Movies like Nights

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Nights (2000)
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Nights (2000)
Original name: Noites
Genre: Drama
Country: Portugal
Duration: 73 min.
Story: Feature film
Plot: poverty, ruins, injection, urban decay, drug, vomiting, drugs, garbage, female director

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out independent film, realistic, suspense and touching films with plots about poverty, drug, drug addiction, drug addict, family relations, female nudity and life is a bitch mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Nights: Em 4 Jay (2006), Elvira (2013), Black Starlet (1974), Imprisoned (2015), The Party Is Over (2017). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Em 4 Jay (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 87 min.
Story: In a big city downtown we meet Emma and Jay, two young 20 something lovers buying drugs and then watch as they waste the rest of the day away...
Style: art house
Plot: coming of age, drug addict, junkie, injection, sex scene, drug addiction, drug dealer, drug dealing, drug overdose, robbery, drug use, sex ...
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Elvira (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Elvira, an aspiring artist loves art and painting and stops after several suicide attempts. Afterwards she decides to live on the edge taking up an obsessive mad formula created by a Russian poet in which every day she sets foot in the world for the ...
Plot: drug, suicide attempt, male masturbation, prostitute, hospital, woman slaps man
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Black Starlet (1974)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Girl leaves Gary, Indiana, to become a star in Hollywood.
Style: independent film
Plot: blaxploitation, hollywood, betrayal, drug, black, casting couch, stripper, price of fame, fortune, poverty, rags to riches, starlet ...
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Imprisoned (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: Costa Rica, Colombia
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A young girl gets involved in a family drama when she starts a secret friendship with a prison inmate.
Plot: prisoner, poverty, peace, freedom
Place: costa rica
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The Party Is Over (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Despite their differences, Celeste and Sihem quickly become inseparable. The common will to get out of drugs seals their fusional friendship. This will be as much a force as an obstacle when, transferred from the center that welcomes them, they find ...
Plot: friendship, addiction, nudity, rehabilitation, bare breasts, hospital, male nudity, drug addiction, train station, drug addict, massage, female nudity ...
Time: year 2017
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60%
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Dalmas (1973)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Bert Deling's surreal, button-pushing and hallucinogenic paean to the emerging possibilities of avant-garde and homemade filmmaking. Telling the tale of a violent ex-cop searching for the man who killed his partner, the film takes an unexpected ...
Style: avant garde, surreal, independent film, experimental
Plot: police officer, lsd, drug
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57%
Sitting in Limbo (1986)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story: The National Film Board of Canada was one of the guiding forces behind Sitting in Limbo. Fabian Gibbs plays a black Montreal college student forced to leave school when his girlfriend Pat Dillon becomes pregnant. Gibbs resents this interruption in ...
Style: independent film
Plot: poverty, teenage pregnancy, homeless, teenager, canuxploitation, black, racism, juvenile delinquent
Place: montreal, canada
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55%
The Moneytree (1992)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Story: The trials and tribulations of a marijuana grower in Marin County, California.
Style: independent film
Plot: drug, improv, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, money, police, actor, marijuana, harvest, pot
Time: 80s
Place: northern california
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The Days Between (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Lynn (22) lives with her brother in Berlin. There she enjoys the advantages of family life, without really feeling involved in it. She does not have any precise aim in life, but manages to awaken the interest of many people with her direct and ...
Plot: woman, sign language, female nudity, skinny dipping, female pubic hair, vomiting, nude swimming, female full frontal nudity
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50%
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Havlandet (1985)
Genre: Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 90 min.
Story: This is a tale that has an epic scope in scenery "the northern snow-covered lands of coastal Norway" and is dramatized by moments of tumultuous stormy weather. But the focus is on Heikki (Stein Bjorn) a young man who is inspired by the ...
Plot: northern lights, wilderness, poverty, snow, travel, farm, weather, young
Time: 1860s
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49%
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Second Life (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Portugal
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Nicholas celebrates his 40th birthday in his country house, with some friends. He has everything he ever wished for, but, on that night, he will end up dead, on his swimming pool. From that moment on, a dead Nicholas wonders how his life would be if ...
Plot: lgbt, drug, car crash, treachery, harassment, vineyard, black bra, fashion model, flashback, party, lesbianism, marriage ...
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48%
Gebo and the Shadow (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Portugal
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Despite his age and general weariness, Gebo keeps on working as an accountant to provide for his family. He lives with his wife, Doroteia, and his daughter-in-law, Sofia, but it is the absence of João, son and husband, that worries them.Gebo seems ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, suspense, bleak, realistic ...
Plot: poverty, honor, family relations, family problems, parents and children, society, thief, accountant, missing child
Time: 2010s, 19th century
Place: france, portugal
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47%
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Winter Land (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina, France
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Valdivia is a notorious drunk in a Patagonian dead-end town. His current job is to deliver a golden sheep for the mysterios Sr. Ramenfort.
Style: road movie
Plot: job, dead end, poverty, sheep, drunkenness, loneliness
Place: argentina, patagonia
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47%
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Life and a Day (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Somaieh, the youngest daughter of an indigent family, is getting married and fear is overwhelming each and every member of the family regarding how to overcome their difficulties after she's gone.
Style: suspense, captivating, beautiful
Plot: marriage, family relations, poverty, poor, family problems, poor family, family life, relationships, life is a bitch, relationship problems, persian culture, distopia ...
Place: iran, middle east, persia
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42%
Food and Shelter (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A single mother struggles to pay the rent and put food on the table for her 10 year old son.
Style: social, realistic, touching, suspense, serious ...
