Movies like My Sweet Orange Tree

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My Sweet Orange Tree (2012)
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My Sweet Orange Tree (2012)
Original name: Meu Pé de Laranja Lima
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Brazil
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Zezé is an 8 year old boy who, although a naughty boy, has a good heart. He leads a very modest life, due to the fact that his father has been unemployed for a long time, and has the habit of having long conversations with a sweet orange tree which is in his backyard. Until one day he meets Portuga, a man who begins to help him and soon becomes his best friend.
Style: sentimental, touching, atmospheric, captivating, serious, realistic
Plot: coming of age, friendship, family relations, boy, friends, family life, youth, mischievous children, father son relationship, school, book, poverty, tree, child, bonding, boyhood, countryside, siblings relations, horse, train, death, fire, flowers, brother sister relationship, school teacher ...
Time: 20th century
Place: brazil, latin america
Keyword: brazilian

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Most similar movies to My Sweet Orange Tree

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, touching, serious and sentimental films with plots about youth, family relations, coming of age, friendship, friends, boy and parents and children mostly in Drama, Family and Action genres. Some movies like My Sweet Orange Tree: Owd Bob (1998), A Time in Quchi (2013), Booky & the Secret Santa (2007), Eskil & Trinidad (2013), Summer of the Colt (1989). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Owd Bob (1998)
Genre: Family, Drama
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Recently orphaned David must move to the Isle of Man to live with his grandfather, Adam, who's a sheep farmer. Both long for the end of the summer, having nothing in common but their love for dogs, notably Adam's precious champion ...
Style: serious, realistic, touching, independent film
Audience: pre-teens, family outing
Plot: dog, youth, german shepherd, animal, orphan, farmer, friends, family relations, animal life, disorder, farm, family problems ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: ireland, england
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The Year My Parents Went on Vacation (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A boy is left alone in a Jewish neighborhood in the year of 1970, where both world cup and dictatorship happen in Brazil.
Style: serious, emotional, sentimental, realistic, touching ...
Plot: dictatorship, boy, politics, coming of age, soccer, football, political unrest, children, life is a bitch, family relations, working class, dictator ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, year 1970
Place: brazil, latin america, israel, sao paulo brazil
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100%
A Time in Quchi (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Bao stays with his grandfather for the summer and is shocked to see there are no modern appliances.
Style: realistic, touching, atmospheric, captivating, serious
Plot: friendship, coming of age, family relations, family problems, friends, parents and children, elderly, youth, countryside, school, boy, siblings relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: taiwan, asia
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34%
Booky & the Secret Santa (2007)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Booky does everything she can to make an enjoyable Christmas, for her family, during the depression as her father is out of work.
Style: realistic, touching, sentimental, sincere, captivating ...
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: christmas, youth, unemployment, family relations, family life, parents and children, hopes, bittersweet, family gatherings, wish come true, family problems, friendship ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century
Place: canada, toronto ontario canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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Eskil & Trinidad (2013)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Sweden
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Eskil moves from town to town with his father in Northern Sweden. He misses his mother and sucks at playing hockey, the main activity among the boys his age. Things changes when he meets Trinidad, a mysterious woman who lives outside society ...
Style: serious, touching, realistic, feel good, sincere ...
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: friendship, village life, parents and children, family relations, coming of age, father son relationship, father and son, youth, village, friends, sport team, self confidence ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Summer of the Colt (1989)
Genre: Family, Drama
Country: Argentina, Canada
Duration: 100 min.
Story: This award-winning film by André Melançon -- set on a ranch on the pampas of Argentina -- tells the story of three children spending a summer with their grandfather. The youngest, Felipe, makes friends with a puppy; his older brother, Daniel, ...
Style: realistic, serious, feel good, touching
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: horse, youth, countryside, family relations, friendship, ranch, sibling relationship, grandparent grandchild relationship, friends, farm, animal life, coming of age ...
Place: argentina, buenos aires argentina
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Saving Shiloh (2006)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: In this third movie about Shiloh, Judd Travers is accused of killing a man he once fought in a bar. Everyone in the town consider Judd to be guilty except Marty Preston, but even him has some doubts. Trying to clear Judd's name Marty and his ...
Style: serious, captivating, sincere, touching, saga
Audience: family outing, family friendly, pre-teens
Plot: dog, youth, mischievous children, friendship, rescue, best friend, pets, family life, animal actor, small town, child, teenage girl ...
Time: year 2006
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Finn (2013)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Nine year old Finn lives with his father in a small town. Together with his best friend Erik he plays football, but he prefers to play music. His dad wants him to play football, just like every other kid his age. Finn does not understand why, but ...
Style: touching, serious, realistic, sentimental, twisted
Audience: family outing, pre-teens
Plot: youth, friendship, father figure, follow your dream, family relations, teachers and students, musician's life, hopes, elderly, parents and children, grandfather, father son relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: holland, europe
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25%
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Spin (2003)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: "Spin" tells the story of a boy who loses his parents in a plane crash, is taken in by his uncle (Tucci), who then leaves him for ten years in the care of his Hispanic ranch hand (Blades) and his wife (Delany). Once in high school, Eddie ...
