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Shotgun Stories (2007)
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Shotgun Stories (2007)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Shotgun Stories tracks a feud that erupts between two sets of half brothers following the death of their father. Set against the cotton fields and back roads of Southeast Arkansas, these brothers discover the lengths to which each will go to protect their family.
Style: bleak, depressing, suspense, harsh, realistic, suspenseful, psychological, serious, southern gothic, independent film ...
Plot: vengeance, revenge, violence, family relations, brutality, violent, character study, sibling relationship, family bonds, siblings relations, family feud, parents and children, life is a bitch, estrangement, human nature, hopes, dealing with death, small town, feud, murder, hate, gambling, rivalry, funeral, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time: year 2007, 90s, 20th century, 80s, contemporary
Place: usa, arkansas, california
Keyword: americana, gangsters, challenge

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Most similar movies to Shotgun Stories

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, serious, realistic and independent film films with plots about murder, family relations, violence, profanity, violent content, vengeance and blood mostly in Drama, Thriller and Crime genres. Some movies like Shotgun Stories: Reservation Road (2007), Red (2008), The Crossing Guard (1995), Blue Ruin (2013), Undertow (2004). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Reservation Road (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Two fathers' lives intersect when one of them is involved in a terrible and sudden hit-and-run car accident that leaves the other's son dead. In response, the two men (Joaquin Phoenix and Mark Ruffalo) react in unexpected ways as a ...
Style: psychological, intense, suspenseful, bleak, emotional ...
Plot: investigation, obsession, dysfunctional family, lawyer, character study, family problems, losing-it hero, parents and children, death in the family, tragedy, vengeance, redemption ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: usa
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100%
 6.9
 13K
Red (2008)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: An older, reclusive man's best friend and inspiration for living is his 14-year-old dog named "Red". When three troublesome teens kill the dog for no good reason, the grieving man sets out for justice and redemption by whatever means ...
Style: suspense, touching, tense, serious, disturbing ...
Plot: dog, justice, redemption, murder, twists and turns, small town, revenge, brutality, vigilante, violence, greed, pets ...
Time: 20th century, year 2008, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Crossing Guard (1995)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: After his daughter died in a hit and run, Freddy Gale has waited six years for John Booth, the man responsible, to be released from prison. On the day of release, Gale visits Booth and announces that he will kill him in one week. Booth uses his time ...
Style: bleak, suspenseful, suspense, emotional, intense ...
Plot: haunted by the past, murder, obsession, hit and run, tragedy, redemption, vengeance, loss of daughter, justice, crime gone awry, car accident, tragic event ...
Time: 90s
Place: nebraska, usa, los angeles, glendale california
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.1
 78K
Blue Ruin (2013)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The quiet life of a beach bum is upended by dreadful news. He sets off for his childhood home to carry out an act of vengeance but proves an inept assassin and finds himself in a brutal fight to protect his estranged family.
Style: neo noir, independent film, atmospheric, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot: vengeance, revenge, vigilante, violence, vigilantism, murder, brutality, violent, storytelling, haunted by the past, car, disorder ...
Time: year 2013, 2010s, 90s, 21st century
Place: virginia, ethiopia, usa, delaware
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Undertow (2004)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: The Munns, father John and sons Chris and Tim, recede to the woods of rural Georgia. Their life together is forever changed with the arrival of Uncle Deel, though the tragedy that follows forces troubled Chris to become a man.
Style: harsh, suspense, suspenseful, depressing, intense ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: coming of age, dysfunctional family, juvenile delinquency, murder, brutality, tragedy, homelessness, danger, lifestyle, parents and children, violence, boy ...
Time: year 2004, 21st century
Place: georgia, usa, iceland, nebraska, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done (2009)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Brad (Michael Shannon) has committed murder and barricaded himself inside his house. With the help of his friends and neighbours, the cops piece together the strange tale of how this nice young man arrived at such a dark place; Based on a true ...
Style: atmospheric, stylized, serious, realistic, surreal ...
