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List of the best movies like The Ice Storm (1997): Ordinary People, La Luna, It Felt Like Love, This Boy’s Life, Lymelife, Joe the King, Stephanie Daley, Jamie Marks Is Dead, The Keys to the House, Thursday Till Sunday.

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Markimdb: 7.7
Genredrama
CountryUSA
Duration02:04
CharactersTeens, Psychologists, Psychiatrists
PlotFriendship, Depression
TimeNew Year, Halloween
StylePsychological problems, Action, To cry, Soulful, Gloomy

Beth, Calvin, and their son Conrad are living in the aftermath of the death of the other son. Conrad is overcome by grief and misplaced guilt to the extent of a suicide attempt. He is in therapy. Beth had always preferred his brother and is having difficulty being supportive to Conrad. Calvin is trapped between the two trying to hold the family together.

Markimdb: 6.5
Genredrama
CountryItaly, USA
Duration02:22
CharactersTeens
PlotMystery, Uprising
PlaceItaly
StyleSoulful, Atmospheric, Gloomy, Depressive, Serious

While touring in Italy, a recently-widowed American opera singer has an incestuous relationship with her 15-year-old son to help him overcome his heroin addiction.

Markimdb: 5.7
Genredrama
CountryUSA
CharactersTeens
PlotPassion, Obsession, Friendship
PlaceBeach, USA, New York
StyleSoulful, Fascinating, Gloomy, Touching, Depressive

A gauzy summer in South Brooklyn. Lila, an awkward adolescent girl, passes her time breaking into beach homes and tagging along on dates between her pretty friend Chiara and Chiara's new boyfriend, Patrick. Lila decides this will be the summer she loses her virginity, too—her interest is piqued when she meets Sammy, an older boy reputed to sleep with just about anyone. Yet Lila's attempts at sexual conquest risk taking her beyond her limits, and into dangerous uncharted territory. 

Markimdb: 7.3
Genredrama, biography
CountryUSA
Duration01:55
CharactersTeens, Friends
PlotOn real events, Friendship
StyleTo cry, Soulful, Heavy, Gloomy, Touching

In 1957, a son and mother flee the East and an abusive boyfriend to find a new life, and end up in Seattle, where the mother meets a polite garage mechanic. The boy continually gets into trouble by hanging out with the wrong crowd. The mom marries the mechanic, but they soon find out that he's an abusive and unreasoning alcoholic, and they struggle to maintain hope in an impossible situation as the boy grows up with plans to escape the small town by any means possible. Based on a true story by Tobias Wolff.

Markimdb: 6.9
Genremelodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:34
CharactersTeens, Family, Losers
PlotLove, Life, First love, Divorce, Family life
PlaceNew York
StyleTo cry, Smart, Gloomy, Touching, Heartbreaking

A coming of age dramedy where infidelity, real estate, and Lyme disease have two families falling apart on Long Island in the early eighties. Scott, 15, is at the point in his life when he finds out that the most important people around him, his father, his mother, and his brother, are not exactly who he thought they were. They are flawed and they are human.

Markimdb: 6.7
Genredrama, crime
CountryUSA
Duration01:33
CharactersTeens, Thieves, Family, Fathers, Poor
PlotRobbery, Relationship, Money, Debts
PlaceUSA, New York
StyleAction, Heavy, Gloomy, Serious

A destitute 14-year-old struggles to keep his life together despite harsh abuse at his mother's hands, harsher abuse at his father's, and a growing separation from his slightly older brother.

Markimdb: 6.3
Genredrama
CountryUSA
CharactersTeens
PlotOn real events, Soccer, Investigation
StyleAction, Soulful, Heavy, Smart, Vital signs

Stephanie collapses in a pool of blood while on a school skiing trip. A doctor discovers that the blood is the after-effects of giving birth. Soon afterward, the body of a newborn baby is found in a toilet, its mouth blocked with toilet paper. Despite Stephanie's insistence that her child was stillborn and that she had no idea that she was pregnant, she is arrested for the murder of the child.

Markimdb: 5.5
Genrefantasy, drama, detective
CountryUSA
Duration01:40
CharactersTeens, Teachers, Students
PlotFight, Loneliness, Death, Supernatural, Pursuit
PlaceSchool, USA
StyleAction, By books, Fascinating, Fancy, Gloomy

No one seemed to care about Jamie Marks until after his death. Hoping to find the love and friendship he never had in life, Jamie’s ghost visits former classmate Adam McCormick, drawing him into the bleak world between the living and the dead.

Markimdb: 7.1
Genredrama
CountryItaly, Germany, France, USA
Duration01:45
CharactersTeens, Disabled people, Losers
PlaceItaly, Hospitals, Germany
StylePsychological problems, Soulful, Gloomy, Touching, Depressive

Meeting his handicapped son for the first time, a young father attempts to forge a relationship with the teenager.

