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On the Outs (2004)
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On the Outs (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Follows the choices made by three young women - one a drug dealer, one an addict, one a pregnant teen - in Jersey City.
Style: rough, touching, serious, emotional, anthology, bleak, realistic, independent film
Plot: asthma, teenage pregnancy, drug dealer, single mother, life is a bitch, teenage life, juvenile delinquency, lifestyle, kids in trouble, gang, youth, addiction, drug dealing, social misfits, pregnancy, urban ghetto life, lesbian relationship, drug addiction, coming of age, prison, homeless, poverty, lgbtq, troubled youth, parallel story ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: new jersey, usa

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, rough and bleak films with plots about life is a bitch, society, youth, coming of age, urban ghetto life, urban ghetto and teenage life mostly in Drama and Family genres. Some movies like On the Outs: Stolen Dreams (2009), She Fought Alone (1995), 1 Out of 7 (2011), Hillbilly Elegy (2020), Never Rarely Sometimes Always (2020). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Stolen Dreams (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Jessica, Sabrina and Daiane have dreams, just like all young people of any social class or place in the world. They live in a low-income neighborhood in the periphery of Rio de Janeiro and find in prostitution a way to survive and satisfy their ...
Style: realistic, serious, psychological, captivating, sentimental ...
Plot: teenage sex, coming of age, friends, society, lifestyle, prostitution, friendship, rivalry, poverty, teenage pregnancy, criminality, troubled youth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: latin america, brazil, rio de janeiro
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She Fought Alone (1995)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: All, including school administration and a friend, turn their backs on a girl who accused a classmate of rape.
Style: touching, realistic, sincere, disturbing, thought provoking ...
Audience: teens, chick flick
Plot: rape, innocence lost, high school, sexual abuse, juvenile delinquency, teenage love, youth, rebellion, fighting the system, against the odds, american football, social misfits ...
Time: 90s
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1 Out of 7 (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Runaway teen Lexi find herself alone and pregnant on the streets. Seemingly beyond hope, she must turn to Devon, a woman with her own demons, to help her find a way back from her past mistakes.
Style: serious, sincere, realistic, rough, independent film ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: homeless, teenage life, kids in trouble, life is a bitch, love, dysfunctional family, society, youth, family problems, pregnancy, escape, loneliness ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, oregon, portland oregon
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67%
Hillbilly Elegy (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: An urgent phone call pulls a Yale Law student back to his Ohio hometown, where he reflects on three generations of family history and his own future.
Style: thought provoking, psychological, touching, realistic, scenic ...
Plot: single mother, small town life, mother son estrangement, addiction, dysfunctional family, family relations, childhood memory, teenage boy, grandmother grandson relationship, mother daughter conflict, american dream, family drama ...
Time: 2020s, 90s, year 1997, year 2011, year 1946 ...
Place: kentucky, ohio, yale university, new haven connecticut
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100%
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Never Rarely Sometimes Always (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A pair of teenage girls in rural Pennsylvania travel to New York City to seek out medical help after an unintended pregnancy.
Style: sad, social, meditative, serious, rough ...
Audience: girls' night, teens, teen drama
Plot: pregnancy, abortion, female protagonist, teenage pregnancy, teenage girl, sexual abuse, unwanted pregnancy, adolescence, teenager, feminist, abortion clinic, 17 year old ...
Time: year 2019, 2020s, 2010s
Place: pennsylvania, new york
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Fifteen and Pregnant (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Based on a true story, 15 year old Tina Spangler discovers she is pregnant. Her choices are abortion, adoption, or a lonely, exhausting life as a single parent. Abandoned by her boyfriend, she turns to her mother. Tina discovers although it has torn ...
Style: realistic, serious, touching, emotional, psychological ...
Audience: teens
Plot: pregnancy, teenage pregnancy, family problems, lifestyle, teenage life, family in crisis, hopes, parent child relationship, sister sister relationship, youth, family relations, husband wife relationship ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: usa
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49%
The Rose Seller (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: Colombia
Duration: 116 min.
Story: 13-year-old Monica leads a street life, making her living by selling flowers to couples in local nightspots, she is joined by 10-year-old Andrea who runs out of her house after her mother beats her.
Style: social, serious, realistic, bleak, disturbing ...
Plot: gang, children, homeless, tramp, hobo, feminist, juvenile delinquent, teenage girl, intimacy, homelessness, street kid, poverty ...
Time: 90s
Place: colombia
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49%
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Zooey (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Angel and Zooey are not your typical newlyweds. Zooey is a professional prostitute and Angel is a drug dealer. Yet they are not without hopes and dreams, of escaping their life in the streets and starting a new in a fresh painted cottage with picked ...
Style: serious, realistic, rough, bleak, gloomy
Plot: love affair, going straight, lifestyle, addiction, drug abuse, love and romance, hopes, youth, society, life is a bitch, downfall, survival ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york
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The Inevitable Defeat of Mister & Pete (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Coming of age story about two inner city youths, who are left to fend for themselves over the summer after their mothers are taken away by the authorities.
