Movies like Blue Spring

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Blue Spring (2001)
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Blue Spring (2001)
Original name: 青い春
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Soon after being named the new leader of his high school's gang system, Kujo grows bored with the violence and hatred that surround him. He wants desperately to abandon his post… but his once-enviable position of power has a strange way of making him feel powerless.
Style: bleak, realistic, disturbing, serious, manga
Audience: teen drama
Plot: juvenile delinquency, high school, gang, friendship, life is a bitch, high school life, teenage life, society, youth, coming of age, school, asian, superhero, teenager, samurai, slice of life, asian gangster, badass, yakuza, suicide, high school gang, friends, student life, leadership, hanging ...
Time: contemporary
Place: japan, asia
Keyword: vulgarity, gangsters

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Most similar movies to Blue Spring

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, rough and disturbing films with plots about youth, teenage life, society, coming of age, high school, friendship and teenager mostly in Drama, Crime and Sport genres. Some movies like Blue Spring: Bright Future (2002), Kids Return (1996), Crows Zero (2007), She Fought Alone (1995), Spacked Out (2000). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Bright Future (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 115 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: serious, psychological, touching, atmospheric, contemplative ...
Plot: gang, friendship, rebelliousness, resentment, estrangement, father son relationship, post apocalypse, asian, ghost, hopes, pets, boss and employee ...
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Kids Return (1996)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Shinji and Masaru spend most of their school days harassing fellow classmates and playing pranks. They drop out and Shinji becomes a small-time boxer, while Masaru joins up with a local Yakuza gang. However, the world is a tough place...
Style: serious, realistic, rough, suspense, anime ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: teenager, boxing, yakuza, high school, friendship, bullying, coming of age, prank, athlete's life, teenage life, ambition, gangster ...
Time: year 1996, 90s
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Crows Zero (2007)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: Japan
Duration: 130 min.
Story: The students of Suzuran High compete for the King of School title. An ex-graduate yakuza is sent to kill the son of a criminal group, but he can't make himself to do it as he reminds him of his youth.
Style: exciting, suspenseful, captivating, semi serious, manga ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: gang, gang war, teenage life, youth, high school, yakuza, teenage gang, high school life, friendship, street fight, juvenile delinquent, rivalry ...
Place: japan, asia, tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
91%
She Fought Alone (1995)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: All, including school administration and a friend, turn their backs on a girl who accused a classmate of rape.
Style: touching, realistic, sincere, disturbing, thought provoking ...
Audience: teens, chick flick
Plot: rape, innocence lost, high school, sexual abuse, juvenile delinquency, teenage love, youth, rebellion, fighting the system, against the odds, american football, social misfits ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Spacked Out (2000)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Family
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Film following four teenage girls around Hong Kong. The story centers around a young girl who is dealing with a pregnancy.
Style: serious, realistic, rough, disturbing, bleak ...
Plot: kids in trouble, juvenile delinquency, teenage life, lifestyle, society, life is a bitch, youth, sexual relations, friendship, sexual promiscuity, teenage pregnancy, drug ...
Time: 90s
Place: hong kong, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Kirishima Thing (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A story about the disappearance of Kirishima, a star athlete of the volleyball club, and how his disappearance affects every person in school.
Style: realistic, atmospheric, semi serious, touching, psychological ...
Plot: high school, disappearance, society, friendship, youth, social relations, high school student, rivalry, asian, great ending, teenager, japanese schoolgirl ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.9
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Brain Drain (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Fideo and Panta are two teenage rascals and thieves who dream of traveling to "the promised land", the United States. Rambling between good and evil, roc and tango, this is an action story turned romance when the two youngsters fall in ...
Style: tense, serious, realistic, rough, bleak ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: kids in trouble, dishonesty, gang, society, vengeance, juvenile delinquency, rivalry, law enforcement, young lovers, youth, corrupt cop, friendship ...
Time: 90s
Place: argentina, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.3
 226
The Beat (1988)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A new kid moves into a tough neighborhood controlled by gangs, and tries to teach them poetry.
Style: serious, emotional, realistic, touching, independent film ...
Plot: gang, poetry, teenage life, fighting the system, youth, idealism, rebellion, life is a bitch, society, dedicated educator, stoner, school ...
Time: year 1988, 80s
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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Life Hits (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Christina is living in a suburb to Copenhagen. With her class mates Cecilie, Trine and Pernille she slacks her school work, living mostly for the weekends of gate crashing, getting drunk, experimenting with drugs and scoring guys. But her world is ...