Markimdb: 6.4
Genredrama
CountryChile, Netherlands
Duration01:36
PlotTravel
StyleAction, To cry, Atmospheric, Gloomy, Touching

As she and her family embark on a short vacation, a Chilean teenager slowly comes to the realization that her parents might be splitting up.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genrefantasy, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:31
CharactersChildrens, Losers, Fish, Poor
PlotFlooding
StyleAtmospheric, Fascinating, Fancy, Gloomy, Touching

Hushpuppy, an intrepid six-year-old girl, lives with her father, Wink in 'the Bathtub', a southern Delta community at the edge of the world. Wink’s tough love prepares her for the unraveling of the universe—for a time when he’s no longer there to protect her. When Wink contracts a mysterious illness, nature flies out of whack—temperatures rise, and the ice caps melt, unleashing an army of prehistoric creatures called aurochs. With the waters rising, the aurochs coming, and Wink’s health fading, Hushpuppy goes in search of her lost mother.

Markimdb: 5.8
Genredrama
CountryFrance, USA, Iran
CharactersTeens, Lesbians, Friends
PlotObsession, Friendship, Love triangle, Hip Hop, Uprising
StyleSoulful, Atmospheric, Gloomy, Touching, Serious

A wealthy Iranian family struggles to contain a teenager's growing sexual rebellion and her brother's newfound conservatism.

Markimdb: 7.4
Genremelodrama, drama, crime
CountryBelgium, France
Duration01:35
CharactersStreet children, Babies
PlotMoney
PlacePrison, France, Small cities
StyleAction, Soulful, Heavy, Gloomy, Depressive

Bruno and Sonia, a young couple living off her benefit and the thefts committed by his gang, have a new source of money: their newborn son.

Markimdb: 7.8
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryBelgium, France, Luxembourg, Tunisia
CharactersTeens
PlaceLos Angeles
StyleAction, Soulful, Touching, Serious

Igor, aged 15, and his father Roger deal in housing and peddling illicit labor in the outlying districts of Liege, Belgium. Scams, lies and swindling rule their lives. When one of his father’s illegal workers gets injured on the job and asks Igor to promise to take care of his wife and baby, Igor finds himself at a crossroad. He wants to keep the promise, but the price would be to betray his father.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genredrama, biography
CountryUSA, Republic of Ireland
Duration02:14
CharactersTeens, Teachers, Poor
PlotOn real events
PlaceIreland, New York
StyleTo cry, Soulful, Gloomy, Touching, Serious

Based on the best selling autobiography by Irish expat Frank McCourt, Angela's Ashes follows the experiences of young Frankie and his family as they try against all odds to escape the poverty endemic in the slums of pre-war Limerick. The film opens with the family in Brooklyn, but following the death of one of Frankie's siblings, they return home, only to find the situation there even worse. Prejudice against Frankie's Northern Irish father makes his search for employment in the Republic difficult despite his having fought for the IRA, and when he does find money, he spends the money on drink.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genredrama
CountryNetherlands, United Kingdom
Duration02:03
CharactersTeens
PlotFriendship, Love with age difference, Uprising
PlaceSchool, England, Party
StyleSoulful, Depressive, Serious

Everything changes for 15 year old Mia when her mum brings home a new boyfriend.

Markimdb: 7.2
Genredrama
CountryBulgaria, Sweden
StyleAction, To cry, Soulful, Fascinating, Gloomy

Two estranged brothers are brought together when they have opposite roles in a racist beating: while Georgi who's recently joined a neo-nazi group participates in the violence, Hristo witnesses and rescues a Turkish family. Only by reuniting will the two brothers be able to assess what they really want from life.

Markimdb: 7.9
Genredrama
CountryUSA
Duration01:52
CharactersAlcoholics
PlotRehabilitation
PlaceParty
StyleAction, Fascinating, Smart, Gloomy, Depressive

An alcoholic falls in love with and gets married to a young woman, whom he systematically addicts to booze so they can share his "passion" together.

Markimdb: 5.4
Genreaction, melodrama, drama
CountryGermany, Spain, USA
CharactersTeens
PlotLove, Mystery
PlaceAustralia
StyleSoulful, Gloomy, Touching, Depressive, Serious

In a building site in present-day Tehran, Lateef, a 17-year-old Kurdish worker is irresistibly drawn to Rahmat, a young Afghan worker. When Lateef is given heavier tasks to compensate for new Afghan worker Rahmat, he resents his displacement and treats Rahmat cruelly. After one of his pranks, however, Lateef discovers Rahmat's secret--he is a girl named Baran. Latif's heart softens towards Baran and he shows his new affection for her by doing what he can to ease the hardships she suffers at work. revelation of Rahmat's secret changes both their lives.Baran is a 2001 Iranian film directed by Majid Majidi, based on an original script by Majid Majidi. The movie is set during recent times in which there are a large number of Afghan refugees living on the outskirts of Tehran. Almost a silent movie, Baran won a number of awards both nationally and internationally for the director and writer Majid Majidi.

