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Top of the Heap (1972)
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Top of the Heap (1972)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: He was a violent man...trouble was--he was also a cop.
Style: surreal, black cinema
Plot: blaxploitation, sexy nurse, astronaut, anger, dancing, revenge, police, sex scene, drug dealer, african american, taxi driver, bare breasts, bus, nasa, blood, racist, rage, driving, tough cop, husband wife relationship, cigarette smoking, punched in the face, sandwich, racial slur, frustration ...

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out independent film, serious, realistic and crying films with plots about african american, murder, husband wife relationship, kiss, blaxploitation, death and cigarette smoking mostly in Drama, Action and Thriller genres. Some movies like Top of the Heap: The Student Nurses (1970), The Messenger (1986), The Zebra Killer (1974), Where Is Kyra? (2017), A Place Called Today (1972). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Student Nurses (1970)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Follows the lives of a group of young nurses in Los Angeles, including a nurse who joins a band of revolutionaries, and one who finds herself succumbing to drugs.
Style: erotic, psychotronic, independent film
Plot: sexy nurse, feminist, erotica, exploitation, feminism, night, campus, business, college, nurse, nudity, bare breasts ...
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The Messenger (1986)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 95 min.
Story: When his girlfriend dies of a drug overdose, a former Green Beret decides to take vengeance on the drug gangs responsible for her death.
Style: independent film
Plot: blaxploitation, revenge, mafia, drug overdose, cocaine, green beret, drug, foot pursuit, prostitute, death, african american, restaurant ...
Place: vietnam, new york, las vegas, italy, nevada ...
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The Zebra Killer (1974)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Based on the real events that shocked San Franisco in the early 70's. Mac portrays the role of The Zebra Killer, a white man who dresses in black makeup and strolls the city of San Francisco stalking, raping and killing young women. Lt. Savage ...
Style: grindhouse, independent film
Plot: blaxploitation, serial killer, true crime, black, police, fireman, drug, shootout, nudity, police officer, abandoned building, riot ...
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Where Is Kyra? (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Pushed to the brink after losing her job, a woman struggles to survive. As the months pass and her troubles deepen, she embarks on a perilous and mysterious journey that threatens to usurp her life.
Style: captivating, suspense, bleak, disturbing, rough ...
Plot: black american, name calling, poverty, husband wife relationship, police detective, mother daughter relationship, street life, lie, ex husband ex wife relationship, illness, african american, theft ...
Time: 21st century
Place: brooklyn new york city, usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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A Place Called Today (1972)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Racial tensions arise when a black lawyer runs for mayor of a racially divided town.
Style: grindhouse, political, independent film
Plot: blaxploitation, rape and revenge, urban decay, racial tension, election, corrupt politician, nudity, murder of a nude woman, political manipulation, racist, racial slur, racial violence ...
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21%
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Mall (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Malcom's done with his life. Only the noise of Crystal Meth gives him a reason to keep going - everything else it has long regardless. Equipped with a bag full of weapons and self-made bombs, he makes his way to the nearby mall to really stir ...
Style: serious, psychological, bleak, tense, suspense ...
Plot: voyeurism, serial killer, youth, confined, female rapist, woman rapes man, violence spree, unfulfillment, dull life, suburbs, isolation, husband wife relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
The Bus Is Coming (1971)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: A young black soldier returns home to Los Angeles from combat in Vietnam to find out that his brother had been killed by a gang of racist cops. Angered, he joins a black nationalist group to take his revenge.
Style: black cinema
Plot: blaxploitation, vietnam war, black, racial issues, african american, soldier, vietnam veteran, murder, police, harmonica, jukebox, small town ...
Time: 70s
Place: los angeles
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21%
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Being Flynn (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: During his twenties, a young man works at various homeless shelters in Boston, where he often intersects with his brilliant but troubled father.
Style: realistic, touching, serious, suspenseful, psychological ...
Plot: homeless, father son relationship, absent father, homeless shelter, writer's life, poet, writers, estrangement, family relations, life is a bitch, social misfits, suicide ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, boston, massachusetts, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Pineapple (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A Texas publishing exec who's on the wagon and in A.A., walks in on his wife in bed with another man, and in the nasty divorce that follows, he falls off the wagon and takes up Crystal. Alternating between concern for his pre-teen daughter, his ...
Style: erotic
Plot: stripper, threesome, sex scene, making love, sex, bare breasts, dealer, caught in the act, sponsor, suffocation, marital abuse, publishing house ...
Place: austin texas
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20%
The Black Klansman (1966)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: After a black man's daughter is killed by the KKK, he seeks revenge by becoming a Klansman.
Style: psychotronic, black and white, grindhouse, political, entertaining ...
