Movies like Face in the Mirror
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Face in the Mirror (1982)
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 65 min.
Story:
The dramatic story of a group of young people’s response to a desperate teen’s cry for help.
Style:
emotional, independent film, psychological, bleak, art house, educational, period piece, christian film, tragic
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
depression, mental health, teen suicide, isolation, teenage angst, friendship, self harm, alienation, introspection, coming of age, intimate, minimalism, identity, social realism, youth culture, faith, confession, peer pressure, suicide, teenager, troubled teen, ambulance, hospital, christianity, outcast ...
Time:
80s
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Most similar movies to Face in the Mirror
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out emotional, psychological, independent film and realistic films with plots about coming of age, isolation, friendship, intimate, identity, teenager and alienation mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Face in the Mirror: Party Talk (2015), The Choking Game (2014), After Jimmy (1996), The Kids Aren't Alright (2016), Pitong Dalagita (2006). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Story:
Four creative and sexually confused high school seniors are forced to deal with their sense of isolation while attending a booze-soaked party in New York City.
Style:
unusual plot structure, captivating, contemplative, psychological, suspense ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, party, friendship, american dream, high school friends, rebellious teenager, nightlife, teenager, friends, youth, dream, society ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Taryn finds herself gaining much-desired popularity when the charismatic new girl at school claims her as a “breath sister," teaching Taryn about the Choking Game. Hiding it from her ever-present mother, best friend, and teachers, Taryn sees ...
Style:
psychological, teen, captivating, disturbing, suspense ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
high school, peer pressure, social issues, female protagonist, teenager, girl, most dangerous game, suffocation, socially awkward, teenage girl, schoolgirl, desire ...
Similarity:
83%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
This is a story of Jimmy, a high school senior, who is struggling with his school life, family pressures, future choices. When it becomes too much, Jimmy kills himself.
Style:
tragic ending, melancholic, bleak, serious, emotional ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
teen suicide, high school, grief, depression, mental health, mourning, loss, teen angst, coming of age, family conflict, trauma, character study ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
81%
Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland
Story:
Ross is trying to come to terms with the suicide of one of his classmates, as he finds his life falling down around him. Suddenly he finds himself involved in a new friendship with the new girl in school, Róisín. She helps to lead him in the right ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, lgbt cinema, tense, unusual plot structure ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
suicide, school, friendship, teenager, youth, homosexuality, coming of age, love and romance, friends, lesbian, lgbt, couples ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
ireland
Similarity:
80%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
When six girls and a guy all teenagers are found with their wrists slit on a high school playground, it's left to their guidance counselor to try to make sense of the mystery behind the apparent suicide pact. Told in nonlinear fashion, the ...
Style:
sincere, touching, serious, psychological, emotional ...
Plot:
teenager, friendship, love, self discovery, school, lesbian, teen suicide, high school, counselor, multiple perspectives, trauma, grief ...
Similarity:
78%
163
Genre: Drama
Country: France, UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A woman is on the verge of killing herself, in reverse.
Style:
dark, emotional, bleak, contemplative, independent film ...
Plot:
character study, existential crisis, self destructing, suicide, depression, desperation, mental health, actress, existentialism, mature, female protagonist, flashback ...
Time:
turn of the century
Similarity:
66%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
After a high school boy learns that his father committed suicide, he begins a journey to find hope and reconciliation in the midst of his grief.
Style:
emotional, psychological, captivating, thrilling, poignant ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
hopes, suicide, bereavement, father son relationship, faith, depression, grief, family relations, relationships, life is a bitch, dysfunctional family, loss of father ...
Similarity:
63%
16
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Mandy White is a cheerleader. Dan LaCoy is a football player. Jason Dobbs is a bully. Eli Barker is an artist. Asia Borg is a foster kid. What they all have in common however, is that they are hurting. Each one deals with their own personal issues ...
Style:
emotional, dark, independent film, realistic, grim ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
depression, high school, bullying, suicide, mental health, high school life, school shooting, tragedy, youth, adolescence, loneliness, social issues ...
Place:
virginia
Similarity:
60%
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Two 17-year-old boys mark the new year by doing twelve dangerous but exciting tasks set for them by their friends.
Style:
grim, intense, existential, psychological, dark comedy ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
suicide, teenager, high school, friendship, teen angst, teen suicide, male friendship, coming of age, new year's eve, guilt, self destructing, blood ...
