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The Silent Forest (2020)
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Original name: 無聲
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Hearing-impaired teenager Chang Cheng transfers to a school for children with special needs. However, the world of the hearing-impaired doesn’t seem quiet at all. When Chang witnesses the game taking place in the last row on the school bus, his excitement about blending into a new environment immediately turns into fear.
Style:
suspense, psychological, captivating, disturbing, dark, tension, intense
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
gay asian, deaf, school, gay, bullying, abuse, teenager, game, relationships, changing lives, teenage life, problem, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, mute or deaf, gossip, moral dilemma, peer pressure, social isolation, trauma, coming of age, guilt, moral ambiguity, isolation, realism, anxiety ...
Time:
2020s
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, suspense, intense and psychological films with plots about isolation, moral ambiguity, coming of age, teenage life, teenager, guilt and trauma mostly in Drama, Thriller and Crime genres. Some movies like The Silent Forest: American Bully (2009), Children of the Night (2016), The Gasoline Thieves (2019), Udal (2022), The Pack (2022). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A middle-American teenage boy who is affected by 9/11, terrorism, and the war in Iraq becomes involved in an isolated high school altercation that escalates into a hate crime that shocks the entire nation.
Style:
tense, psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
high school, bullying, hate crime, teenage life, psychological trauma, teenager, criminal, terrorism, changing lives, terrorist attack, life is a bitch, juvenile delinquency ...
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy, Belgium
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
17 years-old Giulio is sent by his mother to a boarding school for difficult offspring of rich families. The institution is sort of a “golden prison”, isolated in the Alps, to which inadequate parents delegate the task of educating the ruling ...
Style:
psychological, suspense, neo noir, disturbing, captivating ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Lalo is a fourteen year old teenager who, from an naive approach, gets involved in the underground world of the gas theft mafia while he's trying to make money to buy a gift for Ana and win her heart.
Style:
tense, crime drama, suspenseful, suspense, disturbing ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
teenager, survival, risk, innocence lost, criminal, money problems, juvenile delinquency, troubled youth, threat, teenage life, in love, struggle for survival ...
Place:
mexico
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
A woman, looking after her ailing mother-in-law is at breaking point. What happens when she can't take any more?
Style:
psychological, captivating, psychological thriller, thrilling, suspenseful ...
Plot:
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Place:
india
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Colombia, France
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Eliú, a country boy, is incarcerated́ in an experimental minors' centre in the heart of the Colombian tropical forest, for a crime he committed with his friend El Mono. Every day, the teenagers perform strenuous manual labour and intense ...
Style:
tense, psychological, thrilling, captivating, dark ...
Plot:
prison life, teenager, guilt, trauma, juvenile detention, prison sentence, teenage boy, confined, jail, prison, prisoner, life is a bitch ...
Place:
colombia
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
Kuntol and Sudarshan meet at the railway track where they have come to commit suicide.
Style:
suspenseful, psychological, thrilling, captivating, suspense ...
Plot:
life, desperation, suicide attempt, problem, game, escapades, threat, ethical dilemma, moral ambiguity, suicide, fatalism, isolation ...
Place:
india
Similarity:
69%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
When a high school student starts dating a rebellious boy from a different school, she quickly finds herself in the crosshairs of someone trying to break them up - or hide a dangerous secret.
Style:
suspense, disturbing, captivating, suspenseful, tense ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
teenage love, teenager, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, high school, couple relations, adolescence, relationship problems, teenage life, problem, teenage protagonist, relationships, young adult ...
Time:
2020s
Similarity:
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
On his way to school, Huang witnesses the death of Hsia, a popular teenager in their high school,along with Lin and Yeh, the other 2 students from their high school, whom Huang has never known before. Even though the three guys try to save her, she ...
Style:
realistic, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, tense ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
investigation, high school, youth, high school student, amateur detective, uncover truth, coming of age, teenage life, bullying, guilt, friendship, school ...
Time:
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Place:
asia, taiwan
Similarity:
66%
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Genre: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
suspense, disturbing, tense, psychological, captivating ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
addiction, revenge, life is a bitch, traumatized man, teenager, problem, teenage life, accident, bereavement, loss of father, guilt, grief ...
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54%
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Zayvian, a teenager, guilty over the death of his twin brother, commits negative acts in order to gain the attention of his parents. He seeks absolution for the murder. His ultimate decision will have an impact on eight other troubled teens that ...
Style:
suspense, disturbing, psychological, suspenseful, dark ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
guilt, grief, murderer, dysfunctional family, family problems, social problems, changing lives, murder, social misfits, teenager, teenage life, life is a bitch ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 149 min.
Story:
A group of junior high school must find out the truth of their classmate's death is he was killed by someone or committed suicide.
Style:
suspenseful, thrilling, captivating, psychological, tense ...
