Movies like The Rocket 2013
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The Rocket (2013)
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Genre: Drama
Country: Australia, Thailand, Laos
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Set against the lush backdrop of rural Laos, this spirited drama tells the story of scrappy ten-year-old Ahlo, who yearns to break free from his ill-fated destiny. After his village is displaced to make way for a massive dam, Ahlo escapes with his father and grandmother through the Laotian outback in search of a new home. Along the way, they come across a rocket festival that offers Ahlo a lucrative but dangerous chance to prove his worth.
Style:
captivating, realistic, sincere, touching, serious
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
youth, down on your luck, parents and children, contests and competitions, friendship, human spirit, society, family relations, post war, change of luck, boy, children, on the road, tourism, asian, child, little boy, coming of age, nudity, friends, destiny, wartime life, loss of son, obsessive quest, misplaced guilt ...
Place:
asia, thailand
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, touching and captivating films with plots about youth, family relations, friendship, coming of age, friends, parents and children and society mostly in Drama, Family and War genres. Some movies like The Rocket: Let the Wind Blow (2004), Abandoned (2001), Ode to My Father (2014), The Steamroller and the Violin (1961), Kauwboy (2012). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: India, France
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A collegian in turbulent Mumbai attempts to improve his lifestyle.
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Plot:
coming of age, follow your dream, rich and poor, working class, society, youth, hopes, state affairs, parents and children, political unrest, social differences, family relations ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
asia, india, bombay india
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100%
636
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, sincere, touching, art house ...
Plot:
corporal punishment, orphan, kids in trouble, children, male bonding, coming of age, life is a bitch, human spirit, juvenile delinquency, friendship, boarding school life, teenage life ...
Time:
60s, year 1960
Place:
hungary, europe
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: South Korea
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
Amid the chaos of refugees fleeing the Korean War in December 1950, a young boy, Duk-soo, sees his fate change in the blink of an eye when he loses track of his younger sister and he leaves his father behind to find her. Settling at Gukje Market in ...
Style:
realistic, emotional, serious, touching, social ...
Plot:
family relations, father, coal mine, parents and children, hopes, human spirit, friends, coming of age, children in wartime, korean war, asian, changing lives ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, 60s, 50s
Place:
korea, south korea, busan
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 46 min.
Story:
Seven year old Sasha practices violin every day to satisfy the ambition of his parents. Already withdrawn as a result of his routines, Sasha quickly regains confidence when he accidentally meets and befriends worker Sergei, who works on a ...
Style:
art house, realistic, serious, spiritual, uplifting ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
youth, friendship, childhood, self discovery, children, young adult, little boy, coming of age, spirituality, minimalism, art, boy ...
Time:
year 1961, 60s
Place:
ussr, soviet union, russia
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Romania, France
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Bucharest 1989 - the last year of Ceausecu's dictatorship. Eva lives with her parents and her 7 year old brother, Lalalilu. One day at school, Eva and her boyfriend accidentally break a bust of Ceausescu. They are forced to confess their crime ...
Style:
captivating, sentimental, sincere, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
youth, friendship, hopes, warning, coming of age, rebelliousness, human spirit, exile, siblings relations, reform, family relations, totalitarian regime ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
romania, eastern europe, europe
Similarity:
100%
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:
sincere, touching, serious, melancholic, realistic
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
parents and children, coming of age, dysfunctional family, friendship, bird, father son relationship, youth, pets, escape from reality, dishonesty, life & death, children ...
Time:
year 2012, 21st century
Place:
holland
Similarity:
100%
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:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
latvia
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
An alcoholic former horse-trainer perceives in a fifteen-year-old boy a unique gift of horsemanship and makes it possible for the boy to conceive his dream and pursue it.
Style:
realistic, serious, feel good, touching
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
horse trainer, jockey, friendship, contests and competitions, parents and children, teenage love, self discovery, human spirit, teenage life, against the odds, bullying, youth ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
100%
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441
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
The friendship of two 15-year-old boys – one black, one white – begins to fall apart under the stress of a changing world.
Style:
serious, sincere, captivating, emotional, realistic ...
Plot:
farm, friendship, teenage life, social relations, social differences, family relations, youth, love and romance, coming of age, friends, interracial relations, boy ...
