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Just Henry (2011)
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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, touching, serious, realistic, period drama
Plot:
family relations, murder, parents and children, teenage life, coming of age, teenage love, youth, family life, bittersweet, death, father son relationship, world war two
Time:
20th century, 1940s, 40s
Place:
england, europe
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Most similar movies to Just Henry
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, touching, serious and sentimental films with plots about youth, family relations, coming of age, parents and children, teenage life, bittersweet and love and romance mostly in Drama, Adventure and Fantasy genres. Some movies like Just Henry: Of Boys and Men (2008), A Year in My Life (2006), Promise Me Tomorrow (2006), Exodus Fall (2011), Lebanon, Pa. (2010). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Robert Townsend stars as the patriarch of a family devastated when his wife is killed in a senseless auto accident. Reeling with grief, each family member must find courage and vision to carry on, ultimately eager to do the mother proud.
Style:
realistic, sentimental, psychological, captivating, independent film ...
Plot:
family relations, family life, parents and children, family in crisis, youth, car accident, grief, accidental death, society, love, dealing with death, coming of age ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, chicago
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
In 1950s France, a young boy is taken in by a couple after spending a few months in the care of social service.
Style:
touching, sentimental, captivating, sincere, realistic ...
Plot:
orphan, youth, adoption, friendship, family relations, foster parent, foster child, mother son relationship, foster home, father son relationship, family life, parents and children ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
In the vein of Good Will Hunting and Garden State, POPE DREAMS is a coming of age tale about a young man at a crossroads in life. Filled with heart, music, life, and loss. And a set of drums. Oh, and the Pope. POPE DREAMS is about a directionless ...
Style:
realistic, touching, sentimental, psychological, independent film ...
Plot:
terminal illness, hopes, follow your dream, parents and children, family relations, young lovers, coming of age, teenage life, unfulfillment, human nature, mother son relationship, death ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, los angeles
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Set in 1974 Texas, three teen siblings struggle with the death of their father and try to live with their abusive mother. When one of the teens is sent away because the mother can't cope with his autism, the teens embark on a life changing road ...
Style:
sentimental, serious, realistic, captivating, sincere ...
Plot:
autism, road trip, dysfunctional family, family problems, on the road, youth, family relations, escapades, self discovery, obsessive quest, death in the family, teenage life ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
usa, texas
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Will, a charming 35-year-old Philadelphia ad man, heads to Lebanon, Pa. to bury his recently deceased father. He forms an unexpected friendship with CJ, his bright, newly pregnant 17-year-old cousin. As Will becomes interested in CJ's married ...
Style:
realistic, sentimental, psychological, captivating, independent film ...
Plot:
family relations, culture clash, love and romance, society, pregnancy, youth, hopes, coming of age, road not taken, small town, wooing, bittersweet ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
pennsylvania, usa, philadelphia
Similarity:
100%
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:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Between the years 1950-51 close to 130 thousand Jews left Iraq. The most ancient community in the world ceased to exist.
Style:
touching, serious, realistic, sentimental
Plot:
culture clash, teenage life, parents and children, religions or cults, family relations, love and romance, immigrant, political unrest, teenage love, youth, family problems, family life ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, 50s
Place:
iraq, israel
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A young boy who lives in an old folks' home strikes up a friendship with a retired magician.
Style:
touching, emotional, depressing, sentimental, realistic ...
Plot:
coming of age, friendship, youth, loneliness, character study, aging, retirement home, justice, adolescence, reconciliation, elderly, magic ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, year 2008
Place:
england, europe, ireland, california
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Inspired by the life of Jacqui Jackson. Helena Bonham Carter stars as Maggi, a mother with seven children - three 'normal' daughters and four sons who are each, in one form or another, autistic.
Style:
realistic, touching, sentimental, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
autism, motherhood, human spirit, family life, mentally challenged, child illness, hopes, parents and children, family problems, single parent, siblings relations, small town ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
england
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A haunting ghost story spanning two worlds, two centuries apart. When 13 year old Tolly finds he can mysteriously travel between the two, he begins an adventure that unlocks family secrets laid buried for generations.
Style:
serious, period piece, exciting, touching, captivating ...
Audience:
kids, teens
Plot:
time travel, estate, supernatural, ghost story, world war two, haunted house, brother sister relationship, youth, grandmother grandson relationship, ghost, missing person, superhuman powers ...
Time:
1940s, 19th century, 20th century
Place:
england, london
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Girls growing up in 1960-61 London develop a passion for Tottenham Hotspur Football Club, the first British team in the 20th century to win the English league and FA Cup "double". Twenty years later, one of the girls tracks down players of ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous, touching, feel good ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
soccer, football, bridesmaid, female teacher, boarding school, best friend, social relations, sport team, obsession, youth, coming of age, innocence lost ...
Time:
80s, 60s, 20th century
Place:
england, london
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Spain, France, UK
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
A fourteen year old lad discovers his first love at the point of his pencil whilst drawing the portrait of a sickly but coquettish fifteen year old girl. In the neighbourhood an old freedom-fighter pits himself against bad types, a pretty ...
Style:
sentimental, touching, serious, captivating, neo noir ...
Plot:
murder, resistance, undercover, teenage love, family relations, love and romance, youth, teenage life, parents and children, coming of age, bittersweet, infatuation ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, post world war two
Place:
catalonia, barcelona, spain, china
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
The Thomsons - parents Thomas and Francie, and children Willa, Arthur, Beatrice (nicknamed Booky) and Jakey - are a loving working class family living in the Depression era in Toronto. Arthur is showing aptitude in drawing, and although his parents ...
