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Divines (2016)
11K
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France, Qatar
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
In a ghetto where religion and drug trafficking rub shoulders, Dounia has a lust for power and success. Supported by Maimouna, her best friend, she decides to follow in the footsteps of Rebecca, a respected dealer. But her encounter with Djigui, a young, disturbingly sensual dancer, throws her off course.
Style:
tense, captivating, thought provoking, suspenseful, disturbing, touching, sad, art house, hood, mind twisting ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens
Plot:
poverty, friendship, police, seduction, slum, urban decay, ghetto, street gang, dancer, greed, danger, money, criminal, fire, female friendship, male nudity, teenage girl, best friend, nightclub, trafficking, blood, night, cell phone, hashish, supermarket ...
Time:
2010s, year 2016, 21st century
Place:
paris france, france, indiana
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Most similar movies to Divines
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, realistic, tense and hood films with plots about gang, ghetto, gangster, police, coming of age, friendship and society mostly in Drama, Crime and Thriller genres. Some movies like Divines: City of God (2002), Street Flow (2019), Hate (1995), Les Misérables (2019), The Hate U Give (2018). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
864K
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Brazil, France
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
Cidade de Deus is a shantytown that started during the 1960s and became one of Rio de Janeiro’s most dangerous places in the beginning of the 1980s. To tell the story of this place, the movie describes the life of various characters, all seen by ...
Style:
rough, bleak, hood, sexy, stylized ...
Audience:
teen drama, adult
Plot:
gang, violence, ghetto, favela, coming of age, storytelling, gang war, gangster, society, juvenile delinquency, organized crime, journalism ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 2003, 2000s, future ...
Place:
latin america, rio de janeiro, south america, brazil, africa
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100%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Noumouké, from the suburb of Paris, is about to decide which brother's foot steps to follow - the lawyer student Soulaymaan or the gangster Demba.
Style:
tense, captivating, psychological, sincere, disturbing
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
ghetto, poverty, three brothers, youth, ambition, life is a bitch, danger, culture clash, rivalry, society, small town, escapades ...
Place:
france
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223K
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Aimlessly whiling away their days in the concrete environs of their dead-end suburbia, Vinz, Hubert, and Said -- a Jew, African, and an Arab -- give human faces to France's immigrant populations, their bristling resentment at their social ...
Style:
bleak, art house, disturbing, cult classic, thought provoking ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
racism, rebel, poverty, skinhead, youth, ghetto, brutality, police brutality, friendship, rebellion, urban ghetto life, misfit ...
Time:
20th century, year 1995, 90s
Place:
paris france, france, middle east, europe
Similarity:
67%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
With a gun at his belt and a truncheon in his hand, Pento has just joined the Seine-Saint-Denis anti-crime brigade, an inner suburb of Paris. On the same team as Chris and Gwada, two men with occasionally “peculiar” methods, he soon discovers ...
Style:
realistic, crime thriller, art house, suspense, political ...
Plot:
ghetto, money, police, thief, organized crime, society, life is a bitch, police officer, father son relationship, pursuit, police investigation, danger ...
Time:
2010s, year 2019, 2000s
Place:
paris france, france
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
Raised in a poverty-stricken slum, a 16-year-old girl named Starr now attends a suburban prep school. After she witnesses a police officer shoot her unarmed best friend, she's torn between her two very different worlds as she tries to speak her ...
Style:
hood, captivating, teen, social, sad ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, teen drama
Plot:
racism, ghetto, african american, father son relationship, father daughter relationship, loss of friend, black, coming of age, black lives matter, private school, black history, teenager ...
Time:
2010s
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11K
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Oppressed by her family setting, dead-end school prospects and the boys law in the neighborhood, Marieme starts a new life after meeting a group of three free-spirited girls. She changes her name, her dress code, and quits school to be accepted in ...
Style:
sentimental, serious, touching, captivating, hood ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, friendship, teenager, youth, society, poverty, peer pressure, street gang, against the rules, dull life, teenage life, black ...
Time:
2010s, 90s, 21st century
Place:
paris france, africa, france
Similarity:
28%
32K
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK, South Africa
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
The South African multi-award winning film about a young South African boy from the ghetto named Tsotsi, meaning Gangster. Tsotsi, who left home as a child to get away from helpless parents, finds a baby in the back seat of a car that he has just ...
Style:
sincere, harsh, captivating, rough, art house ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
redemption, baby, urban ghetto life, poverty, criminal, slum, gang, childhood, friendship, street life, murder, coming of age ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
south africa, africa, johannesburg south africa, boston
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Colombia, Denmark, Mexico, Germany, Switzerland, France
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
During the marijuana bonanza, a violent decade that saw the origins of drug trafficking in Colombia, Rapayet and his indigenous Wayuu family get involved in a booming business of selling marijuana to American youth in the 1970s. When greed, passion ...
