Movies like Blaze 2022

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Blaze (2022)
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Blaze (2022)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Australia
Duration: 101 min.
Story: After a young girl witnesses a violent crime, she summons an imaginary dragon to help process her anger and protect her on her journey into womanhood.
Style: independent film
Plot: resistance, rape, father daughter relationship, imaginary friend, surrealism, witness, teenager, violence, friendship, murder, teenage girl, family relations, parent child relationship, photograph, girl, blood, teenage boy, nightmare, single parent, coming of age, menstruation, friend, 13 year old, courtroom, argument ...
Place: sydney australia
Keyword: australian

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Most similar movies to Blaze

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, serious, psychological and tense films with plots about family relations, friendship, coming of age, teenager, teenage girl, murder and friend mostly in Drama, Crime and Fantasy genres. Some movies like Blaze: The Girl with a Bracelet (2019), Belladonna of Sadness (1973), After the War (2017), The Oyster and the Wind (1997), Fun (1994). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Girl with a Bracelet (2019)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Lise (16 years old) is accused of murdering her best friend. As the trial starts, her parents stand right by her side. But once her secret life is revealed in court, the truth becomes indistinguishable.
Style: suspense, disturbing, tense, captivating, social
Plot: teenage girl, trial, murder, teenager, lawyer, parent child relationship, murder trial, murderer, coming of age, judge, courtroom, female protagonist ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
Belladonna of Sadness (1973)
Genre: Animation, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A peasant woman is banished from her village and makes a deal with the devil to gain magical powers.
Style: anime, psychedelic, hentai, adult animation, experimental ...
Plot: deal with the devil, wedding, surrealism, snake, rape, witch, trippy, female nudity, occult, woman, pagan, women ...
Time: middle ages, medieval times
Place: japan, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.8
 217
After the War (2017)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Bologna, 2002. Amidst protests against the labor reform, the assassination of a lawyer opens old wounds between Italy and France. Former far-left terrorist Marco, convicted of murder during the Years of Lead and living in Paris since then thanks to ...
Style: captivating, tense
Plot: father daughter relationship, assassination, father daughter conflict, political unrest, haunted by the past, daughter, father and daughter, troubled past, teenager, teenage girl, political persecution, social problems ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
81%
The Oyster and the Wind (1997)
Genre: Fantasy, Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 112 min.
Story: A young girl named Marcela lives with her dad, Jose, a lighthouse keeper, and old Daniel on an island. The only contact the girl has with the world outside her home is by a boat with four sailors that pays a visit to the island in order to take them ...
Style: romantic drama
Plot: teenage sexuality, menarche, diary, lighthouse, night, coffee, sea, coming of age, menstruation, island, wind, insanity ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
Movie in collections
 6.8
 1K
Fun (1994)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Bonnie and Hillary are two young lost souls who meet one day and discover that they get along. They talk about their lives and run around and and keep getting really excited. Their day escalates into an eruption of violence and rage that can only be ...
Style: disturbing, independent film, queer horror, controversial, tense ...
Plot: lesbian, murder, friendship, coming of age, evil child, prison, teenage pregnancy, choice, bad kids, bad girl, lesbianism, teenage girl ...
Time: year 1994, 90s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
Barndommens gade (1986)
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 90 min.
Story: I en lille 2-værelses baggårdslejlighed, på Vesterbro i København, bor den 14 årige Ester (Sofie Gråbøl) sammen med faderen (Torben Jensen), moderen (Vigga Bro) og storebroderen Carl (Carl Quist Møller). Det er tidens typiske arbejderkvarter ...
Style: period piece
Plot: working class, girl, mother daughter relationship, menstruation, menarche, prostitution, childhood, teenage girl, coming of age, grownups, family relations, slim ...
Time: 1930s
Place: copenhagen
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
The Hate U Give (2018)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story: Raised in a poverty-stricken slum, a 16-year-old girl named Starr now attends a suburban prep school. After she witnesses a police officer shoot her unarmed best friend, she's torn between her two very different worlds as she tries to speak her ...
Style: hood, captivating, social, sad, teen ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: racism, ghetto, african american, father daughter relationship, black, black lives matter, father son relationship, private school, loss of friend, coming of age, black history, teenager ...
Time: 2010s
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
West of Sunshine (2017)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 78 min.
Story: A father has less than a day to pay back a debt to a violent loan shark, while looking after his young son.
Style: suspense, psychological, captivating, unusual plot structure, suspenseful ...
Plot: husband wife relationship, family conflict, father son relationship, family relations, husband wife conflict, friendship, drug, thief, drug deal, chase, violence, fight ...
Place: melbourne
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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 6.6
 6K
Paperhouse (1988)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Anna is becoming lost in the loneliness of her own world when she discovers she can visit another, a house she has drawn herself and occupied by a young disabled boy. But as she discovers more of the links between her fantasy world and the mundane ...
