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Iowa (2005)
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Iowa (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A cautionary tale of love, crime, fantasy and addiction that follows two young Iowan lovers who decide to go into the "batch" business - cooking their own methamphetamine - only to watch it burn a searing hole in their lives.
Style: rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing
Plot: addiction, drug abuse, drug addiction, drug addict, drug dealing, rape, pregnancy, misfit, love and romance, life is a bitch, tragic love, love affair, society, police corruption, small town, small town life, cons and scams, murder, suicide, hallucination, drug use, corrupt official, drug, warden, sex ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: iowa, usa

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, rough and suspenseful films with plots about life is a bitch, female nudity, drug dealing, drug abuse, society, deadly and murder mostly in Drama, Crime and Thriller genres. Some movies like Iowa: Three (2002), Life Is Hot in Cracktown (2009), Boulevard (1994), Zooey (2006), Weapons (2007). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Three (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 124 min.
Story: The final installment in director Lucas Belvaux's trilogy follows Pascal, a cop who sees a return to credibility in the capture of escaped convict Bruno--who in turn is harbored by Pascal's morphine-addicted wife Agnes. Pascal's ...
Style: contemplative, psychological, realistic, serious, bleak ...
Plot: drug dealing, police corruption, downfall, moral dilemma, introspection, haunted by the past, vengeance, life is a bitch, fugitives, on the run, destructive relationship, drug abuse ...
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Life Is Hot in Cracktown (2009)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Various stories of how crack cocaine has infiltrated the inner-city streets. Based on Buddy Giovinazzo's novel "Life is Hot in Cracktown".
Style: disturbing, serious, thought provoking, realistic, bleak ...
Plot: street gang, urban ghetto life, coming of age, life is a bitch, juvenile delinquency, society, addiction, drug abuse, gang rape, oral sex, youth, criminal heroes ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles, manhattan new york city
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Boulevard (1994)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A street prostitute takes in an abused young woman on the run from her misogynist boyfriend, leading to both facing off against the prostitute's dreaded pimp and a relentless police detective out to arrest all of them.
Style: erotic, independent film, realistic, serious, rough ...
Plot: lesbian sex, juvenile delinquency, prostitution, sex scene, making love, sex crime, black, lgbt, prostitute, adoption, rape, female nudity ...
Time: 90s
Place: canada, toronto ontario canada
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53%
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 71
Zooey (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Angel and Zooey are not your typical newlyweds. Zooey is a professional prostitute and Angel is a drug dealer. Yet they are not without hopes and dreams, of escaping their life in the streets and starting a new in a fresh painted cottage with picked ...
Style: serious, realistic, rough, bleak, gloomy
Plot: love affair, going straight, lifestyle, addiction, drug abuse, love and romance, hopes, youth, society, life is a bitch, downfall, survival ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york
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Weapons (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Weapons presents a series of brutal, seemingly random youth-related killings over the course of a weekend in a typical small town in America, and tragically reveals how they are all interrelated.
Style: rough, suspenseful, serious, disturbing, hood ...
Plot: vengeance, juvenile delinquency, working class, criminal heroes, youth, life is a bitch, society, small town, homecoming, murder, teenage pregnancy, ghetto ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa
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Consignment (2007)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Consignment is the authentic and brutal story of an East Coast drug dealer forced to flee to California only to realize state lines don't erase past sins.
Style: suspenseful, rough, realistic, serious, independent film
Audience: boys' night
Plot: drug dealing, gangster, on the run, going straight, police investigation, starting over, gang, hitman, criminal's revenge, rivalry, buddies, law enforcement ...
Place: california, usa
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Dusty and Sweets McGee (1971)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A "straight" couple dabbles in drugs and become heroin addicts.
Style: serious, realistic, rough, emotional
Plot: drug addiction, drug, drug dealing, hustler, bare breasts, female nudity, thirtysomething life, kids in trouble, friends, life is a bitch, misfit, juvenile delinquency ...
Time: 70s, year 1971
Place: los angeles, california, usa
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52%
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Loaded (2008)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A young, wealthy club kid's life spirals downward into an out-of-control world of drugs, sex and violence.
Style: serious, realistic, suspense, suspenseful
Plot: drug abuse, sexual relations, gang, dangerous attraction, couples, danger, life is a bitch, drug dealing, criminal heroes, addiction, lap dance, voyeurism ...
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Cement (2000)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: What's the bond between partners, between brothers, and between spouses? In L.A., Bill Holt handcuffs Sean Rickhart inside a rebar frame for a freeway pillar at a construction site; Bill's going to bury Sean in quick-drying cement. Guided ...
Style: neo noir, serious, rough, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: police corruption, gangster, criminal's revenge, life is a bitch, rivalry, criminal heroes, law enforcement, dishonesty, police investigation, drug dealing, addiction, showbiz ...
