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Hello Herman (2012)
2K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Set in the not so distant future, in Any Town USA, sixteen year old Herman Howards makes a fateful decision. He enters his suburban school and kills thirty nine students, two teachers, and a police officer. Just before his arrest he emails his idol, famous journalist Lax Morales, sending him clips of the shootings captured with Herman's own digital camera. In the clips Herman tells Lax, "I want to tell my story on your show". Lax, haunted by his own past, is now face to face with Herman.
Style:
psychological, thought provoking, serious, disturbing, realistic, tense, bleak, gloomy
Plot:
school shooting, losing-it hero, social relations, haunted by the past, youth, bullying, high school, loneliness, social misfits, teenage life, high school life, murder, misfit, interview, psychology, boyhood, school bullying, school massacre, prison, psychopath, journalism, society, media, teasing, unfulfillment ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
usa, iowa
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Most similar movies to Hello Herman
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, psychological and disturbing films with plots about high school, youth, society, teenage life, high school life, bullying and coming of age mostly in Drama, Crime and Thriller genres. Some movies like Hello Herman: The Class (2007), Blackbird (2012), Zero Day (2002), @urFRENZ (2010), Love Is the Drug (2006). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama
Country: Estonia
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
An average guy of an Estonian high-school decides to defend his bullied classmate. This starts war between him and the informal leader of the class. As teenagers' honour is a touchy thing, everything ends in bloodshed.
Style:
serious, disturbing, tense, emotional, realistic ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
bullying, school shooting, youth, humiliation, vengeance, society, life is a bitch, juvenile delinquency, social misfits, teenage life, mistreatment, friendship ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
estonia, europe, eastern europe
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
This is a film about a troubled teen, Sean Randall, who is falsely accused of planning a Columbine shooting scenario. It all begins when an unlikely bond forms between Sean (Connor Jessup) and a preppy teenage girl named Deanna Roy (Alexia Fast). ...
Style:
tense, realistic, psychological, captivating, thought provoking ...
Plot:
school shooting, bullying, false accusation, coming of age, society, injustice, social relations, small town, perjury, school massacre, goth, school bullying ...
Time:
year 2012, 21st century
Place:
canada, nova scotia, canada
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Two troubled adolescents chronicle the events that ultimately lead up to a terrifying assault on their school.
Style:
disturbing, psychological, rough, suspenseful, teen ...
Audience:
teens, kids
Plot:
school shooting, found footage, childhood, school massacre, vengeance, brutality, suicide, friendship, serial killer, bullying, rebellion, justice ...
Time:
70s, 80s
Place:
california
Similarity:
100%
308
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
When depressed and withdrawn Catharine meets a secretive boy online, she begins to come out of her shell. But is he a suitor or a stalker, a friend or foe? The mystery of his existence fuels obsession, denial and deceit, sending her to the point of ...
Style:
psychological, serious, realistic, captivating, disturbing ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
prank, teenage life, best friend, youth, family relations, parents and children, cyberspace, computers and web, high school life, false identity, popularity, teen angst ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Jonah Brand (John Patrick Amedori) isn't necessarily the type of guy who would interest ultra-hot Sara Weller (Lizzy Caplan). But when she and her friends find out he works at a pharmacy, they charm him into their circle and gain his trust with ...
Style:
emotional, serious, independent film, suspenseful, suspense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
love triangle, lifestyle, juvenile delinquency, teenage love, life is a bitch, family relations, kids in trouble, teenage life, drug abuse, youth, drug dealing, misfit ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
los angeles, usa, california
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A psychological drama that follows four high schoolers down a dark ride. As each struggle separately in their own lives they will soon discover that their lives are interconnected in ways they never would have guessed. They also effect each other in ...
Style:
disturbing, psychological, tense
Plot:
school shooting, justice, showdown, death, police, high school, depression, suicide, twists and turns, car wreck, gay porn, school ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey, France, Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Haunted by his dark past, a man takes a job as a fire warden in a remote tower in the wilderness, and is inexorably drawn towards a young woman with a terrible secret of her own. (TIFF)
Style:
atmospheric, psychological, serious, realistic, contemplative ...
Plot:
loneliness, rape, haunted by the past, social misfits, disorder, confined, introspection, misfit, isolation, women, abandoned baby, resistance ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
turkey, middle east
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA, Spain
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
After her son Kevin commits a horrific act, troubled mother Eva reflects on her complicated relationship with her disturbed son as he grew from a toddler into a teenager.
