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James the Second (2025)
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
The story of a teenage boy who suffers from a rare disorder that prevents him from feeling. We follow the journey of a single mother going through her son's physical and emotional changes.
Style:
exciting, serious, captivating, dramatic, medical drama, heartfelt, realistic, melancholic
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
boy, mother son relationship, connection, coming of age, love, teenager, teenage love, relationships, teenage girl, adolescent girl, parents and children, grownups, teenage life, teenage boy, adolescence, boys and girls, teenage protagonist, boy girl relationship, teenage son, adolescent boy, first love, motherhood, acceptance, single parent, character study ...
Time:
2020s, contemporary
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, realistic, melancholic and serious films with plots about coming of age, teenager, teenage life, adolescence, bittersweet, intimate and teenage protagonist mostly in Drama, Thriller and Comedy genres. Some movies like James the Second: Deadlock (2018), Virgin (2022), Everything and Nothing (2019), Everything in Between (2022), The Red Thread (2008). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 60 min.
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Story:
Explore the incredible highs, lows, joys, heartbreak, camaraderie, laughs and bittersweet sorrow that make up a teenager's life. A clandestine 'tunnel party' in the depths of the hinterland in northern NSW draws kids from all over the ...
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Indonesia
Duration: 52 min.
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When the popular girl at school mysteriously dies, a schoolmate asks her friends’ help to create a documentary as a way into her dream school.
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
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“We are neither kids nor adults. When do we become adults then?” Min Jae and Seo Yeon are no different from ordinary 17-year-old high school students. Min Jae is silent and sensitive, yet a good student. Seo Yeon who plays the piano wished to ...
Style:
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Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
adolescence, high school, school, mother son relationship, mother daughter relationship, personal growth, friendship, youth, coming of age, high school life, grownups, teenager ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
south korea
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31%
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
captivating, psychological, thrilling, melancholic, existential ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Mei has been in love with Yuya all her life. They've grown up together. But when they reach their second year of middle school, Yuya suddenly professes his love for her older sister, Haruna.
Style:
psychological, captivating, romantic drama, melancholic, teen ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
adolescence, grownups, friendship, couple relations, teen romance, teenage life, coming of age, young love, unrequited love, romantic relationship, relationships, male female relationship ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands, Belgium
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
As Brian cares for his severely mentally disabled brother over a sweltering summer holiday he is forced to grow up, and finds unexpected love and affection.
Style:
captivating, psychological, thrilling, emotional, realistic ...
Plot:
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26%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A teenage boy's infatuation with a woman he sees on the bus further complicates his already tumultuous adolescence.
Style:
psychological, sentimental, captivating, realistic
Plot:
high school life, coming of age, family relations, fall in love, divorce, husband wife conflict, brother brother relationship, teenage life, society, friendship, friends, love affair ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york
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26%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A bright and determined teen who has mild cerebral palsy strives to be a wrestler on his high school's team and to win over the heart of a classmate, the girl of his dreams.
Style:
inspirational, dramatic, serious, exciting, captivating ...
Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, Switzerland
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Aïcha is a troubled teenage girl who cannot forgive her mother for kicking out the stepfather she adored. Aïcha longs for him to come back and take her away. When she meets Baz, a man twice her age, it’s love at first sight for her; the real ...
Style:
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Plot:
mother daughter relationship, teenager, adolescence, romantic obsession, teenage girl, family conflict, infatuation, obsession, relationships, love, teenage life, teenage love ...
Place:
quebec
Similarity:
26%
279
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Antoine, 13, spends the summer vacation with his parents in a rented cottage on an island in the middle of the Saint-Lawrence River. His neighbour, 17-year-old Anna, is an enigmatic and lively young woman. Antoine begins to experience the first ...
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, captivating
Plot:
coming of age, sexual awakening, youth, teenage life, teenage love, family relations, parents and children, bittersweet, teenage boy, teenage girl, nude young male, nudity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Keeping to himself in the wake his father's death, James Charm finds refuge in solitary walks and creating morbid sketches — until a charismatic new friend and a quirky young woman begin to draw him out of his shell.
Style:
realistic, serious, sentimental, touching, independent film ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
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Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
The story follows teenager Jack Benson, who is on the hunt for his birth mother. He finds she has been a regular all along at the nearby Griddle House.
Style:
disturbing, captivating, suspense, independent film, heartfelt ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
search for mother, teenager, diner, adolescence, mother son relationship, social problems, parents and children, teenage life, family problems, grownups, espionage, hidden identity ...
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Set in early-2000s SoCal, Smoking Tigers follows a Korean American girl as she navigates derision and growing tensions while balancing the duality of her low-income family and wealthy, elite high school environment.
