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Crossing the Lighthouse (1999)
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Original name: La traversée du phare
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Two kids about ten years old meet within a very peculiar framework: both come from broken families and are in care of foster homes...
Style:
realistic, inspirational, melancholic
Plot:
coming of age, children, friendship, orphan, healing, foster home, childhood trauma, bonding, lie, secrets, loss, resilience, identity, empathy, social issues, bittersweet, intimate, youth, first love, child, boyhood, humanism, compassion, small town, minimalism ...
Time:
90s, 1990s
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Most similar movies to Crossing the Lighthouse
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, melancholic, emotional and psychological films with plots about coming of age, youth, boy, friendship, school, small town and little boy mostly in Drama and Mystery genres. Some movies like Crossing the Lighthouse: The Fire That Burns (1997), And Then I Go (2017), The Witches' Sabbath (1988), The Last Hammer Blow (2014), Vito and the Others (1991). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Two boys in their early teens in a strictly-run pre-WWII Catholic School form a firm friendship which is troubled by an abbot who is obsessed with the younger of the students.
Plot:
coming of age, boys' school, altar boy, gay, lgbt, choir, school, friendship, teenage boy, homosexual, religion, boarding school ...
Time:
1930s, pre world war two
Place:
france, paris france
Similarity:
86%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Two teenage outsiders are demoralized daily at school, until an idea for vengeance offers them a terrifying release.
Style:
unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, thought provoking, psychological ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
bullying, friendship, school shooting, police, boy, friendship between boys, tragedy, best friend, revenge, school, teenage boy, junior high school ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
kentucky, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
The freshly graduated psychiatrist David shall deliver an opinion about young Maddalena, who's on trial for murdering a hunter. She claims she's a witch and acted on behalf of the devil.
Style:
erotic, sexual, sexy, weird, baroque
Plot:
witch, sex scene, female nudity, inquisition, torture, making love, folk horror, witchery, devil, murder, madness, a vision ...
Time:
17th century
Place:
tuscany
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
When he first enters the Montpellier Opera House, Victor knows nothing about music. Nor does he know his father, Samuel Rovinski, who is there to conduct Mahler’s 6th symphony. To change the course of his suddenly uncertain future, for Nadia his ...
Style:
realistic, touching, sentimental, emotional, captivating ...
Plot:
coming of age, parents and children, family relations, single parent, bittersweet, teenage boy, father son relationship, orchestra conductor, father son reunion, little boy, boyhood, father ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
A despairing Rosario has just murdered his wife and daughter at the dinner table on New Year's Eve. Somehow, Vito quietly convinces his father to drop the gun, spare their lives and call the police. Placed in the custody of sexually abusive ...
Style:
gay cinema
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
gay rape, male rape victim, coming of age, rape victim, sex scene, rape, male rape, young boy, bare chested male, youth, boy strangling, tiger ...
Place:
napoli italy, naples italy
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, West Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
It is the story of a middle age professor who falls deaply in love with a young student in his English literature class. The student is a boarder in the teacher's house. The teacher is married and his wife knows he is mostly attracted to young ...
Style:
tragic ending, melancholic, emotional, intense, art house ...
Plot:
gay, lgbt, homosexuality, unrequited love, midlife crisis, teacher student relationship, bittersweet, literary, forbidden love, tragic romance, obsession, love ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Iceland, Sweden
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A seven-year-old boy is sent to a farm on a remote island, when his mother goes abroad. On the island the boy gets to know a twenty-year-old woman who seems willing to take on a mother's role. But the boy is reaching an age of sexual awareness ...
Style:
tension, psychological, atmospheric, melancholic, art house
Plot:
coming of age, island, wedding, fire, lighthouse, sexual awakening, obsession, jealousy, loneliness, character study, sexual tension, isolation ...
Place:
iceland
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A mysterious drifter lures two boys into uncovering the secrets of a sleepy southern town.
Style:
independent film, realistic, serious, touching, offbeat ...
Plot:
coming of age, youth, small town, small town life, social relations, childhood, friendship, friendship between boys, father son relationship, male female relationship, boy, husband wife relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
The first motion picture film by Agnieszka Holland about loneliness, longing for affection, and misfortune. Irena, a postal delivery worker, is struggling with a inadequate housing, a drunk neighbor who wants to take her place, and a heartless boss, ...
Style:
bleak
Plot:
loneliness, poverty, alienation, isolation, social realism, female protagonist, single mother, theft, tragic romance, working class, melancholy, desperation ...
