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Max & Lenny (2014)
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Original name: Max et Lenny
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:
realistic, sincere, touching, serious, multicultural, independent film
Plot:
friendship, youth, ambition, hopes, follow your dream, teenage life, hip hop, family relations, society, music, urban, female friendship, survival, poverty, immigration, sisterhood, struggle, social realism, rap, street life, suburbs, working class, determination, coming of age, support ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
france, marseille, europe
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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 hopes, friendship, youth, coming of age, society, family relations and teenage life mostly in Drama, Comedy and Music genres. Some movies like Max & Lenny: The Dream Kids (2013), Papa Was Not a Rolling Stone (2014), How She Move (2007), Let the Wind Blow (2004), Anne B. Real (2003). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Duration: 86 min.
Story:
JB suffers from a heart malformation .He falsifies his medical file ,so that he can enter a top athlete training center.
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: France
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: France, Canada, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
After the death of Raya Green's(Rutina Wesley) sister, she gets out from her classes at school, and sees a stomp crew practicing. She meets Bishop(Dwain Murphy) which is the dance crew leader. She then meets Michelle and does a stomp battle ...
Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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100%
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Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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100%
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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, serious, realistic, touching, contemplative
Plot:
hip hop, introspection, lifestyle, teenage life, youth, juvenile delinquency, life is a bitch, urban ghetto, urban ghetto life, family life, siblings relations, coming of age ...
Time:
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Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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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:
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Place:
ireland, europe
Similarity:
100%
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:
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Time:
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Place:
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100%
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Country: Tunisia, Switzerland, France
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
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Style:
serious, thought provoking, sincere, contemplative, realistic ...
Plot:
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Place:
tunisia
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Two brothers from Alabama struggle to rise above the ghetto rap scene to land a major record deal in Chicago in this journey through love, sibling rivalry, betrayal, violence and redemption.
Style:
realistic, serious, tense, crime drama
Plot:
musician's life, rise to the top, showbiz, ambition, siblings relations, celebrity culture, rich and poor, hopes, human spirit, urban ghetto life, artists and showbiz, life is a bitch ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: France
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Story about two 18-year-old girls, Angie and Sandra, who want to dedicate themselves to women's professional boxing.
Style:
realistic, touching, serious, suspense
Plot:
female boxer, family relations, friendship, athlete's life, ambition, athlete and trainer, parents and children, hopes, contests and competitions, lifestyle, family life, teenage life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, france
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100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Two friends who work in the same oshibori laundry are lost in the drudgery of everyday life. They hang out together, barely functioning and barely communicating. Their middle-aged boss makes a desparate attempt to connect with them with disasterous ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
21st century
Place:
japan, tokyo, asia
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
In this excursion into Tokyo's dark side, a sexually repressed woman finds liberation by turning tricks at night a sex worker is taken by surprise when her ex drops by and a sex blogger finds strange kinship with a loner.
Style:
realistic, serious, sincere, touching, erotic drama ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
tokyo, japan, asia
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: Ireland, USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Set in late 1970s Ireland, it tells the story of 16-year-old James Powers, an American who finds himself lost after his mother dies and he is forced to live with his three Irish aunts. Displaced and depressed, he longs for a way to make it back to ...
Style:
realistic, touching, sincere, independent film, semi serious ...
Plot:
follow your dream, teenage life, getting home, society, hopes, juvenile delinquency, love and romance, youth, overnight success, family relations, fall in love, bittersweet ...
Time:
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Place:
ireland, europe
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 ...
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21st century
Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Place:
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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:
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Plot:
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Country: France, Belgium, Senegal
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
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Style:
sincere, realistic, serious, touching
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: France
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Style:
captivating, realistic, emotional, tense, bleak ...
Plot:
teenager, drug dealing, teenage life, life is a bitch, grownups, youth, poverty, coming of age, criminal, drug dealer, saving a life, fighting the system ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, touching, captivating, psychological, serious
Plot:
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Similarity:
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Country: France
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Story:
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Style:
realistic, touching, serious, sentimental, poignant ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
france
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey, Germany
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
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Style:
captivating, serious, realistic, touching, sincere ...
Plot:
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Duration: 86 min.
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Style:
serious, realistic, touching, captivating, tense ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil, Chile, France
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
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Duration: 86 min.
Story:
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touching, sincere, emotional, serious, realistic
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
emotional, serious, thought provoking, touching, social ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
france, europe, paris france
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Japan
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Style:
serious, sincere, touching, stylized, slow cinema ...
Plot:
hopes, friendship, forceful separation, parents separation, family problems, family relations, youth, on the run, starting over, breakup, parents and children, best friend ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
paris france, europe, france
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19%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, serious, touching, sincere, reflective ...
Audience:
family friendly
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friendship, family relations, self discovery, teenage life, interracial relations, hopes, society, idealism, spoiled brat, quibbling, aging, death in the family ...
Time:
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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, gloomy ...
Plot:
teenage life, youth, brother brother relationship, juvenile delinquency, society, prodigy, political unrest, siblings, brother, brothers, family relations, gang ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
georgia
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