Movies like Blue Ridge Fall

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Blue Ridge Fall (1999)
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Blue Ridge Fall (1999)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: After a boy kills his father he must turn to his frinds to cover his tracks with tests their loyality and friendship.
Style: tense, serious, realistic
Plot: student athlete, friendship, murder, high school, american football, gang, youth, friends, life is a bitch, best friends, high school life, teenage life, rivalry, society, juvenile delinquency, small town, social relations, buddies, small town life, kids in trouble, prison, gay, horse, revenge, money ...
Time: 90s
Place: north carolina, usa

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, rough and tense films with plots about friendship, youth, teenage life, death, murder, life is a bitch and friends mostly in Drama, Crime and Romance genres. Some movies like Blue Ridge Fall: The Assault (2014), River's Edge (1986), Skins (2002), Boyz n the Hood (1991), Pizza, Beer, and Cigarettes (1998). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Assault (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: After a cheerleader is sexually assaulted by the high school football team, she must overcome her shame and use the evidence gathered from the subsequent social media firestorm to piece together the night that she can't remember in her fight ...
Style: serious, realistic, thought provoking, disturbing, tense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: gang rape, cheerleader, high school, sport team, abuse, injustice, youth, evidence, interrogation, investigation, cover up, courage ...
Time: 21st century
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100%
 6.9
 19K
River's Edge (1986)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A group of high school friends discover that they are in the presence of a killer. One of them, Samson, has murdered his girlfriend Jamie. He brags to his friends about killing her, and when they discover he is telling the truth, their reactions ...
Style: disturbing, dark, controversial, psychological, gloomy ...
Audience: teens, kids, teen drama
Plot: high school, coming of age, teenager, murder, gang, serial killer, small town, nude, death, drug abuse, violence, police ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: california, oregon, usa, portland oregon
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45%
 7.0
 1K
Skins (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: An inspirational tale about the relationship between two Sioux Indian brothers living on the Pine Ridge Indian reservation.
Style: thought provoking, serious, rough, realistic, gloomy ...
Plot: native american reservation, native american, brother brother relationship, arson, family relations, vandalism, life is a bitch, vigilantism, homecoming, american football, human nature, unemployment ...
Place: nebraska, south dakota, usa, asia, vietnam
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
 7.8
 144K
Boyz n the Hood (1991)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Boyz n the Hood is the popular and successful film and social criticism from John Singleton about the conditions in South Central Los Angeles where teenagers are involved in gun fights and drug dealing on a daily basis.
Style: thought provoking, disturbing, tense, brutal, bleak ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: hip hop, african american, ghetto, poverty, gang, urban ghetto life, juvenile delinquency, street gang, coming of age, gangsters, rapper, rap ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, 90s, year 1991, year 1984
Place: los angeles, california, cuba, usa, south central los angeles ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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Pizza, Beer, and Cigarettes (1998)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Argentina
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A couple of friends work for a taxi driver to rob his passengers, but they feel like they're getting ripped off. They decide to plan their own robberies, but they are amateurs and things don't go too well. One of the youths, Cordoba, whose ...
Style: serious, realistic, disturbing, suspenseful, bleak ...
Plot: heist, gangsters, teenager, gang, pregnancy, kids in trouble, urban ghetto, betrayal, crime gone awry, youth, life is a bitch, going straight ...
Time: 90s
Place: argentina, latin america, uruguay, buenos aires argentina
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38%
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The Hillz (2004)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A promising college athlete takes a turn for the worse when he hooks up with old highschool friends during his summer break.
Style: serious, surreal, realistic, captivating, suspenseful
Plot: drug dealing, white trash, prostitute, juvenile delinquency, friendship, student athlete, baseball, teen drinking, high school friends, lifestyle, buddies, gang ...
Place: california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Ali Zaoua: Prince of the Streets (2000)
Genre: Drama, Crime
Country: Morocco, Tunisia, France, Belgium, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Ali, Kwita, Omar and Boubker are street kids. The daily dose of glue sniffing represents their only escape from reality. Since they left Dib and his gang, they have been living on the portside of Casablanca. They live in constant fear of Dib's ...
Style: serious, captivating, rough, bleak, social ...
Plot: street kid, youth, homeless, juvenile delinquency, teenage life, poverty, kids in trouble, life is a bitch, friendship, society, vengeance, gang ...
Time: 90s
Place: africa, morocco
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 7.2
 33K
Mean Creek (2004)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Teenagers living in small-town Oregon take a boat trip for a birthday celebration. When they get an idea to play a mean trick on the town bully, it suddenly goes too far. Soon they're forced to deal with the unexpected consequences of their ...
Style: disturbing, psychological, suspenseful, dark, intense ...
Audience: teens, kids, teen drama
Plot: prank, kids in trouble, small town, friendship, coming of age, bullying, vengeance, teenager, revenge, bully, guilt, childhood ...
