20 movies like Twelve, ordered by similarity : Alpha Dog(2006), Ponette(1996), Half Nelson(2006), A Million Little Pieces(2018), Life of the Party(2017), Hera Pheri(1975), The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey(2007), Reign Over Me(2007), Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood(2002), The Hate U Give(2018), Critical Thinking(2020), Trainspotting(1996) ...
Drama
2010
94 Minutes
Chace Crawford Curtis Jackson Emma Roberts Rory Culkin Billy Magnussen Emily Meade Esti Ginzburg Jeremy White Ambyr Childers Zoë Kravitz
childhood friend drug dealer best friend emotional thrilling new york city united states drug addiction death of friend partying discovery 2000s
Crime, Drama
Germany|USA
2006
118 Minutes
Bruce Willis Emile Hirsch Justin Timberlake Ben Foster Shawn Hatosy Chris Marquette Anton Yelchin Harry Dean Stanton Dominique Swain Vincent Kartheiser Sharon Stone
drug dealer brother drug addict friend best friend disturbing engaging shocking california drug addiction unusual friendship youth fraternity kidnapping escape discovery 2000s
Johnny and a couple pals kidnap Jake's 15-year-old brother, Zach, then assigns his buddy Frankie to be Zach's minder. They develop a brotherly friendship. Zach parties with his captors as things begin to spin out of control.
Comedy, Drama
France
1996
97 Minutes
Victoire Thivisol Marie Trintignant Xavier Beauvois Claire Nebout Matiaz Bureau Caton Delphine Schiltz Aurélie Vérillon Léopoldine Serre Henri Berthon Carla Ibled Luckie Royer
child mother father friend aunt somber emotional powerful france small town school death afterlife accident childhood religion superstition discovery growing up transformation
A four-year-old girl tries to come to terms with the sudden death of her mother.
Drama
USA
2006
106 Minutes
Ryan Gosling Shareeka Epps Anthony Mackie Deborah Rush Jay O. Sanders Nicole Vicius Denis O'Hare Monique Gabriela Curnen Starla Benford Tina Holmes Karen Chilton
teacher co-worker student drug addict friend emotional dark middle school brooklyn, n.y. bar locker room drug addiction friendship education dysfunction family discovery fall 2000s
An inner-city junior high school teacher with a drug habit forms an unlikely friendship with one of his students after she discovers his secret.
Drama
USA
2018
113 Minutes
Aaron Taylor-Johnson Charlie Hunnam Billy Bob Thornton David Dastmalchian Odessa Young Andy Buckley Tom Amandes Dominic Pace Lynne Oropeza
writer drug addict nurse friend patient emotional gripping inspiring intense somber rehabilitation clinic united states town second chance addiction difficult choices unlikely friendship rehabilitation discovery temptation
A drug dependent young man faces his past and his inner demons after he is interned in an institution for addicted.
Comedy, Drama
Australia
2017
84 Minutes
Georgia Chara Christopher Kirby Holly Brisley Talin Argon Michela Carattini Hayley Hughes Michael Budd Johnny Lahoud
man partygoer friend gangster drug dealer amusing tense brooding hilarious unrestrained house party cemetery bar office relationships self-destruction self-discovery party lifestyle changes
A touching comedy drama about 3 friends edging towards their mid thirties who, in an attempt to hang on to their carefree youth,embark on an attempt to write themselves into the history books by trying to host the world's longest house party.
Crime, Comedy, Drama, Action
India
1975
164 Minutes
Amitabh Bachchan Saira Banu Kimi Katkar Vinod Khanna Sulakshana Pandit Deepa Sahi Shilpa Shirodkar
young man young woman friend best friend father girlfriend amusing gripping thrilling intense emotional moving india city house bungalow restaurant street friendship best friends
Two friends Ajay and Vijay gets separated from each other when they discover secrets about their past in their own ways.
Other, Drama
UK
2007
90 Minutes
Tom Berenger Joely Richardson Luke Ward-Wilkinson Lia Williams Jenny O'Hara Ronald Pickup Elliot Cowan Derek Riddell
woodworker mother son young boy dead person friend engaging emotional melodramatic heartwarming charming creative family home friendship relationships christmas emotion art adventure discovery
When a broken hearted boy loses the treasured wooden nativity set that links him to his dead father, his worried mother persuades a lonely ill-tempered woodcarver to create a replacement, ... See full summary »
Drama
USA
2007
124 Minutes
Adam Sandler Don Cheadle Jada Pinkett Smith Liv Tyler Saffron Burrows Donald Sutherland Mike Binder Robert Klein Melinda Dillon Jonathan Banks Rae Allen
roommate friend wife child dentist psychiatrist moving dark new york city house office death depression loneliness friendship mental illness redemption discovery rescue 2000s
A man who lost his family in the September 11 attack on New York City runs into his old college roommate. Rekindling the friendship is the one thing that appears able to help the man recover from his grief.
Comedy, Drama
USA
2002
116 Minutes
Sandra Bullock Ellen Burstyn Fionnula Flanagan James Garner Cherry Jones Ashley Judd Shirley Knight Angus Macfadyen Maggie Smith Jacqueline McKenzie Katy Selverstone
friend daughter playwright mother fiancé husband emotional touching heartwarming amusing new york city louisiana wedding kitchen small town beach memory parent/child relationship motherhood marriage
After years of mother-daughter tension, Siddalee receives a scrapbook detailing the wild adventures of the "Ya-Yas", her mother's girlhood friends.
