Movies like Speed of Life
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Speed of Life (1999)
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Drew (Scott Caan) must care for his father, a former professor who can now barely communicate due to Alzheimer. Depressed and struggling to make ends meet, an old buddy tries to get him to become a pusher. He gets further drawn in by a new and exciting girlfriend, Sarah (Mia Kirshner), who uses drugs.
Style:
emotional, psychological, sincere, touching, serious, realistic, gloomy, crying, independent film
Plot:
voyeur, drug dealer, father son relationship, mental illness, parents and children, downfall, parent child relationship, family relations, life is a bitch, single parent, destructive relationship, adolescence vs adulthood, life turned upside down, nudity, sex, prostitute, female nudity, alzheimer's disease, bare breasts, auto mechanic, drug use, male female relationship, motel, coitus, techno music ...
Time:
90s
Place:
brooklyn new york city, manhattan new york city, los angeles, new york, empire state building manhattan new york city, manhattan, new york city
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Most similar movies to Speed of Life
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, independent film and crying films with plots about sex, nude, death, violence, murder, female nudity and drinking alcohol mostly in Drama, Crime and Thriller genres. Some movies like Speed of Life: Less Than Zero (1987), Ethan Mao (2004), 21 Grams (2003), Another Day in Paradise (1998), Fierce People (2005). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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:
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:
80s, year 1987
Place:
los angeles, beverly hills, california, usa, palm springs california ...
Similarity:
100%
654
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Kicked out of his house because he's gay, Ethan Mao returns home to steal and ends up holding his family hostage on a fateful Thanksgiving Day.
Style:
psychological, serious, rough, disturbing, realistic ...
Plot:
gay, friendship, thanksgiving, juvenile delinquency, haunted by the past, lgbt, family problems, survival, youth, rehabilitation, drug dealing, society ...
Place:
boston, los angeles
Similarity:
57%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
This is the story of three gentle persons: Paul Rivers an ailing mathematician lovelessly married to an English émigré, Christina Peck, an upper-middle-class suburban housewife, happily married and mother of two little girls, and Jack Jordan, an ...
Style:
mind bending, clever, gloomy, psychological, bleak ...
Plot:
guilt, tragedy, drug addiction, drug addict, life is a bitch, multiple storylines, grief, redemption, drug, loneliness, drug abuse, loss ...
Time:
year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa, new mexico, persia
Similarity:
57%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A vending machine robbery by small time thief and drug addict Bobbie (Vincent Kartheiser) goes badly awry, and his friends contact street-wise thief and part-time druggie Mel (James Woods) to patch him up.Recognizing a kindred spirit, Mel befriends ...
Style:
erotic, realistic, tense, talky, controversial ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
drug, addiction, making love, drug addiction, sex scene, adolescence, murder, junkie, heist, drug addict, violence, brutality ...
Time:
year 1998, 20th century, 70s
Place:
oklahoma city, california
Similarity:
56%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
When two brothers organize the robbery of their parents' jewelry store, the job goes horribly wrong, triggering a series of events that send them and their family hurtling towards a shattering climax.
Style:
suspense, neo noir, disturbing, psychological, realistic ...
Plot:
robbery, sex scene, dysfunctional family, heist gone wrong, blackmail, crime gone awry, greed, adultery, murder, divorce, sexual attraction, death of wife ...
Time:
year 2007, 90s, 2000s, 70s, 21st century
Place:
new york, persia, usa, new york state, rio de janeiro ...
Similarity:
55%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A massage therapist looking to overcome her addictions and reconnect with her son, whose father is an anthropologist in South America studying the Yanomani people, moves in with a wealthy ex-client.
Style:
realistic, serious, sentimental, erotic, disturbing ...
Plot:
single mother, female nudity, teenage boy, family relations, parents and children, social differences, teenage life, summer, life is a bitch, sex scene, making love, butler ...
Time:
year 2005, 80s, year 1980
Place:
new jersey, new york, usa
Similarity:
54%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Bill, a wealthy businessman, confronts his junkie daughter's drug-dealing boyfriend; in the ensuing argument, Bill kills him. Panic-stricken, he wanders the streets and eventually stops at a bar. There he runs into a drunken factory worker ...
Style:
cult classic, suspense, realistic, disturbing, controversial ...
Plot:
murder, hospital, friendship, drug, violence, vigilante, orgy, working class, drinking, death, female nudity, promiscuous woman ...
Time:
20th century, 60s, 70s
Place:
new york, usa, california
Similarity:
54%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A collection of intersecting short stories set in early 1980s Los Angeles, depicts a week in the lives of an assortment of socially alienated, mainly well-off characters who numb their sense of emptiness with casual sex, violence, and drugs.
Style:
sexy, stylized, bad ending, erotic, serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
nudity, female nudity, bare breasts, nude, dysfunctional family, drug abuse, voyeurism, hollywood, drug, sex, orgy, coitus ...
