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Ill Manors (2012)
12K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Music
Country: UK
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Ensemble film revolving around characters living in Forest Gate, London. Over the course of a few days, six inter-linking stories explore issues of drug use, prostitution and urban poverty.
Style:
tense, realistic, serious, hood, captivating, anthology, suspense, suspenseful, dark, disturbing ...
Plot:
urban ghetto life, gang, gangster, society, urban, ghetto, hip hop, police raid, mafia, rivalry, british gangster, low lives, danger, racism, male nudity, skinhead, caper, racial discrimination, gunfight, subculture, hip hop culture, discrimination, black, drug crime, exploitation ...
Time:
year 2012, 21st century, contemporary
Place:
london, england, united kingdom, britain
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, rough and hood films with plots about gang, gangster, urban, society, life is a bitch, ghetto and black mostly in Drama, Crime and Thriller genres. Some movies like Ill Manors: Kidulthood (2006), Shifty (2008), Adulthood (2008), Top Boy (2011), The Guvnors (2014). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
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serious, sincere, suspenseful, rough, anime ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Plot:
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Place:
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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:
rough, suspenseful, serious, realistic, bleak
Plot:
vengeance, gang, girl gang, juvenile delinquency, teenage life, social decay, gang leader, life is a bitch, criminal heroes, rivalry, society, youth ...
Time:
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Place:
england, britain, london
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Country: UK, USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
los angeles, south central los angeles, california, america, usa ...
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Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
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Style:
rough, realistic, serious, bleak, tense ...
Plot:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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14K
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Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
jamaica, new york, usa, new jersey
Similarity:
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Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
33%
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Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
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Style:
hood, stylized, harsh, serious, rough ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Country: UK
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Story:
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Plot:
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Country: France
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Country: UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Justice needs to be served at Britain's most notorious young offenders institute.
Style:
serious, tense, realistic, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Country: Russia
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Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Country: UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Country: UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
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Style:
serious, rough, suspenseful, tense, realistic ...
Plot:
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Time:
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30%
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Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
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Style:
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