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Macondo (2014)
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Genre: Drama
Country: Austria
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A drama centered on an 11-year-old Chechnyan refugee living in Vienna whose life is thrown into disarray when a friend of his deceased father materializes.
Style:
sincere, touching, serious, realistic, gloomy
Plot:
coming of age, youth, interracial relations, life is a bitch, society, immigrants, misfit, boy, father, urban ghetto, little boy, urban ghetto life, female director
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
austria
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, touching and sincere films with plots about society, youth, life is a bitch, coming of age, family relations, misfit and friendship mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Macondo: Harmony Lessons (2013), Bad Hair (2013), Manpower (2014), Red Hook Summer (2012), Barbarians (2014). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama
Country: Kazakhstan, Germany, France
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
During a medical examination, 13-year-old Aslan is humiliated in front of a load of his fellow pupils. The incident unleashes his latent personality disorder. Plagued by self-doubt, he strives for cleanliness and perfection and is obsessed with ...
Style:
realistic, serious, atmospheric, disturbing, gloomy
Audience:
teen drama
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boy, school, coming of age, youth, life is a bitch, village, social misfits, misfit, bullying, vengeance, teenage boy, humiliation ...
Time:
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Place:
kazakhstan, asia
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Genre: Drama
Country: Venezuela, Peru, Argentina, Germany
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A nine-year-old boy’s preening obsession with straightening his hair elicits a tidal wave of homophobic panic in his hard-working mother, in this tender but clear-eyed coming-of-age tale.
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serious, touching, realistic, emotional, political
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coming of age, youth, single parent, family relations, obsession, urban ghetto, society, urban ghetto life, family problems, life is a bitch, dysfunctional family, parents and children ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
venezuela, africa
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100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel, France
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
An intelligent social issues drama, Manpower sketches a portrait of four men in crisis. Moving between scathing realism and subtle irony, the film raises questions of belonging and uprooting, exile and emigration, home and family. Meir Cohen is a ...
Style:
realistic, sincere, thought provoking, touching, serious ...
Plot:
moral dilemma, introspection, social decay, human nature, realism, interracial relations, society, life is a bitch, immigrants, discrimination, hopes, crumbling marriage ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
middle east, israel
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44%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
When his mom deposits him at the Red Hook housing project in Brooklyn to spend the summer with the grandfather he’s never met, young Flik may as well have landed on Mars. Fresh from his cushy life in Atlanta, he’s bored and friendless, and his ...
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, captivating, talky ...
Plot:
family relations, fish out of water, religions or cults, clergy, youth, society, life is a bitch, family life, disorder, church, coming of age, blaxploitation ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Serbia, Montenegro, Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
"Barbarians" is a teenage drama about coming of age in a world where there is no opportunity. A portrait of a young generation growing up in a society of lost values.
Style:
realistic, serious, rough, sincere, tense ...
Plot:
teenage rebellion, juvenile delinquency, social decay, realism, society, life is a bitch, youth, friendship between boys, troubled youth, coming of age, boy, strong violent content ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
serbia
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, South Korea, USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
A Korean immigrant falls in love with her best friend while navigating her way through the challenges of living in a new country.
Style:
realistic, emotional, sentimental, captivating, depressing ...
Plot:
coming of age, immigrants, friendship, teenage life, society, unfulfilled love, unfulfillment, youth, love, couples, women of color, korean american ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada, toronto ontario canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Genre: Drama
Country: Norway, United Arab Emirates
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
In Letter to the King we meet a group of refugees, all with their own agendas, on an excursion to Oslo. A young man about to be deported visits his former employers to collect his off-the-books salary, a martial arts expert is looking for work, a ...
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, sincere, gloomy ...
Plot:
refugee, love, revenge, life is a bitch, redemption, society, misfit, dishonesty, human nature, hopes, social misfits, culture clash ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
kurdistan, norway
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36%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Authentic and committed, moving and stormy drama of street kids from Mexico City. Wonderful adaptation of successful play about street kids who have more trouble with corrupt cops, than with dirty and heavy work.
Style:
sincere, serious, touching, realistic, bleak
Plot:
social decay, gang, juvenile delinquency, kids in trouble, police corruption, urban ghetto life, society, youth, drug dealing, life is a bitch, down on your luck, social misfits ...