Crime, Drama
USA
2018
133 Minutes
Amandla Stenberg Regina Hall Russell Hornsby KJ Apa Anthony Mackie Sabrina Carpenter Common Issa Rae Lamar Johnson Dominique Fishback Algee Smith
teen girl teen boy neighbor high-school student friend police officer uneasy tense emotional profound passionate neighborhood high school party car police station house police brutality activism racial tension
Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend Khalil at the hands of a police officer. Now, facing pressure from all sides of the community, Starr must find her voice and stand up for what's right.
Drama
USA
2020
117 Minutes
John Alberto Leguizamo Rachel Bay Jones Michael Kenneth Williams Corwin C. Tuggles Jorge Lendeborg Jr. Angel Bismark Curiel Will Hochman Zora Casebere
teacher student friend drug dealer parent african-american confident emotional passionate uplifting intense moving school chess tournament family home inner city united states city apartment chess inner-city life
The true story of the Miami Jackson High School chess team which was the first inner city team to win the U.S. National Chess Championship.
Comedy, Drama
UK
1996
94 Minutes
Ewan McGregor Ewen Bremner Jonny Lee Miller Kevin McKidd Robert Carlyle Kelly Macdonald Peter Mullan James Cosmo Eileen Nicholas Susan Vidler Pauline Lynch
drug addict friend student girlfriend drug dealer sociopath amusing dark gritty edinburgh london household apartment pub hotel addiction abandonment friendship crime death
Renton, deeply immersed in the Edinburgh drug scene, tries to clean up and get out, despite the allure of the drugs and influence of friends.
Kids & Family, Drama
UK|USA
1993
101 Minutes
Kate Maberly Heydon Prowse Maggie Smith John Lynch Andrew Knott Laura Crossley Walter Sparrow Irène Jacob
orphan uncle servant friend creative emotional dreamy england mansion garden neglect absence death self-discovery imagination loneliness discovery metamorphosis 1990s
A young, recently-orphaned girl is sent to England after living in India all of her life. Once there, she begins to explore her new, seemingly-isolated surroundings, and its secrets.
Drama
Canada|Italy
2002
95 Minutes
Sophia Loren Mira Sorvino Deborah Kara Unger Pete Postlethwaite Klaus Maria Brandauer Gérard Depardieu Malcolm McDowell Wendy Crewson
wife mother cellist photographer artist estranged father ex-convict family friend stranger inspiring uplifting touching tender toronto canada secret discovery art journey
Three women confront their pasts which changes their futures.
Mystery & Thriller, Drama
Italy
2009
95 Minutes
Filippo Timi Kseniya Rappoport Antonia Truppo Gaetano Bruno Fausto Russo Alesi Michele Di Mauro Lorenzo Gioielli Lidia Vitale
woman ex-cop lover security guard friend police detective emotional chilling thrilling turin, italy countryside villa woods buenos aires, argentina hospital dating robbery trauma coma secret past
A chambermaid and an ex-cop meet at a speed dating event and a romance develops. But during a romantic getaway things suddenly take a dark turn.
Comedy, Drama
Canada|France
2003
99 Minutes
Rémy Girard Stéphane Rousseau Marie-Josée Croze Marina Hands Dorothée Berryman Johanne-Marie Tremblay Dominique Michel Louise Portal Yves Jacques Pierre Curzi Sophie Lorain
father professor son friend love interest emotional profound amusing montreal canada vermont death terminal illness health care father/son relationship philosophy sex discovery love 2000s
During his final days, a dying man is reunited with old friends, former lovers, his ex-wife, and his estranged son.
Fantasy, Drama
USA
2016
97 Minutes
Will Smith Edward Norton Kate Winslet Michael Peña Helen Mirren Naomie Harris Keira Knightley Jacob Latimore Ann Dowd Liza Colón-Zayas Natalie Gold
business owner executive friend death time child charming emotional passionate profound new york city office apartment neighborhood park bridge grief friendship betrayal mental breakdown
Retreating from life after a tragedy, a man questions the universe by writing to Love, Time, and Death. Receiving unexpected answers, he begins to see how these things interlock and how even loss can reveal moments of meaning and beauty.
Biography, Drama, History
Israel|USA
2015
98 Minutes
Natalie Portman Gilad Kahana Amir Tessler Ohad Knoller Makram J. Khoury Neta Riskin Alexander Peleg Rotem Keinan Tomer Kapon Vladimir Friedman Henry David
child mother father writer son friend tender sultry striking somber moving brooding jerusalem israel palestine family home city community depression childhood
The story of Amos Oz's youth, set against the backdrop of the end of the British Mandate for Palestine and the early years of the State of Israel. The film details the young man's relationship with his mother and his beginnings as a writer, while looking at what happens when the stories we tell become the stories we live.
Biography, Drama
USA
2018
112 Minutes
Steve Carell Timothée Chalamet Maura Tierney Amy Ryan Timothy Hutton Kaitlyn Dever Andre Royo LisaGay Hamilton
father son ex-wife drug addict doctor addict emotional intense melancholy raw tender powerful united states new york city los angeles school home addiction father/son relationship love
Based on the best-selling pair of memoirs from father and son David and Nic Sheff, Beautiful Boy chronicles the heartbreaking and inspiring experience of survival, relapse and recovery in a family coping with addiction over many years.
Drama
Spain
2018
93 Minutes
Zita Hanrot Clémence Boisnard Marie Denarnaud Christine Citti Pascal Reneric Michel Muller Ines Fehner Noémie Rosset Arnaud Azoulay Philippe Berodot Vincent Berger
drug addict psychologist friend therapist mother rehab patient sad inspiring intense emotional moving raw france drug addiction sobriety friendship rehabilitation freedom independence discovery
Based on real events, Francesc Boix is a Spaniard inmate in the Nazi concentration camp of Mauthausen in Austria who tries to save the evidences of the horrors committed inside its walls.