Movies like Trash
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Trash (2014)
24K
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:
road movie, touching, sentimental, entertaining, suspenseful, emotional, suspense, captivating, serious, detective ...
Audience:
kids, teens
Plot:
poverty, children, slum, favela, mischievous children, young heroes, coming of age, friends, corruption, child in peril, teenager, youth, on the run, life turned upside down, police corruption, chases and races, bible, telephone call, escapades, police, violence, chase, child, lawyer, prison ...
Time:
year 2014, 21st century, contemporary
Place:
rio de janeiro, latin america, brazil, south america
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Most similar movies to Trash
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, suspense and dramatic films with plots about murder, police, death, violence, corruption, gun and mentor mostly in Drama, Crime and Thriller genres. Some movies like Trash: Sin Nombre (2009), 7 Boxes (2012), Slumdog Millionaire (2008), Elite Squad (2007), City of Men (2007). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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, disturbing, bleak, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
gang, immigrant, u.s. mexico border, street gang, juvenile delinquency, gang member, social problems, family reunited, mexican drug cartel, illegal immigrant, rape, death ...
Time:
year 2009, 21st century
Place:
latin america, mexico, south america, central america, mexico city ...
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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:
tense, realistic, serious, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot:
chase, danger, petty criminal, gang, chases and races, teenage life, youth, twists and turns, little boy, teenage boy, teenager, tourism ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
paraguay, latin america
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France, USA, India
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, motivational, realistic, feel good ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, teens, teen drama, adult
Plot:
poverty, childhood, destiny, orphan, rags to riches, against the odds, love, street life, society, journey, true love, life is a bitch ...
Time:
year 2008, 2000s, 20th century, 90s, year 2005 ...
Place:
india, mumbai india, asia, taj mahal, britain
Similarity:
100%
Genre: 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, cerebral, stylized, intense, brutal ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
favela, organized crime, politics, corruption, police corruption, gangster, political corruption, gunfight, poverty, police investigation, justice, corrupt politician ...
Time:
year 2010, 2010s, y2k, 21st century
Place:
brazil, latin america, south america, rio de janeiro
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29%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Brazil, 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, intense, serious, realistic, social ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
police corruption, drug traffic, favela, squad, drug lord, leader, slum, police, fighting crime, police brutality, law enforcement, torture ...
Time:
year 2007, 2000s, 90s, year 1997, 20th century ...
Place:
brazil, rio de janeiro, south america, latin america, berlin germany
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Brazil, USA
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, rough ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
friendship, street gang, favela, slum, coming of age, betrayal, brutality, relationships, drug lord, society, gang war, best friend ...
Time:
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Place:
rio de janeiro, brazil, south america, latin america
Similarity:
23%
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, disturbing, suspenseful, tense, realistic ...
Plot:
childhood, kidnapping, boy, coming of age, rescue, friendship, father son relationship, uncover truth, children, captivity, life is a bitch, bullying ...
Time:
year 2003, 70s, year 1978, 21st century
Place:
italy, southern italy, milan italy, europe, brazil ...
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Adventure, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 105 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, serious, realistic, crying
Plot:
coming of age, kids in trouble, children, youth, little boy, hostage, kidnapping, murder, chase, gang, on the run, family relations ...
Time:
year 1992, 90s
Place:
italy, europe, southern italy, rome italy
Similarity:
22%
Movie in collections
864K
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Brazil, France
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:
rough, bleak, hood, sexy, stylized ...
Audience:
teen drama, adult
Plot:
gang, violence, ghetto, favela, coming of age, storytelling, gang war, gangster, society, juvenile delinquency, organized crime, journalism ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 2003, 2000s, future ...
Place:
latin america, rio de janeiro, south america, brazil, africa
Similarity:
21%
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:
realistic, serious, suspense, intense, touching ...
Audience:
family outing, girls' night, kids, teen drama
Plot:
lawyer, mafia, boy, court, suicide, brother brother relationship, witness protection, surveillance, child in peril, district attorney, lawyers and clients, witnessing a crime ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
new orleans, tennessee, usa, memphis, san francisco
Similarity:
20%
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, dictator, police detective, corruption, character study, danger, fighting crime, political unrest, teacher, dancing, dictatorship, assassination ...
Time:
year 2002, y2k, 21st century
Place:
peru, latin america, south america, spain, israel
Similarity:
20%
40K
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, perverse, tense, psychological, disturbing ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
murder mystery, gay relationship, murder, haunted by the past, closeted homosexual, secret relationship, murder investigation, investigation, small town, funeral, violence, suicide attempt ...
Time:
year 1991, 2010s, 2020s, 90s, 21st century
Place:
australia, oceania, melbourne, new zealand
Similarity:
19%
53K
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, harsh, atmospheric, depressing ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
child abuse, father son relationship, woods, coming of age, teenager, hopes, friendship, boy, teenage boy, lost in the woods, small town, redemption ...
Time:
year 2013, 21st century
Place:
texas, southern usa, britain, midwest, usa ...
Similarity:
19%
12K
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:
realistic, emotional, psychological, twisted, slasher ...
Plot:
law, communism, family relations, chess, lawyer, court, dysfunctional family, love, mentor, poverty, hospital, corruption ...
Time:
year 1997, 1920s, 20th century, 1900s, 1910s
Place:
rotterdam netherlands, netherlands, poland
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Sport, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
No overview found.