Style: touching, serious, realistic, emotional, hood ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: urban ghetto life, homeless, coming of age, youth, life is a bitch, friendship, teenage life, lifestyle, working class, hopes, forceful separation, redemption ...
Time: 21st century
Place: brooklyn new york city, usa, new york
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Our America (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: The true story of two African-American teen radio reporters and their documentary investigation of a notorious child murder.
Style: serious, realistic, rough, emotional, controversial ...
Plot: journalism, murder, uncover truth, juvenile delinquency, social decay, teenage life, human spirit, society, life is a bitch, youth, hopes, idealism ...
Place: chicago, usa
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47%
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Lost Angels (1989)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Rich L.A. party brat Tim (Adam Horovitz) spins into a cycle of despair after his parents divorce, and trying to fill the void with drugs and trouble only buys him a ticket to an asylum. But with the help of a psychiatrist (Donald Sutherland) who has ...
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, thought provoking, independent film ...
Plot: juvenile delinquency, gang, redemption, coming of age, youth, life is a bitch, mentally unstable, society, lifestyle, teenage life, dysfunctional family, nightlife ...
Time: year 1989, 80s
Place: usa, los angeles
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47%
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Our Song (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Focusing on the bonding between three female (an African American female, a half African American half Latino American female, and a Latino American female) high school members of Brooklyn's "Jackie Robinson Steppers Marching Band" ...
Style: disturbing, sincere, touching, thought provoking, independent film ...
Plot: friendship, high school, teenager, asthma, adolescence, against the odds, lifestyle, musician's life, working class, life is a bitch, hopes, music band ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york, usa, brooklyn new york city
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Bullet Boy (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Ricky is just out of a young offenders institute, heading home to Hackney and determined to go straight. Instead, he heads straight for trouble when he becomes involved in a street confrontation, siding with his best friend Wisdom against a local ...
Style: realistic, psychological, serious, rough, hood ...
Plot: urban ghetto life, gang, youth, juvenile delinquency, urban, life is a bitch, going straight, kids in trouble, social decay, friendship, orphan, society ...
Place: england, africa, london, europe
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The Incredible Mrs. Ritchie (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, UK, USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A troubled teen is given the chance to redeem his criminal debt to society
Style: touching, sentimental, emotional, serious, realistic
Audience: teen drama
Plot: youth, family relations, friendship, teenage life, juvenile delinquency, self discovery, parents and children, adolescence vs adulthood, misfit, life is a bitch, society, coming of age ...
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Streeters (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Authentic and committed, moving and stormy drama of street kids from Mexico City. Wonderful adaptation of successful play about street kids who have more trouble with corrupt cops, than with dirty and heavy work.
Style: sincere, serious, touching, realistic, bleak ...
Plot: kids in trouble, juvenile delinquency, gang, social decay, society, youth, drug dealing, life is a bitch, urban ghetto life, police corruption, social misfits, down on your luck ...
Place: mexico, latin america
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Gracie's Choice (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: For as long as she can remember, 16 year-old Gracie has been raising her four siblings, each of whom has a different, absent father and their mother is on the fast track to self-destruction. When these children's lives are about to be pulled ...
Style: sentimental, sincere, emotional, touching, realistic ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: teenage girl, custody battle, coming of age, youth, custody, adoption, responsibility, parents and children, family values, siblings relations, dysfunctional family, life is a bitch ...
Time: 21st century
Place: nova scotia
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The Poker House (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Agnes and her two sisters struggle through a day in a home overrun by gamblers, thieves, and johns.
Style: realistic, serious, rough, emotional, teen ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: coming of age, poverty, dysfunctional family, female protagonist, pimp, sister sister relationship, prostitute, family relations, family in crisis, interracial rape, defloration, lifestyle ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: iowa, usa
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45%
In Vanda's Room (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: Portugal, Germany, Switzerland
Duration: 171 min.
Story: With the intimate feel of a documentary and the texture of a Vermeer painting, In Vanda’s Room takes an unflinching, fragmentary look at a handful of self-destructive, marginalized people, but is centered around the heroin-addicted Vanda Duarte.
Style: realistic, touching, emotional, semi documentary, contemplative ...
Plot: addiction, drug abuse, life is a bitch, misfit, social misfits, heroin addict, society, down on your luck, city life, urban ghetto life, poverty, painter ...
Time: 90s
Place: portugal, lisbon portugal
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45%
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Love Is the Drug (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Jonah Brand (John Patrick Amedori) isn't necessarily the type of guy who would interest ultra-hot Sara Weller (Lizzy Caplan). But when she and her friends find out he works at a pharmacy, they charm him into their circle and gain his trust with ...
Style: serious, emotional, independent film, suspenseful, suspense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: love triangle, juvenile delinquency, lifestyle, teenage love, drug abuse, drug dealing, family relations, youth, life is a bitch, kids in trouble, social relations, teenage life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: california, los angeles, usa
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Acts of Worship (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Alix is taken in by a photographer, Digna, who despite her friends' protests, tries to help Alix piece her life back together and overcome her addictions.
Style: serious, realistic, disturbing, rough, gloomy ...
