Movies like Bully
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Bully (2001)
39K
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA, France, UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
After finding himself at the constant abuse of his best friend Bobby, Marty has become fed up with his friend's twisted ways. His girlfriend, a victim of Bobby's often cruel ways, couldn't agree more and they strategize murdering Bobby.
Style:
disturbing, bleak, realistic, controversial, sexy, stylized, melancholic, dark, intense, rough ...
Audience:
teens, kids, teen drama, adult
Plot:
sexual abuse, bullying, revenge, teenager, drugs, rape, rivalry, murder, youth, bully, male nudity, teenage sex, rough sex, suburbs, teenage rape, social decay, oral sex, rape victim, cruelty, sex, vengeance, rapist, casual sex, bully comeuppance, gangsters ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
usa, bronx new york city, florida
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Most similar movies to Bully
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, harsh and weird films with plots about brutality, violence, runaway, storytelling, mentor, violent and dialogue mostly in Drama, Crime and Biography genres. Some movies like Bully: Ken Park (2002), Thirteen (2003), L.I.E. (2001), Kids (1995), Alpha Dog (2006). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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30K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Netherlands, France
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Ken Park focuses on several teenagers and their tormented home lives. Shawn seems to be the most conventional. Tate is brimming with psychotic rage; Claude is habitually harassed by his brutish father and coddled, rather uncomfortably, by his ...
Style:
disturbing, art house, sexual, rough, sexy ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
coming of age, infidelity, explicit sex, youth, strong sexual content, underage sex, incest, sex, older woman younger man relationship, teenage sex, sexual relations, masturbation ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
california, australia, usa
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89%
91K
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Tracy is a normal 13-year-old trying to make it in school. After befriending the most popular girl at school, Evie, Tracy's world is turned upside down when Evie introduces her to a world of sex, drugs and cash. But it isn't long before ...
Style:
realistic, sincere, tense, disturbing, intense ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, chick flick, teen drama, adult
Plot:
coming of age, drug addiction, friendship, mother daughter relationship, peer pressure, dysfunctional family, addiction, underage drinking, teenage protagonist, self harm, teenager, kids in trouble ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
california, usa, los angeles, venice beach california
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100%
10K
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
In this biting and disturbing coming-of-age tale from writer-director Michael Cuesta, life is bittersweet along the L.I.E., also known as the Long Island Expressway, as suburban teen Howie Blitzer learns all too clearly. In the space of a week, he ...
Style:
disturbing, bleak, controversial, sexy, brutal ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
gay, male prostitution, coming of age, sexual abuse, pedophile, older man younger man relationship, pedophilia, mentor, youth, suburbs, rent boy, juvenile delinquent ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
long island, new york, new jersey, california
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100%
80K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A controversial portrayal of teens in New York City which exposes a deeply disturbing world of sex and substance abuse. The film focuses on a sexually reckless, freckle-faced boy named Telly, whose goal is to have sex with as many different girls as ...
Style:
disturbing, rough, controversial, depressing, bleak ...
Audience:
teens, kids, chick flick, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, virginity, innocence lost, drugs, aids, youth, puberty, sex, underage sex, teenager, sexual promiscuity, street kid ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new york, los angeles, new jersey, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
105K
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
Johnny Truelove likes to see himself as tough. He's the son of an underworld figure and a drug dealer. Johnny also likes to get tough when things don't go his way. When Jake Mazursky fails to pay up for Johnny, things get worse for the ...
Style:
disturbing, harsh, serious, rough, bleak ...
Audience:
teens, kids, teen drama
Plot:
kidnapping, gang, sex scene, gangsters, drug dealer, true crime, youth, nude, society, male nudity, crime gone awry, culture clash ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, year 1999, year 2005, year 2003
Place:
los angeles, usa, california, palm springs california, albuquerque new mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
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Films like Thirteen
764K
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Brazil, France, Germany
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
Cidade de Deus is a shantytown that started during the 1960s and became one of Rio de Janeiro’s most dangerous places in the beginning of the 1980s. To tell the story of this place, the movie describes the life of various characters, all seen by ...
