Movies like Pellet

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Pellet (2000)
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Pellet (2000)
Original name: El Bola
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 88 min.
Story: El Bola, a 12 year old boy a.k.a. "Pellet" is a 12 year old boy raised in a violent and sordid environment. Embarrassed by his family life, he avoids becoming close to classmates. The arrival of a new boy at school changes his attitude towards his classmates, and friendship. The heart of the story is the change in El Bola's life, at almost all levels, after befriending this new classmate. Written by ElianaM
Style: serious, emotional, realistic, disturbing, touching, social, sincere, depressing, controversial, hispanic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: child abuse, friendship, kids in trouble, abusive father, school, boy, youth, social worker, life is a bitch, self discovery, childhood, parents and children, family life, family problems, teaching the ways of the world, tattoo artist, family relations, coming of age, best friend, taboo, dysfunctional family, traumatic childhood, amusement park, social justice, gender ...
Time: 90s
Place: spain, europe, madrid
Keyword: bruise

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, touching and emotional films with plots about coming of age, youth, family relations, parents and children, boy, friendship and family problems mostly in Drama, Crime and Family genres. Some movies like Pellet: Kauwboy (2012), Abandoned (2001), Camp (2013), Second Best (1994), 7 Virgins (2005). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Kauwboy (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Ten-year-old Jojo lives with his father, a security guard with a volatile personality who drinks to manage the unspoken despair he feels about his wife's absence, which he refuses to discuss with his son. In the midst of so much uncertainty, ...
Style: touching, sincere, serious, melancholic, realistic
Audience: family outing
Plot: parents and children, coming of age, family problems, dysfunctional family, friendship, father son relationship, youth, pets, escape from reality, dishonesty, bird, life & death ...
Time: year 2012, 21st century
Place: holland
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Abandoned (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Áron is a happy child in his family. But at some point things take a different turn, and his mother starts to lose her health rapidly. As this happens, the man in charge decides what's best for Áron without consulting the young boy's ...
Style: uplifting, serious, touching, sincere, art house ...
Plot: corporal punishment, orphan, coming of age, children, male bonding, kids in trouble, life is a bitch, juvenile delinquency, human spirit, friendship, teenage life, boarding school life ...
Time: 60s, year 1960
Place: europe, hungary
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100%
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Camp (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: 12-year-old Eli finds himself at summer CAMP
Style: serious, realistic, emotional, sentimental, christian film ...
Plot: boy, child abuse, summer camp, camp counselor, youth, kids in trouble, friendship, family problems, life is a bitch, hopes, dysfunctional family, parents and children ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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Second Best (1994)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: The difficult relationship between a british postal officer and his adoptive son.
Style: serious, sentimental, touching, emotional, realistic
Plot: orphan, adoption, social worker, man boy relationship, single parent, absent father, coming of age, family problems, parents and children, hopes, family relations, friendship ...
Time: 90s, year 1994
Place: england, europe, wales
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100%
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7 Virgins (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Tano is 16-years-old and is already sitting in jail. In 48 hours he’s a free man and off to the wedding of his brother. In the two days he recounts his neighborhood in a section of Sevilla.
Style: psychological, realistic, serious, captivating
Plot: juvenile delinquent, wedding, friendship, self discovery, juvenile delinquency, teenage life, rebellious youth, society, buddies, youth, family relations, kids in trouble ...
Place: europe, spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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10 1/2 (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Tommy, 10 years old, is well known by Social Services. He is considered a danger to society. Gilles, his guardian at this halfway house, sees potential for redemption in this kid driven by violence.
Style: serious, realistic, captivating
Plot: boy, child abuse, kids in trouble, juvenile delinquent, social worker, life is a bitch, isolation, youth, danger, redemption, coming of age, police ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada, quebec
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12 and Holding (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Three pre-adolescents with virginal and eager-of-signals naivety, hit headlong against monstrous and inhospitable loneliness, in the incandescent fire among the ashes of their own inocence.
Style: touching, realistic, emotional, heartbreaking, sad ...
Plot: teenager, coming of age, friendship, childhood, children, vengeance, dysfunctional family, family relations, loss of son, family problems, family in crisis, parents and children ...
Time: year 2005
Place: new jersey
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100%
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Mirage (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country:
Duration: 107 min.
Story: As Macedonia faces its difficult transition, a boy escapes into a world of his own creation.
Style: realistic, serious, psychological, captivating, art house ...
Plot: youth, coming of age, life is a bitch, friendship, teenage life, kids in trouble, society, betrayal, parents and children, dysfunctional family, family problems, poet ...
Place: macedonia, paris france, france, europe, former yugoslavia ...
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Times and Winds (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 111 min.
Story: In a small, poor village leaning over high rocky mountains, the villagers are simple and diligent people who struggle to cope with a harsh nature. They earn their living off the earth and a few animals they feed. Fathers always prefer one of their ...
Style: psychological, touching, serious, rough, art house ...
