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Hate (1995)
223K
Original name: La Haine
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 marginalization slowly simmering until it reaches a climactic boiling point. La Haine means Hate.
Style:
bleak, art house, disturbing, cult classic, thought provoking, hood, political, rough, captivating, neo noir ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
racism, rebel, poverty, skinhead, youth, ghetto, brutality, police brutality, friendship, rebellion, urban ghetto life, misfit, hip hop, drug, protest, riot police, violence, society, gangster, riot, police violence, police, revenge, anger, suburbs ...
Time:
20th century, year 1995, 90s, 1990s
Place:
paris france, france, middle east, europe
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, disturbing and bleak films with plots about violence, society, gangster, gang, brutality, life is a bitch and friendship mostly in Drama, Crime and Thriller genres. Some movies like Hate: City of God (2002), The Outsiders (1983), Kids (1995), Trainspotting (1996), This Is England (2006). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Brazil, France
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 ...
Style:
rough, bleak, hood, sexy, stylized ...
Audience:
teen drama, adult
Plot:
gang, violence, ghetto, favela, coming of age, storytelling, gang war, gangster, society, juvenile delinquency, organized crime, journalism ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 2003, 2000s, future ...
Place:
latin america, rio de janeiro, south america, brazil, africa
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108K
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
When two poor greasers, Johnny, and Ponyboy are assaulted by a vicious gang, the socs, and Johnny kills one of the attackers, tension begins to mount between the two rival gangs, setting off a turbulent chain of events.
Style:
teen, homoerotic, melancholic, intense, hood ...
Audience:
teens, family outing, pre-teens, kids, girls' night ...
Plot:
coming of age, gang, teen angst, dysfunctional family, street gang, teenager, book, brother brother relationship, small town, friendship, juvenile delinquent, rebellious teenager ...
Time:
60s, year 1964, 1900s, 1950s, future ...
Place:
oklahoma, oklahoma city, usa, north america
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91K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A controversial portrayal of teens in New York City which exposes a deeply disturbing world of sex and substance abuse. The film focuses on a sexually reckless, freckle-faced boy named Telly, whose goal is to have sex with as many different girls as ...
Style:
disturbing, independent film, controversial, bleak, teen ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, kids, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, aids, innocence lost, youth, drug abuse, virginity, underage sex, teenage boy, street kid, puberty, sex, teenager ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new york, seattle, los angeles, usa, new jersey
Similarity:
100%
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:
86%
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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:
76%
103K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Several ordinary high school students go through their daily routine as two others prepare for something more malevolent. The film chronicles the events surrounding a school shooting.
Style:
disturbing, psychological, bleak, independent film, teen ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
school shooting, violence, teacher, bullying, teenage girl, mass murder, violent, high school, teenager, youth, school, rage ...
Time:
year 2003, near future, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa, oregon, ireland, portland oregon, california
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100%
2.6M
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
A ticking-time-bomb insomniac and a slippery soap salesman channel primal male aggression into a shocking new form of therapy. Their concept catches on, with underground "fight clubs" forming in every town, until an eccentric gets in the ...
Style:
psychological, twist ending, surprise ending, cerebral, thought provoking ...
Audience:
manly, boys' night, chick flick, girls' night, adult
Plot:
twists and turns, self destructing, psychology, split personality, plot twist, nihilism, insanity, obsession, dissociative identity disorder, insomnia, identity crisis, mental illness ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1999, year 2013
Place:
delaware, seattle, iran, america, los angeles ...
Similarity:
100%
161K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Events over the course of one traumatic night in Paris unfold in reverse-chronological order as the beautiful Alex is brutally raped and beaten by a stranger in the underpass. Her boyfriend and ex-lover take matters into their own hands by hiring ...
Style:
art house, sexy, bleak, disturbing, harsh ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
rape, sexual abuse, revenge, violence, violent, sadism, rape and revenge, sexualized violence, brutality, anal rape, sexual perversion, rape victim ...
Time:
year 2002, turn of the century, year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
paris france, france, europe
Similarity:
100%
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53K
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, Belgium
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:
tense, harsh, realistic, serious, depressing ...
Plot:
juvenile delinquency, gang war, mafia, camorra, gangster, death, danger, organized crime, italian mafia, gang, power, character study ...
Time:
year 2008, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
italy, napoli italy, europe, venice, miami ...
