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Strays (1997)
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Rick (Diesel) is frustrated by the repetitious grind of one-night stands and aimless hustling. Whilst looking for more to his life he meets Heather (Lanza), a neighbour. Rick takes the opportunity to escape his boring life style with her, but soon finds that his volatile behaviour threatens to finish their relationship before it even really begins.
Style:
cult classic, tense, serious, realistic
Plot:
urban, male nudity, hunting, drug dealer, gang, redemption, friendship, youth, friends, misfit, family relations, parents and children, love and romance, life is a bitch, fall in love, couples, teenage life, society, drug dealing, opposites attract, social misfits, juvenile delinquency, introspection, lifestyle, coming of age ...
Time:
future, 90s
Place:
new york, usa
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Most similar movies to Strays
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, rough and independent film films with plots about life is a bitch, society, urban, youth, city life, juvenile delinquency and urban ghetto life mostly in Drama, Crime and Thriller genres. Some movies like Strays: Anne B. Real (2003), Blood Brothers (1993), Home of the Giants (2007), Federal Hill (1994), Squeeze (1997). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
ANNE B. REAL is the coming of age story of a young female rapper, who finds her inspiration by reading the Diary of Anne Frank.
Style:
sincere, serious, realistic, touching, contemplative
Plot:
hip hop, introspection, lifestyle, teenage life, youth, juvenile delinquency, life is a bitch, urban ghetto, urban ghetto life, family life, siblings relations, coming of age ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Blood Brothers- While coming of age in the inner city, Darryl Crawford, a young African-American man, witnesses a gang-related murder and is horrified to discover that his beloved older brother Sly is one of the perps. Darryl grapples with his ...
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:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A story about basketball and befriending. Gar is a High School journalist who, while covering the team to the state championship, is best friends with the teams' main "Star" Matt Dunbar. Matt's older brother persuades him to ...
Style:
captivating, realistic, serious, suspenseful
Audience:
teens
Plot:
high school, cheerleader, basketball, friendship, athlete's life, teenage life, ambition, love and romance, lifestyle, danger, rivalry, gang ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
indiana, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
In Providence's Italian neighborhood, Federal Hill, five young are immersed in drugs, crime and violence. Everything changes when one of the guys in the band know love.
Style:
black and white, independent film, serious, realistic, tense ...
Plot:
gangster, college, drug, youth, friendship, best friend, partner, gays and lesbians, gang, juvenile delinquency, going straight, criminal heroes ...
Time:
year 1994, 90s
Place:
rhode island, usa, canada, new jersey
Similarity:
100%
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361
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Ty, Hector, and Bao are close friends in a tough section of Boston, where they're called "the PG-13 crew." They're 14, decent kids with few skills who've bailed out of school. A small gang of older tough guys, led by Marcus ...
Style:
independent film, serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot:
gang, black, gas station, optimism, urban ghetto, friends, kids in trouble, realism, society, drug dealing, criminal heroes, dealing with death ...
Time:
year 1997, 90s
Place:
massachusetts, boston
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
When a brutal carjacking yields a videocamera, a teenage boy decides to document his life and the lives of his fellow gangbangers.
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:
100%
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:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A Special Jury Award winner at the Sundance Film Festival, this drama stars a then-19-year-old Matty Rich (who also wrote and directed it). Rich plays Larry, a troubled teen living in the rough Red Hook section of Brooklyn who decides he wants out ...
Style:
hood, independent film, serious, realistic, bleak ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
urban, gang, black, hip hop, african american, black gangster, blaxploitation, downbeat ending, hip hop culture, thug life, villain, thug ...
Time:
year 1991, 90s
Place:
new york, usa, brooklyn new york city
Similarity:
100%
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355
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Genie, a Chinese-American teenager, develops feelings for a charming African-American DJ, but her grandmother forbids their romance forcing Genie to choose between family and love.
Style:
sincere, touching, emotional, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
family relations, parents and children, teenage life, immigrant, opposites attract, friends, love and romance, human nature, youth, family life, single parent, introspection ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Bobby G. lives life on the edge in this real, raw New York street drama. Bobby is a small-time coke dealer, always on the hustle but rarely successful. He lives in Hell's Kitchen with his Puerto Rican girlfriend Lucy, who makes ends meet as a ...
Style:
independent film, psychological, serious, realistic, tense ...
