20 movies like Short Term 12, ordered by similarity : Boys(2018), In Her Name(2016), The Tale(2018), Diane(2018), Cloud 9(2008), Fast Girls(2012), The Human Comedy(1943), Christmas on Holly Lane(2018), About a Girl(2014), Stella's Last Weekend(2018), Katie Says Goodbye(2016), Maedchen in Uniform(1931) ...
Drama
USA
2013
96 Minutes
Brie Larson John Gallagher Jr. Kaitlyn Dever Stephanie Beatriz Rami Malek Alex Calloway Kevin Hernandez LaKeith Stanfield Frantz Turner
young woman team leader teenager emotional home past heroes crisis behavior growing up
A 20-something supervising staff member of a residential treatment facility navigates the troubled waters of that world alongside her co-worker and longtime boyfriend.
Drama, Romance
2018
82 Minutes
Aure Atika Nicolas Bauwens Tommy Lee Baïk Ilian Bergala Pierre Cartonnet Marie Denarnaud Félix Maritaud
young man man gay man classmate concierge boyfriend intense brooding suspenseful melodramatic emotional profound hotel club school past homosexuality partnership first love trust
Drama
2016
87 Minutes
Daniel Auteuil Sebastian Koch Marie-Josée Croze Christelle Cornil Lila-Rose Gilberti Emma Besson Christian Kmiotek Serge Feuillard
man frenchman daughter teenager mother boyfriend engaging gripping emotional thrilling melodramatic sad france vacation home bedroom unexpected death father/daughter relationship grief fight for justice justice
Drama
USA|Germany
2018
114 Minutes
Laura Dern Elizabeth Debicki Laura Allen Jason Ritter Ellen Burstyn Common Frances Conroy John Heard Tina Parker Isabella Amara Isabelle Nélisse
journalist professor mother coach boyfriend emotional disheartening moving profound uneasy intense house farm childhood home school child abuse molestation going home past crimes repression
A woman filming a documentary on childhood rape victims starts to question the nature of her childhood relationship with her riding instructor and running coach.
Drama
2018
95 Minutes
Mary Kay Place Jake Lacy Estelle Parsons Andrea Martin Deirdre O'Connell Phyllis Somerville Celia Keenan-Bolger Ray Iannicelli
woman son drug addict volunteer sick person uneasy tense emotional profound amusing touching hospital house bar church homeless shelter secret past troubled past self-sacrifice drug addiction
A woman fills her days helping others and desperately attempting to bond with her drug-addicted son. But as those around her begin to drift away in the last quarter of her life, she is left to reckon with past choices and long-dormant memories.
Romance, Drama
Germany
2008
98 Minutes
Ursula Werner Horst Rehberg Horst Westphal Steffi Kühnert
woman man couple lover cheeky confident emotional engaging heartwarming germany home apartment lake love love triangle loveless marriage lovers old age love forbidden love
A romantic drama about a woman who enters into an affair after 30 years of marriage.
Drama
UK
2012
91 Minutes
Lenora Crichlow Lily James Noel Clarke Rupert Graves Bradley James Philip Davis Lorraine Burroughs Lashana Lynch Dominique Tipper
girl runner team member coach father physical therapist confident dreamy emotional engaging heartwarming inspiring london united kingdom racetrack locker room council estate family home sports team
A street smart runner develops an intense rivalry with an equally ambitious wealthy young athlete.
Comedy, Drama
USA
1943
118 Minutes
Mickey Rooney Frank Morgan James Craig Jackie "Butch" Jenkins Marsha Hunt Fay Bainter Darryl Hickman Donna Reed Van Johnson
young boy young girl boss man woman brother heartwarming emotional amusing small town house high school track office europe world war ii home front young love family communication
Teenager Homer Macauley stays at home in small-town Ithaca to support his family while his older brother Marcus prepares to go to war.
Other, Drama
USA
2018
90 Minutes
Sarah Lancaster Karen Holness Gina Holden Jaime M. Callica Giles Panton Sharon Crandall Tristan Shire Tariq Leslie Serge Houde Jesse Carroll Sandy Robson
woman chef business woman friend romantic interest man emotional melodramatic playful mushy small town house diner office memories christmas nostalgia dream home dreams discovery
Amelia Pittman (Vanessa Simoes) is forced to interact with her father, Fred Pittman (Jody Mitchell) who abandoned her as a child and now has Alzheimer's.
Comedy, Drama
Germany
2014
104 Minutes
Jasna Fritzi Bauer Lilly Forgách Nikolaus Frei Rafael Gareisen Michael Gempart Lauritz Greve Heike Koslowski Sandro Lohmann Heike Makatsch Aurel Manthei Simon Schwarz
young girl teen girl suicidal person family psychoanalyst lover amusing cheeky emotional touching uneasy heartwarming europe bavaria munich doctor's office home germany teenage rebellion teen angst
Charleen, 15, quick-witted and sassy, is Kurt Cobain's biggest fan and wonders why 'growing up' has to be so complicated. One day, feeling especially melodramatic and rebellious, she ... See full summary »
Romance, Drama
USA
2018
102 Minutes
Nat Wolff Alex Wolff Polly Draper Paulina Singer Nick Sandow Julia Macchio Julia Abueva Leo Heller
young man brother love interest young woman mother father charming cheeky emotional heartwarming moving touching new york united states family home beach arcade party young love love triangle
STELLA'S LAST WEEKEND is the story of two brothers whose relationship is challenged when they find they are in love with the same girl, but it is also about the unshakable bond between them.
