Movies like I Am Guilty
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I Am Guilty (2005)
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Original name: Falscher Bekenner
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany, Denmark
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Armin Steeb is adrift: just finished with school, living with his middle-class parents, clueless about finding work. He tries connecting with a girl, he engages in risky sex with strangers in public toilets, he goes to job interviews. He also sends an anonymous letter to a local Munich newspaper, claiming responsibility for a fatal road accident. He fitfully pursues notoriety as he goes through life nearly without affect. What will it take to get Armin to smile?
Style:
serious, realistic, disturbing, sexy, sexual
Plot:
juvenile delinquency, dark humor, teenage life, society, unemployment, gay, vandalism, socially awkward, coming of age, mistaken identity, police investigation, lgbt, family relations, youth, college, journalism, innocence lost, siblings relations, college graduate, teenager, biker, police officer, police, pregnancy, death ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, tense and disturbing films with plots about youth, teenage life, family relations, coming of age, society, teenager and murder mostly in Drama, Thriller and Crime genres. Some movies like I Am Guilty: The Scouting Book for Boys (2009), Teenage Angst (2008), As God Commands (2008), Hellion (2014), Blackrock (1997). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Duration: 64 min.
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Finland, Sweden, Denmark
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Story:
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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