Plot:
urban ghetto life, poverty, jewish mob, prostitute, gangster, redemption, gang, drug dealing, downfall, juvenile delinquency, criminal heroes, going straight ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
New York, The Bronx, 1980. Two Italian boys Joey Esposito and Louie Mazerino jump to the defence of a smaller Puerto Rican boy, J.J. Lopez, when J.J. is threatened by six schoolyard bullies. The three boys soon become best friends, and they always ...
Style:
independent film, realistic, serious
Plot:
coming of age, boy, young boy, altar boy, friendship, friends, urban ghetto, urban, addiction, urban ghetto life, school, drug abuse ...
Time:
90s
Place:
bronx new york city, new york, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
A love story about the encounter of two drifting souls. Escaping her abusive past, a woman stays the night with an illegal immigrant friend of a friend. The two get closer and fall in love, but face turmoil.
Style:
captivating, realistic, atmospheric, emotional, touching ...
Plot:
city life, couples, society, immigrant, redemption, friendship, youth, love, love story, family relations, age difference, life is a bitch ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, los angeles
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
This film tells two interwoven stories of two single-parent families in a poor, racially-mixed neighborhood in Brooklyn. The first story is about a young black man (with aspirations of getting away from his friends who are involved in drugs) who ...
Style:
independent film, semi serious, realistic, humorous, feel good ...
Plot:
lottery, family relations, sport team, urban ghetto, couples, friends, society, self discovery, coming of age, life is a bitch, youth, rise to the top ...
Time:
future
Place:
new york, paris france, berlin germany, tokyo, new jersey
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Two Brothers; Tom and Felipe, have moved up the ranks of the street gangs because they have no greater devotion than the protection of each other. Luis, former gang member, is now a cop, his life having been turned around by Angelica, a female cop. ...
Style:
realistic, serious, rough, suspenseful
Plot:
juvenile delinquency, going straight, gang, society, redemption, law enforcement, youth, urban ghetto, murder, brother brother relationship, family relations, hopes ...
Time:
future
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Action, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Trying to bootstrap his way out of Brooklyn's mean streets is Diamond, a rap musician. With his long-time pal Gage acting as his manager, he's trying to lay down a demo tape with cut-rate studio time. To pay the bills, he and Gage run ...
Style:
disturbing, realistic, serious, rough, hood ...
Plot:
hip hop, gang, friendship, musician's life, lifestyle, addiction, social decay, down on your luck, juvenile delinquency, artists and showbiz, going straight, drug dealing ...
Time:
90s
Place:
usa, new york
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A multi-cultural celebration of young people triumphing in the face of adversity, societal pressures and difficult familial situations.
Style:
realistic, serious, captivating, touching, independent film ...
Plot:
gang, friendship, lifestyle, teenage life, family relations, society, youth, life is a bitch, hopes, against the odds, rich and poor, drug abuse ...
Time:
year 2006, 21st century
Place:
usa, california, san francisco
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A "straight" couple dabbles in drugs and become heroin addicts.
Style:
serious, realistic, emotional, rough
Plot:
drug addiction, drug, hustler, female nudity, bare breasts, drug dealing, kids in trouble, thirtysomething life, friends, society, innocence lost, hopes ...
Time:
70s, year 1971
Place:
los angeles, usa, california
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A promising college athlete takes a turn for the worse when he hooks up with old highschool friends during his summer break.
Style:
serious, surreal, realistic, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot:
white trash, student athlete, drug dealing, baseball, teen drinking, high school friends, prostitute, juvenile delinquency, friendship, youth, buddies, lifestyle ...
Place:
california, usa
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Follows the choices made by three young women - one a drug dealer, one an addict, one a pregnant teen - in Jersey City.
Style:
serious, rough, emotional, touching, anthology ...
Plot:
teenage pregnancy, drug dealer, single mother, life is a bitch, juvenile delinquency, lifestyle, kids in trouble, teenage life, youth, drug dealing, gang, social misfits ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new jersey, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 69 min.
Story:
After decades of terror, two deadly street gangs reach a delicate truce and young MJ (Silkk the Shocker) sees a way out of the hood once and for all. Only Corrupt (Ice-T) stands in MJ's way, resulting into a violent and brutal roller coaster ...
