Movies like Happy Slapping

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Happy Slapping (2013)
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Happy Slapping (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 75 min.
Story: Five suburban youths embark on a night of violence in the city, attacking unsuspecting victims while recording the assaults on smartphones.
Plot: internet, street gang, cell, found footage, teenager, violence, night, smartphone, iphone

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Most similar movies to Happy Slapping

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out independent film, psychological, captivating and realistic films with plots about teenager, violence, teenage life, coming of age, youth, family relations and teenage girl mostly in Drama genres. Some movies like Happy Slapping: Circle of Lies (2012), 12 and Holding (2005), Bones of Crows (2022), The Brig (1964), Tanya's Island (1980). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Circle of Lies (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Once the most popular girl at Short Beach High, Denise Dixon finds her life turned upside-down after one night of terror. Rumours and violent backstabbing run rife. Life in Short Beach will never be the same.
Plot: teenager, blonde, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, beach, bullying, high school, girl, night, surfboard
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12 and Holding (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Three pre-adolescents with virginal and eager-of-signals naivety, hit headlong against monstrous and inhospitable loneliness, in the incandescent fire among the ashes of their own inocence.
Style: touching, realistic, emotional, heartbreaking, sad ...
Plot: teenager, coming of age, friendship, childhood, children, vengeance, dysfunctional family, family relations, loss of son, family problems, family in crisis, parents and children ...
Time: year 2005
Place: new jersey
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83%
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Bones of Crows (2022)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Cree matriarch Aline Spears survives a childhood in Canada’s residential school system to continue her family’s generational fight in the face of systemic starvation, racism, and sexual abuse. She uses her uncanny ability to understand and ...
Style: psychological, captivating, suspenseful, thrilling, period drama
Plot: indigenous people, teenage life, anti racism, teenager, troubled past, social problems, confronting the past, social issues, racism, violence, life is a bitch, world war two ...
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81%
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The Brig (1964)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 68 min.
Story: A ultra-realistic depiction of life in a Marine Corps brig (or jail) at a camp in Japan in 1957. Marine prisoners are awakened and put through work details for the course of a single day, submitting in the course of it to extremely harsh and ...
Style: experimental, political, independent film
Plot: sadism, discipline, theatre play, violence, cell, soldier, prisoner, prison, military, dehumanization, verbal abuse, u.s. marine corps
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77%
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Tanya's Island (1980)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Tanya is a female model who lives with her boyfriend Lobo, a surrealist painter who is extremely violent. Subjected to Lobo's constant abuse, Tanya dreams of escaping to a desert island, which comes true. The only other being on her island is ...
Style: psychotronic, grindhouse, suspense, independent film
Plot: bare butt, female nudity, bare breasts, monkey, violent, bigfoot, extreme, model, beach, island, exploitation, artist ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
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Miriam Lies (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: Dominican Republic, Spain
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Shy girl Miriam is waiting to celebrate her 15th birthday and she wants to invite her guy. So far they’ve only chatted online, and the anticipated blind date only complicates things.
Style: tense, psychological, suspense, unusual plot structure, contemplative ...
Plot: teenage girl, coming of age, lie, family relations, family drama, mother daughter relationship, teenager, middle class, love, couples, youth, couple relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: spain
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69%
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Booger Red (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Booger Red is a hybrid documentary/narrative about a veteran reporter who searches for the truth behind the largest purported child sex ring in Texas history. On his journey through the bowels of East Texas, he's forced to confront his own ...
Plot: found footage, investigative journalism, brother in law sister in law relationship, swinger
Place: texas
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66%
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Four Days (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A teenaged boy becomes tangled up in a botched bank robbery attempt mastermined by his father and his father's friend.
Style: independent film, realistic, serious, suspenseful, offbeat
Audience: teen drama
Plot: heist, teenage life, parents and children, bank, family relations, disorder, dishonesty, criminal heroes, crime gone awry, crumbling marriage, male female relationship, diner ...