Style:
disturbing, rough, bleak, stylized, dark ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
gang, society, coming of age, organized crime, journalism, gang war, juvenile delinquency, life is a bitch, photographer, police corruption, gangsters, drug dealing ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, 80s, 60s
Place:
rio de janeiro, latin america, brazil, south america, africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
42K
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Story of Linda Lovelace, who is used and abused by the porn industry at the behest of her coercive husband, before taking control of her life.
Style:
sexual, sexy, stylized, erotic, entertaining ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
sexual abuse, porn actress, porn star, sex, porn industry, rough sex, husband wife relationship, rape, sex toy, manipulation, prostitution, female nudity ...
Time:
70s, 80s, 20th century, year 2002, year 1970
Place:
usa, new jersey, florida, malibu california, miami ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, France
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
After four college girls rob a restaurant to fund their spring break in Florida, they get entangled with a weird dude with his own criminal agenda.
Style:
sexy, disturbing, stylized, sexual, surreal ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
party, debauchery, best friends, juvenile delinquency, spring break, sex, drugs, murder, coming of age, summer, female killer, threesome ...
Time:
70s, 21st century
Place:
usa, florida, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: New Zealand, Germany
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Based on the true story of Juliet Hulme and Pauline Parker, two close friends who share a love of fantasy and literature, who conspire to kill Pauline's mother when she tries to end the girls' intense and obsessive relationship.
Style:
disturbing, psychological, surreal, enigmatic, atmospheric ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
lesbian, obsession, friendship, murder, coming of age, lesbian romance, teenager, insanity, women, lgbtq, lgbt, sexuality ...
Time:
50s, 20th century, year 1954, post world war two, year 1953
Place:
new zealand, australia, canada, oceania
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
40K
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
The true and intense story of Mark 'Chopper' Read, a legendary criminal who wrote his autobiography while serving a jail sentence in prison.
Style:
disturbing, cynical, rough, dark, stylized ...
Plot:
prison, gangsters, brutality, dark humor, convict, gang, jail, character study, murder, eccentricity, judge, self destructing ...
Time:
80s, 70s, 20th century, year 1978, year 1986
Place:
australia, melbourne australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Films like City of God
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Sweden, Denmark
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Lilya lives in poverty and dreams of a better life. Her mother moves to the United States and abandons her to her aunt, who neglects her. Lilya hangs out with her friends, Natasha and Volodya, who is suicidal. Desperate for money, she starts working ...
Style:
bleak, depressing, sad, bad ending, brutal ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens, teen drama, adult
Plot:
prostitution, human trafficking, poverty, suicide, sexual abuse, prostitute, life is a bitch, friendship, russian, teenage prostitution, youth, rape ...
Place:
sweden, europe, denmark, russia, eastern europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA, France
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Jordan White and Amy Blue, two troubled teens, pick up an adolescent drifter, Xavier Red. Together, the threesome embark on a sex and violence-filled journey through an America of psychos and quickiemarts.
Style:
disturbing, erotic, surreal, art house, campy ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
goth, teenager, sex, sex slave, lgbt, surrealism, lovers on the run, mistaken identity, anal rape, aimlessness, coming of age, murder ...
Time:
90s
Place:
california
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
155K
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Aileen Wuornos is an emotionally scarred highway hooker who shoots a sadistic trick who rapes her and ultimately becomes America's first female serial killer.
Style:
bleak, disturbing, psychological, emotional, harsh ...
Audience:
teens, date night, chick flick
Plot:
serial killer, lesbian, prostitute, lesbian love, mental illness, rape, murder, gay, female serial killer, vengeance, destructive relationship, female killer ...
