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Around the Fire (1998)
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Simon is an intelligent and privileged young man whose family expects him to become a Princeton graduate. Crying out for attention from his reserved and cool hearted family, Simon commits numerous petty crimes and is soon sent away to boarding school where he befriends a "Deadhead," adopts the "hippie" lifestyle and dabbles in many drugs in his search for acceptance.
Style:
serious, realistic, disturbing, touching, independent film, f word
Plot:
rehabilitation, addiction, boarding school, youth, life is a bitch, teenage life, friends, parents and children, love and romance, social differences, society, dysfunctional family, teaching the ways of the world, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, coming of age, rock band, prodigal son, drug addiction, high school, drug, male nudity, campus, school, on the road, innocence lost ...
Time:
90s
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, touching and emotional films with plots about youth, society, family relations, life is a bitch, coming of age, teenage life and friendship mostly in Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like Around the Fire: Ricochet River (2001), Martin (1997), Everybody Dies But Me (2008), Whatever (1998), Being Charlie (2015). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
hree teenagers looking for adventure find more than they expected in this coming-of-age drama. High school seniors Wade (Jason James Richter) and Lorna (Kate Hudson) have spent all their lives in the small logging town of Calamus Grove, a ...
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, sentimental, independent film ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
coming of age, interracial relations, culture clash, teenage life, love and romance, self discovery, best friend, on the road, small town, society, social misfits, lifestyle ...
Time:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, Argentina
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, serious, touching
Plot:
gay, gender, addiction, coming of age, love and romance, erotica, teenager, lgbt, filmmaking, truth, dialogue, dysfunctional family ...
Time:
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Place:
madrid, spain, europe, argentina, latin america
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Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
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Style:
touching, realistic, gloomy, serious, suspense ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot:
friends, teenage life, life is a bitch, boy girl relationship, youth, family problems, friendship, high school life, social relations, dysfunctional family, school, social decay ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
soviet union, moscow russia, russia, ussr
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100%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
In the early 1980s, Anna, a New Jersey teenager faces her impending adulthood, dreaming of a life as a successful New York artist. When she gets caught up in the carefree sport of pre-AIDS sex and drugs, Anna's future becomes less certain.
Style:
realistic, independent film, semi serious, touching, humorous ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick
Plot:
coming of age, school, friendship, drug, high school, art teacher, age difference, performer's life, bittersweet, society, lifestyle, single parent ...
Time:
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Place:
new jersey, new york, usa, california
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100%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Charlie is a troublesome 18-year-old who breaks out of a youth drug treatment clinic, but when he returns home to Los Angeles, he's given an intervention by his parents and forced to go to an adult rehab. There, he meets a beautiful but ...
Style:
touching, melancholic, sincere, sentimental, thought provoking ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
drug addict, drug rehab, drug addiction, teenager, male nudity, drug, father son relationship, coming of age, rehabilitation, intervention, love, friendship ...
Place:
los angeles
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100%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Tracy is a normal 13-year-old trying to make it in school. After befriending the most popular girl at school, Evie, Tracy's world is turned upside down when Evie introduces her to a world of sex, drugs and cash. But it isn't long before ...
Style:
tense, sincere, emotional, teen, independent film ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, teen drama, adult
Plot:
coming of age, adolescence, friendship, drug addiction, addiction, peer pressure, teenage protagonist, dysfunctional family, underage drinking, teenage girl, teenager, self harm ...
Time:
year 2003, 20th century, y2k, near future, 2000s ...
Place:
california, usa, los angeles, venice beach california
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100%
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A young boy trying to deal with his mother's heroin addiction befriends a waitress who helps him cope with the tough situation.
Style:
sincere, touching, emotional, serious, gloomy ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
rehabilitation, addiction, drug abuse, youth, parents and children, prostitute, dysfunctional family, teenage life, going straight, friendship, life is a bitch, hopes ...
Place:
london, europe, england
Similarity:
100%
677
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A high-school track star (Nick Stahl) watches without judgment as his two best friends (Summer Phoenix, Aaron Paul) abuse heroin.
Style:
thought provoking, realistic, serious, rough, biting ...
Plot:
drug addict, high school, friendship, heroin, life is a bitch, downfall, teenage life, kids in trouble, going straight, rehabilitation, juvenile delinquency, lifestyle ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
texas
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Alix is taken in by a photographer, Digna, who despite her friends' protests, tries to help Alix piece her life back together and overcome her addictions.
Style:
realistic, serious, rough, disturbing, gloomy ...
Plot:
addiction, friendship, juvenile delinquency, downfall, going straight, destructive relationship, life is a bitch, rehabilitation, youth, drug abuse, overdose, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa, lower east side manhattan new york city, manhattan new york city
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100%
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Genre: Drama
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:
sincere, touching, emotional, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
family relations, parents and children, teenage life, immigrant, opposites attract, friends, love and romance, human nature, youth, family life, single parent, introspection ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Ippe and Papu are two teenagers spending the summer, when they get into trouble with their drug-dealer. They are forced to act as drug-mules. Along the way they meet a new girl, Mia.
