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The Black Balloon (2008)
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The Black Balloon (2008)

Thomas is turning 16. His dad's in the army and they've just moved to a town in New South Wales; his mom is pregnant; his older brother, Charlie, who's autistic, has his own adolescent sexual issues. Thomas finds Charlie an embarrassment in public, so when Thomas is attracted to Jackie, a girl in hi β€¦s swim class, Charlie presents any number of obstacles when she drops by their house, when the three of them go for a walk, and during a family birthday dinner. Can Thomas find a way to enter the world of teen romance and still be his brother's keeper, or is Charlie's disability going to prove more than Thomas can handle? (Read More)

Subgenre:
coming of age
Themes:
autismfirst lovepregnancy
Mood:
nightrain
Locations:
school busswimming poolnew schoolcityaustraliaurban settingbicyclebushospital
Characters:
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Story:
topless swimmingsydney australiashort busbirthday partyfamily unitautistic sonmother slaps sonmix tapeautistic childolder brothersocial servicesteenage sonfiring rangedadblond β€¦carpettamponkeyscaptantrumlocked in a roomspeedotwo brothershospital bedmale protagonistlying on bedlocked doorteasingtelling someone to shut upshameopening a doorfamily dinnerrainstormdiscriminationfirst kissbra and pantiesteenage protagonistproduced by directorteddy bearscene during opening creditshatbulletsupermarketprofanitygiftchildbirthscreamingnecklacebathapologyfoot chasef wordswimmingcolor in titlebirthdaywritten by directortitle directed by femaleshowerthree word titlef ratedmasturbation (See All)

Show Me Love (1998)
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Show Me Love (1998)

Amal is a small insignificant town where nothing ever happens, where the latest trends are out of date when they get there. Young Elin has a bit of a bad reputation when it comes to guys, but the fact is that she is inexperienced in that matter. Another girl in her school, Agnes, is in love with her β€¦ but is too shy to do anything about it. For a number of reasons, Elin ends up at Agnes' birthday party as the only guest. They have a girl's night out together but after that Elin desperately avoids Agnes, refusing to even consider her own feelings toward Agnes. (Read More)

Themes:
first love
Mood:
night
Characters:
teenage boybrother sister relationshipbrother brother relationshipboyfriend girlfriend relationshipfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshipfamily relationships
Story:
birthday partyteasingfirst kissteenage protagonistapologybirthdayshowerf ratedmasturbation

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A Brilliant Young Mind (2014)
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A Brilliant Young Mind (2014)

In a world difficult to comprehend, Nathan struggles to connect with those around him - most of all his loving mother - but finds comfort in numbers. When Nathan is taken under the wing of unconventional and anarchic teacher, Mr. Humphreys, the pair forge an unusual friendship and Nathan's talents w β€¦in him a place on the UK team at the International Mathematics Olympiad. From suburban England to bustling Taipei and back again, Nathan builds complex relationships as he is confronted by the irrational nature of love. (Read More)

Subgenre:
coming of age
Themes:
autism
Mood:
rain
Locations:
school busbus
Characters:
teacherteenage boyboyfriend girlfriend relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationship
Story:
autistic sonautistic childfirst kissteenage protagonistscene during opening creditshatapologyf wordshower

Whale Rider (2002)
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Whale Rider (2002)

On the east coast of New Zealand, the Whangara people believe their presence there dates back a thousand years or more to a single ancestor, Paikea, who escaped death when his canoe capsized by riding to shore on the back of a whale. From then on, Whangara chiefs, always the first-born, always male, β€¦ have been considered Paikea's direct descendants. Pai, an 11-year-old girl in a patriarchal New Zealand tribe, believes she is destined to be the new chief. But her grandfather Koro is bound by tradition to pick a male leader. Pai loves Koro more than anyone in the world, but she must fight him and a thousand years of tradition to fulfill her destiny. (Read More)

Themes:
pregnancy
Mood:
night
Locations:
school busbicyclehospital
Characters:
baby girlbabyteacherfather daughter relationshipfather son relationship
Story:
opening a doorchildbirthapologyswimmingtitle directed by femalef rated

Shine (1996) is one of the best movies like The Black Balloon (2008)
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Shine (1996)

As a child piano prodigy, 'David Helfgott' (qv)'s musical ambitions generate friction with his overbearing father, Peter. When Helfgott travels to London on a musical scholarship, his career as a pianist blossoms. However, the pressures of his newfound fame, coupled with the echoes of his tumultuous β€¦ childhood, conspire to bring Helfgott's latent schizophrenia boiling to the surface, and he spends years in and out of various mental institutions. (Read More)