Time: 21st century
Place: oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Little Athens (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A day in Athens, Arizona, as teens and twenty-somethings navigate life without a compass. Jimmy has gambling debts and sees a chance to steal and sell a dead-man's stash of drugs. The corpse's cousin smells a rat. Jessica, who is ...
Style: realistic, serious
Plot: youth, friendship, eviction, kids in trouble, juvenile delinquency, life is a bitch, crime gone awry, family relations, misfit, vengeance, drug dealing, society ...
Place: arizona, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 6.3
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Prison Song (2001)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Elijah has been bounced from group home to group home throughout his turbulent young life. What has sustained him is his art. After a promised scholarship is taken away, Elijah ends up in a fight that result in the death of another boy. Now, ...
Style: serious, captivating, sincere, rough, realistic ...
Plot: prison, injustice, hip hop, prison life, redemption, juvenile delinquency, criminal heroes, musician's life, life sentence, murder, youth, life is a bitch ...
Time: 21st century
Place: africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
 5.2
 186
Jimmy Zip (1999)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: An abused runaway with pyromaniac tendencies teams up with a metal sculptor. Together they blow away the art world and a local crime boss.
Style: realistic, serious, rough, grunge
Plot: youth, child abuse, hollywood, friendship, coming of age, performer's life, friends, kids in trouble, down on your luck, addiction, teenage life, city life ...
Time: 90s
Place: usa, los angeles
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32%
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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: tense, realistic, serious
Plot: drug dealer, hunting, gang, redemption, introspection, misfit, coming of age, opposites attract, juvenile delinquency, social misfits, going straight, society ...
Time: future, 90s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
 5.9
 337
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: serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough
Plot: gang, gangsters, gas station, realism, kids in trouble, optimism, friends, urban ghetto, youth, drug dealing, criminal heroes, dealing with death ...
Time: 90s
Place: massachusetts, boston
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
 6.4
 7K
Levity (2003)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA, France
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Manuel Jordan is a man who is free after serving 23 years for killing a teenager during an attempted robbery. After nearly two decades of staring at his victim's face on a newspaper clipping in his cell, the paroled man attempts to find ...
Style: touching, emotional, melancholic, philosophical, psychological ...
Plot: criminal, murder, prison, friendship, robbery, justice, gang, going straight, haunted by the past, human nature, rehabilitation, ex convict ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Our Lady of the Assassins (2000)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Spain, France, Colombia
Duration: 101 min.
Story: World-weary arthur Fernando has returned to his native Colombia to live out his days in peace. But Fernando's once-quiet hometown has become a hotbed of violence, drugs and corruption. On the brink of despair, Fernando meets Alexis, a ...
Style: disturbing, meditative, thought provoking, rough, sexy ...
Plot: gay, murder, vengeance, poverty, lgbt, drug dealing, teenage life, love affair, fall in love, writers, youth, life is a bitch ...
Time: 90s
Place: colombia, los angeles, latin america, tokyo, usa ...
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30%
South Central (1992)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A man is put to prison for 10 years. Coming out of prison he wants to live a normal life and stop with crime but his son has yet followed the criminal path of his father.
Style: captivating, sexual, serious, realistic, tense ...
Plot: gang, urban ghetto life, gangsters, african american, african american gangster, ghetto, drug dealing, blaxploitation, hip hop, organized crime, society, coming of age ...
Time: 90s, 80s
Place: los angeles, california, africa, usa, south central los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Beneath the Harvest Sky (2013)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: A teen drama set during the fall potato harvest in a small northern Maine town.
Style: captivating, realistic, psychological, tense, serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: coming of age, friendship, small town, youth, teenage life, social relations, drugs, police, harvest, boy, couples, teenager ...
Time: 21st century
Place: maine, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
 5.7
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Trans (1998)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Ryan Kazinski, 16, is in juvenile detention in Fort Myers, Florida. He gets away one day, and the world is all before him: where should he go, what should he do? Should he try to find his mom? Should he head for Colorado, where he's daydreamed ...
Style: experimental, serious, realistic, atmospheric
Plot: escape, on the run, urban ghetto, kids in trouble, prison, on the road, bus, teenage life, urban ghetto life, prison life, coming of age, human nature ...
Time: 90s
Place: florida, colorado, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints (2006)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Dito Montiel, a successful author, receives a call from his long-suffering mother, asking him to return home and visit his ailing father. Dito recalls his childhood growing up in a violent neighborhood in Queens, N.Y., with friends Antonio, ...
Style: thought provoking, emotional, harsh, rough, intense ...
Audience: teens, kids
Plot: childhood, coming of age, friendship, gangsters, urban ghetto life, street kid, loss of friend, depression, foul language, anger, life is a bitch, teenager ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 2005, 2000s, year 1986 ...
