Movies like Honey Boy

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Honey Boy (2019)
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Honey Boy (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: The story of a child star attempting to mend his relationship with his law-breaking, alcohol-abusing father over the course of a decade, loosely based on Shia LaBeouf’s life.
Style: psychological, inspirational, sincere, touching, captivating, independent film, sentimental, thought provoking, indie film, crying ...
Audience: kids
Plot: father son relationship, rehabilitation, absent mother, child protagonist, abusive father, motel, child, alcoholic father, forgiveness, group therapy, childhood trauma, coming of age, boyhood, boy, trauma, alcoholism, ptsd, teenager, lesbian, youth, first love, divorce, addiction, family relations, homeless ...
Time: year 2019, 90s, 2000s, year 1995, year 2005, year 2015, 1990s
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Most similar movies to Honey Boy

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, touching, realistic and inspirational films with plots about coming of age, family relations, father son relationship, teenager, kiss, boy and youth mostly in Drama, Biography and Comedy genres. Some movies like Honey Boy: Mid90s (2018), Canvas (2006), Boyhood (2014), The Florida Project (2017), We the Animals (2018). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Mid90s (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Stevie is a sweet 13-year-old about to explode. His mom is loving and attentive, but a little too forthcoming about her romantic life. His big brother is a taciturn and violent bully. So Stevie searches his working-class Los Angeles suburb for ...
Style: thought provoking, social, teen, humorous, retro ...
Audience: family friendly, teens, teen drama
Plot: skateboard, coming of age, skateboarder, teenager, friendship, friends, underage drinking, underage sex, dysfunctional family, adolescence, brother brother relationship, self harm ...
Time: 90s, year 1996, 20th century
Place: los angeles, california, paris france, florida, france ...
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100%
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Canvas (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A woman's schizophrenia affects her relationships with her husband and son.
Style: touching, serious, realistic, sincere, melancholic ...
Plot: schizophrenia, mental illness, coming of age, family relations, family in crisis, family problems, couple relations, working class, dysfunctional family, parents and children, hospital, teenage life ...
Place: florida, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.9
 366K
Boyhood (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 165 min.
Story: The film tells a story of a divorced couple trying to raise their young son. The story follows the boy for twelve years, from first grade at age 6 through 12th grade at age 17-18, and examines his relationship with his parents as he grows.
Style: melancholic, independent film, depressing, serious, realistic ...
Audience: teens, kids, girls' night, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: childhood, coming of age, divorced parents, dysfunctional family, family drama, teenager, youth, domestic abuse, adolescence, divorce, brother sister relationship, stepsister stepsister relationship ...
Time: 2010s, year 2014, 90s, near future, 2000s ...
Place: texas, usa, ethiopia, houston texas, austin texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Florida Project (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: The story of a precocious six year-old and her ragtag group of friends whose summer break is filled with childhood wonder, possibility and a sense of adventure while the adults around them struggle with hard times.
Style: touching, sincere, aesthetic, social, inspirational ...
Audience: teens, date night, adult
Plot: poverty, mother daughter relationship, social services, friendship, children, motel, summer, single mother, little girl, childhood, eviction, female friendship ...
Time: 2010s, year 2017
Place: florida, nebraska, orlando florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot (2018)
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, France
Duration: 114 min.
Story: On the rocky path to sobriety after a life-changing accident, John Callahan discovers the healing power of art, willing his injured hands into drawing hilarious, often controversial cartoons, which bring him a new lease on life.
Style: uplifting, touching, compassionate, ironic, indie film ...
Audience: date night
Plot: disability, drawing, cartoonist, therapy, alcoholic, alcoholism, alcoholics anonymous, paralysis, man in a wheelchair, car accident, rehabilitation, biopic ...
Time: 70s, year 1972
Place: oregon, long beach california, portland oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
We the Animals (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Manny, Joel and Jonah tear their way through childhood and push against the volatile love of their parents. As Manny and Joel grow into versions of their father and Ma dreams of escape, Jonah, the youngest, embraces an imagined world all his own.