Place:
latin america, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, Turkey
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Establishing a bleak village in Eastern Turkey as its setting, Sivas features the story of Aslan, an eleven-year-old boy, and Sivas, a weathered fighting dog who develop a strong relationship after Aslan finds Sivas wounded in a ditch, left to die.
Style:
sincere, serious, captivating, touching, gloomy ...
Plot:
friendship, parents and children, life is a bitch, society, dog, boy, child, pets, family relations, friends, youth, animal cruelty ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
turkey
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35%
Genre: Drama
Country: South Africa
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
The harrowing tale of a South African street-kid's search for love, based on Dickens' classic story. Growing up neglected in a rural orphanage, Twist escapes to the unpredictable freedom of Cape Town, where he falls in with Fagin's ...
Style:
serious, touching, emotional, sincere, realistic ...
Plot:
youth, street kid, juvenile delinquency, young heroes, dishonesty, gang, life is a bitch, orphan, society, cons and scams, rich and poor, negligence ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
south africa, africa, cape town south africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
ANNE B. REAL is the coming of age story of a young female rapper, who finds her inspiration by reading the Diary of Anne Frank.
Style:
sincere, realistic, serious, touching, contemplative
Plot:
hip hop, lifestyle, introspection, teenage life, youth, life is a bitch, juvenile delinquency, urban ghetto, siblings relations, urban ghetto life, family life, coming of age ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
This film follows the odyssey of a group of Iranian immigrants in Los Angeles, trying to find their place in America amidst the unfolding of the 1979 Iran hostage crisis.
Style:
uplifting, sincere, touching, sentimental, realistic ...
Plot:
disco, racism, lifestyle, follow your dream, culture clash, society, misfit, injustice, nightlife, interracial relations, nightclub, immigrants ...
Time:
70s
Place:
los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A Scandinavian immigrant, driven to madness by ruined dreams and the tragic death of his wife, embarks on a quixotic mission to build a homemade ship and sail out of the prairie dust bowl at the height of the Great Depression.
Style:
serious, realistic, sincere, touching
Plot:
immigrants, family relations, life is a bitch, society, working class, unemployment, couple relations, unfulfillment, prairie, down on your luck, ship
Time:
1920s, 1930s, 20th century
Place:
canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
An intimate portrait of a resilient and spirited young girl and her proud and dignified family, who are part of Ireland's "traveller" community.
Style:
touching, serious, emotional, sincere, realistic
Plot:
life is a bitch, youth, misfit, social misfits, realism, family relations, culture clash, parents and children, society, resilience, discrimination, single mother ...
Time:
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Place:
ireland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Austria, Germany, Switzerland
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Vienna, 1995. Jasmin, Tamara, Valentin, Senad and Roman live near the northern border of Austria. Their lives repeatedly intersect and drift apart. The characters involved are young migrants from the former Yugoslavia, Romania, Poland and Austria ...
Style:
serious, realistic, emotional, touching, sentimental
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
immigrants, friendship, bittersweet, deadend life, social relations, friends, fish out of water, youth, love and romance, gender, life is a bitch, human nature ...
Time:
90s
Place:
europe, austria
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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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, sentimental, sincere, realistic, political ...
Plot:
coming of age, life is a bitch, family in danger, family life, confined, youth, parents and children, isolation, political unrest, society, totalitarianism, parent child relationship ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1976
Place:
argentina, latin america, buenos aires argentina
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Macabea has just moved to the big city after her aunt, who raised her, died. She gets a job as a typist and moves into a boarding house with three other women. In her spare time she listens to time Radio Station; on Sundays she likes to ride the ...
Style:
serious, realistic, touching, sincere
Plot:
existentialism, food, rich and poor, city life, working class, countryside, social decay, urban ghetto life, down on your luck, social misfits, life is a bitch, society ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
sao paulo brazil, brazil
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A violent quarrel breaks out between a couple at midnight. Being at a relative's house in the north of Iran, they depart for Tehran in the middle of the night, but they do not bring along their son. Something terrible happens on their way...
Style:
serious, realistic, touching, sincere, gloomy
Plot:
family relations, couples, deaf, boy, youth, mute or deaf, couple relations, misfit, family problems, protecting from truth, on the road, death in the family ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
iran, tehran
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, France, Italy, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Rocklin Colorado, 1925. A hard cold winter. Young Arturo Bandini loves his father Svevo, his mother Maria and his brothers. Even though his bricklayer father wastes the little money he has in the Imperial Poolhall and his time with the rich American ...
