Movies like Prayers for the Stolen

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Prayers for the Stolen (2021)
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Prayers for the Stolen (2021)
Original name: Noche de fuego
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico, Germany, Brazil, Qatar, Argentina, Switzerland, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: In a mountain town, where corn and poppies grow, the girls wear boyish haircuts and have hiding places underground to escape the threat of being stolen. Ana and her two best friends grow up together, affirming the bonds of their friendship and discovering what it means to be women in a rural town marked by violence. Their mothers train them to flee death, to escape those who turn them into slaves or ghosts. They create their own impenetrable universe, but one day one of the girls doesn’t make it to her hiding place in time.
Style: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing, cult film
Plot: drug cartel, friendship, social problems, social issues, girlfriend girlfriend relationship, drug, teenage life, teenager, friends, girlfriend, grownups, organized crime, drug use, city life, adolescence vs adulthood, woman, latina, teenage girl, young girl, rural setting, town, city, country, countryside, short haired female ...
Place: mexico

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out psychological, captivating, disturbing and suspense films with plots about teenage life, teenager, social problems, friendship, teenage girl, grownups and lifestyle mostly in Drama, Comedy and Adventure genres. Some movies like Prayers for the Stolen: Yung (2018), What the Night Can Do (2020), Here Are the Young Men (2020), Girl's Revenge (2020), The Last Tree (2019). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Yung (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 95 min.
Story: This film follows four young girls into the vibrant, hedonistic subculture of Berlin. Janaina, 17, earns money by making Internet pornography. Her best friend, Emmy, 18, finds the whole city intoxicating, without realizing that she's getting ...
Style: psychological, disturbing, captivating, hot
Plot: teenage prostitution, drug use, drug, sexual promiscuity, girlfriend girlfriend relationship, teenage life, lifestyle, friends, friendship, social problems, girlfriend, teenager ...
Place: berlin germany
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What the Night Can Do (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Luana is a 12-year-old girl struggling to grasp the world collapsing around her, as her parents separate and her estranged Grandfather falls ill. It takes one unlikely person to help her find her way.
Style: captivating, psychological, thrilling
Plot: teenage life, grownups, social problems, teenage girl, life is a bitch, female protagonist, teenage protagonist, society, adolescence, social issues, teenager, adolescence vs adulthood
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Here Are the Young Men (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Dublin teenagers Matthew, nihilistic Rez, and the deranged Kearney, leave school to a social vacuum of drinking and drugs, falling into shocking acts of transgression.
Style: psychological, disturbing, captivating
Plot: teenager, friendship between men, teenage protagonist, orgy, drug, adolescence vs adulthood, social problems, grownups, teenage life, lifestyle, summer vacation, gay ...
Place: ireland, dublin ireland
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Girl's Revenge (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 81 min.
Story: At a birthday party, a sex video is filmed without consent and Ren Li-cha is the girl in the video. The clip circulates among the students and Li-cha is mocked and bullied as a result. Wu Yun-heng, a transfer student, went to the party with Li-cha. ...
Style: disturbing, suspense, captivating, psychological
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The Last Tree (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Femi is a British boy of Nigerian heritage who, after being fostered in rural Lincolnshire, moves to inner-city London to live with his birth mother. Struggling with the unfamiliar culture and values of his new environment, teenage Femi has to ...
Style: disturbing, psychological, captivating
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The Evening Hour (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Cole Freeman maintains an uneasy equilibrium in his rural Appalachian town, looking after the old and infirm while selling their excess painkillers to local addicts. But when an old friend returns with plans that upend the fragile balance and ...
Style: captivating, psychological, disturbing, suspense
Plot: drug dealer, family relations, drug trade, drug dealing, friendship, criminal, drug use, city life, family problems, small town life, penance, lifestyle ...
Place: appalachia, west virginia
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Sun, Heart, Love (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Eli has four children, an unemployed husband and a job with an almost impossible commute. Vale is single and makes ends meet by working in clubs as a dancer. Tied by a profound emotional bond of true sisterhood, the two women's lives are two ...
Style: thrilling, captivating, psychological
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32A (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland, Germany
Duration: 89 min.
Story: This story is set in the "in-between" time of a girl's life, when she is no longer a child and not yet a woman. We open with our heroine, Maeve, putting on her new snow white bra, and stepping out into the world as a young woman. She ...
Style: captivating, psychological, disturbing
Plot: 13 year old, schoolgirl, first love, teenage girl, grownups, adolescence vs adulthood, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, fall in love, couple relations, relationships, social problems, in love ...
Time: 70s
Place: ireland, dublin ireland
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This Town (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: This Town is in part a social commentary, giving us some scary insight into todays youth but also reflecting the points of view of different generations. At heart, the movie asks the viewer to decide if these characters are right or wrong in their ...
Style: disturbing, psychological, tense, captivating, suspense
Plot: womanizer, social problems, multiple storylines, family problems, society, small town, social relations, friends, family relations, city life, lifestyle, friendship ...
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Querô (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Querô is an orphan teenager, living alone near the docks in Santos, Brazil. Her mother, a prostitute, died when he was a baby, and he was raised in the bordello where she worked. He also doesn't know who his father is. Believing he rules his ...
Style: disturbing, captivating, psychological, tense
Plot: juvenile delinquent, society, teenager, organized crime, independence, social outcast, social issues, teenage life, social problems, fighting the system, life is a bitch, money problems ...
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The Outfield (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The film follows a trio of varsity baseball players as they enter their senior year of high school and navigate difficult choices on and off the field.
Style: satirical, captivating, disturbing, psychological
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Dark Was the Night (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: In the aftermath of tragedy, a woman and her teenage son must forge into uncharted territory in order to move on with their lives.
Style: suspense, psychological, disturbing, captivating
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 158 min.
Story: Maria Chapdelaine tells the story of a young woman having to choose between three suitors promising each a different life. Faced with events that jostle her, Maria must then take his destiny into her own hands and decide what her future will be.
Style: disturbing, captivating, psychological
Plot: teenager, relationships, love affair, love story, adolescence, teenage girl, female protagonist, love and romance, countryside, family relations, moral dilemma, love triangle ...
Time: edwardian era
Place: quebec
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Genre: Drama
Country: Indonesia
Story: A friendship of two young girls, Tina and Nadya, who have fallen into dark professions. Friendships often come at a heavy price and end in tragic death, just when they want to change the course of their lives.
Style: suspense, disturbing, psychological, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot: life is a bitch, teenage girl, teenage life, money problems, violence, family problems, teenage protagonist, society, teenager, juvenile delinquency, social problems
Place: indonesia
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Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 90 min.
Story: After several behavior problems, teenager John is admitted to a psychiatric clinic by his family. There he meets Judith, for who he soon falls in love. The problem is that she does not have long to live is and they know it. This shall not prevent ...
Style: captivating, psychological, disturbing, romantic drama, weird
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Duration: 99 min.
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 172 min.
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Style: captivating, psychological, disturbing
Plot: teenage boy, teenage life, friendship, group of friends, best friend, lifestyle, grownups, friends, adolescence vs adulthood
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 106 min.
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Style: captivating, psychological
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Country: Canada
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Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
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Country: South Korea
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Audience: teen drama
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