Plot: coming of age, solar eclipse, youth, islam, friendship, dream, teenage life, society, introspection, generation gap, family life, children ...
Time: 21st century
Place: poetic realism, turkey
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100%
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In Bloom (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Georgia, Germany, France
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Eka and Natia leave their childhood behind and ignore societal customs to escape from their turbulent family lives.
Style: realistic, emotional, captivating, serious, transgressive ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: coming of age, family relations, adolescence vs adulthood, best friend, civil war, society, life is a bitch, dysfunctional family, youth, teenage life, parents and children, lgbt ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, year 1992
Place: soviet union, georgia, tbilisi, asia, europe ...
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100%
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Bad Hair (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Venezuela, Peru, Argentina, Germany
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A nine-year-old boy’s preening obsession with straightening his hair elicits a tidal wave of homophobic panic in his hard-working mother, in this tender but clear-eyed coming-of-age tale.
Style: serious, touching, realistic, emotional, political ...
Plot: coming of age, youth, single parent, obsession, family relations, society, urban ghetto, urban ghetto life, life is a bitch, family problems, parents and children, dysfunctional family ...
Time: 21st century
Place: venezuela, africa
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Secrets of the Heart (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, France, Portugal
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Javi and his friend Carlos visit an old house on the outskirts of a small Spanish village. According to his brother Juan this is a haunted house and one can hear the voices of the dead. Later he is intrigued with a room which is always closed (the ...
Style: emotional, realistic, serious, touching, sincere ...
Plot: dog sex, coming of age, youth, boy, friends, village life, boyhood, trippy, friendship, village, aunt nephew relationship, family relations ...
Time: year 1997, 90s, 60s
Place: spain, europe
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The Keys to the House (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, Germany, France, USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Meeting his handicapped son for the first time, a young father attempts to forge a relationship with the teenager.
Style: serious, psychological, emotional, touching, realistic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: parents and children, single parent, estrangement, teenage life, human nature, disability, hospital, self discovery, coming of age, hopes, redemption, family relations ...
Time: year 2004
Place: germany, italy, europe, berlin germany, milan italy
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67%
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Kes (1969)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: UK
Duration: 111 min.
Story: A young, English working-class boy spends his free time caring for and training his pet falcon.
Style: independent film, bleak, depressing, realistic, emotional ...
Audience: kids, teens, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, working class, boy, childhood, neglected child, bullying, bird, child protagonist, school, friendship, teacher, sibling rivalry ...
Time: 60s, year 1969, 20th century
Place: england, britain, yorkshire, united kingdom, northern england ...
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Neighborhood (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A coming-of-age story in the vein of CITY OF GOD and KIDS - available for the first time in the U.S.!
Style: social, hispanic, serious, realistic
Audience: teens
Plot: coming of age, boy, juvenile delinquent, suburbs, dysfunctional family, friendship between boys, best friend, family relations, friends, kids in trouble, contests and competitions, drug dealing ...
Time: 90s
Place: madrid, europe, spain
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Boy (1969)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A family of four lives off of scams in which they pretend to be injured by automobiles. After suffering an injury during the war, the father believes he is an invalid. He and his wife have a 10-year-old boy and a 3-year-old girl. The adults pretend ...
Style: experimental, serious, realistic, thought provoking, atmospheric ...
Audience: teens
Plot: youth, family relations, child abuse, dysfunctional family, train, boy, treasure hunt, traumatic childhood, bad father, abusive father, father son relationship, stepmother ...
Time: year 1969, 60s, 20th century
Place: japan, hokkaido
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22%
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The Italian (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Set in 2002, an abandoned 5-year-old boy living in a rundown orphanage in a small Russian village is adopted by an Italian family.
Style: sentimental, touching, realistic, breathtaking, inspirational ...
Plot: orphan, children, orphanage, youth, boy, adoption, coming of age, friendship, adolescence, family relations, self discovery, hopes ...
Time: year 2005, 2000s, year 2002, 21st century
Place: russia, soviet union, europe, italy
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Along the Ridge (2006)
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, emotional, touching
Plot: coming of age, boy, family relations, friendship, dysfunctional family, lifestyle, siblings relations, parents and children, single parent, youth, family problems, unfaithful wife ...
Time: year 2006, 21st century
Place: italy, europe
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20%
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Cowards (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A young victim of bullying at school realizes that even the adult world is dominated by fear similar to his own. He pays a high price when he decides to fight back.
Style: realistic, serious, touching, captivating, hispanic
Plot: coming of age, family relations, bullying, high school, teenage life, self discovery, gang, kids in trouble, bully, adolescence vs adulthood, parents and children, vengeance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: spain
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Night Has Settled (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: In 1983, Oliver Nicholas, at thirteen, is well-poised to enter the precocious teenage world of first-sex, vodka and possible-love in New York City when he is traumatized by the stroke of his housekeeper (and only true maternal figure), a ...
Style: serious, realistic, emotional, humorous, sexual
Plot: coming of age, youth, nanny, dysfunctional family, stroke, society, betrayal, survival, family life, parents and children, family relations, family problems ...