Time:
20th century, 60s
Place:
australia
Similarity:
33%
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 problems, friends, family relations, parents and children, elderly, youth, countryside, school, little boy, boy ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
taiwan, asia
Similarity:
30%
313
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Milo, an isolated 10-year-old boy with 'sensitive skin', lives a life rigidly controlled by his father. Sparked by his first friendship, he runs away from home to attend the school camping trip - but never arrives. He falls into the hands ...
Style:
captivating, realistic, touching, psychological, teen ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
youth, coming of age, friendship, family relations, parents and children, life is a bitch, friends, father son relationship, disease, runaway child, self discovery, hiking ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
holland
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina, Spain, Italy
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
The movie show us how life was in Argentina for dissident people, in the seventies, under the military government.
Style:
serious, sincere, sentimental, realistic, political ...
Plot:
operation condor, coming of age, life is a bitch, family life, family in danger, dictator, youth, confined, parents and children, political unrest, isolation, society ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1976
Place:
latin america, argentina, buenos aires argentina
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
In 1978, five teenagers in Shelbyville, Tennessee look to meet the actress Sondra Locke, who's rumored to return to town for the local premiere of her big Hollywood movie.
Style:
sentimental, emotional, touching, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
obsessive quest, teenage love, society, youth, lifestyle, love and romance, friendship, teenage life, parents and children, small town, suburbs, best friend ...
Time:
70s
Place:
tennessee, usa
Similarity:
23%
808
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Seven lost children wander the night streets while their mothers await their return home.
Style:
sincere, captivating, atmospheric, touching, emotional ...
Plot:
teenage life, missing child, self discovery, juvenile delinquency, society, family relations, rebellion, adolescence vs adulthood, dysfunctional family, family problems, estrangement, parents and children ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
melbourne, australia
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Centred around greyhound racing in a Catholic community after the "Troubles" have ended but where their legacy remains strong. Donal is a 14-year old who works in a greyhound racing kennel owned by Good Joe. If Donal's favourite ...
Style:
emotional, realistic, sentimental, captivating, touching ...
Plot:
dog, youth, against the odds, friendship, contests and competitions, animal training, family relations, hopes, coming of age, parents and children, animal life, ambition ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
ireland, europe
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: Bulgaria, Israel
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
the story of two adolescents, Moni and Zhozho, who meet 17-year-old Zheni in 1943 and with whom both fell in love. The events that follow unfold while Bulgaria has to decide on the deportation of 11 343 Jewish citizens in Macedonia and Thrace.
Style:
emotional, captivating, touching, suspenseful, realistic ...
Plot:
wartime life, fall in love, on the run, teenage love, friendship, holocaust, anti semitism, society, teenage life, youth, love and romance, coming of age ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century
Place:
bulgaria
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22%
355
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Genie, a Chinese-American teenager, develops feelings for a charming African-American DJ, but her grandmother forbids their romance forcing Genie to choose between family and love.
Style:
sincere, touching, emotional, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
family relations, parents and children, teenage life, immigrant, opposites attract, friends, love and romance, human nature, youth, family life, single parent, introspection ...
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337
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
March 22, 2067. At dawn of life, Milana remembers her life, when she was a young Chechen immigrant in Paris, struggling for a better life along with her school friends.
Style:
emotional, serious, thought provoking, touching, social ...
Plot:
immigrant, friendship, family relations, parents and children, fighting the system, youth, rebellion, society, deportation, illegal immigrant, teenager, school ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe, paris france
Similarity:
22%
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium, Senegal
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
The debut feature from Franco-Senegalese filmmaker Dyana Gaye charts the interconnected destinies of three far-flung sojourners across three continents. A quiet drama, about the anxieties of negotiating journeying to foreign countries and making a ...
Style:
sincere, realistic, serious, touching
Plot:
on the road, parents and children, fish out of water, dishonesty, friendship, society, immigrant, hopes, starting over, family relations, culture clash, migration ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
italy, new york, france, africa
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
While out and about tending to his herd, young shepherd Larus meets a mysterious little girl named Tinke. Quickly realizing that the girl is alone, Larus brings Tinke some food and slowly builds a friendship with her. Tinke, whose parents died ...