Plot:
school, investigation, teenager, trial, junior high school, courtroom drama, who done it, teenage life, uncover truth, secret, high school life, police investigation ...
Place:
japan
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
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Style:
tense, suspense, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Plot:
forest, nature, struggle for survival, teenager fighting adult, recluse, violence, life risking, child fighting adult, child in peril, survival, backwoods, danger ...
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Taryn finds herself gaining much-desired popularity when the charismatic new girl at school claims her as a “breath sister," teaching Taryn about the Choking Game. Hiding it from her ever-present mother, best friend, and teachers, Taryn sees ...
Style:
psychological, teen, captivating, disturbing, suspense ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
high school, peer pressure, social issues, female protagonist, teenager, girl, most dangerous game, suffocation, socially awkward, teenage girl, schoolgirl, desire ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Norway, Sweden
Duration: 157 min.
Story:
During a break in school 13 year-old Lykke, the daughter of a prominent Labour Party member, seriously injures her classmate Jamie, the son of a high profile right-wing politician.
Style:
captivating, tense, psychological, tension, intense ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
teenager, fatal accident, school, accident, trauma, grief, tragedy, guilt, social problems, political unrest, politics, relationship problems ...
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Hari and his two friends who get embroiled in a murder case under unusual circumstances. They deal with the power-play, haplessness and trauma.
Style:
intense, crime drama, tense, suspense, realistic ...
Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Alex, Fedja, Timo and Lara are four troubled teens for whom the upcoming Christmas eve isn't a time of peace and joy: Since they all have a history of escalating family conflicts, they'll be spending the holidays not at home, but in a ...
Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Place:
germany
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Country: Australia
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Estonia
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Style:
suspense, disturbing, captivating, intense, psychological ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
coming of age, family drama, mother and daughter, revenge, trauma, guilt, grief, moral ambiguity, teenage protagonist, ethical dilemma, loss, loss of innocence ...
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Italian jeweller Matteo Belmonte and his wife Christine are robbed for the third time in the space of a few months. With Christine in danger, Matteo fires two shots. The robber Rufin dies at the feet of Romy, the couple's daughter. ...
Style:
suspense, captivating, tense, emotional, intense
Plot:
self defense, robbery, murder, moral dilemma, guilt, social relations, male female relationship, family relations, relationships, husband wife relationship, heist, couple relations ...
Place:
italy
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Kevin is obsessed with finding a girl who can help him forget his unpleasant past. However, all his encounters with the opposite sex inevitably go afoul. As the rejections mount, Kevin's futile search for happiness and love becomes ...
Style:
psychological horror, psychological thriller, thrilling, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
relationships, lonely, photographer, memory, trauma, obsession, male female relationship, dealing with the past, troubled past, life is a bitch, confronting the past, isolation ...
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
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Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
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Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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Style:
suspense, crime drama, disturbing, captivating, psychological ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
robbery, teenager, teenage protagonist, juvenile delinquency, juvenile delinquent, troubled teen, burglar, adolescence, theft, troubled youth, criminal, teenage life ...
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
After the death of his girlfriend, Travis, a thirty-something psychiatrist, struggles to keep it together. On the brink of a nervous breakdown he stumbles across a strange church run by a charismatic leader, Pastor Jay. In search of answers Travis ...
Style:
suspense, disturbing, psychological thriller, dark, psychological ...
Plot:
psychiatrist, mysterious girl, teenage girl, nervous breakdown, emotional breakdown, love interest, social problems, relationships, male female relationship, religions or cults, family relations, teenager ...
Similarity:
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466
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
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Style:
suspense, psychological, disturbing, captivating, independent film ...
Plot:
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Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
When Mr. Deen discovers one of his students has been living out of his car and thrown into jail, he decides to bail him out. Determined to curb Nate’s self-destructive behavior, Deen quickly discovers a host of dark secrets slowly tearing Nate ...
Style:
psychological, emotional, captivating, thrilling, intense ...
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adult
Plot:
teenager, trauma, life is a bitch, teenage life, troubled past, tragic past, confronting the past, moral dilemma, self destructing, redemption, desperation, abuse ...
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335
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
A ride-share driver finds himself transporting the man who is secretly sleeping with his wife.
Style:
psychological, captivating, disturbing, suspense, tension ...
Plot:
infidelity, driver, lovers, betrayal, marital problem, family problems, learning the truth, secrets, jealousy, domestic drama, confrontation, claustrophobia ...
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Genre: Drama, Thriller, Action
Country: Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A fifteen year old girl Senka, comes from a wealthy family whose parents enroll in an elite school where she meets a drug dealer with whom he falls in love, and so it has hitherto completely unknown world. Senka is a young and inexperienced girl ...
Style:
thrilling, captivating, psychological, dark, melancholic ...
Plot:
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Place:
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