Plot: mental illness, murder, psychopath, obsession, crazy, memory, family problems, family relations, law enforcement, delusion, parents and children, dysfunctional family ...
Time: year 2009, 21st century
Place: california, peru, usa, san diego california
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.4
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Mud (2012)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story: Two teenage boys encounter a fugitive and make a pact to help him escape from an island in the Mississippi.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, touching, realistic, southern gothic ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, friendship, childhood, ex convict, first love, bittersweet, fugitives, obsession, river, love story, survival, small town ...
Time: year 2012, year 2013, 2010s, 21st century
Place: mississippi, usa, arkansas
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.7
 42K
Confessions (2010)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A psychological thriller of a grieving mother turned cold-blooded avenger with a twisty master plan to pay back those who were responsible for her daughter's death.
Style: unusual plot structure, twisted, disturbing, visually appealing, mind twisting ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: vengeance, revenge, teachers and students, grief, japanese schoolgirl, dead daughter, teenage murderer, twists and turns, bullying, child murder, extreme, asian ...
Time: 2010s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: japan, east asia, tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Movie in collections
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Blood Crime (2002)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: For burned-out Seattle cop Daniel Pruitt, a camping trip turns hellish when his wife, Jessica, is savagely attacked in the forest. En route to the hospital, the Pruitts collide with a semi, and Jessica identifies the driver as her assailant. ...
Style: suspenseful, realistic, serious, suspense
Plot: vengeance, rivalry, dishonesty, police investigation, murder, law enforcement, life is a bitch, small town, mistaken identity, nypd, violent content, small town life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: seattle, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Midnight Special (2016)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Greece
Duration: 112 min.
Story: A father and son go on the run after the dad learns his child possesses special powers.
Style: futuristic, road movie, atmospheric, tricky, stylized ...
Audience: date night
Plot: father son relationship, supernatural, on the run, chase, superhuman powers, parallel universe, kidnapping, supernatural ability, fbi, goggles, existentialism, survival ...
Time: distant future, year 2015, year 2016, 2010s, 21st century
Place: texas, usa, louisiana, atlanta georgia
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
 5.0
 407
Canal Street (2018)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A Chicago lawyer embraces his undying faith when his teenage son is accused of murdering a classmate.
Style: rough, exciting, thought provoking, captivating, suspense ...
Plot: father son relationship, society, murder, rivalry, death, hopes, parents and children, vengeance, violence, friendship, heroes, life is a bitch ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
 7.5
 29
Resilience (2006)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: An average man finds himself in a position to prevent the murder of a family member -- the unnerving descent of a man caught between resilience and ruthlessness.
Style: tense, psychological, serious, suspenseful, independent film ...
Plot: moral dilemma, life is a bitch, rivalry, dishonesty, human nature, life turned upside down, feud, murder, sexual content, violent content, nudity, alcohol abuse ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Out of the Furnace (2013)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Two brothers live in the economically-depressed Rust Belt, when a cruel twist of fate lands one in prison. His brother is then lured into one of the most violent crime rings in the Northeast.
Style: suspenseful, bleak, realistic, neo noir, harsh ...
Audience: boys' night, girls' night, family friendly
Plot: revenge, drug dealer, small town, vigilante, brothers, disappearance, character study, ex convict, vigilantism, going straight, mysterious character, loss of sibling ...
Time: year 2013, 80s, 20th century, 2010s, 2000s ...
Place: usa, new jersey, pittsburgh, pennsylvania, indiana ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Bringing Out the Dead (1999)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story: 48 hours in the life of a burnt-out paramedic. Once called Father Frank for his efforts to rescue lives, Frank sees the ghosts of those he failed to save around every turn. He has tried everything he can to get fired, calling in sick, delaying ...
Style: psychological, bleak, atmospheric, serious, dark comedy ...
Plot: medical, mental illness, hospital, hallucination, ambulance, crime gone awry, rescue, redemption, haunted by the past, patient, dealing with death, misfit partners ...
