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Amanda (2018)
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Twenty-year-old David lives in the moment. He juggles a variety of different odd jobs and continues to put off – just for a while longer – the time to make more serious decisions. This solitary daydreamer succumbs to the charm of Lena, a newly arrived neighbour. But the relaxed pace of his life shifts up a gear when his elder sister is brutally killed in an attack. He must then take charge of his seven-year-old niece, Amanda.
Style:
psychological, sincere, captivating, disturbing, social
Audience:
chick flick, boys' night
Plot:
terrorist attack, taxi, rabbit, death of sister, little girl, death of mother, uncle niece relationship, miniature golf, bicycle, child, family relations, parents and children, life is a bitch, mentor, custody, adaptation, hopes, orphan, friendship, destiny, society, train station, mother daughter relationship, brother sister relationship, loss of mother ...
Time:
2010s, year 2015, contemporary
Place:
paris france, france, london
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Most similar movies to Amanda
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, psychological, sincere and touching films with plots about family relations, parents and children, friendship, life is a bitch, youth, society and coming of age mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Amanda: All Is Forgiven (2007), The Passengers of the Night (2022), Goldie (2019), Ponette (1996), Juanita (2019). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Victor lives in Vienna with Annette, his beautiful Austrian wife and their daughter Pamela. It’s spring. Fleeing his work, Victor spends his days outside: he plays with Pamela, pays a visit to Annette’s parents, loiters in the park with the drug ...
Style:
realistic, touching, psychological, sentimental, captivating ...
Plot:
drug addiction, father daughter reunion, family relations, teenager, redemption, parents and children, addiction, family problems, crumbling marriage, estrangement, hopes, unfulfillment ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, 21st century
Place:
france, paris france, europe, austria
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Paris, 1981. The winds of change are blowing on election night and the French storm the streets, elated. But Élisabeth (Charlotte Gainsbourg) struggles to share the general mood of optimism. Her marriage is coming to an end and she will now have to ...
Style:
crying
Plot:
sex scene, junkie, unrequited love, swimming pool, women, teenage sex, frustration, boredom, sadness, fall in love, wanderer, young man ...
Time:
year 1988, 80s, year 1984, year 1981
Place:
france, paris france
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Goldie, a precocious teenager in a family shelter, wages war against the system to keep her sisters together while she pursues her dreams of being a dancer. This is a story about displaced youth, ambition, and maintaining your spirit in the face of ...
Style:
psychological, disturbing, captivating, sincere, realistic ...
Plot:
coming of age, destiny, love, rivalry, youth, escapades, society, adaptation, friendship, mentor, ambition, life is a bitch ...
Place:
new york
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A four-year-old girl must come to terms with the loss of her mother and the reality of death in this award-winning French drama. Little Ponette (Victoire Thivisol) is riding in a car with her mother when they're involved in a serious accident; ...
Style:
touching, emotional, realistic, talky, depressing ...
Plot:
children, little girl, child, bereavement, grief, adolescence, girl, death, friendship, school, child's point of view, loss ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1996
Place:
france, provence, tokyo
Similarity:
40%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Fed up with her deadbeat grown kids and marginal urban existence, Juanita takes a Greyhound bus to Paper Moon, Montana - where she reinvents herself and finds her mojo.
Style:
captivating, touching, humorous, feel good, light ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
female nudity, sex, culture clash, love and romance, family relations, couples, life is a bitch, friendship, parents and children, hopes, society, escapades ...
Place:
usa
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Bertrand (Vincent Lindon) dutifully visits his terminally ill wife every day, braving the long train and bus ride to and from the hospital. Lorraine (Emmanuelle Devos) not so willingly visits her boyfriend who was diagnosed with colon cancer. They ...
Style:
realistic, touching, atmospheric, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
terminal illness, hospital, unfulfillment, self discovery, love, couples, friendship, fall in love, relationships, life changing, parents and children, supportive spouse ...
Time:
year 2007, 21st century
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Sasha, a French woman of thirty, dies suddenly in Berlin. Her Fiancé, Lawrence, and her sister Zoé, must come to terms as the consequences of this shock set in.
Style:
psychological, touching, disturbing, sad, unusual plot structure ...
Plot:
friendship, loss of lover, death, meaning of life, love and romance, couples, love, female nudity, beach, sex scene, nudity, concert ...
Time:
year 2015
Place:
paris france, new york, berlin germany
Similarity:
39%
193
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Louise simultaneously discovers that she is pregnant and that her mother is seriously ill. Happiness and guilt, euphoria and sadness, filial love and love, period. She'll need a good nine months to cope with all this.