Time:
80s, year 1983, 20th century
Place:
los angeles, usa, hawaii, california
Similarity:
53%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A woman stuck in a stale marriage struggles to raise her children and manage her secret drug habit. But when winter comes to her small town, her balancing act begins to come crashing down.
Style:
emotional, sincere, touching, serious, scary ...
Plot:
addiction, infidelity, rehabilitation, cocaine, dysfunctional family, going straight, family life, working class, drug abuse, destructive relationship, life is a bitch, cliche ...
Place:
new york, new york state, usa
Similarity:
53%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Alicia is a poor girl starting college. Hadley, Julianne and Sydney are three well-off girls in a row house. Classes begin and Alicia is paired with Hadley to work on a sociology class project. At first rejected, Alicia is finally accepted into ...
Style:
intense, stylized, serious, psychological, realistic ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
investigation, murder, college, menage a trois, lesbian, teenage life, college student, divorce, single mother, sexual exploration, nubile, making love ...
Time:
year 2002, 21st century
Place:
north carolina, usa
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
The clues to a young woman's death come together as the lives of seemingly unrelated people begin to intersect.
Style:
psychological, disturbing, bleak, depressing, atmospheric ...
Plot:
missing person, investigation, prostitute, murder, uncover truth, family relations, life is a bitch, outdoor sex, violence against women, dead body, promiscuous daughter, child abuse ...
Time:
year 2006, 2000s
Place:
california, los angeles, usa, southern california
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
A New York nightclub manager tries to save his brother and father from Russian mafia hitmen.
Style:
suspense, harsh, stylized, captivating, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
mafia, organized crime, police, gangster, nightclub, gang, cop, brothers, hitman, lone hero, multiple storylines, law enforcement ...
Time:
year 2007, 20th century, year 1988, 80s, 70s
Place:
new york, brooklyn new york city, usa, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
51%
82
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Ireland
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Jack Flinter is skating on thin ice. Known to his friends as "Flick", he is drifting through life, dealing a bit of hash, drinking and screwing around. His girlfriend Alice has had enough. His friend and business partner Des is strung out, ...
Style:
disturbing, serious, suspenseful, rough, realistic
Plot:
drug dealing, going straight, juvenile delinquency, addiction, police corruption, drug abuse, society, life is a bitch, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, organized crime, gangster, friends ...
Time:
90s
Place:
ireland, dublin ireland, europe
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Chris is a once promising high school athlete whose life is turned upside down following a tragic accident. As he tries to maintain a normal life, he takes a job as a janitor at a bank, where he ultimately finds himself caught up in a planned heist.
Style:
tense, neo noir, realistic, suspenseful, intense ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
bank robbery, amnesia, robbery, female nudity, sex, seduction, casual sex, heist, violence, young man, chess, brain damage ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, kansas, missouri, kansas city, california
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
After a tragic accident caused by the truck of the middle-aged Carl Lee where a woman dies with a crushed stern, he is arrested and sent to the county jail. His son PJ, who works washing dishes and cleaning tables in a restaurant, feels lost, ...
Style:
emotional, touching, sincere, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
police, family life, family problems, couples, family relations, dysfunctional family, parents and children, introspection, couple relations, redemption, youth, teenage life ...
Place:
usa, midwest
Similarity:
50%
7K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, USA, Mexico, Belgium
Duration: 144 min.
Story:
An alcoholic becomes involved in a fellow A.A. member's plan to kidnap her young son from the boy's wealthy grandfather.
Style:
psychological, suspense, stylized, dark comedy, neo noir ...
Plot:
insanity, missing child, mental illness, child in peril, character study, life is a bitch, twists and turns, crime gone awry, anger, pursuit, friendship, addiction ...
Time:
year 2008
Place:
france, england, europe, mexico, tijuana mexico ...
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
On the afternoon of July 1, 1981, Los Angeles police responded to a distress call on Wonderland Avenue and discovered a grisly quadruple homicide. The police investigation that followed uncovered two versions of the events leading up to the brutal ...
Style:
suspenseful, bleak, tense, rough, detective ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
addiction, heroin, sex, police investigation, drug addiction, murder, serial killer, drug, junkie, true crime, drug addict, life is a bitch ...
Time:
20th century, year 1981, y2k, year 2003, 80s ...
Place:
los angeles, pasadena california, usa, sacramento california, california
Similarity:
50%
207K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
When a seemingly straight-forward drug deal goes awry, XXXX has to break his die-hard rules and turn up the heat, not only to outwit the old regime and come out on top, but to save his own skin...
Style:
neo noir, intense, tense, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
organized crime, violence, sex, drug dealing, twists and turns, gangster, chase, murder, drug, british gangster, drug lord, caper ...
Time:
year 2004, 70s, 90s, 60s, 20th century
Place:
london, england, britain, amsterdam, netherlands ...
Similarity:
49%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
This is a contemporary fable loosely based on Fyodor Dostoyevsky's "Crime and Punishment". Roseanne is outwardly a perfect and popular teen. However, her image is hiding the abuse at her stepfather's hands, and she decides to ...
