Movies like Wild Thing

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Wild Thing (1987)
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Wild Thing (1987)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A child witnesses drug dealers murder his parents. He escapes and grows up wild in the city's slums. Years later he emerges to help the residents of the area who are being terrorized by street gangs and drug dealers.
Style: independent film, fairy tale, rough, uplifting, serious, realistic, surreal, campy
Audience: boys' night
Plot: anti hero, hobo, urban legend, corrupt cop, attempted rape, feral child, bare chested male, gang, stalking, orphan, life is a bitch, rivalry, society, drug dealing, hopes, save the day, heroic mission, urban ghetto life, righting the wronged, urban ghetto, rape, ghetto, murder, crime boss, tarzan ...
Time: year 1987, 80s
Place: new york

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Most similar movies to Wild Thing

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, society, gang, rivalry, murder, deadly and law enforcement mostly in Drama, Action and Thriller genres. Some movies like Wild Thing: Corrupt (1999), Enemy Territory (1987), Snitch'd (2003), The Zone (1995), Oxy-Morons (2010). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Corrupt (1999)
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 ...
Style: hood, independent film, realistic, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: ghetto, gang, urban, hip hop, discrimination, underworld, hip hop culture, urban setting, gangster, urban ghetto, life is a bitch, social misfits ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york, usa, bronx new york city
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95%
Enemy Territory (1987)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: An insurance salesman inadvertently gets trapped after dark in an apartment building that is terrorized by a street gang called "The Vampires."
Style: realistic, rough, suspenseful, serious, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: survival, gang, danger, society, life is a bitch, urban ghetto life, ghetto, street gang, urban, murder, violence, racial injustice ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
89%
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Snitch'd (2003)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: When the South Side Gang and the Cut Throat Mafia start a drug war at a local high school in Santa Ana, CA, detective McClure goes undercover to investigate the brutal murder of a young Latina student. The gang members are the key suspects but ...
Style: serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful, independent film ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: undercover, gangster, police detective, juvenile delinquency, criminal heroes, gang, police investigation, police corruption, urban ghetto life, working undercover, law enforcement, drug dealing ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
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The Zone (1995)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Former Gulf War hero Rowdy Welles is framed for murder by unscrupulous CIA boss Dick Althorp. As his price of freedom, Welles is ordered to undertake a deadly mission to destroy a nuclear processing plant in a foreign nation, owned by dangerous ...
Style: independent film, realistic, serious, suspenseful
Audience: boys' night
Plot: terrorism, spy, special agent, secret agent, hostage, conspiracy, law enforcement, good versus evil, rivalry, race against time, chases and races, confined ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
81%
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Oxy-Morons (2010)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: It's an action-packed thriller that borders on horror centered around the effects of the opioid Oxycontin.
Style: serious, realistic, rough, bleak, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: drug dealing, society, life is a bitch, addiction, drug abuse, urban ghetto life, gang, violent content, urban ghetto, siblings relations, criminal, male nudity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
The City Is Mine (2008)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A young man coming home after serving time in the penitentiary finds his city in control by local thugs, stops at nothing to gain sole control of a city he feels is rightfully his.
Style: captivating, exciting, tense, suspense, independent film ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: murder, rivalry, gang, criminal's revenge, gangster, drug dealing, urban ghetto, buddies, ego clash, police, love, prison ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
Doing Hard Time (2004)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A father's eight year old son is murdered in a gangland shooting. The father (Boris Kodjoe) gets himself thrown into prison to avenge his son's death.
Style: serious, suspenseful, realistic, rough, hood ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: prison, murder, criminal heroes, vengeance, vigilantism, prison life, confined, redemption, law enforcement, life is a bitch, dishonesty, police investigation ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
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Stryker (2004)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story: The film follows a 14-year-old arsonist in Winnipeg who becomes involved in a turf war between the Indian Posse and the Asian Bomb Squad (a now defunct Filipino gang). He is known only as Stryker, a slang term for a prospective gang member.
Style: serious, realistic, rough, tense, independent film ...
Plot: gang, juvenile delinquency, teenage life, rivalry, life is a bitch, danger, youth, coming of age, society, urban ghetto life, nudity, innocence lost ...
Time: 21st century
Place: winnipeg, canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
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A Day In The Life (2009)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Music, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Onyx rapper Sticky Fingaz directs and stars in this hip-hop musical about a gangster who becomes caught up in a bloody war between two feuding crime families while struggling to leave the streets behind. When Black's family raids one of ...
