Movies like Girls 2007
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Girls (2007)
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Original name: Lányok
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Hungary
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Two teenage girls murder a taxi-driver. A portrait of a generation for which sex has a whole different meaning.
Style:
dark, tense, realistic, intense, bleak, art house, independent film
Plot:
murder, teenager, violence, female friendship, alienation, moral ambiguity, youth culture, social commentary, taboo, rebellion, urban, coming of age, identity crisis, ethical dilemma, psychopath, minimalism, nihilism, confrontation, sexually liberated, psychological drama, teenagers
Time:
contemporary
Place:
hungary, eastern europe
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Most similar movies to Girls
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out tense, dark, intense and bleak films with plots about moral ambiguity, urban, isolation, violence, coming of age, character study and psychological drama mostly in Drama, Thriller and Crime genres. Some movies like Girls: Sweetie Pie (2002), Petroleum Spirit (2015), Pig Pen (2015), Blue Kids (2017), Deadendz (2023). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A harrowing, modern day morality tale about kids who have had too much, too soon.
Style:
dark drama, realistic, tense, intense, psychological ...
Plot:
loss of innocence, cautionary tale, coming of age, social commentary, mature, teen angst, moral ambiguity, realism, peer pressure, character study, youth culture, drug use ...
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A surreal road movie about a partially deaf teenager hitting the road in a beat up Lada to find the father who abandoned him at birth. The stunning feature film debut of acclaimed commercials writer/director Rob Sanders.
Style:
road movie, surreal, dark, atmospheric, independent film ...
Plot:
family drama, father son relationship, identity, sexual repression, journey, moral ambiguity, surrealism, isolation, loss of mother, teenage angst, coming of age, odyssey ...
Similarity:
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243
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Forced to fend for himself on the streets, 13-year-old Zack has just been pushed out of his dysfunctional home by Wayne, his mother's sadistic boyfriend. When the two are brought back together by a murder, only one will survive this bloody tale ...
Style:
controversial, dark, tense, bleak, brutal ...
Plot:
serial killer, murder, revenge, violence, domestic abuse, desperation, trauma, dysfunctional family, homelessness, orphan, coming of age, survival ...
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67%
143
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
A brother and a sister live on the borderline between awareness of their actions and total unconsciousness, until they commit a sin from which there is no return.
Style:
disturbing, bleak, dark, tense, melancholic ...
Plot:
brother sister relationship, moral ambiguity, sin, siblings, loss of innocence, haunting, guilt, transgression, existential crisis, conscience, youth, isolation ...
Similarity:
62%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 68 min.
Story:
Ex-con is released from jail, goes through release procedure, buys a gun, tries to pick up girl in bar, tries to sleep, meets up with ex-prison buddy, goes to take revenge on drug deal gone sour. A minimalist drama of dire simplicity, using ...
Style:
art house, bleak, grim, contemplative, slow cinema ...
Plot:
ex convict, character study, moral ambiguity, minimalism, alienation, revenge, isolation, downbeat ending, violence, drug deal, criminal underworld, gun
Similarity:
55%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Hari and his two friends who get embroiled in a murder case under unusual circumstances. They deal with the power-play, haplessness and trauma.
Style:
intense, crime drama, tense, suspense, realistic ...
Plot:
murder, wrongful accusation, moral ambiguity, investigation, trauma, friendship, fear, corruption, justice, social commentary, mature, realism ...
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
In an alternate present society where the state frees parents from the burden of raising children, a rule enforcer learns a shocking truth that sparks her rebellion.
Style:
tense, dark, bleak, political drama, tragic
Plot:
dystopia, rebellion, female protagonist, waking up, power struggle, ethical dilemma, conspiracy, identity crisis, claustrophobia, moral ambiguity, slow burn, intimate ...
Time:
near future
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A young man named Carlos with a sexual trauma kidnaps a girl that works with him. During the kidnapping the sexual tension and the violence will make the two of them change their point views on life and politics.
Style:
psychological thriller, tense, intense, dark, art house ...
Plot:
kidnapping, sexual tension, manipulation, obsession, moral ambiguity, psychological abuse, abuse, mind game, claustrophobia, violent, confrontation, coercion ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Iran
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The lack of communication between the mother and the father of a 13 year old, leads inevitably to a divorce. During this ordeal their son, feeling out of place, befriends some troubled older kids and gets involved in murder.
