Movies like Last Day of Summer 1984

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Last Day of Summer (1984)
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Last Day of Summer (1984)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 54 min.
Story: A young woman moves into a hippy commune and spends an idyllic summer with the young brother of one of the residents.
Plot: summer, inheritance, boy, boat, river, commune, fat woman, british, countryside, drowning, death by drowning, brother brother relationship, intergenerational friendship, woman drowned, river thames, death of parents, loss of parents, death of parent, rowboat, loss of parent
Time: 70s, year 1970
Place: england
Keyword: english

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Most similar movies to Last Day of Summer

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, touching and captivating films with plots about family relations, countryside, boy, british, brother brother relationship, society and youth mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Last Day of Summer: Last Summer (2018), The Devil in the Skin (2011), Wreckers (2011), Mother's Milk (2011), Bloody Kids (1980). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Last Summer (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story: During a long hot summer in the 1970s, four boys roam free through a neglected rural paradise, until a tragedy strikes that sets them against the adult world and changes their lives forever.
Style: captivating, serious, touching, realistic, sincere
Plot: friendship, coming of age, brother brother relationship, tragedy, death, summer, boy, friendship between boys, love triangle, death of mother, lake
Time: 70s
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95%
The Devil in the Skin (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Coming-of-Age drama telling the story of the strong bond between Xavier and his little brother Jacques and their struggle to remain together despite all odds.
Style: touching, serious, realistic, sentimental
Plot: coming of age, youth, brother brother relationship, rebelliousness, forceful separation, summer, family relations, life turned upside down, countryside, boy, childhood, teenager ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
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64%
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Wreckers (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A married couple move back to his childhood village to start a family but a surprise visit from the husband's brother ignites sibling rivalry and exposes the lies embedded in the couple's relationship.
Style: psychological, realistic, tense, serious, sex comedy ...
Plot: family relations, village, brother brother relationship, infidelity, siblings relations, newlyweds, couple relations, couples, countryside, female protagonist, marriage, hot and sexy ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england
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51%
Mother's Milk (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, France
Duration: 98 min.
Story: An English family is forced to come to terms with the imminent loss of their beloved holiday house in Provence.
Style: light, captivating
Plot: family relations, family conflict, inheritance, family problems, parents and children, culture clash, life, marital discord, money problems, eccentric family, marital argument, disagreement ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Bloody Kids (1980)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story: The slender premise springs from the actions of two listless 11-year-old boys, the cold, manipulative Leo, and his weaker, more impressionable friend, Mike. Contemptuous of the fallible police force (Mike has already filched a police hat from an ...
Style: offbeat, realistic, serious, tense, rough ...
Plot: boy, gangster, kids in trouble, social misfits, society, youth, juvenile delinquency, prank, city life, teenage life, gory, social decay ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: england
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49%
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That Summer! (1979)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Often described as an unofficial sequel to Scum – Winstone's main character Steve is fresh from Borstal - the rather gentler-toned That Summer holds special memories for Ray as he met his future wife Elaine during filming. It also notched him ...
Style: offbeat, realistic, serious
Plot: swimming, friendship, gang, redemption, summer job, loss of virginity, competition, beach, teenage life, rivalry, youth, contests and competitions ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: england
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43%
The Black Candle (1991)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story: At the turn of the century, a widow decides to set her dead husbands business back in the black column. Her efforts to get the mill going again, however, are somewhat submarined by problems with an employee who is accused of murder and her sister ...
Style: serious, realistic, sentimental, stylized, sincere ...
Plot: murder, factory, sculptor, sibling rivalry, mistress, false accusation, love and romance, rise to the top, rivalry, legal, unfulfillment, hopes ...
Time: victorian era, 19th century, 1880s
Place: britain, england, yorkshire
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Pirates of the Airwaves (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: New Zealand
Story: In 1966 a group of determined young men defied the New Zealand government and launched a pirate radio station aboard a ship in the Hauraki Gulf.
Plot: radio, boat, pirate
Time: 60s, 70s
Place: new zealand
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42%
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Europolis (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Romania, France
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Living in Danube Delta Magdalena receives a letter from France. Together with her son, Nae, she embarks on a journey to encounter her brother.
Plot: journey, soul, death, tradition, donkey, last will and testament, death of mother, river, cremation, tunnel, inheritance, debt ...
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37%
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Pressure (1976)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 126 min.
Story: A British-born younger son of an immigrant family from Trinidad finds himself adrift between two cultures.