Time: 90s, year 1999, 20th century
Place: new york, usa, empire state building manhattan new york city, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 4.9
 50
Victimized (2014)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Matt Miller has spent his entire life living in the shadows of his brother. He believes if his brother were to disappear then so would all his problems. So one deadly night Matt decides to take matters into his own hands.
Style: tense, bleak, suspenseful, psychological, scary ...
Plot: murder, revenge, violence, brother brother relationship, gay, family relations, strong violent content, escapades, characters in danger, violent, society, threat ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
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5th & Alameda (2011)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: Sara, a pregnant woman, is the innocent bystander in a robbery, committed by reluctant criminal, Derek. After being accidentally shot in the robbery, Sara loses her child. Returning home, she is shocked to find Derek there with a gun, but things are ...
Style: realistic, suspenseful, serious, tense, independent film ...
Plot: vengeance, redemption, hopes, human nature, unlikely criminals, crime gone awry, rivalry, disorder, femme fatale, power relations, life is a bitch, pickpocket ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, iran
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 6.8
 51K
Joe (2013)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: The rough-hewn boss of a lumber crew courts trouble when he steps in to protect the youngest member of his team from an abusive father.
Style: touching, dark, atmospheric, depressing, southern gothic ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: father son relationship, child abuse, alcoholic, coming of age, friendship, woods, teenage boy, small town, hopes, teenager, character study, loneliness ...
Time: year 2013, 21st century
Place: texas, midwest, britain, usa, mississippi
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Deep Dark Canyon (2013)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Bloom Towne is a small-town sheriff under the thumb of the well-established, deeply influential Mayor Dick Cavanaugh's family. When Bloom's two teenage sons, Nate and Skylar accidentally shoot and kill Dick during a deer-hunt, Bloom's ...
Style: exciting, suspenseful, tense, suspense, captivating ...
Plot: small town, manhunt, chase, on the run, violent content, woods, parents and children, murder, revenge, brother brother relationship, police, escape ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Love's a Bitch (2000)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 154 min.
Story: Three different people in Mexico City are catapulted into dramatic and unforeseen circumstances in the wake of a terrible car crash: a young punk stumbles into the sinister underground world of dog fighting; an injured supermodel's designer ...
Style: bleak, psychological, depressing, emotional, tense ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: multiple storylines, dog, forbidden love, machismo, rottweiler, hitman, siblings relations, multiple perspectives, betrayal, vengeance, marital problem, relationships ...
Time: year 2000, y2k, 90s, year 1999, 2000s ...
Place: latin america, mexico, mexico city
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Nocturnal Animals (2016)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, China
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Susan Morrow receives a book manuscript from her ex-husband – a man she left 20 years earlier – asking for her opinion of his writing. As she reads, she is drawn into the fictional life of Tony Hastings, a mathematics professor whose family ...
Style: psychological thriller, neo noir, psychological, suspense, mindfuck ...
Audience: adult
Plot: writers, revenge, husband wife relationship, divorce, loss of family, infidelity, abortion, rape, rape and murder, symbolism, ex husband, grief ...
Time: year 2016, 2010s
Place: texas, los angeles, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Bright Angel (1990)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Road-movie from Montana to Wyoming. A gullible, innocent young man (Mulroney) assists a versatile girl (Taylor) on her long quest to get her brother out of jail.
Style: road movie, serious, suspenseful, realistic, neo noir ...
Plot: destructive relationship, family problems, on the road, jail, life is a bitch, dysfunctional family, teenage life, siblings relations, parents and children, brother, marital problem, hidden treasure ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: usa, montana, wyoming
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 4.7
 320
Annie's Garden (1997)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: In front of his 15-year-old son, a father loses his temper and strikes his younger daughter, thinking she's trying to run away from him. Jump ahead ten years: the dad is dead, the mom is gone, and the son, Luke, is raising his now grown sister, ...