Style: hood, serious, tense, captivating, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: hip hop, rivalry, gang, vengeance, urban ghetto life, gangster, moral dilemma, going straight, introspection, drug dealing, lifestyle, urban ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, california, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
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The Local (2008)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A wealthy out-of-towner hires an indigent man to abduct an estranged family member.
Style: serious, realistic, exciting, rough, suspenseful
Audience: boys' night
Plot: redemption, daring rescue, addiction, danger, drug dealing, lone wolves, life is a bitch, rivalry, heroes, city life, fight, violence ...
Time: future
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
Chains of Gold (1990)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Scott Barnes is an alcoholic turned social worker hellbent on saving a young boy named Tommy from self-destructing when he finds out he has begun selling crack in an organization called YIP, run by Carlos.
Style: serious, realistic, tense, psychotronic
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gang, undercover, die hard, social worker, gangster, drug dealing, buddies, youth, going straight, society, police investigation, life is a bitch ...
Time: year 1991, 90s
Place: miami, usa, florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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Mistrial (1996)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: When a cop-killer goes free, a detective's search for personal justice veers dangerously out of control. Declaring a mistrial, he takes the accused, the judge and the jury hostage...and begins a trial of his own.
Style: psychological, realistic, suspenseful, serious, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: courtroom drama, courtroom, hostage, injustice, legal investigation, law enforcement, hotshot lawyer, murder, false accusation, legal, protagonist as suspect, dishonesty ...
Time: 20th century, year 1996, 90s
Place: new york, rome italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
The Wrecking Crew (2000)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: A high-level government hit squad is sent into the streets in order to complete a deadly mission.
Style: realistic, suspenseful, rough, serious, stylized ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gang, rival gang, working undercover, undercover, life is a bitch, urban ghetto life, partners against crime, danger, rivalry, partner, hip hop, gang war ...
Time: 90s
Place: usa, detroit
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Mixed Blood (1984)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: France, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: On the mean streets of New York City, a dog-eat-dog mentality reigns among the destitute citizens. In one of the many abandoned buildings in the neighborhood of Alphabet City lives the Brazilian Rita La Punta, along with her delinquent son, Thiago, ...
Style: grim, independent film, semi serious, realistic, cynical ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gang, drug, corruption, heroin, drug dealing, drug abuse, profanity, strong violent content, life is a bitch, society, violence spree, urban ghetto ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Extreme Honor (2001)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A highly decorated Navy Seal is forced out of retirement in order to save his son's life and bring justice to the man who destroyed his career.
Style: realistic, rough, exciting, serious, independent film
Audience: boys' night
Plot: false accusation, betrayal, law enforcement, life is a bitch, rivalry, gang, dishonesty, frame up, child illness, tough heroes, violent content, terminal illness ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Brotherhood of Death (1976)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A group of Black soldiers are home from the war and head to a small Southern town. The town is dominated by a group of Klansmen who keep the Black majority from voting or being treated like human beings. However, these newcomers convince the local ...
Style: realistic, serious, exciting, suspenseful, bleak ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: blaxploitation, vietnam war, revenge, ku klux klan, vigilantism, racial issues, black, racism, vietnam veteran, injustice, society, rebellion ...
Time: 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Like a Puppet Out of Strings (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Two Brothers; Tom and Felipe, have moved up the ranks of the street gangs because they have no greater devotion than the protection of each other. Luis, former gang member, is now a cop, his life having been turned around by Angelica, a female cop. ...
Style: serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful
Plot: juvenile delinquency, going straight, gang, redemption, law enforcement, youth, society, urban ghetto, murder, brother brother relationship, hopes, life is a bitch ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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Children of Wax (2007)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Bulgaria
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Set against the backdrop of a violent gang war, the police commissioner must find who is killing young children before the next innocent victim dies.
Style: serious, rough, realistic, suspenseful
Plot: drug dealing, gang, racism, dishonesty, unlikely partners, urban ghetto life, serial killer, gang violence, immigrant, society, city life, urban ...
Place: europe, berlin germany, germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
The Stick Up Kids (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: People always told Santos he was something special. His Uncle told him to get a skill, so he became a hustler and with his three,they became "The Stick Up Kids" Harlem would never be the same. They thought they had it all... Money, cars, ...
