Movies like Stryker 2004
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Stryker (2004)
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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:
rough, serious, realistic, tense, bleak
Plot:
gang, teenage life, juvenile delinquency, youth, life is a bitch, rivalry, society, coming of age, urban ghetto life, nude, graphic violence, immigrants, innocence lost, uninhibited rivalry, urban ghetto, native american, prostitute, female nudity, boy, male nudity, transvestite, runaway, pimp, transvestism, gay interest ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
canada
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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 life is a bitch, society, youth, urban ghetto life, urban ghetto, gang and juvenile delinquency mostly in Drama, Action and Crime genres. Some movies like Stryker: Monga (2010), Bomb the System (2002), Greencard Warriors (2013), Streeters (2001), The City Is Mine (2008). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
Set in the 1980s, “Monga” centers on five boys (Mosquito, Monk, Dragon, White Monkey and A-Lan) who join the "Gang of Princes" who are tired of being pushed around. As the "Gang of Princes" rise in stature, they come into ...
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realistic, tense, serious, exciting, captivating ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
gang, friendship, juvenile delinquency, friends, urban ghetto life, society, power relations, youth, teenage life, rivalry, organized crime, gangsters ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
taiwan, asia
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95%
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Anthony ‘Blest’ (Mark Webber) is one of the most talented and notorious graffiti artists in New York City. Despite the tragic loss of his older brother during a nightly 'bombing' foray with a graffiti crew, Anthony has the same ...
Style:
realistic, serious, suspenseful, captivating, rough
Plot:
street art, juvenile delinquency, gang, social decay, hip hop, kids in trouble, life is a bitch, society, youth, teenage life, politics, art ...
Place:
new york, usa
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73%
Genre: Action, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The tragic struggle of an undocumented Latino family in Los Angeles after they have sent their eldest son to war.
Style:
realistic, serious, captivating, tense, exciting ...
Plot:
gang, parents and children, urban ghetto life, teenage life, immigrants, society, life is a bitch, family relations, coming of age, love and romance, couples, social problems ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
538
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Authentic and committed, moving and stormy drama of street kids from Mexico City. Wonderful adaptation of successful play about street kids who have more trouble with corrupt cops, than with dirty and heavy work.
Style:
sincere, serious, touching, realistic, bleak
Plot:
social decay, gang, juvenile delinquency, kids in trouble, police corruption, urban ghetto life, society, youth, drug dealing, life is a bitch, down on your luck, social misfits ...
Place:
latin america, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
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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, serious, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
murder, gang, rivalry, criminal's revenge, drug dealing, gangsters, urban ghetto, ego clash, buddies, police, prison, love ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Sin Destino follows the life of a 15 year old Mexican boy, Francisco, as he struggles to survive on the streets. His primary source of income is money raised by prostituting himself to men for sex, and the film implies that this learned behaviour ...
Style:
disturbing, psychological, rough, atmospheric, sexy ...
Plot:
coming of age, kids in trouble, juvenile delinquency, teenage life, youth, society, life is a bitch, haunted by the past, sexual abuse, drug abuse, urban ghetto life, addiction ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
mexico, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
857
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Ecuador
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
The world of Salvador, a young and naive petty thief is changed by the arrival of his cousin Angel, an ex-convict in search of easy money, and with a hideout. Salvador gets wrapped up in Angel's twisted dealings in an attempt to escape from his ...
Style:
gloomy, disturbing, realistic, serious, tense ...
Plot:
friendship, prostitute, life is a bitch, down on your luck, parents and children, juvenile delinquency, teenage life, city life, kids in trouble, family relations, innocence lost, urban ghetto ...
Time:
90s
Place:
latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
2K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
When a young woman is cruelly and indiscriminately attacked by a notorious gang led by the violent Trey, her little 16 year old sister Kayla wants revenge and will stop at nothing to get it, even if it means joining a rival girl gang led by the ...
Style:
serious, rough, suspenseful, realistic, bleak
Plot:
gang, girl gang, teenage life, juvenile delinquency, vengeance, social decay, gang leader, youth, urban ghetto life, life is a bitch, society, criminal heroes ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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563
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
After John’s absent father is struck by a stray bullet, Primo takes it upon himself to verse the young boy in the code of the streets—one founded on respect and upheld by fear. A member of the Bloods since the age of twelve—both in the film ...
