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This Is England (2006)
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This Is England (2006)
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, rough, cult classic, social, tense, sincere ...
Audience: teens, pre-teens
Plot: skinhead, racism, childhood, adolescence, neo nazi, coming of age, nationalism, friendship, youth, children, xenophobia, bullying, boy, prejudice, social problems, vandalism, bully, punk, teenager, violent, politics, juvenile delinquency, subculture, storytelling, outsider ...
Time: 80s, year 1983, year 2006, 2000s, 20th century
Place: england, britain, united kingdom, northern england, europe, woodstock
Keyword: gangsters, bbc, educational film, british horror, english, reading, pakistani

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, rough and disturbing films with plots about society, gang, coming of age, youth, friendship, violence and profanity mostly in Drama, Crime and Thriller genres. Some movies like This Is England: The Believer (2001), Hate (1995), Scum (1979), Trainspotting (1996), Boyz n the Hood (1991). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Believer (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A hardcore American racist skinhead who, because of his intelligence, leads a gang dedicated to fighting the enemy: the supposed American-Jewish conspiracy for domination. However, he's hiding a secret: he's Jewish-born, a brilliant ...
Style: disturbing, emotional, bleak, independent film, realistic ...
Plot: skinhead, judaism, racism, anti semitism, neo nazi, nazism, hate, bomb, identity crisis, anger, introspection, violence spree ...
Time: year 2001, y2k, 60s, 20th century
Place: israel, new york, usa, argentina, germany
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Hate (1995)
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: bleak, black and white, art house, disturbing, hood ...
Audience: teens
Plot: racism, rebel, ghetto, poverty, skinhead, youth, police brutality, police, friendship, rebellion, drug, misfit ...
Time: 20th century, year 1995, 90s
Place: paris france, france, middle east, europe
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Scum (1979)
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 ...
Style: disturbing, rough, tense, serious, controversial ...
Plot: prison, racism, boy, youth, rebellion, corruption, revenge, riot, rape, juvenile delinquency, kids in trouble, sadism ...
Time: year 1979, near future, 70s, 20th century
Place: england, britain, united kingdom
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Trainspotting (1996)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Renton, deeply immersed in the Edinburgh drug scene, tries to clean up and get out, despite the allure of the drugs and influence of friends.
Style: disturbing, psychedelic, dark comedy, cult classic, black comedy ...
Audience: boys' night, teens, teen drama
Plot: addiction, heroin, drug addiction, drug abuse, existentialism, counterculture, junkie, dark humor, life is a bitch, redemption, dialogue, subculture ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1996
Place: scotland, edinburgh scotland, london, england, britain ...
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Boyz n the Hood (1991)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Boyz n the Hood is the popular and successful film and social criticism from John Singleton about the conditions in South Central Los Angeles where teenagers are involved in gun fights and drug dealing on a daily basis.
Style: disturbing, tense, hood, cult classic, bleak ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: hip hop, ghetto, african american, poverty, gang, urban ghetto life, street gang, juvenile delinquency, rapper, coming of age, black, african american gangster ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, 80s, year 1991, year 1984
Place: los angeles, california, america, south central los angeles, usa ...
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American History X (1998)
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 ...
Style: dramatic, serious, cerebral, rough, tense ...
Audience: boys' night, date night, teens, teen drama
Plot: skinhead, prison, racism, gang, neo nazi, racial slur, nazism, character change, juvenile delinquency, rape, african american, racial prejudice ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, year 1998
Place: los angeles, usa, california, america, north america ...
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This Is England '86 (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 47 min.
TV show
Story: This Is England '86 is a 2010 British drama miniseries written by Shane Meadows and Jack Thorne, a spin-off from the 2006 film This Is England. Shaun has just finished his final exams and he realizes he is no longer a kid. It's mid ...
Style: emotional, sentimental, disturbing, touching, serious ...
Plot: subculture, skinhead, life is a bitch, youth, friendship, friends, rebelliousness, teenage life, sexual relations, adolescence, couples, student ...
Time: 20th century, year 1986, 80s
Place: england, yorkshire, europe
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80%
Green Street Hooligans (2005)
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 ...
Style: serious, disturbing, factual, intense, bleak ...
Audience: boys' night, teen drama, adult
Plot: soccer, gang, hooliganism, friendship, self discovery, hooligan, subculture, friends, buddies, football, skinhead, bar fight ...
Time: year 2005, 21st century
Place: england, britain, europe, london, harvard university
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A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints (2006)
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, harsh, rough, intense, realistic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: coming of age, childhood, friendship, urban ghetto life, street kid, loss of friend, depression, foul language, anger, life is a bitch, teenage boy, teenager ...
