Movies like Guardian Angel 1987

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Guardian Angel (1987)
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Guardian Angel (1987)
Original name: Anđeo čuvar
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, village, thief, children, train, investigation, kidnapping, death, torture, murder, handicapped, family relations, child abuse, poverty, runaway, racketeer, fear, slum, girl, beggar, brother sister relationship, reporter ...
Place: italy, former yugoslavia, venice, yugoslavia
Keyword: serbian, gangsters

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, rough and touching films with plots about death, murder, youth, family relations, coming of age, boy and theft mostly in Drama, Crime and Comedy genres. Some movies like Guardian Angel: The Ciambra (2017), Cyclo (1995), Special Education (1977), Time of the Gypsies (1988), The Son of the Shark (1993). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Ciambra (2017)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, Brazil, Germany, France, Sweden, USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Pio Amato, a 14 year-old member of a small Romani community in Calabria, is in a hurry to grow up. Pio follows his older brother Cosimo everywhere and from him he learns how to hustle and how to navigate the streets of his hometown. One night Pio ...
Style: neorealism, psychological, tense, contemplative, suspense ...
Plot: gypsy, male female relationship, friendship, teenager, petty criminal, father son relationship, chase, betrayal, brother sister relationship, family relations, coming of age, twists and turns ...
Time: year 2017
Place: italy, southern italy, rome italy
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Cyclo (1995)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Vietnam, France, Hong Kong
Duration: 123 min.
Story: Follows a young cyclo (bicycle cab) driver on his poverty-driven descent into criminality in modern-day Ho Chi Minh City. The boy's struggles to scratch out a living for his two sisters and grandfather in the mean streets of the city lead to ...
Style: disturbing, bleak, stylized, neo noir, controversial ...
Plot: poverty, vietnam war, gangster, coming of age, gang, youth, minimal dialogue, drug, corruption, mafia, prostitution, poetry ...
Time: year 1995, 90s
Place: saigon, vietnam, asia
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Honor Thy Father and Mother: The True Story of the Menendez Murders (1994)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: TV movie based on the novel "Blood Brothers," about the murder of Jose Menéndez and his wife Kitty by their sons, Erik and Lyle.
Plot: serial killer, true crime, brother brother relationship, death of father, father son relationship, death, husband wife relationship, murder, courtroom, family relations, death of mother, patricide ...
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Special Education (1977)
Genre: Drama
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Educator and those educated in a home for juvenile delinquents in the same test: approach, take a peek into his soul to become a man. The story of a minor, neglected boys-offenders and their teachers who try to reject the old methods of ...
Style: educational
Plot: boy, police officer, car accident, education, escape, teaching, hitchhiking, teacher, stealing, runaway, theft, thief ...
Place: belgrade
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28%
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Time of the Gypsies (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Yugoslavia, Italy, UK
Duration: 142 min.
Story: In this luminous tale set in the former Yugoslavia, Perhan, an engaging young Romany with telekinetic powers, is seduced by the quick-cash world of petty crime that threatens to destroy him and those he loves.
Style: surreal, touching, poignant, cerebral, independent film ...
Audience: teens
Plot: coming of age, magic realism, gypsy, romani people, ethnic, forced prostitution, adolescence, european, vengeance, bittersweet, immigration, racism ...
Time: 90s, year 1988, 20th century, 80s
Place: former yugoslavia, eastern europe, serbia, europe, milan italy ...
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The Son of the Shark (1993)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Belgium, France, Luxembourg
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Brothers Martin and Simon, not yet teens, are incorrigible vandals; Martin runs away from reform school, Simon from foster homes, and they always find each other in a seacoast town of Lignan, where their destructive behavior is infamous. (It may ...
Style: realistic, serious, rough, touching
Plot: coming of age, boy, juvenile delinquency, creepy child, child abuse, children, psycho, brother brother relationship, family life, siblings relations, orphan, life is a bitch ...
