Movies like Midnight 1998
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Midnight (1998)
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Original name: O Primeiro Dia
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France, Brazil
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
On December 31st 1999, destiny brings a fugitive prisoner and a depressed middle class teacher together, as the new millennium approaches bringing hope to everyone.
Style:
serious, realistic
Plot:
slum, escape, prison, distopia, stalking, beach, destiny, love and romance, life is a bitch, fugitives, society, mute or deaf, innocence lost, idealism, human nature, hopes, lovers on the run, couple relations, urban ghetto life, urban ghetto, female nudity, new year's eve, prison riot, suicide attempt, fireworks ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
rio de janeiro, brazil
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, rough and bleak films with plots about society, life is a bitch, urban ghetto, urban ghetto life, prison, female nudity and love and romance mostly in Drama, Crime and Biography genres. Some movies like Midnight: Mango Yellow (2002), The Unscrupulous Ones (1962), Forbidden to Forbid (2006), City of God (2002), Tropical Snow (1988). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
In a poor neighborhood in Recife, the lives of exotic and bizarre characters entwine in a bar and in a very low-budget hotel. The queer Dunga works in the hotel and has a crush on the butcher Wellington that is married with the religious Kika and ...
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Plot:
sexual relations, life is a bitch, love affair, adulterous husband, couple relations, love and romance, redemption, human nature, infidelity, working class, society, down on your luck ...
Place:
new zealand, texas, usa, brazil
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
This film captures the criminal behavior of two young Copacabana thugs (the "cafajestes"). The two plan a blackmail coup against a rich old man, using nude pictures of a lady on a deserted beach. But things don't always happen as ...
Style:
serious, realistic, tense, sexy, sexual
Plot:
beach, dishonesty, crime gone awry, society, nothing goes right, cons and scams, rich and poor, strong sexual content, disorder, nude, convertible
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
rio de janeiro, brazil
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94%
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil, Chile, Spain
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Three young Brazilian try to help a terminally ill woman who lives in the slums of Rio de Janeiro. Their youthful idealism is shattered with the cruel reality of police brutality.
Style:
realistic, serious, social, psychological, rough ...
Plot:
love triangle, friends, life is a bitch, society, urban ghetto life, friendship, hopes, intern, family relations, love, rivalry, polyamory ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
rio de janeiro, brazil
⇓ similarity ⇓
90%
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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, stylized, dark ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
gang, society, coming of age, organized crime, journalism, gang war, juvenile delinquency, life is a bitch, photographer, police corruption, gangsters, drug dealing ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, 80s, 60s
Place:
rio de janeiro, latin america, brazil, south america, africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
90%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Colombia, USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
New York is the dream city of Tavo and Marina, where the lovers hope to start a better life; at home in Bogota they have to work as pocket pickers at the airport to support their families. Dealer Oskar can persuade them to smuggle drugs in their ...
Style:
neo noir, tense, realistic, serious, rough ...
Plot:
lovers on the run, erotica, nude, beach, punishment, poison, airport, thief, graphic violence, life is a bitch, drug dealing, young lovers ...
Time:
80s
Place:
new york, latin america
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
This is the Easter weekend. In an inner city project, three people struggle against their demons and try to find redemption. They are Maxine, a window dresser depressed since she had an abortion and lost her lover ; Jordan, a boxer who has indulged ...
Style:
realistic, serious
Plot:
black history, drug dealing, gay interest, urban ghetto, estrangement, going straight, hopes, life is a bitch, society, self discovery, gays and lesbians, city life ...
Time:
90s
Place:
canada
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70%
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, disturbing, serious ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
slum, friendship, street gang, coming of age, betrayal, gangsters, relationships, best friends, brutality, character study, adaptation, suspense ...
Time:
70s, 21st century
Place:
rio de janeiro, brazil, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Film about the true events in Rio de Janeiro, in 1960, when a gang having the infamous outlaw Tião Medonho as a leader performed a sensational railroad hold-up on a train carrying a small fortune.
Style:
tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough
Plot:
heist, train, slum, railway, social injustice, gangsters, criminal heroes, gang, crime gone awry, disorder, car accident, gunfight ...
Time:
20th century, 60s
Place:
rio de janeiro, brazil, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Rick (Diesel) is frustrated by the repetitious grind of one-night stands and aimless hustling. Whilst looking for more to his life he meets Heather (Lanza), a neighbour. Rick takes the opportunity to escape his boring life style with her, but soon ...
Style:
tense, realistic, serious
Plot:
drug dealer, hunting, gang, redemption, introspection, misfit, coming of age, opposites attract, juvenile delinquency, social misfits, going straight, society ...
