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Red Island (2023)
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Original name: L'Île rouge
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Madagascar, at the turn of the 1960s and 1970s. On an air base of the French army, the soldiers live the last carefree years of colonialism. Influenced by his readings of Fantômette, Thomas, a child who is not yet 10 years old, gradually forges a look at the world around him.
Style:
biting
Plot:
young boy, bare chested male, beach, church, swimming pool, 10 year old, french colonialism, coming of age, christmas, dancing, sea, airplane, swinger, crocodile, prostitute, island, swing, priest, doctor, photograph, military base, little boy, birthday present, holy communion, cycling ...
Time:
70s
Place:
madagascar
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, psychological, disturbing and crying films with plots about coming of age, beach, bare chested male, sea, classroom, swimming pool and death mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Red Island: Enzo (2025), Sophia Antipolis (2018), A Good Man (2020), The Restless (2021), A Night in the Fields (2020). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Italy, Belgium
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A 16-year-old boy who defies his bourgeois family’s expectations by starting a masonry apprenticeship where he meets a charismatic Ukrainian colleague who shakes up his world.
Plot:
gay interest, gay crush, coming of age, father son relationship, gay, teenage boy, identity crisis, construction worker, bourgeoisie, swimming pool, drawing, teenage sexuality ...
Place:
south of france, france
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95%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Sophia Antipolis: a technopole on the French Riviera, a place where dreams should come true. But fear and despair lurk beneath the surface. Under a deceitful sun, five lives map out the haunting story of a young woman: Sophia.
Style:
hot
Plot:
women, bare chested male, topless woman, seaside, newspaper, fire, death, teenage girl, beach, doctor, swimming pool, surgery ...
Place:
french riviera, south of france
Similarity:
74%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Benjamin and Aude have loved each other for 7 years. They live together on a small island in Brittany. Benjamin dreams of starting a family but the couple learns that Aude is sterile. So Benjamin has an idea. He is the one who will bear their child ...
Style:
non-linear
Plot:
swimming pool, transgender, aggression, island, seaside, kite, dancing, little boy, hospital, pregnant woman, child, nudity ...
Similarity:
73%
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, France, Luxembourg
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Leila and Damien struggle with his bipolar disorder.
Plot:
illness, mental illness, bipolar disorder, hospital, boat, party, pandemic, father son relationship, lake, pond, bare chested male, swinger ...
Similarity:
71%
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 56 min.
Story:
In a working-class town, Anthony and Dylan, two inseparable 14-year-old teenagers decide to go on a walk for a retro house party in a nightclub called the Komplex. While one wants to join Océane, a young girl with whom he is in love, the other ...
Style:
homoerotic, captivating, psychological, suspenseful, thrilling
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
homoerotic friendship, teenager, teenage protagonist, problem, life is a bitch, relationships, teenage life, homoeroticism, outdoor sex, skinny dipping, sexual attraction, gay ...
Time:
2020s, 21st century
Similarity:
71%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A single mother abandons her 8-year-old daughter after meeting someone in a nightclub.
Style:
disturbing, psychological, touching, suspense, captivating ...
Plot:
adult child friendship, mother daughter relationship, little girl, relationship problems, mother child relationship, parents and children, family problems, relationships, family relations, male female relationship, dysfunctional family, mother and daughter ...
Similarity:
68%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
In a small North German village a drama played out during and shortly after the Second World War about duty versus individual conscience and morality.
Style:
crying
Plot:
male pubic hair, male nudity, world war two, corporal punishment, coming of age, nudity, bare chested male, wartime life, teenager, nazi, boyhood, striptease ...
Time:
year 2019
Place:
germany
Similarity:
67%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Set in Sicily in the 1930's, Aurelio Grimaldi's feature debut chronicles the harsh story of twelve-year-old boy, Aclà, sold into slavery by his destitute parents to work in the underground Floristella sulfur mines. Overworked and ...
Style:
political, gay cinema
Plot:
boy, pedophilia, child abuse, child molester, little boy, childhood, youth, social injustice, sex scene, boyhood, sex crime, traumatic childhood ...
Time:
1930s
Place:
sicily, italy
Similarity:
62%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Fragments of the life of Antonia, a young photographer for a local newspaper in Corsica. Her commitment, her friends, and her loves intertwine with the major political events of the island, from the 1980s to the dawn of the 21st century. It is the ...
Plot:
photographer, female protagonist, photograph, prison, photography, photojournalism, heroin, murder, hotel, newspaper, voice over narration, war photographer ...