Time: 90s
Place: canada
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64%
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Fighting Back (1982)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Fighting Back is a 1982 Australian film about troubled teenagers.
Style: independent film
Plot: rage, cross cultural relations, violence, revenge, student, school, teaching, teenager, police officer, racism, slum, terror ...
Place: australia
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61%
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Shame (1992)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A tough female lawyer on holiday ends up in a small Pacific Northwest town where she befriends a local teenage girl and tries to persuade her to to press charges against the young thugs who raped her.
Plot: gang rape, gang, motorcycle, chase, violence, rape, small town, bar
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60%
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Someone (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 97 min.
Story: 5 university students gather to exchange information on their job search activities. They encourage each other and post their thoughts & worries on Twitter, but behind that they have a lot on their minds. Takuto Ninomiya observes those around ...
Plot: japanese girl, spying, studying, job seeking, neighbor, friend, website, actor, student, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, fan, social media ...
Place: japan
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54%
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The Park (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 71 min.
Story: Summer time. Two teenagers, a boy and a girl, have their first date in a park. Hesitant and shy at first, they soon discover each other, get closer as they wander, and end up falling in love. But as the sun goes down, it is time to separate... And a ...
Style: art house
Plot: first date, shyness, security guard, deception, night, teenage girl, boat, teenager, guardian, owl, cigarette smoking, teenage boy ...
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53%
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The Connection (1961)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Eight drug addicts are waiting for their connection in a New York apartment belonging to Leach. Jim Dunn, a budding filmmaker, has agreed to pay for the fix if the addicts will allow him to film the connection scene. After the men get their shots, ...
Style: mockumentary, underground film, social, independent film, avant garde ...
Plot: found footage, jazz, drug addiction, music and dance, blaxploitation, women, heroin, drug use, drug, group, director, drug dealer ...
Time: year 1961
Place: new york
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53%
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Rip-Off (1971)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Best friends Michael, Steve, Cooly and Richie are seniors at a large Toronto high school. Foremost on their minds and that of many of their classmates are what they are going to do this upcoming summer and beyond. They don't want to waste away ...
Style: independent film
Plot: friendship, coming of age, canuxploitation, teenage boy, high school, teenager, commune, youth, media, rock band, filmmaking, high school student ...
Time: 70s
Place: toronto ontario canada
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51%
Virgin 2: Not a Porn Movie (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Indonesia
Story: A friendship of two young girls, Tina and Nadya, who have fallen into dark professions. Friendships often come at a heavy price and end in tragic death, just when they want to change the course of their lives.
Style: suspense, disturbing, psychological, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot: life is a bitch, teenage girl, teenage life, money problems, violence, family problems, teenage protagonist, society, teenager, juvenile delinquency, social problems
Place: indonesia
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51%
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Amateur Teens (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: Switzerland
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A modern tragedy about a group of 14-year-old schoolchildren whose daily life is shaped by the power of social media and ever increasing sexualisation through the Internet.
Style: thought provoking, disturbing, sentimental, psychological
Audience: adult
Plot: peer pressure, internet, group of friends, coming of age, teenager, first love, sexuality, social media, high school, sex education, female friendship, friendship ...
Time: 21st century
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50%
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Madame Courage (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: Algeria, France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Omar, an unstable and lonely teenager, lives in a slum in the suburbs of Mostaganem, Algeria. He is addicted to a famous psychotropic, nicknamed “Madame Courage”: Artane tablets, very popular among young Algerians, for their euphoric effect of ...
Plot: violence against women, teenager, alzheimer's disease, retribution, violence, drug abuse, loner, slum, jewel theft, love at first sight, death threat, pimp ...
Time: 2010s
Place: algeria
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49%
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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Zero Day (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Two troubled adolescents chronicle the events that ultimately lead up to a terrifying assault on their school.
Style: disturbing, psychological, mockumentary, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience: teens
Plot: school shooting, found footage, vengeance, brutality, suicide, friendship, serial killer, high school, bullying, childhood, rebellion, justice ...
