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Plot Summary:
Rá, Culebro, Sere, Winny and Nano. Five boys who live on the streets of Medellín. Five kings with no kingdom, no law, no family, set out on a journey in search of the promised land. A subversive tale told through a wild and endearing clan, somewhere between reality and delirium. A journey to nowhere, where everything happens.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: Colombia, Luxembourg, France, Mexico, Norway
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: road movie
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The Fool Killer (1965)
Plot Summary:
This singularly off-beat and original period mystery thriller drama curio set in the late 1800's plays like an arrestingly bizarre and inspired cross between "Tom Sawyer" and "Night of the Hunter." Lonely, miserable orphan boy George (a then 12-years-old Edward Albert in his excellent film debut) runs away from his stern, sadistic, abusive foster parents.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 402
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: crying, psychotronic, independent film
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Buss till Italien (2005)
Plot Summary:
The movie is about two young teenagers who leave for a trip around Europe to sing in a choir. They cross the entire continent straight to Domodossola, a little town on the north of Italy.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 277
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, serious, captivating, road movie
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Zoo (1988)
Plot Summary:
Martina, eleven, lives with her father, a zoo-keeper. One day she meets a 15 years old Slavic and they become friends.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 61
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: Italy, Switzerland
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags:
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Für den unbekannten Hund (2007)
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IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 128
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Fortitude (2020)
Plot Summary:
To escape the crisis in Venezuela, and his alcoholism, Roque retreats into the Amazon jungle to renovate a cabin he built during happier times. He struggles with feverish visions caused by alcohol abstinence, and his desire for redemption becomes distorted when he joins old friends to work in an illegal gold mine controlled by Colombian guerrillas. The violence required to work in the mine plunges Roque into a cycle of self-destruction that devours his interior. He will need the fortitude to get out and start anew.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 168
Genere: Drama
Country: Venezuela, Colombia, France, Netherlands
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags:
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Downtown: A Street Tale (2004)
Plot Summary:
A group of street kids find that the only way to make it through the day is to hold onto their dreams while their reality is eating out of dumpsters, turning tricks and squatting in abandoned buildings.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 113
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags:
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The Tale of King Crab (2021)
Plot Summary:
Small town in Italy, end of the 19th century. Luciano, a drunk, accidentally kills his lover during a revolt against the local Prince. To pay for his crime, he is forced into exile on the most remote island in the world, Argentina’s Tierra del Fuego. The hunt for the shipwreck treasure hidden on the island becomes his opportunity for redemption.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: Italy, France, Argentina
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags:
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Iska's Journey (2007)
Plot Summary:
A young girl is taken to an orphanage, which she hopes to flee.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 255
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags:
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A Trickle of Blood (1995)
Plot Summary:
Leon has a crush on Ofelia, so he decides to steal money from his father and cross the country looking for Ofelia who traveled to Guadalajara. On his journey, Leon goes through many adventures and takes the final step from childhood into adolescence.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 86
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags:
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The Cormorants (2016)
Plot Summary:
In the summer of their twelfth year Matteo and Samuele spend their days between the river, the forest and the shopping center, but compared to previous years, something is changing. The game becomes boring, imagination gives way to discovery, adventure turns into life experience. A summer without beginning and without end, the story about a friendship, an age and a land which are obliged to change with the inexorable passage of time.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 231
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags:
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Hagbard and Signe (1967)
Plot Summary:
The mountain slopes of Iceland are shown to excellent advantage in the Scandinavian epic Hagbard and Signe. The story, based on an ancient legend, concerns Hagbard (Oleg Vidov), the son of a slain Norse king. Seeking revenge against the rival clan responsible for the killing, Hagbard calms down long enough to establish a truce. He also falls in love with Signe (Gitte Haenning), daughter of his onetime enemy. Signe's former beau, sizzling with jealousy, breaks the truce and makes it appear that Hagbard was responsible. The young prince escapes, but returns disguised as a woman to his beloved Signe. Thanks to a treacherous handmaiden, both lovers are imprisoned and sentenced to be hanged. Rather than undergo this final ignominy, Hagbard and Signe enter into a suicide pact. A Danish/ Swedish/ Icelandic coproduction, Hagbard and Signe was released throughout Scandinavia as Den Rode Kappe, Den Rodda Kappan and Rautha Skikkjan.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 161
