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The Day Will Come (2016)
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The Day Will Come (2016)
Original name: Der kommer en dag
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Set in the blooming 1960s, the film centres around two young brothers who are instantly robbed of their lives when they are placed in a boy's home forgotten by time. Armed only with a vivid imagination and a fickle hope, the boys engage in the frightening battle against Headmaster Heck and his lethal tyranny. The film is based on actual events.
Style: touching, realistic, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, social
Plot: orphanage, abuse, brother, brother brother relationship, bully, violence, mockery, escape, rules, sexualized violence, humiliation, sexual abuse, corporal punishment, children, youth, child, traumatic childhood, coming of age, nordic, boyhood, public humiliation, male bonding, bare butt, sexual humiliation, violent man ...
Time: 60s, 1960s

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, touching, realistic and captivating films with plots about youth, coming of age, boy, family relations, beating, boyhood and life is a bitch mostly in Drama, Biography and Family genres. Some movies like The Day Will Come: Perfect Obedience (2014), Abandoned (2001), Radio Flyer (1992), Chronicle of a Boy Alone (1965), For My Brother (2014). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Perfect Obedience (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 99 min.
Story: The fictional Father Ángel de la Cruz is based on Legion of Christ founder Marcial Maciel, whose long history of child abuse was not addressed until 2006 and only publicly acknowledged in 2009. But director Luis Urquiza chooses to structure his ...
Style: suspense, disturbing
Plot: pedophile priest, punishment, child abuse, teenager, bullying, pedophile, catholic church, catholic priest, child sexual abuse, gay interest, corporal punishment, obedience ...
Place: mexico
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Abandoned (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Áron is a happy child in his family. But at some point things take a different turn, and his mother starts to lose her health rapidly. As this happens, the man in charge decides what's best for Áron without consulting the young boy's ...
Style: uplifting, serious, touching, sincere, art house ...
Plot: corporal punishment, orphan, coming of age, children, male bonding, kids in trouble, life is a bitch, juvenile delinquency, human spirit, friendship, teenage life, boarding school life ...
Time: 60s, year 1960
Place: europe, hungary
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Radio Flyer (1992)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: A father reminisces about his childhood when he and his younger brother moved to a new town with their mother, her new husband and their dog, Shane. When the younger brother is subjected to physical abuse at the hands of their brutal stepfather, ...
Style: emotional, touching, sentimental, serious, realistic ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teen drama
Plot: brother brother relationship, physical abuse, bullying, coming of age, children, child abuse, childhood, dysfunctional family, abuse, family relations, parents and children, life is a bitch ...
Time: 60s, 20th century, year 1992, year 1969
Place: california, northern california, oklahoma
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Chronicle of a Boy Alone (1965)
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina
Duration: 79 min.
Story: The story of a delinquent eleven-year-old orphan in fascist Argentina.
Style: neorealism, depressing, crying
Plot: coming of age, boy, adolescence, children, orphanage, fascism, escape, orphan, freedom, poverty, psychological abuse, family abandonment ...
Time: 60s
Place: buenos aires argentina
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100%
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For My Brother (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 117 min.
Story: The two brothers Aske (17 years old) and Bastian (12 years old) live with their father, Lasse. Their mother died seven years earlier. Every day they live in a world where fear, violence and alcohol are huge factors, but where the brothers' ...
Style: disturbing, rough, suspense, touching, independent film
Plot: brother brother relationship, child prostitution, pedophilia, child abuse, father son relationship, mistreatment, brothers, incest, sexual perversion, boy, homosexual rape, human trafficking ...
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The Magdalene Sisters (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Ireland
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Four women are given into the custody of the Magdalene sisterhood asylum to correct their sinful behavior: Crispina and Rose have given birth to a premarital child, Margaret got raped by her cousin and the orphan Bernadette had been repeatedly ...
Style: bleak, disturbing, brutal, controversial, harsh ...
Audience: teens
Plot: nun, convent, life is a bitch, human spirit, corporal punishment, mistreatment, catholic church, evil nun, religion, sexual harassment, humiliation, catholic ...
Time: 60s, 20th century, year 1964, year 2002
Place: ireland, europe, dublin ireland
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The Boys of St. Vincent (1992)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story: The true story of boys being sexually abused at their orphanage ran by a religious community in Newfoundland.
Style: realistic, disturbing, bleak, sad, art house ...
Audience: teens
Plot: pedophilia, child abuse, catholic priest, child molestation, man boy relationship, catholic orphanage, pedophile priest, homosexual rape, orphanage, child molester, childhood, underage sex ...