Style:
serious, realistic, rough, gloomy
Plot:
coming of age, immigrants, family relations, child's point of view, society, life is a bitch, youth, ambition, sport, family life, family in crisis, down on your luck ...
Time:
1920s
Place:
colorado, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, Austria
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Abandoned in a park, the two-year-old girl Asia is found by Patty, a circus woman living with her husband Walter in a trailer park in San Basilio on the outskirts of Rome. With the help of Tairo, a teenager who lives with his grandma in an adjacent ...
Style:
realistic, touching, serious, sincere
Plot:
couple relations, family relations, couples, society, social misfits, misfit, youth, disorder, child abandonment, poverty, friendship, improv ...
Place:
europe, rome italy, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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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 ...
Style:
captivating, realistic, sincere, serious, touching
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
youth, down on your luck, parents and children, contests and competitions, friendship, society, human spirit, family relations, post war, change of luck, boy, children ...
Place:
asia, thailand
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28%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Based on the true story of Benjamin Prufer and Sreykeo Solvan. The unexpected and uncertain love story of Sreykeo, a 21 year old bar girl in Phnom Penh and Ben, a young German student traveling to Cambodia on a post graduation summer trip. When Ben ...
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sentimental, realistic, atmospheric, touching, gloomy ...
Plot:
fall in love, love affair, unlikely couple, social differences, society, hopes, culture clash, terminal illness, couples, love and romance, interracial relations, youth ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
cambodia, germany, europe, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A clothing store worker (Jahan) meets a poor girl named Eti. Jahan tries to help the girl and solve her problems, but…
Style:
touching, realistic, serious, sincere, emotional ...
Plot:
lifestyle, friendship, bittersweet, life is a bitch, love and romance, downfall, couples, down on your luck, singleness, city life, friends, twentysomething life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
iran
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Max and Lenny is the story of a friendship between two girls fighting for survival in a northern area of Marseille.
Style:
touching, realistic, sincere, serious
Plot:
follow your dream, ambition, friendship, teenage life, society, family relations, hip hop, youth, hopes, music, lesbian, strong female presence ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
The poignant yet humor filled story about a single mother of a teenager severely impacted by autism, forced to reckon with her daughter's future. As her child becomes an adult, what used to work, no longer does. What will sustain her daughter, ...
Style:
emotional, sincere, sentimental, touching, serious ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
autism, nursing, moral dilemma, parents and children, single parent, youth, social misfits, mentally challenged, life is a bitch, society, family problems, child illness ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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Style:
touching, emotional, realistic, serious, gloomy ...
Plot:
friendship, teenage life, homeless, family relations, life is a bitch, youth, society, parents and children, pregnancy, destiny, false accusation, polish ...
Place:
poland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
Duct tape, electrical cables, trigger, explosives. Sebbe never planned to build a bomb. It just happened. Sebbe is 15 years old and lives with his mother in an apartment that is too narrow. He does his best. He never strikes back. Sebbe loves his ...
Style:
captivating, realistic, psychological, serious, mind bending ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
single parent, coming of age, teenage boy, teenage life, introspection, family relations, parents and children, escape from reality, society, youth, life is a bitch, juvenile delinquency ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
sweden, europe, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
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Style:
disturbing, touching, serious, realistic, gloomy ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
friendship, life is a bitch, sexual initiation, teenage life, misfit, youth, society, down on your luck, working class, dull life, unemployment, loneliness ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
poland
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 46 min.
Story:
Drama - From Ernest J. Gaines, author of "The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman," comes a deceptively simple, yet emotionally complex tale of a young boy's discovery of what it's like to be black in Louisiana during the ...
Style:
thought provoking, uplifting, realistic, serious, touching ...
Plot:
racism, african american, youth, blaxploitation, family relations, injustice, life is a bitch, society, interracial relations, parents and children, bittersweet, dentist ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
louisiana
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Lachlan MacAldonich is a self-described “lazy Scotsman” and former guitar player for a once-popular 1990s rock band. No longer famous, he now lives a comfortably numb existence working on an organic farm outside Los Angeles. He drinks himself ...
Style:
realistic, serious, psychological, captivating, gloomy ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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