Movies like Beast Beast

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Beast Beast (2020)
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Beast Beast (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A look at the lives and trauma surrounding three people living in a southern town.
Style: intense, tension, suspense, ambiguous ending, southern gothic
Plot: trauma, small town, character study, coming of age, relationships, violence, grief, loss, family conflict, teen violence, teen angst, mental health, moral ambiguity, slice of life, youth culture, friendship, isolation, rage, alienation, machismo, identity, peer pressure, social commentary, slow burn, teenager ...
Time: contemporary
Place: georgia

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Most similar movies to Beast Beast

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out intense, realistic, emotional and melancholic films with plots about coming of age, isolation, small town, friendship, character study, trauma and loss mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Beast Beast: Tenkiller (2022), After Jimmy (1996), Hurt (2016), 12 Dares (2022), Rave (2000). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Tenkiller (2022)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: One year after the tragic death of his best friend, an eighteen-year-old machinist struggles with the split of his parents and the violent way of life surrounding him.
Style: emotional, tension, intense, realistic, psychological ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: coming of age, grief, teenager, trauma, loss, mourning, family drama, family conflict, young adult, confrontation, friendship, anger ...
Place: oklahoma city, oklahoma
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After Jimmy (1996)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: This is a story of Jimmy, a high school senior, who is struggling with his school life, family pressures, future choices. When it becomes too much, Jimmy kills himself.
Style: tragic ending, melancholic, bleak, serious, emotional ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: teen suicide, high school, grief, depression, mental health, mourning, loss, teen angst, coming of age, family conflict, trauma, character study ...
Time: 90s
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Hurt (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Mandy White is a cheerleader. Dan LaCoy is a football player. Jason Dobbs is a bully. Eli Barker is an artist. Asia Borg is a foster kid. What they all have in common however, is that they are hurting. Each one deals with their own personal issues ...
Style: emotional, dark, independent film, realistic, grim ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: depression, high school, bullying, suicide, mental health, high school life, school shooting, tragedy, youth, adolescence, loneliness, social issues ...
Place: virginia
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12 Dares (2022)
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden, Norway
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A 16-year-old boy in Ryd, Sweden, has to do 12 misdeeds to prove his loyalty to his gang of mates.
Style: emotional, intense, tense, suspenseful
Audience: teen drama
Plot: youth gang, coming of age, peer pressure, moral dilemma, adolescence, rite of passage, friendship, small town, identity crisis, moral ambiguity, teen angst, high school life ...
Place: eastern europe
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Rave (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: The lives of six Los Angeles teens pursuing the hottest rave in the city intertwine in unexpected ways over the course of a single day in this drama directed and co-written by Ron Krauss.
Style: indie film, suspense, independent film, tragic
Audience: teen drama
Plot: youth culture, youth, electronic music, teen party, peer pressure, subculture, risk, teen angst, drug use, danger, one day, realism ...
Place: los angeles, california
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The Maiden (2022)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 117 min.
Story: A perfect summer day ends in tragedy, weaving a cosmic connection between three suburban teenagers.
Style: emotional, melancholic, atmospheric, tragic ending, dramatic ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: adolescence, disappearance, coming of age, friendship, missing person, loss of innocence, summer, youth, loss, guilt, small town, trauma ...
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Enemies (2025)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Chimo turns 18 years and comes from a humble and supportive family. Since childhood he was bullied and even today, while working multiple jobs and dreaming of starting his own business, he continues to face his bully: El Rubio. When Chimo has the ...
Style: emotional, intense, tension
Audience: teen drama
Plot: coming of age, friendship, revenge, rivalry, bullying, adolescence, youth, working class, neighborhood, teen angst, transformation, redemption ...
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37%
Surviving Lunch (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story: Gabriella, a courageous and tough New York teenager. She witnesses the killing of her father, a beloved teacher at her high school, who tries to help a student being bullied. Trying to recover from their grief, Gabriella and her mother move to ...
Style: realistic, intense, emotional, suspense
Audience: teen drama
Plot: bullying, high school, courage, coming of age, young adult, grief, survival, new school, peer pressure, resilience, justice, teen angst ...
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36%
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Skipping Stones (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Nearly a decade after a tragic accident costs a young man his life, his sister, Amanda (Gabrielle Kalomiris) and best friend, David (Nathaniel Ansbach) are still peeling back the layers of grief and guilt that come with being left behind.
Style: suspenseful, captivating, suspense, disturbing, poignant ...
Plot: relationships, grief, loss, guilt, friendship, life is a bitch, tragic event, changing lives, loss of brother, family relations, healing, small town ...
