Movies like The Magic

If you like "The Magic" you are looking for movies about / with friendship, obsession, boy, poverty, street life, filmmaking and filmmaker themes of Drama genre shot in Tunisia or Algeria.
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The Magic (1995)
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The Magic (1995)
Original name: Le magique
Genre: Drama
Country: Tunisia, Algeria
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Tunisia's submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1995
Plot: friendship, obsession, boy, poverty, street life, filmmaking, filmmaker, autobiography, friend, urban setting, child abandonment, hut, director cameo, rapture
Place: tunisia

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Most similar movies to The Magic

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, psychological, disturbing and touching films with plots about friendship, friend, boy, family relations, coming of age, friends and urban setting mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like The Magic: On the Nickel (1980), Saturn Returns (2009), We (2003), The Chimp (2001), The Tree We Hurt (1986). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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On the Nickel (1980)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: feature film written, produced by, and starring Ralph Waite (best known as John Walton, Sr., on the long-running CBS television series, "The Waltons"). The film tells the story of Sam (Donald Moffat), a recovering alcoholic who feels ...
Style: independent film
Plot: friend, alcoholism, drunkenness, monologue, police, judge, friendship, homelessness, bum, street life, alcoholic, slum ...
Time: year 1980
Place: los angeles
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Saturn Returns (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel, Germany
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Lucy, a privileged North American in contemporary Berlin, living a life of post Punk hedonism, roams the streets with her best friend, Derek. Together they use the city like a playground, a stage, and a never ending party. Into their lives enters ...
Style: avant garde
Plot: punk rock, lgbt, punk, drug, friendship, friend, party, urban setting, male female relationship, underground, return
Place: middle east, berlin germany
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61%
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We (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A summer trip to Berlin offers a fleeting glimpse into the lives of the country's youth in this vibrant, character-driven drama from director Martin Gypkens. When twentysomething Florian arrives in town to pay a visit to long-lost pal Pit, the ...
Plot: friendship, lgbt, male nudity, gay interest, grownups, unhappiness, filmmaker, gay, coming of age, homosexual, homosexuality, high school friends ...
Place: germany
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54%
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The Chimp (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Kyrgyzstan, Japan
Duration: 98 min.
Story: The Chimp is the nickname of a teenage boy (with large ears) who lives in the small town of Balyktchy, Kirghizstan, a former part of the USSR in central Asia. His family is being torn apart by his dad's alcoholism, his emotions are being torn ...
Plot: town, teenager, friendship, friend, teenage boy, father son relationship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, flirting, family relations, autobiography, alcoholic, brother sister relationship ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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The Tree We Hurt (1986)
Genre: Drama
Country: Greece
Duration: 75 min.
Story: Shot over a capricious summer, this film reveals a world of innocence shattered for some children in their school by corporal punishment. It moves at its own pace to reveal a world of children and adults with animals, birds, nature and sea. The film ...
Plot: boy, summer, friendship, reconciliation, meeting, greek, loyalty, greek island, tree, wasp, sea, group of friends ...
Time: 60s
Place: greece, hellas
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
The Hidden Child (2021)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Gabriele Santoro is a Professor of Pianoforte at the Music Conservatory San Pietro a Majella who lives in a working-class area of the city. One morning, while shaving his beard, the postman buzzes at the intercom to tell him he has a package. ...
Style: disturbing, suspenseful, thought provoking, serious, captivating ...
Plot: camorra, friendship, friend, mafioso, friends, adult child friendship, italian mafia, mafia, child, child in peril, family relations, boy ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
The Wooden Room (1995)
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 65 min.
Story: The protagonist of The Wooden Room is a director of documentaries, who lives with his wife - who is as stoic as he - in an isolated hut in the woods. The director is obsessed by filming marginal events in life. The closer he can get to these events ...
Style: avant garde, suspenseful, bad ending, disturbing, bleak ...
Plot: filmmaking, filmmaker, husband wife relationship, isolation, obsession, research, macabre, serial rapist, mad scientist, fantasy becomes reality, river, death of wife ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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Rocks (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A young teenage girl finds herself struggling to take care of herself and her younger brother after being abandoned by their single mother with no choice but to live out on the streets.