Style:
thought provoking, political, captivating, factual, psychological ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
revenge, marijuana, murder, drug trade, wealth, marriage, corruption, money, baby, humiliation, rivalry, danger ...
Time:
60s, year 1979, 80s, 70s, 2010s ...
Place:
south america, colombia
Similarity:
27%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Corniche Kennedy. In the blue of the Mediterranean, at the foot of luxurious villas, the young kids of Marseille defy the laws of gravity. Marco, Mehdi, Franck, Mélissa, Hamza, Mamaa, Julie : girls and boys dive, take flight, take risks to ...
Style:
sexy, suspense, captivating, contemplative, unusual plot structure ...
Plot:
seaside, nude, love triangle, friendship, group of friends, drug, hiding place, teenage boy, police, teenage girl, friend, sea ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
france, mediterranean sea, south of france, marseille
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Summer, New York City. A college girl falls hard for a guy she just met. After a night of partying goes wrong, she goes to wild extremes to get him back.
Style:
sexy, tense, erotic, controversial, suspense ...
Audience:
girls' night, adult
Plot:
violence, drug addict, sexual promiscuity, drug dealer, blonde, sex scene, female protagonist, sex in car, partying, relationships, sex in office, blonde girl ...
Place:
new york
Similarity:
27%
107K
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 155 min.
Story:
Sentenced to six years in prison, Malik El Djebena (Tahar Rahim) is alone in the world and can neither read nor write. On his arrival at the prison, he seems younger and more brittle than the others detained there. At once he falls under the sway of ...
Style:
tense, harsh, rough, breathtaking, atmospheric ...
Audience:
manly, boys' night
Plot:
prison, mafia, prison life, gangster, cruelty, male nudity, organized crime, male objectification, convict, prison gang, prison escape, coming of age ...
Time:
year 2009, 2000s, 90s, year 2010, 21st century
Place:
france, marseille, europe, paris france, california
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Revolves around the relationship between a gambling addict and a young woman who falls madly in love with him and will stop at nothing to win his heart.
Style:
sexy, captivating, realistic, sentimental, psychological
Plot:
love, dangerous attraction, addiction, debt, fall in love, couples, society, sexuality, women, sex scene, bare chested male, female nudity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
paris france, france
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK, France
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Experienced New York Police Detective John Harris is sent to London to help a local task force investigate a series of gangster killings organized by a new player in town, an American.With the help of a young teen wronged by gangsters, Harris ...
Style:
hood, realistic, serious, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gang, gangster, police officer, interracial, ghetto, rave, police, drug dealing, nightclub, police corruption, society, politics ...
Time:
90s
Place:
london, europe, new york, england, usa
Similarity:
27%
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, sexual, captivating, crime drama, independent film ...
Plot:
gang, criminal gang, urban ghetto life, ghetto, urban, black, blaxploitation, hip hop, african american, father son relationship, father son reunion, drug dealing ...
Time:
90s, 80s, year 1992
Place:
los angeles, california, usa, south central los angeles, africa
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Struggling to overcome cycles of betrayal, revenge and violence, the Traoré brothers continue to fight for a brighter future in a seedy Paris suburb.
Style:
crime drama, thrilling, suspenseful, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
revenge, criminal, street life, gang violence, violence, brotherhood, brother brother relationship, brothers, life is a bitch, social problems, moral ambiguity, social commentary ...
Place:
paris france
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Story:
After the death of his brother (Tommy), RJ moves in with Gang Leader (Cane) and quickly finds himself wrapped up in a world of abuse and drugs. Local businessman (Dave) is watching the things he loves disappear in front of his very eyes. What ...
Style:
disturbing, psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful
Plot:
gang, gangster, drug, police, drunkenness, violence, robbery, sex, street gang, gang leader, murder, vengeance ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: India, USA, France, UK
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Before Slumdog Millionaire came Salaam Bombay!, Mira Nair’s Oscar-nominated drama tells the moving story of life on the streets of Bombay as seen through the eyes of Chaipu, a twelve-year-old boy living rough in the city.
Style:
realistic, touching, social, art house, offbeat ...
Plot:
kids in trouble, drug addiction, coming of age, homeless, red light district, drug, sex, childhood, youth, corruption, betrayal, friendship ...
Time:
year 1988, 20th century, 80s
Place:
india, mumbai india, asia, bombay india
Similarity:
26%
18K
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France, India
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Dheepan is a Sri Lankan Tamil warrior who flees to France and ends up working as a caretaker outside Paris.
Style:
political, emotional, bleak, disturbing, realistic ...
Plot:
immigrant, violent, refugee, culture clash, character study, greed, language barrier, gangster, illegal immigration, migration, social realism, orphan ...
Time:
year 2015, 2010s
Place:
france, paris france, sri lanka, middle east, india
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: China, France
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A gangster on the run, sacrifices everything for his family and a woman he meets while on the lam.
