Movies and TV shows like My Brilliant Friend

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My Brilliant Friend (2018)
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My Brilliant Friend (2018)
Original name: L'amica geniale
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: When the most important friend in her life seems to have disappeared without a trace, Elena Greco, a now-elderly woman immersed in a house full of books, turns on her computer and starts writing the story of their friendship.
Style: touching, sincere, suspense, exciting, rough, captivating, erotic, aesthetic
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: life is a bitch, friendship, children, hopes, parents and children, brutality, girlfriend girlfriend relationship, friends, girlfriend, father daughter relationship, feminist, relationship problems, life, high school friend, pain, traumatic childhood, urban, social injustice, coming of age, girl, violence, wedding, seaside, hand job, friend ...
Time: 50s, 1950s, 60s, 1960s
Place: syria, italy, usa, naples italy, new mexico

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Most similar movies to My Brilliant Friend

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, sincere, touching and serious films and TV series with plots about friendship, friends, coming of age, youth, family relations, teenage life and parents and children mostly in Drama, Romance and Family genres. Some movies like My Brilliant Friend: Everybody Dies But Me (2008), The Secret Life of Bees (2008), Sweet Magnolias (2020), The Outcast (2015), Euphoria (2019). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Everybody Dies But Me (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 80 min.
Story: One Monday morning Katya, Vika and Zhanna learn that there will be a school disco, their first disco, on the coming Saturday night. The girls feverishly start preparing for the event, which rapidly becomes the most important moment ever in their ...
Style: serious, touching, realistic, gloomy, suspense ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: family problems, life is a bitch, youth, social relations, teenage life, high school life, society, friendship, dysfunctional family, boy girl relationship, family relations, friends ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: russia, soviet union, moscow russia
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The Secret Life of Bees (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Set in South Carolina in 1964, this is the tale of Lily Owens a 14 year-old girl who is haunted by the memory of her late mother. To escape her lonely life and troubled relationship with her father, Lily flees with Rosaleen, her caregiver and only ...
Style: sincere, touching, sentimental, emotional, sweet ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, teen drama, adult
Plot: racism, civil rights, african american, teenage life, friendship, coming of age, children, interracial relations, haunted by the past, family relations, black, teenager ...
Time: year 2008, 60s, 20th century, year 1964
Place: south carolina, indiana, africa, usa
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Sweet Magnolias (2020)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
TV show
Story: Lifelong friends Maddie, Helen and Dana Sue lift each other as they juggle relationships, family and careers in the small, Southern town of Serenity.
Style: atmospheric, captivating, light, sincere, semi serious ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick
Plot: girlfriend girlfriend relationship, life, women, small town life, lovers, friendship, love, life changing experience, girlfriend, female friendship, faith, business ...
Place: south carolina
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The Outcast (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 179 min.
TV show
Story: Set in post-war Britain, ten year-old Lewis Aldridge is grief-stricken as he struggles to cope with the death of his beloved mother. Left under the care of his emotionally distant father Gilbert, whom he barely knows and who quickly remarries, Lewis ...
Style: touching, captivating, atmospheric, psychological, gloomy ...
Plot: friendship, teenage life, family problems, youth, death of mother, life is a bitch, estrangement, love, father son relationship, parent child relationship, death in the family, dysfunctional family ...
Time: 20th century, 50s, post world war two
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Euphoria (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 55 min.
TV show
Story: A group of high school students navigate love and friendships in a world of drugs, sex, trauma, and social media.
Style: captivating, thought provoking, realistic, depressing, serious ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: mental illness, teenager, drug addict, high school, addiction, sex, coming of age, youth, sexuality, lgbt, teenage life, friends ...
Time: 2020s, 2010s, 21st century
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Standing Up (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Based on one of the most beloved Young Adult novels of all time: Two kids are stripped naked and left together on an island in a lake - victims of a vicious summer camp prank; But rather than have to return to camp and face the humiliation, they ...
Style: touching, realistic, sincere, serious, sad ...
Audience: family outing, teens
Plot: youth, friendship, child's point of view, coming of age, summer camp, children, self discovery, family relations, parents and children, child, on the road, runaway ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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We Are Who We Are (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 462 min.
TV show
Story: Plot unknown.
Style: inspirational, sincere, thought provoking, touching, sweet ...
Audience: chick flick, teen drama
Plot: lgbt, gays and lesbians, coming of age, forbidden love, lesbian mother, lesbian teen, lgbtq, sexual orientation, gay, lesbian, desire for fame, lgbtqi ...
Time: year 2016, 2010s, 21st century
Place: italy, venice
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100%
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Anne with an E (2017)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Canada
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: A coming-of-age story about an outsider who, against all odds and numerous challenges, fights for love and acceptance and for her place in the world. The series centers on a young orphaned girl in the late 1890’s, who, after an abusive childhood ...
Style: compassionate, sincere, touching, realistic, emotional ...
