Movies like Blood Brothers 1993

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Blood Brothers (1993)
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Blood Brothers (1993)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Blood Brothers- While coming of age in the inner city, Darryl Crawford, a young African-American man, witnesses a gang-related murder and is horrified to discover that his beloved older brother Sly is one of the perps. Darryl grapples with his conscience over informing on Sly -- but this fear becomes secondary when the remaining gang members close in on both brothers and threaten their lives.
Style: independent film, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, crime drama
Plot: black, gang, murder, heist, youth, legal action, family relations, family life, life is a bitch, legal, society, social misfits, urban, juvenile delinquency, introspection, moral dilemma, city life, low lives, witnessing a crime, siblings relations, hopes, urban ghetto life, urban ghetto, children, father ...
Time: 90s

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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 life is a bitch, society, urban ghetto life, urban, urban ghetto, gang and juvenile delinquency mostly in Drama, Crime and Action genres. Some movies like Blood Brothers: Strays (1997), Illtown (1996), Laws of Gravity (1992), Like a Puppet Out of Strings (2006), Squeeze (1997). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Strays (1997)
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: cult classic, tense, serious, realistic
Plot: urban, drug dealer, hunting, redemption, gang, male nudity, fall in love, social misfits, coming of age, hopes, introspection, juvenile delinquency ...
Time: future, 90s
Place: new york, usa
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Illtown (1996)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Dante and his girlfrend Micky run a very profitable drug operation in a seaside town, aided and abetted by a host of teens who sell the smack at discos around town, as well as by Lucas, a corrupt cop who's on the take. Their downfall comes when ...
Style: independent film, serious, realistic, surreal, gloomy ...
Plot: deaf, profanity, religions or cults, urban ghetto, tough heroes, vengeance, criminal's revenge, dishonesty, social misfits, gays and lesbians, law enforcement, going straight ...
Time: year 1996, 20th century, 1920s
Place: miami, florida, new jersey
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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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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
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55%
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Squeeze (1997)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Ty, Hector, and Bao are close friends in a tough section of Boston, where they're called "the PG-13 crew." They're 14, decent kids with few skills who've bailed out of school. A small gang of older tough guys, led by Marcus ...
Style: independent film, serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot: gang, black, gas station, kids in trouble, urban ghetto, realism, friends, optimism, friendship, drug dealing, juvenile delinquency, society ...
Time: year 1997, 90s
Place: massachusetts, boston
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Straight Out of Brooklyn (1991)
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 ...
Style: hood, independent film, realistic, serious, bleak ...
Audience: teens
Plot: urban, gang, black, hip hop, african american, hip hop culture, downbeat ending, blaxploitation, villain, thug life, thug, gangsta ...
Time: year 1991, 90s
Place: new york, usa, brooklyn new york city
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Anne B. Real (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: ANNE B. REAL is the coming of age story of a young female rapper, who finds her inspiration by reading the Diary of Anne Frank.
Style: sincere, serious, realistic, touching, contemplative
Plot: hip hop, lifestyle, introspection, teenage life, youth, life is a bitch, juvenile delinquency, urban ghetto, siblings relations, family life, urban ghetto life, coming of age ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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50%
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Rude (1995)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story: This is the Easter weekend. In an inner city project, three people struggle against their demons and try to find redemption. They are Maxine, a window dresser depressed since she had an abortion and lost her lover ; Jordan, a boxer who has indulged ...
Style: independent film, serious, realistic, crime drama
Plot: easter, black, black history, drug dealing, gay subtext, gay interest, society, going straight, life is a bitch, self discovery, gays and lesbians, hopes ...
Time: 90s
Place: seattle
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Gang Tapes (2001)
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: serious, rough, hood, suspense, tense ...
Plot: gang, found footage, ghetto, urban, social decay, tough heroes, life is a bitch, juvenile delinquency, drug dealing, teenage life, kids in trouble, going straight ...
Place: los angeles, california, usa
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49%
State Property (2002)
Genre: Drama, Crime, Action
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Frustrated with being broke, Beans decides that the only way to grasp the American Dream is to take it.
Style: hood, serious, suspenseful, rough, bleak ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: urban ghetto life, gang, urban, gangster, drug dealing, family life, ghetto, ambition, social decay, city life, criminal heroes, juvenile delinquency ...
Time: year 2002
Place: usa, philadelphia, memphis
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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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48%
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Federal Hill (1994)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: In Providence's Italian neighborhood, Federal Hill, five young are immersed in drugs, crime and violence. Everything changes when one of the guys in the band know love.
Style: black and white, independent film, serious, realistic, tense
Plot: gangster, college, drug, youth, friendship, partner, best friend, life is a bitch, fall in love, going straight, society, drug dealing ...
Time: year 1994, 90s
Place: rhode island, usa
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48%
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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48%
Boulevard Nights (1979)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A focus on life in a gang, Boulevard Nights portrays the dangers of street violence. Richard Yniguez plays a young Chicano who tries to get out of the gang, but he keeps finding himself drawn back into it.
Style: hood, hispanic, crime drama, serious, realistic ...
Plot: gang, gangster, chicano, neighborhood, street kid, mafia, coming of age, teenager, exodus, thug, african american gangster, ghetto ...
Time: year 1979, 70s
Place: los angeles
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A Children's Story (2004)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 94 min.
