Movies like Jimmy Zip

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Jimmy Zip (1999)
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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: independent film, rough, serious, realistic, grunge
Plot: youth, child abuse, friendship, hollywood, coming of age, gang, friends, addiction, misfit, life is a bitch, fugitives, best friend, self discovery, teenage life, society, drug dealing, social misfits, down on your luck, urban, juvenile delinquency, city life, buddies, performer's life, kids in trouble, sex ...
Time: 90s
Place: usa, los angeles

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Most similar movies to Jimmy Zip

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, rough and independent film films with plots about gang, society, life is a bitch, juvenile delinquency, youth, friendship and urban mostly in Drama, Crime and Action genres. Some movies like Jimmy Zip: Speedway Junky (1999), Squeeze (1997), MacArthur Park (2001), Rodents (1999), From the Edge of the City (1998). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Speedway Junky (1999)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Israel
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A naive drifter runs away from his army father in hopes of making it on the car racing circuit. In Las Vegas, he meets a young scam artist, who develops a crush on him. He is then introduced to a whole gang led by a young hustler. The racer-to-be ...
Style: talky, serious, realistic, slang, feel good ...
Plot: male prostitution, friendship, gay, scam, male prostitute, best friend, teenage life, bare chested male, gay interest, gay friend, high school life, love and romance ...
Time: 90s
Place: las vegas, nevada, usa
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100%
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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: independent film, serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot: gang, black, gas station, kids in trouble, urban ghetto, realism, friends, optimism, friendship, drug dealing, juvenile delinquency, society ...
Time: year 1997, 90s
Place: massachusetts, boston
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41%
 6.2
 367
MacArthur Park (2001)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A portrait of a homeless park community bonded by crack cocaine addiction. In the park's drug-fixated shantytown, Cody is a kind of crackhead father figure who helps his friends when they are in trouble or in desperate need of a ...
Style: disturbing, serious, sincere, rough, crime drama ...
Plot: drug abuse, downfall, life is a bitch, social decay, rehabilitation, lifestyle, youth, addiction, social misfits, urban ghetto life, down on your luck, homelessness ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
 7.3
 906
Rodents (1999)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Ecuador
Duration: 107 min.
Story: The world of Salvador, a young and naive petty thief is changed by the arrival of his cousin Angel, an ex-convict in search of easy money, and with a hideout. Salvador gets wrapped up in Angel's twisted dealings in an attempt to escape from his ...
Style: realistic, gloomy, serious, rough, bleak ...
Plot: city life, latinos, stealing a car, friendship, prostitute, petty theft, teen social issues, robbery, dysfunctional family, teenage life, parents and children, society ...
Time: 90s
Place: ecuador, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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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: serious, realistic, bleak, gloomy, rough ...
Audience: teens
Plot: lgbt, greek, male masturbation, glbt, migration, lgbtq, immigrant, culture clash, suburbs, prostitute, russian mafia, gay subtext ...
Time: 90s
Place: greece, russia, chernobyl, europe, kazakhstan ...
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35%
 6.4
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Less Than Zero (1987)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A college freshman returns to Los Angeles for the holidays at his ex-girlfriend's request, but discovers that his former best friend has an out-of-control drug habit.
Style: stylized, cult classic, visually stunning, cerebral, erotic drama ...
Audience: teens
Plot: drug addiction, friendship, drug addict, addiction, drug, drug abuse, male nudity, hedonism, male prostitute, male prostitution, christmas, high school ...
Time: 80s, year 1987
Place: los angeles, california, beverly hills, usa, palm springs california
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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: serious, realistic, suspense, independent film, crying
Plot: youth, friendship, eviction, kids in trouble, crime gone awry, juvenile delinquency, life is a bitch, family relations, misfit, society, vengeance, drug dealing ...
Place: arizona, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 5.5
 2K
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: cult classic, tense, serious, realistic
Plot: urban, drug dealer, hunting, redemption, gang, male nudity, fall in love, social misfits, coming of age, hopes, introspection, juvenile delinquency ...
Time: future, 90s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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State Property (2002)
Genre: Drama, Crime, Action
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Frustrated with being broke, Beans decides that the only way to grasp the American Dream is to take it.
Style: hood, serious, suspenseful, rough, bleak ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: urban ghetto life, gang, urban, gangster, drug dealing, family life, ghetto, ambition, social decay, city life, criminal heroes, juvenile delinquency ...
Time: year 2002
Place: usa, philadelphia, memphis
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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: hispanic, social, realistic, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot: heist, worker, mobster, teenager, gang, pregnancy, street gang, kids in trouble, urban ghetto, criminal heroes, crime gone awry, going straight ...