Style: realistic, serious, psychological, captivating, independent film ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: rivalry, gang, friends, buddies, criminal's revenge, urban ghetto life, dishonesty, society, cons and scams, black, african american, violent content ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, harlem, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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Gang in Blue (1996)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A black police officer discovers a cell of white supremacist vigilantes within his department.
Style: tense, captivating, exciting, realistic, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: racism, serial killer, interracial, police, corruption, investigation, police corruption, special agent, violent content, dishonesty, rivalry, juvenile delinquency ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Disco Godfather (1979)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A retired cop becomes a DJ/celebrity at the Blueberry Hill disco-- he's the "Disco Godfather!" All is well until his nephew flips out on a strange new drug that's sweeping the streets, called "angel dust," or PCP. Disco ...
Style: independent film, black comedy, retro, surreal, fast ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: disco, blaxploitation, nightclub, martial arts, vice squad, exploitation, drug, black, african, drug abuse, black cop, african american ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
The Street King (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: In life, there's silver, and there's lead, says Rikki Ortega, as he moves to be king of the street in "Ánglio," L.A.'s east side. Older brothers and a brother-in-law are in his way. While they think they are driving out the ...
Style: rough, serious, exciting, suspenseful, realistic
Plot: gang, rivalry, juvenile delinquency, drug dealing, police detective, destiny, law enforcement, siblings relations, blind ambition, life is a bitch, urban ghetto, shakespeare ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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Cold Steel (1987)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Detective Johnny Modine gets his Christmas celebration spoiled with news of his father's death, which seems the work of psychopathic junkies ...
Style: tense, realistic, rough, exciting, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: murder, psychopath, ex cop, investigation, rivalry, femme fatale, police detective, serial killer, xmas, revenge, police, police officer ...
Time: 80s, year 1987
Place: usa, los angeles
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39%
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One Good Cop (1991)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: When his loyal longtime partner, a widower, is killed in the line of duty and leaves behind three young children, Artie Lewis (Michael Keaton), a dedicated New York City cop and his wife, Rita (Rene Russo), decide to take the kids in. But the lives ...
Style: exciting, emotional, intense, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot: father daughter relationship, orphan, drug dealer, partner, murder, law enforcement, family relations, cop, drug dealing, fighting crime, working undercover, police corruption ...
Time: year 1991, 90s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Moonshine Highway (1996)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: The plans of a moonshine runner trying to make a better life by becoming a stock car racer go awry when the local sheriff is determined to kill the driver over an affair with his wife.
Style: exciting, realistic, serious, rough, suspenseful
Audience: boys' night
Plot: tough heroes, profanity, estrangement, heist, police corruption, love affair, working undercover, rivalry, heroes, society, couple relations, introspection ...
Time: 50s, 20th century, 1950s
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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The Sweeper (1996)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A young renegade undercover cop with a propensity for violence and a past history involving the murder of his cop father and the remainder of his family is recruited by a vigilante group with a leader who wants only to kill all criminals and those ...
Style: independent film, fast, realistic, serious, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: vigilante, vigilantism, working undercover, home invasion, police shootout, police officer, police detective, car chase, murder, special agent, partner, partners against crime ...
Time: 90s
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
An Innocent Man (1989)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Jimmie Rainwood was minding his own business when two corrupt police officers (getting an address wrong) burst into his house, expecting to find a major drug dealer. Rainwood is shot, and the officers frame him as a drug dealer. Rainwood is ...
Style: tense, suspense, intense, psychological, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: prison, police corruption, gang, frame up, gunfight, mistaken identity, drug dealing, law enforcement, criminal heroes, tough law enforcer, prison life, prison escape ...
Time: 80s, year 1989
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Rockaway (2007)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story: Trane is a decorated war hero just shipped home to the States from Afghanistan after the brutal murder of his wife and child back in Rockaway, Queens. Upon his return, Trane encounters his old friend Dave, who describes the new forces of crime and ...
Style: suspenseful, realistic, rough, tense, serious ...
Plot: vigilantism, soldier, vengeance, police corruption, downfall, gangster, criminal heroes, life is a bitch, gang, police investigation, criminal's revenge, murder ...
Time: 21st century
Place: afghanistan, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Twelve (2010)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, France
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A young drug dealer watches as his high-rolling life is dismantled in the wake of his cousin's murder, which sees his best friend arrested for the crime.
Style: realistic, serious, disturbing, rough, bleak ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: murder, juvenile delinquency, youth, drug dealing, life is a bitch, drug abuse, teenage life, violence spree, strained relationship, sexual content, party, generation y ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, harlem, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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