Style:
sexy, realistic, touching, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
parents and children, couples, family problems, family relations, artists and showbiz, couple relations, unfulfillment, cancer, rock, strong female presence, female pubic hair, bullfighting ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
39%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands, UK, Belgium, Ireland, France
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Jade is a young mother in the prime of her life when an acid attack leaves her severely burned. While her face has been reconstructed, her beauty is lost beneath the scars. Descending a self-destructive path with relationships crumbling, Jade must ...
Style:
disturbing, psychological, captivating, touching, sentimental
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
plastic surgery, women, single mother, friendship, infidelity, trial, baby, mother daughter relationship, life is a bitch, adaptation, catastrophe, society ...
Place:
morocco
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, South Korea
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Young Jinhee is taken by her father to an orphanage near Seoul. He leaves her there never to return, and she struggles to come to grips with her fate. Jinhee desperately believes her father will come back for her and take her on a trip. The film is ...
Style:
sincere, serious, touching, realistic, captivating ...
Plot:
hopes, children, adoption, youth, dysfunctional family, family relations, parents and children, girl, orphan, abandoned by father, family problems, father daughter relationship ...
Time:
year 2009, 70s, 20th century, year 1975
Place:
korea, south korea, seoul, asia
Similarity:
39%
152
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
You is a love story. It spans 21 years, bouncing around in time, creating a kind of family quilt that wraps around a father as he struggles to overcome the grief of losing his beloved wife and raise their daughter alone. A coming-of-age journey for ...
Style:
emotional, sentimental, captivating, psychological, independent film ...
Plot:
family relations, coming of age, parents and children, redemption, hopes, single parent, haunted by the past, love, teenager, loss of mother, friendship, grieving widower ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Mathilde is nine years old. Her parents have separated. She lives with her mother, a fragile person who hovers at the edge of madness. It is a story of a unique love between a daughter and her mother.
Style:
disturbing, psychological, captivating, sincere
Plot:
owl, madness, little girl, train, mother daughter relationship, psychotic woman, skeleton, disturbed individual, family problems, teenager, teenage girl, mental illness ...
Place:
paris france
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Annabel is a successful businesswoman with a wealthy husband. At a reception in her villa she meets a woman, a member of the catering staff who has been hired for the evening. This woman is none other than her own daughter Chiara, whom she had left ...
Style:
sincere, touching, captivating, exciting, suspenseful ...
Audience:
chick flick, boys' night
Plot:
life philosophy, family relations, love, parents and children, hopes, youth, society, friendship, ambition, daughter, small village, family problems ...
Place:
barcelona
Similarity:
38%
337
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
March 22, 2067. At dawn of life, Milana remembers her life, when she was a young Chechen immigrant in Paris, struggling for a better life along with her school friends.
Style:
emotional, serious, thought provoking, touching, social ...
Plot:
immigrant, friendship, family relations, parents and children, fighting the system, youth, rebellion, society, deportation, illegal immigrant, teenager, school ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe, paris france
Similarity:
38%
211
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, atmospheric, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
friendship, teenage life, coming of age, drug abuse, youth, sexuality, self discovery, college, best friend, strong female presence, life is a bitch, high school life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france
Similarity:
38%
782
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Asia is the single mother of 17-year-old Vika. Vika's deteriorating health urges Asia to finally find her voice as a mother and to embrace and cherish their time together.
Style:
sincere, captivating, touching, social
Plot:
mother daughter relationship, family relations, child, single mother, parents and children, fighting illness, family life, family problems, relationships, teenage life, teenage girl, illness ...
Place:
israel, palestine
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Silvia is a young girl marked by a dark childhood. When she is barely twenty-five, she decides to start over and to face the people, feelings and emotions that keep her bound to the past. In her fight against adversity and against herself, she will ...
Style:
psychological, realistic, thought provoking, melancholic, captivating ...
Plot:
sexual abuse, haunted by the past, starting over, life is a bitch, family problems, family relations, parents and children, abuse, rape, girl, roulette, compulsive gambler ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
spain
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
In 1950s France, a young boy is taken in by a couple after spending a few months in the care of social service.
Style:
touching, sentimental, captivating, sincere, realistic ...
Plot:
orphan, youth, adoption, friendship, family relations, foster parent, foster child, mother son relationship, foster home, father son relationship, family life, parents and children ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france
Similarity:
38%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Ukraine, Poland
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
The story revolves around rebellious five-year-old Vitka, her teenage cousin Larysa and Larysa’s boyfriend, a young criminal Scar. After the death of her father, Larysa wants a different life, even if the entire community condemns her love for ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, disturbing, gloomy, realistic
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
symbolism, sex scene, outdoor sex, coming of age, abused woman, little girl, first love, misery, surrealism, widow, family problems, life is a bitch ...