Mood:
nightrain
Locations:
swimming poolcityaustralia
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father son relationshipfamily relationships
Story:
lying on bedtelling someone to shut upopening a doorscene during opening creditsbathapology

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Adore (2013)
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Adore (2013)

Lil ('Naomi Watts' (qv)) and Roz ('Robin Wright (V)' (qv)) are two lifelong friends, having grown up together as neighbors in an idyllic beach town. As adults, their sons have developed a friendship as strong as that which binds their mothers. One summer, all four are confronted by simmering emotion β€¦s that have been mounting between them, and each find unexpected happiness in relationships that cross the bounds of convention. (Read More)

Themes:
pregnancy
Locations:
australiabushospital
Characters:
babyteenage boyboyfriend girlfriend relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships
Story:
sydney australiabirthday partyapologyswimmingf wordbirthdaytitle directed by femalef rated

About Time (2013)
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About Time (2013)

At the age of 21, Tim Lake (Domhnall Gleeson) discovers he can travel in time... The night after another unsatisfactory New Year party, Tim's father (Bill Nighy) tells his son that the men in his family have always had the ability to travel through time. Tim can't change history, but he can change w β€¦hat happens and has happened in his own life-so he decides to make his world a better place...by getting a girlfriend. Sadly, that turns out not to be as easy as you might think. Moving from the Cornwall coast to London to train as a lawyer, Tim finally meets the beautiful but insecure Mary (Rachel McAdams). They fall in love, then an unfortunate time-travel incident means he's never met her at all. So they meet for the first time again-and again-but finally, after a lot of cunning time-traveling, he wins her heart. Tim then uses his power to create the perfect romantic proposal, to save his wedding from the worst best-man speeches, to save his best friend from professional disaster and to get his pregnant wife to the hospital in time for the birth of their daughter, despite a nasty traffic jam outside Abbey Road. But as his unusual life progresses, Tim finds out that his unique gift can't save him from the sorrows and ups and downs that affect all families, everywhere. There are great limits to what time travel can achieve, and it can be dangerous too. (Read More)

Subgenre:
coming of age
Themes:
pregnancy
Mood:
night
Locations:
hospital
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Romper Stomper (1992)
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Romper Stomper (1992)

Nazi skinheads in Melbourne take out their anger on local Vietnamese, who are seen as threatening racial purity. Finally the Vietnamese have had enough and confront the skinheads in an all-out confrontation, sending the skinheads running. A woman who is prone to epileptic seizures joins the skins' m β€¦erry band, and helps them on their run from justice, but is her affliction also a sign of impurity? (Read More)

Mood:
night
Locations:
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Characters:
boyfriend girlfriend relationshipfather daughter relationship
Story:
lying on bedtelling someone to shut upopening a doorprofanityapologyf wordwritten by director

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The Lake House (2006) is one of the best movies like The Black Balloon (2008)
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The Lake House (2006)

When two people "connect" the bond between them can be so pure and simple as to stir hearts in heaven. When they connect in all the right places at all the wrong times, heaven weeps for broken hearts. To heal these broken hearts, heaven breaks time.

Mood:
rain
Locations:
bushospital
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birthday partyhospital bedscene during opening creditsgiftbirthdaythree word title

Candy (2006)
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Candy (2006)

This story is a narration from an Australian man who falls in love with two kinds of Candy: a woman of the same name and heroin. The narrator changes from a smart-aleck to someone trying to find a vein to inject, while Candy changes from an actress, call girl, streetwalker, and then a madwoman. Star β€¦ting in Sydney, the two eventually end up in Melbourne to go clean, but they fail. This leads them to turn to finding money and heroin, while other posessions and attachments become unimportant. (Read More)

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pregnancy
Mood:
rain
Locations:
swimming poolaustraliahospital
Characters:
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Story:
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Tokyo Story (1953)
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Tokyo Story (1953)

An elderly couple journey to Tokyo to visit their children and are confronted by indifference, ingratitude and selfishness. When the parents are packed off to a resort by their busy, impatient children, the film deepens into an unbearably moving meditation on mortality.

