Movies like Abel

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Abel (2010)
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Abel (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 82 min.
Story: When 9-year-old Abel assumes his absent father's role as man of the house, he garners his family's respect, and life resumes a comfortable rhythm -- until a man arrives at the house, claiming he's the long-lost patriarch
Style: atmospheric, light, humorous, captivating, serious, emotional, realistic, gloomy
Plot: youth, dysfunctional family, family relations, coming of age, parents and children, family problems, child as adult, friendship, boy, latinos, family conflict, innocence lost, bittersweet, train, police, hospital, taxi, runaway, swimming pool, brother brother relationship, absent father, little brother, older sister, mother's boyfriend, little boy ...
Time: year 2010, 21st century, contemporary
Place: mexico, latin america
Keyword: mexican

Most similar movies to Abel

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, humorous, semi serious and captivating films with plots about family relations, youth, parents and children, family problems, coming of age, dysfunctional family and teenage life mostly in Drama, Comedy and Family genres. Some movies like Abel: Gueros (2014), Quitters (2015), Absence (2014), Marine Life (2000), The Best Things in the World (2010). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Gueros (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Set amidst the 1999 student strikes in Mexico City, this coming-of-age tale finds two brothers venturing through the city in a sentimental search for an aging legendary musician. Shot in black-and-white, Güeros brims with youthful exuberance.
Style: road movie, humorous, captivating, light, black and white ...
Plot: coming of age, brother brother relationship, on the road, friendship, family relations, disorder, escapades, youth, migrant, phd, latina, boy ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: mexico, mexico city
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Quitters (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Quitters tells the story of the Raymans, a wealthy Jewish family that's falling apart. The son, Clark, is a bright and curious high schooler with a talent for manipulation. As his mother May enters treatment for a pill addiction, and he and his ...
Style: realistic, humorous, semi serious, captivating, independent film
Plot: family relations, dysfunctional family, family problems, parents and children, life turned upside down, youth, family life, disorder, social relations, high school life, innocence lost, girl man relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: san francisco, usa, california
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88%
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Absence (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil, Chile, France
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A daily, familiar, sexual and emotional drama. Based on the character Serginho, the plot is based around various aspects of this "no longer a boy, not yet a man". We follow his day to day: the recently acquired role of man of the house, ...
Style: serious, realistic, touching, emotional, bleak
Plot: dysfunctional family, teenage life, family problems, child as adult, parents and children, family relations, youth, teachers and students, coming of age, lgbt, gay, boy ...
Time: 21st century
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Marine Life (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Marine Life revolves around the choatic family life of June, a middle-aged lounge singer and mother. Aging and twice divorced, lounge singer June Nordstrom tries to cope with her fading beauty, her troubled offspring, her waning career and her young ...
Style: realistic, emotional, touching, humorous, semi serious ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, family relations, love affair, family life, couples, family problems, single parent, love and romance, youth, child as adult, midlife crisis, parents and children ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
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The Best Things in the World (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Everyday family life as perfectly normal madness. “As Melhores Coisas do Mundo“ follows a few days in the life of the 15-year-old Mano, who is fighting on two fronts: his parents have just got divorced and he is going through puberty. Mano tries ...
Style: semi serious, touching, humorous, sentimental, captivating ...
Audience: teens
Plot: youth, family relations, coming of age, family problems, parents and children, gender, teenage life, gay, lgbt, gay interest, father son relationship, boy ...
Time: 21st century
Place: brazil, sao paulo brazil
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72%
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Bruno (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: The story of a unique young boy genius, Bruno, whose expression of his own individuality leads his family and community along an emotional journey.
Style: realistic, touching, emotional, semi serious, humorous ...
Plot: youth, coming of age, dysfunctional family, friendship, family life, parents and children, family problems, prodigy, society, hopes, eccentric family, friends ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
Kept and Dreamless (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Argentina, France, Netherlands, Spain
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Florence, a young irresponsible mother and her precocious daughter, Eugenia, have an unusual relationship. The roles between the two are reversed. Florence is totally inept at caring for a daughter, whereas Eugenia, only 10 years old, shows maturity ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, emotional, humorous, sincere ...
Plot: drug use, pregnant woman, abortion, dysfunctional family, youth, pregnancy, family relations, precocious child, single parent, child as adult, drug dealer, grandmother granddaughter relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: argentina, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
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Viva Cuba (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Cuba
Duration: 92 min.
Story: The friendship between two children is threatened by their parents’ differences. Malú is from a family that was upper-class before the Revolution and remains well-to-do through remittances from relatives overseas, and her single mother (Larisa ...
