Movies like The Riot Club
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The Riot Club (2014)
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, France
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Two first-year students at Oxford University join the infamous Riot Club, where reputations can be made or destroyed over the course of a single evening.
Style:
captivating, disturbing, satirical, realistic, absurd, tense, serious, scary, inspirational, gothic ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
rich, violence, debauchery, student life, university, friends, social relations, spoiled brat, society, eccentricity, stereotypes, capitalism, prostitute, hedonism, mentor, college, initiation, youth, college life, power relations, british, satire, nude, catastrophe, teenager ...
Time:
18th century, 80s, year 1976, 1850s, 21st century, 1700s, contemporary
Place:
england, oxford university, london, california, europe
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, interesting and harsh films with plots about brutality, storytelling, pornography, dialogue, mentor, nude and catastrophe mostly in Drama, Thriller and Romance genres. Some movies like The Riot Club: Kill Your Darlings (2013), The History Boys (2006), White Man's Burden (1995), Crime + Punishment in Suburbia (2000), Cracks (2009). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A murder in 1944 draws together the great poets of the beat generation: Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs.
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teens
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gay, poet, obsession, friendship, youth, writers, coming of age, sexual tension, mental illness, murder, friends, lifestyle ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, year 2005, year 1944, post world war two ...
Place:
usa, new jersey, manhattan new york city, greenwich village manhattan new york city, harlem ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
The story of an unruly class of bright, funny history students at a Yorkshire grammar school in pursuit of an undergraduate place at Oxford or Cambridge. Bounced between their maverick English master, a young and shrewd teacher hired to up their ...
Style:
witty, intellectual, stylized, melancholic, semi serious ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
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teacher, coming of age, youth, education, exam, gay, gay teenager, lgbt, mentor, friends, lifestyle, anti conformity ...
Time:
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Place:
england, yorkshire, london, new jersey, northern england ...
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
The story takes place in alternative America where the blacks are members of social elite, and whites are inhabitants of inner city ghettos. Louis Pinnock is a white worker in a chocolate factory, loving husband and father of two children. While ...
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thought provoking, affectionate, visually appealing, unusual plot structure, reflective ...
Plot:
racism, distopia, kidnapping, society, vengeance, prejudice, alternate reality, fight scenes, manipulation, lone hero, life philosophy, race issues ...
Time:
90s
Place:
california
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
This is a contemporary fable loosely based on Fyodor Dostoyevsky's "Crime and Punishment". Roseanne is outwardly a perfect and popular teen. However, her image is hiding the abuse at her stepfather's hands, and she decides to ...
Style:
disturbing, serious, psychological, clever, sexy ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
suburbs, murder, rape, bdsm, dysfunctional family, high school, guilt, obsession, friendship, americana, crime and punishment, court ...
Time:
90s
Place:
usa, los angeles, california
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24%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Ireland, Spain, France, Switzerland
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Jealousy flares after the headmistress of an elite boarding school for girls becomes obsessed with a new student.
Style:
atmospheric, melancholic, serious, stylized, erotic ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot:
boarding school, coming of age, lesbian, older woman younger woman relationship, obsession, lesbian relationship, boarding school life, lesbian interest, asthma, teenage crush, school, girls' boarding school ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century, year 1934
Place:
england, spain, europe
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24%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Michael, a wimpy young executive, is about to get pulverized by a jealous boyfriend in a bar when a handsome, mysterious stranger steps in--and then disappears. Later that night, while jogging, Michael runs into the stranger on a pier. He introduces ...
Style:
neo noir, sexy, entertaining, psychological, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
psychopath, serial killer, obsession, betrayal, friendship, murder, manipulation, frame up, home invasion, infidelity, revenge, violence ...
Time:
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Place:
los angeles, boston, usa
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23%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Seemingly mild-mannered businessman Edmond Burke visits a fortuneteller and hears a remark that spurs him to leave his wife abruptly and seek what is missing from his life. Encounters with strangers and unsavory people weaken the barriers ...
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Plot:
bipolar disorder, murder, midlife crisis, destiny, prostitute, oral sex, redemption, starting over, prison, society, unlikely criminals, self control ...
Time:
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Place:
new york, usa
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23%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany, France
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A school teacher discusses types of government with his class. His students find it too boring to repeatedly go over national socialism and believe that dictatorship cannot be established in modern Germany. He starts an experiment to show how easily ...
Style:
psychological, philosophical, emotional, political, disturbing ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot:
fascism, experiment, suicide, nazism, teacher, bullying, teachers and students, dictatorship, high school, education, against humanity, politics ...
Place:
germany, california, europe
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23%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
The Munns, father John and sons Chris and Tim, recede to the woods of rural Georgia. Their life together is forever changed with the arrival of Uncle Deel, though the tragedy that follows forces troubled Chris to become a man.
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Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
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Place:
georgia, usa, iceland, nebraska, mexico
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23%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A two character movie, involving a college professor, John, who is confronted by a female student, Carol, who is failing his course. The two spend a long time talking to each other, during which time John says a few things that can be taken the ...
Style:
psychological, disturbing, serious, realistic, intense ...