Style:
captivating, dramatic, exciting, serious, bilingual
Plot:
teenage girl, korean american, family relations, adolescent girl, teenager, friend, family problems, teenage life, group of friends, teenage protagonist, adolescence, friends ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
southern california, los angeles
Similarity:
23%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Palo Alto weaves together three stories of teenage lust, boredom, and self-destruction: shy, sensitive April, torn between an illicit flirtation with her soccer coach and an unrequited crush on sweet stoner Teddy; Emily, who offers sexual favors to ...
Style:
atmospheric, melancholic, teen, realistic, serious ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, adolescence, older man younger woman relationship, teenage life, youth, teenager, teenage girl, crush, loneliness, high school life, high school, unfulfillment ...
Time:
year 2013, 21st century
Place:
california, palo alto california, britain, usa, new jersey
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
14-year-old Leigh lives with her neglectful father on the outskirts of Brighton. She’s a talented gymnast, training hard for her first competition. When an older half-brother appears at her house one night, Leigh’s lonely existence is altered.
Style:
dramatic, serious, exciting, captivating, independent film ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
youth, teenager, gymnastics, sibling relationship, coming of age, female protagonist, brother sister relationship, gymnast, brother, teenage life, grownups, teenage girl ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
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Style:
psychological, disturbing, captivating, emotional, realistic ...
Plot:
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Country: Belgium, France, Switzerland
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Country: Latvia
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
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Style:
serious, realistic, touching, captivating, entertaining
Audience:
teens
Plot:
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Time:
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latvia
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21%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
In the 90s, Isabella was eighteen and a star. 20 years later, she is still singing those same songs in small town bars with her son Bruno, playing guitar. It's because of him that her career stopped. At least it's what she tells herself.
Style:
dramatic, exciting, captivating, serious, emotional ...
Plot:
singing, family relations, female singer, pop star, relationships, guitarist, son, parent child relationship, single mother, mother and son, loneliness, coming of age ...
Time:
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Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
The Pregnancy project tells the real story of Gaby Rodriguez, a seventeen-year-old who attended a Washington state high-school and made her senior school project the treatment of pregnant teenagers by pretending to be pregnant.
Style:
touching, sentimental, realistic, serious, independent film ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
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Time:
21st century
Place:
washington d.c., usa
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
Pep, a 13-year-old boy, is in love with a girl from his grandparents village, Sara Amat. One summer night Sara disappears without a trace. After a few hours, Pep finds her hiding in his room. Although Pep knows that the entire town is looking for ...
Style:
psychological, suspense, captivating, romantic drama, emotional ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
double life, escape, coming of age, teenager, young love, first love, grownups, adolescence, love and romance, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, lie, couple relations ...
Similarity:
20%
150
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Country: Germany, Moldova
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Anishoara is a 15 years old girl from a small village in Moldova. Her village is situated in a picturesque valley between rolling hills. Life seems calm but archaic alone with her old grandfather Petru and her little brother Andrei. In summer she ...
Style:
captivating, sincere, disturbing, melancholic
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
adolescence, teenager, village, first love, village life, female protagonist, coming of age, teenage life, teenage girl, teenage love, teen romance, life is a bitch ...
Place:
eastern europe
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Following the death of her father, a 17-year-old girl is sent to live with her estranged family and finds comfort in a questionable friendship with a self-destructive neighbor, leading both on a startling path to self discovery.
Style:
captivating, psychological, thrilling, melancholic, queer cinema
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
self discovery, grief, coming of age, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, estrangement, adolescence, relationships, introspection, female protagonist, teenager, relationship problems, teenage life ...
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20%
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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:
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Place:
france
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 151 min.
Story:
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Style:
emotional, realistic, serious, touching, melancholic ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
teen drama
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Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
Duct tape, electrical cables, trigger, explosives. Sebbe never planned to build a bomb. It just happened. Sebbe is 15 years old and lives with his mother in an apartment that is too narrow. He does his best. He never strikes back. Sebbe loves his ...
Style:
realistic, serious, psychological, captivating, contemplative ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
When a mother returns to her musical roots, she rediscovers the passion of her youth, and finds a way to connect with her troubled youngest son.
Style:
heartfelt, captivating, sincere, realistic, emotional ...
Plot:
mother son relationship, female protagonist, teenage son, family relations, mother, teenager, lifestyle change, musician, relationships, bonding, family drama, self discovery ...
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Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
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Style:
teen, thrilling, captivating, psychological, melancholic
Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
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Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling, romantic drama, realistic ...
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