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16 Years of Alcohol (2003)
2K
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
16 Years of Alcohol is a 2003 drama film written and directed by Richard Jobson, based on his 1987 novel. The film is Jobson's first directorial effort, following a career as a television presenter on BSkyB and VH-1, and as the vocalist for the 1970s punk rock band The Skids.
Style:
psychological, serious, touching, realistic, suspense, gloomy
Plot:
alcohol abuse, skinhead, alcoholic, society, crimes, life is a bitch, family problems, racial slur, gang, youth, addiction, misfit, couples, teenage life, hopes, redemption, violence, swearing, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, jealousy, breakup, social misfits, reform, punk rock, brawl ...
Time:
contemporary
Place:
scotland, europe, edinburgh scotland
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, gloomy and rough films with plots about life is a bitch, society, youth, crimes, teenage life, gang and hopes mostly in Drama, Crime and Thriller genres. Some movies like 16 Years of Alcohol: Adulthood (2008), As Night Comes (2014), Steel City (2006), Bullet Boy (2004), Strays (1997). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
After serving six years for killing his schoolmate, a young man learns that someone is out for revenge.
Style:
rough, realistic, serious, gloomy, bleak
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
urban ghetto life, gang, society, juvenile delinquency, teenage life, youth, criminal's revenge, crimes, life is a bitch, starting over, urban ghetto, vengeance ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
england, europe, london
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95%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Troubled 17-year-old Sean Holloway falls in with a group of teenage outcasts called 'The Misfits,' whose charismatic leader, Ricky, takes him under his wing. But as Sean becomes more and more entangled in the gang's anarchist ways, ...
Style:
serious, captivating, psychological, tense, realistic ...
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rivalry, juvenile delinquency, crimes, gang, vengeance, youth, teenager, violence, halloween, society, teenage life, chaos and mayhem ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
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77%
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, realistic, serious, psychological, touching ...
Plot:
police, family life, dysfunctional family, parents and children, redemption, couple relations, introspection, couples, family problems, family relations, youth, siblings relations ...
Time:
contemporary
Place:
usa, midwest
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Ricky is just out of a young offenders institute, heading home to Hackney and determined to go straight. Instead, he heads straight for trouble when he becomes involved in a street confrontation, siding with his best friend Wisdom against a local ...
Style:
serious, realistic, rough, psychological, bleak ...
Plot:
urban ghetto life, juvenile delinquency, kids in trouble, life is a bitch, going straight, friendship, social decay, family problems, gang, society, youth, orphan ...
Time:
contemporary
Place:
london, europe, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
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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 ...
Style:
serious, realistic, tense
Plot:
gang, redemption, drug dealer, love and romance, opposites attract, buddies, social misfits, society, juvenile delinquency, misfit, life is a bitch, going straight ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min.
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In 1976, a Mi'gMaq teenager plots revenge against the sadistic Indian agent who imprisoned her in a residential school where rape and abuse are common.
Style:
atmospheric, psychological, serious, gloomy, tense ...
Plot:
teenage life, juvenile delinquency, vengeance, rivalry, youth, life is a bitch, society, drug dealing, crimes, graphic violence, sexual content, nudity (full frontal - brief) ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1976
Place:
usa
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69%
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:
rough, bleak, emotional, stylized, harsh ...
Plot:
skinhead, racism, childhood, social problems, vandalism, crimes, bully, gang, juvenile delinquency, xenophobia, neo nazi, adolescence ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1983
Place:
england, europe, northern england, britain, woodstock
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69%
Genre: Drama, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Redemption tells the story of Stan "Tookie" Williams, founder of the Crips L.A. street gang. Story follows his fall into gang-banging, his prison term, and his work writing children's novels encouraging peace and anti-violence ...
Style:
serious, realistic, uplifting, emotional, bleak ...
Plot:
death row, prison, gang, gangsters, redemption, hopes, human spirit, crimes, journalism, life is a bitch, lethal injection, murder ...
Time:
contemporary, 20th century, future, 80s
Place:
usa, los angeles, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Man (played by: Billy Bob Thornton) is still in shock many years after a devistating accident takes the life of his only son and perminantly injures his wife. After all of these years the man finaly comes home to his still married wife (Played by: ...
