Movies like Veronica 2008

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Veronica (2008)
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Veronica (2008)
Original name: VerĂ´nica
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A teacher takes a student to his house in the slum, but on arrival discovered that drug traffickers killed his parents and now are at your demand.
Plot: children, slum, feminism, education, girl, teacher, police, violence, student, murder, house, orphan, parents, organized crime, corrupt cop, favela, female protagonist, witness, car, informant, ex husband ex wife relationship, drug, gun, girls with guns, loss of parents ...
Place: rio de janeiro, brazil
Keyword: brazilian

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, rough and crime drama films with plots about murder, police, violence, drug, gang, gun and slum mostly in Drama, Crime and Thriller genres. Some movies like Veronica: Streets of Rio (2007), Jai Gangaajal (2016), City of Men (2007), The Collaborators (2015), And Then You Die (1987). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Streets of Rio (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Sport, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 97 min.
Story: No overview found.
Plot: ghetto, soccer, murder, dying and death, favela, new love, slum, organized crime, teacher, death, football, child murder ...
Place: rio de janeiro, brazil
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Jai Gangaajal (2016)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 149 min.
Story: The film features SP Abha Mathur who is appointed the first female SP of Bankipur district, Bihar. She then goes against the Local MLA of Bankipur and henchmen of Lakhisarai district.
Style: suspense, captivating
Plot: gang, police officer, female protagonist, police, organized crime, hand to hand combat, sexism, tough girl, murder, corrupt cop, policewoman, fistfight ...
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City of Men (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Best buddies Acerola and Laranjinha, about to turn 18, discover things about their missing fathers' pasts which will shatter their solid friendship, in the middle of a war between rival drug gangs from Rio's favelas.
Style: tense, bleak, harsh, suspense, disturbing ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: friendship, street gang, slum, betrayal, coming of age, favela, relationships, best friend, character study, brutality, storytelling, adaptation ...
Time: year 2008, year 2007, 21st century
Place: rio de janeiro, brazil, latin america
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84%
The Collaborators (2015)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A tale of two art students who, after a horrific event, are forced to take off across country in a stolen taxi to evade the law.
Style: psychological, contemplative, unusual plot structure, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot: friendship, female protagonist, student, strong female character, university, violence, murder, chase, friend, sexual harassment, female bonding, female friendship ...
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
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And Then You Die (1987)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 115 min.
Story: A drug deal must deal with the mafia, Hells Angels, and police who want to arrest him. -- WorldCat
Style: neo noir, independent film, detective
Plot: biker, bike, murder, death, drug, police officer, family relations, suburbs, crime boss, organized crime, husband wife relationship, pursuit ...
Place: montreal
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69%
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Midnight (1998)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France, Brazil
Duration: 75 min.
Story: On December 31st 1999, destiny brings a fugitive prisoner and a depressed middle class teacher together, as the new millennium approaches bringing hope to everyone.
Style: realistic, serious
Plot: slum, escape, prison, hopes, beach, urban ghetto life, destiny, innocence lost, human nature, society, fugitives, stalking ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: rio de janeiro, brazil
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Last Stop 174 (2008)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Brazil, France
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Sandro was a boy who loved to sing rap, to kiss, to stare the statue of Christ the Redeemer and dreamed to go visit Copacabana. Growing up on streets, the story culminates at the infamous episode of June 12th 2000, when Sandro hijacked bus 174.
Style: serious, rough, realistic, suspenseful, spectacular ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: breast feeding, hijacking, street kid, drug abuse, life is a bitch, confined, juvenile delinquency, youth, danger, favela, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, murder ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century
Place: rio de janeiro, brazil, latin america
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Assault on the Pay Train (1962)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Film about the true events in Rio de Janeiro, in 1960, when a gang having the infamous outlaw TiĂ£o Medonho as a leader performed a sensational railroad hold-up on a train carrying a small fortune.
Style: tense, realistic, serious, suspenseful, rough
Plot: heist, train, slum, railway, social injustice, mobster, danger, criminal heroes, gang, chases and races, crime gone awry, disorder ...
Time: year 1962, 20th century, 60s
Place: rio de janeiro, brazil, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
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City of God (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Brazil, France, Germany
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: disturbing, rough, bleak, hood, stylized ...