Time: year 1983, 21st century
Place: new york
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The Kid with a Bike (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, France, Italy
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Abandoned by his father, a young boy is left in the hands of an unqualified childcare provider.
Style: sincere, realistic, meditative, emotional, surreal ...
Plot: childhood, kids in trouble, boy, adoption, realism, orphan, youth, adoptive mother, coming of age, social problems, petty criminal, life is a bitch ...
Time: year 2011, year 2012, 2010s, 21st century
Place: belgium, france
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19%
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Ratcatcher (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, France
Duration: 94 min.
Story: James Gillespie is 12 years old. The world he knew is changing. Haunted by a secret, he has become a stranger in his own family. He is drawn to the canal where he creates a world of his own. He finds an awkward tenderness with Margaret Anne, a ...
Style: disturbing, bleak, crying, depressing, art house ...
Audience: teens
Plot: children, poverty, boy, friendship, coming of age, neighbor, bully, strike, teenage boy, grief, rat, urban decay ...
Time: 70s, year 1999, 90s, 20th century
Place: glasgow scotland, britain, nebraska, scotland
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Pure (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A young boy trying to deal with his mother's heroin addiction befriends a waitress who helps him cope with the tough situation.
Style: sincere, touching, emotional, serious, gloomy ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: rehabilitation, addiction, youth, drug abuse, prostitute, life is a bitch, dysfunctional family, parents and children, teenage life, going straight, drug addiction, friendship ...
Place: london, england, europe
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19%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Bao stays with his grandfather for the summer and is shocked to see there are no modern appliances.
Style: realistic, touching, atmospheric, captivating, serious
Plot: friendship, coming of age, family relations, family problems, friends, parents and children, elderly, youth, countryside, school, boy, siblings relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: taiwan, asia
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19%
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Beyond (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden, Finland, Denmark
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A poignant story, told with sincerity and humor, about a young woman´s dramatic childhood and about her grief and the struggle to move on. Noomi Rapace plays the main character in her first feature after the success with the Millennium trilogy and ...
Style: serious, realistic, touching, sincere, depressing ...
Plot: family relations, introspection, dysfunctional family, family problems, haunted by the past, parents and children, nordic, child abuse, husband wife relationship, bad father, mental health, parents ...
Time: year 2010, 70s, 20th century, 21st century
Place: europe, eastern europe
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19%
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Our Father (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Chad, Netherlands
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Two boys (Tamir & Amine) awake one morning to find that their father has abandoned their family. Shocked, they begin to misbehave. While surreptitiously watching a movie, they think they see their father speaking to them and steal the film to ...
Style: serious, realistic, sincere, touching, captivating ...
Plot: against the odds, coming of age, family relations, kids in trouble, young heroes, obsessive quest, missing person, family problems, estrangement, life is a bitch, youth, parents and children ...
Time: 21st century
Place: africa, tangier morocco, morocco
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19%
Anything You Want (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Leo is immediately set adrift by his new found responsibilities as a single parent, a feeling that is made doubly distressing when Dafne, herself understandably confused and heartbroken by her mother's absence, asks for an ...
Style: uplifting, serious, sentimental, touching, realistic ...
Plot: father daughter relationship, family relations, parents and children, single father, family problems, family in crisis, law firm, death in the family, death of mother, ethical dilemma, youth, switching roles ...
Time: 21st century
Place: spain, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Everybody Dies But Me (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 80 min.
Story: One Monday morning Katya, Vika and Zhanna learn that there will be a school disco, their first disco, on the coming Saturday night. The girls feverishly start preparing for the event, which rapidly becomes the most important moment ever in their ...
Style: serious, touching, realistic, gloomy, suspense ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: family problems, life is a bitch, youth, social relations, teenage life, high school life, society, friendship, dysfunctional family, boy girl relationship, family relations, friends ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: russia, soviet union, moscow russia
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18%
Master Harold ... and the Boys (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: South Africa
Duration: 87 min.
Story: This movie is of Hally, an adolescent white South African. He is stuck between his intolerant father's outlook of him and those of his caretaker, Sam. Sam is a black waiter and Hally's friend and teacher. Hally is required to laugh at his ...
Style: touching, serious, emotional, captivating, realistic ...
Plot: youth, interracial relations, racism, friendship, dysfunctional family, redemption, life is a bitch, social decay, family problems, human spirit, hopes, parents and children ...
Time: 21st century
Place: south africa, africa
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18%
When Andrew Came Home (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A mother searches for five years to find her kidnapped son in this fact-based drama. Unexpectedly the boy is found, but the reunion is not as she hoped. She now has to deal with five years of abuse that the boy suffered at the hands of his ...
Style: touching, realistic, serious, emotional, sad
Plot: kids in trouble, kidnapping, coming of age, family in crisis, dysfunctional family, parents and children, captivity, family problems, estrangement, danger, confined, hopes ...
Time: 90s
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18%
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