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Straight from the Barrio (2008)
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Straight from the Barrio (2008)
Original name: Talento de Barrio
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Music
Country: Puerto Rico
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A young drug dealer falls in love while facing disruption among the men in his gang, and being offered a career as a Reggaetón singer.
Style: serious, realistic, tense, captivating, fast, semi autobiographical
Audience: boys' night
Plot: fall in love, going straight, moral dilemma, hidden identity, youth, love and romance, life is a bitch, disorder, gangster, swashbuckler, music, profanity, urban, violent content, love, violence, neighborhood, corruption, treason, urban setting, thug, drug, gangsta, dishonesty, reggae ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: latin america, puerto rico
Keyword: latin, gangsters

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, suspenseful and rough films with plots about gangster, criminal heroes, life is a bitch, violent content, rivalry, gang and dishonesty mostly in Drama, Crime and Action genres. Some movies like Straight from the Barrio: A Day In The Life (2009), Decisions (2011), A Brooklyn State of Mind (1998), The City Is Mine (2008), Montana (2014). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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A Day In The Life (2009)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Music, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Onyx rapper Sticky Fingaz directs and stars in this hip-hop musical about a gangster who becomes caught up in a bloody war between two feuding crime families while struggling to leave the streets behind. When Black's family raids one of ...
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Audience: boys' night
Plot: hip hop, rivalry, gang, vengeance, urban ghetto life, gangster, moral dilemma, going straight, introspection, drug dealing, lifestyle, urban ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, california, los angeles
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Decisions (2011)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: When a group of friends decide to pull a bank heist to get out from underneath their money troubles. They quickly discover that things can unravel in a hurry! A compromised LAPD Detective (Corey Haim) on the take with a crime syndicate figure want ...
Style: tense, serious, suspenseful, captivating, exciting ...
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Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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A Brooklyn State of Mind (1998)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Al Stanco has lived all of his life in Brooklyn and does some work for the local crime lord, Danny Parente. New to the neighbourhood is Gabriela, a filmmaker shooting a documentary on the real Brooklyn. Al and Gabriela become friendly but the ...
Style: independent film, realistic, serious, rough, suspenseful
Plot: gangster, mafia, profanity, conspiracy, sexual content, violent content, hitman, tough heroes, dishonesty, friendship, law enforcement, love and romance ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york
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The City Is Mine (2008)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A young man coming home after serving time in the penitentiary finds his city in control by local thugs, stops at nothing to gain sole control of a city he feels is rightfully his.
Style: captivating, exciting, tense, suspense, independent film ...
Audience: boys' night
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Time: 21st century
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Montana (2014)
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Duration: 108 min.
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Time: 21st century
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Ireland
Duration: 74 min.
Story: Three small time criminals from Dublin's North Inner City each aspire to be somebody in a fast changing society.
Style: serious, realistic, psychological, tense, captivating ...
Plot: juvenile delinquency, working class, urban ghetto life, moral dilemma, society, crime gone awry, drug dealing, unemployment, police detective, life is a bitch, downfall, st. patrick's day ...
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Baseline (2010)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story: The Baseline is the centre of the East London grime club scene and the queue regularly stretches around the block. Danny works on the door - breaking up fights and managing drunk kids. However, when he rescues Terry, the club owner and local gang ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, captivating, exciting, tense ...
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 99 min.
Story: JW is serving hard time in prison and struggling to get back on an honest path. There are glimmers of hope in his life - some venture capitalists are interested in a new piece of trading software he's developed, and while behind bars he's ...
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Broken Horses (2015)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: The bonds of brotherhood, the laws of loyalty, and the futility of violence in the shadows of the US Mexico border gang wars.
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Duration: 140 min.
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Story: Ethan Tell is a small time crook who makes a big-time score when he steals 1 million dollars. Ironically, his life radically changes for the worst when he discovers that stealing the money was the easy part and he now must keep his partner, his ...
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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 ...
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Duration: 97 min.
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