Locations:
urban settingbicyclebus
Characters:
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Carrie (2013)
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Carrie (2013)

The outcast teenager Carrie White is bullied by her classmates at high school. Her mother, Margaret White, is a pious and paranoid woman that sees sin everywhere and the need of self-inflicting punishment. When Carrie has her first period, she does not understand what is happening to her and her cla β€¦ssmates humiliate her in the changing room. The spiteful Chris Hargensen videotapes Carrie with her cell phone and posts it on the Internet. Their teacher Ms. Desjardin punishes the students, but when Chris challenges her, she is suspended and consequently is banned from the prom. Meanwhile, Carrie discovers that she has telekinesis and learns how to control her ability. Sue Snell, one of the girls that tormented Carrie, feels bad and asks her boyfriend Tommy Ross to invite Carrie to go with him to the prom to make up for what she did to Carrie. But Chris and her boyfriend Billy Nolan plot an evil prank with her friends to seek vengeance for Carrie. (Read More)

Subgenre:
coming of age
Themes:
pregnancy
Mood:
nightrain
Locations:
school busswimming poolbicyclehospital
Characters:
teacherboyfriend girlfriend relationshipmother daughter relationship
Story:
tamponlocked doorteasingscene during opening creditschildbirthscreamingf wordshowerf rated

Four Weddings And A Funeral (1994) is one of the best movies like The Black Balloon (2008)
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Four Weddings And A Funeral (1994)

The film follows the fortunes of Charles and his friends as they wonder if they will ever find true love and marry. Charles thinks he's found "Miss Right" in Carrie, an American. This British subtle comedy revolves around Charlie, his friends and the four weddings and one funeral which they attend.

Mood:
nightrain
Locations:
city
Characters:
brother sister relationshipbrother brother relationshiphusband wife relationship
Story:
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Muriel's Wedding (1994)
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Muriel's Wedding (1994)

Muriel finds life in Porpoise Spit, Australia dull and spends her days alone in her room listening to Abba music and dreaming of her wedding day. Slight problem, Muriel has never had a date. Then she steals some money to go on a tropical vacation, meets a wacky friend, changes her name to Mariel, an β€¦d turns her world upside down. (Read More)

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rain
Locations:
swimming poolcityaustraliahospital
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brother sister relationshipmother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationships
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Dragonfly (2002)
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Dragonfly (2002)

Dr. Joe Darrow is a recently widowed doctor. He is grieving due to the death of his pregnant wife in a Red Cross mission in Venezuela. Although being atheist, he began to believe that his dead wife wants to communicate with him, through her young patients in the Pediatrics of a Chicago hospital.

Themes:
pregnancy
Mood:
rain
Locations:
school busbushospital
Characters:
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Story:
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The Karate Kid (1984)
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The Karate Kid (1984)

Daniel and his mother move from New Jersey to California. She has a wonderful new job, but Daniel quickly discovers that a dark haired Italian boy with a Jersey accent doesn't fit into the blond surfer crowd. Daniel manages to talk his way out of some fights, but he is finally cornered by several wh β€¦o belong to the same karate school. As Daniel is passing out from the beating he sees Miyagi, the elderly gardener leaps into the fray and save him by outfighting half a dozen teenagers. Miyagi and Daniel soon find out the real motivator behind the boys' violent attitude in the form of their karate teacher. Miyagi promises to teach Daniel karate and arranges a fight at the all-valley tournament some months off. When his training begins, Daniel doesn't understand what he is being shown. Miyagi seems more interested in having Daniel paint fences and wax cars than teaching him Karate. (Read More)

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coming of age
Locations:
new schoolbicycle
Characters:
teacherteenage boyboyfriend girlfriend relationshipmother son relationship
Story:
birthday partyteenage sonblondgiftapologyfoot chasethree word title

Mrs. Doubtfire (1993) is one of the best movies like The Black Balloon (2008)
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Mrs. Doubtfire (1993)

Eccentric actor Daniel Hillard is an amusing and caring father. But after a disastrous birthday party for his son, Daniel's wife Miranda draws the line and files a divorce. He can see his three children only once a week which doesn't sit well with him. Daniel also holds a job at a TV studio as a shi β€¦pping clerk under the recommendation of his liason. But when Miranda puts out an ad for a housekeeper, Daniel takes it upon himself to make a disguise as a Scottish lady named Mrs Doubtfire. And Daniel must also deal with Miranda's new boyfriend Stu Dunemyer. (Read More)

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White Oleander (2002)
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White Oleander (2002)