Style:
disturbing, psychological, bleak, depressing, gloomy ...
Audience:
teens, toddlers, teen drama, adult
Plot:
psychopath, evil child, school shooting, high school, childhood, guilt, prison visit, depression, teenager, sociopath, antisocial behavior, teenage boy ...
Time:
year 2011, 90s, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
united kingdom, america, connecticut, usa, new york ...
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Austria, Germany
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
71 scenes revolving around multiple Viennese residents who are by chance involved with a senseless gun slaughter on Christmas Eve.
Style:
disturbing, bleak, thought provoking, serious, sincere ...
Plot:
news report, murder, misfit, social misfits, refugee, immigrant, breaking point, down on your luck, chess, mass murder, minimalism, puzzle ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, year 1994
Place:
austria, germany, vienna, lebanon, europe ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
The line between reality and fiction starts to blur when two best friends start making a movie about getting revenge on bullies.
Style:
disturbing, controversial, realistic, sincere, serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
school shooting, bullying, found footage, high school, bully, vengeance, misfit, filmmaking, best friend, violence spree, food, high school student ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
canada, usa
Similarity:
100%
8K
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A contemporary, ensemble drama telling the complex tale of six high school students whose lives are interwoven with situations that so many of today's youth are faced with. The story takes place during a normal school day. At precisely 2:37 a ...
Style:
psychological, bleak, serious, sincere, depressing ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
high school, brother sister incest, incest, rape, youth, teenage life, suicide, homosexual, high school life, teenage love, incest rape, social relations ...
Place:
south australia, adelaide south australia, australia
Similarity:
60%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, Germany
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Starring Jurgen Prochnow ('The Replacement Killers' 'Air Force One' and Patrick Muldoon 'Stigmata' 'Starship Troopers'), 'Heart of America' is a powerhouse of a contemporary drama and essential ...
Style:
disturbing, rough, realistic, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot:
school shooting, high school, bullying, bully, juvenile delinquency, vengeance, teenage life, psychopath, youth, hardcase students, life is a bitch, social misfits ...
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Trevor is a troubled high school student, thanks to the effects of bullying. This is the story of his fight to break free.
Style:
realistic, harsh, suspenseful, sincere, teen ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
bullying, school shooting, childhood, depression, teacher, bully, vengeance, social misfits, teenage life, school, violence, fighting the system ...
Place:
oregon, tokyo
Similarity:
100%
1K
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
Duct tape, electrical cables, trigger, explosives. Sebbe never planned to build a bomb. It just happened. Sebbe is 15 years old and lives with his mother in an apartment that is too narrow. He does his best. He never strikes back. Sebbe loves his ...
Style:
realistic, serious, psychological, captivating, contemplative ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
losing-it hero, single parent, coming of age, teenage boy, introspection, teenage life, bullying, youth, society, life is a bitch, juvenile delinquency, parents and children ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, eastern europe
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A film between fiction and reality, highlighting questions about group dynamics and established hierarchies. A group of people meet for their high school reunion 20 years later. One of them talks about her being bullied and outcast and soon the ...
Style:
psychological, thought provoking, realistic, serious, sincere ...
Plot:
bullying, life is a bitch, human nature, adulthood, haunted by the past, social relations, misfit, breaking point, disorder, childhood trauma, party, teenager ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
stockholm sweden, europe, eastern europe
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
The Fat Boy Chronicles is a motion picture about Jimmy Winterpock, an obese high-school student who deals with bullying and trying to lose weight. The film is inspired by a true story and was released in 2010 as a major motion picture.
Style:
sincere, touching, emotional, inspirational, independent film ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
fat boy, teenage love, human spirit, bullying, hopes, misfit, high school, society, win over, follow your dream, love and romance, youth ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A married couple on the verge of separation are leveled by the news their 18-year-old son committed a mass shooting at his college, then took his own life.
Style:
realistic, emotional, bleak, psychological, powerful ...
Plot:
couples, school shooting, death, murder, grief, haunted by the past, mass murder, family problems, psychology, sociology, school massacre, death in the family ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A look inside a tragedy through the eyes of a survivor. Based on actual events, April Showers is about picking up the pieces in the direct aftermath of school violence
Style:
realistic, serious, captivating, sincere, independent film ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
friendship, life turned upside down, teenage life, society, life is a bitch, high school, youth, social relations, bullying, violent content, serial killer, killer ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
29%
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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:
29%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A bullied student sees visions of a rabbit he was forced to kill as a child, and those visions propel him into a state where his imagination causes him to carry out violent acts.
