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Northwest (2013)
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Original name: Nordvest
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Nordvest is a gangsterfilm set in the suburbs of Copenhagen. Casper (18), the oldest of 3 siblings, survives life on the streets by committing burglaries for the neighbourhood boss, Jamal. When Casper gets an offer to work for Jamal’s rival Björn, he jumps at the chance for a better life, making his way into a world of drugs and prostitution. As things escalate between Björn and Jamal, Casper finds himself and his family dead center of a conflict, that threatens to destroy them.
Style:
realistic, suspenseful, tense, bleak, serious, noir, neo noir, hood, sincere
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
urban ghetto life, gang, gangster, juvenile delinquency, friendship, life is a bitch, family problems, vengeance, criminal's revenge, criminal heroes, prostitution, drug dealer, organized crime, teenage boy, burglary, nordic, coming of age, mafia, ghetto, adolescence, working class, mobster, gang war, youth, friends ...
Time:
year 2013, 21st century, contemporary
Place:
denmark, copenhagen, copenhagen denmark
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Most similar movies to Northwest
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, rough and bleak films with plots about gang, gangster, life is a bitch, urban ghetto, criminal heroes, urban ghetto life and society mostly in Drama, Crime and Action genres. Some movies like Northwest: R: Hit First, Hit Hardest (2010), Adulthood (2008), Gomorrah (2008), Monga (2010), Pusher II (2004). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
The R of the title stands for the young protagonist, Rune, fearlessly played by Pilou Asbæk. Imprisoned for violent assault, he's a cocky, good-looking young man placed in the hardcore ward, where his survival depends on quickly learning the ...
Style:
realistic, tense, captivating, rough, disturbing ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
prison, prison life, male pubic hair, friendship, gang, confined, warden, murder, violence, muslim, racial slur, nordic ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
denmark, europe
Similarity:
100%
13K
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
After serving six years for killing his schoolmate, a young man learns that someone is out for revenge.
Style:
hood, rough, realistic, serious, cult classic ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
urban ghetto life, gang, vengeance, society, drug addict, juvenile delinquency, teenage life, criminal's revenge, youth, life is a bitch, ghetto, urban ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, london, united kingdom, britain, europe
Similarity:
100%
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:
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
Set in the 1980s, “Monga” centers on five boys (Mosquito, Monk, Dragon, White Monkey and A-Lan) who join the "Gang of Princes" who are tired of being pushed around. As the "Gang of Princes" rise in stature, they come into ...
Style:
tense, realistic, serious, exciting, captivating ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
friendship, juvenile delinquency, friends, society, urban ghetto life, teenage life, power relations, youth, organized crime, heroic bloodshed, rivalry, danger ...
Time:
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Place:
taiwan, asia
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Denmark, UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Tony (Mads Mikkelsen) is released from prison - again. This time he has his mind set on changing his broken down life, but that is easier said than done
Style:
realistic, serious, suspenseful, neo noir, breathtaking ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gang, gangster, debt, male nudity, nudity, male pubic hair, drug dealing, going straight, criminal heroes, criminal's revenge, parent child relationship, parents and children ...
Time:
year 2004, 2000s
Place:
denmark, copenhagen
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama, Crime, Action
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Frustrated with being broke, Beans decides that the only way to grasp the American Dream is to take it.
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:
year 2002
Place:
usa, memphis, philadelphia
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Musical, Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Three gangsters vie for control of the streets of Philadelphia.
Style:
hood, tense, suspenseful, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
gang, urban, hip hop, drug dealing, vengeance, rivalry, social decay, murder, tough heroes, gangster, partner, criminal ...
Place:
philadelphia
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Ricky is just out of a young offenders institute, heading home to Hackney and determined to go straight. Instead, he heads straight for trouble when he becomes involved in a street confrontation, siding with his best friend Wisdom against a local ...
Style:
realistic, psychological, serious, rough, hood ...
Plot:
urban ghetto life, youth, gang, juvenile delinquency, urban, kids in trouble, going straight, life is a bitch, social decay, friendship, family problems, orphan ...
Place:
england, africa, london, europe
Similarity:
24%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Ecuador
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
The world of Salvador, a young and naive petty thief is changed by the arrival of his cousin Angel, an ex-convict in search of easy money, and with a hideout. Salvador gets wrapped up in Angel's twisted dealings in an attempt to escape from his ...
Style:
disturbing, rough, gloomy, bleak, tense ...
