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Chop Shop (2007)
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Alejandro, a tough and ambitious Latino street orphan on the verge of adolescence, lives and works in an auto-body repair shop in a sprawling junkyard on the outskirts of Queens, New York. In this chaotic world of adults, young Alejandro struggles to make a better life for himself and his 16-year-old sister, Isamar.
Style:
touching, bleak, sincere, rough, serious, realistic, feel good, political, social, multicultural ...
Plot:
street kid, coming of age, pitbull, brother sister relationship, working class, siblings relations, family relations, teenage life, urban ghetto life, kids in trouble, youth, orphan, boy, siblings, poverty, loss of innocence, street life, child labor, resilience, chop shop, older sister, childhood, refugee, little boy, social issues ...
Time:
year 2007, 90s, 21st century, contemporary
Place:
usa, new york
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, touching and bleak films with plots about youth, life is a bitch, coming of age, family relations, society, urban ghetto and urban ghetto life mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Chop Shop: Hide Your Smiling Faces (2013), Imperial Dreams (2014), Goodbye Solo (2008), Anne B. Real (2003), Jet Boy (2001). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
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Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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48%
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Country: Canada
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
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Style:
serious, realistic, rough, touching, independent film ...
Plot:
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Time:
90s
Place:
california, usa
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
44%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
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Style:
serious, rough, emotional, touching, anthology ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
44%
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875
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Style:
disturbing, sincere, thought provoking, touching, independent film ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
asthma, friendship, high school, teenager, adolescence, musician's life, lifestyle, against the odds, life is a bitch, youth, hopes, society ...
Time:
90s, 80s, future
Place:
new york, usa, brooklyn new york city, africa, california ...
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Runaway teen Lexi find herself alone and pregnant on the streets. Seemingly beyond hope, she must turn to Devon, a woman with her own demons, to help her find a way back from her past mistakes.
Style:
realistic, rough, sincere, serious, independent film ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
oregon, usa, portland oregon
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
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Style:
sincere, serious, touching, realistic, independent film ...
Plot:
immigrant, hopes, loneliness, food, society, rich and poor, fall in love, haunted by the past, city life, sadness, survival, life is a bitch ...
Time:
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Place:
new york, usa, barcelona, empire state building manhattan new york city, manhattan new york city ...
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, serious, emotional, rough, dark ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
41%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, serious, atmospheric, touching, sentimental ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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41%
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Duration: 108 min.
Story:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Story:
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Duration: 84 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Similarity:
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Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Story:
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Style:
realistic, serious, captivating, emotional, psychological ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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692
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, Belgium, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, serious, rough, disturbing, gloomy ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: Germany, Turkey
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, serious, sincere, bleak, inspirational ...
Plot:
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Duration: 86 min.
Story:
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Style:
disturbing, touching, serious, realistic, bleak ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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582
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, serious, captivating, psychological, sexy ...
Plot:
gang, juvenile delinquency, urban ghetto life, haunted by the past, adolescence vs adulthood, society, coming of age, teaching the ways of the world, ghetto, gangster, violent content, drug dealing ...
Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A coming-of-age story in the vein of CITY OF GOD and KIDS - available for the first time in the U.S.!
Style:
social, hispanic, serious, realistic
Audience:
teens
Plot:
coming of age, friendship between boys, juvenile delinquent, boy, little boy, dysfunctional family, suburbs, best friend, kids in trouble, friends, family relations, juvenile delinquency ...
Time:
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Place:
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4K
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, Turkey
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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Style:
serious, sincere, touching, captivating, gloomy ...
Plot:
friendship, parents and children, dog, danger, life is a bitch, society, coming of age, child, boy, little boy, pets, family relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
turkey
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, France, Italy
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
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Style:
emotional, atmospheric, disturbing, realistic, independent film ...
Plot:
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Time:
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