Time:
80s, 90s, 20th century, 2000s
Place:
florida, michigan, usa, ohio, miami
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A vending machine robbery by small time thief and drug addict Bobbie (Vincent Kartheiser) goes badly awry, and his friends contact street-wise thief and part-time druggie Mel (James Woods) to patch him up.Recognizing a kindred spirit, Mel befriends ...
Style:
realistic, talky, tense, road movie, sexy ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
drugs, addiction, junkie, drug addiction, murder, heist, drug addict, death, brutality, heroin, violence, sex scene ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
california
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
11K
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Ukraine, Netherlands
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
Deaf mute Sergey enters a specialized boarding school for deaf-and-dumb. In this new place, he needs to find his way through the hierarchy of the school’s network dealing with crimes and prostitution, the Tribe. By taking part of several ...
Style:
disturbing, depressing, surreal, art house, erotic ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens, teen drama, adult
Plot:
boarding school, deaf, prostitution, bullying, mute or deaf, gang, prostitute, sign language, deaf mute, illegal abortion, adolescence, youth ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
ukraine, kiev ukraine
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Movies similar to Irreversible
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A single mother becomes Ariel Castro's first kidnapping victim, and finds herself trapped in his home with two other women for 11 years.
Style:
psychological, tense, serious, bleak, disturbing ...
Plot:
kidnapping, captivity, life is a bitch, violence, true crime, isolation, sexual abuse, woman in danger, confined, rape, abduction, survival ...
Time:
2010s, 2000s, year 2013, year 2002, 21st century
Place:
ohio, usa, cleveland ohio
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A successful TV star during the 1960s, former "Hogan's Heroes" actor Bob Crane projects a wholesome family-man image, but this front masks his persona as a sex addict who records and photographs his many encounters with women, often ...
Style:
sexy, factual, intense, talky, serious ...
Plot:
sex addict, friendship, showbiz, group sex, actor's life, addiction, adultery, character study, serial killer, tv show, filmmaking, hollywood ...
Time:
60s, 70s, 20th century, year 1965, year 1964
Place:
usa, california, los angeles, arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
The Krays is a film based on the lives and crimes of the British gangsters Ronald and Reginald Kray, twins who are often referred to as The Krays and were active in London in the 1960s.
Style:
dark, disturbing, harsh, melancholic, bleak ...
Plot:
gangsters, twins, mafia, gang, organized crime, mental illness, violent, murder, brutality, criminal, male nudity, violence ...
Time:
1940s, 60s, 20th century, 50s, 70s
Place:
england, london, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
The true story of suburban housewife Gertrude Baniszewski, who kept a teenage girl locked in the basement of her Indiana home during the 1960s.
Style:
disturbing, bleak, rough, serious, harsh ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
child abuse, torture, court, confined, dysfunctional family, mentally unstable, murder, captivity, true crime, family problems, domestic violence, threat ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
indiana, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Derek Vineyard is paroled after serving 3 years in prison for killing two thugs who tried to break into/steal his truck. Through his brother, Danny Vineyard's narration, we learn that before going to prison, Derek was a skinhead and the leader ...
Style:
rough, emotional, serious, cerebral, dramatic ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens, date night
Plot:
prison, racism, skinhead, gang, racial slur, character change, rape, juvenile delinquency, neo nazi, racial prejudice, violent, murder ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
los angeles, usa, california, venice beach california
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
After a young woman suffers a brutal rape in a bar one night, a prosecutor assists in bringing the perpetrators to justice, including the ones who encouraged and cheered on the attack.
Style:
disturbing, rough, realistic, thought provoking, compassionate ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
rape, courtroom drama, lawyer, sexual abuse, injustice, violence against women, rape victim, gang rape, legal action, court, courtroom, legal ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
massachusetts, canada, boston, usa, washington d.c. ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
93K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Several ordinary high school students go through their daily routine as two others prepare for something more malevolent. The film chronicles the events surrounding a school shooting.