Plot: poverty, single mother, single parent, parents and children, dysfunctional family, friendship, frustration, bittersweet, ambition, loneliness, working class, strong female lead ...
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42%
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Ocean (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 107 min.
Story: In a small Cuban fishing village, Joel, the oldest brother in a traditional family, is heartbroken when his fiancée marries someone her family prefers. He moves to Havana, hoping to find a new life. Gorgeously photogenic, Havana and the Cuban ...
Plot: prostitute, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, skinny dipping, poverty, fisherman, unfaithful girlfriend, boxer, young
Place: cuba
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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White Powder (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 75 min.
Story: White Powder is an award-winning, riveting micro-budget, independent, British gangsta film. It is set in modern-day, multi-cultural London and features a very diverse cast. It follows the story of 2 young lovers, who try to outwit a bunch of London ...
Style: independent film, suspense
Plot: gangsta, drug, violence, british, gang, cocaine, gun
Place: london
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41%
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Lines (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: Greece
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Greece nowadays. Seven different stories about seven persons who have already reached their limits and finally fall apart. Despite their seemingly obvious connection they are simultaneously connected through a common desperate action: the last phone ...
Style: avant garde
Plot: darkness, psychiatry, surrealism, politics, financial crisis, death, poverty, trauma, self harm
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41%
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In Vanda's Room (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: Portugal, Germany, Switzerland
Duration: 171 min.
Story: With the intimate feel of a documentary and the texture of a Vermeer painting, In Vanda’s Room takes an unflinching, fragmentary look at a handful of self-destructive, marginalized people, but is centered around the heroin-addicted Vanda Duarte.
Style: realistic, touching, emotional, semi documentary, contemplative ...
Plot: addiction, drug abuse, life is a bitch, misfit, social misfits, heroin addict, society, down on your luck, city life, urban ghetto life, poverty, painter ...
Time: 90s
Place: portugal, lisbon portugal
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40%
Brazil Year 2000 (1969)
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Year 2000. Brazil was partially devastated by the Third World War. An immigrant family arrives in a small town, which they call "I Forgot." The trio is recruited by an indigenist to pretend to be Indians during the visit of a general. In ...
Plot: rocket, world war three, devastation, poverty, girl, mother, alternate history
Time: future
Place: brazil
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39%
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Lost Years (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 70 min.
Story: Bart, a young film student slowly loses his mind while studying at the film academy. Based on a true story.
Plot: hallucination, student, schizophrenia, hearing voices, psychosis, director, drug
Place: amsterdam
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The Beans of Egypt, Maine (1994)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: The Beans are poor, proud, hated by all, but alive in the sense that they struggle against their lot and support each other in time of trouble. Earlene lives across the street from the Bean's trailer, and the view from her window is better than ...
Style: independent film
Plot: rural setting, rape, poverty, sexuality, sexual attraction, backwoods, community
Time: year 1994
Place: maine
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38%
Stranger in Town (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A 13-year-old boy, whose single mother moved her family from the big city to a small town, begins to suspect that a stranger who befriends his family is not who he initially appears to be. Harry Hamlin, Graham Green, Rebecca Jenkins and Trevor ...
Plot: youth, drug, adolescence, carpenter, frame up, teenager, murder, small town, boy
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38%
The Lost Generation (1983)
Genre: Drama
Country: Taiwan, Hong Kong
Story: The plot follows a group of women who struggle in Hong Kong, most of them illegal immigrants from mainland China.
Plot: immigrant, integrity, survival, poverty, predator, exploitation, infidelity, urban setting
Place: hong kong
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38%
Los invitados (1987)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A murder is committed in a small village of Andalusia.
Plot: murder, mafia, plantation, marijuana, drug
Place: andalusia
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36%
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White Hot (1988)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A young man, short of money, is persuaided into looking after the business of a local drug dealer for a week or two. Up until then, the guy had been an honest and clean of drugs, but when he spends his days surrounded by riches and drugs, he cannot ...
Style: independent film
Plot: nudity, drug, cocaine, female nudity, gangster, drug dealing, drug addiction, drug addict, woman's neck broken, neck breaking
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36%
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Wasted (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A high-school track star (Nick Stahl) watches without judgment as his two best friends (Summer Phoenix, Aaron Paul) abuse heroin.
Style: thought provoking, realistic, serious, rough, biting ...
Plot: drug addict, high school, friendship, heroin, downfall, life is a bitch, teenage life, kids in trouble, hopes, rehabilitation, lifestyle, going straight ...
Time: 21st century
Place: texas
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36%
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Four Good Days (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A mother helps her daughter work through four crucial days of recovery from substance abuse.
Style: disturbing, suspense, psychological, captivating, touching
Plot: heroin, mother, drug, drug addict, massage, recovering drug addict, family relations, rehabilitation, problem, parents and children, coping, mother and daughter ...
Time: 2020s, 21st century
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35%
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Jaime (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: Portugal, Brazil, Luxembourg
Duration: 111 min.
Story: A woman takes her young son, leaves her husband and moves in with her lover. The boy, desperate to get his parents back together, becomes convinced that if only he can get his father's stolen motorcycle back everything will be fine again, so he ...
Style: sexual, semi serious, realistic, touching
Plot: coming of age, politics, boy, boyhood, school, unemployment, pedophilia, society, youth, life is a bitch, family relations, fired from the job ...
Time: 90s
Place: portugal, europe
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35%
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Our House (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A lonely socialite (Roberts) opens up her mansion to homeless people after a young woman (Reyes) saves her life.
Style: powerful
Plot: homeless, poverty, smuggling, suicide attempt, chore, drug trade, drinking, jail, medical examination, theft, wealth, kindness ...
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