Movies like City of God
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City of God (2002)
796K
Original name: Cidade de Deus
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 the point of view of the narrator, Buscapé. Buscapé was raised in a very violent environment. Despite the feeling that all odds were against him, he finds out that life can be seen with other eyes...
Style:
disturbing, rough, bleak, hood, stylized, visual, visually stunning, captivating, emotional, political ...
Audience:
teen drama, adult
Plot:
gang, coming of age, storytelling, organized crime, society, gang war, juvenile delinquency, life is a bitch, photographer, journalism, favela, police corruption, street gang, urban ghetto life, ghetto, drug dealing, violence, photography, gangster, revenge, poverty, urban ghetto, drug, children, social decay ...
Time:
2000s, 70s, year 2002, 20th century, year 2003, 80s, 60s ...
Place:
latin america, rio de janeiro, brazil, south america, africa
Keyword:
gangsters, latin, portuguese, brazilian, oldies, attack, challenge, eye candy
Most similar movies to City of God
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, rough and hood films with plots about gangster, gang, murder, violence, ghetto, society and police mostly in Crime, Drama and Thriller genres. Some movies like City of God: Hate (1995), Elite Squad (2007), Gomorrah (2008), Gangs of New York (2002), Pixote (1980). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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194K
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Aimlessly whiling away their days in the concrete environs of their dead-end suburbia, Vinz, Hubert, and Said -- a Jew, African, and an Arab -- give human faces to France's immigrant populations, their bristling resentment at their social ...
Style:
bleak, black and white, art house, disturbing, hood ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
racism, rebel, ghetto, poverty, skinhead, youth, police brutality, police, friendship, rebellion, drug, misfit ...
Time:
20th century, year 1995, 90s
Place:
paris france, france, middle east, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
93%
110K
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Brazil, USA, Argentina
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
In 1997, before the visit of the pope to Rio de Janeiro, Captain Nascimento from BOPE (Special Police Operations Battalion) is assigned to eliminate the risks of the drug dealers in a dangerous slum nearby where the pope intends to be lodged.
Style:
disturbing, bleak, serious, intense, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
police corruption, police brutality, drug traffic, slum, drug lord, favela, squad, law enforcement, torture, poverty, police, organized crime ...
Time:
year 2007, 2000s, 90s, 20th century, year 1997 ...
Place:
brazil, rio de janeiro, latin america, south america
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
51K
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
An inside look at Italy's modern-day crime families, the Camorra in Naples and Caserta. Based on a book by Roberto Saviano. Power, money and blood: these are the "values" that the residents of the Province of Naples and Caserta have ...
Style:
disturbing, tense, harsh, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
juvenile delinquency, organized crime, gang war, mafia, gangster, camorra, italian mafia, danger, gang, character study, power, debt ...
Time:
year 2008, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
italy, europe, southern italy, miami, venice ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 167 min.
Story:
It's 1863. America was born in the streets. Amsterdam Vallon returns to the Five Points of America to seek vengeance against the psychotic gangland kingpin, Bill the Butcher, who murdered his father years earlier. With an eager pickpocket by ...
Style:
epic, rough, tense, atmospheric, captivating ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
revenge, gang, gangster, vengeance, organized crime, street gang, racism, crime boss, betrayal, violent, courage, gang war ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1800s, edwardian era, 50s ...
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
Pixote, a 10-year-old runaway boy, is arrested on the streets of Sao Paulo during a police round-up homeless people. Pixote endures torture, degradation and corruption at a local youth detention center where two of the runaways are murdered by ...
Style:
disturbing, depressing, bleak, realistic, rough ...
Plot:
prostitution, street kid, sex with a minor, boy, coming of age, children, anal rape, child rape, breast feeding, loneliness, homeless, tragedy ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, year 1981
Place:
brazil, latin america, rio de janeiro, africa, sao paulo brazil
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Best buddies Acerola and Laranjinha, about to turn 18, discover things about their missing fathers' pasts which will shatter their solid friendship, in the middle of a war between rival drug gangs from Rio's favelas.
