Movies like Bad Turn Worse
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Bad Turn Worse (2013)
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Three teenage friends get in way over their head when they cross a down-home crime syndicate. They hope to make a break for it and escape their dead-end existence in a cotton-mill town but get sucked into the seedy underbelly of organized crime when one of them steals from the wrong man.
Style:
bleak, captivating, tense, serious, suspense, rough, neo noir, realistic, suspenseful, independent film ...
Plot:
small town, juvenile delinquency, friendship, danger, gangster, love triangle, betrayal, love and romance, farm, rivalry, jealousy, murder, hot and sexy, teenage love, youth, friends, profanity, strong violent content, coming of age, buddies, dishonesty, criminal heroes, adolescence vs adulthood, violence, blonde ...
Place:
texas, britain, usa
Keyword:
gangsters
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, suspenseful and tense films with plots about murder, rivalry, dishonesty, gangster, danger, betrayal and deadly mostly in Drama, Crime and Thriller genres. Some movies like Bad Turn Worse: Rushlights (2013), Bird (2020), Charlie Valentine (2009), Ready 2 Die (2014), Shifty (2008). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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Place:
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Duration: 80 min.
Story:
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Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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Country: USA
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Story:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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Story:
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Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Duration: 94 min.
Story:
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Story:
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