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Harmony Lessons (2013)
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Original name: Уроки гармонии
Genre: Drama
Country: Kazakhstan, Germany, France
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
During a medical examination, 13-year-old Aslan is humiliated in front of a load of his fellow pupils. The incident unleashes his latent personality disorder. Plagued by self-doubt, he strives for cleanliness and perfection and is obsessed with trying to control everything around him. His compulsion draws Aslan, who lives with his grandmother in a village in Kazakhstan, into increasingly difficult situations. He abhors the way most of his fellow pupils are held in the sway of a criminal scheme, in which Bolat, one of Aslan’s tormentors, is also involved. Bolat blackmails the younger children into paying him protection money; he has nothing but contempt for ostracised Aslan.
Style:
realistic, atmospheric, serious, disturbing, gloomy
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
boy, youth, life is a bitch, coming of age, bullying, child murder, social misfits, misfit, vengeance, youth gang, teenage boy, humiliation, interrogation, minimalism, high school, little boy, boyhood, mental illness, school, village, teenager, gang, student, snow, death ...
Time:
year 2013, 21st century, contemporary
Place:
kazakhstan, asia
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, gloomy and touching films with plots about youth, coming of age, boy, life is a bitch, little boy, teenage boy and family relations mostly in Drama, Crime and Thriller genres. Some movies like Harmony Lessons: The Class (2007), Enclave (2015), Two-Legged Horse (2008), Nightmares (1979), Piggies (2009). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Story:
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Duration: 101 min.
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Story:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Poland, Germany
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Country: Germany
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Story:
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Country: Germany
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Story:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Style:
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Story:
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