Style: realistic, serious, emotional, touching, sentimental ...
Plot: family relations, youth, society, self discovery, introspection, haunted by the past, teenage life, friends, family problems, orphan, hopes, eccentric family ...
Time: 50s
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Anne of Green Gables: A New Beginning (2008)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Canada
Duration: 144 min.
Story: Anne, now a middle-aged woman, is troubled by recent events in her life. Her husband, Gilbert, has been killed overseas as a medical doctor during World War II. Her two daughters are pre-occupied with their own young families and her adopted son ...
Style: sincere, feel good, captivating, psychological, realistic ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: couples, teaching the ways of the world, orphan, family life, friendship, adoption, widow, doctors and patients, family relations, estrangement, homecoming, anne of green gables ...
Time: 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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Alabama Moon (2009)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: After the unexpected death of his survivalist father, an eleven year old boy raised in the Alabama wilderness must learn how to make a home in the modern world.
Style: realistic, touching, serious, exciting, inspirational ...
Audience: family outing, date night, teens
Plot: wilderness, best friend, boy, friendship, coming of age, orphan, life turned upside down, father son relationship, friends, youth, adventurer, father daughter relationship ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: alabama, usa, southern usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
The Boy in the Mirror (2014)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: Brazil
Duration: 78 min.
Story: What child has never dreamed of having a double, someone who would do all of the annoying things in his place? Seeing his reflection get out of the mirror into the real world, this dream comes true for the fearless boy Fernando. Odnanref, his ...
Style: humorous, not serious, sincere, captivating
Audience: pre-teens
Plot: friendship, wish come true, mistaken identity, mischievous children, family relations, disorder, escapades, youth, parents and children, coming of age, small town, imaginary ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, 1930s
Place: brazil
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Little Big Girl (2002)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 93 min.
Story: While out and about tending to his herd, young shepherd Larus meets a mysterious little girl named Tinke. Quickly realizing that the girl is alone, Larus brings Tinke some food and slowly builds a friendship with her. Tinke, whose parents died ...
Style: captivating, realistic, sincere, touching, serious ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: orphan, family relations, children, friendship, hopes, friends, destiny, coming of age, human nature, girl, teenage girl, wolf ...
Time: 19th century, 1850s
Place: denmark, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Carrie's War (2004)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Carrie's War is an adaptation of a 1973 children's novel by Nina Bawden, set during the Second World War and following two evacuees, Carrie and her younger brother Nick.
Style: realistic, serious, emotional, touching, bleak
Plot: evacuation, youth, world war two, coming of age, life is a bitch, teenage life, wartime life, escapades, family relations, forceful separation, friendship, war ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century
Place: wales, london, england
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24%
A Year in My Life (2006)
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: uplifting, sentimental, touching, sincere, captivating ...
Plot: friendship, adoption, orphan, youth, family relations, foster parent, foster child, father son relationship, mother son relationship, parents and children, family life, foster home ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
We Can Be Heroes! (2002)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Sweden
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Two kids - about 11 years old - Marcello and Fatima, meet and like each other very much. Both have dreams and problems. Marcello wants to fly but feels like an absolutely useless human being, Fatima wants to play soccer - which is not acceptable for ...
Style: realistic, touching, serious, captivating
Plot: youth, children, friends, family relations, friendship, parents and children, strong female character, european, bullying, soccer, hopes, personal growth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
A Christmas Memory (1997)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A boy, Buddy, whose parents have split and whose mother is an actress in New York, has been dumped in the south at the small-town home of some older cousins, all of whom are unmarried.
Style: christmas classics, realistic, semi serious, uplifting, touching ...
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: christmas, youth, friendship, small town, family relations, buddies, love and romance, small town life, countryside, adult virgin, family life, family gatherings ...
Time: 1930s
Place: southern usa, alabama
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Taliesin Jones (2000)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Not quite a religious film, not quite a coming-of-age story, not quite a kiddie flick, and not quite a supernatural horror movie, Taliesin Jones's identity crisis nonetheless reveals a sweet examination of one child and his thoughts on God.
Style: touching, serious, realistic, sentimental, independent film
Plot: teenage boy, miraculous event, coming of age, self discovery, family problems, parents and children, dysfunctional family, family life, hopes, redemption, child illness, secret society ...
Time: 90s
Place: wales
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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The Red Pony (1973)
Genre: Drama, Family, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A young farmboy who can't seem to communicate with his father develops an attachment to a young red pony.
Style: sentimental, serious, realistic, touching
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: youth, farm, friends, pets, parents and children, family relations, family problems, horse, boy, father son relationship, grandparents, pony ...
Time: 20th century, 1910s
Place: usa, california
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An American Girl: Chrissa Stands Strong (2009)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A fourth grader and her friends deal with bullying from a more popular girl in their class.