Style:
serious, disturbing, rough, dark, poetic ...
Plot:
high school, bullying, mental illness, kids in trouble, rebelliousness, friendship, life is a bitch, society, imagination, teenage boy, child abuse, house ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
Katarina is a music teacher obsessed with an unfinished symphony. She worries about her brother, Ondrej an introverted inventor whose financiers are reputedly shady and dangerous. Then one day, her ex-husband Pietro shows up in her house and locks ...
Style:
serious, realistic, cynical, surreal, psychological ...
Plot:
female nudity, obsession, murder, dishonesty, sexual relations, losing-it hero, captivity, confined, danger, disorder, mute or deaf, social misfits ...
Place:
los angeles, usa
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A journey through the memories of teenager Paul Varderman as he reflects on the events leading to the fatal moment his life is cut short. Paul moves to a new school and becomes involved with 'The Freaks', a group on the periphery of school ...
Style:
realistic, serious, bleak, suspense, captivating ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
high school, gang, teenage life, youth, high school life, downfall, kids in trouble, bullying, teen angst, tragedy, coming of age, outsider ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 143 min.
Story:
On one evening in a decade of sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll, the innocence of youth and family unravels. Five parallel coming-of-age stories dramatize the stages of grief. A youthful mother in a custody battle over her children, finds ...
Style:
sexy, serious, psychological, sincere, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
haunted by the past, teenage life, family problems, life is a bitch, social misfits, misfit, youth, addiction, custody, society, bittersweet, homosexual ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
usa, california
Similarity:
28%
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831
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Bulgaria
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
Two nine-year-old girls report a flasher to the police even though they never saw him. Three filmmakers meet the only residents of a deserted village - an elderly brother and sister who have not spoken to each other in 16 years. Retired cleaning ...
Style:
realistic, captivating, disturbing, psychological, thought provoking ...
Plot:
elderly, introspection, murder, parents and children, estrangement, gender, society, family relations, life, small town life, relationships, social relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, macedonia, former yugoslavia
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Christina is living in a suburb to Copenhagen. With her class mates Cecilie, Trine and Pernille she slacks her school work, living mostly for the weekends of gate crashing, getting drunk, experimenting with drugs and scoring guys. But her world is ...
Style:
rough, serious, bleak, realistic, captivating ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
revenge, lifestyle, juvenile delinquency, life is a bitch, teenage life, friendship, high school life, bullying, youth, social misfits, drug abuse, society ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, denmark
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Out on the lacrosse pitch, wealthy but troubled Jesse and poor but driven Tosha form an easy and deep bond, but their relationship is threatened once they enter the hallways of an elite prep school they attend in Washington, D.C. There, they must ...
Style:
captivating, realistic, sentimental, psychological, sexy ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
lacrosse, friendship, coming of age, self discovery, teenage life, youth, social differences, racism, strong female lead, teen rebel, rebel, female bonding ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, washington d.c.
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
The true story of two African-American teen radio reporters and their documentary investigation of a notorious child murder.
Style:
realistic, serious, emotional, rough, controversial ...
Plot:
journalism, murder, juvenile delinquency, uncover truth, teenage life, social decay, life is a bitch, society, human spirit, idealism, youth, hopes ...
Place:
chicago, usa
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Monday morning. Paul Wertret, 50, heads off to his job as a manager at the International Credit and Trade Bank. He arrives at 8 o'clock on the dot, as usual. He enters a meeting room, takes out a gun and kills two of his bosses. Then he locks ...
Style:
disturbing, serious, psychological, sincere, non-linear ...
Plot:
bank, introspection, losing-it hero, unlikely criminals, rivalry, workplace, road not taken, workplace situations, boss and employee, murder, suicide, business ...
Time:
90s, 80s, 21st century
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A teenager fights to clear her name after her small Oklahoma town mistakenly assumes she is practicing witchcraft. Based on a true story.
Style:
serious, disturbing, realistic, thought provoking
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
false accusation, religions or cults, racism, high school life, youth, teachers and students, culture clash, legal action, life is a bitch, social differences, legal, rebellion ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
oklahoma
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina, France, Spain
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Spying on her students, a teacher finds an exciting hobby.
Style:
realistic, serious, tense, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
rebellion, high school life, political unrest, youth, society, workplace, teachers and students, against the rules, social relations, workplace situations, responsibility, state affairs ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
argentina, latin america
Similarity:
27%
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