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Maria Full of Grace (2004)
37K
Original name: María, llena eres de gracia
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA, Colombia, Ecuador
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A pregnant Colombian teenager becomes a drug mule to make some desperately needed money for her family.
Style:
sentimental, sincere, independent film, touching, depressing, heartbreaking, harsh, compassionate, serious, bleak ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
drug dealing, immigrant, human trafficking, friendship, coming of age, depression, women, addiction, drug abuse, illegal immigration, drug, character study, drug addict, financial problem, juvenile delinquency, teenage life, new job, boyfriend, heroin, poverty, immigration, adolescence, bittersweet, drug cartel, motherhood ...
Time:
year 2004, 2000s, 21st century, contemporary
Place:
colombia, new york, south america, latin america, new jersey, usa, ecuador
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, harsh and bleak films with plots about society, friendship, violence, storytelling, brutality, life is a bitch and youth mostly in Drama, Crime and Biography genres. Some movies like Maria Full of Grace: Lilya 4-Ever (2002), The Basketball Diaries (1995), Less Than Zero (1987), Short Term 12 (2013), Sin Nombre (2009). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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:
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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:
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Place:
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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:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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Style:
erotic drama, erotic, stylized, art house, cerebral ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
drug addiction, drug addict, male nudity, friendship, male prostitution, male prostitute, hedonism, addiction, drug, drug abuse, homosexuality, love triangle ...
Time:
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Place:
los angeles, beverly hills, california, usa, palm springs california ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Grace, a compassionate young supervisor at a foster care facility, works with her boyfriend and colleague, Mason, to help at-risk teens. But when a new charge dredges up memories of her own troubled past, Grace's tough exterior begins eroding.
Style:
compassionate, sad, sweet, realistic, touching ...
Audience:
teens, kids, teen drama, adult
Plot:
child abuse, social worker, depression, troubled teen, teenager, foster child, adolescence, suicide attempt, coming of age, mental illness, problem child, self harm ...
Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Adventure, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Set on the border, where Mexico becomes the crucible and the fearsome gangs of today’s Mexican countryside, the gauntlet, to freedom. The stories of a girl living in Honduras and hungering for a brighter future, and two teen gang members, for whom ...
Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
latin america, mexico, south america, central america, mexico city ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 85 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:
los angeles, california, usa
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Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
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Audience:
teens, teen drama
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Place:
los angeles, south central los angeles, california, america, usa ...
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42%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Bob and his friends Dianne, Rick and Nadine have been drug addicts for years and live from one high to the next. Gus Van Sant attempts to show an intimate look into the lives of heroin addicts with his film Drugstore Cowboy.
Style:
cult classic, road movie, independent film, depressing, grim ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
drug abuse, addiction, heroin, dark humor, drug addiction, drug, junkie, friendship, on the road, drug addict, beat generation, coming of age ...
Time:
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Place:
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42%
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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:
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Audience:
teen drama, adult
Plot:
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Time:
70s, 20th century, year 2003, 2000s, future ...
Place:
latin america, rio de janeiro, south america, brazil, africa
Similarity:
41%
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
A boy named George Jung grows up in a struggling family in the 1950's. His mother nags at her husband as he is trying to make a living for the family. It is finally revealed that George's father cannot make a living and the family goes ...
Style:
touching, depressing, emotional, dramatic, serious ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
latin america, california, south america, usa, colombia ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Spain, France, Colombia
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
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Plot:
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Time:
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Country: Brazil, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
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Country: UK, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
80s, 2000s, year 2006, y2k, 20th century ...
Place:
new york, california, america, usa, north america ...
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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: 86 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
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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:
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
depressing, atmospheric, harsh, dark, disturbing ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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tense, sincere, emotional, teen, independent film ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
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Style:
bad ending, depressing, atmospheric, bleak, emotional ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Style:
emotional, harsh, tense, rough, grim ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
usa, new york, california
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Colombia, USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
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Style:
serious, rough, suspenseful, stylized, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
colombian drug cartel, gangster, violence, gang, drug, organized crime, rise to the top, ambition, drug dealing, drug cartel, criminal heroes, money ...
Place:
colombia, south america, latin america, new york, usa ...
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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:
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Place:
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 170 min.
Story:
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Style:
exciting, serious, cult classic, breathtaking, rough ...
Audience:
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Place:
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Country: France
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
racism, rebel, poverty, skinhead, youth, ghetto, brutality, police brutality, friendship, rebellion, urban ghetto life, misfit ...
Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
40%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A drug dealer with upscale clientele is having moral problems going about his daily deliveries. A reformed addict, he has never gotten over the wife that left him, and the couple that use him for deliveries worry about his mental well-being and his ...
Style:
realistic, suspenseful, psychological, serious, neo noir ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
39%
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:
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Time:
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Place:
los angeles, usa, california, america, north america ...
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
From the youth directed novel of the same name by Greogor Tressnow comes a film by Detlev Buck that is a realistic portrait of life in the section of Berlin called Neukölln. It’s about power and weakness, delinquents and victims, and the ...
Style:
realistic, suspenseful, serious, tense, rough ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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