Time: 90s
Place: argentina, latin america, uruguay, buenos aires argentina
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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: crime drama, serious, realistic, tense, crying
Plot: student athlete, evil child, high school, murder, friendship, american football, abusive husband, high school football, best friend, friends, social relations, kids in trouble ...
Time: 90s
Place: north carolina, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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Crack House (1989)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Rick and Melissa are a pair of young lovers hoping to get out of the slums for good and escape the poverty and crime their families and friends have gotten involved in. All this comes to an end when Rick feels he must rejoin his old gang to avenge ...
Style: grindhouse, crime drama, independent film, hispanic, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gang, blaxploitation, cannon, drug, drug addiction, black, rape victim, poverty, nudity, drug dealing, gang rape, gang violence ...
Time: 80s
Place: los angeles, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
 6.7
 3K
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, grim ...
Plot: coming of age, children, dysfunctional family, child abuse, working class, youth, boy, redemption, poverty, childhood, corporal punishment, debt ...
Time: year 1999, 70s, 90s
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Dusty and Sweets McGee (1971)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A "straight" couple dabbles in drugs and become heroin addicts.
Style: serious, realistic, rough, emotional
Plot: drug addiction, drug, drug dealing, hustler, bare breasts, female nudity, thirtysomething life, kids in trouble, friends, life is a bitch, misfit, juvenile delinquency ...
Time: 70s, year 1971
Place: los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Hurricane Streets (1997)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Marcus is a kid on Manhattan's mean streets. He's turning 15, his father is dead, his mother is in prison for smuggling undocumented aliens. His grandmother is raising him. He has four close buddies who have a basement clubhouse; they ...
Style: independent film, realistic, serious, rough, bleak ...
Plot: coming of age, gang, friendship, dysfunctional family, boy, children, violence, teenager, runaway, worship, smuggling, theft ...
Time: year 1997, 90s
Place: new york, new mexico, lower east side manhattan new york city, manhattan new york city, alaska
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31%
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Turn It Up (2000)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Action, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Trying to bootstrap his way out of Brooklyn's mean streets is Diamond, a rap musician. With his long-time pal Gage acting as his manager, he's trying to lay down a demo tape with cut-rate studio time. To pay the bills, he and Gage run ...
Style: disturbing, realistic, serious, rough, hood ...
Plot: hip hop, gang, friendship, lifestyle, musician's life, down on your luck, social decay, addiction, drug dealing, going straight, juvenile delinquency, artists and showbiz ...
Time: 90s
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Bomb the System (2002)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Anthony ‘Blest’ (Mark Webber) is one of the most talented and notorious graffiti artists in New York City. Despite the tragic loss of his older brother during a nightly 'bombing' foray with a graffiti crew, Anthony has the same ...
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, captivating, rough ...
Plot: graffiti, hip hop, street art, gang, juvenile delinquency, social decay, kids in trouble, life is a bitch, society, youth, teenage life, politics ...
Time: 2000s, 20th century
Place: new york, usa, new york state
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
 6.7
 20K
Kidulthood (2006)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A day in the life of a group of troubled 15-year-olds growing up in west London.
Style: hood, serious, tense, rough, teen ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: urban ghetto life, bullying, gang, ghetto, coming of age, juvenile delinquency, urban, teenage life, social decay, gangster, friendship, teenage love ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: london, england, united kingdom, britain, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Harsh Times (2005)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Jim Davis is an ex-Army Ranger who finds himself slipping back into his old life of petty crime after a job offer from the LAPD evaporates. His best friend is pressured by his girlfriend Sylvia to find a job, but Jim is more interested in hanging ...
Style: tense, bleak, intense, hood, serious ...
Plot: drug, violence, corruption, transformation, gangster, addiction, depression, culture clash, redemption, street gang, lapd, weed ...
Time: year 2005, 21st century
Place: los angeles, mexico, colombia, latin america, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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: emotional, harsh, rough, intense, realistic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: coming of age, childhood, friendship, urban ghetto life, street kid, loss of friend, depression, foul language, anger, life is a bitch, teenage boy, teenager ...
Time: 80s, y2k, year 2006, 2000s, 20th century ...
Place: new york, america, usa, coney island brooklyn new york city, los angeles
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29%
 6.3
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Federal Hill (1994)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: In Providence's Italian neighborhood, Federal Hill, five young are immersed in drugs, crime and violence. Everything changes when one of the guys in the band know love.
