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Nobody Owns Me (2013)
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Original name: Mig äger ingen
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
The story of a lone father's relationship with his daughter, of the destructive power of alcohol, of a child's vulnerability, but also of love, betrayal and socialist politics in 1970s Sweden. A unique and moving story freely based on Åsa Linderborg's best-selling novel.
Style:
touching, bleak, serious, emotional, realistic, social
Plot:
working class, parents and children, youth, family relations, dysfunctional family, family problems, single parent, disorder, life turned upside down, children, addiction, parents, father daughter relationship, class struggle, alcoholism, life is a bitch, teenage life, society, unemployment, coming of age, alcohol abuse, mine, psychological drama
Time:
20th century, 80s, 70s
Place:
eastern europe
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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 family relations, youth, parents and children, family problems, coming of age, teenage life and dysfunctional family mostly in Drama, War and History genres. Some movies like Nobody Owns Me: Sisters (2009), Amy & Isabelle (2001), Something Like Happiness (2005), White Irish Drinkers (2010), Absence (2014). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
244
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Lyon, France in 1970s, Sibylle, Corinne, and Georgette are sisters who share everything, as they live with their Italian mother. Sibylle is the only blonde in the family, except for their father who abandoned them, and she feels isolated. She dreams ...
Style:
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Plot:
sisters, family relations, family problems, youth, introspection, parents and children, siblings relations, dysfunctional family, self discovery, obsessive quest, single parent, coming of age ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, 21st century
Place:
italy, lyon, europe, france
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
In 1971, in the small town of Shirley Falls, in Maine, the odd and lonely secretary Isabelle Goodrow raises her teenager daughter Amy alone. She has only two friends in her job among her gossiper colleagues. When her overprotected daughter is ...
Style:
touching, serious, realistic, sexual, sexy
Plot:
parents and children, teenage life, love and romance, family life, dysfunctional family, friendship, single parent, youth, family problems, disgraced, teachers and students, isolation ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
maine, new england
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Genre: Drama
Country: Czech Republic, Germany
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Over the course of a year, in a small town scarred and beaten down by industrialization, Tonda and Monika, friends since childhood, come to experience what life might be like if they could be with one another – which they seemingly can't. Or ...
Style:
serious, emotional, sentimental, touching, sincere ...
Plot:
family problems, dysfunctional family, family relations, working class, eccentric family, single parent, friendship, couples, love and romance, life is a bitch, unrequited love, psychopath ...
Time:
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100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
A coming of age story set in 1975 working-class Brooklyn, in which two teenage brothers living with their abusive father and their well-meaning but ineffective mother are caught up in a life of petty crime. Older brother Danny concocts a daring ...
Style:
sincere, emotional, serious, realistic, sentimental ...
Plot:
male pubic hair, juvenile delinquency, life is a bitch, family problems, parents and children, family life, siblings relations, hopes, society, working class, domestic disturbance, sex ...
Time:
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Place:
usa, ireland, new york
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204
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:
emotional, serious, touching, realistic, melancholic ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
brazil
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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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100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
sincere, touching, realistic, serious, bleak ...
Plot:
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Time:
21st century
Place:
maine, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
The mother and the younger son in a happy family dies in a car-accident. The father and the teenage-son Jonas survives the accident. Now they have to move on with their lives together.
Style:
touching, sincere, serious, emotional, gloomy ...
Plot:
family relations, starting over, single parent, teenage life, family problems, death in the family, youth, introspection, hopes, parents and children, family in crisis, single father ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Someone You Love is a story about world famous singer-songwriter Thomas Jacob who lives in Los Angeles. He is a successful man with a lot of burned bridges. After years abroad Thomas travels back to Denmark to record a new album. There his estranged ...
Style:
emotional, serious, realistic, touching
Plot:
boy, parents and children, homecoming, introspection, musician's life, family relations, disorder, bittersweet, artists and showbiz, single parent, child, grandfather grandson relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
denmark
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
Drawing on remarkable true stories, Peter Chan delivers a moving drama about child abduction in China. Huang Bo stars as a father whose young son disappears in the streets of a big city. He sets out on a search across China, stopping at nothing to ...
Style:
serious, realistic, touching, tense
Plot:
village, kidnapping, uncover truth, adoption, life turned upside down, parents and children, couples, missing child, danger, couple relations, family problems, family in crisis ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
china
Similarity:
100%
392
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel, Germany, France
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Brothers Yaki and Shaul live with their parents in Petah Tikva, a satellite town of Tel Aviv. Yaki is doing military service. As for all other 18-year-old Israelis, this means he is allowed to carry a gun. This weapon gives the brothers the power to ...