Time:
80s
Place:
eastern europe, west berlin west germany, poland
Similarity:
100%
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 ...
Style:
realistic, serious, atmospheric, disturbing, gloomy
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
boy, youth, life is a bitch, coming of age, bullying, child murder, social misfits, misfit, vengeance, teenage boy, humiliation, youth gang ...
Time:
year 2013, 21st century
Place:
kazakhstan, asia
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
A French family with two daughters, 10-year-old Laure and 6-year-old Jeanne, moves to a new neighborhood during the summer holidays. With her tomboy ways, Laure is immediately mistaken for a boy by the local kids and passes herself off as Mickaël.
Style:
serious, crying, captivating, sincere, touching ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
childhood, gender, child protagonist, children, transsexual, friendship, youth, coming of age, society, child, sexual identity, soccer ...
Time:
2010s, year 2011, 90s, 21st century
Place:
france, paris france, indiana, europe
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Set before the first Wold War in part of Poland under Austrain occupation, the story of a young boy in primary school who later grows up to become a rebellious, poetic-minded teen in the same school when the national movement toward liberation is ...
Style:
intellectual, political
Plot:
coming of age, boy, polish history, teacher, school, boarding house, tyranny, rebel, religion, male nudity, father son relationship, police ...
Time:
pre world war one
Place:
poland
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Portugal, Brazil, Luxembourg
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
A woman takes her young son, leaves her husband and moves in with her lover. The boy, desperate to get his parents back together, becomes convinced that if only he can get his father's stolen motorcycle back everything will be fine again, so he ...
Style:
sexual, realistic, semi serious, touching, sexy
Plot:
coming of age, nude boy, politics, pedophilia, boy, stepfather stepson relationship, skinny dipping, little boy, boyhood, unemployment, school, youth ...
Time:
90s
Place:
portugal, europe
Similarity:
100%
682
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
The new film by French director Cédric Kahn focusses on Philippe Fournier, a man who lives with his 2 sons, having decided not to give them back to their mother after she won custody of the children. The children Okyesa and Tsali must grow up in ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, touching, sentimental, captivating ...
Plot:
brother brother relationship, father son relationship, on the run, parents and children, custody, family relations, feral man, parents separation, hidden identity, teenage life, wildlife, nature ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Summer 1968. 14-year-old Wolfgang is deported from his family in the secluded Church Welfare Institution sanctuary. One thing is clear for Wolfgang: His yearning for freedom, he will not soon buried in the bog.
Style:
sad
Plot:
stepfather, boy, violence, coming of age, lgbt, gay, boyhood, nationalism, distopia, traumatic childhood, little boy, childhood ...
Time:
60s, year 1968
Place:
germany
Similarity:
100%
1K
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Although he is only ten years old, Jack is responsible for himself and his little brother Manuel and this fills him with pride. Their single mother works during the day and often goes out at night. There’s no father in sight. One day, Manuel burns ...
Style:
realistic, atmospheric, touching, serious, captivating ...
Plot:
boy, young heroes, teenage life, youth, self discovery, brother brother relationship, child as adult, child care, coming of age, family relations, life turned upside down, parents and children ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
germany
Similarity:
100%
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, contemplative
Plot:
boy, bullying, children, friendship between boys, friendship, coming of age, revenge, fight, scandinavian girl, violence, school, retribution ...
Place:
denmark, scandinavia
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Portugal
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
The darkness of night, a barely lit place, motorbikes flirting with danger: a group of teenagers at a crossroads playing chicken with unaware passing cars.Jota (Eduardo Frazão) stands out from this group, unclassifiable; his destiny has no straight ...
Style:
intense, atmospheric, melancholic, road movie, moody
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, teenager, outsider, small town, longing, restlessness, youth culture, alienation, danger, loneliness, escape, bittersweet ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
portugal
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Norway
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
The young teenager Otto is entering the summer holidays in 60'ies Oslo, without getting a real holiday, and he is not accepted in the gang or the football team. But then he meets exciting mysterious Frank, which changes everything.
Style:
contemplative, serious, realistic, gloomy
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, youth, lgbt, friendship, human nature, mysterious character, teenage life, working class, family relations, friends, kids in trouble, holiday ...
Time:
60s
Similarity:
100%
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.
Style:
tragic ending, emotional, melancholic, poignant, atmospheric ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
childhood, tragedy, divorce, runaway, loss, child protagonist, family drama, grief, death of child, accident, symbolism, family conflict ...
