Movies like Scum 1991
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Scum (1991)
3K
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
This is the hard and shocking story of life in a British borstal for young offenders. Luckily the regime has changed since this TV film was made. The brutal regime made no attempt to reform or improve the inmates and actively encouraged a power struggle between the 'tough' new inmate and the 'old hands'. Banned by the BBC for 14 years, the original television version of 'Scum' was finally aired in July 1991.
Style:
gloomy, bleak, disturbing, controversial, crying, independent film, banned film, banned
Plot:
brutality, teenage boy, skinhead, men's rights, criminal, bullying, juvenile delinquent, discipline, blood, juvenile delinquency, punishment, threat, arrest, prison riot, abuse, beaten up, foul language, proles, prison, nazi, angry, violent, hooligan, rape, revenge ...
Time:
70s
Place:
england
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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Style:
tense, serious, controversial, independent film, grindhouse ...
Plot:
boy, rebellion, corruption, rape, criminal, prison, humiliation, youth, prison life, juvenile delinquent, racism, revenge ...
Time:
year 1979, near future, 70s, 20th century
Place:
england, britain, united kingdom
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100%
14K
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France, Canada, UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Three juvenile delinquents arrive at a correctional center and are put under the care of an experienced guard.
Style:
sincere, tense, sexy, realistic, serious ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
juvenile delinquency, prison, juvenile prison, teenage boy, teenage protagonist, accidental killing, male pubic hair, prison life, reformatory, sodomy, juvenile detention, youth ...
Time:
year 2010, 21st century
Place:
montana
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A story about a troubled boy growing up in England, set in 1983. He comes across a few skinheads on his way home from school, after a fight. They become his new best friends even like family. Based on experiences of director Shane Meadows.
Style:
political, depressing, cult classic, stylized, harsh ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
skinhead, racism, childhood, friendship, coming of age, neo nazi, adolescence, nationalism, boy, children, youth, violent ...
Time:
80s, year 1983, year 2006, 2000s, 20th century
Place:
england, britain, northern england, united kingdom, europe ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
On the Wirral in the grim early years of Margaret Thatcher's premiership, the opportunities for thrill seeking young men looking to escape 9 to 5 drudgery are what they've always been: sex, drugs, rock n' roll, fashion, football and ...
Style:
serious, rough, suspenseful, tense, realistic ...
Plot:
gang, hooligan, football, destructive relationship, juvenile delinquency, coming of age, teenage life, troublemaker, violence spree, life is a bitch, buddies, unemployment ...
Time:
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Place:
england, britain, liverpool
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36%
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114
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Elliott was a loser who robbed the bank only to land in jail. In prison, he encounters homosexuality as every inmate wants to turn Elliott into a mate!
Style:
crying, poliziottesco, independent film, lgbt cinema, gay cinema
Plot:
rape, prison rape, prison, first gay sexual experience, vigilante justice, vigilante, homophobic slur, prison fight, gay stereotype, immolation, sadist, burned alive ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Derek Vineyard is paroled after serving 3 years in prison for killing two thugs who tried to break into/steal his truck. Through his brother, Danny Vineyard's narration, we learn that before going to prison, Derek was a skinhead and the leader ...
Style:
cerebral, rough, serious, clever, disturbing ...
Audience:
boys' night, date night, teens, teen drama
Plot:
gang, skinhead, racism, prison, neo nazism, neo nazi, character change, nazism, juvenile delinquency, murder, politics, african american ...
Time:
20th century, year 1998, 90s
Place:
los angeles, usa, california, america, north america ...
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35%
Genre: Drama, Crime
Country: Italy
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
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Style:
serious, disturbing, realistic, touching, neorealism ...
Plot:
gay interest, youth, transvestism, homosexual, male prostitute, sexual assault, juvenile delinquency, prison, juvenile delinquent, reform, life is a bitch, school ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
italy, sicily, europe, milan italy, palermo italy
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, France
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
The family of Raymond, his wife Val and her brother Billy live in working-class London district. Also in their family is Val and Billy's mother Janet and grandmother Kath. Billy is a drug addict and Raymond kicks him out of the house, making ...
Style:
depressing, rough, realistic, bleak, controversial ...
Plot:
drug addict, drug addiction, profanity, drug abuse, cocaine, proles, lower class, wife abuse, heroin, addiction, dysfunctional family, drug ...
Time:
year 1997, 90s
Place:
london, england, europe
Similarity:
35%
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5K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Ray is an aging ex-socialist who has become a bankrobber after seeing the demise of socialism in 1980s Britain. Teaming up with a gang of other has-beenish crims, he commits one bank job too many. The gang dissolves in a murderous flurry of ...
Style:
neo noir, independent film, political, serious, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
robbery, gang, criminal gang, friendship between men, anti hero, greed, love, career criminal, corrupt cop, criminal, heist, corrupt ...
Time:
90s
Place:
england, london, europe
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, psychological, disturbing, tense, serious ...
Plot:
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Time:
21st century
Place:
canada, montreal, quebec
Similarity:
35%
3K
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Canada, Germany
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A heated game of poker causes three men incarcerated for nonviolent offenses to brutalize their cellmate before taking drastic measures in order to cover up their crime.
Style:
disturbing, realistic, suspenseful, rough, cerebral ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Similarity:
34%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Style:
disturbing, suspense, brutal, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot:
teenage rape, rape, gang rape, gang, cruelty, teenager, brutality, juvenile delinquency, violent, drug use, drug abuse, drugged ...
