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Black Ocean (2010)
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Original name: Noir océan
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, Germany, France
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Though its aftertitles detailing the history of French nuke experiments suggest otherwise, writer/director Marion Hänsel’s Black Ocean is not a political treatise or a history lesson, instead taking advantage of the remote, isolated environments in which the experimentation took place – as well as the monumental imagery of the act itself – in order to communicate a more universal story about the power of awe. Ocean principally follows three young sailors on a French naval vessel in 1972, who are on course for an unknown destination in order to help carry out the bomb tests they’ve yet to personally witness. The film is essentially divided into two parts: before and after the blast.
Style:
atmospheric, captivating, realistic, serious, sincere, emotional, gloomy
Plot:
friendship, military life, ship, soldier, partner, power relations, crew, nuclear, nuclear testing, gay subtext, ocean, military, youth, friends, coming of age, innocence lost, buddies, adolescence vs adulthood, dog, sailor, fishing, boy, card playing, gas mask, young ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
france, europe, pacific ocean
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, captivating and emotional films with plots about friendship, friends, youth, coming of age, family relations, society and boy mostly in Drama and War genres. Some movies like Black Ocean: September (2007), Being 14 (2015), The Moon Child (2011), Lucky Life (2010), The Last Summer (2007). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
The friendship of two 15-year-old boys – one black, one white – begins to fall apart under the stress of a changing world.
Style:
serious, sincere, captivating, emotional, realistic ...
Plot:
farm, friendship, teenage life, social relations, social differences, family relations, youth, love and romance, coming of age, friends, interracial relations, boy ...
Time:
20th century, 60s
Place:
australia
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211
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
The lives and turbulent adventures of a bunch of fourteen-year-old teenagers, through the eyes of three young girls - Sarah, Jade and Louise - with one last year to go before high school.
Style:
realistic, emotional, atmospheric, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
friendship, teenage life, coming of age, drug abuse, youth, sexuality, self discovery, college, best friend, strong female presence, life is a bitch, high school life ...
Time:
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Place:
france
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
David, a professor of dermatology, has been treating 13-year-old Romain since he was a baby. Afflicted with a rare skin condition, Romain must avoid sunlight and is condemned to live in the shade. David and Romain have become the closest of friends ...
Style:
realistic, serious, sincere, emotional, contemplative ...
Plot:
friendship, life is a bitch, doctors and patients, friends, power relations, child illness, terminal illness, hospital, teenage boy, man boy relationship, genetics, skin disease ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A group of friends travels to the beach to encourage Jason, recently diagnosed with terminal cancer. The journey is rooted in nostalgia and desire for a meaningful farewell, although the friends avoid the subject of Jason's illness. Some time ...
Style:
sentimental, serious, emotional, atmospheric, captivating ...
Plot:
friendship, youth, buddies, terminal illness, life is a bitch, haunted by the past, friends, dealing with death, fighting illness, illness, relationship problems, travel ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
30%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Four good friends, all seventeen-year old, lose their innocence during their last summer together. Flanders 1996. Rik, Tim, Roel and Bart aimlessly wile away the summer days in a small village where nothing exciting ever happens. When Rik becomes ...
Style:
realistic, serious, emotional, sincere
Plot:
coming of age, friendship, teenage life, rivalry, youth, lifestyle, buddies, domestic disturbance, intrigue, family relations, parents and children, summer ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
belgium, europe
Similarity:
29%
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:
29%
4K
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, Turkey
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Establishing a bleak village in Eastern Turkey as its setting, Sivas features the story of Aslan, an eleven-year-old boy, and Sivas, a weathered fighting dog who develop a strong relationship after Aslan finds Sivas wounded in a ditch, left to die.
Style:
serious, sincere, touching, captivating, gloomy ...
Plot:
friendship, parents and children, dog, danger, life is a bitch, society, coming of age, child, boy, little boy, pets, family relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
turkey
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland, UK, Belgium, France
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
After experiencing a tragedy, Irish brothers Dara and Eoin move to rural France, where they become friends with young Bella, whose beauty and charm bewitches the emotionally unstable Dara.
Style:
atmospheric, serious, realistic, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
coming of age, obsession, youth, family relations, teenage love, love and romance, unfulfillment, couples, friendship, society, problem child, arson ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe, ireland
Similarity:
29%
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934
Genre: Drama
Country: Slovenia
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Three friends embark on a road trip like in high school, but things have changed - Gregor is going to war mission, Ziva is going to study abroad, while Andrej is still the same. There are secrets left unsaid. Can their friendship survive?
Style:
emotional, realistic, road movie, captivating, atmospheric ...
