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Little Athens (2005)
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Little Athens (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A day in Athens, Arizona, as teens and twenty-somethings navigate life without a compass. Jimmy has gambling debts and sees a chance to steal and sell a dead-man's stash of drugs. The corpse's cousin smells a rat. Jessica, who is babysitting, abandons her charge to seek someone to defend her from a boyfriend angry that he's caught an STD. Corey is responsible for his teen sister, and he and his pal Pedro have been evicted, so they plot to steal a car, sell it, and get back in their apartment. Heather, an EMT, thinks her cop boyfriend is cheating, and she confides in her best friend. There's a party that night where all comes to a head.
Style: serious, realistic, suspense, independent film, crying
Plot: friendship, youth, eviction, life is a bitch, juvenile delinquency, crime gone awry, kids in trouble, misfit, family relations, parents and children, teenage life, vengeance, society, drug dealing, adolescence vs adulthood, social misfits, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, gambling, violence, brother brother relationship, fraud, coming of age, small town, friends, innocence lost ...
Time: contemporary
Place: arizona, usa

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Most similar movies to Little Athens

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, independent film and crying films with plots about friendship, friend, youth, drinking, teenage boy, teenage girl and family relations mostly in Drama, Crime and Romance genres. Some movies like Little Athens: Nurse Betty (2000), Poolhall Junkies (2002), Black Circle Boys (1997), Hurricane Streets (1997), Kicked in the Head (1997). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Nurse Betty (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: What happens when a person decides that life is merely a state of mind? If you're Betty, a small-town waitress and soap opera fan from Fair Oaks, Kansas, you refuse to believe that you can't be with the love of your life just because he ...
Style: dark comedy, black comedy, light, realistic, sentimental ...
Plot: happy ending, murder, medical, psychology, hospital, memory loss, delusion, losing-it hero, obsessive quest, road trip, mental illness, killer ...
Time: y2k, 90s, 20th century
Place: california, los angeles, kansas, usa, kansas city ...
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100%
Poolhall Junkies (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A retired pool hustler is forced to pick up the stick again when his brother starts a game he can't finish.
Style: clever, witty, entertaining, stylized, serious ...
Plot: gambling, billiards, con men, con artists, gangster, vengeance, underdog, friendship, life philosophy, money, betrayal, justice ...
Time: year 2002, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Black Circle Boys (1997)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A young man moves to a new town after experiencing a tragedy and becomes involved with a gang of Satan-worshipping teens who believe they have supernatural powers. But by the time he realises he’s in too deep, it may be too late to escape.
Style: gothic, serious, captivating, suspense, tense ...
Plot: gang, occult, devil worship, dysfunctional family, juvenile delinquency, social decay, youth, society, violence spree, friendship, teenage life, parents and children ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Hurricane Streets (1997)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Marcus is a kid on Manhattan's mean streets. He's turning 15, his father is dead, his mother is in prison for smuggling undocumented aliens. His grandmother is raising him. He has four close buddies who have a basement clubhouse; they ...
Style: independent film, realistic, serious, rough, bleak ...
Plot: coming of age, gang, friendship, dysfunctional family, boy, children, violence, teenager, runaway, worship, smuggling, theft ...
Time: year 1997, 90s
Place: new york, new mexico, lower east side manhattan new york city, manhattan new york city, alaska
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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Kicked in the Head (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Redmond is a young guy who can't find what to do with his life. When his uncle Sam gives him the bag to deliver to some uptown connection he fails to do so and it gets them in trouble with Jack, low-key criminal. After that tough guy Stretch ...
Style: independent film, humorous, offbeat, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot: gangster, stewardess, marijuana, self discovery, farce, parents and children, twentysomething life, cons and scams, siblings relations, adolescence vs adulthood, gambling, disorder ...
Time: year 1997, 90s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Speedway Junky (1999)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Israel
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A naive drifter runs away from his army father in hopes of making it on the car racing circuit. In Las Vegas, he meets a young scam artist, who develops a crush on him. He is then introduced to a whole gang led by a young hustler. The racer-to-be ...
Style: talky, serious, realistic, slang, feel good ...
Plot: male prostitution, friendship, gay, scam, male prostitute, best friend, teenage life, bare chested male, gay interest, gay friend, high school life, love and romance ...
Time: 90s
Place: las vegas, nevada, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
 4.7
 3K
Tart (2001)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A student will do anything to become part of the "in-crowd" at the exclusive school she attends in New York.
Style: realistic, serious, sincere, melancholic, sentimental ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: teenage girl, dysfunctional family, coming of age, rich girl, friends, girls' school, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, best friend, teenage life, teenage crush, high school life, teenage love ...
Place: usa, manhattan new york city, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Walking Across Egypt (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The film follows the life of Mattie Rigsbee (Ellen Burstyn), an elderly woman who believes in strong religious convictions. The film explores the lonely qualities of life for senior citizens after their children leave as adults. Judge Reinhold and ...