Style: disturbing, serious, suspense, rough, social
Audience: teen drama
Plot: teenager, brother sister relationship, teenage protagonist, coming of age, little brother, homeless, life is a bitch, grownups, absent mother, friendship, society, nothing goes right ...
Place: london
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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Just a Dream (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Film crew arrives in a small town in Nevada desert. Ends up changing the life of a 12-year-old kid and a friend of his, a movie lover.
Style: semi serious, feel good, humorous, realistic, sentimental ...
Audience: kids
Plot: youth, coming of age, desert, filmmaking, friendship, friends, obsession, interracial relations, family life, family relations, social relations, society ...
Time: 60s
Place: nevada, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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Now (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 80 min.
Story: A mysterious accident has separated Jaap from his beloved Rose, but they continue to talk to each other in their minds and dreams. As Jaap struggles to come to terms with what happened, his best friend JP suggests they travel to France to visit Rose ...
Style: road movie
Plot: coma, friend, love, accident, loneliness, loss, friendship, gay interest
Place: london, belgium
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42%
Threesome (1970)
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 102 min.
Story: The childhood of three friends, Ilya, Yacob, and Pavel, was spent in the innkeeper's house. Their three destinies are similarly unhappy. Yakob died of tuberculosis, Ilya, after robbing a merchant, committed suicide. And Pavel, who let the woman ...
Plot: fate, brothel, childhood, friend, friendship, suicide, illness, consumption
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42%
No One's Child (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Serbia, Croatia
Duration: 95 min.
Story: The movie is based on the fascinating, true story of a feral boy whom hunters found among wolves in a forest in the mountains of Bosnia-Herzegovina (BiH) in the mid-1980s. The boy was sent to the institution for children in an attempt to socialize ...
Style: touching, serious, captivating
Plot: boy, neglected child, friendship, children, orphanage, bullying, forest, wolf, coming of age, boyhood, nature, capture ...
Place: serbia, croatia
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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The 40th Door (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Azerbaijan
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Fourteen-year-old Rustam lives with his mother in a village; his father was killed by the Russian mafia. After his father's death, Rustam tries to provide for himself and his mother without resorting to illegal money-making schemes. But his ...
Style: fairy tale
Plot: boy, stealing, telephone call, robbery, poverty, theft, stabbing, carpet
Place: azerbaijan, moscow russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Special Education (1977)
Genre: Drama
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Educator and those educated in a home for juvenile delinquents in the same test: approach, take a peek into his soul to become a man. The story of a minor, neglected boys-offenders and their teachers who try to reject the old methods of ...
Style: educational
Plot: boy, police officer, car accident, education, escape, teaching, hitchhiking, teacher, stealing, runaway, theft, thief ...
Place: belgrade
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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I Am Maria (1979)
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A story about a strange friendship between 11 years old Maria and an older man Jon.
Style: sexual
Plot: children, male nudity, painter, friendship, small town, friend, female nudity, sexploitation
Place: eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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4:30 (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: Singapore, Japan
Duration: 93 min.
Story: "4:30" traces the relationship between Xiao Wu, an eleven year old Chinese Boy and his tenant Jung, a thirty-something Korean man. Told entirely from the perspective of the boy, Xiao Wu, this story of two very different characters is less ...
Style: realistic, touching, psychological, captivating, semi serious ...
Plot: boy, tenant, friendship, friends, solitude, nanny, life is a bitch, hopes, lifestyle, estrangement, urban setting, drunkenness ...
Time: 21st century
Place: singapore, asia, korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
The Lost Generation (1983)
Genre: Drama
Country: Taiwan, Hong Kong
Story: The plot follows a group of women who struggle in Hong Kong, most of them illegal immigrants from mainland China.
Plot: immigrant, integrity, survival, poverty, predator, exploitation, infidelity, urban setting
Place: hong kong
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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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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See You Tomorrow (1992)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: No overview found
Plot: comic book, voice over narration, doctor, old woman, ritual, death, boy, dying, mortality, childhood, classmate, friendship ...
Time: 60s
Place: switzerland, paris france
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35%
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The Pool (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A boy in abject poverty works in a hotel and becomes obsessed with a swimming pool in the opulent hills of Panjim, Goa, India. His life gets turned upside-down when he attempts to meet the mysterious family who lives at the house.
Style: thought provoking, realistic, touching, sincere, relaxing ...