Plot: blaxploitation, racism, revenge, racial issues, chaos, interracial, african, swimming pool, photographer, brother brother relationship, daughter, funeral ...
Place: alabama, los angeles
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Poor Boy's Game (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Donnie Rose went to prison for beating a young man so brutally it left him handicapped for life. Nine years later, Donnie is out. He's a different man with only one place to go: back home to the same violent and racist neighborhood that created ...
Style: serious, tense, realistic, rough, crying
Plot: racism, foe turned friend, prison, boxing, redemption, interracial relations, starting over, strong sexual content, grudge, rivalry, hopes, athlete's life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada, nova scotia, canada, nova scotia
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20%
A Smell of Honey, a Swallow of Brine (1966)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min.
Story: Sharon is a young office worker who sexually teases, seduces and then cries 'rape' on various men just to see them emotionally suffer for her own man-hating, twisted amusement leading to one lovestruck boyfriend being sent to prison, the ...
Style: grindhouse, independent film, weird
Plot: exploitation, nudie cutie, rape, teasing, nudity, sex, violence, lesbian, castration, thug, prison, seduction ...
Time: 60s
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Along the Way (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: A funny, gripping and powerful drama about the post graduation summer of four lifelong friends and one night that changed the course of their lives... forever. Like Crash , Saint Elmo s Fire and it s inspiration Stand By Me, Along the WAY is a ...
Style: touching, offbeat, gloomy, emotional, realistic ...
Plot: best friend, college, friendship, friends, youth, hopes, redemption, buddies, coming of age, showbiz, partner, doctor ...
Time: 90s, year 1996, year 1983, 21st century
Place: new york, connecticut, madison square garden manhattan new york city
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19%
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Jerome (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Jerome is a day in the life of a dreamer. Wade Hampton has found himself trapped by responsibility and lack of understanding by those closest to him. As a result, Wade simply leaves his old life with the idea of fulfilling a repressed dream of ...
Style: independent film, contemplative, serious, realistic, psychological ...
Plot: factory, on the road, desert, petty theft, unlikely criminals, lovers on the run, unfulfillment, self discovery, society, hopes, love and romance, misfit ...
Time: 90s
Place: arizona, usa
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19%
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Eve's Bayou (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: The story is set in 1962 Louisiana. The big Batiste family is headed by charming doctor Louis. Though he is married to beautiful Roz, he has a weakness for attractive women patients. One day Louis is flirting with married and sexy Metty Mereaux, not ...
Style: cult classic, independent film, southern gothic, gothic, spooky ...
Audience: chick flick, adult
Plot: witchcraft, curse, coming of age, dysfunctional family, all black cast, black, implied incest, black history, african american, infidelity, redemption, women of color ...
Time: year 1997, 60s, 20th century
Place: louisiana, new orleans, indiana, usa, detroit
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19%
River Made to Drown In (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Allen, a struggling young artist who once survived by working in the streets, is now involved with Eva, a wealthy Los Angeles gallery owner. Quite by surprise Allen receives a visit from an old john, Thaddeus, who is dying from aids and has come to ...
Style: crying, weeping, independent film, queer cinema
Plot: gay, aids, lgbt, hiv, bad father, cocaine, gay subtext, dying and death, hustler, eviction notice, mourning, drug addict ...
Place: santa monica california, los angeles
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One Potato, Two Potato (1964)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Study of interracial marriage in the 1960's. A white divorcée falls in love with and marries an African-American man. When her ex-husband sues for custody of her child, arguing that a mixed household is an improper place to raise the girl, the ...
Style: independent film, black cinema
Plot: black man white woman relationship, marriage, racism, racial issues, prejudice, child custody, blaxploitation, black history, miscegenation, racial prejudice, religion, friendship ...
Place: ohio, midwest
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Yelling to the Sky (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: As her family falls apart, seventeen year old Sweetness O'Hara is left to fend for herself in a neighborhood where her survival is uncertain.
Style: emotional, serious, captivating, realistic, independent film ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: dysfunctional family, depression, juvenile delinquency, teenage life, alcoholic, going straight, youth, society, hopes, coming of age, parents and children, family life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: indiana, usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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Strange Weather (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Years after her son's suicide, a woman longs to confront both the past and a friend of his who took his business idea.
Style: lyrical, suspenseful, serious, road movie, depressing ...
Audience: toddlers
Plot: death of son, investigation, depression, grieving mother, death of child, violent death, grieving, dying young, justice, vengeance, death, life & death ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, alabama, louisiana, mississippi, new orleans ...
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19%
Pressure Point (1962)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: An African-American prison psychiatrist (Sidney Poitier) finds the boundaries of his professionalism sorely tested when he must counsel a disturbed inmate (Bobby Darin) with bigoted Nazi tendencies.
Style: political, psychedelic, mind bending, surreal, independent film ...