Time: 80s, y2k, year 2006, 2000s, 20th century ...
Place: new york, america, usa, coney island brooklyn new york city, los angeles
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100%
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Havoc (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A wealthy Los Angeles teen and her superficial friends wants to break out of suburbia and experience Southern California's "gangsta" lifestyle. But problems arise when the preppies get in over their heads and provoke the wrath of a ...
Style: disturbing, sexy, independent film, erotic, psychological ...
Audience: teens
Plot: youth, nudity, teenager, sex scene, sex with a stranger, juvenile delinquency, promiscuity, hip hop, gang, gangster, erotica, female nudity ...
Time: year 2005, 21st century
Place: los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Awaydays (2009)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story: On the Wirral in the grim early years of Margaret Thatcher's premiership, the opportunities for thrill seeking young men looking to escape 9 to 5 drudgery are what they've always been: sex, drugs, rock n' roll, fashion, football and ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, rough, realistic, tense ...
Plot: gang, hooligan, football, destructive relationship, juvenile delinquency, coming of age, teenage life, troublemaker, buddies, life is a bitch, violence spree, down on your luck ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: england, britain, liverpool
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Romper Stomper (1992)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Nazi skinheads in Melbourne take out their anger on local Vietnamese, who are seen as threatening racial purity. Finally the Vietnamese have had enough and confront the skinheads in an all-out confrontation, sending the skinheads running. A woman ...
Style: disturbing, brutal, harsh, political, cult classic ...
Plot: skinhead, neo nazi, racism, gang, violence, brutality, immigrant, vandalism, strangulation, father daughter relationship, murder, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time: year 1992, 90s, 20th century
Place: australia, oceania, melbourne
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Gran Torino (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Walt Kowalski is a widower who holds onto his prejudices despite the changes in his Michigan neighborhood and the world around him. Kowalski is a grumpy, tough-minded, unhappy old man who can't get along with either his kids or his neighbors. ...
Style: serious, emotional, touching, suspense, thought provoking ...
Audience: manly, chick flick, teen drama, adult
Plot: gang, friendship, elderly, veteran, racism, prejudice, gunfight, widower, gangster, interracial relations, old man, vigilante ...
Time: year 2008, 2000s, 21st century
Place: detroit, usa, michigan, italy, north america
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Kidulthood (2006)
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: teens, teen drama
Plot: urban ghetto life, bullying, gang, ghetto, coming of age, juvenile delinquency, urban, teenage life, social decay, gangster, friendship, teenage love ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: london, england, united kingdom, britain, europe
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Russia 88 (2009)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A gang of skinheads 'Russia 88' are filming propaganda videos in order to place it on the internet. At the same time the camera records the life of the gang, they become accustomed to this and stop paying attention to it. The leader of the ...
Style: serious, heartbreaking, psychological, intense, rough
Plot: skinhead, neo nazi, hate crime, gang, murder, fight, racial slur, brutality, interracial friendship, society, rebelliousness, found footage ...
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Quadrophenia (1979)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: UK
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Based on the 1973 rock opera album of the same name by The Who, this is the story of 60s teenager Jimmy. At work he slaves in a dead-end job. While after, he shops for tailored suits and rides his scooter as part of the London Mod scene.
Style: surreal, stylized, lyrical, melancholic, depressing ...
Audience: teens
Plot: motorcycle, music, rock, coming of age, rock and roll, working class, youth, teenage boy, male nudity, street fight, pharmacy, dancing ...
Time: 60s, year 1965, 20th century, year 1979
Place: england, london, brighton, britain, europe
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100%
Over the Edge (1979)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: The music of Cheap Trick, The Cars, and The Ramones highlights this realistic tale of alienated suburban youth on the rampage. Dillon makes his screen debut in this updated, well-done "Rebel Without a Cause." Shelved for several years, the ...
Style: grindhouse, offbeat, cult classic, hood, realistic ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, teen angst, marijuana, teenage gang, teenager, street gang, lsd, youth, gang, punk rock, teensploitation, drug ...
Time: 70s, year 1979, 20th century
Place: colorado, usa, denver colorado
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Oliver Twist (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France, UK, Czech Republic
Duration: 130 min.
Story: Oliver Twist the modern filmed version of Charles Dickens bestseller, a Roman Polanski adaptation. The classic Dickens tale, where an orphan meets a pickpocket on the streets of London. From there, he joins a household of boys who are trained to ...
Style: emotional, costume drama, atmospheric, serious, touching ...
Audience: family outing, teens, kids
Plot: boy, orphan, orphanage, poverty, child abuse, childhood, children, child, friendship, kidnapping, death sentence, apprentice ...
