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Laurel Avenue (1993)
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Laurel Avenue (1993)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 180 min.
TV show
Story: Laurel Avenue is an American three-hour television miniseries which aired on HBO on July 10 and 11, 1993. It is the story of an eventful weekend in the lives of an extended African American family living in St. Paul, Minnesota. Paul Aaron and actor Charles S. Dutton served as executive producers. The teleplay was written by Michael Henry Brown, based upon a story by Aaron and Brown. The miniseries was directed by Carl Franklin.
Style: tense, sincere, serious, emotional, realistic, saga, gloomy, crime drama
Plot: black, blaxploitation, family relations, interracial relations, strong sexual content, addiction, life is a bitch, profanity, dysfunctional family, society, family problems, suburbs, single parent, working class, family in crisis, suburban life, social relations, drug abuse, reform, r&b, drug addict, police officer, cocaine, church, drug dealer ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: minnesota, usa, minneapolis minnesota
Keyword: americana

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, touching and sincere films and TV series with plots about family relations, family problems, life is a bitch, society, parents and children, dysfunctional family and hopes mostly in Drama and Crime genres. Some movies like Laurel Avenue: Mississippi Damned (2009), Mama Flora's Family (1998), Bottled Up (2013), The Slap (2015), A Brother's Kiss (1997). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Mississippi Damned (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Three poor Black kids in rural Mississippi reap the consequences of their family's cycle of abuse, addiction, and violence.
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Audience: teen drama
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Time: 80s, 20th century, 90s
Place: usa, mississippi
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Mama Flora's Family (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 175 min.
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Duration: 84 min.
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Country: USA
Duration: 42 min.
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Style: tense, serious, realistic, psychological, captivating
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Duration: 92 min.
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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 ...
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Place: new york, usa, harlem
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Genre: Drama
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Duration: 90 min.
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Style: sincere, touching, serious, realistic, bleak ...
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Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
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Place: usa
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Courage (1986)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 150 min.
Story: A mother in Queens, New York, is so angered when she discovers that her son is a drug addict that she becomes an undercover agent for the DEA to clean up the drug trade in her neighborhood. Based on a true story.
Style: uplifting, serious, realistic, emotional
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Genre: Drama
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