Style: independent film, realistic, serious, suspenseful
Plot: bad father, small town, life is a bitch, youth, family problems, family relations, small town life, siblings relations, dysfunctional family, journal, secret, death of father ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 5.4
 13K
Hush (1998)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Jackson and Helen are in love and about to have their first child when they move in with Jackson's mother, Martha, in order to take care of the family estate. But all is not well in this household. Martha is jealous of her son's affection ...
Style: suspenseful, suspense, scary, emotional, serious ...
Plot: domineering mother, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, mentally unstable, dysfunctional family, pregnancy, borderline personality disorder, family problems, parents and children, manipulation, female nudity, pregnant wife, danger ...
Time: 20th century, year 1998, 90s
Place: kentucky, new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Cape Fear (1962)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Sam Bowden witnesses a rape committed by Max Cady and testifies against him. When released after 8 years in prison, Cady begins stalking Bowden and his family but is always clever enough not to violate the law.
Style: neo noir, tense, suspense, disturbing, black and white ...
Plot: psychopath, stalking, revenge, lawyer, danger, obsession, serial killer, family in danger, villain, justice, vigilante, psychology ...
Time: year 1962, 60s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Psycho Brother-In-Law (2017)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: With her husband working all the time, Kate is thankful when her brother-in-law David reappears to help out. But she soon realizes that he wants to be the new head of the family, and will do anything to make that happen.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, psychological, disturbing, unusual plot structure
Plot: psychopath, brother in law, hostage, murder, brother brother relationship, brother brother conflict, brothers, family relations, psycho, vengeance, violence, danger ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 7.5
 76K
A Simple Plan (1998)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Germany, France, USA, Japan
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Captivated by the lure of sudden wealth, the quiet rural lives of two brothers erupt into conflicts of greed, paranoia and distrust when over $4 million in cash is discovered at the remote site of a downed small airplane. Their simple plan to retain ...
Style: neo noir, psychological, suspenseful, suspense, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: greed, snow, small town, betrayal, fbi, bag of money, heist, winter, twists and turns, character study, moral ambiguity, redemption ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, year 1998
Place: minnesota, usa, wisconsin
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Blood of My Blood (2007)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Argentina
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A Mexican boy smuggles himself to Brooklyn to meet his long-lost father - only to have his identity stolen upon arrival by an impostor who seeks to steal the fathers' fortune.
Style: suspenseful, serious, psychological, realistic, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: family relations, starting over, estrangement, parents and children, hopes, on the road, criminal heroes, mexican immigrant, boy, coming of age, border, immigrant ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 6.5
 34K
Instinct (1999)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story: In a prison for the criminally insane, deranged anthropologist Ethan Powell is set to be examined by a bright young psychiatrist, Theo Caulder. Driven by ambition and a hunger for the truth, Caulder will eventually risk everything -- even put his ...
Style: philosophical, psychological, suspense, emotional, touching ...
Plot: prison, murder, estrangement, psychologist, redemption, violence, insanity, greed, survival, corruption, doctors and patients, human animal relationship ...
Time: 90s
Place: usa, africa, florida, rwanda, cuba
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 6.0
 44K
13 (2010)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A naive young man assumes a dead man's identity and finds himself embroiled in an underground world of power, violence, and chance where men gamble behind closed doors on the lives of other men.
Style: bleak, psychological, tense, serious, disturbing ...
Plot: russian roulette, greed, gambling, game of death, organized crime, murder, survival, danger, fish out of water, life is a bitch, profanity, society ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, pennsylvania, midwest, delaware, grand central station manhattan new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 6.2
 12K
Edmond (2005)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Seemingly mild-mannered businessman Edmond Burke visits a fortuneteller and hears a remark that spurs him to leave his wife abruptly and seek what is missing from his life. Encounters with strangers and unsavory people weaken the barriers ...
Style: psychological, bleak, disturbing, intense, stylized ...
Plot: bipolar disorder, murder, midlife crisis, oral sex, redemption, starting over, prison, society, unlikely criminals, self control, sodomy, character study ...
Time: year 2005, 21st century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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