Similarity:
36%
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4 Kings (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Alex, Fedja, Timo and Lara are four troubled teens for whom the upcoming Christmas eve isn't a time of peace and joy: Since they all have a history of escalating family conflicts, they'll be spending the holidays not at home, but in a ...
Style: captivating, disturbing, psychological, intense, emotional ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: psychotherapy, christmas, youth, psychiatry, life is a bitch, mentally unstable, mental health, coming of age, psychiatric ward, adolescence, mental patient, troubled youth ...
Place: germany
Similarity:
35%
Terror in the Woods (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: The story of two twelve-year-old girls who attack their friend as a sacrifice to an internet legend, the Suzerain.
Style: suspenseful, psychotronic, suspense, rough, dark ...
Plot: killer child, middle school, mental illness, urban legend, human sacrifice, children, brutality, internet, murder, sacrifice, teen violence, peer pressure ...
Similarity:
34%
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Valley (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 86 min.
Story: This is the story of three sensitive teens who are forced to deal with violence at home, violence at school. It is a story of friendship, of love and hate, where the adolescents world is revealed as cruel and beautiful, a world where the desire to ...
Style: realistic, touching, serious, suspenseful, emotional ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: friendship, teenage love, teenage life, love and romance, coming of age, buddies, youth, family relations, violence, bullying, graphic violence, trauma ...
Time: 21st century
Place: israel, palestine
Similarity:
34%
 8.0
 16
Penitent (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland
Duration: 74 min.
Story: After being imprisoned for dangerous driving, causing the death of a child and possession of illegal substances, Jason Buckley is finding it difficult to adjust to life outside prison.
Style: dark, bleak, psychological, atmospheric, intense ...
Plot: trauma, social realism, loss, grief, guilt, haunting, character study, remorse, reckless driving, accident, isolation, moral ambiguity ...
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Miracle (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Slovakia, Czech Republic
Duration: 78 min.
Story: Ela, 15, has a love affair, which results in her being sent to a re-education center.
Style: tension, intense, realistic
Audience: teen drama
Plot: female protagonist, teenager, coming of age, young love, forbidden romance, resilience, loss of innocence, teen angst, hopes, empathy, character study, rebellion ...
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Madraskaaran (2025)
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 121 min.
Story: A minor argument between two strangers escalates into a life-altering conflict, exploring how a seemingly insignificant event can drastically alter a person's perception and circumstances.
Style: emotional, tense, intense, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot: conflict, escalation, chance meeting, realism, character study, social commentary, misunderstanding, slice of life, city life, urban, suspicion, morality ...
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Uncle (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 145 min.
Story: Stranded on her way home, Sruthi hitches a long ride with KK who turns out to be her dad's buddy. Sruthi's mother seems to be reassured hearing that KK is with her daughter now. However her husband is troubled on hearing the news. ...
Style: tense, dread, suspense, intense, psychological ...
Plot: family drama, social commentary, moral ambiguity, confrontation, character study, ethical dilemma, mistrust, unsettling, coming of age, family honor, road trip, small town ...
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Zebra Crossing (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Set amongst the backdrop of the towering, concrete-clad estates of south London ‘Zebra Crossings’ blends a diverse mixture of characters that all share one thing in common: The incredible loneliness of living alongside 7 million other people.
Style: atmospheric, tense, intense, melancholic, bleak ...
Plot: loneliness, coming of age, friendship, urban, social commentary, drug addiction, alienation, realism, character study, social realism, father figure, mentor ...
Place: england
Similarity:
31%
Potential Inertia (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story: Declan Holmes is graduating college, a hard enough time as it is, and heading out into the real world. The loss he experiences is like nothing he has ever known before. 'Potential Inertia' is the story of his journey through a very ...
Style: serious, contemplative, independent film, black and white
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Lighter Fluid (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 66 min.
Story: An experimental look into the lives of teens and young adults in a dysfunctional town.
Style: experimental, art house, melancholic, bleak
Audience: teen drama
Plot: character study, small town, coming of age, alienation, young adult, friendship, aimlessness, apathy, youth culture, social isolation, slice of life, dysfunctional family ...
Time: 2010s
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The Branches (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 58 min.
Story: A melodic, emotional exploration of one family falling apart in a sleepy Midwestern city, The Branches follows Claire (Kelly Brumbach) as she attempts to reconnect with the hometown life she left behind.
Style: emotional, melancholic, contemplative, realistic, atmospheric
Plot: family drama, hometown, family conflict, intimate, estrangement, getting home, character study, relationships, small town, introspection, homecoming, grief ...