Style:
serious, realistic, emotional, psychological, gloomy
Plot:
life is a bitch, haunted by the past, starting over, dysfunctional family, homecoming, death in the family, family in crisis, addiction, husband wife relationship, grief, redemption, white trash ...
Time:
contemporary
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Frank is an ex-soldier, haunted by a violent past. He lives alone, drowning his nightmares with alcohol. Christine - smart and successful... on the surface, tackles life as a single working mother by immersing herself in drugs, parties and sex. ...
Style:
realistic, psychological, captivating, atmospheric, rough ...
Plot:
haunted by the past, society, change of luck, hopes, alcohol abuse, youth, confronting the past, male female relationship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, troubled past, friendship, teenage life ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
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Films like Havoc
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:
serious, rough, suspense, tense, realistic
Plot:
gang, social decay, tough heroes, life is a bitch, juvenile delinquency, crimes, kids in trouble, teenage life, criminal heroes, youth, going straight, drug dealing ...
Time:
contemporary
Place:
usa, california, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
Genre: Drama
Country: Bulgaria, Sweden
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Two estranged brothers are brought together when they have opposite roles in a racist beating: while Georgi who's recently joined a neo-nazi group participates in the violence, Hristo witnesses and rescues a Turkish family. Georgi, now being ...
Style:
emotional, touching, sentimental, sincere, serious ...
Plot:
racism, gang, brother brother relationship, addiction, introspection, love and romance, rebelliousness, redemption, life is a bitch, forbidden love, hopes, family relations ...
Time:
contemporary, 21st century
Place:
bulgaria, europe, istanbul turkey
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61%
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:
serious, realistic, captivating, touching, gloomy
Plot:
gang, friendship, lifestyle, teenage life, crimes, life is a bitch, youth, hopes, society, family relations, against the odds, drug abuse ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary, year 2006
Place:
usa, california, san francisco
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60%
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:
captivating, serious, realistic, disturbing, rough ...
Plot:
racism, skinhead, juvenile delinquency, urban ghetto life, social worker, police, prison, kids in trouble, society, youth, crimes, life is a bitch ...
Time:
80s
Place:
england, europe, britain
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
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:
teenage life, destructive relationship, juvenile delinquency, crimes, gang, coming of age, down on your luck, unemployment, violence spree, buddies, life is a bitch, troublemaker ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
england, liverpool
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Three teenage brothers, gang-member Bobby, troubled mama's boy Alan and self-assured prankster Lex, reside in a downtrodden section of Glasgow, Scotland, circa 1968. But while Bobby and Alan are beginning to experience the power of raging ...
Style:
bleak, realistic, rough, serious, tense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
gang, illiteracy, working class, coming of age, dysfunctional family, social misfits, crimes, society, leadership, youth, misfit, juvenile delinquency ...
Time:
90s, 60s
Place:
scotland, europe, new jersey, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
The incredible true story of how an orphaned Jamaican baby, adopted by an elderly white couple and brought up in an all white area of London, became one of the most feared and respected men in Britain.
Style:
psychological, serious, realistic, rough, captivating
Plot:
racism, adoption, interracial relations, self discovery, going straight, rise to the top, lifestyle, parents and children, machismo, direction and purpose, human spirit, rebelliousness ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
london, england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Wounded in the war, Tommy Donahue and DD Davis return home from Iraq to the slum neighborhood they grew up in. Tommy returns to his wife, Faith, whom he abandoned while she was pregnant to escape a life of crime. Tommy meets his disabled six ...
Style:
realistic, serious, tense, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
murder, racism, iraq war, urban ghetto, crimes, haunted by the past, homecoming, family problems, society, gang, war veteran, life is a bitch ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
usa, philadelphia, pennsylvania
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A haunted soldier just back from war and a boy who has never known peace in his home life embark on a life-changing journey as they become unlikely friends — and one another’s last shot at redemption.
Style:
realistic, emotional, touching, captivating, tense ...
Plot:
friendship, haunted by the past, escapades, family problems, redemption, orphan, boy, journey, crimes, life is a bitch, unfulfillment, obsessive quest ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
An inside glimpse of how it feels to be a teen in today's disconnected world. PURGATORY HOUSE chronicles the after-life journey of Silver Strand: a lonely teen who abandons her life of turmoil and drug addiction, only to find herself caught ...
