Movies like Boardwalk

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Boardwalk (1979)
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Boardwalk (1979)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: In this drama, David Rosen and his wife Becky have lived in the same Coney Island neighborhood for nearly all their married life. But the area is not what it used to be, and a gang leader named Strut has decided to make Coney Island his new turf. Strut begins shaking down the merchants in the area, demanding payment for "protection" and using violence to deal with anyone who gets in his way. David refuses to give Strut protection money for the restaurant he owns, and as a result his diner is soon firebombed, while many of his neighbors are attacked and his synagogue is desecrated.
Style: crying, independent film
Plot: dog, teenager, revenge, thief, fight, musician, biker, gang, violence, death, murder, criminal, racism, beach, doctor, ambulance, restaurant, hospital, singer, theft, old man, african american, chase, photograph, fortune teller ...
Time: year 1979
Place: new york, brooklyn new york city, coney island brooklyn new york city

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Most similar movies to Boardwalk

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, crying and touching films with plots about telephone call, family relations, husband wife relationship, fight, violence, bare chested male and cigarette smoking mostly in Drama and Crime genres. Some movies like Boardwalk: The Baldheaded Gang (1963), Walk Proud (1979), Moritz, Dear Moritz (1978), The Simple-Minded Murderer (1982), Play (2011). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Baldheaded Gang (1963)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: East Germany
Duration: 74 min.
Story: August 1961. The former Foreign Legionnaire, King, has collected a gang of hooligans, with whom he creates mischief in the GDR. After some careless work on a construction site, an event during which two people lose their lives, they move to a ...
Plot: skinhead, biker, motorcycle gang, bare chested male, driving, on the run, car, dead body, woman, hooligan, police, vandal ...
Time: year 1961, 60s, 20th century
Place: east germany, central europe
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95%
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Walk Proud (1979)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A young Chicano gang member in Los Angeles comes to realize that the gang life is not what he really wants but doesn't know how to get out.
Style: hispanic, realistic, serious
Plot: gang, teenager, african american gangster, gang member, redemption, cholo, gangster, violent content, forbidden love, fall in love, life is a bitch, society ...
Time: year 1979, 70s, 20th century
Place: los angeles, mexico, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
Moritz, Dear Moritz (1978)
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story: 15-year-old Moritz lives in a posh area of Hamburg, but his parents did not care about it. The teenager suffers from ridicule of his classmates and finds refuge in his dreams and playing the saxophone. Only when he joins a band and began performing ...
Audience: kids
Plot: coming of age, aunt, peeping, gay interest, gay subtext, dreaming, teenage protagonist, shooting, teacher, secretly observing, photograph, musician ...
Place: hamburg germany, germany, central europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
The Simple-Minded Murderer (1982)
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 108 min.
Story: The feeble-minded Sven's mother dies and he gets work as a farm-hand at the rich, affluent Höglund's farm. He has to work without pay and sleeps together with the cows. He meets the disabled Anna who is the first one to treat him as an ...
Style: non-linear, period piece, disturbing, bleak, emotional ...
Plot: mental disorder, disability, nordic, summer, illness, farm, murder, death of mother, revenge, speech impediment, nazi, farmer ...
Time: future, 1930s, 20th century
Place: europe, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
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Play (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden, France
Duration: 118 min.
Story: In central Gothenburg, Sweden, a group of boys, aged 12-14, robbed other children on about 40 occasions between 2006 and 2008. The thieves used an elaborate scheme called the 'little brother number' or 'brother trick', involving ...
Style: psychological, serious, captivating, transgressive, inspirational ...
Plot: boy, friendship between boys, juvenile delinquency, gang, kids in trouble, coming of age, danger, rivalry, youth, mind game, society, human nature ...
Time: year 2011, 2010s, 21st century
Place: eastern europe, europe
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65%
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System Crasher (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 125 min.
Story: The wild and energetic journey of 9-year-old girl Benni through all possible stations of German Child Proctective Services.
