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Raise Your Head (2009)
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Original name: Alza la testa
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Mero, a skilled shipyard worker, is a single father. His son Lorenzo, born from a relationship with an Albanian girl, is his only reason for living. The father dreams that the boy will become a champion boxer, to make up for his own anonymous career as an amateur in the ring. This is why he puts him through a tough training program, teaching him day after day to throw punches and protect himself from life's low blows. The balance of this relationship is disturbed by the return of Lorenzo's mother Denisa and by the son's meeting with young Ana. Mero's trials are not over and he must face up to pain, his prejudices and the remoteness of Italy's north east.
Style:
sincere, touching, serious, emotional, realistic
Plot:
follow your dream, teenage life, ambition, athlete's life, youth, family relations, parents and children, athlete and trainer, family problems, single parent, lifestyle, hopes, once promising, teenage love, father son relationship, mother son reunion, absent mother, power relations
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
rome italy, italy, europe
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, touching, serious and emotional films with plots about family relations, youth, parents and children, hopes, teenage life, family problems and single parent mostly in Drama, Comedy and Sport genres. Some movies like Raise Your Head: The Dream Kids (2013), The Mighty Celt (2005), Dans les cordes (2007), The Man from Left Field (1993), Suddenly (2006). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
JB suffers from a heart malformation .He falsifies his medical file ,so that he can enter a top athlete training center.
Style:
sincere, touching, captivating, humorous, realistic ...
Plot:
friendship, teenage life, follow your dream, ambition, social relations, hopes, youth, boarding school, athlete's life, lifestyle, friends, contests and competitions ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Centred around greyhound racing in a Catholic community after the "Troubles" have ended but where their legacy remains strong. Donal is a 14-year old who works in a greyhound racing kennel owned by Good Joe. If Donal's favourite ...
Style:
emotional, realistic, sentimental, captivating, touching ...
Plot:
dog, youth, against the odds, friendship, contests and competitions, animal training, family relations, hopes, coming of age, parents and children, animal life, ambition ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
ireland, europe
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: France
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Story about two 18-year-old girls, Angie and Sandra, who want to dedicate themselves to women's professional boxing.
Style:
realistic, touching, serious, suspense
Plot:
female boxer, family relations, friendship, athlete's life, ambition, athlete and trainer, parents and children, hopes, contests and competitions, lifestyle, family life, teenage life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, france
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
After taking a job managing a little league team, a homeless man inspires the kids to reach for it all and they inspire him to reclaim his life.
Style:
uplifting, semi serious, realistic, humorous, feel good ...
Plot:
baseball, youth, baseball coach, memory loss, teenage life, fall in love, parents and children, hollywood, against the odds, adoption, sexual relations, contests and competitions ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
florida
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
The mother and the younger son in a happy family dies in a car-accident. The father and the teenage-son Jonas survives the accident. Now they have to move on with their lives together.
Style:
touching, sincere, serious, emotional, gloomy ...
Plot:
family relations, starting over, single parent, teenage life, family problems, death in the family, youth, introspection, hopes, parents and children, family in crisis, single father ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Drama
Country: Austria
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A drama centered on two men at different states in life: Ertan, an ex-con who is trying to make amends for his past actions and Mikail, a teen-aged drug runner an aspiring musician.
Style:
sincere, realistic, emotional, serious, bleak
Plot:
hidden identity, going straight, follow your dream, ex convict, family relations, hopes, teenage life, juvenile delinquency, parents and children, family problems, youth, estrangement ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
vienna, austria, europe
Similarity:
26%
204
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil, Chile, France
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A daily, familiar, sexual and emotional drama. Based on the character Serginho, the plot is based around various aspects of this "no longer a boy, not yet a man". We follow his day to day: the recently acquired role of man of the house, ...
Style:
emotional, serious, touching, realistic, melancholic ...
Plot:
youth, coming of age, dysfunctional family, teenage life, family problems, family relations, parents and children, child as adult, teachers and students, minimalism, lgbt, everyday life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
brazil
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
When her father, Giancarlo is transferred to Rome from the small country town of Montalto Di Castro, Caterina, a 12 years old girl, will discover her new classmates, a totally new world, an ambient extremely divided politically.
Style:
realistic, semi serious, touching, humorous
Plot:
youth, social differences, fish out of water, friendship, teenage life, politics, lifestyle, human nature, society, hopes, school, city life ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
rome italy, italy, europe
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
After the death of his father, a former football star reunites with the family that he abandoned years earlier.
Style:
realistic, emotional, sentimental, psychological, uplifting ...