Style:
tense, bleak, harsh, suspense, disturbing ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
friendship, street gang, slum, betrayal, coming of age, favela, relationships, best friend, character study, brutality, storytelling, adaptation ...
Time:
year 2008, year 2007, 21st century
Place:
rio de janeiro, brazil, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Menace II Society is a coming of age tale detailing the summer after its protagonist Caine (Tyrin Turner) graduates from high school. This is Caine's story, which details real life in today's tough inner city.
Style:
bleak, realistic, stylized, tense, hood ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama, adult
Plot:
hip hop, ghetto, african american, urban ghetto life, murder, police brutality, coming of age, street gang, friendship, organized crime, gangsta, gunfight ...
Time:
90s, year 1993, 20th century, 70s
Place:
california, los angeles, usa, south central los angeles, north america
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A day in the life of a group of troubled 15-year-olds growing up in west London.
Style:
hood, serious, tense, rough, teen ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
urban ghetto life, bullying, gang, ghetto, coming of age, juvenile delinquency, urban, teenage life, social decay, gangster, friendship, teenage love ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
london, england, united kingdom, britain, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
14K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, France
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Michael is a 12-year-old drug pusher who lives in a crowded house with his cousins and aunt. His father has become a street bum,but still meets with Fresh on occasion to play chess. Fresh is rather quiet in a crazy world. Fresh's sister is a ...
Style:
hood, realistic, bleak, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
chess, coming of age, african american, ghetto, drug dealing, drug, hip hop, drug lord, drug addiction, father son relationship, black, adolescence ...
Time:
90s, year 1994
Place:
new york, brooklyn new york city, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
32K
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK, South Africa
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
The South African multi-award winning film about a young South African boy from the ghetto named Tsotsi, meaning Gangster. Tsotsi, who left home as a child to get away from helpless parents, finds a baby in the back seat of a car that he has just ...
Style:
sincere, bleak, emotional, harsh, captivating ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
baby, poverty, urban ghetto life, society, slum, friendship, childhood, coming of age, murder, street life, robbery, african ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
south africa, africa, johannesburg south africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Movies similar to A Bronx Tale
40K
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 ...
Style:
disturbing, bleak, realistic, controversial, sexy ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama, adult
Plot:
bullying, sexual abuse, rape, teenager, murder, nudity, sex, drug, rivalry, revenge, youth, teenage sex ...
Time:
year 2001, 90s, 20th century
Place:
usa, bronx new york city, florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Ace is an impressionable young man working for a dry cleaning business. His friend, drug dealer Mitch goes to prison. In an unrelated incident, he finds some cocaine in a pants pocket. Soon, Ace finds himself dealing cocaine for Lulu. Via lucky ...
Style:
hood, tense, rough, realistic, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
urban ghetto life, rapper, organized crime, ghetto, urban, drug dealing, drug, gangster, drug lord, black, rise and fall, street life ...
Time:
80s, year 2002, 20th century, year 1986
Place:
harlem, new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
2.2M
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 154 min.
Story:
A burger-loving hit man, his philosophical partner, a drug-addled gangster's moll and a washed-up boxer converge in this sprawling, comedic crime caper. Their adventures unfurl in three stories that ingeniously trip back and forth in time.
Style:
neo noir, cult classic, exciting, witty, black comedy ...
Audience:
boys' night, manly, adult
Plot:
gangster, dark humor, organized crime, gunfight, violence, hitman, overdose, multiple storylines, violent, killings, drug, redemption ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1994, 70s
Place:
los angeles, california, persia, america, peru ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Brazil, France
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Sandro was a boy who loved to sing rap, to kiss, to stare the statue of Christ the Redeemer and dreamed to go visit Copacabana. Growing up on streets, the story culminates at the infamous episode of June 12th 2000, when Sandro hijacked bus 174.
