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Anatomy of a Hate Crime (2001)
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
This MTV film dramatizes the horrific hate-crime killing of 21-year-old Matthew Shepard (Cy Carter) in Wyoming. In 1998, Shepard, a gay college student, was savagely beaten by Russell Henderson (Ian Somerhalder) and Aaron McKinney (Brendan Fletcher), who left their victim to die. Flashbacks paint a picture of Shepard's life and provide insight into why the killers, who initially set out to rob the young man, would commit such a brutal murder.
Style:
disturbing, thought provoking, emotional, bleak, serious, realistic, controversial, queer cinema
Plot:
youth, murder, hate crime, life is a bitch, social decay, society, gay slur, gay, college, graphic violence, injustice, gays and lesbians, coming out, gender, gay teenager, homosexual, teenage boy, gay interest, deadly, crime, crimes
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
wyoming, wisconsin
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, thought provoking and disturbing films with plots about life is a bitch, society, youth, injustice, gay, gays and lesbians and gay interest mostly in Drama and Crime genres. Some movies like Anatomy of a Hate Crime: The Matthew Shepard Story (2002), Blood Done Sign My Name (2010), Rollercoaster (1999), Blind Faith (1998), Lilet Never Happened (2012). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
In a senseless act of hatred, openly gay college student Matthew Shepard was murdered in 1998. This critically-acclaimed, moving film recounts the final days of Matthew's killers' trial—and the weeks leading to Matthew's ...
Style:
disturbing, realistic, serious, bleak, queer cinema
Plot:
gay slur, lgbt, gay lead character, gay bashing, gay, gays and lesbians, gay interest, murder, hate crime, social decay, courtroom drama, society ...
Time:
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Place:
wyoming, usa
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
A drama based on the true story in which a black Vietnam-era veteran is allegedly murdered by a local white businessman who is later exonerated. The plot focuses on the role of a local high school teacher and the civil unrest that followed the ...
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racism, murder, social differences, society, introspection, life is a bitch, injustice, social decay, discrimination, small town life, small town, murder investigation ...
Time:
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Place:
north carolina, usa
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
In pursuit of fantasy, five teenagers hop the fence of a now defunct amusement park. While apparently a mindless diversion, for two of them the park is the setting for a more fatal bid at escape.
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thought provoking, realistic, serious, disturbing, rough ...
Plot:
youth, lgbt, amusement park, kids in trouble, friends, human nature, society, gays and lesbians, juvenile delinquency, life is a bitch, curses spells and rituals, teenage life ...
Time:
90s
Place:
canada, vancouver
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22%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
in 1957 an African-American criminal lawyer (Courtney B. Vance) defends his nephew, who faces the death penalty for murdering a white boy. Charles S. Dutton, Kadeem Hardison, Garland Whitt and Lonette McKee costar in this drama of racial and social ...
Style:
thought provoking, realistic, serious
Plot:
gay, lgbt, murder, criminal lawyer, gay slur, false accusation, courtroom drama, siblings relations, interracial relations, racism, police corruption, injustice ...
Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands, UK, Philippines
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Lilet Never Happened is the rollercoaster story of how a young girl, struggling to survive in the streets of Manila, spirals down into child prostitution. She is a fighter. She is a dreamer. She is a rebel and she thinks she can handle the world ...
Style:
realistic, serious, thought provoking, disturbing, bleak ...
Plot:
life is a bitch, kids in trouble, social decay, youth, prostitute, society, sexual abuse, pedophilia, social worker, prostitution, police, relationships ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
manila philippines, the philippines, asia
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Isaac and Angel are two young Latinos involved in a south side Chicago gang. They have a secret in a world where secrets are forbidden.
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serious, emotional, rough, touching, sexy ...
Plot:
lgbt, confession, catholic priest, gay, injustice, society, youth, life is a bitch, juvenile delinquency, love and romance, gang, forbidden love ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, chicago illinois
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21%
Genre: Drama
Country: Kenya, South Africa
Duration: 60 min.
Story:
Created by the members of a Nairobi-based arts collective — who have removed their names from the film for fear of reprisal — this anthology film that dramatizes true-life stories from Kenya’s oppressed LGBTQ community is both a labour of love ...
Style:
thought provoking, realistic, serious, stylized, queer cinema ...
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
An intimate biopic of Pedro Zamora, an HIV-positive Cuban-American, who was cast for the MTV reality show, The Real World: San Francisco, in 1994. Due to his experience on the Real World, Pedro became a celebrity and a sympathetic face of the AIDS ...
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gay, aids, hiv, rising to stardom, ambition, human spirit, fighting the system, tv show, terminal illness, life is a bitch, society, hopes ...
Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Paul's homosexual affair at Bible College with a new student named Alex sets tongues wagging, mostly with un-Christian reactions. The dean, himself a closet case, threatens to expel Paul, and the football jocks have their eye on Alex. The ...
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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Genre: Drama
Country: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Germany, France, Turkey
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A microcosm of the fathomless suffering that remains more than 16 years since the siege of Sarajevo ended, writer-director Aida Begic’s follow-up to her 2008 Cannes Critics’ Week Grand Prize-winning debut Snow tells the story of two orphaned ...
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realistic, thought provoking, bleak, serious, gloomy
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Finland, Sweden
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Sweden 1951. A new society is developing, a society where there is no room for the socially and mentally weak...
Style:
thought provoking, emotional, realistic, serious, touching ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A drama that looks back on the Harlem Renaissance from the perspective of an elderly, black writer who meets a gay teenager in a New York homeless shelter.
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A couple discover that the baby girl they're trying to adopt is being auctioned off to the highest bidder. The couple become part of a sting operation to bust the baby-selling ring.
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Plot:
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Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 95 min.
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Sorority gal Charlotte's innocence is lost after she is raped during a frat party. Confused, terrified and shunned by her peers, she finds solace and the courage to confront her attacker after she is befriended by the leader of a campus ...
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Time:
90s, 20th century
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
In 1998, three white men in the small town of Jasper, Texas, chained a black man to the back of their pickup truck and dragged him to his death. This film relates that story and how it affected all of the residents of the town, both black and white.
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
austin texas, texas, usa
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
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Time:
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Duration: 95 min.
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Time:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Bulgaria
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
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Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
1959, support from US troops based in Asia and later from the Sates enables two actresses to start a charity for mixed-race 'orphans' who are locally neglected as outcasts. Thus originates Childhelp, which later runs multi-disciplinary ...
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Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
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Country: Canada, USA
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Story:
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Duration: 81 min.
Story:
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Country: USA
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Story:
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