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Cass (2008)
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Cass (2008)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story: The incredible true story of how an orphaned Jamaican baby, adopted by an elderly white couple and brought up in an all white area of London, became one of the most feared and respected men in Britain.
Style: psychological, rough, serious, realistic, powerful, captivating
Plot: racism, adoption, interracial relations, bullying, rise to the top, self discovery, lifestyle, going straight, parents and children, youth, human spirit, life is a bitch, rebellion, rivalry, society, direction and purpose, rebelliousness, machismo, hopes, football, hooligan, urban, interracial adoption, organized crime, football hooligan ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: england, britain, london, europe
Keyword: gangsters

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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 gangster, gang, society, skinhead, rivalry, angry and hooligan mostly in Drama, Crime and Biography genres. Some movies like Cass: Awaydays (2009), Top Dog (2014), Scum (1979), The Firm (2009), Green Street Hooligans (2005). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Awaydays (2009)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story: On the Wirral in the grim early years of Margaret Thatcher's premiership, the opportunities for thrill seeking young men looking to escape 9 to 5 drudgery are what they've always been: sex, drugs, rock n' roll, fashion, football and ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, rough, realistic, tense ...
Plot: gang, hooligan, football, destructive relationship, juvenile delinquency, coming of age, teenage life, troublemaker, buddies, life is a bitch, violence spree, down on your luck ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: england, britain, liverpool
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Top Dog (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Hooligan boss Billy Evans has it all - a successful business, a beautiful family and respect on the terraces. But when he clashes with gangster Mickey over a backstreet proetection racket, Billy soon finds himself out of his depth as they look to ...
Style: rough, tense, realistic, serious, suspenseful
Audience: boys' night
Plot: downfall, rivalry, ambition, gang, unfulfillment, criminal heroes, blind ambition, football hooligan, hooligan, criminal, football, nationalism ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, london
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Scum (1979)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story: This is the hard and shocking story of life in a British Borstal for young offenders. The brutal regime made no attempt to reform or improve the inmates and actively encouraged a power struggle between the 'tough' new inmate and the ...
Style: disturbing, rough, tense, serious, controversial ...
Plot: prison, racism, boy, youth, rebellion, corruption, revenge, riot, rape, juvenile delinquency, kids in trouble, sadism ...
Time: year 1979, near future, 70s, 20th century
Place: england, britain, united kingdom
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100%
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The Firm (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Set in the 1980s, Dom is a teenager who finds himself drawn into the charismatic world of football 'casuals,influenced by the firm's top boy, Bex. Accepted by the gang for his fast mouth and sense of humor, Dom soon becomes one the boys. ...
Style: realistic, serious, rough, crime drama
Plot: football, bullying, hooligan, gang, hooliganism, uninhibited rivalry, rivalry, society, working class, soccer, police, vandalism ...
Time: 80s
Place: england, britain, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Green Street Hooligans (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Sport, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: After being wrongfully expelled from Harvard University, American Matt Buckner flees to his sister's home in England. Once there, he is befriended by her charming and dangerous brother-in-law, Pete Dunham, and introduced to the underworld of ...
Style: serious, disturbing, factual, intense, bleak ...
Audience: boys' night, teen drama, adult
Plot: soccer, gang, hooliganism, friendship, self discovery, hooligan, subculture, friends, buddies, football, skinhead, bar fight ...
Time: year 2005, 21st century
Place: england, britain, europe, london, harvard university
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Made in Britain (1982)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 76 min.
Story: Trevor sometimes-violent skinhead with no regard for authority, and would rather spend his time stealing cars than sitting in the detention centre to which he is sent. His social worker, Harry Parker, tries to do his best, but Trevor is only ...
Style: disturbing, controversial, powerful, terrifying, cult classic ...
Plot: skinhead, juvenile delinquency, racism, urban ghetto life, neo nazi, punk, subculture, hooligan, youth, urban, social realism, club ...
Time: year 1982, 80s
Place: britain, europe, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Football Factory (2004)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Sport
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story: The Football Factory is more than just a study of the English obsession with football violence, it's about men looking for armies to join, wars to fight and places to belong. A forgotten culture of Anglo Saxon males fed up with being told ...
Style: realistic, disturbing, serious, rough, grindhouse ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: soccer, hooligan, football, organized crime, dark humor, lifestyle, violent, violence, working class, dysfunctional family, football hooligan, drug ...
Time: year 2004, 21st century
Place: london, england, britain, united kingdom, europe
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43%
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I.D. (1995)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Four policemen go undercover and infiltrate a gang of football hooligans hoping to route out their leaders. For one of the four, the line between 'job' and 'yob' becomes more unclear as time passes . . .
Style: independent film, contemplative, serious, psychological, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: hooligan, soccer, football, police, violent, gang, undercover, football hooligan, skinhead, hooliganism, re-education, anarchist ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: england, britain, yorkshire, london, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Rise of the Footsoldier (2007)
Genre: Action, Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Rise of the Footsoldier follows the inexorable rise of Carlton Leach from one of the most feared generals of the football terraces to becoming a member of a notorious gang of criminals who rampaged their way through London and Essex in the late ...