Astrid Magnussen is a 15 year old girl, living in California. Her mother, Ingrid, is a beautiful, free-spirited poet. Their life, though unusual, is satisfying until one day, a man named Barry Kolker (that her mother refers to at first as "The goat man") comes into their lives, and Ingrid falls madl β€¦y in love with him, only to have her heart broken, and her life ruined. For revenge, Ingrid murders Barry with the deadly poison of her favourite flower: The White Oleander. She is sent to prison for life, and Astrid has to go through foster home after foster home. Throughout nearly a decade she experiences forbidden love, religion, near-death experiences, drugs, starvation, and how it feels to be loved. But throughout these years, she keeps in touch with her mother via letters to prison. And while Ingrid's gift is to give Astrid the power to survive, Astrid's gift is to teach her Mother about love. (Read More)

Subgenre:
coming of age
Themes:
first lovepregnancy
Locations:
school busswimming poolbus
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Parenthood (1989)
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Parenthood (1989)

The story of the Buckman family and friends, attempting to bring up their children. They suffer/enjoy all the events that occur: estranged relatives, the "black sheep" of the family, the eccentrics, the skeletons in the closet, and the rebellious teenagers.

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pregnancy
Characters:
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Sleeping With Other People (2015)
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Sleeping With Other People (2015)

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pregnancy
Mood:
rain
Locations:
swimming poolcityhospital
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I Am Sam (2001) is one of the best movies like The Black Balloon (2008)
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I Am Sam (2001)

Sam Dawson has the mental capacity of a 7-year-old. He works at a Starbucks and is obsessed with the Beatles. He has a daughter with a homeless woman; she abandons them as soon as they leave the hospital. He names his daughter Lucy Diamond (after the Beatles song), and raises her. But as she reaches β€¦ age 7 herself, Sam's limitations start to become a problem at school; she's intentionally holding back to avoid looking smarter than him. The authorities take her away, and Sam shames high-priced lawyer Rita Harrison into taking his case pro bono. In the process, he teaches her a great deal about love, and whether it's really all you need. (Read More)

Themes:
autism
Locations:
swimming poolhospital
Characters:
babyteacherfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships
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The Lovely Bones (2009)
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The Lovely Bones (2009)

A 14-year-old girl in suburban 1970's Pennsylvania is murdered by her neighbor. She tells the story from the place between Heaven and Earth, showing the lives of the people around her and how they have changed all while attempting to get someone to find her lost body.

Mood:
rain
Locations:
school busbicyclehospital
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A Man Called Ove (2015)
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A Man Called Ove (2015)

59 year old Ove is the block's grumpy man who several years earlier was deposed as president of the condominium association, but he could not give a damn about being deposed and therefore keeps looking over the neighborhood with an iron fist. When pregnant Parvaneh and her family moves into the terr β€¦aced house opposite and accidentally backs into Ove's mailbox it turns out to be an unexpected friendship. A drama comedy about unexpected friendship, love and the importance of surrounding yourself with the proper tools. (Read More)

Themes:
pregnancy
Mood:
rain
Locations:
swimming poolbicyclebushospital
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Dan In Real Life (2007)
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Dan In Real Life (2007)

Single father Dan Burns dedicates his life to his children, but one day he meets Marie at a bookstore. They get to know each other, but then Dan finds out that Marie is actually dating his brother, Mitch.

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rain
Locations:
school busbus
Characters:
brother sister relationshipbrother brother relationshipboyfriend girlfriend relationshipfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationships
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family dinnerapologyshower

All Good Things (2010) is one of the best movies like The Black Balloon (2008)
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All Good Things (2010)

A love story and murder mystery based on the most notorious unsolved murder case in New York history. The original screenplay uses newly discovered facts, court records and speculation as the foundation for a story of family, obsession, love and loss.

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pregnancy
Mood:
rain
Locations:
swimming poolbicycle
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Enter The Void (2009)
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Enter The Void (2009)

Tokyo's nasty underside, seen primarily through the eyes of Oscar, a heavy drug user, whose sister Linda is a stripper. Oscar also has flashbacks to his childhood when trauma upends the siblings. Oscar's drug-fed hallucinations alter Tokyo's already-disconcerting nights, and after the police shoot h β€¦im, he can float above and look down: on his sister's sorrow, on the rooms of a love hotel, and on life at even a molecular level. The spectrum's colors can be beautiful; it's people's colorless lives that can be ugly. And what of afterlife, is there more than a void? (Read More)

Themes:
pregnancy
Mood:
night
Locations:
hospital
Characters:
babybrother sister relationshipmother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships
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Danny Collins (2015)
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Danny Collins (2015)