Time:
future, 90s
Place:
new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Trusting in fate, Don Quixote and Sancho pursue their travels in search of adventure day and night. They ride through fields, talking about subjects as varied as spirituality, chivalry and daily life. A growing bond of friendship unites them.
Style:
experimental, realistic, semi serious, sexy, sexual ...
Plot:
destructive relationship, life is a bitch, tragic love, gang, friendship, prison life, hopes, idealism, society, don quixote, escape, urban ghetto ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Blood Brothers- While coming of age in the inner city, Darryl Crawford, a young African-American man, witnesses a gang-related murder and is horrified to discover that his beloved older brother Sly is one of the perps. Darryl grapples with his ...
Style:
serious, realistic, rough, bleak, suspenseful
Plot:
gang, murder, introspection, life is a bitch, legal action, legal, social misfits, society, moral dilemma, hopes, juvenile delinquency, witnessing a crime ...
Time:
90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Ty, Hector, and Bao are close friends in a tough section of Boston, where they're called "the PG-13 crew." They're 14, decent kids with few skills who've bailed out of school. A small gang of older tough guys, led by Marcus ...
Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough
Plot:
gang, gangsters, gas station, realism, kids in trouble, optimism, friends, urban ghetto, youth, drug dealing, criminal heroes, dealing with death ...
Time:
90s
Place:
massachusetts, boston
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A young woman about to get married discovers all too late that her spouse has mafia connections, when violence breaks out during her wedding. Caught up in the crossfire Lynn gets arrested and thrown into a women's prison.
Style:
realistic, serious, captivating, bleak, rough ...
Plot:
prison, escape, one man army, dishonesty, criminal heroes, dangerous animal, confined, rivalry, youth, rebelliousness, juvenile delinquency, law enforcement ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
hong kong
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, Belgium, UK, France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
An Italian man looks back from his jail cell on his youthful exploits as a political extremist with understanding, candour and remorse.
Style:
exciting, serious, emotional, sincere, realistic ...
Plot:
idealism, rebellion, fighting the system, political unrest, love affair, hopes, love and romance, society, rebelliousness, couple relations, politics, youth ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, 80s, year 1982
Place:
italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain, Argentina
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
In the summer of 1928, several inmates from the National Penitentiary in Buenos Aires managed to escape. The film narrates the fate of each of these runaways in search of their destiny - tough men with their own ethical codes and ready to do ...
Style:
suspenseful, rough, captivating, serious, realistic
Plot:
fugitives, prison, on the run, criminal heroes, starting over, confined, couple relations, couples, prison life, destiny, society, escape ...
Time:
1920s
Place:
argentina, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A teenaged boy goes for a ride with his brother and the brother's friends, who proceed to rob a store and murder the clerk. They are caught and, despite the young boy's protestations, he is convicted of murder and sent to prison. A female ...
Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful
Plot:
prison, escape, on the run, murder, kids in trouble, crime gone awry, lovers on the run, juvenile delinquency, society, law enforcement, love and romance, drug dealing ...
Time:
80s
Place:
tennessee, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Finland, Estonia
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Allide experienced The Great Terror under Stalin’s regime, and decades after her hometown people were deported to Siberia, she lives alone in an isolated house. One night, she finds a young woman in her yard – Zara has just escaped from the ...
Style:
realistic, psychological, tense, captivating, rough ...
Plot:
love triangle, life is a bitch, haunted by the past, redemption, society, political unrest, exploitation, post war, destiny, betrayal, violence, suspense ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, 50s, 90s, post world war two
Place:
estonia, europe, ussr
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A boozy lowlife tries to bury the truth about his crazy stepson's suspicious death, but a nosy newspaper columnist and the young man's mother complicate matters.
Style:
psychological, tense, captivating, rough, neo noir ...
Plot:
working class, urban ghetto life, investigation, uncover truth, life turned upside down, society, down on your luck, life is a bitch, death, suspicion, self discovery, mafia ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, 21st century
Place:
usa, philadelphia, pennsylvania
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Sweden, Finland, Germany
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
The film is based on a true occurrence in Sweden in 1988. A Finish couple murdered a young boy and his parents when they prevented the theft of the son's bicycle. The film tries to describe the relationship between the dominant Jari, who calls ...
Style:
tense, psychological, realistic, serious, bleak ...