Plot: hotel, social differences, social relations, human nature, obsession, society, rich and poor, master and servant, swimming, illiteracy, orphan, friendship ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: india, asia, goa india
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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The Good Son (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Bonjour tristesse: Teenager Luc lives with his mother Liliane and his little brother Paul in Paris, has to cope with the fact that his mother is a prostitute and practically raise his brother alone. Luc is disillusioned. One day, little Paul wants ...
Style: disturbing, captivating, psychological
Audience: teens
Plot: teenager, friendship, teenage boy, romantic friendship, family relations, love affair, relationships, teenage life, love story, teenage love, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, love interest ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Downtown: A Street Tale (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A group of street kids find that the only way to make it through the day is to hold onto their dreams while their reality is eating out of dumpsters, turning tricks and squatting in abandoned buildings.
Style: thrilling, captivating, psychological
Plot: homelessness, street life, urban setting, urban ghetto life, orphan, life is a bitch, city life, drug, group, inner city, street
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
September 30, 1955 (1977)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Rebel. Icon. Legend. James Dean’s untimely death on September 30, 1955, shocked the world and helped define an entire generation. This gripping drama chronicles the reactions of an Arkansas college town to the tragedy and focuses on Jimmy J., a ...
Plot: filmmaking, radio, suburbs, movie star, college, friend, autumn, actor, death, fandom
Time: 1950s, year 1955
Place: arkansas
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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In the Land of Wonders (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Croatia, Hungary
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Still today, years after the war, some regions are contaminated with broken families, poverty, crime and low-grade uranium. In the middle of nowhere in Western Herzegovina, at a NATO military training range, a nine-year-old girl called Alica, ...
Plot: radiation, friendship, van, prostitution, adult child friendship, death of friend, cancer, post war, child abandonment, saxophone, shot to death
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Woman Is the Future of Man (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea, France
Duration: 88 min.
Story: As the first snow falls in Seoul, two old friends reunite; one is a successful college professor, and the other, a struggling filmmaker recently returned from the United States. After their reminiscences, they finally decide to go in search of the ...
Style: psychological, sentimental, emotional, touching, romantic comedy ...
Plot: friendship, love triangle, obsession, buddies, fall in love, lifestyle, longing, mature, mental disorder, college, male female relationship, couples ...
Time: 21st century
Place: asia, korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Long Shot (1978)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A budding Scottish film producer tries to get his ambitious Aberdeen-set western financed, and while he attracts some major stars and directors to the film he finds that with their support come more and more script changes... Filmed around the 1977 ...
Style: spoof
Plot: satire, filmmaker, film producer, director, filmmaking, producer, film festival, director cameo
Place: scotland, edinburgh scotland
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Triangle (1967)
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 84 min.
Story: The movie tells the life story and friendship of five blacksmiths in town of Leninakan during the war and the years preceding it - as told by the son of one of the blacksmiths.
Audience: kids
Plot: soldier, friendship, world war two, friend, town
Time: 1940s
Place: armenia, caucasus, soviet union
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Golden Horseshoes (1989)
Genre: Drama
Country: Tunisia, France
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Youssef Soltane, a 45-year-old Tunisian intellectual, is the product of a generation that lived the era of euphoria and great ideologies in the sixties, and their subsequent failure. He was incarcerated and tortured for his political opinions. ...
Plot: torture, political prisoner, bare chested male, prison, male nudity, blood
Place: tunisia
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Summer of '62 (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Algeria
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A young Algerian paperboy with friends and associates of all ages on both sides of the conflict experiences history leading up to the March 1962 independence of Algeria, witnesses ruthless violence perpetrated by French and Arabs, sees his French ...
Style: captivating, suspenseful, disturbing, suspense
Plot: coming of age, war for independence, friendship, algerian war, wartime life, war, life is a bitch, wartime, friends, patriotism, struggle for survival, friend ...
Time: 60s
Place: algeria
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Sweet Smell of Sex (1965)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min.
Story: A young woman arrives in New York to visit a friend and lands in one hot spot after another as she fends off the perverted advances from every man she meets.
Style: independent film, underground film
Plot: street life, urban setting, taxi driver, roommate, striptease, rape, photographer, prostitution, pickpocket, model, sadism, woman ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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