Inspired by a true story, Al Pacino stars as aging 1970s rocker Danny Collins, who can't give up his hard-living ways. But when his manager (Christopher Plummer) uncovers a 40 year-old undelivered letter written to him by John Lennon, he decides to change course and embarks on a heartfelt journey to β€¦ rediscover his family, find true love and begin a second act. (Read More)

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pregnancy
Locations:
swimming poolbus
Characters:
boyfriend girlfriend relationshipfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationship
Story:
male protagonistscene during opening creditsapologyf wordbirthday

Terms Of Endearment (1983)
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Terms Of Endearment (1983)

Aurora and Emma are mother and daughter who march to different drummers. Beginning with Emma's marriage, Aurora shows how difficult and loving she can be. The movie covers several years of their lives as each finds different reasons to go on living and find joy. Aurora's interludes with Garrett Bree β€¦dlove, retired astronaut and next door neighbor are quite striking. In the end, different people show their love in very different ways. (Read More)

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pregnancy
Locations:
swimming poolhospital
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Lords Of Dogtown (2005) is one of the best movies like The Black Balloon (2008)
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Lords Of Dogtown (2005)

A fictionalized take on the group of brilliant young skateboarders raised in the mean streets of Dogtown in Santa Monica, California. The Z-Boys, as they come to be known, perfect their craft in the empty swimming pools of unsuspecting suburban homeowners, pioneering a thrilling new sport and eventu β€¦ally moving into legend. (Read More)

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coming of age
Themes:
first love
Locations:
swimming poolbicyclebus
Characters:
teenage boybrother sister relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationship
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teasingswimmingtitle directed by female

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The Broken Circle Breakdown (2012)
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The Broken Circle Breakdown (2012)

Elise and Didier fall in love at first sight. She has her own tattoo shop and he plays the banjo in a bluegrass band. They bond over their shared enthusiasm for American music and culture, and dive headfirst into a sweeping romance that plays out on and off stage - but when an unexpected tragedy hit β€¦s their new family, everything they know and love is tested. An intensely moving portrait of a relationship from beginning to end, propelled by a soundtrack of foot-stomping bluegrass, The Broken Circle Breakdown is a romantic melodrama of the highest order. (Read More)

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pregnancy
Locations:
hospital
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birthday partyhatbirthdayshower

Short Term 12 (2013)
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Short Term 12 (2013)

At a foster-care facility for at-risk teenagers, Grace is a young counselor trying to do her best for kids who often have been pulled from the worst kinds of home situations. Even then, life is not easy as Grace and her colleagues care for kids who are too often profoundly scarred, even as they try  β€¦to have lives of their own. Now, things are coming to a head as Grace readies for marriage even as some her charges are coming to major turning points in their lives. To cope, Grace will have to make difficult perceptions and decisions that could put her career, and more importantly her charges, at dire risk. (Read More)

Themes:
pregnancy
Locations:
bicyclebushospital
Characters:
babyboyfriend girlfriend relationshipmother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships
Story:
bathapologyfoot chasebirthdaywritten by directorshowerthree word title

The Great Beauty (2013)
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The Great Beauty (2013)

Journalist Jep Gambardella has charmed and seduced his way through the lavish nightlife of Rome for decades. Since the legendary success of his one and only novel, he has been a permanent fixture in the city's literary and social circles, but when his sixty-fifth birthday coincides with a shock from β€¦ the past, Jep finds himself unexpectedly taking stock of his life, turning his cutting wit on himself and his contemporaries, and looking past the extravagant nightclubs, parties, and cafes to find Rome in all its glory: a timeless landscape of absurd, exquisite beauty. (Read More)

Themes:
first love
Mood:
nightrain
Locations:
swimming poolurban setting
Characters:
boyfriend girlfriend relationshipmother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipmother son relationship
Story:
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High-rise (2015) is one of the best movies like The Black Balloon (2008)
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High-Rise (2015)

Class struggle becomes all too real as a young doctor moves into a modern apartment block in suburban 1975 London. Drugs, drink & debauchery dissolve into murder, mayhem and misogyny in this pseudo-post-apocalyptic breakdown of societal norms.

