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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, emotional, psychological, tension, gloomy
Plot:
coming of age, youth, refugee, interracial relations, life is a bitch, society, immigrant, misfit, family drama, single mother, father son relationship, responsibility, grief, identity, social realism, trauma, post war, neighborhood, poverty, memory, language barrier, identity crisis, suburbs, intimacy, adaptation ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
austria, vienna
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, touching and emotional films with plots about coming of age, youth, society, family relations, life is a bitch, immigrant and parents and children mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Macondo: Young Tiger (2014), Bad Hair (2013), Jet Boy (2001), Yasmin (2004), Nairobi Half Life (2012). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Bébé Tigre is Many, a 17-year-old Indian boy who has been living in France for two years. A teenager like any other, he divides his time between school, friends, and his girlfriend. But the pressures placed on him by his parents in India force him ...
Style:
realistic, independent film, tension, serious, touching ...
Plot:
youth, immigrant, coming of age, illegal immigrant, social realism, integration, identity, slice of life, city life, multiculturalism, empathy, identity crisis ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
france, paris france
Similarity:
100%
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.
Style:
serious, touching, realistic, emotional, hispanic ...
Plot:
coming of age, youth, single parent, obsession, family relations, society, urban ghetto, life is a bitch, family problems, parents and children, dysfunctional family, little boy ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
venezuela, south america, africa
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100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Dave Schultz' feature debut Jet Boy is a drama about a boy attempting to figure out his future. Nathan (Branden Nadon) goes on a search to find his father after his mother dies of a drug overdose. Nathan has been prostituting himself in order ...
Style:
independent film, sexy, touching, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
kids in trouble, man boy relationship, gay, boyhood, orphan, child neglect, boy, teenage boy, teenager, teenage prostitution, lgbt teen, youth ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada
Similarity:
100%
804
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, UK
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
In England, the Pakistanis Yasmin lives two lives in two different worlds: in her community, she wears Muslin clothes, cooks for her father and brother and has the traditional behavior of a Muslin woman. Further, she has a non-consumed marriage with ...
Style:
serious, realistic, sincere, touching
Plot:
immigrant, family relations, culture clash, social differences, false accusation, life is a bitch, society, terrorism, parents and children, injustice, religions or cults, family in crisis ...
Time:
september 11 2001, 21st century
Place:
britain, pakistan, england
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Kenya, Germany
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Mwas, a young aspiring actor from upcountry Kenya dreams of becoming an accomplished actor one day, and in pursuit of this, he makes his way to Nairobi, the city of opportunity. He quickly understands why Nairobi is nicknamed Nairrobery as he is ...
Style:
sincere, realistic, serious, tense, captivating ...
Plot:
longing, ambition, desire for fame, friendship, follow your dream, fish out of water, society, hopes, life is a bitch, social decay, lifestyle, unlikely criminals ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
kenya, africa
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%
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Set before the first Wold War in part of Poland under Austrain occupation, the story of a young boy in primary school who later grows up to become a rebellious, poetic-minded teen in the same school when the national movement toward liberation is ...
Style:
intellectual, political
Plot:
coming of age, boy, polish history, teacher, school, boarding house, tyranny, rebel, religion, male nudity, father son relationship, police ...
Time:
pre world war one
Place:
poland
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Austria, France
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Centers on a group of weary Middle Eastern refugees who have made their way to Turkey to apply for European visas.
Style:
serious, realistic, touching, sincere, captivating ...
Plot:
refugee, immigrant, hopes, friendship, injustice, starting over, society, political unrest, leaving home, friends, fugitives, migration ...
Time:
year 2008, 21st century
Place:
iraq, iran, turkey
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Stuck in a mining town near Vladivostok in 1947 amongst Soviet exiles and Japanese POWs (Japanese prisoners remained in Siberia for years after the war had ended), the kids have to come up with something to keep them busy. Two friends, Valerka and ...
Style:
black and white, powerful, contemplative, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
gulag, boy, coming of age, children, post war, child as adult, train crash, railroad, poverty, little boy, totalitarian regime, traumatic childhood ...
