Movies like Scum
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Scum (1979)
13K
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
This is the hard and shocking story of life in a British Borstal for young offenders. The brutal regime made no attempt to reform or improve the inmates and actively encouraged a power struggle between the 'tough' new inmate and the 'old hands'. The film was originally made as a BBC play but it was banned before ever being shown.
Style:
disturbing, rough, tense, serious, controversial, offbeat, depressing, art house, grindhouse, cult classic ...
Plot:
prison, racism, boy, youth, rebellion, revenge, corruption, riot, rape, juvenile delinquency, kids in trouble, sadism, humiliation, prison life, life is a bitch, fighting the system, social misfits, teenage boy, adolescent boy, rebelliousness, reform, criminal, brutality, prison escape, violence ...
Time:
year 1979, near future, 70s, 20th century
Place:
england, britain, united kingdom
Keyword:
gangsters, bruise
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
Trevor sometimes-violent skinhead with no regard for authority, and would rather spend his time stealing cars than sitting in the detention centre to which he is sent. His social worker, Harry Parker, tries to do his best, but Trevor is only ...
Style:
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Plot:
skinhead, juvenile delinquency, racism, urban ghetto life, neo nazi, punk, subculture, hooligan, youth, urban, social realism, club ...
Time:
year 1982, 80s
Place:
britain, europe, england
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A story about a troubled boy growing up in England, set in 1983. He comes across a few skinheads on his way home from school, after a fight. They become his new best friends even like family. Based on experiences of director Shane Meadows.
Style:
emotional, political, depressing, stylized, harsh ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
skinhead, racism, childhood, adolescence, neo nazi, coming of age, nationalism, friendship, youth, children, xenophobia, prejudice ...
Time:
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Place:
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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 ...
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skinhead, prison, racism, gang, neo nazi, racial slur, nazism, character change, juvenile delinquency, rape, african american, racial prejudice ...
Time:
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Place:
los angeles, usa, california, america, north america ...
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100%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
The new warden of a small prison farm in Arkansas tries to clean it up of corruption after initially posing as an inmate.
Style:
realistic, factual, suspense, harsh, serious ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
louisiana, arkansas, southern usa
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100%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Aimlessly whiling away their days in the concrete environs of their dead-end suburbia, Vinz, Hubert, and Said -- a Jew, African, and an Arab -- give human faces to France's immigrant populations, their bristling resentment at their social ...
Style:
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Audience:
teens
Plot:
racism, rebel, ghetto, poverty, skinhead, youth, police brutality, police, friendship, rebellion, drug, misfit ...
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20th century, year 1995, 90s
Place:
paris france, france, middle east, europe
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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.
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Audience:
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Plot:
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london, england, united kingdom, britain, europe
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France, Canada, UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: UK, Denmark
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A young man who was sentenced to 7 years in prison for robbing a post office ends up spending 30 years in solitary confinement. During this time, his own personality is supplanted by his alter ego, Charles Bronson.
Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Crime, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 136 min.
Story:
Demonic gang-leader Alex goes on the spree of rape, mugging and murder with his pack of "droogs". But he's a boy who also likes Beethoven's Ninth and a bit of "the old in-out, in-out". He later finds himself at the ...
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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 ...
Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Time:
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Place:
england, britain, london, europe
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Sport, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
After being wrongfully expelled from Harvard University, American Matt Buckner flees to his sister's home in England. Once there, he is befriended by her charming and dangerous brother-in-law, Pete Dunham, and introduced to the underworld of ...
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Genre: Action, Drama
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Story:
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Place:
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Duration: 136 min.
Story:
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 155 min.
Story:
Sentenced to six years in prison, Malik El Djebena (Tahar Rahim) is alone in the world and can neither read nor write. On his arrival at the prison, he seems younger and more brittle than the others detained there. At once he falls under the sway of ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
Mick O'Brien is a young Chicago street thug torn between a life of petty crime and the love of his girlfriend. But when the heist of a local drug dealer goes tragically wrong Mick is sentenced to a brutal juvenile prison where violence is a ...
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Audience:
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Plot:
prison, teenager, youth, juvenile delinquency, violence, bullying, gangster, rivalry, brat pack, confined, society, gang war ...
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Place:
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Country: UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Place:
england, britain, liverpool
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21%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
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Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Place:
england, britain, europe
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 83 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: Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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19%
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Duration: 94 min.
Story:
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Duration: 99 min.
Story:
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
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Country: UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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Time:
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
The film is a semi-biographical story based on the experiences of former prison guard Ronnie Thompson who spent seven years working in some of the UK's most dangerous prisons. Based on Thompson's book of the same name, the project stars ...
Style:
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