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Crossing Over (2009)
 6.7
 24K
Crossing Over (2009)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Immigrants from around the world enter Los Angeles every day, with hopeful visions of a better life, but little notion of what that life may cost. Their desperate scenarios test the humanity of immigration enforcement officers. In Crossing Over, writer-director Wayne Kramer explores the allure of the American dream, and the reality that immigrants find – and create -- in 21st century L.A.
Style: serious, realistic, political, emotional, touching, intense, sincere, sad, bleak, non-linear ...
Plot: culture clash, extramarital affair, unfaithfulness, illegal alien, illegal immigrant, deportation, immigrant, social differences, society, female nudity, life is a bitch, interracial relations, fighting the system, social problems, state affairs, multiple storylines, sexual content, murder investigation, border, migration, idealism, islam, corruption, family drama, social commentary ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: los angeles, usa, california, tijuana mexico, san diego california, bangladesh, southern california ...
Keyword: jewish, americana, gangsters, australian, korean, mexican, latin

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, bleak and independent film films with plots about female nudity, society, police officer, murder, cigarette smoking, profanity and family relations mostly in Drama, Crime and Thriller genres. Some movies like Crossing Over: Life Is Hot in Cracktown (2009), Havoc (2005), The Border (1982), Frozen River (2008), River's Edge (1986). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Life Is Hot in Cracktown (2009)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Various stories of how crack cocaine has infiltrated the inner-city streets. Based on Buddy Giovinazzo's novel "Life is Hot in Cracktown".
Style: disturbing, serious, thought provoking, realistic, bleak ...
Plot: street gang, urban ghetto life, coming of age, life is a bitch, juvenile delinquency, society, addiction, drug abuse, gang rape, oral sex, youth, criminal heroes ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
 5.5
 20K
Havoc (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A wealthy Los Angeles teen and her superficial friends wants to break out of suburbia and experience Southern California's "gangsta" lifestyle. But problems arise when the preppies get in over their heads and provoke the wrath of a ...
Style: disturbing, sexy, independent film, erotic, psychological ...
Audience: teens
Plot: youth, nudity, teenager, sex scene, sex with a stranger, juvenile delinquency, promiscuity, hip hop, gang, gangster, erotica, female nudity ...
Time: year 2005, 21st century
Place: los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
 6.4
 7K
The Border (1982)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A corrupted border agent decides to clean up his act when an impoverished woman's baby is put up for sale on the black market.
Style: talky, neo noir, serious, atmospheric, rough ...
Plot: border, corruption, murder, u.s. mexico border, immigrant, moral ambiguity, police, character study, police corruption, happy ending, emigration, kidnapping ...
Time: year 1982, 80s
Place: texas, mexico, latin america, california, el paso texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
93%
 7.1
 26K
Frozen River (2008)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Ray Eddy, an upstate New York trailer mom, is lured into the world of illegal immigrant smuggling. Broke after her husband takes off with the down payment for their new doublewide, Ray reluctantly teams up with Lila, a smuggler, and the two begin ...
Style: melancholic, emotional, bleak, suspenseful, atmospheric ...
Plot: poverty, single parent, native american reservation, winter, native american, working class, survival, christmas, snow, courage, parenthood, life is a bitch ...
Time: year 2008, 2000s, 21st century
Place: new york, canada, new york state, usa, quebec
⇓ similarity ⇓
89%
Movie in collections
 6.9
 20K
River's Edge (1986)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A group of high school friends discover that they are in the presence of a killer. One of them, Samson, has murdered his girlfriend Jamie. He brags to his friends about killing her, and when they discover he is telling the truth, their reactions ...
Style: disturbing, independent film, cult classic, grim, creepy ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: teenager, high school, coming of age, murder, serial killer, small town, drug abuse, violence, death, drug, strangulation, juvenile delinquency ...
Time: 80s, year 1986, 20th century
Place: oregon, california, usa, portland oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
89%
 6.2
 3K
Normal Life (1996)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Chris Anderson and his wife Pam live a fairly normal life until Chris loses his job on the police force and secretly turns to robbing banks to make his wife's dreams come true. Upon discovering his secret, she joins his deadly crime wave and ...
Style: realistic, serious, tense, suspenseful, independent film
Plot: love, lovers on the run, relationships, bank, robbery, destructive relationship, bookstore, women, woman with a gun, good girl gone bad, book, husband wife relationship ...
Time: year 1996, 90s
Place: chicago, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
87%
 6.3
 4K
Phoenix (1998)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Gambling fever -- along with a brutal bookie -- leads three crooked cops into a double-dealing scheme that lands them in hot water way over their heads.
Style: neo noir, detective, independent film, serious, realistic ...
Plot: gambling, addiction, redemption, dirty cop, police corruption, betrayal, heist, crime gone awry, casino, cop, police officer, death of protagonist ...
Time: year 1998, 20th century, 90s
Place: arizona, usa, phoenix arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
 6.2
 15K
Powder Blue (2009)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: On the gritty streets of LA, the destinies of four people desperate for connection and redemption are about to collide.
Style: bleak, emotional, serious, realistic, touching ...