Style:
serious, gothic, non-linear, realistic
Audience:
teens
Plot:
misfit, hopes, addiction, drug abuse, teenage life, youth, life is a bitch, social misfits, family problems, custody, society, second chance ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
The Unloved is film that gives a child's eye view of the U.K.'s government-run care system for orphans and children in danger. Lucy is eleven years old. Having been neglected by her estranged mother and father, she is placed in a ...
Style:
serious, realistic, sentimental, touching
Plot:
child abuse, life is a bitch, social worker, isolation, child care, abandonment, hopes, orphanage, estranged mother, drug use, human spirit, youth ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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, bleak, realistic, emotional, sentimental ...
Plot:
juvenile delinquency, heroin, innocence lost, dysfunctional family, family relations, life is a bitch, downfall, drug dealing, adolescence vs adulthood, siblings relations, family problems, society ...
Time:
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Place:
scotland, glasgow scotland, europe
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41%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
The lives of two strangers - a struggling mother and a gambling addict - meet in tragedy. Years pass, and they must come to terms with themselves, and one another.
Style:
serious, realistic, emotional, non-linear, psychological
Plot:
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Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Adaś Miauczyński, a Polish intelectual, has severe alcohol problems which affect his relationship with his son Sylwek.
Style:
surreal, serious, sincere, realistic, gloomy
Plot:
dysfunctional family, alcohol abuse, self destructing, family relations, life is a bitch, family problems, addiction, parents and children, redemption, alcoholic father, father son relationship, alcoholic ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
europe, poland
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40%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
When a young woman is cruelly and indiscriminately attacked by a notorious gang led by the violent Trey, her little 16 year old sister Kayla wants revenge and will stop at nothing to get it, even if it means joining a rival girl gang led by the ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, rough, realistic, bleak
Plot:
gang, juvenile delinquency, teenage life, vengeance, social decay, rivalry, urban ghetto life, criminal heroes, society, youth, life is a bitch, crimes ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
england, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
The story of a gang of children growing up in a community of banished criminals, in a forgotten corner of the former Soviet Union. This community rejects the world outside. The only law it obeys… is its own. Against this backdrop two best friends, ...
Style:
serious, rough, realistic, suspense, gloomy ...
Plot:
friendship, rivalry, teenage life, criminal heroes, uninhibited rivalry, crime and punishment, society, human nature, crimes, social misfits, misfit, isolation ...
Time:
80s, 21st century, contemporary, 20th century
Place:
russia, siberia
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38%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Victor lives in Vienna with Annette, his beautiful Austrian wife and their daughter Pamela. It’s spring. Fleeing his work, Victor spends his days outside: he plays with Pamela, pays a visit to Annette’s parents, loiters in the park with the drug ...
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realistic, touching, psychological, captivating, sentimental ...
Plot:
redemption, addiction, parents and children, crumbling marriage, family problems, family relations, life is a bitch, hopes, unfulfillment, estrangement, teenager, drug addiction ...
Time:
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Place:
paris france, france, europe, austria
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37%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Tano is 16-years-old and is already sitting in jail. In 48 hours he’s a free man and off to the wedding of his brother. In the two days he recounts his neighborhood in a section of Sevilla.
Style:
psychological, serious, realistic, captivating
Plot:
wedding, friendship, self discovery, teenage life, juvenile delinquency, family life, parents and children, homecoming, youth, society, buddies, kids in trouble ...
Time:
contemporary
Place:
spain, europe
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37%
Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
In an impressive follow up to his debut film Forest, Benedek Fliegauf tells the uncompromising story of a day in the life of a drug dealer. His clients include the leader of a religious sect, a friend who needs a final fix, a former lover who has ...
Style:
psychological, atmospheric, stylized, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
addiction, life is a bitch, drug abuse, estrangement, social misfits, crimes, drug dealing, misfit, overdose, society, criminal heroes, friend ...
Time:
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Place:
hungary, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
The rough-hewn boss of a lumber crew courts trouble when he steps in to protect the youngest member of his team from an abusive father.
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touching, rough, captivating, harsh, depressing ...
Plot:
child abuse, redemption, friendship, hopes, ex convict, murder, alcoholic, father son relationship, small town, life is a bitch, teenager, poisoning ...
Time:
contemporary, 21st century
Place:
texas, mississippi, usa, new jersey, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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