Place: new york, los angeles, california, usa, coney island brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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Blast (2000)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Four high school friends believe the local myth that developer Swenson killed a kid for trespassing years earlier and got away with it. When one of the four friends disappears, the remaining three believe Swenson killed their friend and they take ...
Style: tense, realistic, serious, suspenseful
Plot: small town, uncover truth, kids in trouble, teenage life, haunted by the past, mind game, investigation, vengeance, crime gone awry, rivalry, youth, small town life ...
Time: 90s
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27%
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Joe the King (1999)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A destitute 14 year old struggles to keep his life together despite harsh abuse at his mother's hands, harsher abuse at his father's, and a growing separation from his slightly older brother. Petty thefts for food grow into more major ...
Style: emotional, harsh, tense, rough, realistic ...
Audience: kids
Plot: children, dysfunctional family, child abuse, coming of age, corporal punishment, working class, youth, abusive father, redemption, alcohol abuse, poverty, childhood ...
Time: 70s, 90s
Place: new york, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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The Visitors (1972)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Bill, Martha and their little child Hal are spending a quiet winter Sunday in their cosy house when they get an unexpected visit from Mike Nickerson and Tony Rodriguez. Mike and Tony are old acquaintances of Bill; a few years back, in Vietnam, they ...
Style: psychological, tense, realistic, serious, rough ...
Plot: vietnam war, veteran, revenge, rape, vietnam veteran, hostage, injustice, friends, psychopath, friendship, homecoming, courtroom drama ...
Time: 70s
Place: vietnam, asia, new england, connecticut
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
 7.4
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The Judge (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 141 min.
Story: A successful lawyer returns to his hometown for his mother's funeral only to discover that his estranged father, the town's judge, is suspected of murder.
Style: touching, serious, suspenseful, sentimental, semi serious ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: lawyer, small town, court, courtroom, jury, murder trial, parent child relationship, judge, homecoming, courtroom drama, legal, hotshot lawyer ...
Time: 21st century
Place: indiana, massachusetts, usa, chicago illinois, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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 6.6
 14K
Animal Factory (2000)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A young man goes to prison and a tough, older convict takes him under his wing as a mentor.
Style: realistic, tense, bleak, atmospheric, disturbing ...
Plot: prison, friendship, gang, drugs, prison escape, adaptation, depression, redemption, survival, human nature, prison rape, prison warden ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: usa, california, new jersey, pennsylvania, paris france ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
 6.1
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Steel Toes (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Steel Toes is a provocative exploration of the inescapable and insidious presence of racial and religious intolerance in our society.
Style: psychological, realistic, disturbing, serious, tense ...
Plot: racism, skinhead, juvenile delinquency, life is a bitch, confined, legal, misfit, introspection, prison, husband wife relationship, father son relationship, friendship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada, quebec, montreal
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
 7.1
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Home Room (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story: A high school shooting has repercussions on the town and students.
Style: touching, emotional, serious, gothic, intense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: high school, murder, friendship, goth girl, teenage life, youth, isolation, hopes, school shooting, secret, teenage girl, dark secret ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
 5.9
 9K
Mobsters (1991)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: The story of a group of friends in turn of the century New York, from their early days as street hoods to their rise in the world of organized crime...
Style: intense, talky, suspenseful, realistic, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gangsters, organized crime, mafia, friendship, betrayal, vengeance, gang, greed, suspense, murder, criminal heroes, tough heroes ...
Time: 1920s, 1910s, 1930s, year 1917
Place: new york, las vegas, usa, coney island brooklyn new york city, manhattan new york city ...
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26%
From the Edge of the City (1998)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Greece
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Minority-group Greeks from an outer suburb of Athens struggle with their life on society's fringe and exploitation of one another.
Style: realistic, serious, gloomy, rough, bleak ...
Audience: teens, pre-teens
Plot: lgbt, migration, male masturbation, lgbtq, prostitute, immigrants, suburbs, culture clash, russian mafia, male prostitution, life is a bitch, misfit ...
Time: 90s
Place: greece, russia, chernobyl, europe, geneva switzerland ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
 4.7
 3K
Tart (2001)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A student will do anything to become part of the "in-crowd" at the exclusive school she attends in New York.
Style: realistic, serious, sincere, sentimental, melancholic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: teenage girl, dysfunctional family, coming of age, friends, school, girls' school, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, teenage life, high school life, teenage love, private school, rich girl ...
Place: usa, manhattan new york city, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
The Year That Trembled (2002)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: The Year That Trembled is a 1970 coming-of-age story set in the shadow of Kent State that focuses on a group of young characters facing the Vietnam Draft Lottery.
Style: touching, emotional, sincere, sentimental, serious ...
Plot: lottery, vietnam war, friendship, college, anti war, politics, coming of age, teenage life, rebelliousness, fighting the system, kids in trouble, campaign ...
Time: 70s, 60s, year 1971, year 1970
Place: vietnam, ohio, usa, asia, philadelphia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%