Time: 70s, year 1975
Place: canada, newfoundland
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Sanctuary (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Summer 1968. 14-year-old Wolfgang is deported from his family in the secluded Church Welfare Institution sanctuary. One thing is clear for Wolfgang: His yearning for freedom, he will not soon buried in the bog.
Style: sad
Plot: stepfather, coming of age, boy, violence, lgbt, gay, nationalism, boyhood, traumatic childhood, childhood, distopia, parent child relationship ...
Time: 60s, year 1968
Place: germany
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Evil (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden, Denmark
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Stockholm, the fifties. Though academically bright, violent pupil Erik Ponti is expelled from his state school with the headmaster’s words “there’s only one word for people like you – evil… what you need is a good thrashing, and more”. ...
Style: psychological, rough, disturbing, touching, emotional ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: rebellion, coming of age, private school, rebelliousness, humiliation, corporal punishment, friendship, life is a bitch, high school, bully, bullying, boarding school ...
Time: 1950s, year 2003, 20th century, 50s
Place: europe, scandinavia, stockholm sweden, eastern europe
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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
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Christmas Oranges (2012)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: In a town not so far away and a time not so long ago, baby Rose was left on the porch of Greenwoods Orphanage, where Mrs. Hartley (Nancy Stafford) and the children under her tender care become her family. But when tragedy strikes, Rose (Bailee ...
Style: uplifting, fairy tale, sincere, touching, social ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: christmas, orphanage, orphan, slice of life, christmas eve, friendship, kindness, christmas spirit, care, lifestyle, child protagonist, bereavement ...
Time: 20th century
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Brother (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Georgia, France
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Giorgi is 16 years old when he discovers another world through American films forbidden in all Soviet Union until then. Since the post-revolutionary chaos in his home town, Tbilisi, Giorgi has wanted to have succeeded by following the path of his ...
Style: realistic, serious, touching, captivating, stylized ...
Plot: teenage life, youth, juvenile delinquency, society, political unrest, prodigy, brother brother relationship, siblings, brothers, brother, family relations, gang ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: georgia
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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Cowards (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A young victim of bullying at school realizes that even the adult world is dominated by fear similar to his own. He pays a high price when he decides to fight back.
Style: realistic, serious, touching, captivating, hispanic
Plot: coming of age, family relations, bullying, high school, teenage life, self discovery, gang, kids in trouble, bully, adolescence vs adulthood, parents and children, vengeance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: spain
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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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The Class (2007)
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: school shooting, bullying, vengeance, humiliation, society, youth, friendship, life is a bitch, juvenile delinquency, social misfits, high school, teenage life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: estonia, europe
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19%
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Play (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden, France
Duration: 118 min.
Story: In central Gothenburg, Sweden, a group of boys, aged 12-14, robbed other children on about 40 occasions between 2006 and 2008. The thieves used an elaborate scheme called the 'little brother number' or 'brother trick', involving ...
Style: psychological, serious, captivating, transgressive, inspirational ...
Plot: boy, friendship between boys, juvenile delinquency, gang, kids in trouble, coming of age, danger, rivalry, youth, mind game, society, human nature ...
Time: year 2011, 2010s, 21st century
Place: eastern europe, europe
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For the Love of a Child (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: 1959, support from US troops based in Asia and later from the Sates enables two actresses to start a charity for mixed-race 'orphans' who are locally neglected as outcasts. Thus originates Childhelp, which later runs multi-disciplinary ...
Style: touching, disturbing, rough, realistic, serious ...
Plot: child abuse, orphan, rescue, danger, life is a bitch, dysfunctional family, parents and children, selflessness, family relations, family problems, adoption, abuse ...
Time: 60s, 20th century, 50s
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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Jack (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Although he is only ten years old, Jack is responsible for himself and his little brother Manuel and this fills him with pride. Their single mother works during the day and often goes out at night. There’s no father in sight. One day, Manuel burns ...
Style: realistic, atmospheric, touching, captivating, serious ...
Plot: boy, young heroes, teenage life, self discovery, youth, child as adult, coming of age, family relations, life turned upside down, child care, brother brother relationship, parents and children ...
Time: 21st century
Place: germany
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18%
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The King of Ping Pong (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Rille, an ostracized and bullied teenager, who only excels in the ping pong room, descends into a life-and-death struggle with his younger, more popular brother when the truth about their father surfaces during their spring break.
Style: realistic, sentimental, touching, captivating, psychological ...
Audience: teens
Plot: fat boy, ping pong, coming of age, youth, family relations, haunted by the past, breakup, teenage life, couples, unfulfillment, alcohol abuse, family secret ...