Time: 90s
Place: los angeles
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51%
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The Coverup (2008)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Personal injury attorney Stuart Pepper faces the challenge of his young career when he takes on a controversial case of wrongful death in small town Iowa. Kevin Thacker's body was found in the alley outside the Marshalltown Police Department ...
Style: serious, realistic, disturbing, suspenseful, thought provoking ...
Plot: corruption, investigation, life is a bitch, legal action, legal, rivalry, dishonesty, law enforcement, small town life, cover-up, truth, suspicion ...
Time: 21st century
Place: iowa
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51%
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.45 (2006)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Kate and her brutish boyfriend Big Al sell handguns on the streets of New York. She's smart, stylish, and self-confident, but all that leaves her when Al, in a jealous and self-indulgent rage, beats her. Three friends encourage her recovery: ...
Style: psychological, suspenseful, disturbing, rough, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: femme fatale, female nudity, lesbian, arms dealer, addiction, cheating, emotional manipulation, life is a bitch, murder, obsession, couples, lesbianism ...
Place: new york
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51%
Light Sleeper (1992)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A drug dealer with upscale clientele is having moral problems going about his daily deliveries. A reformed addict, he has never gotten over the wife that left him, and the couple that use him for deliveries worry about his mental well-being and his ...
Style: realistic, suspenseful, psychological, serious, neo noir ...
Plot: addiction, drug dealing, drug, drug dealer, obsession, going straight, male nudity, drug abuse, hopes, life is a bitch, junkie, insomnia ...
Time: 90s, year 1992
Place: new york, usa
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The Free Will (2006)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 163 min.
Story: After nine years in psychiatric detention Theo, who has brutally assaulted and raped three women, is released. Living in a supervised community, he connects well with his social worker Sascha, finds a job at a print shop and even a girlfriend, ...
Style: bleak, psychological, serious, realistic, sincere ...
Plot: sexual abuse, mental illness, life is a bitch, love and romance, hopes, couples, guilt, sex scene, moving, love letter, lgbt, mental disorder ...
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51%
Heaven Knows What (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A young heroin addict roams the streets of New York to panhandle and get her next fix, while her unstable boyfriend drifts in and out of her life at random.
Style: suspenseful, thrilling, psychological, captivating, independent film ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: heroin addict, addiction, love story, drug addict, drug addiction, drug, love, mental disorder, cocaine, suicide, life is a bitch, male female relationship ...
Time: year 2014
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50%
A Wonderful Night in Split (2004)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Croatia
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The film is set over the course of a New Year's Eve night in the Croatian port city of Split, where it follows three parallel plots. The first plot line features a small-time drug dealer Nike (Marinko Prga) and a young widow Marija (Nives ...
Style: serious, disturbing, neo noir, rough, bleak ...
Plot: drug abuse, murder, new year's eve, small town, juvenile delinquency, dealer, drug dealing, new year, concert, going straight, small town life, social decay ...
Time: 21st century
Place: croatia, bosnia, eastern europe, former yugoslavia, europe
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Eye of God (1997)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A small Oklahoma town is stripped of its innocence when one of its boys (Nick Stahl) turns up mute and bloodied by the lakeside. Unable to tell his story, the local sheriff (Hal Holbrook) embarks on a quest to uncover the roots of a gruesome crime. ...
Style: anthology, independent film, contemplative, psychological, serious ...
Plot: small town, murder, age-gap relationship, small town sheriff, abortion, pregnancy, parole officer, ex convict, teenage life, haunted by the past, small town life, dangerous attraction ...
Time: 90s
Place: oklahoma, usa
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Havoc (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A wealthy Los Angeles teen and her superficial friends wants to break out of suburbia and experience Southern California's "gangsta" lifestyle. But problems arise when the preppies get in over their heads and provoke the wrath of a ...
Style: disturbing, sexy, independent film, erotic, psychological ...
Audience: teens
Plot: youth, nudity, teenager, sex scene, sex with a stranger, juvenile delinquency, promiscuity, hip hop, gang, gangster, erotica, female nudity ...
Time: year 2005, 21st century
Place: los angeles, california, usa
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50%
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Tropical Snow (1988)
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: independent film, neo noir, serious, realistic, tense ...
Plot: lovers on the run, erotica, nudity, beach, punishment, poison, airport, thief, violent content, drug dealing, young lovers, love and romance ...
Time: 80s
Place: new york, latin america
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Sucker Punch (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Mike Sullivan spends his nights kidnapping runaways so his boss, Lamar, can turn them into prostitutes. He is a crack addict and a thief and he is in love with a resentful prostitute, Rhonda, who doesn't love him back. Although he has ...
Style: captivating, semi serious, tense, psychological, crime drama ...
Plot: gangster, redemption, drug dealing, addiction, social decay, corruption, prostitution, vengeance, going straight, gang, dishonesty, rivalry ...
