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Life Support (2007)
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Life Support (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: The true-life story of a mother who overcame an addiction to crack and became a positive role model and an AIDS activist in the black community.
Style: serious, realistic, sincere, thought provoking, touching, psychological, captivating
Plot: aids, hiv, drug abuse, friendship, lifestyle, going straight, drug addict, addiction, life is a bitch, society, rehabilitation, estrangement, hopes, urban ghetto life, social activism, urban, illness, social problems, social relations, relationship problems, family problems, terminal illness, fighting illness, lgbt, hip hop ...
Time: contemporary
Place: new york, usa

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, touching and independent film films with plots about life is a bitch, hopes, society, family relations, youth, addiction and drug abuse mostly in Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like Life Support: Cocaine Angel (2006), Our Song (2000), Zooey (2006), Pedro (2008), Acts of Worship (2001). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Cocaine Angel (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story: A week in the life of a young drug addict.
Style: realistic, serious, psychological, captivating, mumblecore ...
Plot: drug addiction, addiction, life is a bitch, rehabilitation, downfall, drug dealing, hopes, lifestyle, fired from the job, going straight, prostitute, couples ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, florida
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Our Song (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Focusing on the bonding between three female (an African American female, a half African American half Latino American female, and a Latino American female) high school members of Brooklyn's "Jackie Robinson Steppers Marching Band" ...
Style: disturbing, sincere, touching, thought provoking, independent film ...
Plot: friendship, high school, teenager, asthma, adolescence, against the odds, lifestyle, musician's life, working class, life is a bitch, hopes, music band ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york, usa, brooklyn new york city
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Zooey (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Angel and Zooey are not your typical newlyweds. Zooey is a professional prostitute and Angel is a drug dealer. Yet they are not without hopes and dreams, of escaping their life in the streets and starting a new in a fresh painted cottage with picked ...
Style: serious, realistic, rough, bleak, gloomy
Plot: love affair, going straight, lifestyle, addiction, drug abuse, love and romance, hopes, youth, society, life is a bitch, downfall, survival ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york
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87%
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Pedro (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: An intimate biopic of Pedro Zamora, an HIV-positive Cuban-American, who was cast for the MTV reality show, The Real World: San Francisco, in 1994. Due to his experience on the Real World, Pedro became a celebrity and a sympathetic face of the AIDS ...
Style: serious, realistic, thought provoking, touching, sincere ...
Plot: gay, aids, hiv, rising to stardom, fighting the system, human spirit, idealism, life is a bitch, society, hopes, terminal illness, lgbt ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, 90s, year 1994
Place: cuba, san francisco, miami, latin america, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
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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, disturbing, rough, gloomy ...
Plot: friendship, addiction, juvenile delinquency, downfall, going straight, youth, life is a bitch, rehabilitation, destructive relationship, drug abuse, overdose, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa, lower east side manhattan new york city, manhattan 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
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
The Secret Life of Zoey (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Marcia always thought her overachieving daughter Zoey was the dream child. But then she discovers that her perfect teen has a not-so-perfect drug addiction. Marcia and her ex-husband go through plenty of denial as their daughter spirals out of ...
Style: humorous, captivating, psychological, touching, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: rehabilitation, drug abuse, drug addict, doctors and patients, drug dealing, introspection, teenage life, going straight, hopes, life is a bitch, family problems, couples ...
Time: 21st century
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76%
Time Of My Life (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Based on a true story, 'Tot altijd' introduces us to a band of friends in the eighties, who spend their days enjoying their youth and turbulent (love) life. Years later, Thomas, a recent medicine graduate and Mario's closest friend, ...
Style: sincere, touching, serious, realistic, captivating
Plot: friendship, family life, friends, buddies, terminal illness, family relations, life is a bitch, bittersweet, rivalry, fighting illness, family problems, lifestyle ...
Time: 21st century
Place: germany, ghent, belgium, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
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Sweet Nothing (1995)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Angel celebrates the birth of his daughter by taking his first hit of crack cocaine. With the hesitant support of his wife, Monika, he joins a friend of his to deal drugs for a short time--enough time to get out of debt and buy some nice things for ...
Style: melancholic, realistic, serious, independent film, crying ...
Plot: drug addiction, drug abuse, loneliness, family problems, family relations, downfall, introspection, crumbling marriage, life is a bitch, misfit, money, addiction ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york, usa, bronx new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
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X/Y (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: As Mark, Jen, Sylvia, and Jake navigate through their emotionally-arrested states, X/Y reveals the honest and wanton desire we all have to connect with someone and what is at stake when that connection fades.