Style: realistic, bleak, serious, rough, captivating ...
Audience: teens
Plot: revenge, lifestyle, life is a bitch, juvenile delinquency, teenage life, high school life, friendship, social misfits, youth, drug abuse, misfit, society ...
Time: 21st century
Place: denmark, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
 7.9
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The Class (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Estonia
Duration: 99 min.
Story: An average guy of an Estonian high-school decides to defend his bullied classmate. This starts war between him and the informal leader of the class. As teenagers' honour is a touchy thing, everything ends in bloodshed.
Style: serious, disturbing, tense, emotional, realistic ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: school shooting, bullying, vengeance, humiliation, society, youth, friendship, life is a bitch, juvenile delinquency, social misfits, high school, teenage life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: estonia, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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White Rabbit (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A bullied student sees visions of a rabbit he was forced to kill as a child, and those visions propel him into a state where his imagination causes him to carry out violent acts.
Style: serious, disturbing, rough, dark, grindhouse ...
Plot: bullying, mental illness, high school, school shooting, kids in trouble, rebelliousness, friendship, life is a bitch, society, imagination, child abuse, house ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Kids on the Slope (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Two different students—a successful but aloof academic and a rebellious but kindhearted delinquent—form a friendship through their love of jazz music.
Style: emotional, light, realistic, captivating, anime
Plot: friendship, jazz, school, love, music, teenager, rivalry, youth, society, asian, childhood friend, love at first sight ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
The Incredible Mrs. Ritchie (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, UK, USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A troubled teen is given the chance to redeem his criminal debt to society
Style: touching, sentimental, emotional, serious, realistic
Audience: teen drama
Plot: youth, family relations, friendship, teenage life, juvenile delinquency, self discovery, parents and children, adolescence vs adulthood, misfit, life is a bitch, society, coming of age ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
A Better Place (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A high school outcast new to town becomes friends with a violent loner still haunted by the death of his parents.
Style: art house, cerebral, independent film, serious, realistic ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: high school, coming of age, misfit, friendship, juvenile delinquency, social misfits, society, youth, friends, kids in trouble, kidnapping, teenage life ...
Time: 90s
Place: new jersey, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Hi, Tereska (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Teenager Tereska comes from poor family and has to face difficult world and mean people around her.
Style: disturbing, touching, realistic, serious, gloomy ...
Audience: teens
Plot: friendship, life is a bitch, sexual initiation, teenage life, misfit, youth, society, dull life, down on your luck, working class, unemployment, loneliness ...
Time: 21st century
Place: poland
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Seto and Utsumi (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 75 min.
Story: Utsumi and Seto's daily routine is to spend their afterschool hours just jabbering with one another along a riverbed. Getting excited over trivial word play, agonizing over the content of an email to be sent to a girl, and, at times, talking ...
Style: psychological, disturbing, captivating
Plot: high school student, high school, routine, meeting, teenage life, adolescence, lifestyle, society, teenager, high school life, teenage boy, school ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Sex and the USA (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Thirteen year old Audrey Shaw is new to Bellweather, California and certain shell never fit in when she meets Krista Rich, the pretty, popular girl she aspires to be "or be with" shes just not sure. In a conservative California town, ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, sexual, mockumentary
Audience: teens
Plot: friends, youth, friendship, lifestyle, society, teenage life, coming of age, innocence lost, high school life, teenager, drug, sexuality ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Our Song (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Focusing on the bonding between three female (an African American female, a half African American half Latino American female, and a Latino American female) high school members of Brooklyn's "Jackie Robinson Steppers Marching Band" ...
Style: disturbing, sincere, touching, thought provoking, independent film ...
Plot: friendship, high school, teenager, asthma, adolescence, against the odds, lifestyle, musician's life, working class, life is a bitch, hopes, music band ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york, usa, brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Movie in collections
 6.9
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Small Faces (1995)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Three teenage brothers, gang-member Bobby, troubled mama's boy Alan and self-assured prankster Lex, reside in a downtrodden section of Glasgow, Scotland, circa 1968. But while Bobby and Alan are beginning to experience the power of raging ...
Style: realistic, bleak, independent film, tense, serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: working class, dysfunctional family, coming of age, gang, youth, subculture, artist, violence, children, british gangster, angry, boy ...