Style:
realistic, serious, psychological, captivating, sexy ...
Plot:
gang, juvenile delinquency, haunted by the past, urban ghetto life, adolescence vs adulthood, coming of age, society, teaching the ways of the world, gangsters, graphic violence, family relations, single parent ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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, suspenseful, rough
Plot:
going straight, gang, juvenile delinquency, society, youth, law enforcement, redemption, urban ghetto, murder, brother brother relationship, family relations, life is a bitch ...
Time:
future
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Ricky is just out of a young offenders institute, heading home to Hackney and determined to go straight. Instead, he heads straight for trouble when he becomes involved in a street confrontation, siding with his best friend Wisdom against a local ...
Style:
rough, realistic, serious, psychological, bleak ...
Plot:
urban ghetto life, gang, youth, gangsters, juvenile delinquency, kids in trouble, life is a bitch, going straight, friendship, social decay, family problems, rivalry ...
Place:
england, africa, london, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
A coming of age story about an inner-city youth raised by a hardworking single mother. When his dream of becoming a basketball player fails to materialize, he finds himself employed in a supermarket. After his mother is tragically gunned down, ...
Style:
serious, rough, realistic
Plot:
desire for fame, hopes, rivalry, family relations, criminal heroes, youth, single parent, life is a bitch, working class, siblings relations, basketball, hip hop ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
165
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Johnny, the megalomaniac leader of a group of squeegee kids, finds a video camera and pushes his followers into "acting" out increasingly dangerous "scenes".
Style:
thought provoking, realistic, serious, disturbing, bleak ...
Plot:
street gang, videotaping, manipulation, urban ghetto life, addiction, teenage life, filmmaking, sexual abuse, city life, down on your luck, realism, kids in trouble ...
Time:
90s
Place:
canada, toronto ontario canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
1K
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Fifteen year old Deborah meets Jennifer who steers her into a career as an escort. Under the alias Bo she begins a new life that she cannot handle and starts a downward spiral that only she can end.
Style:
serious, realistic, captivating, rough, sad ...
Plot:
prostitute, teenage prostitution, downfall, destructive relationship, lifestyle, teenage life, woman in danger, life is a bitch, juvenile delinquency, society, youth, drug abuse ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
antwerp, belgium, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Soon after being named the new leader of his high school's gang system, Kujo grows bored with the violence and hatred that surround him. He wants desperately to abandon his post… but his once-enviable position of power has a strange way of ...
Style:
bleak, realistic, disturbing, serious, manga
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
gang, rivalry, juvenile delinquency, friendship, life is a bitch, high school life, teenage life, society, high school, youth, coming of age, gangsters ...
Place:
japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Colombia
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
13-year-old Monica leads a street life, making her living by selling flowers to couples in local nightspots, she is joined by 10-year-old Andrea who runs out of her house after her mother beats her.
Style:
realistic, serious, bleak, rough, disturbing ...
Plot:
gang, children, feminist, teenage girl, juvenile delinquent, street kid, poverty, drug dealing, juvenile delinquency, prostitute, on the run, survival ...
Time:
90s
Place:
colombia
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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.
Style:
rough, serious, tense, realistic
Plot:
gang, tough heroes, juvenile delinquency, life is a bitch, social decay, found footage, criminal heroes, teenage life, going straight, society, youth, kids in trouble ...
Place:
california, los angeles, usa
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43%
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
An Arabic tale that takes place in Scandinavia. About ancient religious hatred, about love, punishment, guilt and redemption, about being responsible for one's own actions and refusing a path of violence. Jamil stands in the middle. He is ...
Style:
serious, realistic, tense, rough, bleak ...
Plot:
chase, social relations, society, introspection, rivalry, death wish, disorder, vengeance, criminal's revenge, immigrants, on the run, gangsters ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, denmark
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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Genre: Action, Drama
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 ...
Style:
serious, realistic, bleak, rough
Plot:
gang, gangsters, arms dealing, kids in trouble, african american, police, hip hop culture, rap, hip hop, blaxploitation, troubled youth, undercover ...
Time:
90s
Place:
usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Inspired by the true story of Greg Yance. In the film, Yance (Epps) is a hood who goes to jail for possession of drugs. He is given a choice: 5 years in jail or a couple of months in boot camp. He chooses boot camp and finds out it is tougher than ...