Time:
70s
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico, France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Ivan, a 14-year old boy, lives with his uncle Jaime, a mediocre dealer of used car parts. Both of them dream with a better life and are stashing away their money in order to emigrate ilegally to Chicago shortly. When Jaime realizes that he needs ...
Style:
realistic, bleak, melancholic, tense, tension ...
Plot:
coming of age, uncle nephew relationship, border crossing, poverty, migration, family drama, illegal immigration, loss of innocence, friendship, juvenile delinquency, survival, coyote ...
Place:
latin america
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Cyprus
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
In a seemingly idyllic Cypriot village, twelve-year-old Socrates finds himself in the centre of a murder investigation that exposes a dark family secret and changes his life forever.
Style:
emotional, dramatic, atmospheric, crime drama, tense ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, childhood, small town, family secret, murder investigation, childhood trauma, family drama, loss of innocence, investigation, summer, suspicion, secret revealed ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
cyprus
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
"I am" tells the story of Kundel, a boy searching for his place in life, his identity. After running away from an orphanage where he is treated as an outcast among outcasts by both his peers and the adults in charge, and being rejected a ...
Style:
realistic, poignant, emotional, melancholic, independent film
Plot:
coming of age, children, childhood, child protagonist, youth, friendship, self discovery, orphanage, adolescence, boy, survival, intimate ...
Place:
poland
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
After being constantly bullied at school by her classmate Kevin, 8-year-old Claire discovers that the boy who is giving her hard time is also suffering and might need her help…
Style:
heartfelt, sensitive, poignant, sincere, melancholic
Plot:
elementary school, high school life, bullying, childhood, empathy, youth, family drama, friendship, compassion, small town, social realism, everyday life ...
Similarity:
27%
329
Genre: Drama
Country: Latvia, Italy
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Anastasia is 13 and her sister Diana is 11. The two sisters live in a Latvian orphanage. When they find out that an American family is ready to adopt them, Diana cannot wait to move to the States, while Anastasia is less excited about the idea of ...
Style:
emotional, realistic, dramatic, melancholic, intercultural
Plot:
adoption, orphanage, sibling relationship, coming of age, sisterhood, mother and daughter, teenager, adolescence, children, childhood, family drama, choice ...
Place:
latvia, eastern europe
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama
Country: Montenegro, Serbia, Croatia
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Five childhood friends from a small Montenegrin town have gradually moved away to different corners of the former Yugoslavia, yet they remain in contact, aware that their long-time friendship continues to play a fundamental role in their lives.
Style:
melancholic, emotional
Plot:
friendship, coming of age, nostalgia, small town, introspection, diaspora, migration, slice of life, bittersweet, intimate, social change, memory ...
Place:
montenegro
Similarity:
23%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Damián, an 11-year-old boy who is separated from his violent family, is taken to live in a children's home by state intervention. Accompanied by Leandro, a social worker with a personal story similar to his, Damián will have to accept that ...
Style:
emotional, melancholic, psychological
Plot:
social issues, domestic violence, coming of age, childhood, trauma, foster home, children's home, healing, intimate, social worker, empathy, resilience ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
argentina
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
One evening, Dalva is suddenly taken away from her father’s house. Dumbfounded and outraged at first, she later meets Jayden, a social worker, and Samia, a teen with a temper. A new life seems to start for Dalva, that of a girl her age.
Style:
emotional, realistic, melancholic, dramatic
Plot:
father daughter incest, incest, coming of age, family drama, friendship, identity, self discovery, teenage life, social worker, resilience, adaptation, rebellion ...
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A substitute teacher takes on a job as a year 6 class teacher in a village he does not know. He has to help a student adjust back into school, although none of his classmates want him there.
Style:
captivating, disturbing, psychological, emotional, inspirational ...
Plot:
bullying, school, teacher, children, education, substitute teacher, adult child friendship, school teacher, high school teacher, schoolboy, high school life, social problems ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
The Film Revolves around 12 year old kid, who has some physical disabilities. Due to this, his life becomes abnormal. Thus, film portrays his life incidents.
Style:
gujarati, emotional, psychological, captivating, thrilling ...
Plot:
disabled child, urban, child protagonist, physical disability, empathy, handicapped, adolescence, teenage protagonist, relationship problems, disability, teenager, problem ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
india
Similarity:
21%
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