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The Riot Club (2014)
25K
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
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:
disturbing, realistic, captivating, tense, serious, inspirational, spiritual, artsy, satirical, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
rich, debauchery, university, student life, spoiled brat, initiation, friends, social relations, society, eccentricity, stereotypes, prostitute, restaurant, wealth, oral sex, destruction, fraternity, assault, arrogance, sexism, snob, vandalism, classism, drinking, capitalism ...
Time:
year 2014, 18th century, 80s, year 1976, 1850s, 21st century, 1700s ...
Place:
england, oxford university, europe, london, california
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Most similar movies to The Riot Club
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, disturbing and suspense films with plots about kiss, drinking alcohol, sex, death, drinking, male nudity and murder mostly in Drama, Thriller and Romance genres. Some movies like The Riot Club: Kill Your Darlings (2013), Saltburn (2023), The History Boys (2006), Wasted on the Young (2010), Retaliation (2017). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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.
Style:
intellectual, bleak, captivating, serious, sexual ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
poet, gay, obsession, friendship, youth, gay interest, lgbtq, writers, coming of age, sexual tension, lgbtqi, friends ...
Time:
1940s, year 1944, 20th century, 2000s, post world war two ...
Place:
usa, harlem, manhattan new york city, greenwich village manhattan new york city, chicago ...
Similarity:
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259K
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
Struggling to find his place at Oxford University, student Oliver Quick finds himself drawn into the world of the charming and aristocratic Felix Catton, who invites him to Saltburn, his eccentric family's sprawling estate, for a summer never ...
Style:
dark comedy, psychological thriller, philosophical, psychological, captivating ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
college, class differences, obsession, college student, homoerotic friendship, country estate, university, drug use, murder, butler, teenage boy, violence ...
Time:
year 2006, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
england, oxford university, united kingdom
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
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, inspirational, melancholic, stylized, semi serious ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
teacher, gay teenager, coming of age, lgbtq, lgbt, boy, underage sex, exam, gay, youth, homoerotic friendship, gay crush ...
Time:
80s, year 2006, 20th century, year 1983, 60s
Place:
england, britain, northern england, europe, yorkshire ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
When a high school party goes dangerously off the rails, one teenager finds that revenge is just a computer click away.
Style:
suspenseful, serious, tense, captivating, independent film ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
vengeance, teenage life, youth, teenage love, social relations, rivalry, family relations, murder, social network, danger, blood, coming of age ...
Time:
year 2010, y2k, 21st century
Place:
australia
Similarity:
28%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
An adult victim of childhood sexual abuse confronts the horrors of his past
Style:
tense, disturbing, suspenseful, unusual plot structure, suspense ...
Plot:
male rape victim, male nudity, sex scene, trauma, childhood trauma, revenge, bare butt, haunted by the past, boy, rage, storytelling, traumatized man ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia, USA, UK
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Wake in Fright is the story of John Grant, a bonded teacher who arrives in the rough outback mining town of Bundanyabba planning to stay overnight before catching the plane to Sydney, but as one night stretches into several he plunges headlong into ...
Style:
independent film, disturbing, art house, terrifying, political ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
drunkenness, mining town, mental disorder, australian outback, sexism, beer, gambling, addiction, kangaroo, alcoholic, gay subtext, male nudity ...
Time:
70s, year 1971
Place:
australia, oceania, new zealand
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A motiveless malignancy? Elvis leaves the Navy and heads for Texas where he contacts his father, whom he's never met, the pastor at a Christian community church. Pastor Dave tells Elvis to stay away and, without telling his family that Elvis is ...
Style:
psychological, realistic, serious, suspenseful, erotic ...
Plot:
incest, brother sister incest, incestuous sex, redemption, illegitimate son, hypocrisy, confession, murder, haunted by the past, family problems, vengeance, society ...
Time:
year 2005
Place:
austin texas, texas, usa
Similarity:
28%
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, teen ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
rape, obsession, sexualized violence, murder, suburbs, dysfunctional family, high school, guilt, crime and punishment, friendship, protective male, youth ...
Time:
year 2000, 90s
Place:
los angeles, california, usa
Similarity:
50%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Denmark
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A period drama/thriller about a surveyor and his fiancée who arrive in a remote Malaysian trading post and encounter a closed-fisted ivory trader and her ill-meaning family.
Style:
tense, disturbing, suspenseful, atmospheric, suspense ...
Plot:
nothing goes right, older woman younger man, jungle, obsessive quest, crimes of passion, danger, dysfunctional family, culture clash, greed, age-gap relationship, social relations, couples ...