Themes:
pregnancy
Characters:
babybrother sister relationshipfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationship
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birthday partysupermarketchildbirthscreamingapologyswimmingf wordshower

The Reader (2008)
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The Reader (2008)

THE READER opens in post-war Germany when teenager Michael Berg becomes ill and is helped home by Hanna, a stranger twice his age. Michael recovers from scarlet fever and seeks out Hanna to thank her. The two are quickly drawn into a passionate but secretive affair. Michael discovers that Hanna love β€¦s being read to and their physical relationship deepens. Hanna is enthralled as Michael reads to her from "The Odyssey," "Huck Finn" and "The Lady with the Little Dog." Despite their intense bond, Hanna mysteriously disappears one day and Michael is left confused and heartbroken. Eight years later, while Michael is a law student observing the Nazi war crime trials, he is stunned to find Hanna back in his life - this time as a defendant in the courtroom. As Hanna's past is revealed, Michael uncovers a deep secret that will impact both of their lives. THE READER is a story about truth and reconciliation, about how one generation comes to terms with the crimes of another. (Read More)

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coming of age
Themes:
first love
Mood:
rain
Locations:
bicycle
Characters:
teacherteenage boybrother sister relationshipfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships
Story:
locked doorshamefamily dinnerapologyswimmingbirthday

Like Stars On Earth (2007)
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Like Stars On Earth (2007)

Ishaan Awasthi is an eight-year-old child whose world is filled with wonders that no one else seems to appreciate; colours, fish, dogs and kites are just not important in the world of adults, who are much more interested in things like homework, marks and neatness. And Ishaan just cannot seem to get β€¦ anything right in class. When he gets into far more trouble than his parents can handle, he is packed off to a boarding school to 'be disciplined'. Things are no different at his new school, and Ishaan has to contend with the added trauma of separation from his family. One day a new art teacher bursts onto the scene, Ram Shankar Nikumbh, who infects the students with joy and optimism. He breaks all the rules of 'how things are done' by asking them to think, dream and imagine, and all the children respond with enthusiasm, all except Ishaan. Nikumbh soon realizes that Ishaan is very unhappy, and he sets out to discover why. With time, patience and care, he ultimately helps Ishaan find himself. (Read More)

Themes:
autism
Locations:
school busnew schoolbicyclebus
Characters:
babyteacherbrother brother relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships
Story:
autistic sonautistic childteasingshameapologyshower

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The Room (2003)
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The Room (2003)

In San Francisco, we follow Johnny, a man who has a girlfriend, Lisa, and also his best friend, Mark. Lisa has been cheating on Johnny with Mark and Johnny doesn't know! Will Johnny ever find out? Will Mark still be Johnny's best friend?

Mood:
rain
Locations:
city
Characters:
boyfriend girlfriend relationshipmother daughter relationship
Story:
birthday partyteasingshameopening a doorgiftscreamingnecklacebirthdaywritten by director

Upstream Color (2013) is one of the best movies like The Black Balloon (2008)
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Upstream Color (2013)

Kris is attacked one night, and hypnotized, using a grub with hypnotic properties, administered by a thief. She follows the thief's instructions to give him everything, even taking out loans. After the worms are extracted, she wakes up to find her life ruined. She's lost her job, her finances are de β€¦stroyed. Years later, she meets Jeff whom she may have a lot in common with. (Read More)

Themes:
pregnancy
Mood:
nightrain
Locations:
swimming poolbicyclehospital
Characters:
mother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship
Story:
supermarketbathapologyswimmingshower

The Tree Of Life (2011)
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The Tree Of Life (2011)

The impressionistic story of a Texas family in the 1950s. The film follows the life journey of the eldest son, Jack, through the innocence of childhood to his disillusioned adult years as he tries to reconcile a complicated relationship with his father ('Brad Pitt' (qv)). Jack (played as an adult by β€¦ 'Sean Penn (I)' (qv)) finds himself a lost soul in the modern world, seeking answers to the origins and meaning of life while questioning the existence of faith. (Read More)

Subgenre:
coming of age
Themes:
pregnancy
Mood:
rain
Locations:
swimming poolurban settingbicycle
Characters:
pregnant wifebabybrother brother relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships
Story:
shamechildbirthbathapologyswimming

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Look Who's Talking Too (1990)
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Look Who's Talking Too (1990)

Mollie and James are together and raising a family, which now consists of an older Mikey and his baby sister, Julie. Tension between the siblings arises, and as well with Mollie and James when Mollie's brother Stuart moves in. Mikey is also learning how to use the toilet for the first time.

Themes:
pregnancy
Locations:
hospital
Characters:
baby girlpregnant wifebabybrother sister relationshiphusband wife relationshipfamily relationships
Story:
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Something's Gotta Give (2003)
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Something's Gotta Give (2003)

Harry Sanborn is an aged music industry exec with a fondness for younger women like Marin, his latest trophy girlfriend. Things get a little awkward when Harry suffers a heart attack at the home of Marin's mother Erica. Left in the care of Erica and his doctor, a love triangle starts to take shape.