Style: independent film, tear jerker, biblical, serious, realistic ...
Plot: juvenile delinquent, belief in god, family relations, orphan, coming of age, aging, american south, orphanage, kids in trouble, friends, youth, redemption ...
Time: 90s
Place: north carolina, egypt, florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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 6.7
 20K
Kidulthood (2006)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A day in the life of a group of troubled 15-year-olds growing up in west London.
Style: hood, serious, tense, rough, teen ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: urban ghetto life, bullying, gang, ghetto, coming of age, juvenile delinquency, urban, teenage life, social decay, gangster, friendship, teenage love ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: london, england, united kingdom, britain, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
 5.1
 721
Crutch (2004)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: An autobiographical film taken from the experiences of writer-director Rob Moretti, CRUTCH is a coming-of-age tale about a young man's struggle with family problems and substance abuse. Behind a facade of suburban middle class perfection, ...
Style: psychological, serious, realistic, emotional, bleak ...
Plot: coming of age, gay, dysfunctional family, family relations, rehabilitation, suburbs, kids in trouble, dangerous attraction, lifestyle, social decay, teenage life, family problems ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
 6.6
 904
Reach the Rock (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A small town troublemaker (Alessandro Nivola), directionless and alienated, ends up spending a night in a jail cell, where he and the police chief (William Sadler) engage in a battle of wills and wit.
Style: realistic, humorous, semi serious, suspense, tense ...
Plot: friendship, coming of age, small town, haunted by the past, society, nothing goes right, juvenile delinquency, teenage life, grudge, social decay, brother sister relationship, mother daughter relationship ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
 5.2
 192
Jimmy Zip (1999)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: An abused runaway with pyromaniac tendencies teams up with a metal sculptor. Together they blow away the art world and a local crime boss.
Style: independent film, realistic, serious, rough, grunge
Plot: youth, child abuse, hollywood, friendship, coming of age, best friend, performer's life, kids in trouble, friends, urban, addiction, down on your luck ...
Time: 90s
Place: usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Blue Ridge Fall (1999)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: After a boy kills his father he must turn to his frinds to cover his tracks with tests their loyality and friendship.
Style: crime drama, serious, realistic, tense, crying
Plot: student athlete, evil child, high school, murder, friendship, american football, abusive husband, high school football, best friend, friends, social relations, kids in trouble ...
Time: 90s
Place: north carolina, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Outside Providence (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: In this coming-of-age comedy, Tim Dunphy is leading a go-nowhere existence, spending his days smoking pot and hanging out with his best friend, Drugs Delaney. But Tim's lazy days of getting high are jettisoned after a brush with the law ...
Style: feel good, humorous, intense, sweet, semi serious ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, teenager, high school life, father son relationship, family relations, prank, honest, high school, parents and children, american football, teenage life, student ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, year 1999, y2k, 90s
Place: usa, rhode island, connecticut, arizona, new england ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
 7.3
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Zappa (1983)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Denmark
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Denmark, 1961. Bjørn, a middle-class boy in his early teens, wants to be accepted by Steen, a bullying peer of his with wealthy but freezingly cold parents. Bjørn's other good friend is Mulle, a cheerful and more childish working-class boy. ...
Style: serious, realistic, disturbing, emotional, crying
Plot: coming of age, boy, teenage boy, female nudity, nordic, rape, family relations, friendship, bare butt, vacation, teenager, male nudity ...
Time: 60s, year 1961
Place: denmark, scandinavia, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
 7.1
 33K
Mean Creek (2004)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Teenagers living in small-town Oregon take a boat trip for a birthday celebration. When they get an idea to play a mean trick on the town bully, it suddenly goes too far. Soon they're forced to deal with the unexpected consequences of their ...
Style: disturbing, psychological, suspenseful, suspense, intense ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: prank, friendship, kids in trouble, small town, vengeance, coming of age, teenager, bullying, revenge, bully, guilt, childhood ...
Time: year 2004, 21st century
Place: oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Better Luck Tomorrow (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A group of over-achieving Asian-American high school seniors enjoy a power trip when they dip into extra-curricular criminal activities.
Style: tense, disturbing, intense, depressing, rough ...
Audience: teens
Plot: high school, coming of age, gang, friendship, teenager, cheerleader, visceral, mentor, unlikely friendships, adolescence, crime gone awry, juvenile delinquency ...
Time: year 2002, 2000s, 21st century
Place: california, los angeles, usa, las vegas
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Nearing Grace (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Did you ever wish you could get the hottest girl in school? This is the story of how non-jock Henry (Gregory Smith) indeed gets the girl, Grace (Jordana Brewster), but not without complications.
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, sexual
Audience: teens
Plot: high school, best friend, family relations, teenage life, teenage love, high school life, sexual relations, love and romance, teenager, father son relationship, mother daughter relationship, husband wife relationship ...