Plot:
city life, petty theft, latinos, stealing a car, friendship, robbery, teen social issues, gang, urban ghetto life, coming of age, drug dealing, juvenile delinquency ...
Time:
90s
Place:
ecuador, latin america
Similarity:
24%
14K
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Yamakasi - Les samouraïs des temps modernes is a 2001 French movie written by Luc Besson. It demonstrates the skills of the Yamakasi, a group of traceurs who battle against injustice in the Paris ghetto. They use parkour to steal from the rich in ...
Style:
semi serious, witty, exciting, realistic, sincere ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
parkour, chase, yakuza, money, gang, climbing, hospital, friends, unlikely criminals, ghetto, transplant, friendship ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
paris france, france, europe
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: South Africa
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
This South African movie tracks the rise of a once-petty criminal to the heights of the criminal underworld. After cutting his teeth on hijacking, before moving onto bigger game, an ambitious man hits a setback when most of his gang are shot.
Style:
serious, rough, realistic, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot:
urban ghetto life, organized crime, gang war, gangster, gang of thieves, thief, buddies, life is a bitch, gang, ambition, group of criminals, criminal heroes ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
south africa, africa, johannesburg south africa
Similarity:
23%
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, serious, realistic, suspenseful, exciting
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
crime boss, gangster, prison, juvenile delinquency, criminal heroes, prison life, life is a bitch, gang, dishonesty, drug dealing, urban ghetto, murder ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
los angeles, california, usa, mexico
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
A coming of age story about an inner-city youth raised by a hardworking single mother. When his dream of becoming a basketball player fails to materialize, he finds himself employed in a supermarket. After his mother is tragically gunned down, ...
Style:
hood, serious, rough, realistic, crime drama ...
Plot:
desire for fame, hip hop, life is a bitch, youth, family relations, basketball, gang, black, hopes, rivalry, urban, criminal heroes ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
From the youth directed novel of the same name by Greogor Tressnow comes a film by Detlev Buck that is a realistic portrait of life in the section of Berlin called Neukölln. It’s about power and weakness, delinquents and victims, and the ...
Style:
realistic, suspenseful, serious, tense, rough ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
juvenile delinquency, street gang, coming of age, youth gang, gang, bullying, friendship, parents and children, urban ghetto life, high school life, urban ghetto, blackmail ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
germany, berlin germany
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
A Korean remake of the John Woo Classic. One brother is a criminal. One brother is a cop. Both will fight to the death.
Style:
exciting, realistic, suspenseful, serious, neo noir ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gangster, heroic bloodshed, crime boss, organized crime, arms dealer, criminal underworld, betrayal, family problems, family relations, siblings relations, vengeance, dishonesty ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
korea, south korea, asia, north korea, thailand
Similarity:
22%
210
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
The film follows a 14-year-old arsonist in Winnipeg who becomes involved in a turf war between the Indian Posse and the Asian Bomb Squad (a now defunct Filipino gang). He is known only as Stryker, a slang term for a prospective gang member.
Style:
serious, realistic, rough, tense, independent film ...
Plot:
gang, juvenile delinquency, teenage life, youth, life is a bitch, danger, rivalry, society, coming of age, urban ghetto life, nudity, immigrant ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
winnipeg, canada
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Ace is an impressionable young man working for a dry cleaning business. His friend, drug dealer Mitch goes to prison. In an unrelated incident, he finds some cocaine in a pants pocket. Soon, Ace finds himself dealing cocaine for Lulu. Via lucky ...
Style:
hood, tense, rough, realistic, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
urban ghetto life, gang, ghetto, african american gangster, organized crime, roman empire, urban, rapper, drug, gangster, drug lord, black ...
Time:
80s, year 2002, 20th century, year 1986
Place:
harlem, new york, usa, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Bobby O'Grady a low level member of a Boston Irish gang run by Jackie O'Hara. Jackie demands absolute, total loyalty to him. When Jackie kills one of Bobby's buddies, Teddy, Bobby and others have to keep it an absolute secret, even ...
Style:
atmospheric, suspenseful, tense, serious, independent film ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gangster, murder, vengeance, police investigation, criminal's revenge, investigation, best friend, police corruption, juvenile delinquency, drug dealing, dishonesty, witnessing a crime ...
Time:
year 1998, 90s
Place:
boston, ireland, massachusetts, connecticut, usa ...
Similarity:
21%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Two rapper childhood friends turn to the quick and easy life of crime to support their needy parents. But after a foiled robbery, one of them is jailed while the other flees, changes his name, joins the military, and grows up to become a narcotics ...