Style:
neo noir, captivating, disturbing, tense, sincere ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gangster, prostitute, motorcycle, giraffe, revenge, boat, police, life is a bitch, fugitives, escapades, self sacrifice, determination ...
Time:
year 2012
Place:
china
Similarity:
26%
208
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
After his cousin is shot and killed by a white police officer in Chicago and Black Lives Matter protests spread across the city, a black inner city teen desperately fights for a way out of the most notorious murder capital of America.
Style:
captivating, serious, suspenseful, tense
Plot:
police, teenager, urban ghetto, urban ghetto life, black lives matter, bandit, black, violent, teenage boy, black cast, violence, ghetto ...
Similarity:
26%
108K
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
When two poor greasers, Johnny, and Ponyboy are assaulted by a vicious gang, the socs, and Johnny kills one of the attackers, tension begins to mount between the two rival gangs, setting off a turbulent chain of events.
Style:
teen, homoerotic, melancholic, intense, hood ...
Audience:
teens, family outing, pre-teens, kids, girls' night ...
Plot:
coming of age, gang, teen angst, dysfunctional family, street gang, teenager, book, brother brother relationship, small town, friendship, juvenile delinquent, rebellious teenager ...
Time:
60s, year 1964, 1900s, 1950s, future ...
Place:
oklahoma, oklahoma city, usa, north america
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, France, Belgium, USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
On a relentless quest to avenge his sister's murder, a man from Cape Town infiltrates a sprawling network of lowlifes and elites in Los Angeles.
Style:
suspense, captivating, tense, psychological, hood ...
Plot:
revenge, vengeance, drug, corpse, party, violence, uncover truth, vigilante, investigation, danger, underground, fight ...
Time:
year 2016
Place:
los angeles, south africa
Similarity:
26%
876
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Layla, a 15-year-old living in Brixton, London, becomes involved with a gang and must set up a boy to be killed.
Style:
disturbing, thought provoking, suspenseful, captivating, sentimental ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
teenage girl, cheating boyfriend, mother son relationship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, teenage boy, female protagonist, jealousy, shoplifting, urban setting, women of color, dating, twists and turns ...
Place:
london
Similarity:
26%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Police commander Simon Weiss, head of the division that supervises Paris’s demi-monde, starts out on his nightly tour of bars, discos and strip clubs, making sure once again that the owners don’t bend the rules too far. Weiss knows he’s ...
Style:
neo noir, serious, suspenseful, noir, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
police corruption, intrigue, rivalry, lifestyle, dishonesty, nightlife, betrayal, friendship, gay club, female detective, police, organized crime ...
Time:
year 2012, 21st century
Place:
france, paris france, europe
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK, USA
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 ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
gang, gang member, coming of age, friendship, chicano, juvenile delinquency, teenager, drug dealing, unlikely friendships, gangster, urban ghetto, urban ...
Time:
year 1993, 90s
Place:
los angeles, south america, usa, tokyo, california ...
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
The music of Cheap Trick, The Cars, and The Ramones highlights this realistic tale of alienated suburban youth on the rampage. Dillon makes his screen debut in this updated, well-done "Rebel Without a Cause." Shelved for several years, the ...
Style:
independent film, grindhouse, offbeat, cult classic, hood ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, teen angst, teenage gang, marijuana, teenager, street gang, youth gang, lsd, youth, gang, punk rock, teensploitation ...
Time:
70s, year 1979, 20th century
Place:
colorado, usa, denver colorado
Similarity:
26%
53K
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, Belgium
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
An inside look at Italy's modern-day crime families, the Camorra in Naples and Caserta. Based on a book by Roberto Saviano. Power, money and blood: these are the "values" that the residents of the Province of Naples and Caserta have ...
Style:
tense, harsh, realistic, serious, depressing ...
Plot:
juvenile delinquency, gang war, mafia, camorra, gangster, death, danger, organized crime, italian mafia, gang, power, character study ...
Time:
year 2008, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
italy, napoli italy, europe, venice, miami ...
Similarity:
26%
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:
26%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Star high school dancer Amanda's life spirals out of control when she starts abusing painkillers with her new friends.
Style:
thought provoking, tense, psychological, sentimental, captivating ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
teenager, addiction, high school, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, dancing, theft, lie, overdose, choreography, drug dealer, stealing money, drug ...
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, Brazil, Germany, France, Sweden, USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Pio Amato, a 14 year-old member of a small Romani community in Calabria, is in a hurry to grow up. Pio follows his older brother Cosimo everywhere and from him he learns how to hustle and how to navigate the streets of his hometown. One night Pio ...
Style:
neorealism, psychological, suspense, contemplative, tense ...
Plot:
gypsy, coming of age, male female relationship, friendship, chase, brother sister relationship, betrayal, petty criminal, father son relationship, teenager, family relations, twists and turns ...
Time:
year 2017
Place:
southern italy, italy, rome italy
Similarity:
26%
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