Movies like Straight Out of Brooklyn
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Straight Out of Brooklyn (1991)
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A Special Jury Award winner at the Sundance Film Festival, this drama stars a then-19-year-old Matty Rich (who also wrote and directed it). Rich plays Larry, a troubled teen living in the rough Red Hook section of Brooklyn who decides he wants out and turns to crime to fund his escape. But his plan involves scamming the neighborhood's biggest drug kingpin, a heist that's dangerous at best.
Style:
rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Audience:
teens
Plot:
gang, african american, gangsters, villain, hip hop, hip hop culture, downbeat ending, blaxploitation, african american gangster, racism, drug dealing, heist, youth, family relations, family life, life is a bitch, interracial relations, teenage life, vengeance, society, juvenile delinquency, contests and competitions, on the run, family in crisis, coming of age ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new york, usa, brooklyn new york city
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, rough and bleak films with plots about urban ghetto, urban, life is a bitch, urban ghetto life, society, gang and gangsters mostly in Drama, Crime and Action genres. Some movies like Straight Out of Brooklyn: Sucker Free City (2004), Gang Tapes (2001), Squeeze (1997), Corrupt (1999), Laws of Gravity (1992). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
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rough, serious, realistic, bleak, tense
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gangsters, urban ghetto life, gang, racism, social decay, juvenile delinquency, life is a bitch, drug dealing, police investigation, city life, interracial relations, dishonesty ...
Place:
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
When a brutal carjacking yields a videocamera, a teenage boy decides to document his life and the lives of his fellow gangbangers.
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 69 min.
Story:
After decades of terror, two deadly street gangs reach a delicate truce and young MJ (Silkk the Shocker) sees a way out of the hood once and for all. Only Corrupt (Ice-T) stands in MJ's way, resulting into a violent and brutal roller coaster ...
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gangsters, gang, hip hop, hip hop culture, urban setting, urban ghetto, drug dealing, life is a bitch, social misfits, criminal heroes, youth, society ...
Time:
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Place:
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84%
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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.
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Plot:
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
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A child of a middle class home with solid moral values is lured into a world of crime and corruption.
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Audience:
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Place:
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
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80%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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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:
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Place:
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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Time:
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
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Duration: 83 min.
Story:
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Country: UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Duration: 89 min.
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Country: USA
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Story:
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70%
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Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Ex-con attempting to go straight runs across serious problems. His girlfriend gets arrested for dealing crack to an undercover police officer. In a desperate attempt to get the charges dropped against his woman, he strikes deal with weapons cop to ...
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Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
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Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
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Story:
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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