Time:
90s, year 1980, year 1999, 80s, year 1993
Place:
corsica
Similarity:
58%
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Just when Lola, 18 years old and transgender, learns that she can finally have surgery, her mother, who is her only financial support, passes away. Abiding by her mother’s last wishes, Lola and her father, who are permanently in conflict and have ...
Style:
road movie, queer cinema
Plot:
lgbt, transgender, teenager, lgbtq, feminism, death of mother, estranged father, rain, rainstorm, father daughter relationship, funeral, beach ...
Place:
belgium
Similarity:
56%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 143 min.
Story:
Paris, in the early 1990s: a group of young activists is desperately tied to finding the cure against an unknown lethal disease. They target the pharmaceutical labs that are retaining potential cures, and multiply direct actions, with the hope of ...
Style:
lgbt cinema, art house, thought provoking, sentimental, disturbing ...
Plot:
gay, aids, gay love, lgbt, gay interest, lgbtq, gay relationship, hospital, gay pride, gay couple, sex scene, protest ...
Time:
90s, year 2017, year 1992, 2000s
Place:
paris france, france, europe, indiana
Similarity:
56%
521
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Fact-based story of a Louisiana priest accused of molesting young parishioners, and of the family of one of his victims, caught between their loyalty to their son and to their Church.
Style:
crying
Plot:
altar boy, childhood sexual abuse, pedophile priest, sexual abuse, little boy, bare chested male, coming of age, youth, child molester, lawsuit, holy communion, christian ...
Time:
80s, year 1982
Place:
louisiana
Similarity:
55%
535
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan, France, Singapore, Philippines, Indonesia, Qatar, USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
In 1987 Tokyo, a quirky and sensitive 11-year-old girl copes with a terminally ill father and stressed-out working mother while encountering various adults dealing with their own struggles.
Style:
crying
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
female protagonist, coming of age, 11 year old girl, family relations, photograph, murder, young girl, friendship, teenager, sick, dream, videotaping ...
Time:
year 1987, 20th century, 80s
Place:
tokyo, japan
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Daisy and Viola are siamese twin sisters on the verge of turning 18 living in the suburbs of Naples. They are blessed with beautiful voices and thanks to their performances at weddings, communions and baptisms, they get the livelihood for the whole ...
Plot:
siamese twins, woman, disability, singer, sea, coming of age, separation, boat, blood, money, sister sister relationship, first communion ...
Place:
southern italy
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
When he first enters the Montpellier Opera House, Victor knows nothing about music. Nor does he know his father, Samuel Rovinski, who is there to conduct Mahler’s 6th symphony. To change the course of his suddenly uncertain future, for Nadia his ...
Style:
realistic, touching, sentimental, emotional, captivating ...
Plot:
coming of age, parents and children, family relations, single parent, bittersweet, teenage boy, father son relationship, orchestra conductor, father son reunion, little boy, boyhood, father ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark, Iceland, France, Sweden
Duration: 143 min.
Story:
In the late 19th century, a young Danish priest travels to a remote part of Iceland to build a church and photograph its people. But the deeper he goes into the unforgiving landscape, the more he strays from his purpose, the mission and morality.
Plot:
priest, journey, male nudity, missionary, photographer, death, nordic, bare chested male, volcanic eruption, guide, photography, cultural conflict ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
iceland
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Three 'Bukowskian' torrid nights in the life of a man in search of love. Harry Voss, 12, is young and naive. Love, for him, is romantic love between princes and princesses demurely kissing each other on the mouth. His father is a hero who ...
Style:
sexual, controversial, art house, disturbing, semi serious ...
Plot:
coming of age, male masturbation, teenage sexuality, male bonding, loser, peeping, necrophiliac, necrophilia, sexual assault, voyeurism, outcast, art ...
Time:
80s, 1950s, 70s, 60s, 50s
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama
Country: China, France
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
In a small seaside town, two schoolgirls are assaulted by a middle-aged man in a motel. Mia, a teenager who was working on reception that night, is the only witness. For fear of losing her job, she says nothing. Meanwhile, 12-year-old Wen, one of ...
Style:
political
Plot:
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Place:
china, sarajevo
Similarity:
49%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Karol is a newcomer to the class and instantly called "sissy". He tries to make friends with class bully called Balon, and eventually succeeds. The group uses him to steal lollipops and later for an assault on a small child. The ...
Plot:
coming of age, bullying, little boy, boy, 11 year old boy, youth, traumatic childhood, boxing match, school, river, boy with glasses, teacher ...
Place:
eastern europe
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Anna happily lives with her husband, their two boys, and Simon, 6 years-old, who was placed with her by the Social Care services when he was only 18 months. When Simon’s father decides that he is ready to take his son back with him, the family’s ...