Place:
britain, new haven connecticut
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Western
Country: Australia, UK
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Set in the Australian outback in the 1880s, the movie follows the series of events following the horrific rape and murder of the Hopkins family, allegedly committed by the infamous Burns brothers gang. Captain Morris Stanley captures Charlie Burns ...
Style:
harsh, cult classic, tense, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
australia, oceania, new zealand
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
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Style:
disturbing, serious, psychological, bleak, art house ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
34%
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Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
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Style:
tense, realistic, bleak, cult classic, atmospheric ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
usa, philadelphia, pennsylvania, paris france, puerto rico ...
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
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Style:
heartbreaking, serious, psychological, intense, rough
Plot:
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457
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
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Style:
grindhouse, crying, banned
Plot:
bestiality, gay sex, gay rape, homosexual rape, lgbt, gay slur, revenge, closeted gay, pedophile, homosexuality, male rape, closeted homosexual ...
Place:
eastern europe, stockholm sweden
Similarity:
34%
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Country: West Germany
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
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Style:
crying
Plot:
prison, convict, beaten up, jail, humiliation, bribe, prison guard, barracks, intrigue, labor camp, swamp, power struggle ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
central europe
Similarity:
34%
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26K
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
The film is a caustic portrait of a traditional English boys’ boarding school, where social hierarchy reigns supreme and power remains in the hands of distanced and ineffectual teachers and callously vicious prefects in the Upper Sixth. But three ...
Style:
controversial, surreal, disturbing, dark comedy, cult classic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
revolution, boarding school life, boarding school, sex, private school, social satire, homosexuality, school shooting, boys' school, violence, coming of age, corporal punishment ...
Time:
60s, year 1968, 20th century
Place:
england, california, britain, europe
Similarity:
34%
107K
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 155 min.
Story:
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Style:
tense, harsh, rough, breathtaking, atmospheric ...
Audience:
manly, boys' night
Plot:
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Time:
year 2009, 2000s, 90s, year 2010, 21st century
Place:
france, marseille, europe, paris france, california
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Country: UK, USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
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Style:
disturbing, suspense, realistic, depressing, psychological ...
Plot:
prison, brutality, torture, injustice, lawyer, escape, prison life, prison escape, drug, drug smuggling, court, violent ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1970, year 1978, year 1975 ...
Place:
turkey, brooklyn new york city, greece, istanbul turkey, europe ...
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Provocative, outrageously profane and surprisingly tender amidst an explosion of unbridled testosterone, 44 INCH CHEST explores the masculine ego at breaking point, testing whether fear is stronger than love. Colin (Ray Winstone) is in agony, ...
Style:
tense, serious, surreal, atmospheric, bleak ...
Plot:
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Time:
year 2009, 20th century, 21st century
Place:
england, london, europe
Similarity:
33%
8K
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
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Style:
independent film, contemplative, serious, psychological, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
hooligan, soccer, football, police, violent, undercover, gang, skinhead, football hooligan, pub, hooliganism, rage ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
england, yorkshire, britain, europe, london
Similarity:
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
John McVicar was a London Bad Boy. he graduated to armed bank robbery and was Britain's "Public Enemy No. 1". He was captured and put into a high security prison. Will even the highest security prison be able to hold him? This is the ...
Style:
realistic, serious, rough, independent film
Plot:
prison, prison escape, jail, prison life, criminal, angry, imprisonment, football hooligan, skinhead, shipwreck, gang, tough heroes ...
Time:
year 1980, 60s
Place:
england, europe, london
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Nazi skinheads in Melbourne take out their anger on local Vietnamese, who are seen as threatening racial purity. Finally the Vietnamese have had enough and confront the skinheads in an all-out confrontation, sending the skinheads running. A woman ...
Style:
sexy, political, brutal, harsh, retro ...
Plot:
skinhead, neo nazi, racism, gang, violent, brutality, sex scene, violence, immigrant, strangulation, vandalism, profanity ...
Time:
year 1992, 90s, 20th century
Place:
australia, oceania, melbourne, new zealand
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
The guy nicknamed harlequin and his company, which calls itself "wolves", live on a half-stop, near the city, where they often go "to rest" — in search of thrills. And it's not just bullies, at least they think so.
Style:
crying, retro
Plot:
gang rape, traumatic childhood, anarchist, rape, unhappy ending, gang leader, humiliation, train travel, hooliganism, public humiliation, desperation, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Place:
ussr, soviet union
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
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Style:
visually appealing, melancholic, brutal, suspenseful, stylized ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
fall in love, gangster, revenge, violence, love and romance, organized crime, going straight, mentor, brother sister relationship, runaway, criminal heroes, dishonor among criminals ...
Time:
year 2010, 21st century
Place:
london, england, europe, los angeles
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Justice needs to be served at Britain's most notorious young offenders institute.
Style:
serious, tense, realistic, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot:
male nudity, robbery, prison life, confined, vigilantism, vengeance, life is a bitch, juvenile delinquency, chase, urban, prison, bare chested male ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Brazil, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
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Style:
tense, bleak, harsh, suspense, rough ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
friendship, street gang, favela, slum, coming of age, betrayal, brutality, relationships, drug lord, society, gang war, best friend ...
Time:
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Place:
rio de janeiro, brazil, south america, latin america
Similarity:
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11K
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
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Style:
depressing, rough, atmospheric, serious, political ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
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Time:
20th century, 80s, year 1981
Place:
brazil, south america, latin america, rio de janeiro, sao paulo brazil ...
Similarity:
33%
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