Movies like Animal Room

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Animal Room (1995)
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Animal Room (1995)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 98 min.
Story: No overview found.
Style: bleak, serious, futuristic, disturbing, controversial
Plot: gang, school, youth, addiction, life is a bitch, high school life, isolation, leadership, teenage life, society, rehabilitation, high school, animal life, drug abuse, future dystopia, dog, drugs, rape, fight, police, friendship, party, rock band, murder, billiards ...
Time: future
Place: new jersey

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Most similar movies to Animal Room

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, disturbing and tense films with plots about youth, teenage life, life is a bitch, society, high school, teenager and murder mostly in Drama, Thriller and Horror genres. Some movies like Animal Room: State's Evidence (2004), Blue Spring (2001), Heart of America (2002), Wasted on the Young (2010), Around the Fire (1998). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
State's Evidence (2004)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: When 16 year old Scott Byers decided to bring a camcorder to school, none of his schoolmates ever imagined what was to come. Only Scott's five closest friends and followers have the insight on his master plan. He is on a quest for the ultimate ...
Style: disturbing, serious, realistic, suspenseful, surreal ...
Plot: life is a bitch, introspection, buddies, youth, teenage life, voyeurism, destructive relationship, school shooting, sociopath, loss of control, suicide, killings ...
Time: 2000s, year 2004
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
 7.2
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Blue Spring (2001)
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 ⇓
94%
Heart of America (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, Germany
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Starring Jurgen Prochnow ('The Replacement Killers' 'Air Force One' and Patrick Muldoon 'Stigmata' 'Starship Troopers'), 'Heart of America' is a powerhouse of a contemporary drama and essential ...
Style: disturbing, rough, serious, realistic, tense ...
Plot: school shooting, high school, vengeance, juvenile delinquency, psychopath, teenage life, bully, society, youth, social misfits, hardcase students, life is a bitch ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
89%
Wasted on the Young (2010)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 97 min.
Story: When a high school party goes dangerously off the rails, one teenager finds that revenge is just a computer click away.
Style: suspenseful, serious, tense, captivating, disturbing ...
Audience: teens
Plot: vengeance, teenage life, youth, teenage love, social relations, family relations, rivalry, murder, bullying, coming of age, teasing, siblings relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
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Around the Fire (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Simon is an intelligent and privileged young man whose family expects him to become a Princeton graduate. Crying out for attention from his reserved and cool hearted family, Simon commits numerous petty crimes and is soon sent away to boarding ...
Style: serious, realistic, disturbing, touching
Plot: rehabilitation, addiction, boarding school, youth, life is a bitch, teenage life, friends, love and romance, society, social differences, parents and children, teaching the ways of the world ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
Crime + Punishment in Suburbia (2000)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: This is a contemporary fable loosely based on Fyodor Dostoyevsky's "Crime and Punishment". Roseanne is outwardly a perfect and popular teen. However, her image is hiding the abuse at her stepfather's hands, and she decides to ...
Style: disturbing, serious, psychological, clever, sexy ...
Audience: teens, girls' night
Plot: suburbs, murder, rape, bdsm, dysfunctional family, high school, guilt, obsession, friendship, americana, crime and punishment, court ...
Time: 90s
Place: usa, los angeles, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
 4.1
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Bad Reputation (2007)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A high school girl wrongly branded as the school slut embraces her 'bad reputation' and takes revenge on the kids who have made her life a living hell.
Style: slasher, serious, suspenseful, psychological, scary ...
Audience: teens
Plot: rape and revenge, high school, public humiliation, alcoholic mother, suspense, domineering mother, teenage life, juvenile delinquency, vengeance, teenage love, lifestyle, social misfits ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
Fierce People (2005)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A massage therapist looking to overcome her addictions and reconnect with her son, whose father is an anthropologist in South America studying the Yanomani people, moves in with a wealthy ex-client.
Style: serious, realistic, sentimental, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Plot: addiction, single mother, family relations, parents and children, teenage life, social differences, summer, life is a bitch, sex scene, teenage boy, sex crime, teenager ...
Time: 80s
Place: new jersey, new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
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Lockdown (2000)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Avery (Jones) returns to college as a competitive swimmer after getting his life back on track. But his life takes another unexpected turn when he and his two friends (Bonds, Casseus) are wrongly accused of murder and end up in prison.
Style: disturbing, rough, realistic, serious, bleak
Plot: prison, gang, prison riot, prison life, false accusation, life is a bitch, redemption, confined, murder, family life, dishonesty, rivalry ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
 6.0
 1K
White Rabbit (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A bullied student sees visions of a rabbit he was forced to kill as a child, and those visions propel him into a state where his imagination causes him to carry out violent acts.