Style: captivating, psychological, sentimental, touching, indie film ...
Audience: adult
Plot: boy, lgbt, gay, coming of age, family relations, gay porn, father son relationship, teenage boy, husband wife relationship, theft, birthday, marriage ...
Place: new york state, philadelphia, spain, brooklyn new york city, new york
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21%
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Pay It Forward (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: Like some other kids, 12-year-old Trevor McKinney believed in the goodness of human nature. Like many other kids, he was determined to change the world for the better. Unlike most other kids, he succeeded.
Style: touching, inspirational, emotional, motivational, sentimental ...
Audience: chick flick, kids, teens, teen drama
Plot: teacher, childhood, single parent, teachers and students, alcoholic, life philosophy, good deed, disfigurement, death, boy, alcoholism, addiction ...
Time: year 2000, 90s, 20th century
Place: tibet, nevada, usa, las vegas
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21%
 6.7
 24K
Ben Is Back (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: 19 year-old Ben Burns unexpectedly returns home to his family's suburban home on Christmas Eve morning. Ben's mother, Holly, is relieved and welcoming but wary of her son staying clean. Over a turbulent 24 hours, new truths are revealed, ...
Style: social, tense, suspense, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience: adult
Plot: drug addict, drug rehab, teenager, addiction, drug dealing, mother son relationship, christmas, dog, lgbt, brother sister relationship, lie, money ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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C'mon C'mon (2021)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Johnny and his young nephew forge a tenuous but transformational relationship when they embark on a cross-country trip to see life away from Los Angeles.
Style: black and white, psychological, captivating, sincere, serious ...
Plot: uncle nephew relationship, travel, family relations, nephew, child protagonist, boyhood, relationships, radio announcer, road trip, childhood, child, boy ...
Time: future
Place: new york, new orleans, los angeles, oakland california, detroit ...
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20%
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Kauwboy (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Ten-year-old Jojo lives with his father, a security guard with a volatile personality who drinks to manage the unspoken despair he feels about his wife's absence, which he refuses to discuss with his son. In the midst of so much uncertainty, ...
Style: touching, sincere, serious, melancholic, realistic
Audience: family outing
Plot: parents and children, coming of age, family problems, dysfunctional family, friendship, father son relationship, youth, pets, escape from reality, dishonesty, bird, life & death ...
Time: year 2012, 21st century
Place: holland
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 7.4
 97K
Beautiful Boy (2018)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: After he and his first wife separate, journalist David Sheff struggles to help their teenage son Nic, who goes from experimenting with drugs to becoming devastatingly addicted to methamphetamine.
Style: disturbing, rough, captivating, sentimental, sad ...
Plot: addiction, drug addiction, drug addict, teenage boy, father son relationship, methamphetamine, teenager, boy, divorce, coming of age, stepmother stepson relationship, drug ...
Time: 2010s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: san francisco, los angeles, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
12 and Holding (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Three pre-adolescents with virginal and eager-of-signals naivety, hit headlong against monstrous and inhospitable loneliness, in the incandescent fire among the ashes of their own inocence.
Style: touching, realistic, emotional, heartbreaking, sad ...
Plot: teenager, coming of age, friendship, childhood, children, vengeance, dysfunctional family, family relations, loss of son, family problems, family in crisis, parents and children ...
Time: year 2005
Place: new jersey
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19%
Ordinary People (1980)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Beth, Calvin, and their son Conrad are living in the aftermath of the death of the other son. Conrad is overcome by grief and misplaced guilt to the extent of a suicide attempt. He is in therapy. Beth had always preferred his brother and is having ...
Style: depressing, realistic, compassionate, sentimental, crying ...
Audience: teens
Plot: dysfunctional family, therapy, psychiatrist, suicide attempt, depression, grief, suicide, coming of age, father son relationship, alienation, psychotherapy, psychoanalysis ...
Time: 20th century, year 1980, 70s
Place: chicago, usa, illinois, middle east, houston texas ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
 7.1
 91K
Half Nelson (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Despite his dedication to the junior-high students who fill his classroom, idealistic teacher Dan Dunne leads a secret life of addiction that the majority of his students will never know. But things change when a troubled student Drey makes a ...