Similarity:
60%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A look at the lives and trauma surrounding three people living in a southern town.
Style:
intense, tension, ambiguous ending, suspense, southern gothic
Plot:
trauma, small town, character study, coming of age, teen angst, mental health, loss, grief, moral ambiguity, violence, teen violence, family conflict ...
Place:
georgia
Similarity:
59%
169
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A young quebecer descends into alienation and depression.
Style:
existential, melancholic, psychological, art house, slow cinema ...
Plot:
strong sexual content, unsimulated sex, alienation, loneliness, identity, depression, identity crisis, isolation, introspection, coming of age, male protagonist, realism ...
Place:
quebec, montreal
Similarity:
56%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A young man who feels he doesn't fit in, decides to embark on an intimate journey. Three weeks for three impediments: deafness, mutism and blindness. Three weeks not to escape, but to find reality.
Style:
existential, meditative, psychological, experimental, contemplative ...
Plot:
intimate, blindness, deafness, self discovery, personal growth, existential crisis, identity crisis, loneliness, minimal dialogue, alienation, isolation, identity ...
Similarity:
56%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Alex, Fedja, Timo and Lara are four troubled teens for whom the upcoming Christmas eve isn't a time of peace and joy: Since they all have a history of escalating family conflicts, they'll be spending the holidays not at home, but in a ...
Style:
captivating, disturbing, psychological, intense, emotional ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
psychotherapy, christmas, youth, psychiatry, life is a bitch, mentally unstable, mental health, coming of age, psychiatric ward, adolescence, mental patient, troubled youth ...
Place:
germany
Similarity:
56%
121
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
One year after the tragic death of his best friend, an eighteen-year-old machinist struggles with the split of his parents and the violent way of life surrounding him.
Style:
emotional, tension, intense, realistic, psychological ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, grief, teenager, trauma, loss, mourning, family drama, family conflict, young adult, confrontation, friendship, anger ...
Place:
oklahoma city, oklahoma
Similarity:
56%
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands, Canada
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Feature based on the novel by J. Bernlef. A Dutch couple who have emigrated are confronted with the husband's rapid onset of senility during a snowy winter in North Eastern Canada. The film is an account of the man's fight within himself ...
Style:
psychological, serious, bleak, melancholic, heartbreaking ...
Plot:
dementia, identity, confusion, aging, old age, illness, flashback, loneliness, isolation, couples, intimate, retirement ...
Place:
canada
Similarity:
54%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
No overview found.
Style:
intense, emotional, psychological, tense, existential ...
Plot:
survival, domestic drama, death, moral ambiguity, identity, friendship, brain tumor, claustrophobia, introspection, intimate, sexuality, dinner party ...
Time:
2000s
Similarity:
53%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Tweek City is a week in the life of Bill, a potentially closeted, half-Latino, small-time speed dealer in San Francisco's Mission District. Bill is stuck on an endless walk from one empty experience to the next. Only Bill's friend Jerm has ...
Style:
independent film, psychological, existential, melancholic, noir ...
Plot:
drug, alienation, desperation, character study, urban, self destructing, isolation, regret, identity, lost love, friendship, addiction ...
Place:
san francisco, los angeles
Similarity:
52%
485
Genre: Drama
Country: Estonia, UK
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Magnus, a handsome teenager, wants to commit suicide and his father tries to change his mind.
Style:
psychological, emotional, melancholic, realistic, independent film ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
suicide, father son relationship, coming of age, family drama, intimate, mental illness, redemption, bittersweet, healing, dark humor, alienation, isolation ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
estonia
Similarity:
52%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
On this particular Friday morning the students of Eastbrook High are arriving at school to complete their final exams before the Christmas Holiday. But what began as a December snowfall quickly becomes a threatening winter storm, and school is ...
Style:
teen, thrilling, captivating, psychological, emotional ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
school, friendship, survival, christmas, high school, coming of age, snow, friends, problem, blizzard, student, young adult ...
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Thomas Harrison is determined to start his own alternative band after the suicide of Kurt Cobain—it's an obsession that blinds him to what's either the mental collapse, or the eruption of musical genius, of his little sister, Bridget. ...