Time: 2010s
Place: ohio, midwest
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30%
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Sons (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Trouble starts when Lars, a 25-year-old with few prospects for the future, discovers that an older man is fooling around with the teenage boys in his suburb. A terrible rage is triggered in Lars, and he embarks on a crusade to stop the abuser. But ...
Style: tension, intense, suspenseful, dark, realistic ...
Plot: pedophilia, child abuse, predator, obsession, vigilante, moral ambiguity, ethical dilemma, escalation, gay, revenge, male protagonist, justice ...
Time: 2000s
Place: eastern europe
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30%
Face in the Mirror (1982)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 65 min.
Story: The dramatic story of a group of young people’s response to a desperate teen’s cry for help.
Style: independent film, emotional, psychological, bleak, art house ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: depression, teen suicide, mental health, teenage angst, isolation, coming of age, alienation, intimate, introspection, self harm, friendship, social realism ...
Time: 80s
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29%
Thou Shalt Not Hate (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, Poland
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Simone Segre, a renowned surgeon of Jewish origins, lives in a city in the north-east of Italy. A quiet life, an elegant apartment and no connection with his past. One day he finds himself assisting a man victim of a hit and run accident. But when ...
Style: disturbing, psychological, captivating, tension, intense ...
Plot: moral dilemma, guilty conscience, remorse, anti semitism, hit and run, guilt, accident, hate, traumatic past, psychological trauma, fascist, neo nazism ...
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29%
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Transit (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story: After a graffiti artist loses his brother and fellow partner-in-crime to the hands of a vigilante killer he vows to give up graffiti forever. That lasts until he hooks up with his best friend, a tag-banger out to make a name for himself.
Style: independent film, tension, realistic, noir, hispanic
Plot: graffiti, urban, street art, subculture, vigilante, friendship, revenge, redemption, loyalty, loss, rebellion, moral ambiguity ...
Place: los angeles
Similarity:
29%
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Charlie (2022)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: In the aftermath of a traumatic event, a socially-awkward teen, Charlie, grapples with the guilt and judgement that ensues. He must confront the prison-like bondage of his fear when the perpetrator comes after him. In this tribute to contemporary ...
Style: slow cinema, bleak, melancholic, tense, realistic ...
Plot: guilt, character study, trauma, mother son relationship, slow burn, mental health, intimate, isolation, socially awkward, fear, family drama, claustrophobia ...
Similarity:
29%
The Kids Aren't Alright (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland
Story: Ross is trying to come to terms with the suicide of one of his classmates, as he finds his life falling down around him. Suddenly he finds himself involved in a new friendship with the new girl in school, Róisín. She helps to lead him in the right ...
Style: psychological, captivating, lgbt cinema, tense, unusual plot structure ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: suicide, school, friendship, teenager, youth, homosexuality, coming of age, love and romance, friends, lesbian, lgbt, couples ...
Time: 21st century
Place: ireland
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29%
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Shocking Blue (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 82 min.
Story: William, Jack and Chris have been friends for as long as they can remember - until that day in April when Jack ends up under the wheels of a tractor, his body crushed, William at the wheel. Suddenly nothing is left of the boys' friendship. ...
Style: melancholic, bleak, tension, atmospheric, dramatic ...
Plot: friendship, guilt, trauma, accident, grief, regret, loss, coming of age, adolescence, loss of innocence, male friendship, secrets ...
Place: netherlands
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Fighting Back (1982)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Fighting Back is a 1982 Australian film about troubled teenagers.
Style: intense, realistic, emotional, period piece, independent film
Plot: troubled teen, juvenile delinquency, teen angst, character study, violence, rebellion, identity crisis, social realism, family drama, teacher student relationship, confrontation, moral ambiguity ...
Time: 80s
Place: australia
Similarity:
28%
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Delta Fever (1987)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: As he strives to make it on his own, Nick Ramsey has alienated his father by rejecting his upbringing and lifestyle. Now 25, Nick has been rejected by his girlfriend and vows to turn his life around.
Style: crime drama, realistic, emotional, intense, tension ...
Plot: family drama, family conflict, father son relationship, moral dilemma, self discovery, identity crisis, redemption, male protagonist, second chance, blue collar, regret, working class ...
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28%
Don't Come Back from the Moon (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: The men of a small town on the edge of nowhere mysteriously disappear, one by one, leaving women and children behind to fend for themselves in a desolate and dreamlike world.
Style: bleak, melancholic, atmospheric, surreal, poetic
Plot: small town, abandonment, coming of age, family drama, adolescence, loss, isolation, desolation, mysterious disappearance, grief, motherhood, slow burn ...
Time: future
Place: california
Similarity:
28%