Time: year 1993, 90s
Place: france
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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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Real Men (2003)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 180 min.
Story: A powerful and disturbing two-part drama about sexual manipulation, the loss of innocence and betrayal of trust, starring Ben Daniels. A policeman's determination to solve the three-year-old case of an abducted schoolboy leads him to uncover a ...
Style: psychological, suspense, suspenseful, touching
Plot: child abuse, children's home, children, lie, police investigation, sexual abuse, intimidation, investigation, police, fear, rape
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Oliver Twist (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France, UK, Czech Republic
Duration: 130 min.
Story: Oliver Twist the modern filmed version of Charles Dickens bestseller, a Roman Polanski adaptation. The classic Dickens tale, where an orphan meets a pickpocket on the streets of London. From there, he joins a household of boys who are trained to ...
Style: emotional, costume drama, atmospheric, serious, touching ...
Audience: family outing, teens, kids
Plot: boy, orphan, orphanage, poverty, child abuse, childhood, children, child, friendship, kidnapping, death sentence, apprentice ...
Time: victorian era, 19th century, middle ages, year 2005, 1800s ...
Place: england, london, europe
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Joe the King (1999)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A destitute 14 year old struggles to keep his life together despite harsh abuse at his mother's hands, harsher abuse at his father's, and a growing separation from his slightly older brother. Petty thefts for food grow into more major ...
Style: emotional, harsh, tense, rough, grim ...
Plot: coming of age, children, dysfunctional family, child abuse, working class, youth, boy, redemption, poverty, childhood, corporal punishment, debt ...
Time: year 1999, 70s, 90s
Place: usa, new york
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Pianese Nunzio, Fourteen in May (1996)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 114 min.
Story: A young priest crusades against organized crime in his Naples neighbourhood but falls in love with a 13-year old boy. It's the chance the gangsters were waiting for to get rid of the thorn in their side. Will they be able to force the boy to ...
Style: realistic, serious, touching, sexual, crying ...
Plot: gay, coming of age, lgbt, youth, religion, sex crime, age difference, glbt, family relations, unemployment, friendship, sex with a priest ...
Time: 90s
Place: italy, europe, naples italy, rome italy, milan italy
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24%
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Blood Ties (1986)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story: An innocent American engineer is blackmailed by gangsters into a plot to assassinate his cousin, who is a judge in Sicily fighting the Mafia.
Style: serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful, poliziottesco
Plot: mafia, italian mafia, murder, kidnapping, gangster, danger, rescue, violent content, nudity, hitman, drug, deadly
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: sicily, italy
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24%
The Fight with the Panther (1975)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Three nymphets struggle to have a beneficial youth: Ana is suicidal, Mercedes is attracted to her brother William, and Patricia desires to be sexually abused.
Plot: suicide, money, girl, fear, murder, school, loss of virginity, coming of age, incestuous relationship, murderer, girl man relationship, teenage girl ...
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Infidus (2015)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 80 min.
Story: In the suburbs of Rome, two disparate lives with only desire for vengeance and redemption in common find their destinies intertwined. Massimo's mind is plagued with images of his wife's violent death at the hands of a criminal gang ...
Style: suspense, bloody, brutal, psychological, tense ...
Plot: revenge, prisoner, murderer, killer, pain, henchman, death, prison, hunter, released from prison, convict, brother brother relationship ...
Time: 2010s
Place: italy, rome italy
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The Sicilian Girl (2008)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Inspired to a true story, on November 5th 1991, Rita Atria a young 17-year-old Sicilian girl, goes to see an anti-Mafia judge Paolo Borsellino to denounce the Mafia system that was responsible for the murder of her father and her brother. It is the ...
Style: tense, rough, suspenseful, serious, emotional ...
Plot: betrayal, murder, village, testimony, danger, family life, mafia, sicilian, whistleblower, family relations, youth, vengeance ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, 80s, year 1985, year 1991
Place: sicily, palermo italy, europe, italy, rome italy
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Ginostra (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France, Italy, USA
Duration: 139 min.