Style: black cinema
Plot: reggae, black, radical, black history, coming of age, racism, racist, job interview, social criticism, family relations, black british
Time: 70s
Place: england, britain, london
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37%
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Gregorio (1984)
Genre: Drama
Country: Peru
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Gregorio, a boy from the impoverished countryside of Peru emigrates to Lima, the capital city. Experiencing a cultural shock due to the chaotic nature of the city, he must challenge himself to learn Spanish, since his native tongue is Quechua, and ...
Plot: countryside, family relations, child labor, children, death of father, boy
Place: peru
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37%
At the First Breath of Wind (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Using few words and gorgeous imagery, this is a poetic painting of a family, each in their own space on an August afternoon.
Style: aesthetic, slow cinema
Plot: daily life, underground, very little dialogue, countryside, young girl, old man, moon, nature, sleeping, piano, water, nightmare ...
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36%
Goodbye Charlie Bright (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Charlie drifts through life as he and his friends enjoy a lifestyle of house parties, casual sex and drugs. However, after breaking into a house to steal a gun, three of the friends (Charlie, Justin and Damien) accidentally awaken the owner, a hefty ...
Plot: group of friends, boy, male bonding, friendship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, friendship between men, chess, skinhead, football, angry, football hooligan, british ...
Place: england, britain
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35%
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Hussy (1980)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Beaty, a prostitute, and Emory, a lighting/sound technician, fall in love while working at the same London cabaret, but their relationship isn't easy.
Style: anime, independent film, realistic, serious, neo noir ...
Plot: prostitute, prostitution, stripper, murder, female pubic hair, eroticism, gangster, immigrant, nudity, couples, love and romance, life is a bitch ...
Time: year 1980, 70s
Place: london, europe, england
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33%
Cider with Rosie (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A semi-autobiographical coming-of-age story set in the Cotswolds during and immediately after the First World War.
Style: realistic, captivating, serious, psychological, sentimental ...
Plot: village, coming of age, world war one, childhood, society, youth, friendship, village life, teenager, military police, anti war, girl ...
Time: 1910s, 20th century, 1920s
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
The Raven's Dance (1980)
Genre: Drama
Country: Finland, Sweden
Duration: 79 min.
Story: With a keen sense of visual beauty, director Markku Lehmuskallio has created a thought-provoking, aesthetic film about a married couple and an old man living in a remote part of Finland. The young husband goes out hunting but only to support himself ...
Plot: nature, northern lights, farmer, owl, raven, poacher, hunter, animal, winter, moose, lake, human animal relationship ...
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32%
The Selfish Giant (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A hyperactive boy and his best friend, a slow-witted youth with an affinity for horses, start collecting scrap metal for a shady dealer.
Style: sad, atmospheric, depressing, realistic, bleak ...
Audience: family friendly, teen drama
Plot: teenage life, poverty, friendship, juvenile delinquency, child abuse, youth, bullying, brutality, social misfits, misfit, society, childhood ...
Time: 2010s, year 2013, 21st century
Place: england, yorkshire, europe, northern england
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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Electricity (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A woman leaves her seaside hometown to search for her long-lost brother, experiencing hallucinations brought on by her epilepsy during her trip.
Style: surreal, psychological, atmospheric, captivating, social ...
Plot: hallucination, epilepsy, family relations, missing person, coastal town, female protagonist, brother, minimalism, self discovery, coming of age, strong female presence, obsessive quest ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, london, northern england
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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On the Black Hill (1988)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 117 min.
Story: The story covers eighty years in the lives of a pair of Welsh identical twins with an unusual bond, as they go through war, love affairs, and land disputes.
Style: independent film, realistic, serious, touching, family saga
Plot: twins, landscape, land dispute, farm, couples, family relations, politics, love and romance, siblings relations, love, reading a newspaper aloud, rural setting ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: wales, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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The 14 (1973)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Set in London’s East End, The 14 (aka The Wild Little Bunch aka Existence) is based on the true story of fourteen children who struggle against overwhelming pressures to stay together after the death of their single mother.
Style: independent film, wild
Plot: kitchen sink realism, youth, uncontrollable, christmas, sibling relationship, illness, death of mother, brother brother relationship, loss of mother, struggle, baby, mother daughter relationship ...
Time: 70s
Place: england, london, east end london
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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Wild Bill (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Out on parole after 8 years inside Bill Hayward returns home to find his now 11 and 15 year old sons abandoned by their mother and fending for themselves. Unwilling to play Dad, an uncaring Bill is determined to move on.