Plot: stripper, striptease, oral sex, sexy woman, redemption, panic attack, exotic dancer, life is a bitch, self discovery, haunted by the past, female nudity, human nature ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles, california, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
Movie in collections
 7.8
 153K
Boyz n the Hood (1991)
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 ⇓
83%
Maria Full of Grace (2004)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Colombia, Ecuador, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A pregnant Colombian teenager becomes a drug mule to make some desperately needed money for her family.
Style: realistic, disturbing, sentimental, sincere, independent film ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: drug dealing, immigrant, human trafficking, friendship, coming of age, life is a bitch, illegal immigration, women, loneliness, drug abuse, depression, addiction ...
Time: year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
Place: colombia, new york, latin america, new jersey, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
 7.0
 106K
Cop Land (1997)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Freddy Heflin is the sheriff of a place everyone calls “Cop Land” — a small and seemingly peaceful town populated by the big city police officers he’s long admired. Yet something ugly is taking place behind the town’s peaceful facade. And ...
Style: suspenseful, neo noir, talky, intense, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: corruption, nypd, dirty cop, mafia, police, police corruption, internal affairs, sheriff, organized crime, corrupt cop, investigation, small town ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: new jersey, new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
The Many Saints of Newark (2021)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Young Anthony Soprano is growing up in one of the most tumultuous eras in Newark, N.J., history, becoming a man just as rival gangsters start to rise up and challenge the all-powerful DiMeo crime family. Caught up in the changing times is the uncle ...
Style: captivating, tense, suspense, disturbing, dramatic ...
Plot: mafia, criminal, gangster, mob boss, mobster, gang war, mafioso, black man white woman sex, cosa nostra, organized crime, criminal underworld, crime boss ...
Time: 60s, year 1971, 70s, year 1967, year 1972
Place: new york, new jersey, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
Killing Them Softly (2012)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Jackie Cogan is an enforcer hired to restore order after three dumb guys rob a Mob protected card game, causing the local criminal economy to collapse.
Style: neo noir, suspenseful, intense, tense, bleak ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, adult
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Time: year 2012, 2010s, year 2008, 2000s, 21st century
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⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
 7.6
 245K
21 Grams (2003)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: This is the story of three gentle persons: Paul Rivers an ailing mathematician lovelessly married to an English émigré, Christina Peck, an upper-middle-class suburban housewife, happily married and mother of two little girls, and Jack Jordan, an ...
Style: mind bending, emotional, bleak, gloomy, depressing ...
Plot: life is a bitch, guilt, tragedy, grief, drug addiction, multiple storylines, drug addict, drug, loneliness, loss, mathematician, hit and run ...
Time: year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, new mexico, persia
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
 8.7
 1.2M
Goodfellas (1990)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 145 min.
Story: The true story of Henry Hill, a half-Irish, half-Sicilian Brooklyn kid who is adopted by neighbourhood gangsters at an early age and climbs the ranks of a Mafia family under the guidance of Jimmy Conway.
Style: rough, suspense, realistic, epic, brutal ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: organized crime, mafia, gangster, rise and fall, mobster, cosa nostra, mentor, criminal, badass, friends, italian mafia, biopic ...
Time: 70s, 50s, 90s, year 1990, year 1970 ...
Place: new york, brooklyn new york city, italy, florida, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
American History X (1998)
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 ⇓
78%
Breaking and Entering (2006)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Set in a blighted, inner-city neighbourhood of London, Breaking and Entering examines an affair which unfolds between a successful British landscape architect and Amira, a Bosnian woman – the mother of a troubled teen son – who was widowed by ...
Style: sincere, heartbreaking, compassionate, psychological, stylized ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: immigrant, infidelity, architect, autism, destiny, society, blackmail, working class, social differences, depression, single parent, breaking and entering ...
Time: year 2006, 20th century, 21st century
Place: london, england, europe, sarajevo, bosnia
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
 7.5
 316K
Babel (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Mexico, France
Duration: 143 min.
Story: Tragedy strikes a married couple on vacation in the Moroccan desert, touching off an interlocking story involving four different families.
Style: non-linear, bleak, sincere, emotional, depressing ...
Audience: adult
Plot: multiple storylines, redemption, desert, woman urinating, deaf girl, mexican border, society, guilt, parenthood, depression, tragic event, immigrant ...
Time: year 2006, 2000s, 21st century
Place: morocco, japan, tokyo, africa, mexico ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
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Blood In, Blood Out (1993)
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 ⇓
77%
 6.6
 15K
Animal Factory (2000)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A young man goes to prison and a tough, older convict takes him under his wing as a mentor.
Style: realistic, tense, bleak, atmospheric, disturbing ...
Plot: prison, friendship, murder, violence, prison gang, transvestite, prison escape, drug, adaptation, depression, redemption, prison rape ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: usa, philadelphia, pennsylvania, paris france, puerto rico
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
Cry of a Prostitute (1974)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 97 min.
Story: The gangster Tony Aniante in the middle of a feud between two mafia families. He manipulates both families into believing he is on their side and are just waiting for the right moment to take the initiative...