Style:
captivating, realistic, sincere, touching, serious ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
orphan, children, family relations, friendship, hopes, friends, destiny, human nature, coming of age, girl, teenage girl, shepherd ...
Time:
19th century, 1850s
Place:
denmark, europe
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A petty thief's mentoring of an apparent orphan takes a profound turn when he kidnaps the boy from a foster home and drives him cross-country to his sister's house in Texas.
Style:
emotional, realistic, touching, captivating, independent film ...
Plot:
adoption, friendship, family relations, custody, on the road, introspection, petty criminal, redemption, hopes, road trip, boy, foster home ...
Place:
new york, usa, texas
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
In 1950s France, a young boy is taken in by a couple after spending a few months in the care of social service.
Style:
touching, sentimental, captivating, sincere, realistic ...
Plot:
orphan, youth, adoption, friendship, family relations, foster parent, foster child, mother son relationship, foster home, father son relationship, family life, parents and children ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: South Africa, UK, USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
This movie is of Hally, an adolescent white South African. He is stuck between his intolerant father's outlook of him and those of his caretaker, Sam. Sam is a black waiter and Hally's friend and teacher. Hally is required to laugh at his ...
Style:
touching, serious, emotional, captivating, gloomy ...
Plot:
youth, hopes, friendship, racism, interracial relations, human spirit, redemption, family problems, dysfunctional family, social decay, life is a bitch, teaching the ways of the world ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
south africa, africa
Similarity:
20%
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659
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Incarcerated women join a band of volunteers who battle forest fires and assist during natural disasters.
Style:
realistic, emotional, serious, touching, sincere ...
Plot:
redemption, youth, power relations, juvenile delinquency, human spirit, hopes, society, fire brigade, friendship, rivalry, friend, troubled youth ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
The story of two small town boys from different sides of the tracks: 1950's childhood and self-redemption. Young "Whitey" Black (so called because of a tuft of blanched hair on the left side of his head) lives in poverty with his ...
Style:
uplifting, touching, feel good, emotional, christmas classics ...
Audience:
family outing, kids
Plot:
youth, christmas, friendship, self discovery, social differences, terminal illness, haunted by the past, parents and children, society, life is a bitch, family life, child illness ...
Time:
50s
Place:
north carolina
Similarity:
20%
661
Genre: Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
You don't choose your family. You choose your friends. Vegas is the story of Thomas, Marianne and Terje - three teenagers with nowhere to go.
Style:
realistic, serious, captivating
Plot:
family relations, friendship, coming of age, life is a bitch, social misfits, young heroes, youth, child abuse, teenage girl, teenage boy, abusive father, alcoholic father ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Sweden
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Eskil moves from town to town with his father in Northern Sweden. He misses his mother and sucks at playing hockey, the main activity among the boys his age. Things changes when he meets Trinidad, a mysterious woman who lives outside society ...
Style:
serious, touching, realistic, feel good, sincere ...
Audience:
family outing, kids
Plot:
friendship, family relations, parents and children, village life, coming of age, father son relationship, father and son, sport team, friends, village, youth, self confidence ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, eastern europe
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Two young children living illegally in a model apartment outside Boston are left to fend for themselves when their hardworking mother disappears
Style:
sincere, serious, touching, realistic, sad ...
Plot:
youth, single parent, family problems, working class, family relations, eviction, society, suburbs, parents and children, siblings relations, poverty, child ...
Place:
boston, usa
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland, Sweden
Duration: 72 min.
Story:
Two kids, Dylan and Kylie, run away from home at Christmas and spend a night of magic and terror on the streets of inner-city Dublin.
Style:
realistic, touching, sentimental, sincere, captivating ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
youth, coming of age, dysfunctional family, friendship, family problems, obsessive quest, escapades, innocence lost, danger, childhood sweetheart, child romance, love ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
ireland, europe, dublin ireland
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Bilal, a Muslim high school senior works at his family's long-owned taxi stand. "The Stand," as they call it, has been the source of all activity and money for the family for the last sixty years. It seems like Bílal is about to ...
Style:
realistic, touching, sincere, sentimental, independent film ...
Plot:
coming of age, self discovery, follow your dream, teenage life, family business, society, youth, hopes, human spirit, workplace, family problems, parents and children ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, detroit
Similarity:
20%
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