Style:
disturbing, bleak, realistic, controversial, non-linear ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
school shooting, violence, mass murder, teacher, teenager, school, murder, high school, bullying, youth, serial killer, suicide ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, california, portland oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Boyz n the Hood is the popular and successful film and social criticism from John Singleton about the conditions in South Central Los Angeles where teenagers are involved in gun fights and drug dealing on a daily basis.
Style:
thought provoking, disturbing, tense, brutal, bleak ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
hip hop, african american, ghetto, poverty, gang, urban ghetto life, juvenile delinquency, street gang, coming of age, gangsters, rapper, rap ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, 90s, year 1991, year 1984
Place:
los angeles, california, cuba, usa, south central los angeles ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Netherlands
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A teenage hustler and a young man obsessed with alien abductions cross paths, together discovering a horrible, liberating truth.
Style:
disturbing, psychological, depressing, realistic, gloomy ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, teen drama
Plot:
child abuse, gay, homosexual, coming of age, sexual abuse, pedophilia, homosexual rape, child molestation, youth, male rape, homosexuality, teenage life ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 80s, year 1981, year 1987 ...
Place:
kansas, new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
246K
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Set in the Depression-era Franklin County, Virginia, a bootlegging gang is threatened by authorities who want a cut of their profits.
Style:
intense, harsh, stylized, entertaining, brutal ...
Plot:
gangsters, mafia, organized crime, gang, bootlegging, smuggling, greed, prohibition, suspense, robbery, corruption, great depression ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century, year 1931, year 1940, 1940s
Place:
virginia, usa, appalachia, new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Movies like Sleepers
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
The New York club scene of the 80s and 90s was a world like no other. Into this candy-colored, mirror ball playground stepped Michael Alig, a wannabe from nowhere special. Under the watchful eye of veteran club kid James St. James, Alig quickly rose ...
Style:
stylized, serious, disturbing, talky, surreal ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, kids
Plot:
gay, drug addiction, addiction, gays and lesbians, drugs, celebrity culture, life is a bitch, drug abuse, party, friends, drug addict, social misfits ...
Time:
80s, 90s
Place:
new york, new jersey, california, usa, indiana ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
11K
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
On February 15, 1992 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer, one of the world's most infamous serial killers, was convicted of 15 counts of murder and sentenced to 937 years in federal prison. This movie is based on events from his ...
Style:
disturbing, psychological, scary, rough, slasher ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, murder, rape, gay club, gay, torture, violence, necrophilia, killer, serial murder, macabre, obsession ...
Time:
80s, 70s, 90s
Place:
usa, wisconsin
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
12K
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Elena is 15, beautiful and flirtatious. Her less confident sister, Anais, is 12, and constantly eats. On holiday, Elena meets a young Italian student who is determined to seduce her. Anais is forced to watch in silence, conspiring with the lovers, ...
Style:
disturbing, erotic, sexy, bleak, psychological ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, sexuality, rape, innocence lost, sexual abuse, manipulation, defloration, virginity, virgin, first time, first love, female nudity ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
france, south of france, paris france, rome italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
Summertime on the coast of Maine, "In the Bedroom" centers on the inner dynamics of a family in transition. Matt Fowler is a doctor practicing in his native Maine and is married to New York born Ruth Fowler, a music teacher. He is involved ...
Style:
realistic, bleak, heartbreaking, suspenseful, emotional ...
Plot:
older woman younger man relationship, vengeance, family in crisis, crumbling marriage, dysfunctional family, revenge, grief, age difference, small town, jealousy, suspense, character study ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
maine, canada, new england
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA, France
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
When two poor greasers, Johnny, and Ponyboy are assaulted by a vicious gang, the socs, and Johnny kills one of the attackers, tension begins to mount between the two rival gangs, setting off a turbulent chain of events.
Style:
intense, melancholic, sentimental, stylized, sexy ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, kids, family outing, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, gang, teenager, juvenile delinquent, street gang, friendship, dysfunctional family, runaway, rivalry, brother brother relationship, small town, class differences ...
Time:
60s, future, 80s, 50s, 20th century
Place:
oklahoma, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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