Plot:
manipulation, police investigation, existentialism, revenge, violent, sexual harassment, dishonesty, teachers and students, sexual abuse, art, prejudice, redemption ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
On a winter day in a southside Queens high school, events collide and six students are suddenly in an armed standoff with the NYPD. At the school, classrooms freeze, teachers come and go, resources are scant.
Style:
thought provoking, educational, feel good, harsh, dramatic ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
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Time:
90s
Place:
new york, new jersey, usa
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23%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Germany, USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
Set against the backdrop of the succession of Queen Elizabeth I, and the Essex Rebellion against her, the story advances the theory that it was in fact Edward De Vere, Earl of Oxford who penned Shakespeare's plays.
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stylized, serious, intense, atmospheric, thought provoking ...
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shakespeare, conspiracy theory, politics, writers, betrayal, political intrigue, medieval, poet, incestuous sex, lifestyle, literature, father son relationship ...
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england, london, scotland, europe, new york ...
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23%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
After his daughter died in a hit and run, Freddy Gale has waited six years for John Booth, the man responsible, to be released from prison. On the day of release, Gale visits Booth and announces that he will kill him in one week. Booth uses his time ...
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Plot:
haunted by the past, murder, obsession, hit and run, tragedy, vengeance, redemption, loss of daughter, justice, suspense, crime gone awry, car accident ...
Time:
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Place:
los angeles, nebraska, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, France, Canada
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Four teenagers at a British private school secretly uncover and explore the depths of a sealed underground hole created decades ago as a possible bomb shelter.
Style:
psychological, scary, twist ending, tense, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
obsession, claustrophobia, survival, trapped, psychology, school, bunker, underground bunker, youth, twists and turns, isolation, teenager ...
Place:
wales, england
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
After surviving a stabbing by a student, teacher Trevor Garfield moves from New York to Los Angeles. There, he resumes teaching as a substitute teacher. The education system, where violent bullies control the classrooms and the administration is ...
Style:
realistic, disturbing, thought provoking, unusual plot structure, allegory ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
teacher, high school, gang, gangsters, teenager, revenge, suspense, hip hop, mentor, vengeance, ghetto, mafia ...
Time:
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los angeles, new york, new jersey, california, usa ...
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, France, UK
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
The film is set in France in the 1990s, the French were defeated by the Germans early in World War II, an armistice was signed in 1940 which effectively split France into a German occupied part in the North and a semi-independent part in the south ...
Style:
tense, suspenseful, intense, serious, political ...
Plot:
war criminal, world war two, investigation, politics, murder, justice, on the run, fighting the system, jewish, nazi, law enforcement, state affairs ...
Time:
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france, poland, europe, provence, paris france ...
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Alicia is a poor girl starting college. Hadley, Julianne and Sydney are three well-off girls in a row house. Classes begin and Alicia is paired with Hadley to work on a sociology class project. At first rejected, Alicia is finally accepted into ...
Style:
intense, stylized, sexy, psychological, serious ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
investigation, college, murder, betrayal, lesbian, teenage life, cheerleading, wealth, mind game, manipulation, youth, divorce ...
Time:
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Place:
north carolina, usa
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
How tenuous is man's hold on civilization when survival becomes an issue? When the lights go out and stay out for several days, suburbanites Matthew and Annie learn the hard way that man is "by nature" a predatory creature. ...
Style:
tense, psychological, bleak, clever, talky ...
Plot:
suspense, survival, apocalypse, female nudity, suburbs, disaster, catastrophe, neighbor, chase, betrayal, paranoia, nude ...
Time:
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Place:
california, los angeles
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22%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
London of the late 19th century is a haven for political exiles of all sorts - refugees, partisans, anarchists. Verloc has made his living spying for the Russian goverment, an agent provacateur of sorts, while simultaneously providing information to ...
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psychological, harsh, realistic, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot:
spy, terrorism, betrayal, politics, bomb, murder mystery, police inspector, conspiracy, russian, secret agents, sabotage, state affairs ...
Time:
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Place:
london, england, scotland, europe, russia
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy, UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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Time:
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Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
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Hot young stars, a hip, driving soundtrack, plus a provocative tale of jealousy and betrayal combine to create this controversial modern-day version of Shakespeare's classic, "Othello." O is Odin James (Mekhi Phifer), the ...
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Story:
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Country: UK, Japan
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
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Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK, France
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
The family of Raymond, his wife Val and her brother Billy live in working-class London district. Also in their family is Val and Billy's mother Janet and grandmother Kath. Billy is a drug addict and Raymond kicks him out of the house, making ...
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Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
Malik (Omar Epps) is an African-American student attending on a track scholarship; academics are not his strong suit, and he goes in thinking that his athletic abilities will earn him a free ride through college. Fudge (Ice Cube), a ...
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Place:
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Julie Styron thinks she is going to be fired, but instead discovers that she is being promoted. Trapped in an airport hotel, she wants to celebrate but finds only the company of her young assistant, Paula Murphy. As the night progresses, the two ...
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 154 min.
Story:
Three different people in Mexico City are catapulted into dramatic and unforeseen circumstances in the wake of a terrible car crash: a young punk stumbles into the sinister underground world of dog fighting; an injured supermodel's designer ...
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