Themes:
pregnancy
Mood:
rain
Locations:
cityhospital
Characters:
babyteacherboyfriend girlfriend relationshipfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship
Story:
produced by directorbirthdaywritten by directortitle directed by femalethree word title

Three Men And A Baby (1987) is one of the best movies like The Black Balloon (2008)
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Three Men And A Baby (1987)

Three bachelor friends - architect Peter, artist Michael, and actor Jack are sharing an apartment in Manhattan. After Jack goes filming in Turkey his two flatmates find his baby daughter - which Jack doesn't know about - left outside their door. The two are left to look after the baby, and realise h β€¦ow difficult this can be. How would this baby change the life style of these confirmed bachelors? (Read More)

Locations:
swimming pool
Characters:
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Story:
birthday partybirthday

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St. Vincent (2014)
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St. Vincent (2014)

Vincent is an old Vietnam vet whose stubbornly hedonistic ways have left him without money or a future. Things change when his new next-door neighbor's son, Oliver, needs a babysitter and Vince is willing enough for a fee. From that self-serving act, an unexpected friendship forms as Vincent and Oli β€¦ver find so much of each other's needs through each other. As Vincent mentors Oliver in street survival and other worldly ways, Oliver begins to see more in the old man than just his foibles. When life takes a turn for the worse for Vincent, both them find the best in each other than no one around them suspects. (Read More)

Subgenre:
coming of age
Themes:
pregnancy
Locations:
school busnew schoolbicyclebushospital
Characters:
teacherhusband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationship
Story:
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5 Centimeters Per Second (2007)
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5 Centimeters Per Second (2007)

Takaki and Akari are two classmates in elementary school. During their time together they have become close friends. Their relationship is tested when Akari moves to another city because of her parents' jobs. Both of them struggle to keep their friendship alive, as time and distance slowly pulls the β€¦m apart. When Takaki finds out that he is moving further away, he decides to visit Akari one last time. (Read More)

Themes:
first love
Mood:
nightrain
Locations:
cityurban setting
Characters:
teenage boy
Story:
male protagonistfirst kiss

My Left Foot (1989)
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My Left Foot (1989)

Christy Brown is a spastic quadriplegic born to a large, poor Irish family. His mother, Mrs Brown, recognizes the intelligence and humanity in the lad everyone else regards as a vegetable. Eventually, Christy matures into a cantankerous writer who uses his only functional limb, his left foot, to wri β€¦te with. (Read More)

Themes:
pregnancy
Locations:
hospital
Characters:
babyteenage boybrother sister relationshipbrother brother relationshipmother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships
Story:
birthday partyapologybirthday

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Sunshine Cleaning (2008) is one of the best movies like The Black Balloon (2008)
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Sunshine Cleaning (2008)

A family. Rose and Norah, in Albuquerque, lost their mother when they were young. Rose is responsible - a housecleaner, raising her seven-year-old son Oscar. She's also having an affair with Mac, a married cop, her high-school sweetheart. Norah can't hold a job. Their dad, Joe, is quirky. When Oscar β€¦ is expelled for odd behavior, Rose wants to earn enough to send him to private school. Mac suggests she clean up after crime scenes, suicides, and deaths that go undiscovered for awhile. Rose enlists Norah, and Sunshine Cleaners is born. Norah bonds with the dead, Rose finds out that it's a regulated business, and complications arise. Can a family marked by tragedy sort things out? (Read More)

Themes:
pregnancy
Locations:
swimming pool
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teacherfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships
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birthday partydadsupermarketapologybirthdaytitle directed by femaleshowerf rated

Flipped (2010)
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Flipped (2010)

Juli Baker devoutly believes in three things: the sanctity of trees (especially her beloved sycamore), the wholesomeness of the eggs she collects from her backyard flock of chickens, and that someday she will kiss Bryce Loski. Ever since she saw Bryce's dazzling brown eyes back in second grade, Juli β€¦ has been smitten. Unfortunately, Bryce has never felt the same. Frankly, he thinks Juli Baker is a little weird--after all, what kind of freak raises chickens and sits in trees for fun? Then, in eighth grade, everything changes. Bryce begins to see that Juli's unusual interests and pride in her family are, well, kind of cool. And Juli starts to think that maybe Bryce's dazzling brown eyes are as empty as the rest of Bryce seems to be. After all, what kind of jerk doesn't care about other people's feelings about chickens and trees? With Flipped, mystery author Wendelin Van Draanen has taken a break from her Sammy Keyes series, and the result is flipping fantastic. Bryce and Juli's rants and raves about each other ring so true that teen readers will quickly identify with at least one of these hilarious feuding egos, if not both. A perfect introduction to the adolescent war between the sexes. (Read More)

