Drama
Inspired by true experiences of grief, girlhood, and growing up, Jessie Barr’s SOPHIE JONES provides a stirring portrait of a sixteen-year-old. Stunned by the untimely death of her mother and struggling with the myriad challenges of teendom, Sophie (played with striking immediacy by the director’s cousin Jessica Barr) tries everything she can to feel something again, while holding herself together, in this sensitive, acutely realized, and utterly relatable coming-of-age story.
MOVIE COMMENTS
SIMILAR MOVIES
The Mighty Quinn
Butterfly
The World Unseen
Killing Words
Virgin
Some Girls
Estátua!
The Tiger's Fight
Echoes of Innocence
A Very Serious Person
Golden Youth
Rats
Mrs. Soffel
Foxes
The Idiots
The Seed of the Sacred Fig
Between the Miles
A Dry White Season
The Chocolate War
The Devil's Playground
SIMILAR MOVIES
The Mighty Quinn
IMDB 6 | Feb , 1989
Police chief Xavier Quinn investigates the gruesome murder of Donald Pater, one of the wealthiest residents on a Caribbean island. He was found decapitated in his Jacuzzi. Although the local political establishment, especially crooked Governor Chalk, insists that small-time thief Maubee is responsible, Xavier has his doubts. This view is complicated by the police chief's personal history with Maubee: The men have been friends since childhood.Butterfly
IMDB 7.3 | Sep , 1999
The film centres on Moncho and his coming-of-age experience in Galicia in 1936. Moncho develops a close relationship with his teacher Don Gregorio who introduces the boy to different things in the world. While the story centres on Moncho's ordinary coming-of-age experiences, tensions related to the looming Spanish Civil War periodically interrupt Moncho's personal growth and daily life.The World Unseen
IMDB 7.1 | Sep , 2007
A drama centered on two women who engage in a dangerous relationship during South Africa's apartheid era.Killing Words
IMDB 6.6 | Aug , 2004
A mild-mannered psychopath plays mind-games with a woman he has tied to a chair in his basement.Virgin
IMDB 4.4 | Jun , 2003
When a teenager finds herself pregnant, with no memory of having had sex, she determines that she is carrying the child of God.Some Girls
IMDB 5.6 | Sep , 1988
While on Christmas break, college student Michael journeys to Quebec City to spend time with his attractive girlfriend, Gabriella. Not long after he arrives, Gabriella breaks up with him, but her two equally gorgeous sisters waste no time showing romantic interest. In the meantime, Michael is left to deal with Gabriella's eccentric grandmother and offbeat father, an academic who spends most of his time naked.Estátua!
IMDB 6 | Aug , 2014
Isabel is a babysitter pregnant of her own child and can't wait to be a mother. Until she meets Joana.The Tiger's Fight
IMDB 5.3 | Jul , 2016
After a year of drought, Nicolas prepares for "The Tiger's Fight", a prehispanic ritual where the village men fight to imitate thunder and foster the rain, hope of a good harvest. Inspired by one of the last surviving blood rituals in Mexico, "The Tiger's Fight" tells the story of Nicolas, a young man who wants to preserve the ritual, even when his love defies the traditions of his people.Echoes of Innocence
IMDB 6 | Feb , 2005
A contemporary high school girl hears voices and sees visions like Joan of Arc. She is torn between her commitment to a long-lost first love and her growing feelings for another.A Very Serious Person
IMDB 5.5 | Apr , 2006
Jan, an itinerant male nurse from Denmark, takes a new job with Mrs. A, a terminally ill Manhattan woman raising her parentless thirteen-year-old grandson, Gil. Spending the summer by the shore, the emotionally reserved Jan finds himself oddly cast as a mentor to Gil in having to prepare the sensitive boy for life with his cousins in Florida after his grandmother's death.Golden Youth
IMDB 4.4 | Jan , 2019
Paris, France, 1979. Rose, a rebellious orphaned teenager, and Michel, a young aspiring painter, enjoy their crazy love under the neon lights of the decadent nightclub Le Palace, where they establish an ambiguous relationship with Lucille and Hubert, two bohemian bourgeois who will change their lives.Rats
IMDB 0 | May , 2025
A troubled teenage girl feels trapped her small town in Iceland. Will she find a way out?Mrs. Soffel
IMDB 6 | Dec , 1984
Kate Soffel is married to a prison warden in Pittsburgh, and is the mother of their four children. Ed Biddle is a convicted murderer awaiting execution on death row with his brother Jack. When Kate meets Eddie through her Bible readings to the prisoners, she is drawn to him, and they pursue a clandestine relationship. She agrees to help the brothers escape, and begins a treacherous journey with them to freedom in Canada.Foxes
IMDB 5.9 | Feb , 1980
A group of friends come of age in the asphalt desert of the San Fernando Valley, as set to a blazing soundtrack and endless drinking, drugs and sex.The Idiots
IMDB 0 | Feb , 2026
Fyodor Dostoyevsky and his wife Anna travel to Europe for their honeymoon and end up staying in a health resort in Switzerland, only to return to Russia after four years. Fyedya can’t shake his roulette habit and keeps losing their money. His wife accepts this fate since he keeps assuring her that it’s all for inspiration and soon he shall write his to-be masterpiece, 'The Idiot'.The Seed of the Sacred Fig
IMDB 7.6 | Sep , 2024
Investigating judge Iman grapples with paranoia amid political unrest in Tehran. When his gun vanishes, he suspects his wife and daughters, imposing draconian measures that strain family ties as societal rules crumble.Between the Miles
IMDB 0 | Sep , 2016
Florence, a hapless musician, takes three homeless teens off the streets of Los Angeles and into her care only to realize she has to overcome her own reckless tendencies in order to care for them.A Dry White Season
IMDB 6.6 | Sep , 1989
During the 1976 Soweto uprising, a white school teacher's life and values are threatened when he asks questions about the death of a young black boy who died in police custody.The Chocolate War
IMDB 6.2 | Nov , 1988
Jerry, a new student at an elite Catholic prep school, must face the hazing practices handed down by the Vigils, a group of powerful students. When teacher Brother Leon pushes the students to sell chocolates for a fundraiser, the head of the Vigils, Archie, gets Jerry to reject selling for 10 days. However, Jerry decides to keep up the refusal past the original time frame, which pits him against the Vigils and the school staff.The Devil's Playground
IMDB 6.5 | Dec , 1977
A powerful drama relating the intimate aspect of teenage boys and their priest/educators behind the walls of a religious institution where rigid discipline backfires natural feelings are deemed unnatural acts and human lives are controlled in the names of good intentions.