Similarity:
86%
14K
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
This is the hard and shocking story of life in a British Borstal for young offenders. The brutal regime made no attempt to reform or improve the inmates and actively encouraged a power struggle between the 'tough' new inmate and the ...
Style:
tense, serious, controversial, independent film, grindhouse ...
Plot:
boy, rebellion, corruption, rape, criminal, prison, humiliation, youth, prison life, juvenile delinquent, racism, revenge ...
Time:
year 1979, near future, 70s, 20th century
Place:
england, britain, united kingdom
Similarity:
78%
11K
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:
depressing, rough, atmospheric, serious, political ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
prostitution, street kid, child abuse, boy, sex with a minor, coming of age, 10 year old, child rape, children, nude boy, violent, loneliness ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, year 1981
Place:
brazil, south america, latin america, rio de janeiro, sao paulo brazil ...
Similarity:
88%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
The Butcher (known from Noe's short film Carne) has done some time in jail after beating up the guy who tried to seduce his teenage mentally-handicapped daughter. Now he wants to start a new life. He leaves his daughter in an institution and ...
Style:
depressing, disturbing, psychological, controversial, bloody ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
sex, loneliness, butcher, revenge, incest, alienation, insanity, transgression, violent, existentialism, nihilism, extreme ...
Time:
turn of the century, year 1998, 20th century, 80s
Place:
paris france, france, europe
Similarity:
83%
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:
cult classic, brutal, independent film, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
hip hop, gang, ghetto, african american, poverty, coming of age, urban ghetto life, street gang, juvenile delinquency, rapper, gangster, teenager ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 80s, year 1991, year 1984
Place:
los angeles, south central los angeles, california, america, usa ...
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71%
Genre: Drama, Crime
Country: Morocco, Tunisia, France, Belgium, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Ali, Kwita, Omar and Boubker are street kids. The daily dose of glue sniffing represents their only escape from reality. Since they left Dib and his gang, they have been living on the portside of Casablanca. They live in constant fear of Dib's ...
Style:
serious, captivating, bleak, islamic, social ...
Plot:
homeless, street kid, youth, juvenile delinquency, teenage life, poverty, kids in trouble, friendship, danger, society, gang, vengeance ...
Time:
90s
Place:
africa, middle east, maghreb, morocco
Similarity:
100%
107K
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 155 min.
Story:
Sentenced to six years in prison, Malik El Djebena (Tahar Rahim) is alone in the world and can neither read nor write. On his arrival at the prison, he seems younger and more brittle than the others detained there. At once he falls under the sway of ...
Style:
tense, harsh, rough, breathtaking, atmospheric ...
Audience:
manly, boys' night
Plot:
prison, mafia, prison life, gangster, cruelty, male nudity, organized crime, male objectification, convict, prison gang, prison escape, coming of age ...
Time:
year 2009, 2000s, 90s, year 2010, 21st century
Place:
france, marseille, europe, paris france, california
Similarity:
60%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
The line between reality and fiction starts to blur when two best friends start making a movie about getting revenge on bullies.
Style:
disturbing, controversial, realistic, sincere, serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
school shooting, bullying, found footage, high school, bully, vengeance, misfit, filmmaking, best friend, violence spree, food, high school student ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
canada, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Austria, Switzerland
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A 14-year-old video enthusiast is so caught up in film fantasy that he can no longer relate to the real world, to such an extent that he commits murder and records an on-camera confession for his parents.
Style:
disturbing, psychological, bleak, serious, art house ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
murder, psychopath, obsession, video store, society, atrocity, killer child, child murders a child, human nature, introspection, found footage, extreme ...
Time:
year 1992, 90s
Place:
austria, egypt, germany, bosnia, europe ...
Similarity:
75%
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:
independent film, creepy, retro, cult classic, dark ...
Audience:
teens, kids, teen drama
Plot:
high school, coming of age, murder, strong sexual content, teenager, drug abuse, violence, death, marijuana, drug, serial killer, small town ...
Time:
80s, year 1986, 20th century
Place:
oregon, california, usa, portland oregon
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
The hopes and dreams of four ambitious people are shattered when their drug addictions begin spiraling out of control. A look into addiction and how it overcomes the mind and body.
Style:
psychological, disturbing, bleak, depressing, atmospheric ...
Audience:
kids, adult
Plot:
addiction, drug abuse, heroin, drug addiction, insanity, drug, junkie, loneliness, mental illness, depression, dream, subculture ...
