Movies like Boys 1977

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Boys (1977)
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Boys (1977)
Original name: Drenge
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 83 min.
Story: This non-narrative film unveils three episodes in the psychosexual life of a neurotic man, beginning with a trip he took to the countryside over the holidays as a small boy, to visit a cousin. Later, he is shown as a high-school boy (Mads Ole Erhadsen). Finally, he is shown as a young man, busily engaged in the amorous pursuit of a trainee nurse.
Style: no music
Plot: childhood, teenager, school, children, swing, boy, teenage girl, girl, teenage boy, high school, undressing, urination, ladder, bow

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, psychological, touching and disturbing films with plots about teenager, teenage girl, teenage boy, coming of age, school, high school and boy mostly in Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like Boys: Maramao (1987), Tree of Knowledge (1981), The chronic innocence (1985), Beauty and the Beast (1983), Agnus Dei (1997). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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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Tree of Knowledge (1981)
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 110 min.
Story: As a group of Danish children pass into adolescence, gradually the most popular girl becomes an outcast, for trivial reasons that she never understands.
Style: cult classic, serious, realistic, touching, emotional ...
Audience: teens
Plot: coming of age, children, bullying, female nudity, troubled relationship, nordic, adolescence, school, classmate classmate relationship, new student, sexual tension, loneliness ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, year 1958, 1950s
Place: denmark, scandinavia
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The chronic innocence (1985)
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 97 min.
Story: For Janus his friend Tore is his big ideal: pretty, intelligent and self-confident. Janus is grateful for his friendship even though he is considered the court jester. When Tore falls in love with the beautiful and sweet girl Helle, Janus accepts ...
Plot: scandinavian girl, teenage sexuality, high school prom, teenage love, school teacher, graduation, high school student, schoolgirl, teenage boy, teenage girl, jealousy, teenager ...
Place: denmark, scandinavia
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Beauty and the Beast (1983)
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 87 min.
Story: When Mette and her father are left alone over the Christmas holidays to paint the new nursery the father ends up alone most of the time. The 16-year-old Mette is always off with her friends at the disco or skating, and the father does not mind until ...
Plot: christmas, father daughter relationship, teenage girl, jealousy, coming of age, grownups, teenage sexuality, new year's eve, friends, daughter, female nudity, friend ...
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65%
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Agnus Dei (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The young girl Johanne is left by her mother at a solemn convent school. The school is a strange world to her, and when she feels unable to comply with the demands of faith she faces a difficult decision.
Plot: children, girl, school, convent, nun, catholicism, religion, mother, female nudity, menstruation, world, young ...
Place: denmark
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Child's Play (1992)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 111 min.
Story: When Micha's mother leaves his irascible father, he tries to prevent their divorce by any means he can think of, but his attempts to hold the family together lead to a catastrophe...
Style: social, political
Plot: children, childhood, female nudity, nudity, sex scene, bare breasts, teenage girl, family relations, braless, female full frontal nudity
Time: 60s
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Marcowe migdaly (1990)
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Drama directed by Radoslaw Piwowarski.
Plot: exile, teenage boy, teenage girl, classmate, high school, communism, suicide attempt, anti semitism, emigration, youth, party, teenager
Time: 60s
Place: poland
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50%
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Hold Me Tight (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 80 min.
Story: I skoletimerne sender Mikkel prøvende blikke til klassens stille og indelukkede pige, Sara, der er smigret over opmærksomheden. Da Mikkel og hans ven Hassan leger flirtende med hende i et frikvarter, bliver Hassans kæreste, Louise, jaloux og ...
Style: crying
Audience: teens
Plot: coming of age, male pubic hair, snow, male nudity, student, teenager, scandinavian girl, suicide, father son relationship, school, brother sister relationship, suicide by hanging ...
Place: denmark
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Yellow Flowers on the Green Grass (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: Vietnam
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A coming of age story set in the Vietnamese countryside during the late 1980s, as told through the eyes of a 12 year old boy named Thieu. Thieu and his younger brother Tuong share and do everything together. Their days unfold like a whimsical and ...