Style:
intense, crime drama, tense, emotional
Plot:
soccer, favela, football, ghetto, gang, coming of age, poverty, youth, street life, drug traffic, violence, survival ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
rio de janeiro, brazil, latin america
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Brazil, France
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Sandro was a boy who loved to sing rap, to kiss, to stare the statue of Christ the Redeemer and dreamed to go visit Copacabana. Growing up on streets, the story culminates at the infamous episode of June 12th 2000, when Sandro hijacked bus 174.
Style:
serious, rough, realistic, suspenseful, crime drama ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
breast feeding, hijacking, favela, street kid, drug abuse, confined, juvenile delinquency, life is a bitch, danger, youth, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, robbery ...
Time:
year 2008, 21st century
Place:
rio de janeiro, brazil, south america, latin america
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Germany, 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, suspense, thought provoking, twist ending, disturbing ...
Plot:
death penalty, suicide, death, death row, death sentence, fighting the system, murder, professor, reporter, activist, investigation, journalism ...
Time:
year 2003, 2000s, 20th century, 90s, year 1994 ...
Place:
texas, austin texas, houston texas, usa, new york ...
Similarity:
19%
32K
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK, South Africa
Duration: 94 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, harsh, captivating, rough, art house ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
redemption, baby, urban ghetto life, poverty, criminal, slum, gang, childhood, friendship, street life, murder, coming of age ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
south africa, africa, johannesburg south africa, boston
Similarity:
19%
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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, suspense, tense, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot:
hospital, racism, missing child, kidnapping, vengeance, police detective, lone hero, multiple storylines, police corruption, psychopath, investigation, missing person ...
Time:
year 2006
Place:
usa, new jersey, paris france
Similarity:
18%
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, vigilantism, slum, militia, coming of age, isolation, danger, confined, teenage boy, violence, little boy ...
Time:
year 2007
Place:
mexico, latin america
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: Brazil
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Theo is living the good life in an upscale Brazilian neighborhood. He’s a hardworking doctor, husband, and father. However, Theo has chosen his career over his family, and little by little he discovers that his world is crumbling around him. His ...
Style:
realistic, serious, emotional, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
family relations, on the road, couples, family problems, life turned upside down, disorder, crumbling marriage, self discovery, parents and children, relationship vs career, father son relationship, grandfather ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
brazil, latin america
Similarity:
18%
24K
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Brazil, Argentina, Italy
Duration: 145 min.
Story:
Carandiru, a story based on real facts and on the book written by the doctor Drauzio Varella, starts when he decides to carry out an AIDS prevention program inside Latin America’s largest prison: the Casa de Detenção de São Paulo, Carandiru, ...
Style:
bleak, compassionate, captivating, rough, touching ...
Plot:
prison, aids, prison life, doctor, life is a bitch, fighting illness, regret, protest, lgbt, unconventional method, solitary, injustice ...
Time:
20th century, year 2003, 90s
Place:
south america, brazil, latin america, sao paulo, brazil, sao paulo brazil ...
Similarity:
18%
250K
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, suspense, suspenseful ...
Audience:
family friendly, teens, teen drama
Plot:
courtroom drama, child abuse, vengeance, childhood, rape, pedophile, lawyer, pedophilia, murder trial, friendship, sexual abuse, sexualized violence ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 80s, 60s
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, madison square garden manhattan new york city, usa
Similarity:
18%
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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, surprise ending, neo noir, thought provoking ...
Audience:
kids, adult
Plot:
kidnapping, private detective, twists and turns, investigation, conspiracy, violence, moral dilemma, police investigation, death, murder mystery, moral ambiguity, missing child ...
Time:
year 2007, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
boston, massachusetts, usa
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
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, neo noir, suspenseful, serious, clever ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
hostage, police, corruption, conspiracy, police corruption, negotiation, twists and turns, false accusation, frame up, swat, rivalry, uncover truth ...
Time:
90s
Place:
chicago, usa
Similarity:
18%
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, demonic, entertaining ...
Plot:
child in peril, adoption, translator, curses spells and rituals, adopted son, scientist, murder, police, danger, bear, boy, blood ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
asia, mongolia, france, europe, siberia
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Germany, Spain, Lithuania, USA
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, sexy, tense, psychological thriller, twist ending ...
Plot:
murder, train, travel, couples, murder mystery, transgression, sexual tension, violent, drug, winter, drug smuggling, train travel ...
Time:
year 2008, 21st century
Place:
china, russia, siberia, moscow russia
Similarity:
18%
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, exciting, suspense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
manhunt, criminal, partner, twists and turns, police corruption, dishonesty, tough law enforcer, murder, drug dealer, police detective, violent content, chases and races ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
philadelphia, pennsylvania, usa
Similarity:
18%
920K
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:
twist ending, psychological, suspenseful, atmospheric, neo noir ...
Audience:
teens, family friendly, adult
Plot:
kidnapping, investigation, revenge, serial killer, torture, twists and turns, vigilantism, police investigation, plot twist, brutality, vigilante, cop ...
Time:
year 2013, 2010s, future, 21st century
Place:
pennsylvania, bolivia, georgia, usa, boston
Similarity:
17%
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 ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
asthma, murder, gangster, mafia, runaway, justice, down on your luck, woman in danger, introspection, twists and turns, orphan, prison ...
Time:
year 1999, 20th century, 90s, 80s
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
17%
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