Style:
serious, rough, realistic, suspenseful, spectacular ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
breast feeding, hijacking, street kid, drug abuse, life is a bitch, confined, juvenile delinquency, youth, danger, favela, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, murder ...
Time:
year 2008, 21st century
Place:
rio de janeiro, brazil, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Jamal Malik is an impoverished Indian teen who becomes a contestant on the Hindi version of ‘Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?’ but, after he wins, he is suspected of cheating.
Style:
touching, uplifting, realistic, motivational, feel good ...
Audience:
date night, teens, chick flick, teen drama, adult
Plot:
poverty, childhood, rags to riches, destiny, orphan, society, against the odds, life is a bitch, love, street life, cheating, ambition ...
Time:
year 2008, 2000s, 20th century, 90s, year 2005 ...
Place:
india, mumbai india, asia, britain, taj mahal
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A man is put to prison for 10 years. Coming out of prison he wants to live a normal life and stop with crime but his son has yet followed the criminal path of his father.
Style:
hood, captivating, sexual, crime drama, social ...
Plot:
urban ghetto life, gang, ghetto, urban, black, african american, hip hop, criminal gang, drug dealing, blaxploitation, organized crime, black history ...
Time:
90s, year 1992, 80s
Place:
los angeles, california, usa, south central los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: South Africa
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
This South African movie tracks the rise of a once-petty criminal to the heights of the criminal underworld. After cutting his teeth on hijacking, before moving onto bigger game, an ambitious man hits a setback when most of his gang are shot.
Style:
serious, rough, realistic, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot:
urban ghetto life, organized crime, gang war, gangster, gang of thieves, thief, ambition, buddies, life is a bitch, gang, criminal heroes, black ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
south africa, africa, johannesburg south africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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:
disturbing, tense, hood, cult classic, bleak ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
hip hop, ghetto, african american, poverty, gang, urban ghetto life, street gang, juvenile delinquency, rapper, coming of age, black, african american gangster ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 80s, year 1991, year 1984
Place:
los angeles, california, america, south central los angeles, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK, Germany, Spain
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Determined to have a normal family life once his mother gets out of prison, a Scottish teenager from a tough background sets out to raise the money for a home.
Style:
disturbing, realistic, sentimental, bleak, depressing ...
Audience:
teens, toddlers, teen drama
Plot:
heroin, coming of age, innocence lost, drug dealing, juvenile delinquency, prison, drug dealer, downfall, dysfunctional family, family relations, teenager, life is a bitch ...
Time:
year 2002, 90s, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
scotland, glasgow scotland, europe, united kingdom
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 180 min.
Story:
Based on the true life experiences of poet Jimmy Santiago Baca, the film focuses on half-brothers Paco and Cruz, and their bi-racial cousin Miklo. It opens in 1972, as the three are members of an East L.A. gang known as the "Vatos Locos", ...
Style:
intense, entertaining, bad ending, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
gang, prison gang, prison, street gang, drug abuse, ghetto, drug addiction, violence spree, destiny, jail, police shootout, survival ...
Time:
20th century, year 1993, 90s, 70s, 80s
Place:
los angeles, california, usa, panama, beverly hills ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Six boys race on their scooters through the narrow streets of their Sanità neighbourhood in Naples. They are fearless daredevils, desperate to make money like their role models, and wear designer clothes and the latest sneakers. These 15-year-olds ...
Style:
rough, disturbing, suspenseful, bleak, suspense ...
Plot:
mafia, coming of age, camorra, gang, rivalry, self discovery, hooliganism, gangster, fistfight, social decay, society, lifestyle ...
Time:
year 2019, 21st century
Place:
naples italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
560K
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA, France
Duration: 178 min.
Story:
The life of the gambling paradise – Las Vegas – and its dark mafia underbelly.