Story: An FBI Agent from America and his bride and young child travel to the Sicilian island of Ginostra to solve the murder of a key witness.
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Audience: boys' night
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L.I.E. (2001)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: In this biting and disturbing coming-of-age tale from writer-director Michael Cuesta, life is bittersweet along the L.I.E., also known as the Long Island Expressway, as suburban teen Howie Blitzer learns all too clearly. In the space of a week, he ...
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Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: gay, male prostitution, coming of age, lgbt teen, sexual abuse, pedophile, juvenile delinquent, pedophilia, gay cruising, mentor, youth, boy ...
Time: year 2001, 21st century
Place: long island, new york
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The Thief (1997)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Russia, France
Duration: 96 min.
Story: In 1946, a soldier fathers a child then dies before its birth. Jump to 1952: on a train, the child and his mother meet a handsome soldier who makes a play for her. She accepts. Posing as a married family, the soldier finds them a rooming house where ...
Style: bleak, realistic, sincere, serious, gloomy ...
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Time: 50s, post world war two, year 1997, 20th century, 1940s ...
Place: russia, soviet union, siberia, black sea
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Genre: Crime, Drama
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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.
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 128 min.
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Place: brazil, latin america, rio de janeiro, africa, sao paulo brazil
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Al is caught between his loyalty to the police force and his love for his brother in a tense setting. It seems that his brother, Rudy, was involved in a mob hit that could potentially start a gang war. Tony C., a local mob boss and childhood ...
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Aloa: Festivity of the Whores (1988)
Genre: Drama
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A married couple from Germany, middle-aged Manfred and his much younger wife Meyra, who are originally from Zagreb, spend their vacation on the island Hvar. They are staying at Ms. Marija's house. Ms. Marija's son and Meyra feel an erotic ...
Style: sexual, tension
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Place: former yugoslavia
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Duration: 80 min.
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Style: twisted, independent film, detective
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Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 78 min.
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Genre: Crime, Drama
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Duration: 101 min.
Story: World-weary arthur Fernando has returned to his native Colombia to live out his days in peace. But Fernando's once-quiet hometown has become a hotbed of violence, drugs and corruption. On the brink of despair, Fernando meets Alexis, a ...
Style: disturbing, meditative, thought provoking, rough, contemplative ...
Plot: gay, murder, vengeance, poverty, lgbt, drug dealing, teenage life, fall in love, love affair, drug, writers, life is a bitch ...
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20%
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Òlòtūré (2019)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Nigeria
Duration: 106 min.
Story: In Lagos, Nigeria, young, naive Nigerian journalist Òlòtūré goes undercover to expose the shady underworld of human trafficking. Unused to this brutal environment, crawling with ruthless traders and pimps, Òlòtūré finds warmth and friendship ...
Style: disturbing, suspense, tense, captivating
Plot: journalism, female journalist, sex trafficking, human trafficking, investigative reporter, fighting crime, organized crime, prostitute, investigation, forced prostitution, prostitution, street prostitution ...
Place: africa
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20%
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Salaam Bombay! (1988)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: India, USA, France, UK
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Before Slumdog Millionaire came Salaam Bombay!, Mira Nair’s Oscar-nominated drama tells the moving story of life on the streets of Bombay as seen through the eyes of Chaipu, a twelve-year-old boy living rough in the city.
Style: realistic, touching, social, offbeat, art house ...
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Time: year 1988, 80s, 20th century
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The Most Beautiful Wife (1970)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Based on the story of Franca Viola and Filippo Melodia. In Sicily, as a Mafia boss leaves for prison, he advises Vito, a young man who's his potential successor, to marry a virtuous and poor woman. Vito's eye settles on Francesca, only 15, ...
Style: poliziottesco
Plot: forced marriage, marriage, mafia, rape, cosa nostra, erotica, italian mafia, police, infidelity, women, brawl, heart attack ...
Time: 70s
Place: italy, sicily
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