Time: 2000s
Place: paris france, france, europe, new york
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Girls in Prison (1994)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Framed for the murder of a record company president in 1952 Hollywood, young, aspiring singer Aggie O'Hanlon is sentenced to life in prison and tries to adjust to her life life behind bars in a hellish womens prison where she is befriended by ...
Style: tense, disturbing, rough, bleak, suspenseful ...
Plot: women in prison, prison, women's prison, lust, wrongful conviction, lesbianism, female prisoner, female nudity, lesbian, lgbt, exploitation, murder ...
Time: 50s, 1950s
Place: usa
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Willie Dynamite (1974)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Willie Dynamite is a pimp who operates in New York City. Willie was a big success as a pimp, but now, just as fast as he rose to the top, he has hit bottom. A former prostitute who has become a social worker tries to get Willie to clean up his life ...
Style: crime drama, grim, hood, captivating, realistic ...
Plot: blaxploitation, prostitute, black, urban, pimp, african american, cop, violent content, isolation, cons and scams, social decay, urban ghetto life ...
Time: 70s
Place: new york, usa
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50%
Blue Hill Avenue (2001)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story: A child of a middle class home with solid moral values is lured into a world of crime and corruption.
Style: hood, bleak, realistic, rough, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gang, urban, friends, drug dealing, black, fighting crime, juvenile delinquency, police investigation, betrayal, urban ghetto life, criminal heroes, going straight ...
Place: usa, boston
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Laws of Gravity (1992)
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, independent film, realistic, serious, tense ...
Plot: american mafia, mafia, urban ghetto, criminal heroes, misfit, society, arms dealing, social misfits, juvenile delinquency, drug dealing, life is a bitch, city life ...
Time: year 1992, 90s
Place: new york, usa, brooklyn new york city
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49%
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Cocaine Angel (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story: A week in the life of a young drug addict.
Style: realistic, serious, psychological, captivating, mumblecore ...
Plot: drug addiction, addiction, life is a bitch, rehabilitation, downfall, drug dealing, hopes, lifestyle, fired from the job, going straight, prostitute, couples ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, florida
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49%
Fort Apache the Bronx (1981)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story: From the sight of a police officer this movie depicts the life in New York's infamous South Bronx. In the center is "Fort Apache", as the officers call their police station, which really seems like an outpost in enemy's country. ...
Style: detective, realistic, bleak, grim, perverse ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: police, drug addiction, prostitute, murder, police brutality, cop killer, police station, violence, corrupt cop, hospital, cop, nypd ...
Time: 80s, year 1981
Place: new york, bronx new york city, usa
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49%
El padrino: The Latin Godfather (2004)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story: In the streets of East Los Angeles, Manny is a formidable drug dealer. Impressed by his extravagant lifestyle and prowess, his young son, Kilo, yearns to follow in his footsteps. Kilo resolves to learn how to prosper in the drug world, and his new ...
Style: rough, realistic, serious, suspenseful, exciting
Audience: boys' night
Plot: crime boss, gangster, prison gang, prison, criminal heroes, juvenile delinquency, prison life, life is a bitch, gang, dishonesty, drug dealing, urban ghetto ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles, california, usa, mexico
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49%
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Normal Life (1996)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Chris Anderson and his wife Pam live a fairly normal life until Chris loses his job on the police force and secretly turns to robbing banks to make his wife's dreams come true. Upon discovering his secret, she joins his deadly crime wave and ...
Style: realistic, serious, tense, suspenseful, independent film
Plot: love, lovers on the run, relationships, bank, robbery, destructive relationship, bookstore, women, woman with a gun, good girl gone bad, book, husband wife relationship ...
Time: year 1996, 90s
Place: chicago, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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Route 9 (1998)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: During a routine surveilance on desolate Route 9, two small town deputies come across over one million dollars in cash, a van full of drugs, several dead bodies and not a witness in sight.
Style: realistic, serious, rough, suspenseful, bleak
Plot: small town, cop, nypd, cash, sheriff, investigation, drug dealing, witnessing a crime, dishonesty, law enforcement, crime gone awry, corrupt law enforcer ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Girls Are for Loving (1973)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Two women who like control face each other in a battle over jealousy and weaknesses. The US is about to sign a trade treaty with an Asian country; in exchange for friendly relations, the US will loan the Asians money to purchase US goods under ...
Style: grindhouse, serious, erotic, realistic, sexy ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: rape, woman with a gun, women, sleaze, erotic scene, blaxploitation, female fight, kidnapping, undercover, danger, misogyny, blonde ...
Time: 70s
Place: caribbean
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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The Casino Job (2009)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Barry Kaylin is living the dream. Not yet 40, he owns four Las Vegas casinos and lives the life of the bachelor to the fullest. One night, while meeting with two potential business associates, he hires five local dancers to flirt and lounge around ...
Style: independent film
Plot: casino, rape, gambling, erotica, heist, coitus, voyeur, robbery, voyeurism, female nudity, sex, bare breasts ...
Place: las vegas
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49%
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