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Hurricane Streets (1997)
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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 shoplift and sell the wares to kids. One is moving toward selling drugs. Marcus wants to take a breather from the city and visit family in New Mexico. He also meets Melena, 14, a sweet kid who dreams of going to Alaska; her father is not just protective but angry and uncommunicative. The gang pressures Marcus to move up to burglary and car theft. He just wants to breathe open air. Can anything go right?
Style:
independent film, realistic, rough, bleak, serious, disturbing, clever, bad ending, sad, harsh ...
Audience:
teens, kids
Plot:
coming of age, gang, friendship, boy, dysfunctional family, teenager, children, violence, runaway, theft, smuggling, little boy, worship, juvenile delinquency, teen angst, youth, friends, street kid, family relations, parents and children, life is a bitch, teenage life, society, social misfits, down on your luck ...
Time:
year 1997, 90s, 70s
Place:
new york, new mexico, alaska, manhattan new york city, lower east side manhattan new york city, california, new jersey
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, rough and bleak films with plots about youth, coming of age, friendship, teenage boy, teenage life, juvenile delinquency and family relations mostly in Drama, Crime and Romance genres. Some movies like Hurricane Streets: Kidulthood (2006), Speedway Junky (1999), The Mudge Boy (2003), Pizza, Beer, and Cigarettes (1997), Just Like the Son (2006). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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:
serious, tense, rough, hood, teen ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
bullying, gang, urban ghetto life, ghetto, juvenile delinquency, coming of age, urban, teenage life, social decay, gangster, friendship, teenage love ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
london, england, united kingdom, britain, europe
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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:
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Time:
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Place:
las vegas, nevada, usa
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Duncan Mudge, mid-teens, lives apart from his rural world populated by his distant father and rough local kids. His main companionship is a chicken left after his mother's death until the neighbor's son befriends him.
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Plot:
bullying, gay teenager, gay, boys love, lgbt teen, coming of age, first gay sexual experience, male homosexuality, lgbt, father son relationship, male rape, youth ...
Time:
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Place:
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100%
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 ...
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social, hispanic, realistic, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot:
heist, tragic romance, street gang, worker, mobster, teenager, gang, pregnancy, urban ghetto, kids in trouble, youth, life is a bitch ...
Time:
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Place:
argentina, latin america, uruguay, buenos aires argentina
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A petty thief's mentoring of an apparent orphan takes a profound turn when he kidnaps the boy from a foster home and drives him cross-country to his sister's house in Texas.
Style:
emotional, realistic, touching, captivating, independent film ...
Plot:
adoption, friendship, family relations, custody, on the road, introspection, petty criminal, redemption, hopes, road trip, boy, foster home ...
Place:
new york, usa, texas
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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:
friendship, youth, eviction, life is a bitch, crime gone awry, juvenile delinquency, kids in trouble, parents and children, adolescence vs adulthood, teenage life, drug dealing, vengeance ...
Place:
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK, Germany, Spain
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Determined to have a normal family life once his mother gets out of prison, a Scottish teenager from a tough background sets out to raise the money for a home.
Style:
sentimental, sexy, disturbing, touching, sincere ...
Audience:
teens, toddlers, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, innocence lost, heroin, juvenile delinquency, prison, downfall, teenager, dysfunctional family, drug dealing, family problems, adolescence vs adulthood, siblings relations ...
Time:
90s, 2000s, year 2002, 80s, 21st century
Place:
scotland, glasgow scotland, europe, united kingdom
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama, Crime
Country: Morocco, Tunisia, France, Belgium, USA
Duration: 90 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, bleak, islamic, social ...
Plot:
homeless, street kid, youth, juvenile delinquency, teenage life, poverty, kids in trouble, friendship, danger, society, gang, vengeance ...
Time:
90s
Place:
africa, middle east, maghreb, morocco
Similarity:
46%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
After a run-in with the law, an angry maladjusted young man starts calling himself "Hate". One night he saves a girl from a lusty Assistant District Attorney. He falsely accuses them of robbery, so they go on the run and make things worse.
Style:
independent film, serious, realistic, bleak, gloomy
Plot:
woman urinating, hate, woman peeing, on the run, suburbs, murder, on the road, diner, family problems, kids in trouble, family relations, domestic disturbance ...
Time:
90s
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
46%
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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, sexual, melancholic ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
teenage girl, coming of age, beach party, friends, private school, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, teenage crush, best friend, teenage life, teenage love, high school life, schoolgirl ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
usa, manhattan new york city, new york
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Ireland
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Pig and Runt born on the same day, in the same hospital, moments apart. Twins, all but by bloodline. Inseparable from birth, they are almost telepathic. They are one, needing no one else, inhabiting a delicate, insular and dangerous world where they ...
Style:
psychological, serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot:
couples, friendship, friends, youth, love and romance, teenage life, couple relations, child abuse, sex, love, doomed love, male female relationship ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
ireland, europe, dublin ireland
Similarity:
45%
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, period piece, harsh, rough, intense ...
Audience:
teens, kids
Plot:
coming of age, childhood, friendship, urban ghetto life, foul language, street kid, swimming pool, gangster, loss of friend, depression, anger, life is a bitch ...
Time:
80s, 2000s, year 2006, y2k, 20th century ...
Place:
new york, california, america, usa, north america ...
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45%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Rusty James, an absent-minded street thug struggles to live up to his legendary older brother's reputation, and longs for the days when gang warfare was going on.