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coming of age
Themes:
first love
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The Ice Storm (1997)
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The Ice Storm (1997)

In the weekend after thanksgiving 1973 the Hoods are skidding out of control. Benjamin Hood reels from drink to drink, trying not to think about his trouble at the office. His wife, Elena, is reading self help books and losing patience with her husband's lies. Their son, Paul, home for the holidays, β€¦ escapes to the city to pursue an alluring rich girl from his prep school. And young, budding nymphomaniac, Wendy Hood roams the neighborhood, innocently exploring liquor cabinets and lingerie drawers of her friends' parents, looking for something new. Then an ice storm hits, the worst in a century. Things get bad... (Read More)

Subgenre:
coming of age
Mood:
nightrain
Locations:
swimming poolcitybicycle
Characters:
teacherteenage boybrother sister relationshipbrother brother relationshipfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationships
Story:
showerthree word titlemasturbation

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The Kids Are All Right (2010)
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The Kids Are All Right (2010)

Nic and Jules are in a long term, committed, loving but by no means perfect same-sex relationship. Nic, a physician, needs to wield what she believes is control, whereas Jules, under that control, is less self-assured. During their relationship, Jules has floundered in her "nine to five" life, somet β€¦imes trying to start a business - always unsuccessfully - or being the stay-at-home mom. She is currently trying to start a landscape design business. They have two teen-aged children, Joni (conceived by Nic) and Laser (by Jules). Although not exact replicas, each offspring does more closely resemble his/her biological mother in temperament. Joni and Laser are also half-siblings, having the same unknown sperm donor father. Shortly after Joni's eighteenth birthday and shortly before she plans to leave the house and head off to college, Laser, only fifteen and underage to do so, pleads with her to try and contact their sperm donor father. Somewhat reluctantly, she does. He is late thirty-something Paul, a co-op farmer and restaurateur. Despite his seemingly successful businesses, Paul has always shirked responsibility, most specifically in his personal life. After Joni and Laser meet with Paul, Nic and Jules learn what their children have done and, although they don't want Paul infiltrating their lives, want to meet him - especially as Joni and Laser seem to want to maintain some sort of relationship with him. As Paul's relationship with the entire family grows (which includes his hi… (Read More)

Subgenre:
coming of age
Locations:
bicycle
Characters:
teenage boybrother sister relationshipboyfriend girlfriend relationshipfather daughter relationshipmother daughter relationshipmother son relationshipfather son relationshipfamily relationships
Story:
teasingshamehatbathapologyf wordbirthdaytitle directed by femaleshowerf rated

The Spectacular Now (2013) is one of the best movies like The Black Balloon (2008)
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The Spectacular Now (2013)

Sutter Keely lives in the now. It's a good place for him. A high school senior, charming and self-possessed, he's the life of the party, loves his job at a men's clothing store, and has no plans for the future. A budding alcoholic, he's never far from his supersized, whiskey-fortified thirst-master  β€¦cup. But after being dumped by his girlfriend, Sutter gets drunk and wakes up on a lawn with Aimee Finecky hovering over him. She's different: the "nice girl" who reads science fiction and doesn't have a boyfriend. While Aimee has dreams of a future, Sutter lives in the impressive delusion of a spectacular now, yet somehow, they're drawn together. (Read More)

Subgenre:
coming of age
Locations:
swimming poolhospital
Characters:
teacherteenage boybrother sister relationshipboyfriend girlfriend relationshipmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships
Story:
first kissapologyf wordshower

The Graduate (1967)
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The Graduate (1967)

Ben has recently graduated from college, with his parents now expecting great things from him. At his "Homecoming" party, Mrs. Robinson, the wife of his father's business partner, has Ben drive her home, which leads to an affair between the two. The affair eventually ends, but comes back to haunt hi β€¦m when he finds himself falling for Elaine, Mrs. Robinson's daughter. (Read More)

Subgenre:
coming of age
Mood:
rain
Locations:
swimming poolbus
Characters:
boyfriend girlfriend relationshipmother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfather son relationshipmother son relationship
Story:
birthday partyrainstormapology

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