Style: captivating, touching, rough, suspenseful, indie film ...
Plot: youth, gang, working class, parole, starting over, father son relationship, redemption, adulthood, kids in trouble, father son reunion, danger, single parent ...
Time: y2k, year 2011, 21st century
Place: london, england
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31%
The Child in Time (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Set two years after his daughter went missing, The Child In Time follows Stephen Lewis, a children's author, as he struggles to find purpose in his life without her. His wife Julie has left him, and his best friends Charles and Thelma have ...
Style: crying
Plot: writers, missing person, marital separation, british prime minister, mental health, missing child, grief, loss of daughter, school, lost child, estranged couple, marriage crisis ...
Place: london
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31%
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Isolated (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 77 min.
Story: Jack Miller was once a normal man, but that all changed when he commits the biggest mistake of his life. He has the decision to go on the run, but he decides to stay and hope to make things right.
Style: suspense, psychological, unusual plot structure, contemplative, neo noir ...
Plot: panic, troubled, psycho, isolation, suicidal thoughts, city, british, desperation, trapped, anger, locked in, angry ...
Place: england, united kingdom, britain
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30%
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Shakespeare's Globe Theatre: The Winter's Tale (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 180 min.
Story: The Winter’s Tale is Shakespeare’s great play of the irrational and inexplicable, illustrating how uncontrollable emotions can range across gender, country, class and age. Its universe is full of monsters, gods and natural disasters with a ...
Style: romantic, thrilling, psychological, captivating
Plot: jealousy, royal family, kingdom, love story, queen, relationships, family disapproval, in love, couple relations, romantic relationship, royal court, love and romance ...
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30%
The Ploughman's Lunch (1983)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A political drama scripted by novelist Ian McEwan
Style: independent film, thought provoking, realistic, serious, disturbing ...
Plot: falklands war, journalism, book, democrat, british empire, writers, bookstore, british politics, news reporter, workplace, media, intrigue ...
Time: year 1983, 80s
Place: brighton, london
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30%
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Barrage (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: Luxembourg, Belgium, France
Duration: 112 min.
Story: After ten years abroad, Catherine returns to Luxembourg, to catch up with her daughter Alba, brought up by Catherine’s mother Elisabeth. Alba is cold and distant with this stranger showing up unexpectedly in her life, so is Elisabeth, keen to keep ...
Style: art house, thought provoking, enigmatic, touching, suspense
Plot: mother daughter reunion, mother daughter relationship, grandmother granddaughter relationship, runaway, escapades, summer, tennis, boat, river, wound, dog, telephone call ...
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29%
Days and Nights in the Forest (1970)
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Four friends from Calcutta who have very different personalities make a holiday excursion into the country, to a tiny village in the state of Bihar where they set themselves up in a bungalow. A series of minor events, all connected to their ...
Style: epic, realistic, serious, sincere, sentimental
Plot: summer, friends, forest, friendship between men, countryside, holiday, woods, buddies, self discovery, love and romance, wooing, social differences ...
Time: year 1970, 20th century, 60s
Place: india
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Damilola, Our Loved Boy (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Drama exploring the story of ten-year-old Damilola Taylor, who died on a housing estate in South London in 2000. After leaving Nigeria to embark on a new life in the UK, the young Damilola and his family are full of optimism. Little do they realise ...
Style: tense, disturbing, suspenseful, psychological, bleak ...
Plot: boy, murder, death of child, child murder, justice, brother brother relationship, husband wife relationship, true crime, trial, injustice, police station, mother daughter relationship ...
Time: year 2000
Place: africa, nigeria, london
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28%
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Emile (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story: In a story weaving the past and present together, Emile seeks redemption from the family he abandoned.
Style: emotional, sincere, touching, serious, contemplative ...
Plot: orphan, introspection, redemption, homecoming, haunted by the past, family problems, starting over, human nature, hopes, betrayal, elderly, family life ...
Place: canada, england, europe, british columbia
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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Sus (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Election Night 1979: Margaret Thatcher is about to come into power. A young black man is held on suspicion of murdering his pregnant wife. Officers Karn and Wilby, racist to the core and high on the prospect of a Conservative Party victory, try to ...
Style: disturbing, realistic, rough, suspenseful, independent film ...
Plot: murder, racism, police investigation, protagonist as suspect, injustice, society, law enforcement, life is a bitch, social decay, police brutality, wrongful arrest, racial slur ...
Time: 70s, year 1979
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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