Style:
serious, realistic, bleak, rough, disturbing ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
youth, drug dealer, drug dealing, addiction, hip hop, drug use, rehabilitation, misfit, life is a bitch, social misfits, society, hopes ...
Time:
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Place:
finland, helsinki finland
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
A 14-year-old girl in late 1960's America is inadvertently sucked into an odyssey of sex and drugs. She eventually seeks help.
Style:
psychedelic, realistic, serious, emotional, sincere ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
marijuana, recovery, hippie, drug addiction, drug, addiction, high school, prostitute, teenage girl, runaway, cocaine, mother daughter relationship ...
Time:
70s, 60s
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, serious, touching, emotional, talky ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
pregnancy, teenage pregnancy, parent child relationship, husband wife relationship, family problems, pregnant teenager, lifestyle, teenage life, family in crisis, hopes, high school, sister sister relationship ...
Time:
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Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
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Style:
sentimental, emotional, touching, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
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Place:
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621
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
When a teenager finds herself pregnant, with no memory of having had sex, she determines that she is carrying the child of God.
Style:
realistic, touching, erotic, captivating, psychological ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
usa
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100%
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Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
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Time:
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Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, serious, touching, captivating
Plot:
fall in love, lifestyle, false accusation, teenage life, family relations, society, destructive relationship, youth, love and romance, chess, interracial relations, skater ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
california
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875
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, thought provoking, touching, independent film ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
asthma, friendship, high school, teenager, adolescence, musician's life, lifestyle, against the odds, life is a bitch, youth, hopes, society ...
Time:
90s, 80s, future
Place:
new york, usa, brooklyn new york city, africa, california ...
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Seemingly autobiographical story of a woman overwhelmed with trying to please everyone except herself, and not finding any answers until she's admitted to a rehab center by her parents. Eventually here is where she finds her answers.
Style:
realistic, touching, serious, psychological, emotional ...
Plot:
nervous breakdown, rehabilitation center, rehabilitation, drug abuse, mental institution, parents and children, family problems, life is a bitch, doctors and patients, addiction, family relations, power relations ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
237
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, idealism, fighting the system, youth, dedicated educator, life is a bitch, rebellion, society, stoner, school ...
Time:
year 1988, 80s
Place:
new york
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: South Africa, UK, USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
This movie is of Hally, an adolescent white South African. He is stuck between his intolerant father's outlook of him and those of his caretaker, Sam. Sam is a black waiter and Hally's friend and teacher. Hally is required to laugh at his ...
Style:
touching, serious, emotional, captivating, gloomy ...
Plot:
youth, hopes, friendship, racism, interracial relations, human spirit, redemption, family problems, dysfunctional family, social decay, life is a bitch, teaching the ways of the world ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
south africa, africa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Manny tries to get his crack addict brother, Danny, to clean up.
Style:
cult classic, realistic, serious, emotional, gloomy ...
Plot:
drug addiction, heroin, sibling relationship, family relations, drug abuse, family life, unemployment, siblings relations, addiction, against the odds, society, youth ...
Time:
year 1991, 90s
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Abandoned by her dreamer single mom, a teenage loner becomes obsessed with ecological disaster, forcing her and her grandmother, a functioning alcoholic, to rethink their futures.
Style:
realistic, touching, captivating, psychological, sexy ...
Plot:
coming of age, family relations, environmentalism, society, family problems, gain trust, dysfunctional family, teenage life, life is a bitch, youth, bittersweet, teenager ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
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Style:
independent film, realistic, serious
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
africa
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100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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Style:
gothic, serious, independent film, non-linear, realistic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
drug abuse, surrealism, teen angst, supernatural power, misfit, hopes, addiction, teenage life, family problems, social misfits, life is a bitch, youth ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
In a desperate attempt to reunite his broken family, a young taxi driver becomes entangled in the criminal underworld.
Style:
realistic, serious, disturbing, rough, ambiguous ending ...
Plot:
addiction, dysfunctional family, family in crisis, unlikely criminals, moral dilemma, family problems, family relations, youth, life is a bitch, society, parents, taxi ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
ireland, dublin ireland
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
The teenage girl Vera left her family after an incident at home, and is now living with a middle-aged drug addict, Morgan, who is using her as a prostitute to get money for drugs and debts. Meanwhile, the rest of her family is falling apart, and her ...
Style:
realistic, serious, emotional, touching
Plot:
dysfunctional family, life is a bitch, rescue, youth, drug abuse, life turned upside down, parents and children, family problems, estrangement, society, prostitute, drug addiction ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
eastern europe
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
An aging, disillusioned alcoholic (Nick Nolte) gets a younger friend (Trevor Morgan) and wants him to pose as his son at a school reunion.
Style:
sentimental, serious, touching, realistic
Plot:
teenage life, friendship, parents and children, sport team, family relations, high school, high school life, youth, father son relationship, baseball, alcoholic, brother sister relationship ...
Time:
year 2006
Similarity:
100%
441
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:
100%
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, emotional, sentimental, serious, realistic
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
youth, family relations, teenage life, friendship, juvenile delinquency, self discovery, adolescence vs adulthood, parents and children, coming of age, elderly, life is a bitch, misfit ...
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100%
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