Style: scary, disturbing, atmospheric, suspenseful, psychological ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: nightmare, children, mother daughter relationship, supernatural, boy, visceral, transformation, serial killer, father daughter relationship, coming of age, supernatural ability, dream world ...
Place: britain, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
A Boy Called Po (2016)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: When David Wilson's young wife falls victim to cancer, he is left a single working dad with the sole responsibility of caring for his sixth grade son with autism. Patrick, who prefers to be called 'Po,' is a gifted but challenged ...
Style: captivating, sincere, touching, sentimental
Audience: chick flick, boys' night
Plot: autism, wife, middle school, cancer, parent child relationship, boy, family relations, parents and children, life philosophy, disorder, friendship, illness ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
 6.9
 2K
The Boys (1998)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Brett Sprague is a violent and psychopathic man, who is released on parole after serving a sentence for assault. As he returns to his family house and we watch him and his brothers, Stevie and Glenn, for the next 24 hours, it becomes clear this day ...
Style: disturbing, grindhouse, independent film, tense, realistic ...
Plot: prison, murder, dysfunctional family, psychopath, redemption, drinking, violence, caper, exodus, australian aboriginal, prison sex, family relations ...
Time: 90s
Place: australia, sydney australia, oceania
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
The Last Summer of La Boyita (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina, Spain, France
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Young Jorgelina feels estranged from her boy-crazy older sister, who has entered adolescence and doesn't want to hang around with little kids anymore. Finding refuge in their Boyita camper-van, Jorgelina travels with her father to the ...
Style: serious, realistic, exciting, suspenseful, melancholic ...
Plot: friendship, ranch, youth, coming of age, sister sister relationship, family relations, countryside, father daughter relationship, teenage life, parents and children, abused child, gender ...
Time: 21st century
Place: argentina
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
 6.5
 230
Day-O (1992)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A five-year-old named Grace creates an imaginary friend, because her parents only pay attention to the new baby, Tony. Now at 35, his sole friend reappears to help her.
Plot: imaginary friend, friendship, self esteem, family relations, parent child relationship, nightmare, father daughter relationship
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
 6.9
 18K
At Close Range (1986)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Based upon the true story of Bruce Johnston Sr., his son, and his brothers; together, they constituted one of suburban Philadelphia's most notorious crime families during the 1970's. Their criminal activities ranged from burglary, theft... ...
Style: neo noir, disturbing, tense, realistic, bleak ...
Plot: rape, organized crime, small town, father son relationship, sociopath, revenge, violent, gang, murder, violence, psychopath, serial killer ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, year 1978
Place: pennsylvania, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
 6.7
 3K
Chicuarotes (2019)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Cagalera and Moloteco are two teenagers from San Gregorio Atlapulco who are desperate to get out and move up and away from oppressive circumstances. When they hear of an opportunity to buy a spot in the electrician’s union, which could transform ...
Style: hispanic, realistic, crying, tragicomedy
Plot: teenage boy, teenager, theft, clown, kidnapping, robbery, youth, family relations, brother sister relationship, father son relationship, escapades, friendship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: mexico city, turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
 7.3
 1K
Buoyancy (2019)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 93 min.
Story: An innocent Cambodian boy is sold to a Thai broker and enslaved on a fishing trawler. As fellow slaves are tortured and murdered around him, he starts to wonder if his only hope of freedom is to become as violent as his captors.
Style: serious, rough, disturbing, suspense
Plot: slave, slavery, sea, revenge, teenage boy, murder, fishing boat, human trafficking, gay, bare chested male, running away from home, punched in the face ...
Place: cambodia
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
 5.8
 607
Silent Witness (2011)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Prominent defense attorney Tony Lord returns to his hometown to defend an old friend, a teacher accused of murdering one of his students. The case re-opens the heartache from Tony's own high school days, when he was a student falsely accused of ...
Style: realistic, captivating, tense, psychological, suspenseful ...
Plot: murder, courtroom drama, homecoming, courtroom, friendship, legal, lawyer, danger, rivalry, family relations, law, deadly
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, ohio
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story: Scout Finch, 6, and her older brother Jem live in sleepy Maycomb, Alabama, spending much of their time with their friend Dill and spying on their reclusive and mysterious neighbor, Boo Radley. When Atticus, their widowed father and a respected ...
Style: touching, black and white, enigmatic, compassionate, sentimental ...
Audience: manly, chick flick, family outing, teen drama
Plot: lawyer, courtroom drama, courtroom, racism, small town, trial, single father, legal, rape, childhood, poverty, prejudice ...
Time: 1930s, year 1932, 20th century, year 1962
Place: alabama, usa, america, africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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The Blackmailer (1988)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 92 min.
Plot: school, father, teenage boy, teenager, teenage girl, theft, friend, photographer, money, youth, car crash
Place: soviet union
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
 6.1
 1K
Girls Lost (2015)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Finland
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Kim, Bella and Momo are three fourteen-year-old girls who discover a fantastic flower with magic qualities: by drinking its nectar they are transformed into boys and they enter a new world. At first they enjoy their newly found freedom, but soon ...
