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Sleight (2016)
10K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A young street magician is left to take care of his little sister after his mother's passing and turns to drug dealing in the Los Angeles party scene to keep a roof over their heads. When he gets into trouble with his supplier, his sister is kidnapped and he is forced to rely on both his sleight of hand and brilliant mind to save her.
Style:
bleak, psychological, tense, suspense, rough, hood
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
card trick, heroes, drug, superhero, magic, teenage boy, family relations, vengeance, danger, survival, debt, society, couple relations, magician, ghetto, gang, witchcraft, kidnapping, wizards and magicians, wrestling, drug dealer, african american, superhuman, urban, black ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
usa, los angeles, san diego california
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out rough, realistic, serious and tense films with plots about gangster, society, urban, gang, ghetto, black and drug dealing mostly in Drama, Crime and Thriller genres. Some movies like Sleight: Fast Color (2018), Gang Tapes (2001), Gully (2019), Straight Out of Brooklyn (1991), Cost of a Soul (2010). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A woman is forced to go on the run when her superhuman abilities are discovered. Years after having abandoned her family, the only place she has left to hide is home.
Style:
psychological, sincere, touching, unusual plot structure, tense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
father daughter relationship, mother daughter relationship, countryside, family home, mother, daughter, black girl, black history, family relations, runaway, supernatural, supernatural power ...
Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
When a brutal carjacking yields a videocamera, a teenage boy decides to document his life and the lives of his fellow gangbangers.
Style:
rough, serious, hood, tense, suspense ...
Plot:
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Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A slightly dystopian vision of LA, we follow three disaffected teenagers, Jessie, Calvin and Nicky, all victims of extreme childhoods, running supreme hedonistic riot as they try to work out a way in life.
Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A Special Jury Award winner at the Sundance Film Festival, this drama stars a then-19-year-old Matty Rich (who also wrote and directed it). Rich plays Larry, a troubled teen living in the rough Red Hook section of Brooklyn who decides he wants out ...
Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
urban, gang, black, hip hop, african american, black gangster, blaxploitation, downbeat ending, hip hop culture, thug life, villain, thug ...
Time:
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Place:
new york, usa, brooklyn new york city
Similarity:
43%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Wounded in the war, Tommy Donahue and DD Davis return home from Iraq to the slum neighborhood they grew up in. Tommy returns to his wife, Faith, whom he abandoned while she was pregnant to escape a life of crime. Tommy meets his disabled six ...
Style:
realistic, serious, tense, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
racism, murder, iraq war, urban ghetto, haunted by the past, homecoming, family problems, gang, society, war veteran, profanity, violent content ...
Time:
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Place:
usa, philadelphia, pennsylvania
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
New Jersey Drive is a 1995 film about black youths in Newark, New Jersey, the unofficial "car theft capital of the world". Their favorite pastime is that of everybody in their neighborhood: stealing cars and joyriding. The trouble starts ...
Style:
hood, melancholic, brutal, serious, disturbing ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gang, brutality, ghetto, police investigation, urban, vengeance, hip hop, murder, lone hero, black, teenage life, drug dealing ...
Time:
90s, 70s
Place:
new jersey, new york, usa, california
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
When Curtis Snow steals a video camera from some college kids during a dope deal, he gives the camera to his best friend, Pancho, and they start documenting their lives. At first its business as usual for Curtis. He robs dope boys, he runs from the ...
Style:
realistic, serious, hood, captivating, rough ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
atlanta georgia
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama, Crime, Action
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Style:
hood, serious, rough, suspenseful, bleak ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
urban ghetto life, gang, urban, gangster, drug dealing, family life, ghetto, buddies, juvenile delinquency, friendship, social decay, chaos and mayhem ...
Time:
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Place:
usa, memphis, philadelphia
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Goldie returns from five years at the state pen and winds up king of the pimping game. Trouble comes in the form of two corrupt white cops and a crime lord who wants him to return to the small time.
Style:
grindhouse, hood, independent film, funny, cult classic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
blaxploitation, urban, african american, black, exploitation, ghetto, pimp, corrupt cop, street life, corruption, revenge, prison ...
Time:
70s
Place:
oakland california, bay area, usa, california
Similarity:
35%
259
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A teen commits murder, gets away with it and a year later, he turns himself in, but before doing so, he confesses to the victim's family.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, rough, suspense, crime drama ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gang, going straight, haunted by the past, police investigation, criminal heroes, gangster, redemption, teenage life, society, crime gone awry, drug dealing, hopes ...
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A NYPD detective attempts to avenge the death of her father, but unwittingly becomes involved with one of his killers.
Style:
tense, serious, captivating, suspense, psychological ...