Time: victorian era, 19th century, middle ages, year 2005, 1800s ...
Place: england, london, europe
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Sweet Sixteen (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK, Germany, Spain
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Determined to have a normal family life once his mother gets out of prison, a Scottish teenager from a tough background sets out to raise the money for a home.
Style: disturbing, realistic, sentimental, bleak, depressing ...
Audience: teens, toddlers, teen drama
Plot: heroin, coming of age, innocence lost, drug dealing, juvenile delinquency, prison, drug dealer, downfall, dysfunctional family, family relations, teenager, life is a bitch ...
Time: year 2002, 90s, 2000s, 21st century
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 180 min.
Story: Based on the true life experiences of poet Jimmy Santiago Baca, the film focuses on half-brothers Paco and Cruz, and their bi-racial cousin Miklo. It opens in 1972, as the three are members of an East L.A. gang known as the "Vatos Locos", ...
Style: intense, entertaining, bad ending, realistic, serious ...
Plot: gang, prison gang, prison, street gang, drug abuse, ghetto, drug addiction, violence spree, destiny, jail, police shootout, survival ...
Time: 20th century, year 1993, 90s, 70s, 80s
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 133 min.
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Dead Man's Shoes (2004)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A soldier returns home to his small town and exacts a deadly revenge on the thugs who tormented his dimwitted brother while he was away.
Style: disturbing, tense, bleak, rough, psychological ...
Plot: revenge, bullying, brutality, vengeance, mental illness, great ending, justice, cruelty, humiliation, execution, drug abuse, heroes ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
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Story: 19-year-old Eric, arrogant and ultra-violent, is prematurely transferred to the same adult prison facility as his estranged father. As his explosive temper quickly finds him enemies in both prison authorities and fellow inmates — and his already ...
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Skin (2008)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 85 min.
Story: In the late Seventies, a Dutch teenager named Frankie, who is the son of a holocaust survivor, lives in a working class area in Holland. Frankie’s mother is taken to hospital in a terminal condition, causing a bigger rift between him and his ...
Style: serious, realistic, bleak, disturbing, non-linear ...
Plot: racism, gang, skinhead, vandalism, rebelliousness, downfall, life is a bitch, society, youth, teenage life, anti semitism, prison life ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: holland
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.4
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If.... (1968)
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: surreal, disturbing, controversial, dark comedy, stylized ...
Audience: teens
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This Is England '90 (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 55 min.
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Story: Following on from This Is England ’86 and ‘88, this much-anticipated final chapter finds the gang embracing the rave scene of a new decade. But the utter hilarity and unadulterated joy of the second ‘summer of love’ soon gives way to a war ...
Style: realistic, touching, serious, emotional, retro ...
Plot: friendship, hippie, rave, racism, realism, life is a bitch, society, love and romance, misfit, drug, angry, kitchen sink realism ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: manchester, yorkshire, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.6
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Snowtown (2011)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Australia
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Based on true events, 16 year-old Jamie falls in with his mother's new boyfriend and his crowd of self-appointed neighborhood watchmen, a relationship that leads to a spree of torture and murder.
Style: psychological, disturbing, serious, tense, realistic ...
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, true crime, male rape victim, murder, mother's boyfriend, tortured to death, torture, suspicion, manipulation, single mother, gang ...
Time: 2010s, 90s, year 1998, 20th century, year 1999
Place: australia, oceania, south australia, adelaide south australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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River's Edge (1986)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A group of high school friends discover that they are in the presence of a killer. One of them, Samson, has murdered his girlfriend Jamie. He brags to his friends about killing her, and when they discover he is telling the truth, their reactions ...
Style: disturbing, independent film, cult classic, grim, creepy ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: teenager, high school, coming of age, murder, serial killer, small town, drug abuse, violence, death, drug, strangulation, juvenile delinquency ...
Time: 80s, year 1986, 20th century
Place: oregon, california, usa, portland oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
 7.2
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Tsotsi (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK, South Africa
Duration: 95 min.
Story: The South African multi-award winning film about a young South African boy from the ghetto named Tsotsi, meaning Gangster. Tsotsi, who left home as a child to get away from helpless parents, finds a baby in the back seat of a car that he has just ...
Style: sincere, bleak, emotional, harsh, captivating ...
Audience: teen drama
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Time: 21st century
Place: south africa, africa, johannesburg south africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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Mean Creek (2004)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Teenagers living in small-town Oregon take a boat trip for a birthday celebration. When they get an idea to play a mean trick on the town bully, it suddenly goes too far. Soon they're forced to deal with the unexpected consequences of their ...
Style: disturbing, psychological, suspenseful, suspense, intense ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
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Time: year 2004, 21st century
Place: oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
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