Style:
witty, captivating, dramatic, entertaining
Plot:
brother brother relationship, judge, father son relationship, church, dancing, ping pong, holiday, christmas, birthday party, birthday, foster home, foster child ...
Place:
france
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Drama
Country: Croatia, Brazil, USA, Slovenia
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A teenage girl decides to replace her controlling father with his wealthy foreign friend during a weekend trip to the Adriatic Sea.
Style:
disturbing, suspense, psychological, captivating
Plot:
teenage girl, coming of age, friend, family problems, teenager, relationship problems, control, parents and children, father, grownups, father daughter conflict, diving ...
Similarity:
40%
289
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Agostino is a 1962 Italian drama film directed by Mauro Bolognini. It was filmed in Rome and Venice. The film is based on a successful short novel of the same name by Alberto Moravia, who had collaborated with Bolognini on his previous film, From a ...
Style:
psycho sexual
Plot:
young boy, overprotective mother, coming of age, young mother, teenage boy, boy, bullying, mother child relationship, beach, nude boy, young widow, gay interest ...
Place:
italy, venice
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration: 72 min.
Story:
When Nora witnesses Abel being bullied by other kids, she rushes to protect him by warning their father. But Abel forces her to remain silent. Caught in a conflict of loyalty, Nora will ultimately try to find her place, torn between children's ...
Style:
social, crying
Plot:
bullying, school, bully, swimming pool, little girl, little boy, gymnastics, cruelty, chaos, european, woman, elementary school ...
Place:
france
Similarity:
38%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Cuba, Spain, Venezuela
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The "edad de la peseta" or silly age is the term used in Cuba for the pre-adolescent period from the age of seven to the age of eleven. Set in 1958 in Havana, the year that culminates the Revolution, ten-year-old Samuel has just arrived in ...
Style:
psychological
Plot:
peeping, young boy, boy, family relations, coming of age, teenager, family problems, grandparent and grandchild, lifestyle, family life, grandmother, revolution ...
Time:
1950s, 50s
Place:
cuba
Similarity:
37%
797
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel, Germany, France, Japan
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Set in mid-70's, 12-year old Dvir Avni navigates between the equality values of his home-born Kibbutz and the relationship with his undermined mother, whom the Kibbutz members will to denounce.
Style:
disturbing, serious, emotional, sincere, realistic ...
Plot:
youth, suicide, teenage crush, coming of age, escape from reality, dysfunctional family, grownups, society, social misfits, family problems, family relations, parents and children ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1974
Place:
israel, middle east
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Felice returns to his native Rione Sanità in Naples to look after his dying mother, having lived abroad for the last forty years. Here he discovers that his old friend Oreste has become a notorious crimeboss.
Style:
iconic
Plot:
back in hometown, past, friend, city, mother son reunion, church, life, catholic priest, catacomb, death, mafia, photograph ...
Time:
70s, 2010s
Place:
naples italy, italy, cairo egypt
Similarity:
37%
276
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Portugal
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Gabriel and Iris head back to their family holiday home in Portugal with their daughters Emma and Zoé, a couple of adorable six-year-old twins, for a vacation. In the heart of the sun-drenched countryside, as the little ones swim and laugh, the ...
Plot:
secret, death, vacation, identical twins, grief, revelation, nudity, swinger, twin sister, dancing, surgery, river ...
Place:
portugal
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Nothing gets by Simone, even though she's blind. An adorable, incredibly precocious ten-year-old girl, Simone sets herself the task of coping with (and sometimes manipulating) the many offbeat charact... read more ers that surround her- ...
Style:
whimsical
Plot:
father daughter relationship, child protagonist, small village, island, bittersweet, resilience, village life, social satire, surrogate mother, coming of age, crisis of faith, artist ...
Place:
quebec
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
The poignant struggle of a man to grant his terminally ill son three wishes - and the obstacles cast in his way of achieving this goal.
Style:
independent film, juvenile, crying
Plot:
family abandonment, photograph, young boy, tram, separation, husband wife relationship, bare chested male, taxi, single father, medical profession, tragedy, night ...
Place:
adelaide south australia, australia, south australia
Similarity:
36%
508
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Joseph learns that his son and his companion have just perished in an accident. They were expecting a child via a surrogate mother in Belgium. What will become of their future baby? Is Joseph the legitimate grandfather? Carried by the promise of ...
Plot:
surrogate mother, gay subtext, lgbt, excavation, lawyer, newborn baby, looking for someone, funeral, childbirth, car, death of son, cycling ...
Similarity:
36%
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