Plot:
adolescence vs adulthood, friendship, journey, love triangle, on the road, coming of age, youth, nomad, lesbian, lgbt, picnic, love and romance ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
slovenia
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands, Belgium, Indonesia
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Johan Ten Berghe joins the Dutch army when the Dutch East Indies unilaterally declare independence as Indonesia. He initiates his naive driver Twan in life in the East, having grown up there as son of colonial official Hendrik, now missing. Their ...
Style:
non-linear, captivating, serious, realistic, emotional ...
Plot:
loyalty, male bonding, best friend, war, rivalry, rebellion, soldier, society, military, friends, revolution, culture clash ...
Time:
20th century, 1930s, 1940s
Place:
asia, indonesia
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
August in Paris' suburbs, seven friends are gathered to spend a week in the city where they grew up. The city is empty and the days pass by under a deep blue sky. Each of them has a reason to be there: some still live there, some come back to ...
Style:
realistic, atmospheric, sentimental, serious, contemplative ...
Plot:
young lovers, love and romance, family relations, suburbs, friendship, parents and children, youth, adolescence vs adulthood, twentysomething life, friends, homecoming, lifestyle ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Smadar (Smadar Sayar) and Mirit (Naama Schendar), both 18 years old, are assigned to patrol the streets of Jerusalem together as part of their military service. Worlds apart in their personality their initial frosty relationship changes to ...
Style:
sincere, serious, realistic, suspense
Plot:
politics, soldier, military life, friendship, terrorism, women, danger, israeli, third world, lgbt, lgbtq, glbt ...
Place:
israel, middle east, jerusalem, palestine
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
A young boy who worships all things American comes of age in Orleans, where over 14,000 American GIs were stationed.
Style:
gloomy, touching, atmospheric, emotional, realistic ...
Plot:
age difference, jazz, world war two, teaching the ways of the world, rock, village, teenage life, fall in love, friendship, experimenting, friends, family relations ...
Time:
20th century, post world war two
Place:
europe, france
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama
Country: Romania, France
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Bucharest 1989 - the last year of Ceausecu's dictatorship. Eva lives with her parents and her 7 year old brother, Lalalilu. One day at school, Eva and her boyfriend accidentally break a bust of Ceausescu. They are forced to confess their crime ...
Style:
captivating, sentimental, sincere, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
youth, friendship, hopes, warning, coming of age, rebelliousness, human spirit, exile, siblings relations, reform, family relations, totalitarian regime ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
romania, eastern europe, europe
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Not Waving But Drowning is a chronological look at growing up, formed from two different stories. The two sets of friends represent the American dilemma between what you have known and what you hope to know; the tear between longing for the past and ...
Style:
realistic, psychological, atmospheric, touching, independent film ...
Plot:
friendship, self discovery, adolescence vs adulthood, starting over, female friendship, coming of age, personal growth, character study, society, couples, small town, identity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, France
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Andreas Dresen's adaptation of Clemens Meyer's novel about a group of East German friends right after the fall of the Wall.
Style:
realistic, serious, captivating, disturbing, sincere ...
Plot:
friends, unfulfillment, teenage boy, nightlife, lifestyle, freedom, coming of age, little boy, subculture, techno, stasi, berlin wall ...
Time:
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Place:
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544
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
sincere, serious, touching, emotional, realistic ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
maryland, usa
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26%
262
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Helen, Rose and Lili have survived the Holocaust and have never seen each other since the war has ended. In 1960, they meet again in Berck, France. They learn to enjoy together simple pleasures in life: nice meals, ballads on the beach, playing in ...
Style:
realistic, serious, emotional, touching, captivating ...
Plot:
auschwitz, starting over, haunted by the past, friendship, hopes, human spirit, girlfriend, reunited friends, girlfriend girlfriend relationship, post war, lifestyle, age-gap relationship ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, 50s, 60s
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
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260
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, France, Switzerland
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A teenage girl helps an escaped fugitive flee Germany into France, after extracting a promise that he will help her commit suicide.
Style:
realistic, psychological, suspense, atmospheric, captivating ...
Plot:
partner, on the run, fugitives, on the road, misfit partners, unfulfillment, dealing with death, escaped prisoner, police, friendship, trust, deal ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, germany, marseille, europe
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel, USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Based on the novel "Panther in the Basement" by the world-renowned author, Amos Oz, the movie takes place in Palestine in 1947, just a few months before Israel becomes a state. Proffy Liebowitz, a militant yet sensitive eleven year old ...
Style:
realistic, thought provoking, sentimental, touching, emotional ...