Style:
sentimental, feel good, sincere, touching, realistic ...
Audience:
family outing, girls' night
Plot:
youth, family relations, teenage love, teenage life, society, love and romance, family life, parents and children, working class, coming of age, first love, child ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century
Place:
canada, toronto ontario canada
Similarity:
25%
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:
25%
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:
25%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A quirky coming of age story about an 11-year-old boy named Redwood who dreams that if he can beat Jack Nicklaus at the 1975 Master's of golf he'll reunite his parents.
Style:
touching, serious, realistic, sincere, gloomy
Plot:
youth, golf, hopes, coming of age, teenage life, life turned upside down, disorder, family relations, daydreamer, misfit, parents and children, estrangement ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
california, usa, canada
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Norway, Netherlands
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
Epic story about two families and their friendship and common destiny in Sweden's Gothenburg in the 1940s and 1950s. Told from the perspective of young Simon Larsson, who learns that he's an adopted child who has a Jewish father from ...
Style:
realistic, tense, touching, psychological, contemplative ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
coming of age, world war two, boy, youth, family relations, friendship, society, culture clash, working class, german history, aftermath, nordic ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, post world war two, 50s
Place:
europe, eastern europe
Similarity:
24%
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:
24%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
The difficulties two sisters face raising their teenage daughters
Style:
realistic, captivating, sentimental, psychological, serious
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
family problems, coming of age, family relations, teenage life, family life, youth, obsession, hidden truth, parents and children, single parent, sisters, teenager ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
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Story:
Set in post-war Britain, ten year-old Lewis Aldridge is grief-stricken as he struggles to cope with the death of his beloved mother. Left under the care of his emotionally distant father Gilbert, whom he barely knows and who quickly remarries, Lewis ...
Style:
touching, captivating, atmospheric, serious, gloomy ...
Plot:
friendship, family problems, teenage life, youth, estrangement, death of mother, parent child relationship, love, father son relationship, friends, dealing with death, death in the family ...
Time:
20th century, 50s, post world war two
Place:
england
Similarity:
23%
366
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, Hungary, Czech Republic
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
After World War II, Anita, a young survivor of Auschwitz, becomes involved in an intense and passionate affair that almost shatters her until she gains the strength to start a new life.
Style:
realistic, psychological, captivating, sentimental, gloomy ...
Plot:
starting over, love affair, haunted by the past, auschwitz, adoption, youth, small town, hopes, family relations, self discovery, post war, world war two ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s
Place:
czech republic
Similarity:
23%
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:
22%
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 ...
Style:
touching, sincere, emotional, serious, realistic
Plot:
teenage life, follow your dream, ambition, athlete's life, lifestyle, single parent, hopes, parents and children, family relations, youth, athlete and trainer, family problems ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, rome italy, italy
Similarity:
21%
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Strawberry Fields is the story of two sisters who both like the same man but in different ways and is a bold and inventive melodrama that offers a distinctively refreshing spin on a complex story of lust, rivalry and liberation. A seemingly carefree ...
Style:
realistic, sentimental, serious, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
rivalry, family relations, siblings relations, coming of age, love and romance, youth, countryside, farm, love triangle, fall in love, innocence lost, mind game ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england
Similarity:
21%
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:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Drama about a family torn apart after the death of its patriarch. Haunted by their father's death, Jack and Elyssa have a fraught relationship with their remarried mother even now they have come of age.
Style:
emotional, contemplative, realistic, touching, psychological ...
Plot:
family relations, family problems, death in the family, parents and children, dysfunctional family, unfulfillment, estrangement, family gatherings, brother brother relationship, coming of age, family business, elderly lovers ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Netherlands, Belgium
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Kiek is worried as her father works in a war zone. To lengthen the odds of her father getting hurt, she comes up with a strange and unique idea: she needs a dead dog and a dead mouse, because Kiek doesn't know one person who has a dead mouse, a ...
Style:
humorous, sentimental, captivating, light, sincere ...
Audience:
family outing, kids
Plot:
parents and children, family relations, youth, obsession, death, family life, family problems, stop motion, coming of age, family
Time:
21st century
Place:
holland, europe
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Two teenage girls must come to terms with their stepfather when their mother is struck by illness.
Style:
touching, sentimental, sincere, emotional, contemplative ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
teenage girl, single mother, family relations, teenage love, teenage life, love and romance, human nature, youth, family problems, couples, estrangement, terminal illness ...
Time:
80s
Place:
georgia, new york, usa
Similarity:
21%
95
Genre: Drama
Country: Slovenia
Duration: 71 min.
Story:
After a long separation, a father and his son spend the day fishing on the river bank. On a beautiful autumn Sunday, surrounded by the majestic countryside, they seem to be alone in the world. They must start all over again.
Style:
sincere, atmospheric, realistic, serious, stylized ...
Plot:
family relations, youth, parent child relationship, parents and children, countryside, father son relationship, nature, kids and family, father and son, separated parents, father, river ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe
Similarity:
21%
2K
Genre: Drama
Country: Bulgaria
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
While hitchhiking from Sofia to Ruse, Kamen meets Avé, a 17-year-old runaway girl. With each ride they hitch, Avé invents new identities for them, and her compulsive lies get Kamen deeper and deeper into trouble. Reluctantly drawn into this ...
Style:
road movie, captivating, realistic, serious, psychological ...
Plot:
coming of age, hitchhiking, journey, teenage life, leaving home, fall in love, rebelliousness, youth, travel, girl, camping, resistance ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
bulgaria, europe
Similarity:
21%
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