Style: realistic, psychological, disturbing, sincere, intense ...
Plot: problem child, teenager, social problems, parents and children, outcast, social outcast, fighting the system, society, school, family problems, life is a bitch, rebel ...
Time: year 2019
Place: germany, central europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
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Gran Torino (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Walt Kowalski is a widower who holds onto his prejudices despite the changes in his Michigan neighborhood and the world around him. Kowalski is a grumpy, tough-minded, unhappy old man who can't get along with either his kids or his neighbors. ...
Style: serious, emotional, touching, suspense, thought provoking ...
Audience: manly, chick flick, teen drama, adult
Plot: gang, friendship, elderly, veteran, racism, prejudice, gunfight, widower, gangster, interracial relations, old man, vigilante ...
Time: year 2008, 2000s, 21st century
Place: detroit, usa, michigan, italy, north america
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
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Consequences (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: Slovenia, Austria
Duration: 95 min.
Story: After being sent to a youth detention centre, 18-year-old Andrej has to fight for his place within the group of inmates while getting closer to Željko, their informal leader, and struggling to keep his repressed secret in the dark.
Style: lgbt cinema, realistic, suspense, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot: male nudity, closeted homosexual, gay, closeted gay, troubled youth, bare chested male, gay interest, lgbtq, homophobic slur, bisexual, bisexual man, teenage boy ...
Time: 2000s
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
 4.9
 2K
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 ⇓
56%
Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff (1979)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: An abusive sexual relationship between a white spinster schoolteacher and a young black janitor in 1956 Kansas complicates her struggle to come to grips with her sexuality and emotions.
Style: independent film, freeze frame, crying
Plot: interracial sex, teacher student sex, interracial rape, older woman younger man relationship, interracial, age difference, older woman younger man, exploring sexuality, janitor, caught having sex, rape, sexual harassment ...
Time: year 1979, year 1954, year 1956, 1950s, year 1955
Place: kansas
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
Back When We Were Grownups (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A 53-year-old widow believes she's turned into the wrong person in this bittersweet tale based on Anne Tyler's best-seller. Beck's (Blythe Danner) plate is full: She runs a catering business and cares for her large family, but feels ...
Style: crying
Plot: doctor, wedding, unhappiness, family relations, unconventional family, bare chested male, photograph, restaurant, sister sister relationship, mother daughter relationship, library, train ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
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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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52%
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Sole (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, Poland
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Two very different teens involved in a surrogate motherhood scheme learn how to live.
Style: mumblecore, crying
Plot: newborn baby, orphan, pretend relationship, petty criminal, immigrant, bare chested male, nightclub, doctor, mother daughter relationship, infertility, mechanic, uncle nephew relationship ...
Place: italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
Around the Bend (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A tale of four generations of men, all of whom have had their offspring at a young age: a great-grandfather, a grandfather, a father in his twenties and a son who is about 7 years old. When the oldest member passes away, the trio heads out on the ...
Style: touching, sentimental, road movie, emotional, semi serious ...
Plot: family relations, self discovery, family gatherings, human nature, parents and children, estrangement, death, road trip, father son relationship, dysfunctional family, aging, van ...
Time: year 2004, 20th century
Place: new mexico, usa, albuquerque new mexico, los angeles, arizona ...
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52%
La Casa que Arde de Noche (1985)
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A prostitute enters a brothel and establishes a rivalry faking love with the old owner.
Style: erotic
Plot: erotica, male nudity, woman, stripper, manipulative behavior, striptease, port, tractor, boy, donkey, multiple deaths, dog ...
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50%
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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
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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Blue Bayou (2021)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 117 min.
Story: As a Korean-American man raised in the Louisiana bayou works hard to make a life for his family, he must confront the ghosts of his past as he discovers that he could be deported from the only country he has ever called home.
Style: thought provoking
Plot: korean american, exile, migration, tattoo, husband wife relationship, airport, father daughter relationship, adoption, deportation, east asian lead, lawyer, pregnant wife ...
