Movies like Trash

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Trash (2014)
 7.1
 23K
Trash (2014)
Genre: Adventure, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Brazil, Germany
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Set in Brazil, three kids who make a discovery in a garbage dump soon find themselves running from the cops and trying to right a terrible wrong.
Style: captivating, road movie, touching, sentimental, entertaining, suspenseful, emotional, suspense, serious, detective ...
Audience: kids, teens
Plot: poverty, children, slum, mischievous children, friends, coming of age, young heroes, corruption, favela, teenager, youth, police corruption, child in peril, on the run, life turned upside down, chases and races, bible, teenage boy, escapades, police, violence, chase, child, lawyer, mafia ...
Time: year 2014, 21st century, contemporary
Place: rio de janeiro, latin america, brazil
Keyword: portuguese, video, dreams, brazilian

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, suspense and suspenseful films with plots about murder, police, death, blood, chase, violence and police officer mostly in Drama, Crime and Thriller genres. Some movies like Trash: Sin Nombre (2009), 7 Boxes (2012), Elite Squad (2007), I'm Not Scared (2003), City of Men (2007). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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 7.5
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Sin Nombre (2009)
Genre: Adventure, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Set on the border, where Mexico becomes the crucible and the fearsome gangs of today’s Mexican countryside, the gauntlet, to freedom. The stories of a girl living in Honduras and hungering for a brighter future, and two teen gang members, for whom ...
Style: road movie, serious, bleak, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: gang, immigrant, juvenile delinquency, rape, street gang, social problems, family reunited, train, gang member, u.s. mexico border, hopes, illegal immigrant ...
Time: year 2009, 21st century
Place: mexico, latin america, central america, guatemala
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.1
 6K
7 Boxes (2012)
Genre: Adventure, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Paraguay, Spain
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Víctor receives an unusual proposal, to carry 7 boxes of unknown content through the Market Number 4 but things get complicated along the way.
Style: serious, realistic, tense, suspenseful, hispanic ...
Plot: chase, danger, petty criminal, chases and races, gang, teenage life, youth, twists and turns, teenage boy, heist, teenager, coming of age ...
Time: 21st century
Place: paraguay, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 8.0
 110K
Elite Squad (2007)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Brazil, USA, Argentina
Duration: 115 min.
Story: In 1997, before the visit of the pope to Rio de Janeiro, Captain Nascimento from BOPE (Special Police Operations Battalion) is assigned to eliminate the risks of the drug dealers in a dangerous slum nearby where the pope intends to be lodged.
Style: disturbing, bleak, serious, intense, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: police corruption, police brutality, drug traffic, slum, drug lord, favela, squad, law enforcement, torture, poverty, police, organized crime ...
Time: year 2007, 2000s, 90s, 20th century, year 1997 ...
Place: brazil, rio de janeiro, latin america, south america
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Elite Squad 2: The Enemy Within (2010)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Brazil
Duration: 115 min.
Story: After a bloody invasion of the BOPE in the High-Security Penitentiary Bangu 1 in Rio de Janeiro to control a rebellion of interns, the Lieutenant-Colonel Roberto Nascimento and the second in command Captain André Matias are accused by the Human ...
Style: political, realistic, unusual plot structure, stylized, brutal ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: corruption, politics, gangster, police corruption, favela, political corruption, gunfight, poverty, swat team, police investigation, justice, criminal ...
Time: year 2010, 2010s, y2k, 21st century
Place: brazil, rio de janeiro, latin america, south america
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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 7.4
 16K
I'm Not Scared (2003)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, Spain, UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story: While playing outside one day, nine-year-old Michele discovers Filippo, who is chained to the ground at the bottom of a hole. Michele witnesses town baddie Felice nearby and suspects something bad is happening. Michele is unsure whom he should tell ...
Style: suspense, psychological, suspenseful, disturbing, tense ...
Plot: childhood, boy, kidnapping, coming of age, rescue, friendship, father son relationship, uncover truth, captivity, children, life is a bitch, bullying ...
Time: year 2003, year 1978, 70s, 21st century
Place: italy, southern italy, europe, venice, milan italy ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 7.2
 16K
City of Men (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Best buddies Acerola and Laranjinha, about to turn 18, discover things about their missing fathers' pasts which will shatter their solid friendship, in the middle of a war between rival drug gangs from Rio's favelas.