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: Denmark, Iceland, Sweden
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: saga
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Beautiful Wave (2011)
Plot Summary:
In Santa Cruz for the summer, a young woman discovers the sport of surfing -- and a family secret as well.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 613
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: sentimental, contemplative, psychological, sincere, captivating, serious, realistic, independent film
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Storm Rider (2013)
Plot Summary:
Spoiled 18-yr-old Dani Fielding's world is turned upside down when her father gets arrested for securities fraud, and she has to leave her upscale life in the city to stay with her gruff Uncle Sam out in the country. As Dani and her uncle struggle to bond, she's given an orphaned horse to foster and train. Dani pours her affection into this young horse, calling her Stormy and giving her all the attention she's missing from her unsettled life. Dani soon realizes that truly caring about others is the answer to most of life's biggest problems. And when her uncle and friends need her the most, Dani and Stormy work together to save the day and learn the true meaning of the word, family.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: touching, realistic, light, thought provoking, captivating, feel good, semi serious
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Buddies (2012)
Plot Summary:
A road movie that shows the simple things in life in a poetic light through the eyes of three young people with Down syndrome, who love movies and work at the video library of the institution where they have always lived in. One day, inspired by the movie "Thelma & Louise", they decide to run away using the gardener's old car to have a freedom experience. They travel to uncommon places in search for three simple wishes: Stalone wants to see the sea, Aninha looks for a husband and Marcio needs to fly. During this search, they embark on several adventures as if life was just a children's play.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: road movie, psychological, captivating, satirical, semi serious, thrilling, sweet
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Finding Friends (2005)
Plot Summary:
This kid has to move to a farm in his summer vacation and don't get to go to Norway Cup as he had planned for. Out on the country there is bad cellphone reception, cow smell and inbreed farmers as far as the eye can see. The family Volvo get stolen and the foreigners in the small town automatically gets blamed. From there is a chase to discover what truly happened.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 408
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: Norway
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, sincere, captivating
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Cowgirls 'n Angels (2012)
Plot Summary:
A group of rodeo trick-riders recruits a young girl to join them.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: sentimental, feel good, serious, realistic
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Someone to Run With (2006)
Plot Summary:
Through the streets of Jerusalem two teenagers' stories will unite to tell the summer adventure of their lives. Tamar is an amazingly talented but very quiet and insecure girl, who leaves behind her home and all she knows, changing herself unrecognizably -from her looks to her attitude- to brace herself for a dangerous mission to help a loved-one. Asaf, a clumsy, naive, and very shy boy working a boring summer job at City Hall, is given quite a mission himself : to take an uncontrollable stray dog from the pound, put it on a leash, and let it lead him back to its owners to be fined. The more stories Asaf hears about this extraordinary girl, the more he falls for her, and as he and Dinkah continue their journey Asaf becomes aware that Tamar is in grave danger.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 712
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: sentimental, sincere, uplifting, touching, serious, realistic, gloomy
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America America (1963)
Plot Summary:
A young Anatolian Greek, entrusted with his family's fortune, loses it en route to Istanbul and dreams of going to America.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 174 min
Plot tags: road movie, social, art house, existential, aesthetic, semi autobiographical, atmospheric, touching, serious, captivating
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The Giants (2011)
Plot Summary:
Brothers Danny and Zak, 15 and 13 & 3/4 are spending the summer in their deceased grandfather's house, waiting in vain for their mother, who is otherwise busy, and running low on cash. To make some money they decide to rent out the house to a local drug dealer, but things don't go exactly as planned.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: Belgium, France, Luxembourg
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, humorous, feel good, realistic, semi serious
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Tomorrow Will Be Better (2010)
Plot Summary:
Three Russian street kids, who live on their wits in a train station, take off to the countryside hoping to make it across the border to a better life in Poland. They are alternately looking for tenderness and pushing it away because they sense that it is a sign of vulnerability they can ill-afford. Kędzierzawska has the rare ability to take the world of children on its own terms. There is not a false note in this dazzlingly beautiful and emotionally involving story of three kids trying to find their path to a new life. - Adelaide Film Festival.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 275
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: uplifting, serious, atmospheric, realistic, sentimental, touching
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The Earthling (1980)
Plot Summary:
Patrick Foley has been on the move all his live. Tired of drifting, he wants to spend his last days in an isolated Australian valley where he grew up. On his difficult journey he meets Shawn, a little desperate city-boy whose parents were killed in an accident in this remote inhospitable territory. Being unable to accompany the boy back to the civilized world he reluctantly takes him with him on his trip to that valley and teaches him in a rugged way how to survive.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: anamorphic, serious, surreal, independent film
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Freedom Is Paradise (1989)
Plot Summary:
Young Sasha is brought into a state-run children's home because his mother died early and his father spends most of his life in prison. The conditions are like in a penal institution. Sasha tries several times to escape and to search for his father.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 322
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: road movie, crying
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Moon Rock for Monday (2020)
Plot Summary:
Set in Sydney, 1999, after an unlikely encounter at a train station, a young girl befriends a fugitive teenage boy and they travel to visit a moon rock that the girl believes will heal her.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, sentimental, sincere, touching, unusual plot structure, captivating, road movie, independent film
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Cry Macho (2021)
Plot Summary:
Mike Milo, a one-time rodeo star and washed-up horse breeder, takes a job from an ex-boss to bring the man's young son home from Mexico.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 32000
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, captivating, disturbing, road movie, inspirational, suspense, anamorphic, neo western
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King Jack (2015)
Plot Summary:
Growing up in a rural town filled with violent delinquents, Jack has learned to do what it takes to survive, despite having an oblivious mother and no father. After his aunt falls ill and a younger cousin comes to stay with him, the hardened 15-year-old discovers the importance of friendship, family, and looking for happiness even in the most desolate of circumstances.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, realistic, independent film
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War of the Buttons (1994)
Plot Summary:
The children of Ballydowse and Carrickdowse engage in battles where they cut of the buttons, shoe-laces and underwear of their captured opponents. This is to get the boys in trouble with their parents. They go to battle in mass groups of dozens, throwing stones and cutting off their opponents buttons etc. And sometimes they go to battle completely naked and exposed. In one such scene about 30 boys return from a battle to celebrate victory at a barn-house only to find some girls waiting for them and they get very embarrassed at losing their privacy.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: UK, France, Japan, USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, realistic, epic, sincere, serious, contemplative, light, romantic, sexy
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Mud (2012)
Plot Summary:
Two teenage boys encounter a fugitive and make a pact to help him escape from an island in the Mississippi.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 187000
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: emotional, suspense, atmospheric, touching, suspenseful, realistic, southern gothic, independent film, tense, enigmatic
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The Cure (1995)
Plot Summary:
Dexter, age 11, who has AIDS, and his next door neighbor Eric, a little older and much bigger, become best friends. Eric also becomes closer to Dexter's mother than to his own, who is neglectful and bigoted and violently forbids their friendship upon learning of it. Dexter and Erik start the journey to find "The Cure" they had read about in the local newspaper.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: sad, touching, tear jerker, inspirational, sincere, realistic, depressing, spiritual, epic, crying
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White Water Summer (1987)
Plot Summary:
When the experienced guide Vic accompanies the city boy Alan and his three friends on their first wilderness experience, he not only hope to teach the four boys lessons about the wilderness, but about themselves. Vic pushes them to the limit. Soon after alienating the boys, Vic finds himself in desperate need of help and must rely on his students in order to survive.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: intense, sincere, exciting, suspenseful, feel good, serious, realistic, contemplative, semi serious, scary
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The Young Black Stallion (2003)
Plot Summary:
When courageous young Neera becomes separated from her family in the desert, she chances upon a wild colt. Together they find friendship, trust, and their way back home only to discover her family is about to lose everything!.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, realistic