Time: year 2009, year 2016, year 1981, year 1964, year 2000 ...
Place: usa, new orleans, louisiana
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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Levelland (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A coming-of-age drama, with skateboards, set in Texas.
Style: crying
Audience: teens
Plot: american football, punk rock, age-gap relationship, punk, unfaithfulness, bare butt, nudity, psychiatric hospital, sex, infidelity, gay slur, loss of father ...
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49%
Baby the Rain Must Fall (1965)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Henry Thomas is out on parole in a small Texan town and, in the evenings, he is the lead singer in a band. He is being pressured by his foster mother to give up his singing and go back to school. His wife, Georgette, and young daughter unexpectedly ...
Style: retro, black and white, esoteric, psychological, serious ...
Plot: homecoming, parole, convict, singer, small town, marriage, little girl, dead wife, jail, father daughter relationship, secret, fight ...
Time: 20th century, 60s
Place: texas, austin texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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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47%
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The Believer (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A hardcore American racist skinhead who, because of his intelligence, leads a gang dedicated to fighting the enemy: the supposed American-Jewish conspiracy for domination. However, he's hiding a secret: he's Jewish-born, a brilliant ...
Style: disturbing, emotional, bleak, independent film, realistic ...
Plot: skinhead, judaism, racism, anti semitism, neo nazi, nazism, hate, bomb, identity crisis, anger, introspection, violence spree ...
Time: year 2001, y2k, 60s, 20th century
Place: israel, new york, usa, argentina, germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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 ⇓
45%
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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 ⇓
45%
First, Last and Deposit (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Thirteen-year-old Tessa (Jessica White) faces more than the usual tribulations of adolescence. When bad times hit, she and her mother find themselves living on the streets. The injustice of poverty is emphasized by the fact that Tessa's school ...
Style: serious, realistic, rough, touching, independent film ...
Plot: juvenile delinquency, kids in trouble, society, youth, teenage life, parents and children, working class, family relations, survival, eviction, school, corporate crime ...
Time: 90s
Place: california, usa
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Behind the Red Door (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Set in New York and New England (but filmed in Newfoundland), Behind the Red Door stars Kyra Sedgwick as Manhattan-based photographer Natalie Haddad, who enjoys success with her strangely gloomy and foreboding camerawork. When her agent and best ...
Style: psychological, serious, sincere, touching, realistic
Plot: family relations, self discovery, love and romance, estrangement, siblings relations, family life, haunted by the past, terminal illness, parents and children, homosexual, photographer, secret ...
Place: newfoundland, boston, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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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 ⇓
42%
The Dream Catcher (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: An abandoned teen jumps a freight train in Philadelphia intent on reaching his uncle in Indiana, whom he believes will help him with financial difficulties including a pregnant girlfriend. In Ohio, he meets another homeless teen, who escorts him to ...
Style: independent film, contemplative, serious, realistic, sincere ...
Plot: coming of age, family relations, friendship, on the road, father, prison, friends, self discovery, social misfits, youth, society, hopes ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: indiana, usa, oklahoma, salt lake city utah, philadelphia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Redwood Highway (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Marie, a reluctant resident of a retirement community in Southern Oregon, decides to walk 80 miles down the Redwood Highway to see the ocean for the first time in 45 years.
Style: touching, serious, realistic, sentimental, feel good ...
Plot: on the road, family relations, obsessive quest, estrangement, escapades, introspection, haunted by the past, strong female presence, hopes, redemption, parents and children, journey ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, pacific ocean, oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
That Evening Sun (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: An aging Tennessee farmer returns to his homestead and must confront a family betrayal, the reappearance of an old enemy, and the loss of his farm.
Style: serious, tense, sentimental, realistic, rough ...
Plot: farm, betrayal, retirement home, homecoming, parents and children, danger, dishonesty, uninhibited rivalry, family problems, grudge, country, father son relationship ...
Time: year 2009, 21st century
Place: tennessee, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
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