Style: serious, disturbing, rough, dark, realistic
Plot: mental illness, bullying, high school, kids in trouble, rebelliousness, friendship, life is a bitch, society, school shooting, imagination, coming of age, house ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
 6.0
 577
Runt (2018)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Neglected and unsupervised, a group of high school seniors are pulled into a downward cycle of violence.
Style: disturbing, captivating, tense, psychological
Audience: chick flick
Plot: high school student, school, teenage protagonist, violence, bad influence, teenager, adolescence, life is a bitch, teenage life, social problems, troubled teen, distopia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
 5.4
 3K
Cherry Crush (2007)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A High school Photographer breaks his own rules and falls in love with his teenage model
Style: psychological, realistic, sexy, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot: murder, investigation, female nudity, dangerous attraction, high school life, twists and turns, teenage life, love and romance, photographer, father son relationship, older man younger woman relationship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
 4.9
 842
Fathers & Sons (1992)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: A beach runner and bookworm (Goldblum) has difficulty communicating with his son. He meets a psychic on a pier at the beach and soon his world turns topsy-turvy with a serial killer coming between him and his son. The ensuing E.S.P. experiences and ...
Style: realistic, serious, touching, offbeat
Plot: serial killer, family relations, orphan, investigation, supernatural ability, life is a bitch, murder, addiction, family in danger, alcohol abuse, parents and children, friendship ...
Time: 90s
Place: new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
 6.2
 3K
Firstborn (1984)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Because he's the oldest, Jake has been the man of the house, since his parents divorce. When Mom starts seeing Sam, who always seems to be trying some new way to get rich quick, and declares he's the man of the house now, Jake puts up with ...
Style: serious, psychological, realistic, tense, biting ...
Audience: teens
Plot: suspense, child abuse, drug addiction, teenager, domestic violence, little brother, killer, woman in danger, school, family in danger, dysfunctional family, chase ...
Time: 80s
Place: new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
Acts of Worship (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Alix is taken in by a photographer, Digna, who despite her friends' protests, tries to help Alix piece her life back together and overcome her addictions.
Style: serious, realistic, rough, disturbing, bleak ...
Plot: addiction, friendship, going straight, juvenile delinquency, downfall, youth, rehabilitation, life is a bitch, drug abuse, destructive relationship, overdose, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa, lower east side manhattan new york city, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
 6.3
 1K
On the Ice (2011)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: In Barrow, Alaska, teenagers Qalli and Aivaaq find their bond tested when a seal-hunting trip goes wrong, resulting in the death of their friend.
Style: realistic, atmospheric, psychological, captivating, serious ...
Plot: friendship, native american, grief, death, family relations, youth, buddies, parents and children, society, village, accidental death, indigenous people ...
Time: 21st century
Place: alaska, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
One Eight Seven (1997)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: After surviving a stabbing by a student, teacher Trevor Garfield moves from New York to Los Angeles. There, he resumes teaching as a substitute teacher. The education system, where violent bullies control the classrooms and the administration is ...
Style: realistic, disturbing, thought provoking, unusual plot structure, allegory ...
Audience: teens
Plot: teacher, high school, gang, gangsters, teenager, revenge, suspense, hip hop, mentor, vengeance, ghetto, mafia ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: los angeles, new york, new jersey, california, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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 633
The Circle (2002)
Genre: Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Some students at Runcie prep school form an elite club. The group is implicated in a cheating scandal and one of the club members dies mysteriously. Another member decides to try and discover the dangerous truth about Runcie.
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, bleak, tense
Plot: high school, murder, uncover truth, investigation, rebellion, idealism, youth, rebelliousness, dedicated educator, life is a bitch, teenage life, college life ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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 7.9
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The Class (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Estonia
Duration: 99 min.
Story: An average guy of an Estonian high-school decides to defend his bullied classmate. This starts war between him and the informal leader of the class. As teenagers' honour is a touchy thing, everything ends in bloodshed.
Style: disturbing, serious, tense, emotional, realistic ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: school shooting, vengeance, society, humiliation, youth, friendship, social relations, life is a bitch, friends, teenage life, social misfits, juvenile delinquency ...
Time: 21st century
Place: estonia, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 6.0
 1K
Blackrock (1997)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 86 min.
Story: In New South Wales, Jared surfs with his mates and has a first girl. He hosts a beach party for his older pal, Ricko, and witnesses four of his mates gang-rape a 15 year old. He does nothing, and the next day, she's found murdered. At school, ...
Style: tense, serious, realistic, bleak, disturbing ...
Plot: sex crime, gender, murder, rape and murder, gang rape, kids in trouble, gang, innocence lost, violence spree, life is a bitch, drug dealing, youth ...