Style: serious, captivating, realistic, tense, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gang, hooligan, drug abuse, murder, criminal, betrayal, police investigation, partners in crime, criminal heroes, rivalry, vicious, dishonor among criminals ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, 90s
Place: england, united kingdom, britain, europe, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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The Krays (1990)
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: neo noir, realistic, serious, tense, rough ...
Plot: gangster, twins, mafia, organized crime, mental illness, violent, murder, male nudity, brutality, british gangster, gang, mobster ...
Time: 1940s, 60s, 20th century, 1950s
Place: england, london, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Green Street 3: Never Back Down (2013)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story: An old firm leader returns to Green Street for Revanche after receiving a call that his little brother was killed, but is he able to cope with a new type of hooliganism and can he find his killer?
Style: serious, exciting, suspenseful, rough, realistic
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, uninhibited rivalry, gang, ambition, society, vengeance, violence spree, friends, soccer, hooliganism, football, football hooligan ...
Time: 21st century
Place: london, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Green Street Hooligans 2 (2009)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: When the top players of the Green Street Elite are imprisoned following a deadly battle with their archenemies Millwall every day becomes a fight for survival. On the inside, rival firms and prison guards will stop at nothing to make their lives a ...
Style: serious, rough, realistic, suspense, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: prison, hooligan, lifestyle, mob violence, buddies, confined, uninhibited rivalry, society, rivalry, soccer, football, violence ...
Time: year 2009
Place: england, britain, london, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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Adulthood (2008)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story: After serving six years for killing his schoolmate, a young man learns that someone is out for revenge.
Style: hood, rough, realistic, serious, cult classic ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: urban ghetto life, gang, vengeance, society, juvenile delinquency, teenage life, drug addict, life is a bitch, youth, criminal's revenge, ghetto, urban ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, united kingdom, britain, europe, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Risen (2010)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 121 min.
Story: As one of the rising talents of amateur boxing, Howard Winstone, a young Welsh boy from Merthyr Tydfil, was fast making a name for himself with his knock out right hand. A long professional fighting career surely beckoned? Then disaster strikes. An ...
Style: uplifting, realistic, captivating, serious
Plot: human spirit, athlete's life, ambition, against the odds, rise to the top, boxing, rivalry, hopes, disability, lifestyle, contests and competitions, blind ambition ...
Time: 20th century, 60s, 50s
Place: europe, england
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29%
Siberian Education (2013)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 110 min.
Story: The story of a gang of children growing up in a community of banished criminals, in a forgotten corner of the former Soviet Union. This community rejects the world outside. The only law it obeys… is its own. Against this backdrop two best friends, ...
Style: serious, realistic, rough, suspense, gloomy ...
Plot: friendship, uninhibited rivalry, rivalry, teenage life, social misfits, crime and punishment, society, social relations, isolation, parents and children, misfit, mafia ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, 21st century
Place: russia, siberia
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28%
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Gotti (1996)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: John Gotti, the head of a small New York mafia crew breaks a few of the old family rules. He rises to become the head of the Gambino family and the most well-known mafia boss in America. Life is good, but suspicion creeps in, and greed, ...
Style: serious, realistic, rough
Plot: italian mafia, mafia, crime boss, gangster, mobster, gangsta, organized crime, biopic, american mafia, mob boss, entrepreneur, criminal ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: usa, new york
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28%
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Everyday (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 106 min.
Story: This film charts the relationship between a man imprisoned for drug smuggling and his wife and is being shot over the course of five years, a few weeks at a time.
Style: realistic, serious, psychological, captivating, independent film ...
Plot: prison, parents and children, life is a bitch, hopes, family relations, couples, husband wife relationship, drug smuggling, society, youth, couple relations, prison life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, europe
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28%
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McVicar (1980)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 112 min.
Story: John McVicar was a London Bad Boy. he graduated to armed bank robbery and was Britain's "Public Enemy No. 1". He was captured and put into a high security prison. Will even the highest security prison be able to hold him? This is the ...
Style: serious, realistic, rough, independent film
Plot: prison, prison escape, jail, prison life, angry, football hooligan, skinhead, shipwreck, gang, imprisonment, criminal, gay interest ...
Time: year 1980, 60s
Place: england, london, europe
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28%
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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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28%
The Least Among You (2009)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Black college graduate Richard Kelly reluctantly accepts a plea bargain requiring him to spend two semesters at an all-white seminary after he's wrongly accused of crimes committed during the 1965 Watts riots. Facing bigotry on all sides, ...
Style: emotional, touching, uplifting, captivating, independent film ...
Plot: racism, college, rebellion, human spirit, against the odds, self discovery, life is a bitch, social relations, hopes, student life, clergy, society ...
Time: 60s, 20th century, 21st century
Place: california, usa
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27%
16 Years of Alcohol (2003)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story: 16 Years of Alcohol is a 2003 drama film written and directed by Richard Jobson, based on his 1987 novel. The film is Jobson's first directorial effort, following a career as a television presenter on BSkyB and VH-1, and as the vocalist for the ...