Style: depressing, independent film, talky, emotional, serious ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: teacher, teachers and students, drug addiction, drug, student, addiction, drug abuse, friendship, ghetto, loneliness, school, existentialism ...
Time: year 2006, 2000s, future, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
 7.4
 329K
Moonlight (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: The tender, heartbreaking story of a young man’s struggle to find himself, told across three defining chapters in his life as he experiences the ecstasy, pain, and beauty of falling in love, while grappling with his own sexuality.
Style: serious, lgbt cinema, art house, hood, inspirational ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, date night, teen drama, adult
Plot: lgbt, forgiveness, african american, drug dealer, lgbtq, coming of age, gay, homosexuality, drug addict, dysfunctional family, bullying, beach ...
Time: year 2016, 2000s, 2010s
Place: florida, indiana, idaho, atlanta georgia, miami
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18%
 7.4
 99K
Reign Over Me (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: A man who lost his family in the September 11 attack on New York City runs into his old college roommate. Rekindling the friendship is the one thing that appears able to help the man recover from his grief.
Style: touching, depressing, sincere, inspirational, heartbreaking ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: grief, friendship, 9/11, dealing with death, mental illness, friends, tragic event, loss of loved one, loss, alone, mental disorder, buddies ...
Time: september 11 2001, year 2007, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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18%
 6.7
 18K
Smashed (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Kate and Charlie like to have a good time. Their marriage thrives on a shared fondness for music, laughter… and getting smashed. When Kate’s partying spirals into hard-core asocial behavior, compromising her job as an elementary schoolteacher, ...
Style: sincere, depressing, touching, realistic, indie film ...
Plot: addiction, alcoholic, rehabilitation, support group, teacher, alcohol abuse, depression, introspection, irresponsible, recovery, life is a bitch, hopes ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
Pieces of a Woman (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, Hungary, USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story: A grieving woman embarks on an emotional journey after the Ioss of her baby.
Style: suspense, tense, psychological, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Plot: loss of child, couples, birth, midwife, pregnancy, grief, grieving, dog, mother in law son in law relationship, marriage, husband wife relationship, death ...
Time: 2020s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: boston, massachusetts
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18%
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A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints (2006)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Dito Montiel, a successful author, receives a call from his long-suffering mother, asking him to return home and visit his ailing father. Dito recalls his childhood growing up in a violent neighborhood in Queens, N.Y., with friends Antonio, ...
Style: emotional, harsh, rough, intense, realistic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: coming of age, childhood, friendship, urban ghetto life, street kid, loss of friend, depression, foul language, anger, life is a bitch, teenage boy, teenager ...
Time: 80s, y2k, year 2006, 2000s, 20th century ...
Place: new york, america, usa, coney island brooklyn new york city, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A coming-of-age story based on the best-selling novel by Stephen Chbosky, which follows 15-year-old freshman Charlie, an endearing and naive outsider who is taken under the wings of two seniors. A moving tale of love, loss, fear and hope - and the ...
Style: touching, sincere, teen, melancholic, romantic ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, high school, teenager, adolescence, first love, friendship, youth, high school life, depression, suicide, mental illness, teenage life ...
Time: 90s, year 2012, 2010s, year 2013, 20th century ...
Place: pittsburgh, pennsylvania, usa
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18%
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Sparrows (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: Iceland, Denmark, Croatia
Duration: 99 min.
Story: The story follows a 16-year-old Icelandic boy, Ari, who lives with his mother in ReykjavĂ­k, She has to leave the country for a new job, sending him back to the small town of his youth. There he finds his old friend, suddenly a young woman with a ...
Style: captivating, suspenseful, sincere, melancholic
Plot: coming of age, absent mother, sex scene, grandmother, small town, childhood friend, gay, incest, boyhood, father, child, boy ...