Style: tense, bleak, harsh, suspense, disturbing ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: friendship, street gang, slum, betrayal, coming of age, favela, relationships, best friend, character study, brutality, storytelling, adaptation ...
Time: year 2008, year 2007, 21st century
Place: rio de janeiro, brazil, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 6.7
 73K
The Client (1994)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: A street-wise kid, Mark Sway, sees the suicide of Jerome Clifford, a prominent Louisiana lawyer, whose current client is Barry 'The Blade' Muldano, a Mafia hit-man. Before Jerome shoots himself, he tells Mark where the body of a Senator is ...
Style: suspense, realistic, serious, tense, touching ...
Audience: family outing, teen drama
Plot: lawyer, mafia, boy, witnessing a crime, lawyers and clients, conspiracy, investigation, witness protection, courtroom, court, courtroom drama, legal ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: new orleans, tennessee, memphis, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
The Flight of the Innocent (1992)
Genre: Adventure, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The boy Vito is a portrait of beauty and wide-eyed innocence spawned from a violent family of kidnapers and murderers in the South of Italy. When his entire family is murdered by a rival clan of kidnapers, Vito must flee for his own life and in the ...
Style: art house, realistic, serious, crying
Plot: coming of age, boy, children, youth, murder, kidnapping, hostage, chase, on the run, gang, family relations, parents and children ...
Time: year 1992, 90s
Place: italy, europe, southern italy, rome italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Slumdog Millionaire (2008)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Jamal Malik is an impoverished Indian teen who becomes a contestant on the Hindi version of ‘Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?’ but, after he wins, he is suspected of cheating.
Style: touching, uplifting, realistic, motivational, feel good ...
Audience: date night, teens, chick flick, teen drama, adult
Plot: poverty, childhood, rags to riches, destiny, orphan, society, against the odds, life is a bitch, love, street life, cheating, ambition ...
Time: year 2008, 2000s, 20th century, 90s, year 2005 ...
Place: india, mumbai india, asia, britain, taj mahal
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 8.6
 796K
City of God (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Brazil, France, Germany
Duration: 130 min.
Story: Cidade de Deus is a shantytown that started during the 1960s and became one of Rio de Janeiro’s most dangerous places in the beginning of the 1980s. To tell the story of this place, the movie describes the life of various characters, all seen by ...
Style: disturbing, rough, bleak, hood, stylized ...
Audience: teen drama, adult
Plot: gang, coming of age, storytelling, organized crime, society, gang war, juvenile delinquency, life is a bitch, photographer, journalism, favela, police corruption ...
Time: 2000s, 70s, year 2002, 20th century, year 2003 ...
Place: latin america, rio de janeiro, brazil, south america
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
The Dancer Upstairs (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain, USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story: A police detective in a South American country is dedicated to hunting down a revolutionary guerilla leader.
Style: atmospheric, tense, political, psychological, suspense ...
Plot: politics, corruption, character study, police detective, danger, fighting crime, political unrest, teacher, dancing, dictatorship, dictator, assassination ...
Time: year 2002, y2k, 21st century
Place: latin america, peru
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 5.2
 17K
Freedomland (2006)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: A black police detective must solve a strange case of a kidnapped boy and deal with a big racial protest.
Style: disturbing, intense, suspense, tense, serious ...
Plot: racism, hospital, missing child, kidnapping, police corruption, multiple storylines, psychopath, police detective, investigation, missing person, mother child relationship, mental illness ...
Time: year 2006
Place: new jersey, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 7.2
 32K
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
Plot: baby, poverty, urban ghetto life, society, slum, friendship, childhood, coming of age, murder, street life, robbery, african ...
Time: 21st century
Place: south africa, africa, johannesburg south africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 7.0
 6K
The Zone (2007)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain, Mexico
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Residents of an enclosed neighborhood in the middle of Mexico DF are shocked by a violent crime, and for one resident in particular, young Alejandro, the drama is ratcheted up when he encounters the lone kid who escaped the event and is hiding out ...
Style: psychological, captivating, suspense, twisted, hispanic ...