Plot:
murder, school bully, flashback, arrest, killer, manhunt, young lovers, capture, prisoner, murderer, prison, letter ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 80s
Place:
denmark, sweden, finland
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
481
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Dante and his girlfrend Micky run a very profitable drug operation in a seaside town, aided and abetted by a host of teens who sell the smack at discos around town, as well as by Lucas, a corrupt cop who's on the take. Their downfall comes when ...
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realistic, serious, surreal, gloomy, bleak ...
Plot:
deaf, religions or cults, urban ghetto, low lives, tough heroes, drug dealing, gays and lesbians, dishonesty, criminal heroes, life is a bitch, law enforcement, vengeance ...
Time:
1920s, 20th century
Place:
florida, new jersey, miami
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
William Popper is the son of a stockbroker and is thoroughly disenchanted with "the system." So much so that even though he can prove that he ran over a woman in his car entirely by accident, he accepts a sentence for manslaughter.
Style:
thought provoking, psychological, realistic, serious, bleak
Plot:
prison, escape, college, car accident, manslaughter, courtroom, on the run, legal, girlfriend, runaway, stock broker, injustice ...
Time:
70s
Place:
new york, canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
John McVicar was a London Bad Boy. he graduated to armed bank robbery and was Britain's "Public Enemy No. 1". He was captured and put into a high security prison. Will even the highest security prison be able to hold him? This is the ...
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serious, realistic, rough, cult film
Plot:
prison, gangsters, jail, prison escape, prison life, criminal, gang, imprisonment, heist, fugitives, confined, rise and fall ...
Time:
60s
Place:
england, europe, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A group of 20-something blue-collar workers in Pittsburgh cook up a scheme to make extra money that involves prostitution. Their business takes off, then gets way out of hand.
Style:
serious, rough, bleak, realistic
Plot:
prostitute, underground, working class, friendship, illegal prostitution, rise and fall, society, coming of age, escapades, suspense, life is a bitch, friends ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, pittsburgh
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Argentina, South Korea, Brazil, Spain
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Julia, a 25 year-old university student, two weeks pregnant, with no criminal record, is sent to prison. Julia murdered the father of her child. This story addresses maternity, jail and Justice; confinement, guilt and solitude; but above all it ...
Style:
touching, uplifting, serious, rough, realistic ...
Plot:
prison, prison life, confined, fighting the system, human spirit, parents and children, murder, rebellion, life is a bitch, human nature, single parent, mother son relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
argentina, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Jimmy and Jon are a couple of Brooklyn guys who somehow never found their way into workaday society; they never found their way into big-time crime, either.
Style:
neo noir, tense, serious, realistic, bleak ...
Plot:
mafia, low lives, urban ghetto, heist, down on your luck, city life, murder, chaos and mayhem, urban ghetto life, arms dealing, juvenile delinquency, drug dealing ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new york, usa, brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Jack is caught with the wife of his employer, a Vegas thug. The thug sends goons after Jack, who convinces his best friend, Pilot, to flee with him. Pilot insists that they head for Seattle, but doesn't tell Jack why. The goons learn from ...
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road movie, serious, rough, realistic, cynical ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Vietnam, France, Germany, Netherlands
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Saigon in the late nineties. Photography student Vu rents a room in a shared flat. With his brand-new camera, a gift from his father, he explores the people, places and things around him. He is particularly fascinated by his flatmate Thang, a ...
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serious, realistic, captivating, disturbing, bleak ...
Plot:
gay, submissive woman, photographer, friendship, father son relationship, love triangle, life is a bitch, society, urban ghetto life, friendship between men, poverty, birth control ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, 2000s
Place:
vietnam, asia, saigon
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Benoit has planned out his life. Unfortunately he has forgotten the military duty. After he is called to duty he tries everything to get around. He goes to a psychiatrist who gives him medicine against depression. As this doesn't work out he ...
Style:
realistic, serious, psychological, gloomy
Plot:
lgbt, lgbtq, bisexual, losing-it hero, unfulfillment, life is a bitch, downfall, love and romance, society, destiny, terminal illness, drug abuse ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
italy, france, paris france, netherlands
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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Genre: Drama, Crime
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, ...
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Plot:
prison, doctor, aids, police brutality, prison escape, prison life, fighting the system, life is a bitch, confined, fighting illness, regret, protest ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
brazil, latin america, rio de janeiro, south america, sao paulo brazil
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Bruno is released from prison. He looks for a job and tries to start a new life. His first stop is at his father's apartment.
Style:
serious, realistic, captivating
Plot:
female nudity, cons and scams, drug abuse, male nudity, urban ghetto, life is a bitch, rehabilitation, hopes, love and romance, unfulfillment, confined, juvenile delinquency ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
france, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
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