Style:
realistic, poignant, melancholic, intense, tense ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
adolescence, loss of innocence, coming of age, family drama, peer pressure, character study, identity crisis, social realism, bullying, alienation, juvenile delinquency, isolation ...
Place:
iran
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
An ex-marine with PTSD storms into a gallery, taking hostages and forcing them to confront their complex past and looming mortality, as time ticks by.
Style:
psychological thriller, tense, suspense, intense, dark
Plot:
ptsd, gallery, mortality, confrontation, mental health, art gallery, mature, cathartic, ethical dilemma, claustrophobia, moral ambiguity, isolation ...
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Gergő and his high-school friends, the “Pack”, live for sex, parties and racking up views on their online channel. As their videos grow increasingly extreme, a house party turns tragic when they single out Lilla as their next victim. In a ...
Style:
dark, tense, educational
Plot:
loss of innocence, peer pressure, youth culture, social media, toxic masculinity, assault, teenager, youth, violence, rape, shame, nightlife ...
Place:
budapest, hungary
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
Four anthologies about revenge explore the need for vengeance, the effects of self-harm, and forgiveness through the lives of different people.
Style:
anthology, dark, intense, tense, crime drama ...
Plot:
ethical dilemma, moral ambiguity, revenge, vengeance, forgiveness, social commentary, trauma, self harm, quarantine, pandemic, violent, gangster ...
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Henry Long desperately seeks a cure for the condition that leaves him unable to feel physical pain.
Style:
tense, suspense, disturbing, enigmatic, captivating ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
cure, patient, doctors and patients, pain, illness, disease, character study, male protagonist, hospital, ethical dilemma, scientific research, disability ...
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Argentina, Spain
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Antonio Decoud is a conservative family man who is forced by destiny to face an unexpected situation that shakes him to the core, scrambling up his life and his priorities, pushing him to forget his beliefs and his way of understanding life and ...
Style:
tense, emotional, intense, realistic, dark ...
Plot:
family man, desperation, life & death, family drama, sacrifice, father, male protagonist, moral ambiguity, moral dilemma, domestic drama, character study, parent child relationship ...
Place:
argentina, buenos aires argentina
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Poland, France, Hungary
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Turn-of-the-century Hungary. Two young brothers, neglected by their cold and uncaring mother, descend deeper and deeper into psychosis, with tragic consequences.
Style:
tragic ending, period piece, atmospheric, grim, bleak ...
Plot:
boy, character study, neglect, tragedy, psychosis, dysfunctional family, mental illness, childhood trauma, brotherhood, haunting, coming of age, mother son conflict ...
Time:
turn of the century
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Drama
Country: Venezuela
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Gilberto, a young man from the countryside, arrives in the city with the aim of carving out a future for himself. Initially he is dazzled by the sparkling image of the city, the spoiler of civilization, which will batter him until his personality ...
Style:
realistic, dark, bleak, intense, melancholic
Plot:
drug addiction, urban decay, moral ambiguity, loss of innocence, social realism, coming of age, poverty, nightlife, character study, violence, corruption, identity crisis ...
Time:
70s
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Drama
Country: Austria
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Die Ausgesperrten revolves around an unlikely group of 4 youths in Vienna who band together, each for different reasons, to mug people. Two are fraternal twins, the third a blue-collar worker, the fourth the privileged daughter of wealthy parents ...
Style:
dark, bleak, tense, melancholic, political drama ...
Plot:
social inequality, class conflict, youth, theft, mugging, post war, working class, anti establishment, rebellion, outsider, alienation, moral ambiguity ...
Time:
1950s, 50s
Place:
austria, vienna
Similarity:
40%
454
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Colombia, France
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Eliú, a country boy, is incarcerated́ in an experimental minors' centre in the heart of the Colombian tropical forest, for a crime he committed with his friend El Mono. Every day, the teenagers perform strenuous manual labour and intense ...
Style:
tense, psychological, thrilling, captivating, dark ...
Plot:
prison life, teenager, guilt, trauma, juvenile detention, prison sentence, teenage boy, confined, jail, prison, prisoner, life is a bitch ...
Place:
colombia
Similarity:
40%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Hungary, India
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
Like the twining vines of the honeysuckle, each of the three stories in this film follow a character whose growth is impeded by the clouds of society hanging over their heads. From a Hungarian taxi driver torn between the preservation of his family ...
