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Close Call (2004)
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Close Call (2004)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: In Los Angeles, the young Jenny has a nice childhood with her Korean parents Joanne and David Kim. However, after the divorce of her parents, the judge gives her custody to her selfish mother that neglects Jenny while the disappointed David returns to Seoul. Six years later, Jenny is a troubled and reckless teenager expelled from the public school that has easy sex and uses drugs and booze, and her best friend is the orphan drug dealer Becky. The lawyer Elliot Krasner decides to call his former friend David to tell him about the self-destructive behavior of Jenny, and David returns to Los Angeles. He brings Jenny to live with him and support her, but the lack of emotional structure of Jenny imposes tough difficulties for their relationship.
Style: independent film
Plot: sex, teenager, lawyer, drug addict, police, violence, teenage sex, divorce, teenage girl, family relations, drug dealer, heroin, father daughter relationship, rebellion, drug use, drug dealing, rave, female protagonist, high school, second chance, self mutilation, teenage rebellion, shoplifting, hanging, friend ...
Keyword: korean

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Most similar movies to Close Call

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out independent film, serious, realistic and suspenseful films with plots about drug, drug dealing, violence, police, drug dealer, murder and drug abuse mostly in Drama, Crime and Action genres. Some movies like Close Call: Crack House (1989), MDMA (2017), Narco Sub (2021), Not My Kid (1985), The Last of the Finest (1990). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Crack House (1989)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Rick and Melissa are a pair of young lovers hoping to get out of the slums for good and escape the poverty and crime their families and friends have gotten involved in. All this comes to an end when Rick feels he must rejoin his old gang to avenge ...
Style: grindhouse, crime drama, independent film, hispanic, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gang, blaxploitation, cannon, drug, drug addiction, black, rape victim, poverty, nudity, drug dealing, gang rape, gang violence ...
Time: 80s
Place: los angeles, usa, california
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95%
 5.3
 762
MDMA (2017)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: When an Asian American girl from the wrong side of the tracks is accepted by a prestigious university, she finds that her academic prowess can be put to lucrative use.
Style: touching, suspenseful, suspense, captivating, disturbing
Plot: dysfunctional family, ecstasy, university, drug addict, self mutilation, father daughter relationship, drug dealing, mother daughter relationship, gangster, female protagonist, drug, nightclub ...
Time: year 1985, 80s
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92%
 3.5
 6K
Narco Sub (2021)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A man will become a criminal to save his family. Director: Shawn Welling Writer: Derek H. Potts Stars: Tom Vera, Tom Sizemore, Lee Majors |
Style: tense, suspenseful, exciting, suspense, disturbing
Plot: drug cartel, dea, criminal, cartel, criminal heroes, drug dealer, cia agent, sex trafficking, armed forces, kidnapping, drug, cia ...
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
 5.8
 240
Not My Kid (1985)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A teenaged drug addict is sent to Dr. Royce's controversial drug intervention program where the addicts in the program confront each other in supervised group meetings. Also, in evening meetings, the addicts are confronted by their families. ...
Plot: group therapy, mother daughter relationship, illegal drugs, family conflict, family relations, drug rehab, lsd, helplessness, surgeon, frustration, drug addiction, drug addict ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
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The Last of the Finest (1990)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: An elite group of vice cops are fired from the L.A.P.D. for being over-zealous in their war against drugs. It is immediately apparent that some of their superiors are involved in the drug ring. Banded together, four of the banned cops (which quickly ...
Style: independent film, serious, realistic, exciting, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: drug, die hard, car chase, police, cop, drug dealer, police shootout, conspiracy, police corruption, illegal drugs, partner, rebellion ...
Time: 80s
Place: los angeles, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
 4.0
 241
Cartel War (2010)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Led by a detective hell-bent on revenge, a team of undercover cops in Los Angeles attempt to bring down a powerful drug mob from the inside. Operating outside the law, they put everything on the line to clean up the streets and exact payback on the ...
Style: exciting, serious, rough, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot: working undercover, rivalry, drug dealing, law enforcement, criminal's revenge, revenge, male female relationship, police, murder, friendship, war on drugs, fighting crime ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
 7.2
 1K
Yeshwant (1997)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 145 min.
Story: After arresting a drug dealer during an undercover operation, police officer Yeshwant Lohar (Nana Patekar) is framed for murder and imprisoned by his corrupt supervisor, Salim Shaikh (Mohan Joshi), who is involved in distributing narcotics. ...
Plot: police, dysfunctional marriage, adultery, extramarital affair, anger, tough cop, lawyer, conspiracy, husband wife relationship, orphan, husband wife reunion, wrongful conviction ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
Midnight Cabaret (2012)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story: Meet Adam, a geeky college senior who only wants to feel accepted. An encounter with Jason, his bully from high school, triggers a painful and disturbing past: an abusive, alcoholic father; his mother who committed suicide; and Todd, his older ...