Drama
2016
88 Minutes
Mireille Enos Olivia Cooke Mary Steenburgen Christopher Abbott James Belushi Keir Gilchrist Chris Lowell Nathan Corddry Natasha Bassett Bernardo Saracino Morse Bicknell
teenager young woman mother first love waitress mechanic young man bleak moving emotional diner arizona desert car garage truck trailer trailer park united states growing up
Drama
1931
90 Minutes
Hertha Thiele Dorothea Wieck Emilia Unda
teenager teacher student headmistress melodramatic emotional boarding school germany family home classroom homosexuality forbidden love scandal school growing up love 1930s
A student (Hertha Thiele) falls in love with her teacher (Dorothea Wieck) at a strict Prussian girls school.
Drama
UK
2019
84 Minutes
Frankie Box Alfie Deegan Sharlene Whyte William Ash Nicola Wright Jenna Goodwin Billy Mogford Emily Gibson Leia Desseaux Mitchell Murphy Annie Grainger
gymnast half brother father teen girl emotional gutsy powerful touching inspiring heartwarming family home gym brighton, england living space united kingdom home gymnastics family relationships crime life story
An aspiring teenager gymnast's world is turned upside down with the arrival of the half-brother she never knew she had.
Comedy, Drama
USA
2017
94 Minutes
Saoirse Ronan Laurie Metcalf Timothée Chalamet Lucas Hedges Tracy Letts Odeya Rush Jake McDorman Beanie Feldstein Lois Smith Stephen McKinley Henderson Jordan Rodrigues
mother daughter teenager high-school student best friend teacher father moving uplifting playful california high school catholic school sacramento, calif. family home university united states prom mother/daughter relationship coming of age
In 2002, an artistically inclined seventeen-year-old girl comes of age in Sacramento, California.
Documentary, Drama
USA
1994
174 Minutes
William Gates Arthur Agee Sheila Agee Isiah Thomas Bill Gleason
basketball player teenager mother father coach teacher uplifting powerful gutsy emotional chicago westchester, ill. basketball court family home basketball ambition high school racism class distinctions growing up
A film following the lives of two inner-city Chicago boys who struggle to become college basketball players on the road to going professional.
Comedy, Drama
UK
2019
101 Minutes
Martin Donaghy Brian Ferguson Ryan Fletcher Laura Fraser Rachel Jackson Neil Leiper Lorn Macdonald Kevin Mains
scottish person teenager best friend parent partygoer amusing emotional engaging frenetic gutsy unrestrained scotland home city party rave street friendship rave culture drugs
Two teenage boys in Scotland in 1994, best friends with no control over their lives, risk everything to attend an illegal rave, hoping for the best night of their boring lives.
Biography, Drama, History
Sweden|Denmark
2018
123 Minutes
Alba August Maria Bonnevie Trine Dyrholm Magnus Krepper Henrik Rafaelsen Björn Gustafson Sofia Karemyr Liv LeMoyne Mira Mitchell Maria Alm Norell
son lover adoptive mother author young woman doctor suspenseful emotional inspiring office copenhagen small town field family home sweden struggle life story unplanned pregnancy courage absence
Biopic of Swedish writer Astrid Lindgren, the author of numerous children's books and creator of Pippi Longstocking.
Drama
2018
86 Minutes
Sarah Greene Moe Dunford Ellie O'Halloran Ruby Dunne Darragh Mckenzie Molly McCann Killian Coyle John Dalessandro Natalia Kostrzewa Lochlann O'Mearáin Toni O'Rourke
mother family homeless person bleak emotional family home street homelessness family in peril survival underdog 2010s
A woman, her husband and their four children find themselves homeless after their landlord sells their house. Over the next 36 hours, the couple desperately search for a place to live while trying to shield the kids from the reality of the situation.
Drama
Spain
2013
108 Minutes
Francesc Colomer Javier Cámara Ramon Fontserè Natalia de Molina Rogelio Fernández Jorge Sanz Ariadna Gil Violeta Rodríguez
teacher fan pregnant woman teen boy runaway cheery dreamy emotional fascinating heartwarming inspiring spain car road school family home freedom growing up fanaticism running away
In Spain in 1966, an English teacher picks up two hitchhikers on his quest to meet John Lennon.
Drama
2015
126 Minutes
Haruka Ayase Masami Nagasawa Kaho Suzu Hirose Kirin Kiki Shinobu Ohtake Ryô Kase Jun Fubuki
sister mother figure estranged father sibling half sister friend caregiver grandmother love interest romantic interest mother lighthearted emotional engaging endearing positive japan home family home family
After the death of their estranged father, three siblings (Haruka Ayase, Masami Nagasawa, Kaho) invite their half sister (Suzu Hirose) to live with them.