Style: psychological, touching, contemplative, captivating, sentimental ...
Plot: boy, brother brother relationship, childhood, fall in love, family relations, innocence, girl, boyhood, teenager, coming of age, 7 year old, 12 year old
Time: 80s, year 1989
Place: vietnam
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46%
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My Good Enemy (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Sensitive 12-year-old Alf is the low man on his class' totem pole, and he's sick of it. Forming a secret, Machiavellian alliance with another student who also has grown weary of being bullied, he hatches a plan to throw a wrench into the ...
Style: psychological, sincere, captivating
Plot: boy, bullying, children, friendship, friendship between boys, coming of age, revenge, fight, scandinavian girl, retribution, violence, school ...
Place: scandinavia, denmark
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Raging Rose (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Poland
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Jozef travels from Poland to France to work and to find his son Roman, who he abandoned 15 years earlier. Jozef works for a Polish immigrant family that has successfully settled in France. Rose, the family’s teenaged daughter, volunteers to help ...
Style: captivating, psychological, disturbing
Plot: teenage girl, teenager, forbidden love, teen romance, love affair, love story, in love, romantic friendship, fall in love, romantic relationship, relationships, search for father ...
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The Children's Rebellion (1992)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 97 min.
Story: In the 19th century, children -- particularly the children of the poor -- were considered to be an exploitable resource of docile and cheap labor. Anyone who had the effrontery to steal so much as a portion of a loaf of bread for any reason would ...
Plot: boy, coming of age, child, convict, social justice, teenage boy, violence, children, nudity, rebel, prison guard, child with gun ...
Time: 1840s
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The First Years (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 10 min.
TV show
Story: The First Years is a contemporary scripted reality serie about the first year of secondary school with recognizable and poignant stories about the fascinations, challenges and problems of first graders. The stories are based on true events, which ...
Style: exciting, entertaining, captivating, psychological, thrilling ...
Plot: high school, children, high school teacher, teenage girl, adolescence, life is a bitch, middle school, schoolgirl, schoolboy, high school life, school, teenage life ...
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40%
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Matted (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 40 min.
Story: Rose Lee is just a typical high school student trying to figure things out. Her dream is to join the boy's wrestling team, but no one is making it easy for her. Along the way, she'll discover that her most difficult opponent may be herself.
Style: tense, psychological, disturbing, captivating, unusual plot structure ...
Plot: lgbt, teenage girl, girl, friendship, transgender, teenage boy, teacher, school, student, small town, father daughter relationship, female protagonist ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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40%
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Could We Maybe (1976)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Denmark
Duration: 98 min.
Story: 15-year-old Kim - an ordinary teenager, given mostly to himself, living with an unmarried mother in a small apartment. Once Kim together with an unfamiliar girl falls hostage during a bank robbery, but after making ​​friends with the leader of ...
Plot: coming of age, teenager, bank robber, children, stockholm syndrome, boyhood, bank, bank robbery, erotic dream, loss of virginity, female nudity, sexuality ...
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Wanna See My Beautiful Navel? (1978)
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Coming of age, summer camp and first love...
Plot: adolescence, young love, school trip, first love, coming of age, male nudity, teenage girl, teenage love, teenage boy, children, school class, schoolboy ...
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Circle of Lies (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Once the most popular girl at Short Beach High, Denise Dixon finds her life turned upside-down after one night of terror. Rumours and violent backstabbing run rife. Life in Short Beach will never be the same.
Plot: teenager, blonde, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, beach, bullying, high school, girl, night, surfboard
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The Here After (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden, Poland, France
Duration: 102 min.
Story: When John returns home to his father after serving time in prison, he is looking forward to starting his life afresh. However, in the local community his crime is neither forgotten nor forgiven.
Plot: high school student, hot guys, male nudity, thoughtful, minimalism, boy, teenager, teenage boy, school, violence, coming of age, mobbing ...
Time: year 2015
Place: eastern europe
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Seto and Utsumi (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 75 min.