Style: serious, touching, realistic, sincere, road movie
Plot: friendship, youth, coming of age, children, social differences, longing, against the odds, young heroes, dysfunctional family, parents and children, family life, family problems ...
Time: 21st century
Place: cuba, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
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Kryptonite! (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Set in 1970s Naples, bullied nine year-old Peppino is watching the world around him as his extended dysfunctional family change. Psychedelic flower power and hippie love is threatening the old traditional southern Italian family. Dad is having an ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, realistic, sentimental, touching
Plot: dysfunctional family, youth, family problems, family relations, imaginary friend, older sister, escape from reality, bittersweet, superhero, little boy, young boy, tradition ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: italy
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65%
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So Much Water (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Uruguay, Mexico, Netherlands, Germany
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A family vacation is bogged down by unrelenting rain, as a teenage girl and her divorced father try to find common ground.
Style: humorous, captivating, atmospheric, psychological, semi serious ...
Plot: father daughter relationship, family relations, teenager, parents and children, resort, confined, family problems, siblings relations, estrangement, hotel, coming of age, woman ...
Time: 21st century
Place: uruguay, latin america
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63%
Thursday Till Sunday (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Chile, Netherlands
Duration: 96 min.
Story: As she and her family embark on a short vacation, a Chilean teenager slowly comes to the realization that her parents might be splitting up.
Style: serious, tense, touching, sentimental, realistic ...
Plot: coming of age, dysfunctional family, family relations, family problems, on the road, parents and children, bittersweet, protecting from truth, crumbling marriage, siblings relations, under the surface, youth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: chile
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61%
A Time in Quchi (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Bao stays with his grandfather for the summer and is shocked to see there are no modern appliances.
Style: realistic, touching, atmospheric, captivating, serious
Plot: friendship, coming of age, family relations, family problems, friends, parents and children, elderly, youth, countryside, school, boy, siblings relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: taiwan, asia
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60%
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Family Law (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Argentina, Italy, Spain, France
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A man in his thirties does not want to be like his father, but that seems to be unavoidable.
Style: semi serious, captivating, light, emotional, realistic ...
Plot: family relations, introspection, parents and children, family problems, hopes, youth, lawyer, father son relationship, teacher, husband wife relationship, teenager, friendship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: argentina
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
It Was the Son (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min.
Story: The Ciraulo family lives in the miserable district of Palermo called "Zen". When one of their children dies in a shootout between mafia gangsters they receive compensation and buy a luxury black Volvo. Things go wrong when Trancredi, ...
Style: captivating, psychological, humorous, light, realistic ...
Plot: working class, family relations, family problems, parents and children, society, tragedy, murder, friendship, mafia, family life
Time: 21st century
Place: italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
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Manhood (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: A black comedy about a reformed womanizer who struggles to keep his family together.
Style: sentimental, humorous, touching, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot: family relations, life turned upside down, manhood, youth, family problems, disorder, dysfunctional family, parents and children, dark humor, adolescence vs adulthood, couples, family in crisis ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
Along the Ridge (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A young father and his two children struggle to find harmony after his wife leaves them for another man.
Style: serious, realistic, emotional, touching
Plot: coming of age, boy, family relations, friendship, dysfunctional family, lifestyle, siblings relations, parents and children, single parent, youth, family problems, unfaithful wife ...
Time: year 2006, 21st century
Place: italy, europe
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55%
As Cool as I Am (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A smart teenage girl comes of age in a small town with her self-centered parents who had her when they were teenagers.
Style: semi serious, touching, humorous, realistic, independent film ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: dysfunctional family, teenage life, family relations, family problems, youth, crumbling marriage, parents and children, teenage angst, coming of age, teen romance, suburbs, couples ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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49%
Two Shots Fired (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Argentina, Chile, Germany, Netherlands
Duration: 104 min.
Story: One early morning, at the beginning of a very hot summer, Mariano, a sixteen-year-old teenager, returns home, jumps into the pool and does some laps with a stopwatch. Then he gets out and mows the lawn, where he accidentally cuts the mower’s power ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, disturbing, humorous, offbeat
Plot: friendship, family relations, teenage life, youth, parents and children, dark humor, boy, siblings relations, friends, urban, house, gun
Time: 21st century
Place: latin america, argentina
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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Logan (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A teen does everything he can to finish his younger brother's project when tragedy strikes.
Style: sincere, sentimental, captivating, serious, independent film ...