Audience: teens, family friendly, teen drama
Plot: orphan, friendship, coming of age, small town, teenage life, child's point of view, family relations, school, feminism, children's home, imaginary, society ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1800s, 1890s
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
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The Queen's Gambit (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 397 min.
TV show
Story: In a Kentucky orphanage in the 1950s, a young girl discovers an astonishing talent for chess while struggling with addiction.
Style: captivating, psychological, period piece, historical drama, suspense ...
Plot: chess, addiction, genius, female protagonist, competition, child prodigy, prodigy, champion, coming of age, girl, girl power, adoptive mother ...
Time: 60s, 50s, 1950s, 2020s, 20th century
Place: europe, usa, kentucky, las vegas, mexico city ...
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Scattered (2021)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 35 min.
TV show
Story: It's the day after Wil's funeral and his three best friends have woken up with brutal hangovers and one less person — Wil — well his ashes that is. Over the series, Jules, Sami and Bo retrace their steps to find their friend's ...
Style: sincere, entertaining, touching, exciting, captivating ...
Plot: friends, friendship, girlfriend, friend, death of friend, group of friends, best friend, death of best friend, ashes, loss of friend
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Tomorrow, Mom Won't Be Here (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min.
TV show
Story: There are over 600 orphanages across the nation, housing approximately 30,000 children; Most of them had been abused by their parents. Maki, was placed into the orphanage "Kogamo no Ie", after her mother, Ryoka, was arrested and jailed. ...
Style: sincere, captivating, suspenseful, tear jerker
Plot: orphanage, child abandonment, friendship, dysfunctional family, children, orphan, friends, life is a bitch, troubled past, relationship problems, tragic past, family problems ...
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51%
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Infidels (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
TV show
Story: Following the lives of five young women in Barcelona. Close friends whose professional lives, friendships, love, passion and sense of humour make up a series of stories that revolve around self-assurance and loyalty to one's principles
Style: sincere, captivating, psychological
Plot: love, relationships, relationship problems, girlfriend girlfriend relationship, family life, friendship, female protagonist, friends, women, group of friends, lifestyle, girlfriend ...
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The Women of Brewster Place (1989)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 178 min.
TV show
Story: A multigenerational story of the lives of several black women who call an inner-city tenement home.
Style: retro, serious, realistic, touching, sincere ...
Plot: black, rape, women of color, lgbtq, strong female lead, anti racism, lgbt, black cast, blaxploitation, lesbian, sexual abuse, african ...
Time: 80s, 70s, 60s
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The Lover’s Lies (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: China
TV show
Story: A young woman who has had a tough life tries to find happiness with the man she loves. Are the ill-fated lovers destined to be apart?
Style: entertaining, exciting, captivating, sincere
Plot: female friendship, city life, lie, love, women, friend, friendship between girls, friendship, woman, friends, girlfriend, girlfriend girlfriend relationship ...
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East Los High (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 26 min.
TV show
Story: East Los High is not your typical high school. Dance, sex, romance, and mystery are at the heart of this inner city school in East LA where two teenage cousins—Jessie, a 16-year-old virgin and Maya, a troubled runaway with a violent past —fall ...
Style: serious, touching, realistic, melancholic, exciting ...
Audience: teens
Plot: love and romance, infidelity, teenage love, teenage life, dishonesty, social relations, coming of age, lesbian, cheerleading, lgbtq, sexual content, vengeance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles
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50%
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Out With Dad (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
TV show
Story: Here we have a look into the life of a teenage girl along with her single father. The two share a close relationship. Rose is coming of age, coming out of the closet, and hoping to avoid having a spotlight put on her life. Her dad, Nathan, is ...
Style: erotic, psychological, captivating, touching, suspense ...
Plot: lesbian, lgbt, lesbian interest, single father, high school, father daughter relationship, teenager, lesbian daughter, friendship, lgbtq, coming of age, love and romance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
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50%
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Summerland (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Summerland is an American drama television series created by Stephen Tolkin and Lori Loughlin. It is centered on a clothing designer in her 30s, Ava Gregory, raising her niece and nephews after their parents die in a tragic accident. They live in ...
Style: serious, touching, realistic, sincere, emotional
Audience: teens
Plot: surfing, family relations, love and romance, teenage life, siblings relations, family problems, life turned upside down, parents and children, high school, beach, childhood, young adult ...
Time: 21st century
Place: california, usa
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49%
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Youth (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: China
TV show
Story: When five college students share a house, they also share their experiences with life and love. Han Yi Tong, Ni Jin, Chen Chen Chen, Lin Xiao Chun and Zhang Sheng Nan are roommates who share a house while attending the same university. Can they ...
Style: exciting, sincere, entertaining, captivating
Plot: female friendship, university, young adult, coming of age, friendship, housemates, college, young woman, friendship between girls, girlfriend, youth, friends ...
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Finding Carter (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story: A teenager finds out she was abducted as a toddler and returns to her biological family.
Style: touching, emotional, realistic, serious, tense ...