Audience: teen drama, adult
Plot: gang, coming of age, storytelling, organized crime, society, gang war, juvenile delinquency, life is a bitch, photographer, journalism, favela, police corruption ...
Time: 2000s, 70s, year 2002, 20th century, year 2003 ...
Place: latin america, rio de janeiro, brazil, south america
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Pixote (1980)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 128 min.
Story: Pixote, a 10-year-old runaway boy, is arrested on the streets of Sao Paulo during a police round-up homeless people. Pixote endures torture, degradation and corruption at a local youth detention center where two of the runaways are murdered by ...
Style: disturbing, depressing, bleak, realistic, rough ...
Plot: prostitution, street kid, sex with a minor, boy, coming of age, children, anal rape, child rape, breast feeding, loneliness, homeless, tragedy ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, year 1981
Place: brazil, latin america, rio de janeiro, africa, sao paulo brazil
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53%
One Man Against the Organization (1975)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, France, Spain
Duration: 87 min.
Story: An airport employee switches a pack of drugs for baking soda and absconds to Barcelona, meanwhile the drug-runners are on his trail.
Style: poliziottesco, eurospy
Plot: police, airport, drug, nudity, dea, mafia, girl, revenge, machine gun, bus, sexuality, rescue ...
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Abusing Protocol (2015)
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: suspenseful, tense, psychological, suspense, disturbing
Plot: gang, gangster, drug, drunkenness, police, sex, violence, robbery, street gang, gang leader, murder, crime family ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england
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Chronically Unfeasible (2000)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Filmed over a five-year period, Chronically Unfeasible dissects Brazilian problems, using six people who meet in a restaurant in SĂ£o Paulo as models to illustrate political, sociological and economic disparities between Brazil's upper and ...
Style: disturbing, serious, rough, biting, realistic ...
Plot: politics, social decay, rich and poor, social differences, fighting the system, injustice, working class, society, life is a bitch, downfall, juvenile delinquency, state affairs ...
Time: 90s
Place: brazil, latin america, sao paulo brazil, rio de janeiro
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Glue Sniffer (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: Venezuela, Spain
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Oliver flees from abuse of his family and seeks refuge in the violent streets of Caracas, where survival is only possible in an environment of corruption, crime and sniffing glue to escape hunger, like other children in the same situation. Soon, the ...
Plot: juvenile delinquent, homelessness, child in peril, survival, poverty, children, misery, street life, street kid, desperation, brutality, police brutality ...
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Avenge Every Second (2007)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Einar and Davy find themselves in a frightening position, when they realize that their employer, Miami Crime boss Ricky want them dead. They both escape hoping nobody will find them. But in four years time a lot can happen!
Style: independent film
Plot: shootout, murder, police, car chase, revenge, mafia, violence, gun
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Born Bad (1997)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A group of teenagers rob a bank, causing a deadly standoff.
Style: surprise ending
Plot: woman with a gun, caucasian, money, teenager, father son relationship, murder, police, hostage, violence, blood, robbery, sheriff ...
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Naakaa (2017)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Nepal
Duration: 138 min.
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An Obsession (1997)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 109 min.
Story: An Obsession is Aoyama's remake for the 1990s of Akira Kurosawa's Stray Dog ("Nora inu," 1949). The basic plot situation is the same: a cop, after losing his gun to a killer, sets out on a search for the criminal who in the end ...
Style: suspense, neo noir, detective
Plot: police, wife, fistfight, shooting, heroin addict, murder, gun, gunshot wound, stolen gun
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37%
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Crack (2000)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Two buddies from the hood are forced to rob a mafia-backed crack house or go to prison.
Plot: african american, corrupt cop, telephone call, gas mask, murder, handgun, helicopter, bare breasts, blood, robbery, money, violence ...
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36%
Maria Montessori: una vita per i bambini (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 200 min.
Story: The story of Maria Montessori the most famous pedagogue of the world. She spent all her life to make her "metodo" (method) accepted in the archaic Italian school system, while the rest of the world immediately understand the importance of ...
Style: disturbing, psychological, captivating
Plot: education, philosophy, feminism, school, scientist, family problems, mother son relationship, family relations, parents and children, teacher, female protagonist, female nudity ...
Place: italy
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Elite Squad 2: The Enemy Within (2010)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Brazil
Duration: 115 min.
