Movies like The Sacred Mound

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The Sacred Mound (1993)
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The Sacred Mound (1993)
Original name: Hin helgu vé
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 and instead of regarding her as a mother figure; he falls obsessively in love with her.
Plot: coming of age, island, wedding, lighthouse, fire, boy, first love, love, sex, nudity, sexual dysfunction, treasure, female nudity, children, nude, urination, nudity (full frontal - brief)
Place: iceland

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, suspenseful, independent film and suspense films with plots about coming of age, nudity, boy, female nudity, love, teenage boy and sex mostly in Drama, Family and Romance genres. Some movies like The Sacred Mound: Lime (2001), Crossing the Lighthouse (1999), The Greenhouse Effect (2005), Eros, the God of Love (1981), Maramao (1987). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Lime (2001)
Genre: Family, Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Tanya is almost sixteen and angry. She is in love with Henrik and unhappy. Her mother has decided they're moving the very same day Tanya gets the job as drummer in Henrik's band, Limbo. It really isn't much fun having to leave behind ...
Plot: teenage sexuality, coming of age, teen drug use, scandinavian girl, first love, nude bathing, friendship between girls, nude girl, mobile phone, teenage protagonist, puberty, female protagonist ...
Place: scandinavia
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Crossing the Lighthouse (1999)
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...
Plot: coming of age, boyhood, youth, child, first love, detention, runaway, bullying, lighthouse, police, school, sexual dysfunction ...
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The Greenhouse Effect (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Rita is a naïve 18-year-old from the sticks who has come to Moscow to meet up with the man who impregnated her a few months earlier. Unfortunately, his name and address was written on a piece of paper in her luggage, which was promptly stolen upon ...
Plot: coming of age, boy, homelessness, female nudity, nudity, male nudity, death, teenage boy, police, singing, age difference, stranded ...
Place: russia
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Eros, the God of Love (1981)
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A man explores the process of formation of sexuality and is looking for a woman that does not exist.
Plot: coming of age, bare breasts, erotica, affair, love, sex, female pubic hair, flashback, incest, threesome, english class, woman ...
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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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The World of Ludovic (1993)
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, Netherlands, France
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Ludovic, a young boy neglected by his artsy parents, falls in love with Sophie, the daughter of a piano teacher. They meet in secret places in the city. Not long after Sophie's father finds them naked together in her room, Ludovic is sent away ...
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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 ...
Plot: coming of age, love, friendship between boys, motorcycle, group of friends, youth, first love, friendship, teenage boy, school, friend
Place: portugal
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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 ...
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Style: captivating, suspenseful, sincere, melancholic
Plot: coming of age, absent mother, sex scene, grandmother, small town, childhood friend, gay, incest, boyhood, father, child, boy ...
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Seduction by the Sea (1963)
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany, Yugoslavia
Duration: 80 min.
Story: A young women is hired by a woman to seduce her son and convince him to return to home from his self-induced exile.
Plot: marriage, island, seduction, girl, mother, nudity, sex, female nudity, frustration, young
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Country: Germany
Duration: 98 min.
Story: There is nothing that keeps passionate social worker Wolski in Germany. On an uninhabited island in the Kingdom of Tonga he wants to give criminal teenagers a second chance. His first candidate is Marcel, 16, and no stranger to drugs, violence and ...
Style: psychological, sincere, unusual plot structure, tense, light ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Poland, Czechoslovakia
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Set in the early 1930s, a young man finds a job as a dishwasher in a hotel and quickly works his way up the ladder. Loosely based on the novel by Henryk Worcell.
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Place: poland
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Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 102 min.
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Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 93 min.
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Style: independent film
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Duration: 90 min.
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Genre: Drama
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Duration: 97 min.
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Audience: adult
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Genre: Drama
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1st Love (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 80 min.
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Genre: Drama
Country: Singapore
Duration: 101 min.
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Genre: Drama
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Duration: 93 min.
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Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 84 min.
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Reine is supposed to go to a summercamp called 'Childrens island' but decides to remain in Stockholm over the summer while his mother is working at a hotel. She thinks he is at the camp and he tells her he his. We then follow him around ...
Audience: teens
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Place: eastern europe, stockholm sweden
⇓ similarity ⇓
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