Style: realistic, serious, bleak, gothic, independent film ...
Plot: introspection, haunted by the past, dysfunctional family, bullying, family relations, life is a bitch, drug abuse, student life, homosexual, murder, gay, gender ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
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El padrino: The Latin Godfather (2004)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story: In the streets of East Los Angeles, Manny is a formidable drug dealer. Impressed by his extravagant lifestyle and prowess, his young son, Kilo, yearns to follow in his footsteps. Kilo resolves to learn how to prosper in the drug world, and his new ...
Style: rough, realistic, serious, suspenseful, exciting
Audience: boys' night
Plot: crime boss, gangster, prison gang, prison, criminal heroes, juvenile delinquency, prison life, life is a bitch, gang, dishonesty, drug dealing, urban ghetto ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles, california, usa, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
Band of the Hand (1986)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: An Indian Vietnam veteran trains five street punks in the Everglades to fight vice in Miami.
Style: cult classic, retro, independent film, serious, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gang, survival, gangster, wilderness, revenge, drug addiction, teenager, street punk, underground, law, explosions, rehabilitation ...
Time: 80s
Place: florida, usa, everglades, miami
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
 5.7
 403
South West 9 (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Five very different characters are thrown together in one weird, mashed up day. It started out like any other, but 24 hours later everything had changed. South West 9 takes you through the windscreen of the new millenium. The death of idealism, ...
Plot: drug addict, drug dealing, drug use, violence, lsd, trance, rave, drug addiction, drug dealer, drugged, drug trade, marijuana ...
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
 5.8
 2K
The Baker (2022)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A quiet, stoic man, lives a monk-like existence in self-imposed exile. When his estranged son is killed in a drug deal gone bad, he is left to look after a granddaughter he never knew existed, and he is forced back into a life he tried to put behind ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, captivating, exciting, tense
Plot: drug, father son estrangement, drug smuggling, drug dealer, estranged son, drug trade, son, baker, drug dealing, illegal drugs, father and son, violence
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 3.9
 80
Narx (2011)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Based on a shocking true story. An undercover cop puts his life on the line to fight corruption in his department, while trying to take down the biggest Drug Kingpin of New York City. No one can be trusted as the body count rises.
Style: suspenseful, suspense, tense, exciting, crime drama ...
Plot: drug dealer, undercover cop, corruption, murder, police, police detective, investigation, chase, youth, police officer, death, revenge ...
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Dark Measures (2009)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A gritty independent film which follows the crime spree of a vicious pack of thugs. Molly's calm 9-5 life is turned upside down when the gang brutally attacks her. She survives a horrific ordeal only to find the thugs want her dead before she ...
Style: suspense, independent film, detective
Plot: rape and revenge, vigilante, kidnapping, revenge, blood, violence, father daughter relationship, murder, death, criminal, police, person on fire ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
 5.8
 5K
One Good Cop (1991)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: When his loyal longtime partner, a widower, is killed in the line of duty and leaves behind three young children, Artie Lewis (Michael Keaton), a dedicated New York City cop and his wife, Rita (Rene Russo), decide to take the kids in. But the lives ...
Style: exciting, emotional, intense, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot: father daughter relationship, orphan, drug dealer, partner, murder, law enforcement, family relations, cop, drug dealing, fighting crime, working undercover, police corruption ...
Time: year 1991, 90s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
 6.4
 9K
Bullet (1996)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A tough, Jewish ex-con just released from prison crosses a powerful drug dealer and former prison rival in his return to a life of crime.
Style: realistic, rough, hood, disturbing, harsh ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: addiction, drug abuse, life philosophy, ghetto, revenge killing, violence, gangster, character study, life, hip hop, urban, drug dealer ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: usa, new york, brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Himmel og Helvete (1969)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Music
Country: Norway
Duration: 94 min.
Story: This is the famous norwegian anti-drug movie which is considered to be a turkey today. There are more than one thing you can point your finger at in this movie but let's start with the actors who are pretty wooden through the whole movie. That ...
Plot: drug abuse, lsd, stoner, drug dealer, hashish, propaganda, heroin, hippie, addiction, subculture, teen drug use, death ...
Time: 60s
Place: oslo norway, copenhagen
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
 6.4
 177
Courage (1986)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 150 min.
Story: A mother in Queens, New York, is so angered when she discovers that her son is a drug addict that she becomes an undercover agent for the DEA to clean up the drug trade in her neighborhood. Based on a true story.
Style: uplifting, serious, realistic, emotional
Plot: family relations, undercover, drug abuse, family problems, life is a bitch, drug dealing, law enforcement, hopes, human spirit, society, parents and children, working undercover ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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 5.7
 12K
White Girl (2016)
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, controversial, suspense, rough ...