Time: 21st century
Place: eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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Sparta (2022)
Genre: Drama
Country: Austria, Germany, France
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Ewald moved to Romania years ago. Now in his 40s, he seeks a fresh start. Leaving his girlfriend, he moves to the hinterland. With young boys from the area, he transforms a decaying school into a fortress. The children enjoy a new, carefree ...
Style: dramatic, suspenseful, serious, captivating, mumblecore
Plot: abuse, judo, male nudity, rabbit, sex scene, wrestling, brother, boy, pedophilia, retirement home, boyhood, female nudity ...
Place: romania
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18%
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Accused (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 103 min.
Story: On the surface Henrik and Nina Christofferson are an ordinary family living happily. But they have a problem. Their daughter, Stine, a difficult 14 year old, has a habit of telling lies in class. When Stine accuses her father of sexual abuse, and is ...
Style: disturbing, tense, serious, bleak, gloomy ...
Plot: sexual abuse, incest, child abuse, lawyer, family relations, under the surface, parents and children, family problems, youth, life is a bitch, incestuous relationship, nordic ...
Time: 21st century
Place: denmark
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18%
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Chicken (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min.
Story: RICHARD, 15 with learning difficulties, longs to put down roots but his restless and destructive brother, POLLY, needs to keep moving. When the land they live on is bought by a new landowner, and the electricity supply to their caravan is cut, their ...
Style: touching, contemplative, suspenseful, sentimental, captivating ...
Plot: coming of age, teenage boy, brother brother relationship, first love, learning disability, farm, caravan, teenager, friendship, fall in love, love and romance, couples ...
Time: 21st century
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18%
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Suspect (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Teacher Rob Dekoster is a good man, albeit a bit too frivolous and liberal with funds the local arts center's interim director. His wife Nelle, who sometimes abuses drugs, spoils his ingrate teenage stepdaughter Sandy, who is kind only to her ...
Style: serious, realistic, tense, captivating, thought provoking
Plot: false accusation, family relations, manipulation, life is a bitch, rivalry, youth, vengeance, legal, couple relations, dishonesty, family problems, teenage life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: belgium, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Tom Brown's Schooldays (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story: The determined new headmaster of an English prep school attempts to reform the frequently unruly students, who are tormented by a ruthless bully.
Style: realistic, touching, serious, exciting, tense ...
Plot: bullying, corporal punishment, boarding school, coming of age, friends, self discovery, boys' school, power relations, lifestyle, misfit, dedicated educator, hardcase students ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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I Wish (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 128 min.
Story: Two young brothers at opposite ends of Kyushu devise a magical plan to reunite their separated parents in Hirokazu Koreeda's benign and superbly acted picture of family life.
Style: serious, touching, stylized, realistic, teen ...
Audience: teens
Plot: youth, parents and children, brother brother relationship, train, broken family, father son relationship, family problems, hopes, desire, child, separated parents, discovery ...
Time: year 2011, 21st century
Place: japan, asia
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18%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Difficult tale of poor, struggling South Carolinian mother & daughter, who each face painful choices with their resolve and pride. Bone, the eldest daughter, and Anney her tired mother, grow both closer and farther apart: Anney sees Glen as ...
Style: disturbing, realistic, emotional, touching, suspense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: sexual abuse, coming of age, rape, family relations, dysfunctional family, pedophile, parents and children, life is a bitch, domestic violence, child abuse, children, child rape ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, 90s, 1950s, 50s
Place: south carolina, usa, southern usa
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18%
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Kauwboy (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Ten-year-old Jojo lives with his father, a security guard with a volatile personality who drinks to manage the unspoken despair he feels about his wife's absence, which he refuses to discuss with his son. In the midst of so much uncertainty, ...
Style: touching, sincere, serious, melancholic, realistic
Audience: family outing
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Time: year 2012, 21st century
Place: holland
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18%
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The Italian (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Set in 2002, an abandoned 5-year-old boy living in a rundown orphanage in a small Russian village is adopted by an Italian family.
Style: sentimental, touching, realistic, breathtaking, inspirational ...
Plot: orphan, children, orphanage, youth, boy, adoption, coming of age, friendship, adolescence, family relations, self discovery, hopes ...
Time: year 2005, 2000s, year 2002, 21st century
Place: russia, soviet union, europe, italy
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17%
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Baby Sellers (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
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Style: serious, realistic, rough, psychological, captivating ...
Plot: babies and infants, adoption, immigrant, legal action, society, life is a bitch, kidnapping, orphanage, spy, undercover agent, abduction, tough heroes ...
Time: 21st century
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17%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands, Belgium
Duration: 94 min.
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Style: realistic, emotional, captivating, psychological, serious ...
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