Style:
realistic, tense, serious, captivating, emotional ...
Plot:
family problems, kidnapping, family relations, unemployment, society, working class, parents and children, teenage life, dysfunctional family, soldier, youth, coming of age ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
israel, middle east
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
This finely acted, delicate and provocative new film by one of France’s most impressive filmmakers—working here with his son, Nathan—depicts the troubled life of an adopted boy who, as a taciturn adult, visits his birth mother and strikes up a ...
Style:
captivating, serious, sincere, tense, realistic ...
Audience:
teens, toddlers, pre-teens
Plot:
mother son reunion, youth, foster child, disorder, adoption, parents and children, haunted by the past, mother son relationship, family problems, family relations, mischievous children, siblings relations ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Middle-aged widow Beatrice Hunsdorfer (Joanne Woodward) and her daughters Ruth (Roberta Wallach) and Matilda (Nell Potts) are struggling to survive in a society they barely understand. Beatrice dreams of opening an elegant tea room but does not have ...
Style:
touching, psychological, realistic, sentimental, talky ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
redemption, coming of age, cheerleading, teacher, dysfunctional family, single father, family problems, family life, parents and children, life is a bitch, mother daughter relationship, mental illness ...
Time:
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Place:
connecticut, california
Similarity:
100%
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Country: Spain, Ireland
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
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Style:
emotional, serious, realistic, psychological, captivating ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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609
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
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Style:
touching, serious, realistic, captivating, independent film ...
Plot:
family in crisis, teenage life, dysfunctional family, youth, family problems, life is a bitch, siblings relations, family relations, college dropout, mentally challenged, amphetamine, teenage girl ...
Time:
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Place:
usa
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: South Korea
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, emotional, serious, touching, social ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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Style:
sexy, serious, realistic, touching, sexual ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
100%
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473
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
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Style:
touching, serious, sincere, realistic, emotional ...
Plot:
mother son relationship, world war two, life is a bitch, japanese military, nationalism, parents and children, wartime life, political unrest, single parent, unsupportive parent, state affairs, death in the family ...
Time:
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Place:
japan, hiroshima japan, asia, tokyo
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Denmark
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
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Style:
serious, realistic, captivating, psychological, controversial ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
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Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1976
Place:
denmark, europe
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel, France
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Zion, aged 14 and his brother Meir, 17, are facing a crisis in their relationship after a terrible accident. They keep the secret to themselves and it haunts them until, finally, Zion re-examines his loyalty towards his older brother and decides ...
Style:
realistic, serious, bleak
Plot:
family relations, family problems, dysfunctional family, youth, society, introspection, teenage life, haunted by the past, working class, family in crisis, siblings relations, profanity ...
Time:
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Place:
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Country: Canada
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
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Style:
touching, serious, realistic, sincere, gloomy
Plot:
youth, golf, hopes, coming of age, teenage life, life turned upside down, disorder, family relations, daydreamer, misfit, parents and children, estrangement ...
Time:
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Place:
california, usa, canada
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
The story of a destiny. Suzanne's and her family's. The ties that bind them, keep them together, and the love she pursues... to the point of leaving everything behind.
Style:
realistic, emotional, serious, touching, bleak
Plot:
passionate love, love affair, family life, family problems, dysfunctional family, parents and children, fall in love, coming of age, single parent, siblings relations, youth, working class ...
Time:
90s, 80s, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
france
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501
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Bulgaria, Romania
Duration: 155 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, serious, touching, sincere, bleak ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, family relations, parents and children, politics, motherhood, life turned upside down, political unrest, family problems, single parent, youth, communism, disorder ...
Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden, Finland, Denmark
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, serious, sincere, touching, bleak ...
Plot:
family relations, introspection, dysfunctional family, family problems, haunted by the past, parents and children, nordic, child abuse, husband wife relationship, abusive husband, addiction, drug addiction ...
Time:
year 2010, 70s, 20th century, 21st century
Place:
europe, eastern europe
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, serious, psychological, gloomy, emotional ...
Plot:
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Time:
1940s, 20th century
Place:
belgium, europe
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Between the years 1950-51 close to 130 thousand Jews left Iraq. The most ancient community in the world ceased to exist.
Style:
touching, serious, realistic, sentimental
Plot:
culture clash, teenage life, parents and children, religions or cults, family relations, love and romance, immigrant, political unrest, teenage love, youth, family problems, family life ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, 50s
Place:
iraq, israel
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, Afghanistan
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, sincere, rough, social, serious ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, rebelliousness, realism, parents and children, youth, family problems, single parent, rebellion, child as adult, family relations, life is a bitch, drug abuse ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
afghanistan
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
touching, realistic, emotional, serious
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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