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Little Wing (2016)
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Original name: Tyttö nimeltä Varpu
Genre: Drama
Country: Finland, Denmark
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Little Wing tells the story of 12-year-old Varpu, who's quickly growing to adulthood, and about her mother, who doesn't want to grow up. Varpu lives with her mother and has never met her father. One night Varpu has enough of her riding buddies and her mother. She steals a car and drives up north in search of her father, of whom she only knows the name. But her father is not exactly what she had expected. Meeting him trigger something in Varpu and Siru's life, making them realize their role in each other's lives, and in the world.
Style:
touching, serious, captivating, suspenseful, uplifting
Plot:
childhood, parent child relationship, mother daughter relationship, search for father, single mother, motherhood, father daughter relationship, stealing a car, child, dating, single parent, woman, coming of age, horse, mental disorder, schizophrenia, blonde, father, pony, runaway, car theft, insanity, car accident, child protagonist, mother and daughter ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
finland
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, serious, touching and realistic films with plots about family relations, coming of age, parent child relationship, youth, mother daughter relationship, parents and children and family problems mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Little Wing: Concrete Night (2013), My Friend Henry (2004), Mother, I Love You (2013), Sisters (2009), The Orheim Company (2012). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: Finland, Sweden, Denmark
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Latvia
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Raimonds, a 12 year old boy, falls into a world of petty crime while trying to stay out of trouble with his mother.
Style:
serious, realistic, touching, captivating, entertaining
Audience:
teens
Plot:
kids in trouble, childhood, coming of age, juvenile delinquency, family relations, single parent, youth, parents and children, bittersweet, boy, teenage boy, teenager ...
Time:
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Place:
latvia
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, serious, emotional, touching, sentimental ...
Plot:
sisters, family relations, family problems, youth, introspection, parents and children, siblings relations, dysfunctional family, self discovery, obsessive quest, single parent, coming of age ...
Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, serious, emotional, touching, captivating ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
childhood, family relations, coping, parenthood, haunted by the past, teenage life, parents and children, youth, coming of age, orphan, mountain, criminality ...
Time:
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Similarity:
32%
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, emotional, serious, touching, psychological ...
Plot:
coming of age, father and son, family life, parents and children, family drama, introspection, haunted by the past, bittersweet, estranged parent, child protagonist, search for father, fatherhood ...
Time:
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Place:
barcelona, spain
Similarity:
31%
782
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Austria, Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, touching, sincere, serious, psychological ...
Plot:
bosnian war, coming of age, depression, support group, haunted by the past, parents and children, life is a bitch, parent child relationship, family relations, single parent, civil war, female protagonist ...
Time:
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Place:
bosnia, former yugoslavia, balkan, croatia, eastern europe ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
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Style:
sentimental, sincere, captivating, touching, entertaining
Plot:
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Time:
2010s
Place:
eastern europe
Similarity:
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Country: Finland, Sweden
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
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Style:
serious, touching, realistic, captivating, sincere
Plot:
teenage girl, coming of age, conservatism, conservative morals, religion, best friend, teenage life, lifestyle, youth, fish out of water, culture clash, christianity ...
Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Thailand
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Country: Argentina, France
Duration: 70 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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490
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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united kingdom
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Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Duration: 84 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Duration: 111 min.
Story:
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Story:
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Style:
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Style:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Style:
sincere, serious, touching, realistic, captivating ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Story:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey, Greece, Bulgaria
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, touching, serious, psychological, captivating
Plot:
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Time:
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