Audience: teens, kids, teen drama
Plot: family reunited, life turned upside down, parents and children, teenage life, missing child, introspection, starting over, uncover truth, family secret, self discovery, dysfunctional family, coming of age ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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49%
Recovery Road (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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Story: Maddie is a teenage girl dealing with addiction who has a reputation as a party girl who doesn’t think she has a problem, until she’s confronted one day by her school guidance counselor and is forced to choose between expulsion and rehab. Maddie ...
Style: emotional, serious, realistic, sincere, sentimental
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: high school life, addiction, youth, best friend, hopes, recovery, teenage life, drug abuse, rehabilitation, life is a bitch, fall in love, love and romance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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Queen Sugar (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: The series follows the life of two sisters, Nova Bordelon and Charley Bordelon, who, with her teenage son Micah moves to the heart of Louisiana to claim an inheritance from her recently departed father - an 800-acre sugarcane farm.
Style: serious, touching, realistic, sincere, sentimental ...
Plot: black, sugarcane, farm, family relations, parents and children, power relations, life turned upside down, social relations, society, single parent, ambition, rivalry ...
Time: 2020s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, louisiana, indiana, southern usa
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Quarterlife (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
TV show
Story: A group of twenty-something artists are coming of age in the digital generation.
Style: sincere, emotional, realistic, serious, captivating ...
Plot: friendship, life is a bitch, friends, introspection, couple relations, twentysomething life, computers and web, writer's life, artists and showbiz, couples, innocence lost, lifestyle ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, illinois, chicago
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49%
Vencer la culpa (2023)
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Four women become friends and learn to overcome their guilt after the disappearance of a local teenage girl unexpectedly brings them together.
Style: soap opera, serious, captivating, exciting, entertaining ...
Plot: female protagonist, woman, friend, girlfriend girlfriend relationship, friends, strong female presence, friendship, women, girlfriend, female friendship
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Six Degrees (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
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Story: Six Degrees is an American dramatic television series about six residents of New York City and their respective relationships and connections with one another, based on the idea of six degrees of separation. It premiered on September 21, 2006, ...
Style: serious, sincere, captivating, touching, mysterious ...
Plot: love affair, starting over, lifestyle, haunted by the past, struggle, social problems, coincidence, human nature, career, friendship, idealism, city life ...
Place: new york, usa
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To Life (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Helen, Rose and Lili have survived the Holocaust and have never seen each other since the war has ended. In 1960, they meet again in Berck, France. They learn to enjoy together simple pleasures in life: nice meals, ballads on the beach, playing in ...
Style: realistic, serious, emotional, touching, sincere ...
Plot: starting over, haunted by the past, friendship, auschwitz, human spirit, hopes, girlfriend, girlfriend girlfriend relationship, reunited friends, post war, lifestyle, age-gap relationship ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, 50s, 60s
Place: europe, france
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48%
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The '60s (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 172 min.
TV show
Story: The Herlihys are a working class family from Chicago whose three children take wildly divergent paths: Brian joins the Marines right out of High School and goes to Vietnam..
Style: captivating, serious, realistic, sentimental, sincere
Plot: vietnam war, hippie, pregnancy, rock music, politician, concert, protest, drug abuse, civil rights, summer of love, culture clash, fighting the system ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: woodstock, vietnam, chicago, san francisco, los angeles ...
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The Lying Life of Adults (2023)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 50 min.
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Story: Young Giovanna navigates her passage from childhood into adolescence as she experiences the different sides of Naples during the 1990s. A girl in search of her true reflection in a divided Naples: the Naples of the heights, which assumes a mask of ...
Style: dramatic, captivating, exciting, atmospheric, suspenseful ...
Plot: mother, coming of age, father, teenage girl, family relations, parent child relationship, teenage daughter, relationships, running away from home, runaway teen, escape, teenager ...
Time: 90s
Place: naples italy, italy
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48%
Run the World (2021)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 28 min.
TV show
Story: The story of a group of Black women who work, live, and play in Harlem as they strive for world domination. They're not only surviving – but thriving together.
Style: semi serious, satirical, captivating, psychological, disturbing ...
Plot: friends, girlfriend girlfriend relationship, ambitious woman, lifestyle, girlfriend, society, women, female protagonist, satire, ambition, aspiration, group of friends ...
Place: harlem
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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Double Life (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 15 min.
TV show
Story: Amanda and Alex have a fling going on as they find out that their parents are getting a divorce. To complicate things, Amanda's father has met a new woman and that woman is... Alex's mother.
Style: sincere, captivating
Plot: teen romance, first love, children, friendship, teenager, teenage boy, friend, teenage girl, romantic friendship, marital problem, family relations, teenage love ...
Place: eastern europe
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47%
Karenjit Kaur (2018)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story: The life journey of Karenjit Kaur, showcasing her beginnings as an innocent, how she became India’s most googled celebrity, and everything which followed in between.
Style: suspense, captivating, tense, touching, erotic ...
Plot: life is a bitch, parents and children, family relations, ambition, father daughter relationship, mother daughter relationship, culture clash, society, heroes, loneliness, friendship, escapades ...
Place: usa, canada
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