Time: 70s
Place: new jersey, oregon, usa, russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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 6.7
 3K
Joe the King (1999)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A destitute 14 year old struggles to keep his life together despite harsh abuse at his mother's hands, harsher abuse at his father's, and a growing separation from his slightly older brother. Petty thefts for food grow into more major ...
Style: emotional, harsh, tense, rough, grim ...
Plot: coming of age, children, dysfunctional family, child abuse, working class, youth, boy, redemption, poverty, childhood, corporal punishment, debt ...
Time: year 1999, 70s, 90s
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Pizza, Beer, and Cigarettes (1998)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Argentina
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A couple of friends work for a taxi driver to rob his passengers, but they feel like they're getting ripped off. They decide to plan their own robberies, but they are amateurs and things don't go too well. One of the youths, Cordoba, whose ...
Style: hispanic, social, realistic, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot: heist, worker, mobster, teenager, gang, pregnancy, street gang, kids in trouble, urban ghetto, criminal heroes, crime gone awry, going straight ...
Time: 90s
Place: argentina, latin america, uruguay, buenos aires argentina
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
A Boy Called Hate (1995)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story: After a run-in with the law, an angry maladjusted young man starts calling himself "Hate". One night he saves a girl from a lusty Assistant District Attorney. He falsely accuses them of robbery, so they go on the run and make things worse.
Style: independent film, serious, realistic, bleak, gloomy
Plot: woman peeing, on the run, murder, suburbs, on the road, diner, hate, gangster, family problems, kids in trouble, family relations, fugitives ...
Time: 90s
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 6.2
 6K
Jamesy Boy (2014)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Based on the true story of teenager James Burns who goes from a suburban street gang to a maximum-security prison cell surrounded by hardened criminals. He turns his life around in prison thanks to the unexpected friendship he forms with a convicted ...
Style: serious, sincere, rough, realistic, crime drama ...
Plot: prison, friendship, prison life, criminal, teaching the ways of the world, confined, jail, gang, drug, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, lawyer, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 6.0
 222
Yellow (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Eight friends in Los Angeles spend their last evening together as they face graduation from high school and the onset of their adult lives. One of them gets in unexpected trouble when he loses a large sum of his dad's money. The friends rally ...
Style: independent film, semi serious, realistic, tense, stylized ...
Audience: teens
Plot: coming of age, friendship, friends, kids in trouble, rally, vigilantism, youth, society, unlikely criminals, race against time, culture clash, high school ...
Time: 90s
Place: los angeles, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Beneath the Harvest Sky (2013)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: A teen drama set during the fall potato harvest in a small northern Maine town.
Style: captivating, realistic, tense, psychological, independent film ...
Audience: teens
Plot: coming of age, friendship, small town, youth, teenage life, social relations, drug, police, harvest, couples, teenager, best friend ...
Time: 21st century
Place: maine, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 4.5
 709
Slingshot (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Two cunning and manipulative drifters venture into Farifield County, Connecticut looking to seduce wealthy and lonely housewives.
Style: serious, tense, realistic, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot: infidelity, family relations, crumbling marriage, couple relations, fall in love, dysfunctional family, breakup, couples, single parent, criminal heroes, cons and scams, missing child ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york, connecticut
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 6.8
 16K
Intermission (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A raucous story of the interweaving lives and loves of small-town delinquents, shady cops, pretty good girls and very bad boys. With Irish guts and grit, lives collide, preconceptions shatter and romance is tested to the extreme. An ill-timed and ...
Style: dark comedy, humorous, touching, witty, melancholic ...
Plot: infidelity, justice, unlikely friendships, multiple storylines, eccentricity, couple relations, heist, love and romance, caper, existentialism, gangster, profanity ...
Time: year 2003
Place: ireland, dublin ireland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 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 ⇓
37%
 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 ⇓
37%
 6.9
 31K
The Wackness (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Set in New York City in the sweltering summer, The Wackness tells the story of a troubled teenage drug dealer, who trades pot for therapy sessions with a drug-addled psychiatrist. Things get more complicated when he falls for one of his classmates, ...
Style: realistic, touching, independent film, humorous, semi serious ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: marijuana, coming of age, hip hop, misfit, dysfunctional family, first love, depression, high school, friendship, weed, drug, stoner ...
Time: year 2008, 90s, year 1994, 20th century
Place: usa, new york, new jersey, manhattan new york city, empire state building manhattan new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 7.1
 37K
Rumble Fish (1983)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Rusty James, an absent-minded street thug struggles to live up to his legendary older brother's reputation, and longs for the days when gang warfare was going on.
Style: surreal, black and white, serious, cult classic, bleak ...
Audience: teens
Plot: coming of age, street gang, gang, biker, brother brother relationship, teenager, gangster, character study, juvenile delinquency, life philosophy, family relations, melancholy ...
Time: 80s, year 1983, 20th century
Place: oklahoma, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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