Style:
independent film, realistic, serious, rough, bleak
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
assassination, police investigation, buddies, rise and fall, dishonesty, criminal's revenge, law enforcement, life is a bitch, drug dealing, partners against crime, criminal heroes, society ...
Time:
90s
Place:
florida, kentucky
Similarity:
21%
424
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A tragic tale of an Asian youth's gang life in South East Los Angeles, set during the mid 80's to the early 90s.
Style:
realistic, rough, suspenseful, serious, crime drama
Plot:
juvenile delinquency, gang, best friend, youth, rivalry, urban ghetto life, tough heroes, criminal heroes, prison, murder, society, life is a bitch ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 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:
hispanic, crime drama, grindhouse, independent film, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gang, blaxploitation, cannon, drug, drug addiction, gang rape, gang violence, drug dealer, black, poverty, rape victim, nudity ...
Time:
80s
Place:
los angeles, usa, california
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
An underworld drama set in the early 1980s, about a lonely factory worker whose life is transformed when he becomes a nightclub doorman.
Style:
psychological, serious, bleak, rough, indie film ...
Plot:
clubbing, nightclub, drug dealer, drug dealing, working class, society, life is a bitch, crime gone awry, social decay, friendship, gangster, underdog ...
Time:
80s, year 2008
Place:
england, europe
Similarity:
20%
2K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
When a young woman is cruelly and indiscriminately attacked by a notorious gang led by the violent Trey, her little 16 year old sister Kayla wants revenge and will stop at nothing to get it, even if it means joining a rival girl gang led by the ...
Style:
rough, suspenseful, serious, realistic, bleak
Plot:
vengeance, gang, girl gang, juvenile delinquency, teenage life, social decay, gang leader, life is a bitch, criminal heroes, rivalry, society, youth ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, britain, london
Similarity:
20%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 69 min.
Story:
After decades of terror, two deadly street gangs reach a delicate truce and young MJ (Silkk the Shocker) sees a way out of the hood once and for all. Only Corrupt (Ice-T) stands in MJ's way, resulting into a violent and brutal roller coaster ...
Style:
hood, independent film, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
ghetto, gang, urban, hip hop, hip hop culture, underworld, discrimination, urban setting, gangster, urban ghetto, drug dealing, criminal heroes ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new york, usa, bronx new york city
Similarity:
20%
582
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
After John’s absent father is struck by a stray bullet, Primo takes it upon himself to verse the young boy in the code of the streets—one founded on respect and upheld by fear. A member of the Bloods since the age of twelve—both in the film ...
Style:
realistic, serious, captivating, psychological, sexy ...
Plot:
gang, juvenile delinquency, urban ghetto life, haunted by the past, adolescence vs adulthood, society, coming of age, teaching the ways of the world, ghetto, gangster, violent content, drug dealing ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
The film follows the lives of four childhood friends: Joon-seok, the leader, whose father is a powerful mob boss; Dong-su, whose father is an undertaker; class clown Jung-ho; and Sang-taek, an exemplary student. The story is the director's ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, captivating, rough, inspirational ...
Audience:
manly, teen drama
Plot:
buddies, betrayal, rise to the top, gang war, ambition, rivalry, life is a bitch, youth, adulthood, right hand man, friendship, korean gangster ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, 80s, 90s
Place:
east asia, busan, korea, asia, south korea
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A young man coming home after serving time in the penitentiary finds his city in control by local thugs, stops at nothing to gain sole control of a city he feels is rightfully his.
Style:
captivating, tense, exciting, suspense, independent film ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
murder, gang, criminal's revenge, rivalry, gangster, drug dealing, urban ghetto, buddies, ego clash, love, prison, police ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
20%
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:
hood, independent film, disturbing, stylized, harsh ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
addiction, drug abuse, life philosophy, prison rape, revenge killing, ghetto, violence, drug dealer, gangster, hip hop, character study, life ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, 70s
Place:
new york, usa, brooklyn new york city, california, new jersey
Similarity:
20%
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:
20%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Injustice begets a criminal. Kool is an artist without prospects, a black belt in karate, and in love with LaShawna, poised and college bound. One night she witnesses a stabbing and discovers the victim is a cop as he dies in her arms. She's ...
Style:
hood, realistic, suspenseful, serious, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gangster, gang, urban, frame up, racism, life is a bitch, police investigation, social decay, police corruption, murder, false accusation, criminal heroes ...
Time:
90s, 2000s
Place:
usa, los angeles
Similarity:
20%
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