Style:
realistic, clever, rough, suspense, neo noir ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
organized crime, mafia, casino, rise and fall, gangster, gambling, money, greed, mobster, betrayal, cosa nostra, criminal heroes ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1995, 80s, 90s ...
Place:
las vegas, chicago, missouri, israel, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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:
dramatic, serious, cerebral, rough, tense ...
Audience:
boys' night, date night, teens, teen drama
Plot:
skinhead, prison, racism, gang, neo nazi, racial slur, nazism, character change, juvenile delinquency, rape, african american, racial prejudice ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, year 1998
Place:
los angeles, usa, california, america, north america ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
10K
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France, Qatar
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
In a ghetto where religion and drug trafficking rub shoulders, Dounia has a lust for power and success. Supported by Maimouna, her best friend, she decides to follow in the footsteps of Rebecca, a respected dealer. But her encounter with Djigui, a ...
Style:
captivating, tense, disturbing, suspenseful, thought provoking ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens
Plot:
ghetto, poverty, friendship, urban decay, slum, seduction, police, street gang, greed, dancer, girl power, danger ...
Time:
year 2016, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
paris france, france, indiana
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
159K
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Set in the Bronx during the tumultuous 1960s, an adolescent boy is torn between his honest, working-class father and a violent yet charismatic crime boss. Complicating matters is the youngster's growing attraction - forbidden in his ...
Style:
sentimental, intense, suspense, hood, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
mafia, gangster, coming of age, organized crime, mentor, mobster, loyalty, gang leader, cosa nostra, father son relationship, friendship, mob boss ...
Time:
60s, year 1960, 20th century, year 1993, 90s ...
Place:
new york, bronx new york city, usa, new york state
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
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108K
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, serious, rough, teen, harsh ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
kidnapping, gang, true crime, sex scene, youth, friendship, culture clash, crime gone awry, gangster, unlikely friendships, revenge, loss of virginity ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, year 1999, year 2005, year 2003
Place:
los angeles, usa, california, albuquerque new mexico, palm springs california
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
448K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, Australia
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Los Angeles citizens with vastly separate lives collide in interweaving stories of race, loss and redemption.
Style:
bleak, touching, thought provoking, sincere, emotional ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
racism, police, prejudice, racial tension, multiple storylines, sexual harassment, racist, social injustice, redemption, interracial relations, class differences, city life ...
Time:
year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, usa, california, persia, santa monica california ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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, harsh, brutal ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama, adult
Plot:
human trafficking, poverty, prostitution, suicide, sexual abuse, prostitute, life is a bitch, teenage prostitution, teenage life, youth, rape, slavery ...
Time:
year 2002
Place:
europe, denmark, russia, soviet union, eastern europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 229 min.
Story:
A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over thirty years later, where he once again must confront the ghosts and regrets of his old life.
Style:
epic, ambiguous ending, melancholic, breathtaking, atmospheric ...
Audience:
boys' night, kids, adult
Plot:
gangster, organized crime, mafia, friendship, prohibition, rape, gunfight, betrayal, childhood friend, corruption, criminal heroes, mobster ...
Time:
1930s, 60s, 1920s, 20th century, year 1984 ...
Place:
new york, usa, america, israel, china ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
2.0M
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 175 min.
Story:
Spanning the years 1945 to 1955, a chronicle of the fictional Italian-American Corleone crime family. When organized crime family patriarch, Vito Corleone barely survives an attempt on his life, his youngest son, Michael steps in to take care of the ...
Style:
serious, epic, dramatic, atmospheric, captivating ...
Audience:
boys' night, manly, chick flick, adult
Plot:
mafia, organized crime, gangster, greed, revenge, mob boss, crime family, mobster, cosa nostra, wedding, pride and honor, corruption ...
Time:
1950s, 1940s, 20th century, 50s, year 1972 ...
Place:
italy, new york, bronx new york city, europe, sicily ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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