Time:
1940s, year 1990, 90s
Place:
soviet union, russia, siberia, ussr
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, France, Luxembourg, Tunisia
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
In this acclaimed and gripping social portrait of immoral lives in need of rescue, Igor (Jérémie Renier), aged 15, and his father Roger (Olivier Gourmet) deal in housing and peddling illicit labor in the outlying districts of Liege, Belgium. ...
Style:
sincere, slow cinema, thought provoking, art house, inspirational ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
coming of age, immigrant, father son relationship, youth, melancholy, existentialism, refugee, dysfunctional family, immigration, illegal immigration, teenage boy, little boy ...
Time:
90s, year 1996
Place:
antwerp, france, belgium, europe, usa ...
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Drama
Country: Portugal
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
An authentic and convincing story of a small boy, son of a disrupted young couple, with all the typical hostile reactions about his mother's new love relationship and a behavior showing a mixture of love and resentment towards her, ending in a ...
Style:
realistic, touching, serious, sincere, emotional ...
Plot:
bittersweet, coming of age, dysfunctional family, single parent, life is a bitch, youth, family problems, family drama, child protagonist, childhood, stepfather, estranged father ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
portugal
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
The life of a Middle-East family of immigrants in Europe. The father carries the heavy burden of banishment. To rescue his culture, his traditions, is mandatory, so he remains faithful to his past, his origins, to himself. His daughter is now a ...
Style:
emotional, touching, realistic, psychological, reflective ...
Plot:
workplace romance, family relations, forbidden love, culture clash, workplace, immigrant, parents and children, fall in love, unfulfillment, society, family drama, immigration ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france
Similarity:
32%
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, contemplative, sentimental, captivating ...
Plot:
immigrant, coming of age, friendship, teenage life, unfulfilled love, unfulfillment, society, youth, women of color, love, couples, refugee ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada, toronto ontario canada
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
In the late 1980s, Rose moves from the Ivory Coast to the Paris suburbs with her two young sons, Ernest and Jean. Spanning 20 years from their arrival in France to the present day, the film is the moving chronicle of the construction and ...
Style:
emotional, sincere, serious, captivating, melancholic ...
Plot:
mother son relationship, coming of age, immigrant, single mother, brother brother relationship, immigration, identity, family drama, brothers, family relations, mother and son, mother ...
Time:
90s, 80s, 2000s
Place:
paris france, africa
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
An Ethiopian immigrant, sets out on a journey through his children's homes after losing his wife. Coming to know some of life's harsh new realities, he tries to survive in his own way.
Style:
emotional, serious, realistic, touching, independent film ...
Plot:
immigrant, family relations, parents and children, society, family problems, elderly, dysfunctional family, family drama, alienation, grief, assimilation, diaspora ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
palestine, israel
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
In 1980s China, the country is beginning to reform and workers who had been moved with their families to the provinces in the 60s now long to return to Shanghai. For one displaced family a conflict arises when their 19-year-old daughter finds love ...
Style:
realistic, emotional, serious, sentimental, melancholic ...
Plot:
coming of age, youth, forbidden love, family life, immigrant, life is a bitch, obsession, family relations, parents and children, family drama, female protagonist, young love ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
china, shanghai, asia
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Twelve-year-old Mexican-American Marcos (Jose Alcala) recalls the hardships of the previous year, reflecting on the arduous trek his migrant-worker family made from Texas to the Midwest during harvest season. Along the way, Marcos learns plenty ...
Style:
independent film, touching, sincere, emotional, realistic ...
Plot:
youth, korean war, labor, migration, union, strike, immigrant, family relations, coming of age, bittersweet, innocence lost, human nature ...
Time:
20th century, 50s, 1950s
Place:
minnesota, texas
Similarity:
28%
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, anthology ...
Plot:
refugee, immigrant, love, revenge, social misfits, dishonesty, society, hopes, life is a bitch, misfit, redemption, culture clash ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
kurdistan
Similarity:
27%
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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:
27%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
After their family emigrates from Colombia during the summer of ‘99, a metalhead science prodigy and his deviant younger brother do their best to adapt to new lives in America.