Style: realistic, atmospheric, captivating, psychological, sexy ...
Plot: friends, city life, friendship, understanding, society, family relations, gay, best friend, urban, twentysomething life, friend
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york, britain
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
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On the Outs (2004)
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, anthology ...
Plot: asthma, teenage pregnancy, drug dealer, single mother, juvenile delinquency, life is a bitch, lifestyle, teenage life, kids in trouble, social misfits, drug dealing, gang ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new jersey, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
The Inevitable Defeat of Mister & Pete (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Coming of age story about two inner city youths, who are left to fend for themselves over the summer after their mothers are taken away by the authorities.
Style: touching, serious, realistic, emotional, hood ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: urban ghetto life, homeless, coming of age, youth, life is a bitch, friendship, teenage life, lifestyle, working class, hopes, forceful separation, redemption ...
Time: 21st century
Place: brooklyn new york city, usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
Harrison Montgomery (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: In a rundown apartment complex in San Francisco's Tenderloin, a septuagenarian seer is waiting for his final message. For decades the eccentric recluse has chronicled the phrases of the Wheel of Fortune and deciphered their hidden meaning - the ...
Style: serious, emotional, sincere, touching, independent film ...
Plot: elderly, lifestyle, friendship, follow your dream, family problems, life is a bitch, hopes, buddies, love and romance, danger, poverty, single parent ...
Time: 21st century
Place: san francisco, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
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True Friends (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: New York, The Bronx, 1980. Two Italian boys Joey Esposito and Louie Mazerino jump to the defence of a smaller Puerto Rican boy, J.J. Lopez, when J.J. is threatened by six schoolyard bullies. The three boys soon become best friends, and they always ...
Style: independent film, realistic, serious
Plot: friendship, urban ghetto, friends, juvenile delinquency, life is a bitch, ambition, youth, drug dealing, going straight, buddies, coming of age, unfulfillment ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york, usa, bronx new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
Particles of Truth (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Life, love, and the fear of failing... Lilli Black, battling her painful memories and the secrets surrounding her dying father, collides into the complicated and obsessive life of Morrison Wiley on the streets of New York City. This peculiar love ...
Style: psychological, serious, realistic, independent film, gloomy
Plot: life is a bitch, mental illness, human nature, introspection, haunted by the past, family life, couples, family problems, dysfunctional family, estrangement, family relations, unfulfillment ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
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69%
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The Event (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: An intense relationship drama that takes the form of a mystery, The Event centers around a series of unexplained deaths that occur among the gay community in New York's fashionable Chelsea district. Nick, a district attorney investigating the ...
Style: serious, touching, emotional, sincere, sentimental ...
Plot: family relations, family problems, couples, terminal illness, gays and lesbians, gender, human nature, life is a bitch, aids, euthanasia, hiv, couple relations ...
Time: year 2003
Place: new york, nova scotia, usa
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68%
A Brother's Kiss (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Two brothers, Lex and younger Mick, are living in Harlem. Mick is a policeman, and Lex, who spent youth years in reformatory because of injustice after he confronted the cop who tried to sodomize Mick on the street, is living with his wife Debbie ...
Style: emotional, serious, touching, rough, bleak ...
Plot: downfall, haunted by the past, society, life is a bitch, going straight, family problems, down on your luck, addiction, dysfunctional family, hopes, re-education, drug abuse ...
Time: year 1997, 20th century, 90s
Place: new york, usa, harlem
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
My Name Is Bill W. (1989)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Based on the true story of Bill W. (James Woods), a successful stock broker whose life falls apart after the stock crash of the 20's and how he comes to grips with his alcoholism. Along with a fellow alcoholic (James Garner) he forms a support ...
Style: touching, realistic, uplifting, thought provoking, sincere ...
Plot: addiction, rehabilitation, support group, recovery, family problems, friendship, human spirit, self discovery, hopes, drug abuse, coping, against the odds ...
Time: 1930s, year 1929, 1920s
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
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Firelight (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Incarcerated women join a band of volunteers who battle forest fires and assist during natural disasters.
Style: emotional, realistic, touching, serious, sincere ...
Plot: youth, redemption, power relations, human spirit, juvenile delinquency, hopes, society, friendship, fire brigade, rivalry, homeless, friends ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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65%
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How She Move (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Canada, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: After the death of Raya Green's(Rutina Wesley) sister, she gets out from her classes at school, and sees a stomp crew practicing. She meets Bishop(Dwain Murphy) which is the dance crew leader. She then meets Michelle and does a stomp battle ...
