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The Football Factory (2004)
34K
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 they're not good enough and using their fists as a drug they describe as being more potent than sex and drugs put together.
Style:
realistic, disturbing, rough, serious, grindhouse, stylized, hood, crime drama, contemplative, fast ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
soccer, hooligan, violence, dark humor, violent, organized crime, lifestyle, working class, football hooligan, dysfunctional family, drug, rivalry, machismo, buddies, violence spree, obsession, direction and purpose, uninhibited rivalry, brutality, gangster, brawl, skinhead, gang, hooliganism, nightmare ...
Time:
year 2004, 21st century, contemporary
Place:
london, united kingdom, britain, europe, england, australia
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Most similar movies to The Football Factory
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, rough and hood films with plots about gangster, gang, violence, violent, gangsta, profanity and rivalry mostly in Drama, Crime and Thriller genres. Some movies like The Football Factory: Green Street Hooligans (2005), I.D. (1995), Awaydays (2009), Mean Machine (2001), The Firm (2009). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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, homoerotic, disturbing, factual, intense ...
Audience:
boys' night, teen drama, adult
Plot:
soccer, gang, hooligan, hooliganism, friendship, self discovery, subculture, buddies, friends, uninhibited rivalry, obsession, lifestyle ...
Time:
year 2005, 21st century
Place:
england, london, britain, europe, harvard university
Similarity:
100%
8K
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, undercover, gang, skinhead, football hooligan, pub, hooliganism, rage ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
england, yorkshire, britain, europe, london
Similarity:
100%
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, rough, suspenseful, tense, realistic ...
Plot:
gang, hooligan, football, destructive relationship, juvenile delinquency, coming of age, teenage life, troublemaker, violence spree, life is a bitch, buddies, unemployment ...
Time:
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Place:
england, britain, liverpool
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Sport
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Disgraced ex-England captain (Danny 'Mean Machine' Meehan) is thrown in jail for assaulting two police officers. He keeps his head down and has the opportunity to forget everything and change the lives of the prisoners. These prisoners ...
Style:
sexy, funny, inspirational, entertaining, witty ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
soccer, prison, underdog, soccer match, prison life, brutality, justice, redemption, fixed match, football player, adaptation, corruption ...
Time:
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Place:
england, britain, europe, london
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100%
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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:
serious, realistic, rough, crime drama
Plot:
football, bullying, hooligan, gang, hooliganism, rivalry, society, uninhibited rivalry, working class, soccer, police, vandalism ...
Time:
80s
Place:
england, britain, europe
Similarity:
100%
13K
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, drug addict, juvenile delinquency, teenage life, criminal's revenge, youth, life is a bitch, ghetto, urban ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, london, united kingdom, britain, europe
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100%
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:
exciting, serious, suspenseful, rough, realistic
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
martial arts, gang, society, uninhibited rivalry, vengeance, friends, violence spree, soccer, hooliganism, football, hooligan, football hooligan ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
london, england
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
This movie is about soccer hooligans, the most aggressive and violent soccer aficionados. They are an exclusive group, the elite of all soccer fans. Whoever they may be in their everyday lives—college students, bankers, musicians, or car ...
Style:
captivating, thought provoking, suspense, suspenseful
Plot:
street fight, hooligan, hooliganism, soccer fan, bully, friends, police, psychopath, doubts and hesitations, conflict, love and romance, death of friend ...
Similarity:
60%
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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:
cerebral, rough, serious, clever, disturbing ...
Audience:
boys' night, date night, teens, teen drama
Plot:
gang, skinhead, racism, prison, neo nazism, neo nazi, character change, nazism, juvenile delinquency, murder, politics, african american ...
Time:
20th century, year 1998, 90s
Place:
los angeles, usa, california, america, north america ...
Similarity:
100%
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, gang, mob violence, lifestyle, uninhibited rivalry, confined, buddies, rivalry, society, football, soccer ...
Time:
year 2009
Place:
england, britain, london, europe
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Spain
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
During the '80s, a young man named Frankie dreams of escaping London's South East region, and his mother's thug of a boyfriend gives him just the opportunity. After beating up the abusive beau, Frankie runs off to Spain, where he ...
Style:
captivating, serious, suspenseful, rough, dark ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
rise and fall, gang, drug dealing, drug dealer, organized crime, femme fatale, on the run, gangster, drug abuse, murder, british gangster, ambition ...
Time:
80s, year 2005, 20th century
Place:
colombia, britain, england, spain, london
Similarity:
38%
7K
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, realistic, serious, rough, powerful ...
Plot:
racism, bullying, interracial relations, lifestyle, self discovery, going straight, rise to the top, parents and children, hopes, youth, life is a bitch, society ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
england, london, britain, europe
Similarity:
37%
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, murder, criminal, drug abuse, violent, police investigation, betrayal, partners in crime, rivalry, criminal heroes, vicious ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, 90s, year 1975, year 1995 ...
Place:
england, london, united kingdom, britain, europe
Similarity:
36%
13K
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A group of people who feel betrayed by their government and let down by their police force form a modern-day outlaw posse in order to right what they see as the wrongs of society.
Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough, grindhouse ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
police, gang, vengeance, gangster, vigilante, revenge, security guard, soldier, betrayal, rivalry, dishonesty, murder of wife ...
Place:
england, britain, london, big ben london, united kingdom
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Sport
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
An unemployed Scottish miner (Liam Neeson) is forced into bare-knuckle boxing to make ends meet.
Style:
rough, realistic, serious, cult classic, bleak ...
Plot:
boxing, life is a bitch, contests and competitions, gambling, rivalry, athlete's life, lifestyle, down on your luck, working class, unemployment, mixed martial arts, illegal fistfight ...