Style:
cult classic, surreal, black and white, cerebral, bleak ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, street gang, brother brother relationship, gang, biker, motorcycle, alcoholic father, juvenile delinquent, teenage protagonist, homoerotic friendship, teen angst, character study ...
Time:
80s, year 1983, 20th century, 70s
Place:
oklahoma, california, oklahoma city, usa, pacific ocean
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
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:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
massachusetts, boston
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
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Style:
tense, intense, disturbing, depressing, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens, kids
Plot:
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Time:
2000s, year 2002, 21st century
Place:
california, los angeles, usa, las vegas
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
An alienated teenage boy runs away from home and ventures to New York City where he falls in with a gang of juvenile delinquents working as drug dealers and pickpockets for a shady crime boss.(IMDB)
Style:
realistic, serious, rough, suspenseful, bleak
Plot:
runaway, pedophile, drug dealer, gang, youth, children, street life, juvenile delinquent, evil child, hobo, street kid, coming of age ...
Time:
80s
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Ecuador
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
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Style:
disturbing, rough, gloomy, bleak, tense ...
Plot:
city life, petty theft, latinos, stealing a car, friendship, robbery, teen social issues, gang, urban ghetto life, coming of age, drug dealing, juvenile delinquency ...
Time:
90s
Place:
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Similarity:
44%
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, independent film, suspense ...
Audience:
teens, kids, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, prank, kids in trouble, friendship, vengeance, small town, childhood, bully, teenager, brother brother relationship, revenge, bullying ...
Time:
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Place:
oregon
Similarity:
44%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A teen winds up in over his head while dealing drugs with a rebellious partner and chasing the young man's enigmatic sister during the summer of 1991 that he spends in Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
Style:
sexy, captivating, exciting, light, humorous ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
summer, friendship, coming of age, drug dealer, teenage protagonist, brother sister relationship, teenager, criminal, violence, cape cod massachusetts, drug dealing, party ...
Time:
year 1991, 90s, 80s
Place:
massachusetts, new york, boston, wyoming, nevada ...
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
The story focuses on the life of an 11-year old boy surrounded by criminality and poverty in the suburbs of Naples.
Style:
disturbing, serious, bleak, rough, realistic
Plot:
juvenile delinquency, youth, friends, danger, society, life is a bitch, coming of age, social worker, social decay, urban ghetto life, teaching the ways of the world, street life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
italy, europe, naples italy
Similarity:
44%
779
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Two cunning and manipulative drifters venture into Farifield County, Connecticut looking to seduce wealthy and lonely housewives.
Style:
serious, tense, realistic, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot:
infidelity, family relations, crumbling marriage, couple relations, breakup, fall in love, dysfunctional family, couples, single parent, criminal heroes, cons and scams, missing child ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york, connecticut
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
The film follows Victor, a Lower East Side teenager, as he deals with his eccentric family, including his strict grandmother, his bratty sister, and a younger brother who completely idolizes him. Along the way he tries to win the affections of Judy, ...
Style:
touching, cynical, stylized, harsh, emotional ...
Audience:
teens, date night
Plot:
couples, coming of age, sexual relations, friendship, dysfunctional family, relationships, teenage love, love story, loneliness, family relations, youth, love and romance ...
Time:
year 2002, 70s, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, dominican republic, lower east side manhattan new york city, manhattan new york city ...
Similarity:
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Belgium, France, Luxembourg
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, serious, rough, touching
Plot:
boy, coming of age, juvenile delinquency, brother brother relationship, teenage boy, child abuse, creepy child, psycho, little boy, children, family life, siblings relations ...
Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
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Style:
cult classic, realistic, serious, tense
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
43%
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, tense, psychological, independent film ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
coming of age, friendship, small town, youth, teenage life, social relations, drug, police, harvest, couples, teenager, little boy ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
maine, usa
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Brazil, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Best buddies Acerola and Laranjinha, about to turn 18, discover things about their missing fathers' pasts which will shatter their solid friendship, in the middle of a war between rival drug gangs from Rio's favelas.
Style:
tense, bleak, harsh, suspense, rough ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
friendship, street gang, favela, slum, coming of age, betrayal, brutality, relationships, drug lord, society, gang war, best friend ...
Time:
year 2008, year 2007, future, 70s, 21st century
Place:
rio de janeiro, brazil, south america, latin america
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
An abandoned teen jumps a freight train in Philadelphia intent on reaching his uncle in Indiana, whom he believes will help him with financial difficulties including a pregnant girlfriend. In Ohio, he meets another homeless teen, who escorts him to ...
Style:
independent film, contemplative, serious, realistic, touching ...
Plot:
coming of age, family relations, friendship, on the road, father, prison, friends, youth, social misfits, hopes, self discovery, society ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
indiana, oklahoma, usa, salt lake city utah, philadelphia ...
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A Cherokee boy is a haemophiliac in a culture obsessed with blood identity.
Style:
serious, psychological, emotional, touching, independent film ...
Plot:
family relations, juvenile delinquency, teenage life, native american, society, lifestyle, youth, parents and children, dysfunctional family, homecoming, american indian, deer hunting ...
Time:
70s, 80s
Place:
oklahoma, oklahoma city, usa
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43%
32K
Genre: Crime, Drama
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Story:
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Style:
sincere, harsh, captivating, rough, art house ...
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teen drama
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
south africa, africa, johannesburg south africa, boston
Similarity:
43%
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:
cult classic, brutal, independent film, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
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Time:
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Similarity:
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