Plot:
profanity, vengeance, danger, rivalry, law enforcement, murder, unlikely couple, brainwashing, religious fanaticism, violent content, romancing a criminal, urban ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
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Style:
hood, realistic, rough, bleak, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
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Place:
usa, boston
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
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Style:
rough, realistic, serious, bleak, tense ...
Plot:
urban ghetto life, gangster, juvenile delinquency, racism, social decay, dishonesty, city life, dysfunctional family, police investigation, interracial relations, drug dealing, law enforcement ...
Place:
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Similarity:
34%
2K
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Over the course of one day, a shy 13-year-old forms a bond with his troubled uncle.
Style:
serious, captivating, touching, realistic, rough ...
Plot:
boy, family relations, odd couple, dysfunctional family, friendship, black, life is a bitch, orphan, danger, african american, hip hop culture, urban ...
Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Style:
suspense, tense, realistic, serious, captivating ...
Plot:
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Place:
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Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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Style:
hood, suspense, exciting, suspenseful, crime drama ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
32%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, rough ...
Plot:
fighting crime, gangster, hitman, police detective, drug dealing, rivalry, danger, murder, crime boss, city life, dishonesty, tough law enforcer ...
Time:
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Place:
california, usa, los angeles
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A former ranch hand confronts the realities of drug addiction and runs afoul of a local gangster after he moves to Los Angeles.
Style:
serious, realistic, tense, captivating, crime drama ...
Plot:
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Time:
21st century
Place:
los angeles, usa, south america
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
hip hop, urban, ghetto, rapper, black, discrimination, hip hop culture, gang, drug dealing, partner, gangster, friends ...
Time:
90s
Place:
south america, los angeles, new orleans, california, usa ...
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
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Style:
captivating, psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful ...
Plot:
secret agent, undercover, small town, dishonesty, righting the wronged, secret organization, rivalry, danger, society, going straight, small town life, leadership ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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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:
30%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
The younger sister of a feared African American crime boss and the nephew of his powerful Latina nemesis go on the run in a customized Cadillac convertible packed with $20 million in drugs in this romantic crime drama. Julia and Romano have fallen ...
Style:
captivating, suspense, tense, psychological, rough ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
usa
Similarity:
30%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
Story:
An NFL veteran who's become a college-town drug kingpin takes in a protégé, but eventually the relationship turns volatile and deadly.
Style:
suspense, captivating, psychological, tense, suspenseful
Plot:
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Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Style:
tense, suspenseful, rough, suspense, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
usa, new orleans
Similarity:
29%
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Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Deep into Hell Week, a favored pledgee is torn between honoring his code of silence or standing up against the intensifying violence of underground hazing.
Style:
captivating, tense, psychological, disturbing, suspense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
brotherhood, university, black, danger, murder, youth, society, friendship, disorder, death, greed, obsession ...
Time:
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Similarity:
29%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Ken was making his life by smuggling methamphetamine with long time buddy, Kazu. Ken has decided to start a new life when he learned that his girlfriend, Saki, became pregnant. At the same time, Ken finds out that Kazu started selling on the side ...
Style:
suspenseful, tense, psychological, disturbing, suspense
Plot:
pregnant woman, drug dealer, amphetamine, japanese woman, girlfriend, mechanic, partner, japanese girl, drug deal, drug, gangster, rise to the top ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA, Jamaica
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A raw urban drama about two friends raised on the dangerous streets of Kingston, Jamaica. Biggs and Wayne take on the "Shotta" way of life to survive. As young boys, they begin a life of crime, eventually moving to the US where they begin ...
Style:
hood, realistic, serious, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gang violence, gangster, street gang, urban, police chase, criminal heroes, social decay, black, immigrant, partner, disorder, drug dealing ...
Place:
caribbean, miami, usa, florida, jamaica
Similarity:
28%
400
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
"Boyz N the Hood" meets "Blood In, Blood Out" in this gritty tale of life on the streets of East L.A. Danny (Jacob Vargas), Alfonso (Greg Serano) and Raymo (Clifton Collins Jr.) are lifelong friends who have spent their days ...
Style:
tense, suspense, suspenseful, rough, crime drama ...
Plot:
latinx lead, ex convict, tragedy, murder, criminal, drug dealer, friend, money, robbery, prison, gang, die hard ...
Place:
los angeles, south america, california
Similarity:
28%
14K
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Tommy Brown and Sincere are best friends as well as infamous and ruthless criminals and shot-callers in the hood. Respected by many but feared by all. As the police are closing in on them and new players are looking for a come up, will their reign ...
Style:
hood, independent film, stylized, crime drama, realistic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
gangster, hip hop, african american, urban, urban ghetto life, ghetto, drug dealer, black, drug, violence, gangsta, gang ...
Time:
year 1998, 90s
Place:
jamaica, new york, usa, new jersey
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28%
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