Style: psychological, serious, realistic, touching, suspense ...
Plot: skinhead, alcohol abuse, alcoholic, addiction, society, family problems, life is a bitch, racial slur, couples, gang, misfit, youth ...
Place: europe, scotland, edinburgh scotland
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27%
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This Is England (2006)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A story about a troubled boy growing up in England, set in 1983. He comes across a few skinheads on his way home from school, after a fight. They become his new best friends even like family. Based on experiences of director Shane Meadows.
Style: emotional, political, depressing, stylized, harsh ...
Audience: teens
Plot: skinhead, racism, childhood, adolescence, neo nazi, coming of age, nationalism, friendship, youth, children, xenophobia, prejudice ...
Time: 80s, year 1983, year 2006, 2000s, 20th century
Place: england, britain, united kingdom, northern england, europe ...
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27%
Provoked: A True Story (2006)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: UK, India
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Provoked is the true story of Kiranjit Ahluwalia, a Punjabi woman who moved to London after her marriage with Deepak Ahluwalia. Her husband seemed caring at first but then began to beat her up. He started drinking a lot and sleeping around with ...
Style: serious, realistic, bleak, suspenseful, exciting
Plot: murder, hotshot lawyer, hopes, family problems, fighting the system, life is a bitch, courtroom drama, abuse, husband wife relationship, arranged marriage, wedding planning, child abuse ...
Place: england, london, europe
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27%
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Gotti (2018)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: John Gotti rises to the top of the New York underworld to become the boss of the Gambino crime family. His life takes a tumultuous turn as he faces tragedy, multiple trials and a prison sentence.
Style: serious, rough, suspenseful, realistic, disgusting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cosa nostra, gangster, godfather, profanity, federal bureau of investigation, father son relationship, mafia, brutality, organized crime, mobster, parents and children, family relations ...
Time: 70s, 80s, 20th century, year 1997, year 2002 ...
Place: usa, new york
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27%
The Rise & Fall of a White Collar Hooligan (2012)
Genre: Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Casual football hooligan Mike Jacobs is going nowhere in life when he meets old friend Eddie Hill at a football match that turns nasty off the pitch. Under Eddie’s tutelage he soon finds himself inducted into the world of credit card fraud, where ...
Style: serious, realistic, rough
Audience: boys' night
Plot: hooligan, rise and fall, ambition, lifestyle, gang, buddies, dishonesty, cons and scams, british gangster, football hooligan, angry, bank robber ...
Time: year 2012, 21st century
Place: england, britain
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
 6.3
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The Front Line (2009)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, Belgium, UK, France
Duration: 100 min.
Story: An Italian man looks back from his jail cell on his youthful exploits as a political extremist with understanding, candour and remorse.
Style: exciting, serious, sincere, emotional, contemplative ...
Plot: idealism, rebellion, fighting the system, danger, society, love and romance, rebelliousness, blind ambition, state affairs, couple relations, youth, hopes ...
Time: 70s, 80s, 20th century, year 1982
Place: italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Bonded by Blood (2010)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story: In 1995, drug suppliers and career criminals Tony Tucker, Patrick Tate and Craig Rolfe were blasted to death by a shot gun whilst waiting in a Range Rover in Rettendon, Essex. The film charts their rise to become the most prolific dealers and feared ...
Style: tense, serious, rough, suspenseful, realistic
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gang, rise and fall, rivalry, partner, gangster, dishonesty, betrayal, criminal heroes, vengeance, drug dealing, ambition, violence ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: england, britain, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
 5.3
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B.U.S.T.E.D (1998)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Everybody Loves Sunshine (released in the United States as B.U.S.T.E.D.), is a 1999 British independent film written and directed by Andrew Goth, and starring Rachel Shelley, David Bowie and Goldie. In the Pepperhill Estate of Manchester, an ...
Style: crime drama, tense, realistic, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: rock, triad, gangster, urban, friends, criminal heroes, gang, rivalry, criminal's revenge, drug dealing, going straight, hopes ...
Time: 90s
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
One Hundred Steps (2000)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 114 min.
Story: The story of Peppino Impastato, a political activist who opposed the Mafia in Sicily. One hundred steps was the number of steps it took to get from the Impastato house to the house of the Mafia boss Tano Badalamenti.
Style: serious, captivating, sincere, rough, political ...
Plot: assassination, radio, gangster, fighting the system, rebelliousness, political activist, dishonesty, idealism, society, rebellion, media, painting ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: italy, corsica, sicily, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
My Name Ain't Johnny (2008)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 124 min.
Story: In the 90's, In Rio de Janeiro, the middle-class João Guilherme Estrella is introduced to the world of drugs consuming maconha and cocaine first and later becoming a drug-dealer with many connections inclusive in Europe. However, he spends all ...
Style: stylized, realistic, serious, captivating, rough ...
Plot: prison, drug lord, drug dealing, life is a bitch, couple relations, buddies, ambition, addiction, partner, rehabilitation, starting over, hopes ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, 90s, 70s
Place: rio de janeiro, venice, latin america, brazil
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25%
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