: abuse, orphan, dilemma, children, parents, nylons, death of child, abusive mother, female protagonist, child abuse, teenager, adoption ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
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The Burglar (1987)
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 90 min.
Story: With a brother dedicated to punk rock stardom at any cost and a drunken father who chases skirt between robotic dancing lessons from the TV, young Senka stands as much chance of nurture as the hero of Truffaut's 400 Blows. The amazing thing ...
Audience: teens
Plot: perestroika, stealing, teenager, motorcycle, musician, concert, father son relationship, police, hallucination, generation gap, alcoholic father, teen angst ...
Place: ussr, soviet union
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
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Fair Haven (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A young man returns to his family farm, after a long stay in ex-gay conversion therapy, and is torn between the expectations of his emotionally distant father, and the memories of a past, loving relationship he has tried to bury.
Style: touching, disturbing, sincere, lgbt cinema, independent film ...
Plot: gay, father son relationship, gay teenager, rural setting, gay relationship, lgbt, male male relationship, lgbtq, love, gay couple, gay interest, gay lead character ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
Thursday's Child (1983)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Sam Alden is the 17-year-old high school star player in baseball who seems to have it all. However, his family notices that he is often bothered with fits of coughing. Worried, his parents decide to take him to the hospital, where they are shocked ...
Plot: teenager, heart transplant, illness, father son relationship, doctor, family relations, heart disease
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46%
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Tex (1982)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Coming-of-age adventure about two teenage brothers and their struggles to grow up, on their own, after their mother dies and their father leaves them.
Style: uplifting, serious, realistic, touching, feel good ...
Audience: teens, family outing, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, teenager, brother brother relationship, dysfunctional family, friendship, bittersweet, small town, high school, profanity, acid, name calling, family relations ...
Time: year 1982, 80s, 70s
Place: oklahoma, usa, southern usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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 110
Love, Mary (1985)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A teen, who is always in trouble in school and has been sent to reform school, turns her life around when a counselor discovers she is dyslexic.
Plot: dyslexia, reform school, in love, teenager, stealing a car, police, student, nurse, teenage girl, car accident, counselor, belief in hell ...
Time: 70s, 80s, 60s, year 1966, year 1984
Place: oregon, portland oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Young Adult Matters (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 127 min.
Story: Wandering around the streets, Sejin, a pregnant teen, gets to know Juyeong and reunites with Jaepil and Sinji. The four musketeers go through a series of misfortunes, bumping into masochistic/sadistic characters and experiencing the brutality and ...
Style: psychological, captivating, disturbing, tense, suspense
Plot: homeless teenager, pregnant teenager, troubled teen, teenager, life is a bitch, social problems, teenage life, social misfits, society, relationship problems, female homosexuality, poverty ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
In The Name of God (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: In a time of forgiving and giving thanks, a reverend and his family take in a troubled boy named Mason after having lost a son of their own. It's a bumpy ride for Mason, butting heads with his new step-brother and the church counselor he's ...
Style: christian film, melancholic, unusual plot structure, sincere, contemplative
Audience: teens
Plot: faith, christianity, family relations, teenage boy, christian, foster child, church, support group, troubled teen, respect, foster home, adoptive father ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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Secrets (1995)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Etta Berter is a doctor's wife in 1905 who has been unable to have children. The couple has one adopted daughter but she has always wanted more children. Julie Harris's character is the family's cook and close companion to their ...
Plot: family secret, church, troubled teen, jealousy, adopted daughter, choir, teenage girl, secret
Place: iowa
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
 6.9
 813
Moving On (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A family gathers at grandfather’s place by chance and breaks up. Okju, who has been observing her family for a short time, gains the strength to rise above the loss through this experience.
Style: serious, atmospheric, sincere, melancholic
Plot: family relations, brother sister relationship, summer vacation, siblings relations, life, father son relationship, family conflict, absent mother, troubled teen, teenager, aunt, summer ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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 6.8
 743
Sparta (2022)
Genre: Drama
Country: Austria, Germany, France
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Ewald moved to Romania years ago. Now in his 40s, he seeks a fresh start. Leaving his girlfriend, he moves to the hinterland. With young boys from the area, he transforms a decaying school into a fortress. The children enjoy a new, carefree ...
Style: dramatic, suspenseful, serious, captivating, mumblecore
Plot: abuse, judo, male nudity, rabbit, sex scene, wrestling, brother, boy, pedophilia, retirement home, boyhood, female nudity ...