Audience: girls' night, adult
Plot: drug addict, sexual promiscuity, blonde, drug dealer, violence, female protagonist, sex in office, black man white woman sex, partying, sex in car, nudity, sex scene ...
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
 5.9
 320
The Slams (1973)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Rival prison factions surround a Los Angeles convict (Jim Brown) who has $1.5 million stashed on the outside.
Plot: blaxploitation, prison, organized crime, murder, black, heist, jail, mobster, prison escape, interracial relations, african american, sadism ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
 6.9
 20K
River's Edge (1986)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A group of high school friends discover that they are in the presence of a killer. One of them, Samson, has murdered his girlfriend Jamie. He brags to his friends about killing her, and when they discover he is telling the truth, their reactions ...
Style: disturbing, independent film, cult classic, grim, creepy ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: teenager, high school, coming of age, murder, serial killer, small town, drug abuse, violence, death, drug, strangulation, juvenile delinquency ...
Time: 80s, year 1986, 20th century
Place: oregon, california, usa, portland oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
 4.5
 65
Wilding (1990)
Genre: Action, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Two detectives are out to nail a gang of teenagers who have run wild through the city and brutally raped a woman.
Style: independent film
Plot: youth gang, troubled teen, police detective, gang rape, double life, teenager, gang, street life, partner, male female relationship, police officer, father son relationship ...
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Fort Apache the Bronx (1981)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story: From the sight of a police officer this movie depicts the life in New York's infamous South Bronx. In the center is "Fort Apache", as the officers call their police station, which really seems like an outpost in enemy's country. ...
Style: detective, realistic, bleak, grim, perverse ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: police, drug addiction, prostitute, murder, police brutality, cop killer, police station, violence, corrupt cop, hospital, cop, nypd ...
Time: 80s, year 1981
Place: new york, bronx new york city, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Saints and Sinners (1994)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: After many years Pooch returns to his neighbourhood. To Big Boy, his best friend, Pooch is valuable asset in his plans of becoming local crime lord. To Pooch, this reunion is painful because he is, actually, undercover cop sent to bring Big Boy down.
Style: independent film, realistic, serious, rough, suspenseful
Audience: boys' night
Plot: friends, couples, love triangle, working undercover, friendship, drug abuse, going straight, dishonesty, master criminal, love and romance, criminal heroes, gang ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
 7.3
 64
Two Coyotes (2001)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: A drug runner takes over a lucrative drug business only to find his new found empire crumble when a deal goes bad.
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, rough, crime drama ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: hitman, betrayal, rivalry, criminal's revenge, gangster, drug dealing, life is a bitch, crime gone awry, addiction, criminal heroes, going straight, law enforcement ...
Time: 90s
Place: mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
China O'Brien II (1990)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: This time China O'Brien has trouble with a dealer who puts a prize on her head because she had spoiled an important drug deal of his. But all the world's criminals will not be enough to catch up with China O'Brian, one of the masters ...
Style: independent film
Plot: female martial artist, martial arts, female fight, fight, kung fu, drug dealer, violence, kickboxing, female protagonist, taekwondo, fighting
Time: year 2016, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Alone in the Neon Jungle (1988)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A by the book female police officer is assigned to the most corrupt precinct in Pittsburgh and told to get it cleaned up.
Plot: corrupt cop, street crime, cop, policewoman, burglary, police captain, drug dealer, female protagonist, police, corruption, police station, police corruption ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
The Preppie Connection (2015)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Puerto Rico, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A student at a private school uses his connections to establish a drug trafficking network.
Style: captivating, tense, psychological, suspense
Audience: teens
Plot: student, jealousy, prison, drug dealing, drug dealer, cocaine, high school, marijuana, teenager, love, murder, rivalry ...
Time: 21st century
Place: colombia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
 6.4
 22K
Less Than Zero (1987)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A college freshman returns to Los Angeles for the holidays at his ex-girlfriend's request, but discovers that his former best friend has an out-of-control drug habit.
Style: stylized, cult classic, visually stunning, cerebral, erotic drama ...
Audience: teens
Plot: drug addiction, friendship, drug addict, addiction, drug, drug abuse, male nudity, hedonism, male prostitute, male prostitution, christmas, high school ...
Time: 80s, year 1987
Place: los angeles, california, beverly hills, usa, palm springs california
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 6.3
 1K
Detroit 9000 (1973)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: After a fundraiser for a black politician is robbed, Detroit police put two detectives, one white and one black, on the case, who try to work together under boiling political pressure.
Style: action thriller, crime thriller, neo noir, independent film, fast ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: blaxploitation, urban, heist, exploitation, teenager, female boss, black, cop, hitman, police, murder, prostitution ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: michigan, detroit, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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