Story: After a bloody invasion of the BOPE in the High-Security Penitentiary Bangu 1 in Rio de Janeiro to control a rebellion of interns, the Lieutenant-Colonel Roberto Nascimento and the second in command Captain André Matias are accused by the Human ...
Style: political, realistic, unusual plot structure, stylized, brutal ...
Audience: boys' night
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Time: year 2010, 2010s, y2k, 21st century
Place: brazil, rio de janeiro, latin america, south america
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36%
The Unscrupulous Ones (1962)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 100 min.
Story: This film captures the criminal behavior of two young Copacabana thugs (the "cafajestes"). The two plan a blackmail coup against a rich old man, using nude pictures of a lady on a deserted beach. But things don't always happen as ...
Style: tense, sexy, realistic, serious, sexual
Plot: beach, cons and scams, rich and poor, disorder, society, nothing goes right, crime gone awry, dishonesty, nudity, machismo, criminal, bribery ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: rio de janeiro, brazil
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A Complex Plot About Women, Alleys and Crimes (1985)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, Netherlands Antilles
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Rabal is a blind, elderly leader of the Camorra whose son ends up dead as he attempts to rape Molina. Somebody has stuck the corpse strategically with a hypodermic needle, which is to become the signature of a series of killings of Naples drug ...
Style: grindhouse, poliziottesco
Plot: mafia, cannon, investigation, drag queen, prostitution, female protagonist, heroin, revenge, love triangle, mother, murder, dead children ...
Time: year 1985
Place: napoli italy, naples italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Guardian Angel (1987)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A journalist investigates the smuggling of gypsy children on the black market and tries to save a young boy.
Plot: child prostitute, gypsy, boy, white slavery, handicapped, family relations, gypsy camp, gangster, reporter, celebration, brother brother relationship, train ...
Place: italy, former yugoslavia, venice
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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 ⇓
33%
Don't Talk to Strange Men (1962)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 65 min.
Story: An innocent girl is "groomed" over the telephone, and nearly becomes the victim of an attacker.
Style: noir, independent film, british noir
Plot: mysterious telephone call, cautionary tale, girl, babysitter, girl in peril, lie, trust, brother in law sister in law relationship, coming of age, bicycle, rescue, serial murder ...
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Tsotsi (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK, South Africa
Duration: 95 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, bleak, emotional, harsh, captivating ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: baby, poverty, urban ghetto life, society, slum, friendship, childhood, coming of age, murder, street life, robbery, african ...
Time: 21st century
Place: south africa, africa, johannesburg south africa
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32%
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Elite Squad (2007)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Brazil, USA, Argentina
Duration: 115 min.
Story: In 1997, before the visit of the pope to Rio de Janeiro, Captain Nascimento from BOPE (Special Police Operations Battalion) is assigned to eliminate the risks of the drug dealers in a dangerous slum nearby where the pope intends to be lodged.
Style: disturbing, bleak, serious, intense, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: police corruption, police brutality, drug traffic, slum, drug lord, favela, squad, law enforcement, torture, poverty, police, organized crime ...
Time: year 2007, 2000s, 90s, 20th century, year 1997 ...
Place: brazil, rio de janeiro, latin america, south america
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
One Nite in Mongkok (2004)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Hong Kong nihilism. December 22, a street quarrel leads to the death of a gang leader's son. Next day, he seeks revenge on his brother, a rival boss. He calls on Liu, a fixer, to import a hit man from the mainland. Lai Fu, a tough and youthful ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, realistic, atmospheric, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: hitman, organized crime, murder, gang war, gangster, vengeance, rivalry, gang, law enforcement, revenge, manhunt, police brutality ...
Place: china, hong kong
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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The Immortal (2019)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, Germany
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Ciro's body is sinking in the dark waters of the Gulf of Naples. And as it sinks deeper and deeper, memories emerge. The sounds muffled by the water merge with the screams of fleeing people. It is 1980, the earth shakes, the palace collapses, ...
Style: harsh, serious, intense, rough, hood
Audience: boys' night
Plot: organized crime, gang, ghetto, conspiracy, mafia, danger, escapades, social problems, criminal, corrupt cop, urban ghetto, robbery ...
Time: 2010s
Place: naples italy, europe, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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