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Giant Little Ones (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Two popular teen boys, best friends since childhood, discover their lives, families, and girlfriends dramatically upended after an unexpected incident occurs on the night of a 17th birthday party.
Style: captivating, realistic, emotional, thought provoking, freeze frame ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, date night, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, gay, best friend, friendship, gay father, father son relationship, underage drinking, first gay sexual experience, lgbtq, bisexual, teenage protagonist, sexual orientation ...
Time: 2000s
Place: usa
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46%
Dangerous Child (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A divorced mother faces the bitter irony of being suspected of child abuse when in fact her own teen son is taking verbal and physical swipes at her.
Style: serious, tense, suspense, suspenseful, realistic
Plot: youth, physical abuse, family relations, single parent, teenage life, dysfunctional family, life is a bitch, family problems, parents and children, domestic disturbance, abuse, false accusation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england
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45%
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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44%
Reviving Ophelia (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story: The difficulties two sisters face raising their teenage daughters
Style: realistic, captivating, psychological, sentimental, serious
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: family problems, coming of age, family relations, family life, teenage life, obsession, youth, hidden truth, parents and children, single parent, sisters, abusive relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
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43%
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Hard Feelings (1981)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: It's 1963 and teenage Barnie has problems. School bullies are after him, his family is dysfunctional and his girl Leslie screws around. On the run from bullies, he hides in the African-American part of town and meets cute Winona.
Plot: bullying, interracial relations, slut, social issues, school bully, love interest, caught having sex, racism, teenager, dysfunctional family, girl, town ...
Time: 60s
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43%
The Year of the Tiger (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Chile
Duration: 82 min.
Story: A prison inmate escapes from his wrecked penitentiary during Chile's February 2010 earthquake.
Style: tense, psychological, suspenseful, disturbing, suspense
Plot: prison, escape, violence, brutality, prison escape, free will, devastation, freedom, tsunami, escaped prisoner, convict, crash ...
Time: year 2010
Place: chile
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40%
The Fall of Sparta (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story: When we are young, we sometimes feel that the world is stacked against us. This is the case for 16 year-old Steeve Simard (Lévi Doré), who is entering his last year at Gaston-Miron High School in St-Lambert. A cynical intellectual with a critical ...
Style: thrilling, captivating, psychological
Plot: teenager, gay, teenage protagonist, social problems, teenage life, schoolboy, adolescence, social issues, lifestyle change, changing lives, high school life, school ...
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39%
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The Legacy (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Story: A terminally ill, abused boy chronicles his life on an online message board.
Plot: babysitter, terminal illness, cancer, poetry, sexual abuse, internet, chat room
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38%
Thursday's Child (1983)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Sam Alden is the 17-year-old high school star player in baseball who seems to have it all. However, his family notices that he is often bothered with fits of coughing. Worried, his parents decide to take him to the hospital, where they are shocked ...
Plot: teenager, heart transplant, illness, father son relationship, doctor, family relations, heart disease
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Face 2 Face (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Over a series of video chats, a teenage outcast reaches out to his childhood friend, but finds that behind the veneer of popularity and a seemingly perfect life, she hides a disturbing secret.
Style: unusual plot structure, captivating, sincere, tense, touching ...
Plot: bullying, coming of age, childhood friend, found footage, friendship, youth, couple relations, love and romance, teenage life, love, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, couples ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Charm City Kings (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Mouse desperately wants to join The Midnight Clique, the infamous Baltimore dirt bike riders who rule the summertime streets. When Midnight’s leader, Blax, takes 14-year-old Mouse under his wing, Mouse soon finds himself torn between the ...
Style: serious, atmospheric, exciting, uplifting, hood ...
Audience: teens
Plot: motorcycle race, motorcycle chase, motorcycle racing, 14 year old boy, street gang, legal, biker gang, motorcycle, african american, street life, life, city life ...
Place: baltimore
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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