Style:
captivating, psychological, thrilling, grunge
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, mental illness, teenager, teenage angst, musician, music, adolescence vs adulthood, teenage life, musician's life, ambition, grownups, family problems ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Femi is a British boy of Nigerian heritage who, after being fostered in rural Lincolnshire, moves to inner-city London to live with his birth mother. Struggling with the unfamiliar culture and values of his new environment, teenage Femi has to ...
Style:
disturbing, psychological, captivating, emotional, reflective ...
Plot:
grownups, teenager, self discovery, identity, coming of age, personal growth, adolescence, adolescence vs adulthood, lifestyle change, cultural difference, teenage life, black boy ...
Place:
london
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Chimo turns 18 years and comes from a humble and supportive family. Since childhood he was bullied and even today, while working multiple jobs and dreaming of starting his own business, he continues to face his bully: El Rubio. When Chimo has the ...
Style:
emotional, intense, tension
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, friendship, revenge, rivalry, bullying, adolescence, youth, working class, neighborhood, teen angst, transformation, redemption ...
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A young girl with a background of urban poverty and juvenile crime, attempts to become a fashion model. The hypocrisy and double standards of society are juxtaposed against the confusion and frustration she feels as she struggles to become part of a ...
Style:
emotional, bleak, period piece, independent film
Plot:
female protagonist, struggle, modeling, poverty, young woman, urban, survival, ambition, street life, coming of age, working class, aspiration ...
Time:
80s, year 1980
Place:
melbourne
Similarity:
46%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 66 min.
Story:
An experimental look into the lives of teens and young adults in a dysfunctional town.
Style:
experimental, art house, melancholic, bleak
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
character study, small town, coming of age, alienation, young adult, friendship, aimlessness, apathy, youth culture, social isolation, slice of life, dysfunctional family ...
Time:
2010s
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 56 min.
Story:
Samir Majan a young man born and raised a Muslim in the Middle East attends college in America. While at college Samir becomes a Christian, and must go home and face his family.
Style:
christian film, serious, emotional, thought provoking, realistic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
religious conversion, christian, cultural conflict, religious persecution, christianity, coming of age, family drama, homecoming, spiritual journey, faith, moral dilemma, spiritual awakening ...
Place:
middle east
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Drama
Country: Chile
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Diego is hosting a farewell party in his house before he leaves on a trip that no one knows about.
Style:
reflective, emotional, melancholic, realistic, tension ...
Plot:
secrets, house party, introspection, intimate, relationships, bittersweet, friendship, regret, single, identity, character study, slice of life ...
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
Ana throws her life on the Instagram and other social networks, where she posts pictures, videos and short animations, together with witty (and lucid) texts. Ana is going through a strange moment. In addition to going through the family conflicts ...
Style:
psychological, thrilling, captivating, melancholic, emotional ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
female protagonist, coming of age, social media, female friendship, friendship, self discovery, instagram, identity crisis, adolescence, character study, teenage love, relationships ...
Time:
2020s
Similarity:
43%
142
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Lily and her three youngest children join her husband David Sutton, a doctor in an isolated northern Alberta town. Their eleven-year-old son arrives later from boarding school. David conceals a dark secret which caused the family to leave England ...
Style:
realistic, emotional, dramatic, tense, suspense ...
Plot:
family drama, family secret, secrets, small town, friendship, outsider, isolation, motherhood, betrayal, racism, intimate, identity ...
Time:
80s
Place:
england, canada
Similarity:
43%
1K
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Sarah, a free spirited young girl looking to surgically reassign her gender and Antony, a once exuberant but now a dejected and dispirited young man. What will happen when they meet?
Style:
thrilling, captivating, psychological, emotional, art house ...
Plot:
self discovery, transgender, lgbtq, desire for fame, relationship problems, male female relationship, life is a bitch, relationships, coming of age, identity crisis, character study, acceptance ...
Place:
india
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Ali and Zuhal take their first step out of the orphanage into this big world committing a crime. It becomes impossible for them to live amongst people now, and the forest they take shelter in becomes a desert island for them. A boy and a girl that ...
Style:
art house, independent film, melancholic, emotional, bleak ...
Plot:
forest, orphan, hospital, taxi, motorcycle, innocence lost, escape, coming of age, isolation, survival, outsider, realism ...
Place:
turkey
Similarity:
42%
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