Time:
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Place:
scotland, england
Similarity:
34%
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, blind ambition, gang, criminal heroes, unfulfillment, football hooligan, hooligan, criminal, football, nationalism ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, london
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
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:
realistic, serious, rough
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
hooligan, ambition, rise and fall, gang, cons and scams, buddies, dishonesty, lifestyle, football hooligan, british gangster, credit card fraud, violent ...
Time:
year 2012, 21st century
Place:
england, britain
Similarity:
33%
359
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
In the summer of 2009, Charlie Ruez made a documentary. 6 months later the footage was seized for evidence by the Metropolitan Police Department. In 2010, the footage was released.
Style:
serious, tense, disturbing, rough, mockumentary ...
Plot:
found footage, gangster, drug dealing, gang, law enforcement, drug abuse, murder, violence spree, hooligan, thug, fighter, sexual content ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, europe, london
Similarity:
33%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
The Guvnors is a violent thriller set amongst the clans and firms of South East London, bringing two generations together in brutal conflict.
Style:
suspense, tense, realistic, serious, captivating ...
Plot:
gang, gangster, rivalry, ego clash, criminal's revenge, violent content, youth, hooligan, british gangster, urban, danger, society ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
london, england
Similarity:
33%
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:
rise and fall, gang, rivalry, partner, gangster, dishonesty, betrayal, drug dealing, ambition, vengeance, criminal heroes, violence ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
england, britain, europe
Similarity:
32%
765K
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Renton, deeply immersed in the Edinburgh drug scene, tries to clean up and get out, despite the allure of the drugs and influence of friends.
Style:
disturbing, psychedelic, captivating, dark comedy, black comedy ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens, teen drama
Plot:
addiction, heroin, drug addiction, drug abuse, existentialism, dark humor, counterculture, junkie, life is a bitch, subculture, dialogue, social misfits ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1996
Place:
scotland, edinburgh scotland, london, england, britain ...
Similarity:
32%
14K
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Tommy Brown and Sincere are best friends as well as infamous and ruthless criminals and shot-callers in the hood. Respected by many but feared by all. As the police are closing in on them and new players are looking for a come up, will their reign ...
Style:
hood, independent film, stylized, crime drama, realistic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
gangster, hip hop, african american, urban, urban ghetto life, ghetto, drug dealer, black, drug, violence, gangsta, gang ...
Time:
year 1998, 90s
Place:
jamaica, new york, usa, new jersey
Similarity:
32%
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:
political, depressing, cult classic, stylized, harsh ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
skinhead, racism, childhood, friendship, coming of age, neo nazi, adolescence, nationalism, boy, children, youth, violent ...
Time:
80s, year 1983, year 2006, 2000s, 20th century
Place:
england, britain, northern england, united kingdom, europe ...
Similarity:
31%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A loan shark gives ex-con Nick a period of 24 hours in order to pay back the money he owes. Up against it, Nick involves his best mate on a multi-part mission in order to raise the cash before it's too late for them both
Style:
exciting, suspenseful, tense, serious, hood ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gangster, rivalry, buddies, ultimatum, robbery, british gangster, loan, ghetto, badass, violence, chases and races, friends ...
Time:
20th century, 21st century
Place:
london, england, britain, europe, manchester
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A parolee battles a gangster for the affections of a reclusive movie star.
Style:
visually appealing, melancholic, brutal, suspenseful, stylized ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
fall in love, gangster, revenge, violence, love and romance, organized crime, going straight, mentor, brother sister relationship, runaway, criminal heroes, dishonor among criminals ...
Time:
year 2010, 21st century
Place:
london, england, europe, los angeles
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Music
Country: UK
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Ensemble film revolving around characters living in Forest Gate, London. Over the course of a few days, six inter-linking stories explore issues of drug use, prostitution and urban poverty.
Style:
tense, realistic, serious, hood, anthology ...
Plot:
urban ghetto life, gang, gangster, society, urban, ghetto, hip hop, police raid, british gangster, mafia, rivalry, low lives ...
Time:
year 2012, 21st century
Place:
london, england, united kingdom, britain
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
Hoping to raise enough capital to finance a legitimate business and leave behind his life of crime, Liverpool underworld boss Ged Brennan sends his brother Ratter and a crew to pull a daring final heist. But when Ratter kills a drug kingpin during ...
Style:
realistic, rough, serious, suspenseful, crime drama
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
betrayal, gangster, gang, criminal heroes, crime gone awry, dishonesty, brother brother relationship, organized crime, lesbian, british gangster, mafia, crime family ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, europe
Similarity:
31%
613K
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, neo noir, stylized ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
organized crime, mafia, casino, rise and fall, gangster, betrayal, money, gambling, greed, criminal heroes, mobster, cosa nostra ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, 90s, 80s, year 1973 ...
Place:
las vegas, chicago, missouri, israel, usa ...
Similarity:
31%
2.4M
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, witty, exciting, clever ...
Audience:
boys' night, manly, adult
Plot:
dark humor, gunfight, violence, hitman, gangster, organized crime, overdose, storytelling, violent, professional killer, multiple storylines, foul language ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1994, 70s
Place:
los angeles, california, southern california, america, britain ...
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Goldie returns from five years at the state pen and winds up king of the pimping game. Trouble comes in the form of two corrupt white cops and a crime lord who wants him to return to the small time.
Style:
grindhouse, hood, independent film, funny, cult classic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
blaxploitation, urban, african american, black, exploitation, ghetto, pimp, corrupt cop, street life, corruption, revenge, prison ...
Time:
70s
Place:
oakland california, bay area, usa, california
Similarity:
31%
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