Plot: friendship, addiction, juvenile delinquency, downfall, going straight, youth, life is a bitch, rehabilitation, destructive relationship, drug abuse, overdose, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa, lower east side manhattan new york city, manhattan new york city
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Five Star (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: After John’s absent father is struck by a stray bullet, Primo takes it upon himself to verse the young boy in the code of the streets—one founded on respect and upheld by fear. A member of the Bloods since the age of twelve—both in the film ...
Style: realistic, serious, captivating, psychological, sexy ...
Plot: gang, juvenile delinquency, haunted by the past, urban ghetto life, teaching the ways of the world, adolescence vs adulthood, coming of age, society, ghetto, gangster, violent content, drug dealing ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
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Life Support (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: The true-life story of a mother who overcame an addiction to crack and became a positive role model and an AIDS activist in the black community.
Style: serious, realistic, thought provoking, touching, sincere ...
Plot: aids, hiv, drug abuse, lifestyle, going straight, friendship, drug addict, addiction, life is a bitch, rehabilitation, hopes, society ...
Place: new york, usa
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Without Destination (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Sin Destino follows the life of a 15 year old Mexican boy, Francisco, as he struggles to survive on the streets. His primary source of income is money raised by prostituting himself to men for sex, and the film implies that this learned behaviour ...
Style: disturbing, psychological, rough, atmospheric, surreal ...
Plot: coming of age, kids in trouble, juvenile delinquency, teenage life, youth, life is a bitch, society, sexual abuse, drug abuse, haunted by the past, urban ghetto life, addiction ...
Time: 21st century
Place: latin america, mexico
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A Hero Ain't Nothin' But a Sandwich (1977)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Faced with the harsh reality of growing up in the ghetto, 13-year old Benjie (Larry B. Scott) turns to heroin to escape. After Benjie hits rock bottom, his mother (Cicely Tyson) and her boyfriend (Paul Winfield) must sacrifice to help him overcome ...
Style: independent film, serious, realistic
Plot: blaxploitation, society, hopes, ghetto, drug addiction, exploitation, hidden treasure, african, stoner, heroin, coming of age, hardship ...
Time: year 1978, 70s
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44%
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Life Hits (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Christina is living in a suburb to Copenhagen. With her class mates Cecilie, Trine and Pernille she slacks her school work, living mostly for the weekends of gate crashing, getting drunk, experimenting with drugs and scoring guys. But her world is ...
Style: realistic, bleak, serious, rough, captivating ...
Audience: teens
Plot: revenge, lifestyle, life is a bitch, juvenile delinquency, teenage life, high school life, friendship, social misfits, youth, drug abuse, misfit, society ...
Time: 21st century
Place: denmark, europe
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Imperial Dreams (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A 21-year-old reformed gangster's devotion to his family and his future is put to the test when he is released from prison and returns to his old stomping grounds in Watts, Los Angeles.
Style: touching, uplifting, serious, rough, hood ...
Plot: going straight, life is a bitch, family relations, street kid, hopes, parents and children, society, urban ghetto life, black lives matter, black, blaxploitation, gang ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles, indiana, usa
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True Friends (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: New York, The Bronx, 1980. Two Italian boys Joey Esposito and Louie Mazerino jump to the defence of a smaller Puerto Rican boy, J.J. Lopez, when J.J. is threatened by six schoolyard bullies. The three boys soon become best friends, and they always ...
Style: independent film, realistic, serious
Plot: friendship, urban ghetto, friends, juvenile delinquency, life is a bitch, ambition, youth, drug dealing, going straight, buddies, coming of age, unfulfillment ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york, usa, bronx new york city
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43%
A Brother's Kiss (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Two brothers, Lex and younger Mick, are living in Harlem. Mick is a policeman, and Lex, who spent youth years in reformatory because of injustice after he confronted the cop who tried to sodomize Mick on the street, is living with his wife Debbie ...
Style: emotional, serious, touching, rough, bleak ...
Plot: downfall, haunted by the past, society, life is a bitch, going straight, family problems, down on your luck, addiction, dysfunctional family, hopes, re-education, drug abuse ...
Time: year 1997, 20th century, 90s
Place: new york, usa, harlem
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43%
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Manito (2002)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story: Fifteen years ago, their Washington Heights neighborhood was dubbed the crack-cocaine capital of the world, but today it is transforming into one of the most vibrant, Spanish-speaking communities in the United States. While the drug dealers continue ...
Style: bleak, emotional, tense, rough, touching ...
Plot: drug dealing, racism, social decay, family relations, siblings relations, life is a bitch, juvenile delinquency, college, dogma, father son relationship, brother brother relationship, kids in trouble ...
Time: future
Place: usa, new york, manhattan new york city, bronx new york city
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Bobby G. Can't Swim (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Bobby G. lives life on the edge in this real, raw New York street drama. Bobby is a small-time coke dealer, always on the hustle but rarely successful. He lives in Hell's Kitchen with his Puerto Rican girlfriend Lucy, who makes ends meet as a ...
Style: independent film, tense, realistic, serious, psychological ...
Plot: urban ghetto life, jewish mob, prostitute, poverty, gangster, urban ghetto, society, going straight, juvenile delinquency, life is a bitch, criminal heroes, redemption ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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