Time: 90s
Place: australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Black Circle Boys (1997)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A young man moves to a new town after experiencing a tragedy and becomes involved with a gang of Satan-worshipping teens who believe they have supernatural powers. But by the time he realises he’s in too deep, it may be too late to escape.
Style: gothic, serious, captivating, tense, disturbing ...
Plot: heavy metal culture, gang, occult, devil worship, dysfunctional family, juvenile delinquency, leadership, social decay, society, violence spree, youth, teenage life ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
 5.7
 910
Shadow Hours (2000)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Michael is a recovering addict. Back on the wagon, he's now responsible for a young, beautiful, and pregnant wife. He's working the graveyard shift at a gas station to support his new family, but the job drives him crazy. Then a wealthy ...
Style: serious, disturbing, psychological, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot: illegal drugs, life is a bitch, addiction, murder, alcohol abuse, dishonesty, drug dealing, drugs, psychology, mythical creature, suspense, mental disorder ...
Time: 90s
Place: california, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
 6.4
 648
Wasted (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A high-school track star (Nick Stahl) watches without judgment as his two best friends (Summer Phoenix, Aaron Paul) abuse heroin.
Style: thought provoking, realistic, serious, rough, biting ...
Plot: drug addict, high school, friendship, heroin, life is a bitch, downfall, teenage life, kids in trouble, juvenile delinquency, going straight, drug dealing, lifestyle ...
Time: 21st century
Place: texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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 6.1
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O (2001)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Hot young stars, a hip, driving soundtrack, plus a provocative tale of jealousy and betrayal combine to create this controversial modern-day version of Shakespeare's classic, "Othello." O is Odin James (Mekhi Phifer), the ...
Style: intense, tense, serious, clever, sexy ...
Audience: teens, girls' night
Plot: basketball, high school, betrayal, interracial relations, shakespeare, shakespeare's othello, interracial romance, friends, suspense, manipulation, downfall, teenage life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new jersey, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
The Giving Tree (2000)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Nine former schoolmates, staying at a secluded mountain cabin for a reunion, try to figure out why one of their friends and their hostess would invite them there and commit suicide which prompts them to look into the mysterious and dark past of ...
Style: sexy, psychological, realistic, serious, talky ...
Plot: friends, friendship, human nature, parents and children, haunted by the past, couples, family relations, vengeance, gays and lesbians, youth, introspection, mountain ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
 7.2
 16K
Bad Boys (1983)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: Mick O'Brien is a young Chicago street thug torn between a life of petty crime and the love of his girlfriend. But when the heist of a local drug dealer goes tragically wrong Mick is sentenced to a brutal juvenile prison where violence is a ...
Style: neo noir, realistic, disturbing, tense, serious ...
Audience: teens, kids
Plot: prison, suspense, gang, teenager, juvenile delinquency, youth, prison escape, violence, gangsters, rivalry, confined, society ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: usa, california, chicago illinois, new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
 5.7
 5K
Triple Dog (2010)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story: On the night of a sleepover, a group of teenage girls venture out in a competitive game of challenging dares. As the antics escalate, and the dares become more extreme, the girls unravel the truth behind a former student's rumored suicide.
Style: realistic, humorous, serious, bleak, tense ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night
Plot: youth, teenage life, high school, teenage girl, friends, teenager, uncover truth, public humiliation, friendship, truth or dare, escapades, girl ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
 6.0
 4K
Light It Up (1999)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: On a winter day in a southside Queens high school, events collide and six students are suddenly in an armed standoff with the NYPD. At the school, classrooms freeze, teachers come and go, resources are scant.
Style: thought provoking, educational, feel good, harsh, dramatic ...
Audience: teens, girls' night
Plot: high school, hostage, coming of age, school, hip hop, vengeance, unlikely friendships, violence, women, weapons, internet, culture clash ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york, new jersey, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
 5.4
 392
Teenage Angst (2008)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 64 min.
Story: At an elite private Border School four students form a clique to sneak out of school after hours to meet, drink and play. By trying to escape the golden cage which their wealthy parents have stuck them in, they search for the Extreme. In the course ...
Style: realistic, serious, psychological, queer cinema
Plot: bullying, boarding school, juvenile delinquency, teenage life, kids in trouble, youth, society, gay, immorality, teen angst, cruelty, class differences ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
 5.6
 12K
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: serious, realistic, disturbing, rough, bleak ...
Audience: teens
Plot: drug dealer, murder, juvenile delinquency, youth, life is a bitch, drug dealing, drug abuse, teenage life, violence spree, drugs, strained relationship, sexual content ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, harlem, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%