Place: romania
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Waterberry Tears (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: This coming of age story is about a gay boy, Goyo, as he discovers himself. Living with his Mexican family in the Coachella Valley, Goyo has a hard time hiding his sexual preferences. Although Goyo seeks acceptance from his father Ramon, Ramon ...
Style: captivating, serious, realistic, sincere
Plot: gay teenager, coming of age, dysfunctional family, gay, alcoholic father, rejection, gay son, lgbtq, lgbt teen, lgbt, closeted homosexual, homosexuality ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Short Term 12 (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Grace, a compassionate young supervisor at a foster care facility, works with her boyfriend and colleague, Mason, to help at-risk teens. But when a new charge dredges up memories of her own troubled past, Grace's tough exterior begins eroding.
Style: sad, compassionate, realistic, touching, independent film ...
Audience: teens, teen drama, adult
Plot: child abuse, depression, social worker, adolescence, teenager, suicide attempt, self mutilation, troubled teen, foster child, coming of age, mental illness, self harm ...
Time: year 2013, y2k, 2010s, 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
The Day Will Come (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Set in the blooming 1960s, the film centres around two young brothers who are instantly robbed of their lives when they are placed in a boy's home forgotten by time. Armed only with a vivid imagination and a fickle hope, the boys engage in the ...
Style: touching, realistic, suspense, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot: orphanage, abuse, brother, brother brother relationship, bully, violence, mockery, escape, rules, sexualized violence, humiliation, sexual abuse ...
Time: 60s
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 7.0
 9
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Movie in collections
 6.0
 855
Invisible (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina, France
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Ely is 17 years old. After school, she works few hours at a pet shop. When Ely learns that she is pregnant, her inner world explodes even though she tries to go on with her daily routine as if nothing was different. She is afraid and upset, and she ...
Style: psychological, unusual plot structure, touching, tense, contemplative
Plot: teenager, female protagonist, teenage protagonist, teen angst, pregnancy, 17 year old, couples, friends, love and romance, life is a bitch, love, poverty ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Dangerous Child (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A divorced mother faces the bitter irony of being suspected of child abuse when in fact her own teen son is taking verbal and physical swipes at her.
Style: serious, tense, suspense, suspenseful, realistic
Plot: youth, physical abuse, family relations, single parent, teenage life, dysfunctional family, life is a bitch, family problems, parents and children, domestic disturbance, abuse, false accusation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
The Last Years of Childhood (1979)
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A juvenile offender is handed over to authorities at age 13 and placed in an institution in this somber social drama. Martin is a petty thief who enjoys stealing and looks up to his older brother. When he is informed that his brother has died, ...
Plot: runaway, teenager, social problems, male pubic hair, nudity, family relations, runaway teen, bureaucracy, escape, juvenile delinquency, social realism, coming of age ...
Place: southern germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
When Friendship Kills (1996)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Two friends keep their vomiting a secret until one friend almost dies.
Style: psychological, emotional
Audience: teens
Plot: eating disorder, bulimia, anorexia, disability, teen social issues, illness, troubled teen, love, self harm, depression, mental illness, trouble ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Rockabilly Requiem (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story: West Germany, 1982: Hubertus and Sebastian are fighting for their Future against their fathers. Their unconditional love for Punk Princess Debbie and the raw power of Alternative Rockabilly Music are the only statements of Freedom in this little ...
Plot: music band, sibling relationship, rock and roll, tattoo, violent father, female mechanic, audition, alcoholic mother, friendship, suicide, alcoholic father, siblings ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
The Death of Richie (1977)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A sensitive but confused teenager feels pressure on him from all directions and turns to drugs, which causes problems for him in school and at home.
Style: grindhouse
Audience: teen drama
Plot: dysfunctional family, swing, drug addiction, family tragedy, family conflict, domineering father, marijuana, drug abuse, father son relationship, teenager, courtroom, propaganda ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
CQ2 (Seek You Too) (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 100 min.
Story: CQ2 (seek you too) is the story of an teenager, with an uncertain future, who canalises her lust for life in the study of contemporary dance.
Style: disturbing, suspense, captivating, psychological
Plot: androgyny, teenager, dancer, troubled teen, social problems, social misfits, teenage life, dancing, dancehall girl, society, rape, ex convict ...
Place: montreal
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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