Plot: murder, vengeance, heist, vigilantism, slum, escape, militia, coming of age, isolation, danger, confined, teenage boy ...
Time: year 2007
Place: mexico, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 7.7
 11K
Character (1997)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Netherlands, Belgium
Duration: 122 min.
Story: J.W. Katadreuffe is the son of Joba Katadreuffe and A.B. Drevenhaven. Though fully neglected by Joba, Dreverhaven ensures the succesfull career of his son. Mostly unseen, though he sues his son a few times. The son Katadreuffe succeeds, but at great ...
Style: psychological, realistic, emotional, slasher, psychological thriller ...
Plot: law, family relations, communism, court, lawyer, poverty, hospital, love, mentor, dysfunctional family, father son relationship, corruption ...
Time: year 1997, 1920s, 20th century, 1900s, 1910s
Place: rotterdam netherlands, netherlands
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 6.8
 34K
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
The Life of David Gale (2003)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Germany, Spain, USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story: A man against capital punishment is accused of murdering a fellow activist and is sent to death row.
Style: surprise ending, thought provoking, suspense, twist ending, serious ...
Plot: death penalty, investigation, suicide, death row, fighting the system, professor, reporter, activist, murder, journalism, death, death sentence ...
Time: year 2003, 21st century
Place: texas, austin texas, houston texas, usa, new york ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 6.8
 51K
Joe (2013)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
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.
Style: touching, dark, atmospheric, depressing, southern gothic ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: father son relationship, child abuse, alcoholic, coming of age, friendship, woods, teenage boy, small town, hopes, teenager, character study, loneliness ...
Time: year 2013, 21st century
Place: texas, midwest, britain, usa, mississippi
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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 7.5
 237K
Sleepers (1996)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 147 min.
Story: Two gangsters seek revenge on the state jail worker who during their stay at a youth prison sexually abused them. A sensational court hearing takes place to charge him for the crimes.
Style: disturbing, sadistic, harsh, suspenseful, suspense ...
Audience: family friendly, teens, teen drama
Plot: lawyer, courtroom drama, child abuse, vengeance, friendship, childhood, rape, sexual abuse, haunted by the past, pedophilia, pedophile, murder trial ...
Time: 90s, 60s, 20th century, 80s
Place: new york, usa, madison square garden manhattan new york city, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
 7.3
 154K
The Negotiator (1998)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 140 min.
Story: The police try to arrest expert hostage negotiator Danny Roman, who insists he's being framed for his partner's murder in what he believes is an elaborate conspiracy. Thinking there's evidence in the Internal Affairs offices that ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, serious, intense, talky ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: hostage, police, corruption, police corruption, false accusation, conspiracy, negotiation, frame up, swat, uncover truth, twists and turns, rivalry ...
Time: 90s
Place: chicago, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
 7.6
 291K
Gone Baby Gone (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: When 4 year old Amanda McCready disappears from her home and the police make little headway in solving the case, the girl's aunt, Beatrice McCready hires two private detectives, Patrick Kenzie and Angie Gennaro. The detectives freely admit that ...
Style: twist ending, suspense, detective, thought provoking, surprise ending ...
Audience: kids, adult
Plot: kidnapping, investigation, private detective, twists and turns, moral dilemma, police investigation, missing child, moral ambiguity, tragic event, murder mystery, immorality, mother daughter relationship ...
Time: year 2007, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place: boston, massachusetts, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
The Stone Council (2006)
Genre: Adventure, Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, Italy, Germany
Duration: 102 min.
Story: In France, the single translator Diane Siprien adopts an Asian baby named Liu-San in a foundation directed by Sybille Weber. Years later, a weird mark appears on the boy's chest and Diane and Liu share their dreadful nightmares. Diane is ...
Style: realistic, suspenseful, serious, entertaining, captivating ...
Plot: child in peril, adoption, translator, curses spells and rituals, scientist, adopted son, murder, police, danger, bear, blood, boy ...
Time: 21st century
Place: asia, mongolia, europe, france, siberia
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
 8.1
 800K
Prisoners (2013)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 153 min.
Story: When Keller Dover's daughter and her friend go missing, he takes matters into his own hands as the police pursue multiple leads and the pressure mounts. But just how far will this desperate father go to protect his family?
