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If.... (1968)
26K
Original name: if....
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
The film is a caustic portrait of a traditional English boys’ boarding school, where social hierarchy reigns supreme and power remains in the hands of distanced and ineffectual teachers and callously vicious prefects in the Upper Sixth. But three Lower Sixth students, leader Mick Travis, Wallace and Johnny decide on a shocking course of action to redress the balance of privilege once and for all.
Style:
controversial, surreal, disturbing, dark comedy, stylized, cult classic, political, philosophical, existential, allegory ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
revolution, boarding school life, boarding school, sex, private school, social satire, homosexuality, school shooting, boys' school, violence, coming of age, corporal punishment, teenage boy, teacher, adolescence, surrealism, tradition, humiliation, altar boy, bare chested male, teenager, psychology, satire, gay, friendship ...
Time:
60s, year 1968, 20th century, 1960s
Place:
england, california, britain, europe
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, bleak and disturbing films with plots about violence, youth, society, male nudity, brutality, death and coming of age mostly in Drama, Crime and Fantasy genres. Some movies like If....: Scum (1979), A Clockwork Orange (1971), Evil (2003), Elephant (2003), The Dirties (2013). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min.
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Time:
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Place:
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Duration: 136 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden, Denmark
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Story:
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Duration: 178 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Story:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: Germany
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Two troubled adolescents chronicle the events that ultimately lead up to a terrifying assault on their school.
Style:
disturbing, psychological, rough, suspenseful, teen ...
Audience:
teens, kids
Plot:
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Place:
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Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Country: UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Country: UK, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: UK
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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864K
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Story:
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Audience:
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Story:
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Audience:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: Greece
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: UK, France, Netherlands
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Story:
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Audience:
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Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Place:
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Country: Spain, Belgium
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Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
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Place:
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168K
Genre: Crime, Drama
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Story:
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Style:
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Time:
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Place:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: Italy
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
27%
13K
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Ukraine, Netherlands
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
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Style:
disturbing, depressing, surreal, art house, sexual ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens, teen drama, adult
Plot:
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Time:
year 2014, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
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Similarity:
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