Time: year 1996, 20th century, 90s
Place: scotland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 7.1
 7K
After Lucia (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico, France
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Alejandra and her dad Roberto have just moved to town. She is new at school, he has a new job. Starting over is sometimes complicated when you have left so much behind.
Style: disturbing, realistic, serious, suspense, social ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: bullying, high school life, society, teenage life, estrangement, social decay, parents and children, rape, social relations, family problems, high school, coming of age ...
Time: near future, year 2012, 2010s, 21st century
Place: mexico, latin america, mexico city
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Smuggler (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 114 min.
Story: To pay off his loan shark, failed actor Ryōsuke Kinuta is forced to smuggle dead bodies – and one live elite assassin – in the middle of the night.
Style: serious, tense, captivating, psychological, heavy ...
Plot: gang, smuggler, rivalry, yakuza, down on your luck, life is a bitch, danger, society, gay, disorder, dangerous animal, gangster ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Neighborhood (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A coming-of-age story in the vein of CITY OF GOD and KIDS - available for the first time in the U.S.!
Style: social, hispanic, serious, realistic
Audience: teens
Plot: coming of age, boy, juvenile delinquent, suburbs, dysfunctional family, friendship between boys, best friend, family relations, friends, kids in trouble, contests and competitions, drug dealing ...
Time: 90s
Place: madrid, europe, spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Odd Girl Out (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A mother and her daughter confront the intimidation of teen peer pressure and the emotionally brutalizing social rituals of high school.
Style: realistic, serious, exciting, captivating, touching ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, kids, teen drama
Plot: bullying, high school, teenage love, school, high school life, family relations, lifestyle, buddies, friendship, friends, teenage life, teachers and students ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Clash (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 60 min.
Story: "Engwkentro" follows two teenage brothers attempting to escape an unnamed city controlled by an iron-fisted mayor. They must first break away from the cycle of crime, while trying to run from rival gang leaders and the state's ...
Style: tense, serious, rough, disturbing, bleak ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gang, mayor, politics, vigilantism, moral dilemma, juvenile delinquency, social decay, rivalry, dishonesty, life is a bitch, society, youth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: the philippines, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Being 14 (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 86 min.
Story: The lives and turbulent adventures of a bunch of fourteen-year-old teenagers, through the eyes of three young girls - Sarah, Jade and Louise - with one last year to go before high school.
Style: realistic, emotional, captivating, psychological, atmospheric ...
Plot: friendship, teenage life, coming of age, drug abuse, youth, sexuality, self discovery, college, best friend, strong female presence, friends, high school life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Harmony Lessons (2013)
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
Plot: boy, coming of age, youth, life is a bitch, village, bullying, social misfits, misfit, vengeance, teenage boy, humiliation, youth gang ...
Time: year 2013, 21st century
Place: kazakhstan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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The Battery (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Because of his younger brother’s poor health, Takumi and his family move to a different Japanese town. There, Takumi, an incredibly gifted baseball pitcher, gradually alienates his relatives and friends by putting sports above all else in life.
Style: realistic, serious, sincere, touching, sentimental ...
Audience: teens, family outing, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, baseball, family relations, teenage life, social misfits, youth, misfit, athlete's life, high school life, family life, siblings relations, solitary ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
 6.8
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Our America (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: The true story of two African-American teen radio reporters and their documentary investigation of a notorious child murder.
Style: serious, realistic, rough, emotional, controversial ...
Plot: journalism, murder, uncover truth, juvenile delinquency, social decay, teenage life, human spirit, society, life is a bitch, youth, hopes, idealism ...
Place: chicago, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
About the Pink Sky (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 113 min.
Story: High school student Izumi Kawashima, whose daily routine is rating newspaper articles, finds a wallet containing a large sum of cash. Instead of returning the wallet to its owner, Izumi decides to lend a substantial portion of the money to a ...
Style: serious, realistic, sincere, atmospheric, offbeat ...
Plot: high school, best friend, social relations, youth, high school life, teenage life, friends, moral dilemma, photographer, teenager, journalism, profanity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Cheaters (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: In the fall of 1994, a teacher at Chicago's run-down Steinmetz High conspires with the school's academic decathlon team to cheat on an academic competition.
Style: serious, realistic, sincere, clever, offbeat
Audience: teens, kids
Plot: teachers and students, high school, ambition, lifestyle, teenage life, social differences, rivalry, dedicated educator, youth, contests and competitions, society, fraud ...
Time: 90s
Place: chicago, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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