Style:
inspirational, tense, realistic, serious, rough
Plot:
boot camp, prison, gangsters, blaxploitation, drug dealing, drug dealer, hopes, society, juvenile delinquency, youth, life is a bitch, going straight ...
Time:
90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Serbia, Montenegro, Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
"Barbarians" is a teenage drama about coming of age in a world where there is no opportunity. A portrait of a young generation growing up in a society of lost values.
Style:
realistic, serious, rough, sincere, tense ...
Plot:
teenage rebellion, juvenile delinquency, social decay, realism, society, life is a bitch, youth, friendship between boys, troubled youth, coming of age, boy, strong violent content ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
serbia
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
13K
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
After serving six years for killing his schoolmate, a young man learns that someone is out for revenge.
Style:
rough, serious, realistic, gloomy, bleak
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
urban ghetto life, gang, vengeance, society, gangsters, juvenile delinquency, teenage life, life is a bitch, criminal's revenge, youth, urban ghetto, starting over ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, europe, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
The true story of two African-American teen radio reporters and their documentary investigation of a notorious child murder.
Style:
serious, realistic, emotional, rough, controversial ...
Plot:
journalism, murder, uncover truth, juvenile delinquency, teenage life, social decay, human spirit, life is a bitch, lifestyle, youth, idealism, society ...
Place:
chicago illinois, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Poland, UK, Germany, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Sharkey, part of the sinister world of child trade, picks up Vlado, an orphan of war, dreaming of freedom and a better life. They embark upon a strange and enlightening journey through war torn Bosnia. As they struggle to get out of the country and ...
Style:
serious, realistic, rough, tense
Plot:
orphan, coming of age, friendship, survival, life is a bitch, redemption, dishonesty, hopes, adoption, boy, boyhood, youth ...
Time:
90s
Place:
bosnia, former yugoslavia, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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, rough, suspenseful, serious, stylized
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gang, rival gang, working undercover, undercover, life is a bitch, urban ghetto life, rivalry, partners against crime, partners, gang war, african american, gang warfare ...
Time:
90s
Place:
usa, detroit
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 60 min.
Story:
"Engwkentro" follows two teenage brothers attempting to escape an unnamed city controlled by an iron-fisted mayor. They must first break away from the cycle of crime, while trying to run from rival gang leaders and the state's ...
Style:
serious, tense, rough, disturbing, bleak ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gang, politics, mayor, moral dilemma, juvenile delinquency, vigilantism, social decay, youth, society, rivalry, life is a bitch, dishonesty ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
the philippines, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Nordvest is a gangsterfilm set in the suburbs of Copenhagen. Casper (18), the oldest of 3 siblings, survives life on the streets by committing burglaries for the neighbourhood boss, Jamal. When Casper gets an offer to work for Jamal’s rival ...
Style:
realistic, suspenseful, serious, tense, bleak ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
urban ghetto life, gangsters, gang, juvenile delinquency, life is a bitch, family problems, friendship, vengeance, criminal heroes, criminal's revenge, brother sister relationship, drug dealer ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
denmark, copenhagen
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Follows the choices made by three young women - one a drug dealer, one an addict, one a pregnant teen - in Jersey City.
Style:
serious, emotional, rough, touching, realistic ...
Plot:
asthma, teenage pregnancy, drug dealer, single mother, kids in trouble, teenage life, juvenile delinquency, life is a bitch, lifestyle, addiction, gang, youth ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new jersey, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Five undercover cops at Complexo do Alemão, one of Rio de Janeiro's most dangerous areas, have their covers blown by drug dealers. Arrested, they wait execution or to be rescued by police forces that would risk expose a larger operation.
Style:
exciting, serious, captivating, tense, realistic ...
Plot:
slum, working undercover, fighting crime, drug dealing, undercover, society, race against time, law enforcement, urban ghetto, suspense, trapped, behind enemy lines ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
brazil, rio de janeiro
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Jessica, Sabrina and Daiane have dreams, just like all young people of any social class or place in the world. They live in a low-income neighborhood in the periphery of Rio de Janeiro and find in prostitution a way to survive and satisfy their ...
Style:
realistic, serious, psychological, captivating, sentimental ...
Plot:
coming of age, friends, society, lifestyle, prostitution, friendship, rivalry, troubled youth, teenage pregnancy, teenage sex, urban ghetto, family problems ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
latin america, brazil, rio de janeiro
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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