Style: cult classic, psychotronic, poliziottesco
Plot: mob boss, mafia, police, police officer, virus, revenge, conspiracy, nudity, female pubic hair, unfaithfulness, infidelity, fondling ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
 6.4
 22K
Less Than Zero (1987)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A college freshman returns to Los Angeles for the holidays at his ex-girlfriend's request, but discovers that his former best friend has an out-of-control drug habit.
Style: stylized, cult classic, visually stunning, cerebral, erotic drama ...
Audience: teens
Plot: drug addiction, friendship, drug addict, addiction, drug, drug abuse, male nudity, hedonism, male prostitute, male prostitution, christmas, high school ...
Time: 80s, year 1987
Place: los angeles, california, beverly hills, usa, palm springs california
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
 6.8
 17K
Grand Canyon (1991)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story: Grand Canyon revolved around six residents from different backgrounds whose lives intertwine in modern-day Los Angeles. At the center of the film is the unlikely friendship of two men from different races and classes brought together when one finds ...
Style: realistic, clever, touching, anthology, spiritual ...
Plot: adoption, midlife crisis, unrequited love, friendship, grand canyon, cynicism, teen angst, regret, father son relationship, compassion, rescue, interracial friendship ...
Time: year 1991, 90s, 20th century
Place: los angeles, arizona, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
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Ash Wednesday (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Ash Wednesday is set in the Manhattan of the early 1980's and is about a pair of Irish-American brothers who become embroiled in a conflict with the Irish Mob.
Style: intense, rough, suspenseful, realistic, serious ...
Plot: organized crime, betrayal, gangster, violence, murder, love triangle, couple relations, haunted by the past, love and romance, dishonesty, siblings relations, irish mob ...
Time: 80s, year 2002, year 1983, year 1980
Place: new york, ireland, usa, brooklyn new york city, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
 7.2
 499K
American Hustle (2013)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA, China
Duration: 138 min.
Story: A con man, Irving Rosenfeld, along with his seductive partner Sydney Prosser, is forced to work for a wild FBI agent, Richie DiMaso, who pushes them into a world of Jersey powerbrokers and mafia.
Style: clever, tense, period piece, suspense, intense ...
Audience: family friendly, teens, adult
Plot: partners in crime, fbi, mafia, organized crime, heist, cons and scams, political corruption, con artists, strip club, politics, sexual attraction, manipulation ...
Time: 70s, year 2013, 2010s, 90s, 20th century ...
Place: new jersey, usa, boston, atlantic city new jersey, new york ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
 6.8
 387
Police Beat (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Z (Pape Sidy Niang), a Seattle bicycle cop, tries to make sense of the world while patrolling the city streets but can't focus on his job because he's so preoccupied with suspicions that his girlfriend is cheating on him. Director Robinson ...
Style: serious, psychological, sincere, bleak, contemplative ...
Plot: opposites attract, couples, society, law enforcement, social differences, infidelity, immigrant, city life, self discovery, misfit, urban, bicycle ...
Time: 21st century
Place: seattle, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
My Crazy Life (1993)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Mousie and Sad Girl are childhood best friends in a contemporary Los Angeles poor Hispanic neighborhood. But when Sad Girl becomes pregnant by Mousie's boyfriend, a drug dealer named Ernesto, the two become bitter enemies. While their dispute ...
Style: realistic, talky, serious, hood, cult classic ...
Plot: coming of age, friendship, chicano, juvenile delinquency, gang member, teenager, unlikely friendships, drug dealing, urban ghetto, urban, youth, urban ghetto life ...
Time: year 1993, 90s
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
 5.8
 25K
Rampart (2011)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Follows veteran police officer Dave Brown, the last of the renegade cops, as he struggles to take care of his family, and fights for his own survival.
Style: bleak, intense, rough, psychological, neo noir ...
Plot: police corruption, brutality, police, police brutality, dysfunctional family, bigotry, cop, scandal, dishonesty, dirty cop, law enforcement, sister sister relationship ...
Time: 2010s, 90s, 20th century, year 1999
Place: california, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
 7.3
 3K
City of Hope (1991)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story: This gritty inner-city film by John Sayles follows various people living in a troubled New Jersey setting, most notably Nick Rinaldi (Vincent Spano), a disillusioned contractor who has been helped along his whole life by his wealthy father (Tony Lo ...
Style: anthology, cult classic, independent film, serious, realistic ...
Plot: racism, city life, child, american politics, intrigue, sexual content, nonviolent resistance, white supremacy, politics, political corruption, construction company, xenophobia ...
Time: year 1991, 90s, 20th century
Place: usa, new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
 5.6
 5K
Sonny (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: New Orleans, 1981. Sonny Phillips, just discharged from the Army, returns home. The only life he's known is as a gigolo, working for his mother, but he wants to leave that behind. However, the job his Army buddy promised doesn't ...
Style: psychological, serious, rough, disturbing, erotic ...
Plot: gigolo, prostitute, older woman younger man relationship, pimp, haunted by the past, parents and children, family life, military life, society, ex soldier, homosexual, age-gap relationship ...
Time: 80s, year 2002, year 1981
Place: new orleans, usa, louisiana
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
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