Plot: world war two, psychopath, prison, african, colonialism, nazi, therapy, black, blaxploitation, mental disorder, legion, foreign legion ...
Time: 1940s, year 1962, year 1942
Place: madison square garden manhattan new york city, manhattan new york city, harlem, new york
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Night-Flowers (1979)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Two Vietnam vets, Tom and Nordi, live sad lives in a crumbling New Jersey town. Sharing a one room apartment, they talk about their inability to hold down real work, struggle to get noticed at the VA and fail to connect with women. This changes for ...
Style: independent film
Plot: frustration, psychiatric patient, murder, father son relationship, bus, rape, vietnam veteran, massage parlor, gym, roommate, police, fishing ...
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Angel Blue (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Dennis (Sam Bottoms) is a handsome, successful and well-liked civic leader who lives in his hometown with his lovely wife (Lisa Eichhorn) and their new baby. When Enrique Vasquez (Marco Rodriguez) and his striking teen daughter Angela (Yeniffer ...
Style: sensual, crying
Plot: older man younger woman sex, age difference, scandal, racist, junkyard, hysteria, being followed, stalker, infatuation, teenage crush, therapist, babysitting ...
Place: california
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
The People Next Door (1970)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Seventies attempt at exposing the drug problems of suburban youth. Typical middle-class parents Wallach and Harris are horrified to discover that daughter Winters is strung out on LSD. They fight to expose the neighborhood pusher while struggling to ...
Style: surreal, independent film
Plot: psychiatric hospital, counterculture, lsd, female nudity, daughter, drug, parent child relationship, drug dealer, extramarital affair, female full frontal nudity
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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Moonlight (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: The tender, heartbreaking story of a young man’s struggle to find himself, told across three defining chapters in his life as he experiences the ecstasy, pain, and beauty of falling in love, while grappling with his own sexuality.
Style: serious, lgbt cinema, art house, hood, inspirational ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, date night, teen drama, adult
Plot: lgbt, forgiveness, african american, drug dealer, lgbtq, coming of age, gay, homosexuality, drug addict, dysfunctional family, bullying, beach ...
Time: year 2016, 2000s, 2010s
Place: florida, indiana, idaho, atlanta georgia, miami
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18%
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White Lie (1991)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A black New York man returns to his southern hometown to investigate his father's lynching at the hands of a white mob.
Style: tension, reflective
Plot: blaxploitation, interracial relations, revenge, love, doctor, rape, murder, african american, father, death, black man, racial issues ...
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Golden Youth (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Rose, a 16-year-old girl who was abandoned by her parents and taken in by social services, and her fiancé, 22-year-old Michel, are enjoying their first great and innocent love affair in Paris in 1979, at the height of the popularity of the Le ...
Style: melancholic, disturbing, sexy, unusual plot structure
Plot: swinger couple, wife swapping, sex scene, nightclub, drug, youth, relationships, open marriage, husband wife relationship, money, escapades, older woman younger man sex ...
Time: 70s, year 1979
Place: paris france
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18%
The United States of Leland (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A withdrawn young man, Leland Fitzgerald is imprisoned for the murder of a mentally disabled boy, who also happened to be the brother of his girlfriend, Becky. As the community struggles to deal with the killing, Pearl Madison, a teacher at the ...
Style: depressing, psychological, bleak, emotional, serious ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: prison, murder, teacher, coming of age, dysfunctional family, writers, prison life, family relations, unlikely friendships, investigation, parents and children, family problems ...
Time: year 2003, 21st century
Place: new york, los angeles, italy, paris france, california ...
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18%
Brotherly Love (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: West Philadelphia basketball star Sergio Taylor deals with the pressures of fame while his brother and sister have their own issues with ambition.
Style: serious, realistic, touching, captivating, hood ...
Audience: teens, girls' night
Plot: cheerleader, basketball, family problems, follow your dream, ambition, family relations, prodigy, athlete's life, desire for fame, hopes, youth, siblings relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: philadelphia, usa, indiana, pennsylvania
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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Bull (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: In a near-abandoned subdivision west of Houston, a wayward teen runs headlong into her equally willful and unforgiving neighbor, an aging bullfighter who's seen his best days in the arena; it's a collision that will change them both.
Style: disturbing, rough, thought provoking
Plot: life is a bitch, fight, respect, legal, against the odds, workplace, husband wife relationship, courage, brutality, courtroom drama, justice, small town ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: russia, texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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The Bad Bunch (1973)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: A white ex-GI goes to a black ghetto to deliver a letter from his buddy, a black soldier who died in Vietnam. When he arrives there he encounters hostility and trouble from all sides.
Style: independent film
Plot: blaxploitation, vietnam war, ghetto, soldier, hostility, afro
Place: vietnam
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