Plot:
family relations, redemption, rivalry, death in the family, sport team, athlete's life, last will and testament, estrangement, father son relationship, getting home, sex with brother in law, american football ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, Luxembourg, France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Alex, 15, lives alone with his dad, enduring relentless physical violence, rebelling against everyone. To escape from this daily life, Alex rows on the Meuse river, and has only one obsession: to win the Belgian Singles Championships at any cost. ...
Style:
touching, emotional, sentimental, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
abusive father, follow your dream, teenage life, ambition, hopes, teenage love, rivalry, love and romance, obsession, life is a bitch, youth, contests and competitions ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, belgium
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Australia
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
In the Pakistani tribal village of Darra Adam Khel, a young Pashtun boy Niaz Afridi defies the expectations of his father to continue in the family business making weapons and calls for an education.
Style:
touching, serious, realistic, sincere, inspirational ...
Plot:
youth, coming of age, family relations, follow your dream, parents and children, family business, family problems, single parent, hopes, against the rules, rebelliousness, boy ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
pakistan, afghanistan
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A young father and his two children struggle to find harmony after his wife leaves them for another man.
Style:
serious, realistic, touching, emotional
Plot:
boy, coming of age, family relations, friendship, dysfunctional family, lifestyle, siblings relations, parents and children, youth, single parent, family problems, unfaithful wife ...
Time:
year 2006, 21st century
Place:
italy, europe
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
A Fine Step is an uplifting family drama centering on Cal Masterson (Luke Perry, Beverly Hills 90210) an award winning horseman whose relationship with his beloved horse Fandango allows him to achieve multiple championship wins. However tragedy ...
Style:
sentimental, sincere, captivating, emotional, touching ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
horse, starting over, friendship, contests and competitions, athlete's life, parents and children, ambition, youth, farm, rivalry, family relations, fall in love ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
In a rundown apartment complex in San Francisco's Tenderloin, a septuagenarian seer is waiting for his final message. For decades the eccentric recluse has chronicled the phrases of the Wheel of Fortune and deciphered their hidden meaning - the ...
Style:
serious, emotional, touching, sincere, independent film ...
Plot:
elderly, follow your dream, lifestyle, friendship, family problems, danger, life is a bitch, hopes, buddies, love and romance, poverty, single parent ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
san francisco, usa
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Mitri is 15 years old and lives in a village in Senegal. Like all the youngsters of his age, he plays football, dreaming of the Barcelona and Chelsea Football Clubs. When an agent sees him, Mitri believes in his luck. But, in order to go chasing ...
Style:
realistic, touching, captivating, psychological, serious
Plot:
football, follow your dream, immigrant, hopes, athlete and trainer, athlete's life, life is a bitch, youth, ambition, soccer, desire for fame, disorder ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, africa, europe, paris france
Similarity:
20%
355
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Genie, a Chinese-American teenager, develops feelings for a charming African-American DJ, but her grandmother forbids their romance forcing Genie to choose between family and love.
Style:
sincere, touching, emotional, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
family relations, parents and children, teenage life, immigrant, opposites attract, friends, love and romance, human nature, youth, family life, single parent, introspection ...
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Prompted by horrific nightmares, Henry delves into the mystery of his past and begins to uncover the truth about his father's death, triggering a series of revelations that will change his family forever.
Style:
sentimental, psychological, sincere, captivating, realistic ...
Plot:
family relations, murder, teenage life, coming of age, parents and children, teenage love, family life, youth, bittersweet, death, father son relationship, world war two
Time:
20th century, 1940s
Place:
europe, england
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
A 13-year-old girl in the deprived outskirts of a sprawling Sicilian city becomes a local celebrity to her needy community when word spreads that she just might be able to perform miracles.
Style:
semi serious, captivating, touching, sincere, realistic ...
Plot:
family relations, teenage life, satire, family problems, lifestyle, youth, society, hopes, parents and children, dysfunctional family, suburbs, mother daughter relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
sicily, italy, europe
Similarity:
20%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Claudio works on a site in the suburbs of Rome. He is madly in love with his wife who is pregnant with their third child. However, a dramatic event comes to upset this simple and happy life. In a rage for life, Claudio energetically fights against ...
Style:
sincere, emotional, realistic, serious, captivating ...
Plot:
family in crisis, life is a bitch, working class, lifestyle, society, parents and children, family problems, family relations, husband wife relationship, brother brother relationship, desperation, social differences ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
italy, rome italy, europe
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A strong, human tale about a boy growing up with an alcoholic father, but also an energetic story about teenage lust, pain and passion – about liberation and redemption.