Plot:
friendship, rebellion, british military, military, friends, state affairs, soldier, youth, coming of age, child protagonist, man boy relationship, boy ...
Time:
20th century, year 1947, 1940s, year 1977
Place:
middle east, israel, palestine, jerusalem, london
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 67 min.
Story:
Two young boys, Victor and Rainer, take the commuter train to spend the evening in Paris. In a nightclub on the banks of the Seine they go from one disappointment to another, from failed chat ups to street brawls. But as they get carried away by the ...
Style:
serious, sincere, realistic, exciting, melancholic ...
Plot:
friendship, teenage life, friends, buddies, lifestyle, city life, on the road, lgbt, teenager, gay bar, gay interest, best friend ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe, paris france
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama
Country: Iraq, UK, France, Netherlands, United Arab Emirates, Egypt
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A willful young boy follows his just as obstinate grandmother in a journey across Iraq, determined to discover the fate of her missing son, Ahmed's father, who never returned from war.
Style:
captivating, emotional, atmospheric, touching, independent film ...
Plot:
hopes, desert, human spirit, escapades, youth, adolescence vs adulthood, political unrest, family relations, arab, boy, international relations, battlefield ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
middle east, iraq, kurdistan
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama
Country: India, France
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A collegian in turbulent Mumbai attempts to improve his lifestyle.
Style:
captivating, serious, realistic, sincere, contemplative ...
Plot:
coming of age, follow your dream, rich and poor, working class, society, youth, hopes, state affairs, parents and children, political unrest, social differences, family relations ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
asia, india, bombay india
Similarity:
23%
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Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Armed with dreams that extend beyond their block, Luis and Ronald, two best friends from Los Angeles, videotape their last 36 hours before shipping off to Afghanistan. One hundred days before Obama's inauguration, these young men have joined ...
Style:
serious, contemplative, sincere, non-linear, realistic ...
Plot:
military, society, soldier, friends, friendship, military life, manhood, youth, introspection, hopes, adolescence vs adulthood, buddies ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
middle east, california, afghanistan, usa, los angeles
Similarity:
23%
337
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
March 22, 2067. At dawn of life, Milana remembers her life, when she was a young Chechen immigrant in Paris, struggling for a better life along with her school friends.
Style:
emotional, serious, thought provoking, touching, social ...
Plot:
immigrant, friendship, family relations, parents and children, fighting the system, youth, rebellion, society, deportation, illegal immigrant, teenager, school ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe, paris france
Similarity:
22%
452
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico, France, Poland, Germany
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Ceci, a seven year old girl, has to keep a huge secret, but she doesn't completely understand what is the secret about. The life of her family depends on her silence. But what exactly must she keep silent about? Ceci and her mom live hidden ...
Style:
serious, sentimental, emotional, touching, contemplative ...
Plot:
school, dictatorship, little girl, secret, military, rebelliousness, family in danger, parents and children, political unrest, repression, family relations, dishonesty ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
argentina, latin america
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
During a long hot summer in the 1970s, four boys roam free through a neglected rural paradise, until a tragedy strikes that sets them against the adult world and changes their lives forever.
Style:
serious, sincere, touching, captivating, realistic ...
Plot:
friendship, tragedy, coming of age, brother brother relationship, death, summer, boy, friendship between boys, love triangle, death of mother, social services, dog ...
Time:
70s
Similarity:
21%
659
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Incarcerated women join a band of volunteers who battle forest fires and assist during natural disasters.
Style:
realistic, emotional, serious, touching, sincere ...
Plot:
redemption, youth, power relations, juvenile delinquency, human spirit, hopes, society, fire brigade, friendship, rivalry, friend, troubled youth ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
“Congratulations, you’re pregnant!” Lara can hardly believe what the doctor has just told her. The 25-year-old spends her nights hanging around Berlin with best friend Nora, having lost interest in her architectural studies long ago. She has ...
Style:
sexy, captivating, serious, touching, emotional ...
Plot:
friendship, life turned upside down, adolescence vs adulthood, pregnancy, life lesson, female friendship, tragedy, party girl, coming of age, best friend, nudity, strong female presence ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
germany
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Bilal is 17 years old, a Kurdish boy from Iraq. He sets off on an adventure-filled journey across Europe. He wants to get to England to see his love who lives there. Bilal finally reaches Calais, but how do you cover 32 kilometers of the English ...
Style:
sincere, touching, serious, uplifting, atmospheric ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, kurd, swimming, obsessive quest, self discovery, family disapproval, adolescence vs adulthood, friendship, misfit, hopes, bittersweet, migration ...
Time:
year 2009, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
france, english channel, london, england, iraq
Similarity:
21%
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