Style:
disturbing, captivating, psychological, emotional, period piece
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
brothers, family relations, immigrant, american dream, coming of age, immigration, immigrant family, family drama, social problems, husband wife relationship, father son relationship, brother brother relationship ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Drama
Country: Georgia, Kazakhstan
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Life creates many obstacles for 12 years old boy - Tedo. Tedo belongs to the generation, which was forced to mass displacement because of the civil war in Abkhazia, one of the most beatiful places in Georgia. The civil war took away everything Tedo ...
Style:
road movie, emotional, realistic, psychological, touching ...
Plot:
childhood, coming of age, life is a bitch, on the road, estrangement, family relations, poverty, single parent, parents and children, search for father, journey, grownups ...
Time:
year 2009, 21st century
Place:
europe, caucasus, georgia
Similarity:
27%
4K
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:
serious, sincere, touching, captivating, gloomy ...
Plot:
friendship, parents and children, dog, danger, life is a bitch, society, coming of age, child, boy, little boy, pets, family relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
turkey
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel, Poland
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
City of Lodz in Poland, after the Second World War. Two brothers, Tadek and Andrzej, grow up without a father, and their mother, so busy at work, does not notice when the boys join a rowdy and anti-Semitic organization.Only when during a fight one ...
Style:
serious, realistic, captivating, touching, historical drama ...
Plot:
self discovery, immigrant, immigration, family relations, culture clash, society, single parent, neo nazism, holocaust survivor, identity, family drama, anti semitism ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, 1950s, 60s
Place:
israel, middle east, poland, australia
Similarity:
25%
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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, sincere, emotional, realistic
Plot:
life is a bitch, family relations, realism, misfit, youth, social misfits, parents and children, culture clash, society, resilience, single mother, discrimination ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
ireland, europe
Similarity:
24%
266
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel, Germany, Canada, France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
At the age of 13, Yoni is growing up. Fast. But not fast enough for this diminutive young man who is obsessed with getting bigger, taller and stronger. On the eve of his Bar Mitzvah, Yoni has no choice but to “become a man” when he’s faced ...
Style:
sincere, touching, atmospheric, emotional, serious ...
Plot:
coming of age, family life, physical appearance, teenage life, dysfunctional family, misfit, life is a bitch, crumbling marriage, mental illness, mentally challenged, youth, parents and children ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
israel, middle east, palestine
Similarity:
24%
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, sincere, rough, tense ...
Plot:
juvenile delinquency, social decay, realism, life is a bitch, youth, society, friendship between boys, troubled youth, coming of age, barbarian, boy, little boy ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
bosnia herzegovina, serbia
Similarity:
24%
622
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:
realistic, serious, sentimental, emotional, touching
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
immigrant, friendship, bittersweet, deadend life, social relations, friends, fish out of water, human nature, society, life is a bitch, misfit, gender ...
Time:
90s
Place:
austria, europe
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
As things unravel for a struggling single mother in Las Vegas, she must decide what she's willing to give up to get by.
Style:
realistic, serious, captivating, emotional, psychological ...
Plot:
poverty, moral dilemma, life is a bitch, society, working class, parents and children, family problems, down on your luck, single mother, youth, homeless, single parent ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
las vegas, usa
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, Canada
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Louis is a twelve year old boy who lives with his parents and older brother in southern Morocco. Louis is very happy until the day his father shares a secret with him.
Style:
sincere, psychological, disturbing, emotional, serious ...
Plot:
mental illness, family problems, life is a bitch, parents and children, father son relationship, secret, youth, suicide, depression, hopes, danger, boy ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
morocco, africa, atlantic ocean
Similarity:
23%
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:
realistic, touching, serious, sentimental, poignant ...
Plot:
coming of age, youth, brother brother relationship, summer, rebelliousness, forceful separation, family relations, life turned upside down, countryside, boy, adolescence, family drama ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france
Similarity:
23%
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