Style:
realistic, serious, emotional, touching, captivating ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
childhood, family relations, coping, parenthood, haunted by the past, teenage life, parents and children, youth, coming of age, orphan, mountain, criminality ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A corrupt politician covers up his daughter Vicky's pregnancy by forcing her to give the baby up for adoption. The newborn is adopted by a loving couple unable to have children, but a year later Vicky, now in college, realizes she was forced ...
Style:
touching, realistic, emotional, serious
Plot:
adoption, courtroom drama, custody, righting the wronged, legal, parents and children, teenage life, family problems, single parent, youth, rivalry, family relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
20%
603
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Rome, early 20th century: a wealthy psychiatrist, who runs an asylum for women and lacks imagination in his practice, must find a wet nurse for his infant when his wife panics after childbirth. He brings a peasant, Annette, to Rome, forcing her to ...
Style:
contemplative, realistic, sincere, psychological, touching ...
Plot:
nanny, dysfunctional family, adoption, politics, power relations, babies and infants, society, master and servant, single parent, love and romance, couples, parents and children ...
Time:
20th century
Place:
europe, rome italy
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Jess Gradwell and her teenage daughter boast a superclose relationship. When it comes to sex, however, Mom won't stand for anything less than premarital celibacy. So she gets a pretty healthy dose of her own medicine when she winds up getting ...
Style:
serious, realistic, touching, emotional, sexual ...
Plot:
single parent, pregnancy, love, moral dilemma, teenage life, youth, society, love and romance, lifestyle, family problems, family life, parents and children ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
nova scotia
Similarity:
19%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A woman and her teenage son move back in with her mother to work together in the family bridal business.
Style:
sentimental, touching, serious, talky, realistic
Audience:
girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
couples, dysfunctional family, parents and children, unlikely couple, hopes, family relations, family problems, teenage life, youth, lifestyle, love and romance, single parent ...
Similarity:
19%
322
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
The movie spotlights an intelligent high school senior and National Merit Scholar (Bryant) who has never been part of the "in crowd." She teaches a high school equivalency night class, tends to the needs of her widower father, Jesse ...
Style:
realistic, serious, sincere, emotional, contemplative ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night, teen drama
Plot:
teenage pregnancy, single parent, small town, coming of age, teenage life, destructive relationship, family relations, couples, parents and children, youth, lifestyle, love and romance ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A mother vows to get justice when her daughter's life is destroyed by a sex video that goes viral.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, touching, realistic, emotional ...
Plot:
high school, high school life, teenage life, righting the wronged, death in the family, siblings relations, parents and children, family problems, family relations, private vs public, social relations, investigation ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Mark is a struggling actor stuck between the life he once knew and the one waiting for him. When the mother of his two-year-old son suddenly passes away, Mark is forced to confront his shortcomings. Their fates, now intertwined, hang in the balance ...
Style:
serious, touching, sincere, realistic, emotional ...
Audience:
toddlers
Plot:
single father, family in crisis, babies and infants, family relations, single parent, family problems, parents and children, life turned upside down, parent child relationship, death in the family, father son relationship, baby ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
19%
159
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Spain, Italy
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Victor, a father, travels the roads with his teenage son, Felix. For Felix, the trip is a school of life, as his first romantic encounter helps him better understand his father and get closer to him.
Style:
road movie, realistic, touching, serious, emotional ...
Plot:
family relations, on the road, parent child relationship, parents and children, hopes, love and romance, single parent, son, father son relationship, teenager, single father, teenage boy ...
Time:
year 2004, 21st century
Place:
europe, france, brittany
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
He can deliver a breathtaking speech on the American soul to flabbergasted schoolboys, get mixed up in the private lives of his citizens, and even get his 18-year-old daughter to swear that never, but never, would she leave home. Meet Simon Wolberg, ...
Style:
sincere, emotional, serious, realistic, touching ...
Plot:
family in crisis, family relations, parents and children, estrangement, family problems, dysfunctional family, family life, hopes, siblings relations, crumbling marriage, unfulfillment, midlife crisis ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Bilal, a Muslim high school senior works at his family's long-owned taxi stand. "The Stand," as they call it, has been the source of all activity and money for the family for the last sixty years. It seems like Bílal is about to ...
Style:
realistic, touching, sincere, sentimental, independent film ...
Plot:
coming of age, self discovery, follow your dream, teenage life, family business, society, youth, hopes, human spirit, workplace, family problems, parents and children ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, detroit
Similarity:
18%
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