Time:
year 2000, future, y2k, 20th century, 90s ...
Place:
britain, america, new york, usa, coney island brooklyn new york city ...
Similarity:
100%
11K
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, suspenseful, thought provoking, disturbing ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens
Plot:
poverty, friendship, slum, police, seduction, urban decay, ghetto, street gang, dancer, greed, danger, full moon ...
Time:
2010s, year 2016, 21st century
Place:
paris france, france, indiana
Similarity:
67%
Genre: Crime, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 136 min.
Story:
Demonic gang-leader Alex goes on the spree of rape, mugging and murder with his pack of "droogs". But he's a boy who also likes Beethoven's Ninth and a bit of "the old in-out, in-out". He later finds himself at the ...
Style:
disturbing, controversial, psychedelic, philosophical, atmospheric ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
psychology, insanity, dystopia, surrealism, gang, rape, violent, controversy, violence, psychopath, sociopath, murder ...
Time:
future, 20th century, 90s, 70s, 80s ...
Place:
britain, london, england, united kingdom, europe
Similarity:
77%
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:
sad, bleak, depressing, harsh, brutal ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens, teen drama, adult
Plot:
poverty, human trafficking, prostitution, friendship, sexual abuse, prostitute, life is a bitch, suicide, teenage prostitution, teenage life, depression, rape ...
Time:
year 2002
Place:
denmark, estonia, europe, russia, eastern europe ...
Similarity:
60%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
With a gun at his belt and a truncheon in his hand, Pento has just joined the Seine-Saint-Denis anti-crime brigade, an inner suburb of Paris. On the same team as Chris and Gwada, two men with occasionally “peculiar” methods, he soon discovers ...
Style:
realistic, crime thriller, art house, suspense, political ...
Plot:
ghetto, money, police, thief, organized crime, society, life is a bitch, police officer, father son relationship, pursuit, police investigation, danger ...
Time:
2010s, year 2019, 2000s
Place:
paris france, france
Similarity:
80%
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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:
sentimental, sexy, disturbing, touching, sincere ...
Audience:
teens, toddlers, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, innocence lost, heroin, juvenile delinquency, prison, downfall, teenager, dysfunctional family, drug dealing, family problems, adolescence vs adulthood, siblings relations ...
Time:
90s, 2000s, year 2002, 80s, 21st century
Place:
scotland, glasgow scotland, europe, united kingdom
Similarity:
67%
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, sexual, captivating, crime drama, independent film ...
Plot:
gang, criminal gang, urban ghetto life, ghetto, urban, black, blaxploitation, hip hop, african american, father son relationship, father son reunion, drug dealing ...
Time:
90s, 80s, year 1992
Place:
los angeles, california, usa, south central los angeles, africa
Similarity:
100%
16K
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, neo noir ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
chess, childhood trauma, coming of age, drug dealing, drug lord, african american, ghetto, father son relationship, drug, hip hop, urban ghetto, blaxploitation ...
Time:
90s, year 1994
Place:
new york, brooklyn new york city, usa, new jersey, africa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Film adaptation of street tough Jim Carroll's epistle about his kaleidoscopic free fall into the harrowing world of drug addiction.
Style:
rough, emotional, teen, harsh, serious ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
addiction, heroin, drug abuse, basketball, downfall, drug, teenage life, life is a bitch, drug overdose, teenager, high school, drug addiction ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, near future, 60s, year 1995 ...
Place:
boston, new york, seattle, usa, manhattan new york city ...
Similarity:
67%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Brazil, USA
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, rough ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
friendship, street gang, favela, slum, coming of age, betrayal, brutality, relationships, drug lord, society, gang war, best friend ...
Time:
year 2008, year 2007, future, 70s, 21st century
Place:
rio de janeiro, brazil, south america, latin america
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
New Jersey Drive is a 1995 film about black youths in Newark, New Jersey, the unofficial "car theft capital of the world". Their favorite pastime is that of everybody in their neighborhood: stealing cars and joyriding. The trouble starts ...
Style:
hood, melancholic, brutal, serious, disturbing ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gang, brutality, ghetto, police investigation, urban, vengeance, hip hop, murder, lone hero, black, teenage life, drug dealing ...
Time:
90s, 70s
Place:
new jersey, new york, usa, california
Similarity:
100%
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:
100%
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