Style:
hood, independent film, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
ghetto, gang, urban, hip hop, hip hop culture, underworld, discrimination, urban setting, gangster, urban ghetto, drug dealing, criminal heroes ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new york, usa, bronx new york city
Similarity:
100%
218
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A streetwise young man leaves his sordid past behind, moving from New York to the Los Angeles suburbs to start a simple, honest life. When he meets a small-time drug dealer with insatiable ambition, his past returns to haunt him.
Style:
independent film, realistic, serious, gloomy, suspenseful
Plot:
starting over, hopes, youth, supernatural ability, life is a bitch, redemption, drug dealing, criminal heroes, going straight, urban, city life, teenage life ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new york, los angeles, california, southern california
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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Story:
The Corner presents the world of Fayette Street using real names and real events. The miniseries tells the true story of men, women and children living amid the open-air drug markets of West Baltimore. It chronicles a year in the lives of ...
Style:
serious, emotional, rough, sitcom, hood ...
Plot:
rehabilitation, heroin, addiction, drug dealing, drug abuse, urban, lifestyle, social decay, teenage life, going straight, life is a bitch, society ...
Time:
90s
Place:
baltimore
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
A child of a middle class home with solid moral values is lured into a world of crime and corruption.
Style:
hood, realistic, rough, bleak, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gang, urban, friends, drug dealing, black, juvenile delinquency, fighting crime, police investigation, betrayal, urban ghetto life, criminal heroes, police corruption ...
Place:
usa, boston
Similarity:
100%
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72
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Angel and Zooey are not your typical newlyweds. Zooey is a professional prostitute and Angel is a drug dealer. Yet they are not without hopes and dreams, of escaping their life in the streets and starting a new in a fresh painted cottage with picked ...
Style:
serious, realistic, rough, gloomy, bleak
Plot:
love affair, lifestyle, going straight, drug abuse, addiction, life is a bitch, love and romance, hopes, survival, downfall, society, drug dealing ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york
Similarity:
100%
424
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A tragic tale of an Asian youth's gang life in South East Los Angeles, set during the mid 80's to the early 90s.
Style:
realistic, rough, suspenseful, serious, crime drama
Plot:
juvenile delinquency, gang, best friend, youth, rivalry, urban ghetto life, tough heroes, criminal heroes, prison, murder, society, life is a bitch ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 144 min.
Story:
A compilation of episodes from the lives of several of the amateur actors' (who are 'bad teens' and the homeless of Seoul) own experiences, this film sheds light on the dark side of Korean society. Feeling alienated and persecuted, ...
Style:
anthology, postmodern, experimental, controversial, non-linear ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
urban, drug abuse, illegal drugs, strong violent content, kids in trouble, realism, juvenile delinquency, society, youth, violence spree, lifestyle, life is a bitch ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
seoul, korea, asia
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Crime, Action
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Frustrated with being broke, Beans decides that the only way to grasp the American Dream is to take it.
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:
year 2002
Place:
usa, memphis, philadelphia
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
J.R. is a typical Italian-American on the streets of New York. When he gets involved with a local girl, he decides to get married and settle down, but when he learns that she was once raped, he cannot handle it. More explicitly linked with Catholic ...
Style:
black and white, independent film, talky, offbeat, spiritual ...
Plot:
male nudity, rape, friendship, morality, redemption, catholicism, violence, temptation, sex, sex worker, sex crime, badass ...
Time:
year 1967, 20th century, 60s
Place:
new york, europe, italy, usa, new jersey ...
Similarity:
100%
337
Genre: Drama, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Peter, a frustrated suburban teenager, prefers to hang out by the railroad tracks with his friends and get rid of boredom. When the young men throw the switch one day just for fun, a catastrophe of unimaginable proportions occurs. A train derails ...
Style:
realistic, serious, psychological, suspense, bleak
Plot:
prison, train, going straight, teenage life, redemption, confined, kids in trouble, hopes, youth, false accusation, society, prison life ...
Place:
new jersey, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
In this tension-packed thriller, brothers Mike and Tre set out in search of better lives, trying to leave their demons behind for good. After being released from prison for a crime he didn't commit, Mike's only care in the world is to ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, realistic, crime thriller, tension ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
starting over, going straight, family relations, parents and children, hopes, ex convict, released from prison, criminal underworld, false accusation, father daughter relationship, life is a bitch, brother brother relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
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