Style:
anthology, melancholic, existential, multicultural
Plot:
coming of age, moral ambiguity, realism, ethical dilemma, oppression, loneliness, family conflict, loss of innocence, working class, humanism, intimate, identity crisis ...
Place:
hungary, india, budapest
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 155 min.
Story:
Set in the rural socio-political environment of North Malabar, Kotthu follows two party workers Shanu and Sumesh and how certain party workers are honour-bound to their `acquired` political ideology of revenge killing.
Style:
tense, harsh, intense, dark, brutal ...
Plot:
bloodbath, revenge, revenge killing, retribution, violence, gang warfare, loyalty, betrayal, machismo, hostility, vigilantism, moral ambiguity ...
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Turkey
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Elephants and Grass (Turkish: Filler ve Çimen) is a 2001 Turkish drama film, written and directed by Derviş Zaim, about six different stories that merge into a common theme. The film, which went on nationwide general release across Turkey on ...
Style:
realistic, art house, tense, political thriller, suspense ...
Plot:
moral ambiguity, conspiracy, cover up, corruption, political corruption, intelligence agency, social commentary, hitman, betrayal, investigation, justice, character study ...
Place:
turkey, istanbul turkey
Similarity:
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758
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Brazil
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
To protect herself from a revolt by the workers on her family's farm, a reclusive designer locks herself in her armored car. The clock is ticking and the tension rises. Separated by an impenetrable layer of glass, two universes are about to ...
Style:
tense, psychological, captivating, suspense, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
armored car, farm hand, claustrophobia, isolation, problem, threat, female protagonist, civil unrest, class conflict, locked room, privilege, paranoia ...
Similarity:
38%
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:
37%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller, Action
Country: Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A fifteen year old girl Senka, comes from a wealthy family whose parents enroll in an elite school where she meets a drug dealer with whom he falls in love, and so it has hitherto completely unknown world. Senka is a young and inexperienced girl ...
Style:
thrilling, captivating, psychological, dark, melancholic ...
Plot:
drug addiction, teenager, mobster, substance abuse, female protagonist, drug dealer, life is a bitch, teenage life, drug, drug abuse, teenage protagonist, loss of innocence ...
Place:
former yugoslavia, eastern europe
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Ulrik Torp, once a fearless investigative journalist who is now tackling unemployment and a midlife crisis. He finds himself in the middle of a new political conspiracy.
Style:
tense, suspense, dark, thought provoking, crime drama ...
Plot:
investigative journalism, political conspiracy, midlife crisis, investigation, unemployment, corruption, power struggle, surveillance, social commentary, paranoia, betrayal, ethical dilemma ...
Place:
copenhagen
Similarity:
37%
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 ...
Similarity:
37%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, Netherlands
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
The story of Liam, a neglected teenager who lives in a family where alcohol, violence and sex play the main role. He grows up to be a confused youngster which ends in a very aggressive act to break with his past.
Style:
psychological, thrilling, captivating, dark, realistic ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
teenager, family relations, domestic abuse, alcoholism, trauma, troubled past, foster home, life is a bitch, tragic past, confronting the past, dysfunctional family, young adult ...
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 68 min.
Story:
The dark twisted tale of a man who's accused of murdering his girlfriend, told from his shadow's perspective.
Style:
dark, psychological thriller, crime drama, surreal, atmospheric ...
Plot:
guilt, character study, alienation, obsession, mental breakdown, paranoia, isolation, claustrophobia, identity crisis, morality, slow burn, surveillance ...
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Thriller
Country: India
Story:
Babji is a murder suspect who also is an emotionally unstable man. He describes the modes operandi behind the crime he committed that eventually helps the cops disclose unfolded facts.
Style:
crime drama, tense, suspenseful, intense, dark ...
Plot:
murder, character study, interrogation, suspect, investigation, ethical dilemma, motive, conflict, justice, confession, mental health, evidence ...
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
A topical yet timeless story about the parallel impacts of both bullying and friendship, Turner Risk focuses on a troubled young man who sets out to effectively reboot his world by clearing out all the negative forces in it.
Style:
psychological thriller, tense, dark, suspense, intense ...
Plot:
bullying, friendship, revenge, character study, confrontation, loyalty, social commentary, mental breakdown, isolation, loss, moral ambiguity, male camaraderie ...
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