Markimdb: 7.2
Genredrama
CountryUSA
Duration02:03
CharactersTeens, Friends, Fish
PlotOn real events, Gambling, Friendship
PlaceSmall cities
StyleAction, To cry, Atmospheric, Fascinating, Smart

A River Runs Through is a cinematographically stunning true story of Norman Maclean. The story follows Norman and his brother Paul through the experiences of life and growing up, and how their love of fly fishing keeps them together despite varying life circumstances in the untamed west of Montana in the 1920's.

Markimdb: 7.6
Genremelodrama, drama
CountryDenmark, Sweden
Duration01:59
CharactersTeachers, Parents
PlotFriendship, Loneliness, Divorce
PlaceSmall cities
StyleAction, Soulful, Gloomy, Touching, Depressive

The lives of two Danish families cross each other, and an extraordinary but risky friendship comes into bud. But loneliness, frailty and sorrow lie in wait.

Markimdb: 6.1
Genredrama
CountryUSA
CharactersTeens
StyleSoulful, Gloomy, Makes me think, Depressive, Serious

Seemingly disparate portraits of people -- among them a single mother, a high school principal, and an ace student -- Distinctly American -- all affected by the proliferation of guns in American society.

Markimdb: 6.9
Genredrama
CountryUSA
Duration01:46
CharactersTeens, Friends
PlotFriendship, Justice
PlaceBoarding school
StyleSoulful, Gloomy, Makes me think, Serious

When David Greene receives a football scholarship to a prestigious prep school in the 1950s, he feels pressure to hide the fact that he is Jewish from his classmates and teachers, fearing that they may be anti-Semitic. He quickly becomes the big man on campus thanks to his football skills, but when his Jewish background is discovered, his worst fears are realized and his friends turn on him with violent threats and public ridicule.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genredrama
CountryUSA
PlotMental disorders
StylePsychological problems, Action, Soulful, Atmospheric, Fascinating

Salesman Willy Loman is in a crisis. He's about to lose his job, he can't pay his bills, and his sons Biff and Happy don't respect him and can't seem to live up to their potential. He wonders what went wrong and how he can make things up to his family.

Markimdb: 8
Genredrama
CountryUSA
Duration01:36
CharactersTeens, Strong women, Girlfriends, Foster children
PlotDepression
StyleSoulful, Gloomy, Makes me think, Touching, Serious

Grace, a compassionate young supervisor at a foster care facility, works with her boyfriend and colleague, Mason, to help at-risk teens. But when a new charge dredges up memories of her own troubled past, Grace's tough exterior begins eroding.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genremelodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:52
CharactersStudents, Girlfriends, Nurses, Parents
PlotLove, Dancing, First love, Depression
PlaceNew York
StyleRomantic, Soulful, Explicit scenes, Gloomy, Touching

Dean and Cindy live a quiet life in a modest neighborhood. They appear to have the world at their feet at the outset of the relationship. However, his lack of ambition and her retreat into self-absorption cause potentially irreversible cracks in their marriage.

Markimdb: 6.8
Genredrama
CountrySweden
CharactersTeens
PlotOn real events
PlaceSweden
StyleBy books, Touching, Depressive, Serious

The story of a lone father's relationship with his daughter, of the destructive power of alcohol, of a child's vulnerability, but also of love, betrayal and socialist politics in 1970s Sweden. A unique and moving story freely based on Åsa Linderborg's best-selling novel.

Markimdb: 7.1
Genredrama, military
CountryAustralia, Germany, United Kingdom
Duration01:48
CharactersJews
PlotWar, Survival, Travel
PlaceGermany
TimeWorld War II
StyleAction, Soulful, Atmospheric, Tense, Gloomy

Lore leads her four younger siblings across a war-torn Germany in 1945. Amidst the chaos she encounters a mysterious refugee who shatters her fragile reality with hatred and desire.

Markimdb: 7.5
Genredrama
CountryGeorgia, Germany, France
Duration01:42
CharactersTeens, Friends
PlotDancing, Friendship, Weapon
PlacePrison, School
StyleSoulful, Fascinating, Serious

Eka and Natia leave their childhood behind and ignore societal customs to escape from their turbulent family lives.

Markimdb: 6.4
Genrethriller, drama, detective
CountryUSA, France
Duration01:31
CharactersTeens
PlotPassion, Mystery, Missing people
PlaceUSA
StyleAction, Atmospheric, Fancy, Serious, Disturbing

Kat Connors is 17 years old when her perfect homemaker mother, Eve, disappears. Having lived for so long in an emotionally repressed household, she barely registers her mother's absence and certainly doesn't blame her doormat of a father, Brock, for the loss. But as time passes, Kat begins to come to grips with how deeply Eve's disappearance has affected her. Returning home on a break from college, she finds herself confronted with the truth about her mother's departure, and her own denial about the events surrounding it...





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