Style:
disturbing, serious, psychological, clever, teen ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
rape, obsession, sexualized violence, murder, suburbs, dysfunctional family, high school, guilt, crime and punishment, friendship, protective male, youth ...
Time:
year 2000, 90s
Place:
los angeles, california, usa
Similarity:
49%
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 ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
redemption, child abuse, children, coming of age, boy, dysfunctional family, working class, juvenile detention, youth, corporal punishment, childhood, poverty ...
Time:
year 1999, 70s, 90s
Place:
usa, new york, california
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A drama based on an ancient Chinese proverb that breaks life down into four emotional cornerstones: happiness, pleasure, sorrow and love. A businessman bets his life on a horse race; a gangster sees the future; a pop star (Gellar) falls prey to a ...
Style:
emotional, touching, non-linear, stylized, intense ...
Plot:
true love, love, supernatural ability, doctors and patients, dishonesty, hitman, power relations, philosophy, justice, dark hero, thief, violence ...
Time:
year 2007, future, 21st century
Similarity:
49%
573
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Hard is about a gay serial killer and the gay detective who is forced to go after him. It has an interesting story: the closeted gay detective is abruptly forced out of the closet after the killer handcuffs him to his bed and makes off with his ...
Style:
neo noir, erotic, independent film, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
gay sex, gay, male pubic hair, male nudity, gay interest, serial killer, lgbt, nudity, erection, anal rape, male prostitute, sex crime ...
Time:
turn of the century, 90s
Similarity:
49%
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 ...
Style:
serious, realistic, suspense, independent film, crying ...
Plot:
friendship, youth, eviction, life is a bitch, crime gone awry, juvenile delinquency, kids in trouble, parents and children, adolescence vs adulthood, teenage life, drug dealing, vengeance ...
Place:
arizona, usa
Similarity:
49%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Greece
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Minority-group Greeks from an outer suburb of Athens struggle with their life on society's fringe and exploitation of one another.
Style:
lgbt cinema, realistic, serious, bleak, gloomy ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
lgbt, greek, nude young male, male pubic hair, russian mafia, male prostitute, gay sex, homosexuality, teenage boy, male nudity, rent boy, migration ...
Time:
90s
Place:
greece, geneva switzerland, europe, kazakhstan, italy ...
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A psychotic young man returns to his old neighborhood after release from prison. He seeks out the woman he previously tried to rape and the man who protected her, with twisted ideas of love for her and hate for him.
Style:
disturbing, talky, realistic, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot:
psychopath, violence, police detective, prison, ex convict, unrequited love, stalking, mental illness, racism, woman in jeopardy, kidnapping, police investigation ...
Time:
year 1964, 20th century, year 1987, 60s
Place:
new york, bronx new york city, usa, mississippi, new jersey ...
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A drama that follows three adults during a single day in Los Angeles, one filled with sex, drugs, and indecision.
Style:
atmospheric, independent film, captivating, suspense, talky ...
Plot:
sex scene, self discovery, lifestyle, friendship, nightlife, sexual relations, introspection, city life, blonde, voyeurism, coitus, voyeur ...
Place:
new york
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Kenneth Bianchi, one of the two serial rapists and killers who terrorized the Los Angeles area in the late 1970s, is giving police station interviews to psychiatrist Samantha Stone, who has disquieting lifestyle issues of her own. It falls to her to ...
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, rough, realistic, bleak ...
Plot:
serial killer, psychopath, making love, murder, police investigation, mind game, who done it, mental illness, life is a bitch, sex scene, killer, misogynist ...
Time:
70s, year 1978
Place:
los angeles, usa, california
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A psychological drama about an unstable man, tormented by nightmares, who seeks help from a shrink but is pushed over the edge into increasingly dangerous, psychotic territory by a relationship he is unable to control.
Style:
psychological, serious, realistic, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot:
nightmare, losing-it hero, dangerous attraction, obsession, doctors and patients, psychopath, mentally unstable, psychologist, male female relationship, paranoia, mental illness, therapy ...
Place:
new york
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A former street tough returns to his Philadelphia home after a stint in the military. Back on his home turf, he once again finds himself tangling with the mob boss who was instrumental in his going off to be a soldier.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, rough, serious, captivating ...
Plot:
mafia, undercover, family relations, homecoming, haunted by the past, gangster, special agent, law enforcement, marines, desert, mobster, family dinner ...
Time:
80s, 90s, year 1984
Place:
philadelphia, usa, pittsburgh, pennsylvania, iraq
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Dito Montiel, a successful author, receives a call from his long-suffering mother, asking him to return home and visit his ailing father. Dito recalls his childhood growing up in a violent neighborhood in Queens, N.Y., with friends Antonio, ...
Style:
emotional, period piece, harsh, rough, intense ...
Audience:
teens, kids
Plot:
coming of age, childhood, friendship, urban ghetto life, foul language, street kid, swimming pool, gangster, loss of friend, depression, anger, life is a bitch ...
Time:
80s, 2000s, year 2006, y2k, 20th century ...
Place:
new york, california, america, usa, north america ...
Similarity:
48%
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