Movies Similar to When Big People Lie

Seventeen Years to Earth(1998)

For 17 years, from the age of about six or seven, Kathy Chu keeps a diary. It's a complete fiction, denying disappointments (when her older sister doesn't want to spend time with her, Kathy invents and records a happy encounter) and rejections (she's teased for being Asian, but she writes about what fun she had with friends). Her hopes to be a writer compound the irony of her journal's disconnection. In college and after graduation, one of her closest friends is Kirby, who is also Asian. She denies any romantic attraction, and when they do become lovers, it's her diary that brings a crisis to their relationship and to her identify. Kathy falls back to earth.

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Inside(2025)

After being transferred from juvenile to adult prison, Mel Blight is taken under the wing of both Mark Shepard, Australia’s most despised criminal, and Warren Murfett, a soon to be paroled inmate. As a paternal triangle grows between them, we see that even the worst of men have a little bit of good inside that will be their undoing.

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Someone Saved My Life

Set in the 1960s, junior high schooler Dean strikes up a friendship with the vibrant yet reckless Roy, in an effort to escape his mother’s controlling grasp. But when the boys’ friendship threatens Dean’s budding romance with Beth and his own well-being, Dean must find his own voice, or risk following Roy down an increasingly dangerous path.

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Kacchey Limbu(2022)

In Mumbai, a pair of siblings find themselves on competing cricket teams as they struggle to balance familial loyalty with the pursuit of their passions.

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Intimacy(2022)

SUMMER. HEAT. SWEAT. CHILDREN'S LAUGHTER. ALL BECOMES DARKNESS.

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The Lost Boys(2023)

In a youth correctional facility, Joe is preparing his return to society. But William’s arrival turns his desire for freedom into desire of another kind. Behind fences and cell walls, passions begin to play havoc with the need for liberty.

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Tuī Ná(2022)

A boy struggles to reconcile his burgeoning queer identity with his filial duties and expectations from his Chinese immigrant mother.

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A Menina que Nunca Viu o Mar(2022)

Iara, a girl who is about to come of age, dreams of seeing the ocean, but lives in Rio Grande do Norte's countryside with her mother, a woman who's dreams were swallowed by the waves and who fears of losing her daughter.

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Story of Annette Zelman(2022)

1942 Paris. Annette is 20 years old, Jean is barely older, they love each other and the future is bright for them. But the deportation of the Jews of France will change their destiny. Upset at the idea of their only son marrying a Jewish woman, Jean Jausion's parents decide to keep young Annette Zelman away from them... and denounce her to the Gestapo. The machine was launched, but it was too late. Annette was deported to Auschwitz on June 22, 1942.

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Adjustment(2022)

Shahrokh, a nine-year-old effeminate boy who is humiliated and pushed away by his family and friends, makes up his mind to adjust himself to his new identity and comes out to the people of the village.

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Plum(2022)

A kid runs off to the desert to clear his head after the death of his older brother. In an attempt to find clarity, he begins to feel the weight of his grief, the suffocation of sitting with himself, and the boiling heat of the sun. All while having only a stuffed bunny to keep him company.

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Remy & Arletta(2023)

Remy attempts to balance her relationship with her alcoholic mother and her longtime best friend, Arletta. While Remy leans on her best friend as a coping mechanism, she learns that their co-dependent friendship is more than she realized.

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Narcosis(2022)

A woman and her two young children struggle for answers and shared closure after their husband and father, a professional cave diver, doesn't return from an expedition.

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The Starling Girl(2023)

17-year-old Jem Starling struggles with her place within her Christian fundamentalist community. But everything changes when her magnetic youth pastor Owen returns to their church.

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Soft-Spoken Weepy Cult Child

A teenage girl must ingratiate herself into her cult-follower mother's care before her chain-smoking grandmother dies of lung cancer.

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Hard Miles(2024)

A strong-willed social worker at a youth prison assembles a cycling team of teenage convicts and takes them on a transformative 1000-mile ride. Inspired by the life of Greg Townsend and the Ridgeview Academy Cycling Team. This is the story of how these troubled young men found another gear.

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Middle Class Love(2022)

A young college boy is frustrated being in middle-class family setup and finds love the ideal way to get out of it. However, the path to getting rid of the middle-class thinking and probing parents wasn't so easy as it seemed initially, especially when he thought love would save him.

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The Bee-Eaters(2021)

Peter is a socially awkward young man, whose only responsibility is to walk his nine-year-old neighbour home from school - over the heaths and green hills of rural England. As he makes a new friend in an ageing birdwatcher, Peter finds himself ensnared in a knot he cannot untangle.

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Bitter Memories(1977)

Emel works at Osman's club. There she meets Kemal and they fall in love. They decide to get married. Kemal's man Mahmut, gets Kemal into a pretended drugs business and causes Kemal to go to Tehran. Kemal writes letters to Emel but they are kept by Mahmut and Emel never sees them. Mahmut calls Kemal to Istanbul.

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My Tempo(2022)

Two gifted music students navigate the complexities of youth, friendship and fame while fighting to win a career-defining music contest.

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