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: youth, human spirit, teenage life, follow your dream, family problems, dysfunctional family, family relations, friendship, hopes, bittersweet, brother brother relationship, coming of age ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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46%
The Bad Mother's Handbook (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 71 min.
Story: Karen Cooper wants to domineer her family and believes she's its pillar. In fact she does everything wrong. Thus she messes up all their lives and futures, rather then help her loved-ones.
Style: humorous, semi serious, touching, emotional, captivating ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, lifestyle, family relations, parents and children, youth, single parent, adolescence vs adulthood, teenage life, couples, wooing, love and romance, family problems ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, europe
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46%
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Childstar (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Childstar is about an egotistical 12-year-old named Taylor Brandon Burns who has skyrocketed to fame at that young age. His relationship with his driver, Rick, takes a turn when Taylor confides in him about the problems of celebrity and the fears of ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, captivating, light, independent film ...
Plot: youth, fame, actor's life, coming of age, lifestyle, showbiz, filmmaking, movie business, artists and showbiz, parents and children, celebrity culture, family relations ...
Place: canada
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46%
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Lost Islands (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A family with five kids in the 80s get into a crisis when twin brothers fall in love with the same girl.
Style: semi serious, humorous, captivating, emotional, realistic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: family relations, twins, coming of age, love triangle, family in crisis, teenage love, parents and children, family problems, fall in love, small town, friendship, rivalry ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: israel, palestine, middle east
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44%
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Blessed (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Seven lost children wander the night streets while their mothers await their return home.
Style: atmospheric, sincere, captivating, touching, emotional ...
Plot: self discovery, juvenile delinquency, missing child, teenage life, youth, family relations, rebellion, dysfunctional family, rebelliousness, family problems, estrangement, parents and children ...
Time: 21st century
Place: melbourne, australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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The Happiest Girl in the World (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Romania, Netherlands, France, Japan
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Delia, a young Romanian girl, comes to Bucharest with her parents to collect a prize she has won in a contest organized by a soft-drinks company. The prize is a beautiful new car. All Delia has to do now is appear in front of the camera in a ...
Style: realistic, serious, captivating, sincere, atmospheric ...
Plot: youth, hopes, adolescence vs adulthood, family life, family relations, moral dilemma, parents and children, teenage life, mother daughter relationship, coming of age, small town, makeover ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, romania
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43%
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Last Weekend (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: When an affluent matriarch gathers her dysfunctional family for a holiday at their Northern California lake house, her carefully constructed weekend begins to come apart at the seams, leading her to question her own role in the family.
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, sincere, captivating ...
Plot: family problems, eccentric family, parents and children, siblings relations, dark humor, family gatherings, gay, friendship, dysfunctional family, lgbtq, lgbt, family relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: california, usa
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41%
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Beautiful (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Determined to win the Miss American Miss pageant, Mona is ready to sacrifice anything and everything to guarantee herself the crown including her own daughter! She manages to persuade her best bud to raise the kid as her own (Miss AM can't be a ...
Style: humorous, light, melancholic, emotional, semi serious ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: beauty pageant, friendship, pregnancy, family problems, blind ambition, contests and competitions, underdog, family relations, single parent, ambition, parents and children, child illness ...
Time: 90s
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41%
Hardboiled Egg (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The story of Piero, from when he was a kid to fatherhood, over the background of the town of Livorno, Tuscany, where the director Virzì was born.
Style: captivating, realistic, semi serious, gloomy, humorous ...
Audience: teens
Plot: coming of age, bittersweet, working class, youth culture, dysfunctional family, factory worker, teenage love, blue collar, oil refinery, proletarian, puberty, family relations ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: tuscany, europe, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
The Summer of Flying Fish (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Chile, France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Manena is the headstrong adolescent daughter of Pancho, a rich Chilean landowner who devotes his vacation to one thing : the invasion of his artificial lagoon by carps. While he employs increasingly radical methods, Manena has her first romantic ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, touching, realistic, captivating ...
Plot: obsession, parents and children, family relations, countryside, teenage life, siblings relations, youth, fish, landowner, animal abuse, coming of age, bourgeoisie ...
Time: 21st century
Place: chile, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
The Third Side of the River (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Tensions rise when a doctor (Daniel Veronese) pressures his teenage son to follow in his footsteps.
Style: realistic, emotional, psychological, tense, serious
Plot: coming of age, family problems, parents and children, family relations, small town, under the surface, teenage life, dysfunctional family, father son relationship, double life, father, youth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: argentina, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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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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