Story: The story focuses on the life of an 11-year old boy surrounded by criminality and poverty in the suburbs of Naples.
Style: disturbing, serious, rough, bleak, realistic
Plot: street kid, juvenile delinquency, youth, friends, danger, society, life is a bitch, coming of age, social worker, teaching the ways of the world, social decay, urban ghetto life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, italy, naples italy
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LUV (2012)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Over the course of one day, a shy 13-year-old forms a bond with his troubled uncle.
Style: serious, captivating, touching, realistic, rough ...
Plot: family relations, boy, odd couple, friendship, dysfunctional family, black, life is a bitch, danger, orphan, african american, hip hop culture, hip hop ...
Time: 21st century
Place: maryland, baltimore, usa
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47%
Sins of the Father (2002)
Genre: Drama, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: In 1965 a bomb was planted in a Church in Alabama, killing four black girls. Thirty years later, Tom Cherry breaks his silence to discredit his father's alibi for the night in question.
Style: realistic, rough, emotional, disturbing, serious ...
Plot: racism, investigation, moral dilemma, introspection, haunted by the past, legal, rebellion, society, injustice, parents and children, hopes, civil rights ...
Time: 21st century
Place: alabama, usa, birmingham alabama
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47%
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The Corner (2000)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 376 min.
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Story: The Corner presents the world of Fayette Street using real names and real events. The miniseries tells the true story of men, women and children living amid the open-air drug markets of West Baltimore. It chronicles a year in the lives of ...
Style: rough, serious, emotional, sitcom, crime drama ...
Plot: rehabilitation, heroin, addiction, drug dealing, drug abuse, african american, urban, lifestyle, teenage life, social decay, going straight, life is a bitch ...
Time: 90s
Place: baltimore
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47%
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Cost of a Soul (2010)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Wounded in the war, Tommy Donahue and DD Davis return home from Iraq to the slum neighborhood they grew up in. Tommy returns to his wife, Faith, whom he abandoned while she was pregnant to escape a life of crime. Tommy meets his disabled six ...
Style: realistic, serious, tense, psychological, captivating ...
Plot: racism, murder, iraq war, urban ghetto, homecoming, haunted by the past, family problems, society, gang, war veteran, profanity, violent content ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, philadelphia, pennsylvania
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Sket (2011)
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: suspenseful, rough, serious, realistic, bleak
Plot: girl gang, gang, vengeance, juvenile delinquency, teenage life, social decay, gang leader, youth, society, criminal heroes, rivalry, urban ghetto life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, britain, london
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Before I Self Destruct (2009)
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: hood, serious, rough, realistic, crime drama ...
Plot: desire for fame, hip hop, life is a bitch, youth, family relations, basketball, hopes, rivalry, urban, gang, black, criminal heroes ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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Adulthood (2008)
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: hood, rough, realistic, serious, cult classic ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: urban ghetto life, gang, vengeance, society, juvenile delinquency, teenage life, drug addict, life is a bitch, youth, criminal's revenge, ghetto, urban ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, united kingdom, britain, europe, london
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47%
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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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47%
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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
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47%
Through the Valley (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: An innocent man framed for murder, and the system that just wants another minority conviction.
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough, crime drama ...
Plot: murder, racism, redemption, fighting the system, protagonist as suspect, going straight, injustice, frame up, legal, society, life is a bitch, dishonesty ...
Time: 21st century
Place: texas, usa
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47%
Wall of Silence (2004)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story: The tale of a gang killing near a south-east London council estate.
Style: bleak, serious, suspenseful, realistic, slasher ...
Plot: life is a bitch, chaos and mayhem, injustice, gang, teenage life, city life, estate, murder mystery, disaster, wiretap, urban, deadly
Time: 21st century
Place: london, england
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47%
New Jersey Drive (1995)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: New Jersey Drive is a 1995 film about black youths in Newark, New Jersey, the unofficial "car theft capital of the world". Their favorite pastime is that of everybody in their neighborhood: stealing cars and joyriding. The trouble starts ...
Style: realistic, hood, melancholic, brutal, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gang, brutality, police, police investigation, urban, vengeance, hip hop, ghetto, murder, lone hero, black, teenage life ...
Time: 90s
Place: new jersey, new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Timeless Bottomless Bad Movie (1997)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 144 min.
Story: A compilation of episodes from the lives of several of the amateur actors' (who are 'bad teens' and the homeless of Seoul) own experiences, this film sheds light on the dark side of Korean society. Feeling alienated and persecuted, ...
Style: anthology, postmodern, non-linear, controversial, experimental ...
Audience: teens
Plot: urban, drug abuse, illegal drugs, strong violent content, juvenile delinquency, misfit, gang, lifestyle, youth, social misfits, society, violence spree ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: korea, asia, seoul
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46%
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 ⇓
46%
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Hot Boyz (2000)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Injustice begets a criminal. Kool is an artist without prospects, a black belt in karate, and in love with LaShawna, poised and college bound. One night she witnesses a stabbing and discovers the victim is a cop as he dies in her arms. She's ...
Style: hood, realistic, suspenseful, serious, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gangster, gang, urban, frame up, racism, life is a bitch, police investigation, murder, social decay, police corruption, false accusation, law enforcement ...
Time: 90s
Place: usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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