Time:
year 2002, 1920s, 20th century, post world war one
Place:
malaysia, asia
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A mother looks to escape her abusive past by moving to a new town where she befriends another mother, who grows suspicious of her.
Style:
sexy, artsy, suspense, captivating, disturbing ...
Plot:
obsession, abusive husband, surrogate mother, manipulative woman, child, skinny dipping, family relations, pregnancy, murder, woman seduces a man, mother daughter relationship, female nudity ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
columbus ohio
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
The film is based on a true incident in Le Mans, France in 1933 called the Papin murder case, where two sisters brutally murdered their employer and her daughter. The murder shocked the country, and there was much speculation about the sisters, ...
Style:
sexy, erotic, suspenseful, psychological, sexual ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
incest, lesbian incest, incestuous relationship, sister sister incest, lesbian, lesbianism, class differences, murder, sex scene, secret relationship, two sisters, widow ...
Time:
1930s, year 1994, 20th century
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
27%
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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 ...
Style:
psychological, disturbing, bleak, philosophical, stylized ...
Plot:
midlife crisis, bipolar disorder, murder, sodomy, oral sex, redemption, starting over, prison, society, unlikely criminals, self control, violence ...
Time:
year 2005, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
27%
8K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Reeling from a terrifying assault, a nineteen year old enrolls into college with his brother and pledges the same fraternity. What happens there, in the name of 'brotherhood,' tests him and his loyalty in brutal ways.
Style:
disturbing, suspenseful, suspense, melancholic, exciting ...
Plot:
bare breasts, bare chested male, college campus, gay slur, dormitory, drug use, sibling relationship, brotherhood, gay, death of friend, roommate, robbery ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, columbus ohio
Similarity:
27%
10K
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.
Style:
harsh, suspense, suspenseful, depressing, intense ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, curse, juvenile delinquency, murder, homelessness, tragedy, lifestyle, danger, parents and children, single father, violence, boy ...
Time:
year 2004, 70s, 21st century
Place:
southern usa, savannah georgia, usa, iceland, nebraska ...
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
The determined new headmaster of an English prep school attempts to reform the frequently unruly students, who are tormented by a ruthless bully.
Style:
realistic, touching, serious, exciting, tense ...
Plot:
boys' school, boarding school, corporal punishment, coming of age, bullying, friends, self discovery, power relations, hardcase students, misfit, lifestyle, dedicated educator ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era
Place:
england, europe, united kingdom
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A college co-ed is brutally raped and struggles alone to rebuild her life, but when the chance for revenge comes she as a Victim sinks lower than her Predator.
Style:
serious, disturbing, erotic, brutal, rough ...
Plot:
rape and revenge, violence, sexual abuse, revenge, rape, bare chested male, misandry, sexualized violence, rape victim, brutality, sadomasochism, male pubic hair ...
Place:
baltimore, new york
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
After a teenage girl reports a rape, her village ostracizes her and her family.
Style:
tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, gloomy ...
Plot:
youth, teenage life, life turned upside down, parents and children, society, social relations, rape victim, friendship, mother daughter relationship, young love, generation gap, child's point of view ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
eastern europe
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A young man moves to a new town after experiencing a tragedy and becomes involved with a gang of Satan-worshipping teens who believe they have supernatural powers. But by the time he realises he’s in too deep, it may be too late to escape.
Style:
gothic, serious, captivating, suspense, tense ...
Plot:
gang, occult, dysfunctional family, juvenile delinquency, social decay, youth, society, violence spree, friendship, teenage life, parents and children, heavy metal ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
27%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy, UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
An alienated teenager, saddened that he has moved away from London, must find a way to deal with a dark family secret.
Style:
disturbing, depressing, erotic, emotional, heartbreaking ...
Plot:
incest, sexual abuse, father daughter incest, father son relationship, rape, sex, sex with daughter, dysfunctional family, incestuous relationship, sodomy, incest rape, loneliness ...
Time:
year 1999, 20th century, 90s
Place:
england, europe, london
Similarity:
26%
40K
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
The story of a young ex-con Jack, newly released from serving a prison sentence for a murder he committed as a child.
Style:
psychological, touching, suspense, heartbreaking, compassionate ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
redemption, juvenile delinquency, childhood, haunted by the past, going straight, bullying, melancholy, released from prison, teen angst, rehabilitation, violent, starting over ...
Time:
year 2007, 21st century
Place:
nebraska, britain, united kingdom, england, europe ...