Style: touching, semi serious, feel good, realistic
Audience: family outing, chick flick, family friendly
Plot: youth, friendship, bullying, american girl, family relations, family life, school, father daughter relationship, mother daughter relationship, teacher student relationship, female protagonist, occupation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: minnesota
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The Devil in the Skin (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Coming-of-Age drama telling the story of the strong bond between Xavier and his little brother Jacques and their struggle to remain together despite all odds.
Style: touching, serious, realistic, sentimental
Plot: coming of age, youth, brother brother relationship, rebelliousness, forceful separation, summer, family relations, life turned upside down, countryside, boy, childhood, teenager ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
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21%
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Mommo (2009)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Turkey
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A brother and sister are split up after their mother dies, their father remarries, and their new stepmother rejects them.
Style: touching, sincere, atmospheric, serious, captivating ...
Audience: teens
Plot: kids in trouble, dysfunctional family, family relations, youth, estrangement, siblings relations, family problems, life is a bitch, life turned upside down, death in the family, brother sister relationship, child ...
Time: 21st century
Place: turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Ways to Live Forever (2010)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: UK, Spain
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Sam loves facts. He wants to know about UFOs and horror movies and airships and ghosts and scientists, and how it feels to kiss a girl. And because he has leukemia he wants to know the facts about dying. Sam needs answers to the questions nobody ...
Style: sincere, emotional, serious, realistic, touching ...
Plot: teenage life, youth, friendship between boys, leukemia, friends, child cancer, coming of age, best friend, human spirit, death, life is a bitch, child illness ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Eli & Ben (2008)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Israel
Duration: 91 min.
Story: The life of the Yassif family becomes almost impossible when the father who is the city architect, is charged with taking bribes.
Style: serious, realistic, sentimental, touching
Plot: family relations, investigation, teenage life, parents and children, youth, child protagonist, embezzlement, father son relationship, betrayal, best friend, lie, israeli ...
Time: 21st century
Place: middle east, israel
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
The Christmas Bunny (2010)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: The Christmas Bunny tells the story of a lonely foster child (Sophie Bolen) who finds a lost, injured rabbit in the woods on Christmas Eve. The rabbit is nursed back to health by The Bunny Lady (Florence Henderson), who runs a rabbit rescue in an ...
Style: uplifting, sentimental, touching, captivating, sincere ...
Audience: family outing, kids, girls' night
Plot: christmas, family relations, friendship, nursing, family life, pets, coming of age, orphan, youth, farm, rabbit, holiday ...
Time: 21st century
Place: michigan, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
The Little Traitor (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel, USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Based on the novel "Panther in the Basement" by the world-renowned author, Amos Oz, the movie takes place in Palestine in 1947, just a few months before Israel becomes a state. Proffy Liebowitz, a militant yet sensitive eleven year old ...
Style: realistic, thought provoking, sentimental, emotional, touching ...
Plot: friendship, rebellion, military, friends, state affairs, soldier, youth, coming of age, child protagonist, british military, book, judaism ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, year 1977, year 1947
Place: israel, middle east, palestine, jerusalem, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Paper Planes (2014)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Australia, Japan
Duration: 96 min.
Story: The film tells the story of 11-year-old Dylan (Ed Oxenbould), who is brought up by his father (Sam Worthington) in a remote town in the country of Australia. Dylan’s life is changed forever when he wins a place in the regional Paper Plane ...
Style: sentimental, touching, serious, feel good, realistic ...
Audience: family outing, girls' night, pre-teens
Plot: boy, competition, contest, coming of age, ambition, family relations, contests and competitions, parents and children, championship, youth, winner, tournament ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: japan, australia, tokyo, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Pollyanna (2003)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Pollyanna Whittier goes to live with her wealthy but bitter aunt after the tragic death of her father. Pollyanna shares a game her father taught her -- the 'Glad Game' -- in which everyone can find a silver lining in even the darkest ...
Style: touching, feel good, uplifting, sentimental, semi serious ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: friendship, optimism, teaching the ways of the world, small town life, countryside, young heroes, small town, hopes, orphan, friends, change of heart, family relations ...
Time: 20th century, victorian era, edwardian era, 1900s, 1910s
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Clandestine Childhood (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina, Spain, Brazil
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Juan lives in clandestinity. Just like his mum, his dad and his adored uncle Beto, outside his home he has another name. At school, Juan is known as Ernesto. And he meets María, who only has one name. Based on true facts, set in the Argentina of ...
Style: serious, atmospheric, realistic
Plot: youth, coming of age, family relations, hidden identity, school, family life, dictatorship, disorder, parents and children, dishonesty, false identity, hiding ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, year 1979
Place: argentina, latin america, buenos aires argentina
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Along the Ridge (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A young father and his two children struggle to find harmony after his wife leaves them for another man.
Style: serious, realistic, emotional, touching
Plot: coming of age, boy, family relations, friendship, dysfunctional family, lifestyle, siblings relations, parents and children, single parent, youth, family problems, unfaithful wife ...
Time: year 2006, 21st century
Place: italy, europe
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