Style: psychological, twist ending, suspenseful, atmospheric, bleak ...
Audience: teens, family friendly, adult
Plot: kidnapping, investigation, serial killer, twists and turns, revenge, vigilantism, police investigation, brutality, torture, police, vigilante, cop ...
Time: year 2013, 2010s, future, 21st century
Place: pennsylvania, bolivia, georgia, usa, boston
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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 4.6
 2K
McCanick (2013)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Over the course of one feverish day, a harried narcotics detective and his reluctant partner frantically track down a recently released convict who knows a secret from the past.
Style: tense, serious, captivating, suspense, exciting ...
Audience: teens
Plot: manhunt, criminal, partner, twists and turns, dishonesty, police corruption, tough law enforcer, murder, drug dealer, police detective, violent content, chases and races ...
Time: 21st century
Place: philadelphia, usa, pennsylvania
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
 6.9
 32K
The Dry (2020)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia, USA, UK
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Aaron Falk returns to his drought-stricken hometown to attend a tragic funeral. But his return opens a decades-old wound - the unsolved death of a teenage girl.
Style: suspense, tense, psychological, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Audience: date night
Plot: murder, haunted by the past, murder mystery, investigation, murder investigation, police, small town, suicide attempt, violence, family relations, male female relationship, death ...
Time: 21st century
Place: australia, oceania, melbourne
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
 5.1
 6K
Gloria (1999)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Sharon Stone plays a street-wise, middle-aged moll standing up against the mobs, all of which is complicated by a 6 year old urchin with a will of his own who she reluctantly takes under her wing after his family has been gunned down.
Style: suspense, serious, suspenseful, touching, erotic ...
Plot: asthma, murder, gangster, justice, mafia, introspection, down on your luck, woman in danger, orphan, twists and turns, prison, betrayal ...
Time: year 1999, 20th century, 90s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
 5.9
 31K
The Double (2011)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, United Arab Emirates
Duration: 98 min.
Story: The mysterious murder of a US senator bearing the distinctive trademark of the legendary Soviet assassin 'Cassius', forces retired CIA operative, Paul Shepherson to team with rookie FBI agent, Ben Geary to solve the crime. Having spent ...
Style: suspenseful, suspense, tense, intense, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night, girls' night
Plot: assassination, spy, espionage, double agent, investigation, cia, plot twist, twists and turns, surveillance, special agent, hunt down, haunted by the past ...
Time: 80s, year 1988, 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, washington d.c., paris france, sonora, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
 6.6
 55K
Transsiberian (2008)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Germany, Spain, Lithuania
Duration: 111 min.
Story: A Trans-Siberian train journey from China to Moscow becomes a thrilling chase of deception and murder when an American couple encounters a mysterious pair of fellow travelers.
Style: suspense, tense, twist ending, psychological thriller, psychological ...
Plot: train, travel, murder mystery, murder, snow, couples, sexual tension, drug, winter, train travel, drug smuggling, marital problem ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century
Place: russia, china, siberia
⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
 5.4
 742
The Coverup (2008)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Personal injury attorney Stuart Pepper faces the challenge of his young career when he takes on a controversial case of wrongful death in small town Iowa. Kevin Thacker's body was found in the alley outside the Marshalltown Police Department ...
Style: serious, realistic, disturbing, suspenseful, thought provoking ...
Plot: corruption, investigation, life is a bitch, legal action, legal, rivalry, dishonesty, law enforcement, small town life, cover-up, truth, suspicion ...
Time: 21st century
Place: iowa
⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
 7.9
 10K
Salaam Bombay! (1988)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: India, USA, France, UK
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Before Slumdog Millionaire came Salaam Bombay!, Mira Nair’s Oscar-nominated drama tells the moving story of life on the streets of Bombay as seen through the eyes of Chaipu, a twelve-year-old boy living rough in the city.
Style: realistic, touching, social, offbeat, art house ...
Plot: coming of age, drug addiction, homeless, kids in trouble, drug, childhood, youth, poverty, friendship, betrayal, corruption, children ...
Time: year 1988, 80s, 20th century
Place: india, asia, bombay india, mumbai india
⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
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