Similarity:
26%
8K
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Jules is a drag artist in London who withdraws into himself and loses his career after a horrific attack. Months later, he recognizes one of his assailants in a gay sauna and quickly realizes he has the perfect opportunity to get revenge.
Style:
suspenseful, captivating, disturbing, serious, grim ...
Plot:
gay interest, lgbtq, gay, female impersonator, lgbt, gay bashing, secret relationship, closeted homosexual, gay slur, homophobe, avenge, assault ...
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A beautiful young escort, Paul, suffers from trip-like dreams he doesn't understand. These visions are shared by his clients, both scaring and exciting them. Paul is searching for his twin brother, whom he hasn't seen since childhood, and ...
Style:
realistic, serious, suspenseful, suspense, sexual ...
Plot:
gay, gay sex, gay club, male prostitute, escort, fall in love, starting over, sexual relations, dream, twins, haunted by the past, sex ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, london
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
In Barrow, Alaska, teenagers Qalli and Aivaaq find their bond tested when a seal-hunting trip goes wrong, resulting in the death of their friend.
Style:
realistic, atmospheric, psychological, captivating, independent film ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
friendship, grief, death, family relations, buddies, youth, parents and children, society, village, accidental death, coming of age, little boy ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
alaska, usa
Similarity:
26%
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43K
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.
Style:
visually stunning, serious, costume drama, inspirational, intense ...
Plot:
shakespeare, conspiracy theory, politics, writers, queen elizabeth i, tudors, incestuous sex, poet, political intrigue, incest, intrigue, royalty ...
Time:
16th century, middle ages, 17th century, ancient times, year 2011 ...
Place:
england, britain, europe, new york, wales ...
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 144 min.
Story:
An art director in the 1930s falls in love and attempts to make a young woman an actress despite Hollywood who wants nothing to do with her because of her problems with an estranged man and her alcoholic father.
Style:
cult classic, disturbing, cerebral, cynical, surreal ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
hollywood, female nudity, movie business, filmmaking, great depression, art, satire, showbiz, accountant, politics, actor, surrealism ...
Time:
1930s, year 1975, 20th century, 70s
Place:
los angeles, california, usa, beverly hills, glendale california
Similarity:
26%
53K
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
A serial murderer is strangling women with a necktie. The London police have a suspect, but he is the wrong man.
Style:
black comedy, suspense, suspenseful, tense, atmospheric ...
Plot:
serial killer, rape, strangulation, killer, dark humor, murder, man kills a woman, psycho killer, mistaken identity, truck, violent, sexual perversion ...
Time:
year 1972, 20th century, 60s, 70s
Place:
london, britain, england, europe, united kingdom ...
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Thomas Turgoose (This Is England) stars as David, a young boy who lives a carefree life on a coastal caravan park with his best friend Emily (Holliday Grainger). When David learns that Emily is being forced to move away, he helps her hide out in a ...
Style:
touching, sincere, captivating, serious, teen ...
Plot:
friendship, leaving home, youth, society, life is a bitch, rebelliousness, family problems, secret place, parents and children, teenage life, dysfunctional family, coming of age ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, england
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
It's 1969 at a strict English girls' school where charismatic Abbie and intense and troubled Lydia are best friends. After a tragedy occurs at the school, a mysterious fainting epidemic breaks out threatening the stability of all involved.
Style:
serious, psychological, tense, realistic, suspense ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, incest, brother sister sex, best friend, mother daughter relationship, epidemic, bare butt, mass hysteria, friendship, brother sister incest, schoolgirl, mental illness ...
Time:
year 1969, 20th century, 60s
Place:
england
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Andrew Crocker-Harris is an embittered and disliked teacher of Greek and Latin at a British prep school. After nearly 20 years of service, he is being forced to retire on the pretext of his health, and perhaps may not even be given a pension. The ...
Style:
talky, touching, colorful, grim, anamorphic ...
Plot:
teacher, boarding school, coming of age, preparatory school, education, marriage, drinking, science, male nudity, bookstore, dysfunctional marriage, retirement ...
Time:
year 1994, 90s
Place:
england, europe, new jersey, tokyo
Similarity:
26%
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 ...
Style:
bleak, emotional, depressing, tense, psychological ...
Audience:
date night, adult
Plot:
multiple storylines, dog, forbidden love, violent, rottweiler, multiple perspectives, siblings relations, relationships, betrayal, vengeance, hitman, life is a bitch ...
Time:
year 2000, y2k, year 1999, 90s, 2000s ...
Place:
latin america, mexico city, mexico, south america, ohio ...
Similarity:
26%
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