Style: realistic, touching, serious, exciting, independent film
Audience: teens
Plot: dancing, dance, coming of age, youth, follow your dream, contests and competitions, teenage life, friendship, black people, ambition, hopes, lifestyle ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: usa
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65%
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Our Sons (1991)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Our Sons is a 1991 made-for-TV movie starring Julie Andrews and Ann-Margret as two mothers of gay sons, one of whom is dying of AIDS. As a small town waitress, Ann-Margret's character must overcome her own homophobia and learn to love her son ...
Style: serious, psychological, emotional, realistic, touching ...
Plot: aids, gay, estrangement, family relations, hospital, parents and children, family problems, friendship, gays and lesbians, small town, lgbt, gay couple ...
Time: 90s
Place: arkansas, usa, california, san diego california
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65%
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The Wool Cap (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: This film, originally made for tv, stars William H. Macy as a mute superintendent of a apartment building that is falling apart who becomes the unwilling guardian to a young girl with a bit of an attitude. The film is an updated and Americanized ...
Style: touching, realistic, serious, sincere, spiritual ...
Plot: friendship, introspection, redemption, misfit, human nature, hopes, family life, custody, dysfunctional family, rehabilitation, addiction, elderly ...
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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, downfall, life is a bitch, teenage life, kids in trouble, hopes, rehabilitation, lifestyle, going straight ...
Time: 21st century
Place: texas
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62%
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A Perfect Son (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A man's terminal illness reunites him with his estranged brother.
Style: serious, emotional, touching, sentimental, independent film ...
Plot: gay, life is a bitch, drug abuse, unfulfillment, family in crisis, death in the family, haunted by the past, aids, lgbt, gay interest, brother brother relationship, death of father ...
Time: 90s
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61%
Jumpin' at the Boneyard (1991)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Manny tries to get his crack addict brother, Danny, to clean up.
Style: cult classic, realistic, serious, emotional, touching ...
Plot: drug addiction, heroin, sibling relationship, family relations, youth, life is a bitch, self discovery, going straight, hopes, society, rehabilitation, against the odds ...
Time: year 1991, 90s
Place: new york, usa
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61%
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Sweet Jane (1998)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Jane, an HIV-positive heroin addict, meets Tony, a young AIDS victim with no family, and the two form a bond.
Style: sad, independent film, realistic, serious, touching ...
Plot: aids, terminal illness, hiv, illness, sex, quarantine, destruction, hospital, bittersweet, society, social misfits, love and romance ...
Time: 90s
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59%
The End of Innocence (1990)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Seemingly autobiographical story of a woman overwhelmed with trying to please everyone except herself, and not finding any answers until she's admitted to a rehab center by her parents. Eventually here is where she finds her answers.
Style: realistic, touching, serious, psychological, emotional ...
Plot: nervous breakdown, rehabilitation, drug abuse, mental institution, parents and children, family problems, doctors and patients, life is a bitch, rehabilitation center, addiction, power relations, family relations ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: usa
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59%
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Stone Pillow (1985)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A homeless woman named Florabelle becomes the unwitting guide to the streets for a New York social worker named Carrie who thinks she has lessons to offer the down-and-out clients she serves at the homeless shelter. Soon, however, Carrie realizes ...
Style: serious, realistic, sentimental, emotional, touching
Plot: homeless shelter, homeless, homelessness, poverty, social worker, woman in danger, hobo, survival, friendship, youth, society, hopes ...
Time: 80s
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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58%
Imperial Dreams (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A 21-year-old reformed gangster's devotion to his family and his future is put to the test when he is released from prison and returns to his old stomping grounds in Watts, Los Angeles.
Style: touching, uplifting, serious, rough, hood ...
Plot: going straight, life is a bitch, family relations, street kid, hopes, parents and children, society, urban ghetto life, black lives matter, black, blaxploitation, gang ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles, indiana, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
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About Sunny (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: As things unravel for a struggling single mother in Las Vegas, she must decide what she's willing to give up to get by.
Style: realistic, serious, captivating, emotional, psychological ...
Plot: poverty, life is a bitch, moral dilemma, society, working class, parents and children, family problems, down on your luck, single mother, youth, homeless, single parent ...
Time: 21st century
Place: las vegas, usa
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