Style: black and white, independent film, serious, realistic, tense
Plot: gangster, college, drug, youth, friendship, partner, best friend, life is a bitch, fall in love, going straight, society, drug dealing ...
Time: year 1994, 90s
Place: rhode island, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Life Is Hot in Cracktown (2009)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Various stories of how crack cocaine has infiltrated the inner-city streets. Based on Buddy Giovinazzo's novel "Life is Hot in Cracktown".
Style: disturbing, serious, thought provoking, realistic, bleak ...
Plot: street gang, urban ghetto life, coming of age, life is a bitch, juvenile delinquency, society, addiction, drug abuse, gang rape, oral sex, youth, criminal heroes ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Where the Day Takes You (1992)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A group of teen-age runaways try to survive in the streets of Los Angeles. Drugs, prostitution, violence and bureaucratic indifference all pose threats to the kids, who nevertheless prefer this harsh life to going back to their families. King, ...
Style: neo noir, cult classic, independent film, thought provoking, serious ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: teenage prostitution, prostitution, homelessness, realism, homeless, runaway, hustler, coming of age, drug addiction, troubled youth, criminality, street kid ...
Time: year 1991, 90s
Place: los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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Corrupt (1999)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 69 min.
Story: After decades of terror, two deadly street gangs reach a delicate truce and young MJ (Silkk the Shocker) sees a way out of the hood once and for all. Only Corrupt (Ice-T) stands in MJ's way, resulting into a violent and brutal roller coaster ...
Style: hood, independent film, realistic, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: ghetto, gang, urban, hip hop, discrimination, underworld, hip hop culture, urban setting, gangster, urban ghetto, life is a bitch, social misfits ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york, usa, bronx new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
El padrino: The Latin Godfather (2004)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story: In the streets of East Los Angeles, Manny is a formidable drug dealer. Impressed by his extravagant lifestyle and prowess, his young son, Kilo, yearns to follow in his footsteps. Kilo resolves to learn how to prosper in the drug world, and his new ...
Style: rough, realistic, serious, suspenseful, exciting
Audience: boys' night
Plot: crime boss, gangster, prison gang, prison, criminal heroes, juvenile delinquency, prison life, life is a bitch, gang, dishonesty, drug dealing, urban ghetto ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles, california, usa, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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: hood, captivating, sexual, crime drama, social ...
Plot: urban ghetto life, gang, ghetto, urban, black, african american, hip hop, criminal gang, drug dealing, blaxploitation, organized crime, black history ...
Time: 90s, year 1992, 80s
Place: los angeles, california, usa, south central los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
 7.0
 14K
Paid in Full (2002)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Ace is an impressionable young man working for a dry cleaning business. His friend, drug dealer Mitch goes to prison. In an unrelated incident, he finds some cocaine in a pants pocket. Soon, Ace finds himself dealing cocaine for Lulu. Via lucky ...
Style: hood, tense, rough, realistic, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: urban ghetto life, rapper, organized crime, ghetto, urban, drug dealing, drug, gangster, drug lord, black, rise and fall, street life ...
Time: 80s, year 2002, 20th century, year 1986
Place: harlem, new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
 6.9
 20K
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, independent film, cult classic, grim, creepy ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: teenager, high school, coming of age, murder, serial killer, small town, drug abuse, violence, death, drug, strangulation, juvenile delinquency ...
Time: 80s, year 1986, 20th century
Place: oregon, california, usa, portland oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
 7.2
 5K
Cyclo (1995)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Vietnam, France, Hong Kong
Duration: 123 min.
Story: Follows a young cyclo (bicycle cab) driver on his poverty-driven descent into criminality in modern-day Ho Chi Minh City. The boy's struggles to scratch out a living for his two sisters and grandfather in the mean streets of the city lead to ...
Style: disturbing, bleak, stylized, neo noir, controversial ...
Plot: poverty, vietnam war, gangster, coming of age, gang, youth, minimal dialogue, drug, corruption, mafia, prostitution, poetry ...
Time: year 1995, 90s
Place: saigon, vietnam, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
My Crazy Life (1993)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Mousie and Sad Girl are childhood best friends in a contemporary Los Angeles poor Hispanic neighborhood. But when Sad Girl becomes pregnant by Mousie's boyfriend, a drug dealer named Ernesto, the two become bitter enemies. While their dispute ...
Style: realistic, talky, serious, hood, cult classic ...
Plot: coming of age, friendship, chicano, juvenile delinquency, gang member, teenager, unlikely friendships, drug dealing, urban ghetto, urban, youth, urban ghetto life ...
Time: year 1993, 90s
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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