Story: Utsumi and Seto's daily routine is to spend their afterschool hours just jabbering with one another along a riverbed. Getting excited over trivial word play, agonizing over the content of an email to be sent to a girl, and, at times, talking ...
Style: psychological, disturbing, captivating
Plot: high school student, high school, routine, meeting, teenage life, adolescence, lifestyle, society, teenager, high school life, teenage boy, school ...
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Pain of Love (1992)
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 115 min.
Story: A young woman who falls in love with her teacher is hit by heartache and challenges she is not prepared for and struggles to escape her dark frame of mind.
Plot: age difference, mental illness, teacher student relationship, suicide attempt, parenthood, psychiatric hospital, escape, woman, mental institution, flash forward, celebration, girl ...
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Jasper's Ghost (1992)
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 75 min.
Story: 11-year-old Jasper may just be starting puberty, but so far he has experienced a lifetime of emotions. On the day his beloved grandfather dies, he is charged with taking care of the elder's pet cat. The local town bully, Mourids however, has ...
Plot: children, peeping, scandinavian girl, kitten, full moon, spider, lake, fish, church, junior high school, teenager, boy ...
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36%
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The Mutants (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: Portugal, France
Duration: 113 min.
Story: The Mutants (Portuguese: Os mutantes) is a 1998 Portuguese film by director Teresa Villaverde, starring Ana Moreira and Alexandre Pinto. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival.
Style: bleak
Plot: erotica, woman, friendship, police officer, homeless teenager, theft, brother, abused child, coming of age, surrogate brother, poverty, friendship between boys ...
Place: portugal
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35%
The Beniker Gang (1984)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: When his younger friends go up for adoption, threatening their extended family, an orphaned teen helps them discourage potential parents.
Style: independent film, realistic, semi serious, uplifting, touching ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: family relations, orphan, adoption, on the run, youth, chases and races, journalism, gang, family life, teenage life, captivity, siblings relations ...
Time: 80s
Place: missouri, hawaii, new jersey
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35%
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James the Second (2024)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: The story of a teenage boy who suffers from a rare disorder that prevents him from feeling. We follow the journey of a single mother going through her son's physical and emotional changes.
Style: exciting, serious, dramatic, captivating
Plot: boy, boy girl relationship, boys and girls, teenage girl, adolescent boy, adolescence, teenage boy, relationships, teenage protagonist, adolescent girl, love, parents and children ...
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Cowards (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A young victim of bullying at school realizes that even the adult world is dominated by fear similar to his own. He pays a high price when he decides to fight back.
Style: realistic, serious, touching, captivating, hispanic
Plot: coming of age, family relations, bullying, high school, teenage life, self discovery, gang, kids in trouble, bully, adolescence vs adulthood, parents and children, vengeance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: spain
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Ancika (2024)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Indonesia
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Friendship between Dilan and Ancika Mehrunisa Rabu. Their increasingly close relationship made the seeds of love grow and their relationship rose to the level of being a couple.
Audience: teen drama
Plot: heart, adaptation, life, friend, high school, young girl, student, boy, school, female protagonist, teenager, teen romance ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1995
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33%
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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
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31%
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TV 101 (1988)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: TV 101 is an American drama series that aired on CBS from 1988 until 1989. The series stars Sam Robards, Brynn Thayer, Leon Russom and Andrew Cassese. Other notable cast members include Stacey Dash, Teri Polo, Alex Désert and Matt LeBlanc. The ...
Plot: high school, high school teacher, teacher, high school life, teenage boy, teaching, teenager, social issues, high school friends, teenage girl, juvenile delinquent
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31%
Kissing Candice (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Candice longs to escape the boredom of her seaside town, but when a boy she dreams about turns up in real life, she becomes involved with a dangerous local gang.
Style: disturbing, suspense, captivating, bleak
Plot: teenage girl, gang, dream, friendship, teenager, stranger, escape, danger, homeless, poverty, woman, isolation ...
Place: ireland
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31%
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 ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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