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Cost of a Soul (2010)
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Original name: Cost Of A Soul
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Wounded in the war, Tommy Donahue and DD Davis return home from Iraq to the slum neighborhood they grew up in. Tommy returns to his wife, Faith, whom he abandoned while she was pregnant to escape a life of crime. Tommy meets his disabled six year-old daughter, Hope, for the first time, and she begins to melt his frozen heart. While DD struggles to make an honest living, his older brother, Darnell, has risen to become the neighborhood kingpin. DD faces the pressure to save his younger brother, James, from following in Darnell’s dangerous footsteps. Tommy and DD find themselves trapped in the same slum they joined the military to escape. As they struggle for redemption, their own families become entangled in a web of crime, corruption and violence.
Style:
realistic, tense, serious, psychological, captivating, rough, bleak, independent film
Plot:
racism, murder, iraq war, haunted by the past, homecoming, urban ghetto, gang, society, family problems, war veteran, life is a bitch, profanity, gulf war, family in crisis, urban ghetto life, violent content, ghetto, violence, death, family relations, drug dealer, city, sin, street life, interrogation ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
usa, philadelphia, pennsylvania
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, rough and tense films with plots about society, life is a bitch, urban ghetto life, urban ghetto, murder, gang and urban mostly in Drama, Crime and Action genres. Some movies like Cost of a Soul: Sucker Free City (2004), Five Star (2014), The Ministers (2009), Sins of the Father (2002), God's Pocket (2014). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
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Style:
rough, realistic, serious, bleak, tense ...
Plot:
urban ghetto life, gangster, juvenile delinquency, racism, social decay, dishonesty, city life, dysfunctional family, police investigation, interracial relations, drug dealing, law enforcement ...
Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
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Style:
tense, serious, captivating, suspense, psychological ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
new york, usa
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Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, rough, disturbing, emotional, serious ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
usa, birmingham alabama, alabama
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Style:
psychological, tense, rough, captivating, neo noir ...
Plot:
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Time:
70s, 20th century, 21st century
Place:
pennsylvania, philadelphia, usa
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Jimmy and Jon are a couple of Brooklyn guys who somehow never found their way into workaday society; they never found their way into big-time crime, either.
Style:
neo noir, independent film, tense, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
mafia, american mafia, urban ghetto, heist, urban ghetto life, low lives, chaos and mayhem, urban, down on your luck, murder, city life, life is a bitch ...
Time:
year 1992, 90s
Place:
new york, usa, brooklyn new york city
Similarity:
51%
980
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, emotional, psychological, captivating, touching ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
usa, tennessee
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, captivating, tense, psychological, suspenseful ...
Plot:
murder, courtroom, courtroom drama, homecoming, friendship, legal, lawyer, family relations, danger, rivalry, law, 16 year old ...
Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
51%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
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Style:
tense, psychological, realistic, serious, captivating ...
Plot:
protecting from truth, downfall, unfulfillment, destructive relationship, danger, family relations, rivalry, murder, society, male pubic hair, male nudity, crisis ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
51%
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Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
90s
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, serious, captivating, psychological, independent film ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
50%
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Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
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Style:
rough, serious, hood, tense, suspense ...
Plot:
gang, found footage, ghetto, urban, tough heroes, social decay, life is a bitch, juvenile delinquency, drug dealing, society, criminal heroes, going straight ...
Place:
california, usa, los angeles
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
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Style:
serious, rough, suspense, bleak, realistic
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
pittsburgh, usa
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Style:
serious, rough, suspenseful, tense, disturbing ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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Country: Italy
Duration: 94 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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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
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Style:
rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, exciting
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
crime boss, gangster, prison, juvenile delinquency, criminal heroes, prison life, life is a bitch, gang, dishonesty, drug dealing, urban ghetto, murder ...
Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
48%
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Story:
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Style:
realistic, tense, captivating, psychological, serious ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
48%
208
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Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
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Style:
captivating, serious, suspenseful, tense
Plot:
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Style:
hood, serious, rough, suspenseful, bleak ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
urban ghetto life, gang, urban, gangster, drug dealing, family life, ghetto, buddies, juvenile delinquency, friendship, social decay, chaos and mayhem ...
Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
48%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Ireland
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
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Style:
serious, realistic, tense, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, serious, captivating, psychological, rough ...
Plot:
crime boss, drug addict, city life, dishonesty, rivalry, society, teenager, religion, faith, family problems, love, family life ...
Time:
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Place:
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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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Place:
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2K
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Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
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Style:
serious, captivating, touching, realistic, rough ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
48%
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Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
serious, tense, realistic, disturbing, suspense ...
Plot:
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Time:
90s, 80s, 20th century, 60s, 70s ...
Place:
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Similarity:
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Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
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Style:
independent film, serious, realistic, bleak, rough ...
Plot:
black, murder, gang, city life, family life, urban, urban ghetto life, siblings relations, heist, low lives, family relations, urban ghetto ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, captivating, serious, emotional, psychological ...
Plot:
haunted by the past, family relations, estrangement, homecoming, introspection, small town, unfulfillment, lifestyle, profanity, bar fight, ambition, violent content ...
Time:
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Place:
texas, usa, memphis, tennessee
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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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:
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Place:
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47%
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