Place:
ukraine
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama
Country: Georgia, Germany, France
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Eka and Natia leave their childhood behind and ignore societal customs to escape from their turbulent family lives.
Style:
realistic, emotional, captivating, serious, social ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, adolescence vs adulthood, best friend, civil war, life is a bitch, society, dysfunctional family, youth, parents and children, teenage life, lgbt, teenage girl ...
Time:
20th century, year 1992, 90s
Place:
soviet union, georgia, caucasus, tbilisi, europe ...
Similarity:
38%
6K
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A young teenage girl finds herself struggling to take care of herself and her younger brother after being abandoned by their single mother with no choice but to live out on the streets.
Style:
disturbing, serious, suspense, rough, social
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
teenager, absent mother, coming of age, brother sister relationship, little brother, teenage protagonist, homeless, friendship, life is a bitch, grownups, society, nothing goes right ...
Place:
east end london, london
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Nassim, a 16-year-old boy, is placed with a family in the suburbs following the death of his drug addict mother. But he refuses to integrate into the social setting that surrounds him. He invents another life for himself, similar to that of his ...
Style:
psychological, suspense, unusual plot structure, tense, contemplative ...
Plot:
troubled teen, pregnant teenager, teenage boy, teenage girl, death of mother, high school, school, youth, society, parents and children, transformation, culture clash ...
Time:
year 2017, 21st century
Place:
paris france
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama
Country: Romania, France
Duration: 152 min.
Story:
Cristina and Tudor have founded a happy family with their two children, Maria and Ilie. They are in their thirties and live an ordinary life in a nice apartment in a Romanian town, but one Sunday morning when Tudor takes his kids to the park, Maria ...
Style:
disturbing, psychological, suspense, captivating
Plot:
missing daughter, child abduction, children, child, missing person, little girl, husband wife relationship, mysterious disappearance, family relations, father daughter relationship, dysfunctional family, parents and children ...
Similarity:
38%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Naturally-gifted cheerleader Ava is an instant hit at her new school, but her quick rise in popularity is threatened by the rivalry of cheer captain and Homecoming Queen Katrina, who puts Ava and the other new recruits through a brutal initiation ...
Style:
sincere, disturbing, psychological, captivating
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
cheerleader, teenager, parents and children, ambition, friendship, fight, rivalry, adaptation, family relations, society, youth, dishonesty ...
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Greece, Algeria
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Α tragi-comedy about 9 women of different ages and various backgrounds that gather in an Algerian hammam to talk about their lives.
Style:
psychological, captivating, suspenseful, tense, disturbing ...
Plot:
bathhouse, underage girl, woman in labor, female nudity, terrorist attack, pregnancy, muslim, women, terrorist bombing, terrorism, bare breasts, social problems ...
Time:
90s, year 1995
Place:
north africa, algeria, africa, maghreb
Similarity:
38%
372
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
Joy is an emotionally damaged young woman of eighteen, who was given up at birth, to grow up in homes and with foster families. She lives on the fringes of society, getting by on benefits and earning a little extra by playing the accordion in the ...
Style:
psychological, realistic, atmospheric, emotional, tense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
obsession, parents and children, life is a bitch, teenage life, redemption, shoplifting, mistaken identity, society, family relations, hopes, dysfunctional family, youth ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
A dark tale of working-class life in Marseilles, a city in crisis. Interesting characters include a hard-bitten but compassionate fish market worker with a drug addicted daughter and a moody bartender with a shocking secret life.
Style:
contemplative, serious, captivating, realistic, disturbing ...
Plot:
skinny dipping, unemployment, working class, family relations, drug abuse, life is a bitch, assassination, couple relations, parents and children, immigrant, society, love and romance ...
Time:
90s
Place:
marseille, provence, france, europe
Similarity:
37%
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:
37%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Based on a stage play of the same name by Amy Nostbakken and Norah Sadava, the story follows Cassandra, who is portrayed by the two women, expressing the opposing voices that exist inside the modern woman's head, during a 48-hour period as she ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, disturbing
Plot:
funeral, mother daughter relationship, female protagonist, mentally unstable, life is a bitch, family relations, family problems, male nudity, male pubic hair, female nudity, bicycle, flashback ...
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
1977. Stella entre en sixième, dans un grand lycée parisien. Stella entre dans le monde... Un nouveau monde, à l'opposé de celui qu'elle connaît. Presque un miracle. Elle, elle vit dans un café, un café d'ouvrier, à la ...
Style:
semi serious, sentimental, realistic, touching, humorous ...
Plot:
coming of age, friendship, working class, mischievous children, misfit, disorder, power relations, elementary school, school, parents and children, teachers and students, streetwise ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1976
Place:
france, paris france, europe
Similarity:
37%
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