Place: iceland, reykjavik iceland
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
Life as a House (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story: When a man is diagnosed with terminal cancer, he takes custody of his misanthropic teenage son, for whom quality time means getting high, engaging in small-time prostitution, and avoiding his father.
Style: emotional, sentimental, touching, sincere, sad ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: terminal illness, father son relationship, dying, cancer, dysfunctional family, relationships, reconciliation, illness, divorce, fighting illness, redemption, family relations ...
Time: year 2001
Place: california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
Yelling to the Sky (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: As her family falls apart, seventeen year old Sweetness O'Hara is left to fend for herself in a neighborhood where her survival is uncertain.
Style: emotional, serious, captivating, realistic, independent film ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: dysfunctional family, depression, juvenile delinquency, teenage life, alcoholic, going straight, youth, society, hopes, coming of age, parents and children, family life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: indiana, usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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Clean and Sober (1988)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Hotshot real estate salesman Daryl has a bad cocaine habit. After embezzling his company's money, he wakes up next to a girl who overdosed. To hide from the police, he checks into a rehabilitation program guaranteeing anonymity. Under the ...
Style: realistic, touching, compassionate, emotional, melancholic ...
Plot: drug addiction, addiction, introspection, alcoholism, alcoholic, drug abuse, yuppie, alcoholics anonymous, drug, tragedy, character study, recovery ...
Time: 80s
Place: usa, philadelphia
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
Mysterious Skin (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Netherlands
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A teenage hustler and a young man obsessed with alien abductions cross paths, together discovering a horrible, liberating truth.
Style: disturbing, depressing, psychological, independent film, realistic ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: child abuse, coming of age, gay, sexual abuse, homosexuality, homosexual, pedophilia, male rape, child molestation, youth, homosexual rape, haunted by the past ...
Time: 90s, year 2004, 2000s, near future, y2k ...
Place: kansas, new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
 6.8
 97K
Thirteen (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
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, teen, realistic, sincere, disturbing ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, teen drama, adult
Plot: coming of age, drug addiction, teenager, peer pressure, friendship, addiction, dysfunctional family, teenage protagonist, underage drinking, teenage girl, mother daughter relationship, self harm ...
Time: year 2003, y2k, near future, 20th century, 2000s ...
Place: california, usa, los angeles, venice beach california
⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
 7.2
 29K
Speak (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Freshman high-school student Melinda has refused to speak ever since she called the cops on a popular summer party. With her old friends snubbing her for being a rat, and her parents too busy to notice her troubles, she folds into herself, trying to ...
Style: touching, sentimental, psychological, independent film, sincere ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: rape, high school, teenage girl, school, bullying, youth, innocence lost, family problems, life is a bitch, unsupportive friend, teenage life, sexual abuse ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
 5.8
 2K
Safelight (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A teenage boy and girl discover a renewed sense of possibility as they go on a road trip to photograph lighthouses along the California coast.
Style: disturbing, psychological, captivating, teen, road movie
Audience: teens, date night, teen drama
Plot: lighthouse, follow your dream, road trip, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, cerebral palsy, couple relations, photographer, teenage life, dream, teenager, adolescence, travel ...
Place: pacific ocean
⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
A Million Little Pieces (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: A young drug-addled writer approaching the bottom of his descent submits to two months of agonizing detox at a treatment center in Minnesota.
Style: realistic, psychological, captivating, sentimental, social
Plot: rehabilitation, drug addiction, addiction, male pubic hair, male nudity, drug, alcohol abuse, fall in love, self destructing, clinic, introspection, society ...
Time: year 1993
Place: usa, minneapolis minnesota
⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
 6.9
 42K
Boy Erased (2018)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Australia, USA, China
Duration: 115 min.
Story: The son of a Baptist preacher is forced to participate in a church supported gay conversion program.
Style: thought provoking, psychological, sentimental, captivating, teen ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: lgbt, gay, religion, lgbtq, conversion therapy, gay teenager, gay interest, father son relationship, homosexual, coming of age, church, lgbt teen ...
Time: 90s, 2000s, 2010s
Place: new york, southern usa, arkansas
⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
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