Style: psychological, ambiguous ending, disturbing, contemplative, unusual plot structure ...
Audience: teens
Plot: lgbt, coming of age, desire for fame, transgender, friendship, unrequited love, transsexual, lgbtq, youth, school, love triangle, runaway ...
Place: eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 6.2
 107
Moving Out (1983)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Coming-of-age story about an Italian-Australian teenager making his way in the world.
Style: semi serious, realistic, touching, humorous, independent film
Plot: immigrant, family relations, coming of age, suburbs, misfit, society, youth, life turned upside down, teenage life, culture clash, moving, trespassing ...
Time: 80s
Place: australia, melbourne
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Youth on the March (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 82 min.
Story: A teenage boy stoner lives with his single mother.
Style: avant garde, psychological, touching, sincere, unusual plot structure ...
Plot: youth, teenager, surrealism, drug, mother, lifestyle, counterculture, suburbs, family relations, friendship, parents and children, friends ...
Time: 21st century
Place: australia, adelaide south australia, south australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Pianese Nunzio, Fourteen in May (1996)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 114 min.
Story: A young priest crusades against organized crime in his Naples neighbourhood but falls in love with a 13-year old boy. It's the chance the gangsters were waiting for to get rid of the thorn in their side. Will they be able to force the boy to ...
Style: realistic, serious, touching, sexual, crying ...
Plot: gay, coming of age, lgbt, youth, religion, sex crime, age difference, glbt, family relations, unemployment, friendship, sex with a priest ...
Time: 90s
Place: italy, europe, naples italy, rome italy, milan italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Heart Blackened (2017)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Tae-san is a man who truly has everything: money, fame, power and two women he loves: his only daughter, Mira, and his fiancée, Yuna, a chart-topping popstar. He wants them to get along, but Mira doesn’t treat kindly her stepmother-to-be.
Style: captivating, twisted
Plot: murder, father daughter relationship, lawyer, investigation, uncover truth, murder investigation, murder mystery, family relations, legal action, relationships, rich, private investigation ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Kim Novak Never Swam in Genesaret's Lake (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Sweden, Norway, Germany
Duration: 95 min.
Story: 14-year old Erik gets sent to live with his older brother, Henry, during the summer as his mother is dying in cancer. Henry starts dating Ewa, who is married to Berra. A few days after Ewa shows up battered and bruised from an altercation with ...
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, captivating, melancholic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: skinny dipping, friendship, power relations, family problems, who done it, youth, teenage sexuality, coming of age, teenage boy, brother brother relationship, vacation, summer ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 7.0
 4K
Tough Enough (2006)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 98 min.
Story: From the youth directed novel of the same name by Greogor Tressnow comes a film by Detlev Buck that is a realistic portrait of life in the section of Berlin called Neukölln. It’s about power and weakness, delinquents and victims, and the ...
Style: realistic, suspenseful, serious, tense, rough ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: juvenile delinquency, street gang, youth gang, coming of age, gang, bullying, friendship, urban ghetto, urban ghetto life, parents and children, high school life, murder ...
Time: 21st century
Place: germany, berlin germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
What Breaks the Ice (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A coming of age thriller about two 15-year-old girls, Sammy and Emily, who hark from different worlds but strike up a quick and deep friendship. But what should be the best summer of their lives takes an unexpected turn when they become accidental ...
Style: tense, thrilling, captivating
Plot: friends, girlfriend, murderer, murder, girlfriend girlfriend relationship, undercover, secret, teenager, teenage girl, problem, murder mystery, friendship ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
The Most Beautiful Wife (1970)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Based on the story of Franca Viola and Filippo Melodia. In Sicily, as a Mafia boss leaves for prison, he advises Vito, a young man who's his potential successor, to marry a virtuous and poor woman. Vito's eye settles on Francesca, only 15, ...
Style: poliziottesco
Plot: forced marriage, marriage, mafia, rape, cosa nostra, erotica, italian mafia, police, infidelity, women, brawl, heart attack ...
Time: 70s
Place: italy, sicily
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 5.7
 2K
Share (2019)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: After discovering a disturbing video from a night she doesn’t remember, sixteen-year-old Mandy must try to figure out what happened and how to navigate the escalating fallout.
Style: suspense, captivating, disturbing, cult classic, dark ...
Plot: teenager, rape, underage drinking, teenage girl, social problems, one night stand, memory lapse, women, nudity, high school, sexual assault, searching for the truth ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 6.0
 3K
The Accused (2018)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Argentina, Mexico
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Dolores lived the life of a higher-class student until her best friend was found brutally murdered. Two years later, she’s the only indicted suspect for a crime that attracts a lot of media attention and has placed her in the center of the public ...
Style: psychological, captivating, tense, suspense
Plot: teenage girl, murder, murder investigation, suspicion of murder, dark secret, violence, friendship, friendship between girls, false accusation, danger, courtroom drama, mediterranean ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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