Movies like Toughlove

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Toughlove (1985)
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Toughlove (1985)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The Charters family falls into despair over their drug-addicted son Gary. They discuss his problems through the "Toughlove" program in searching for answers.
Plot: drug addiction, marijuana, troubled teen, cocaine, parenting, group therapy, drug abuse, drug addict, family relations, juvenile delinquent, drug use, father son relationship, teenage boy, husband wife relationship, teen angst, teenage angst, mother son relationship, alcohol

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, independent film, realistic and gloomy films with plots about drug addiction, drug abuse, drug, drug addict, family relations, drug use and addiction mostly in Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like Toughlove: Not My Kid (1985), The Death of Richie (1977), Courage (1986), 6 Balloons (2018), Thirteen (2003). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Not My Kid (1985)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A teenaged drug addict is sent to Dr. Royce's controversial drug intervention program where the addicts in the program confront each other in supervised group meetings. Also, in evening meetings, the addicts are confronted by their families. ...
Plot: group therapy, mother daughter relationship, illegal drugs, family conflict, family relations, drug rehab, lsd, helplessness, surgeon, frustration, drug addiction, drug addict ...
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100%
The Death of Richie (1977)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A sensitive but confused teenager feels pressure on him from all directions and turns to drugs, which causes problems for him in school and at home.
Style: grindhouse
Audience: teen drama
Plot: dysfunctional family, swing, drug addiction, family tragedy, family conflict, domineering father, marijuana, drug abuse, father son relationship, teenager, courtroom, propaganda ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.4
 177
Courage (1986)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 150 min.
Story: A mother in Queens, New York, is so angered when she discovers that her son is a drug addict that she becomes an undercover agent for the DEA to clean up the drug trade in her neighborhood. Based on a true story.
Style: uplifting, serious, realistic, emotional
Plot: family relations, undercover, drug abuse, family problems, life is a bitch, drug dealing, law enforcement, hopes, human spirit, society, parents and children, working undercover ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: new york, usa
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29%
 5.9
 4K
6 Balloons (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story: Over the course of one night, a woman drives across LA with her heroin addict brother in search of a detox center, with his two year old daughter in tow.
Style: melancholic, thought provoking, captivating, rough, sentimental
Plot: drug addiction, heroin, drug abuse, addiction, surprise party, problem, recovery, illness, woman, family problems, mission, mental illness ...
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25%
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 6.8
 97K
Thirteen (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Tracy is a normal 13-year-old trying to make it in school. After befriending the most popular girl at school, Evie, Tracy's world is turned upside down when Evie introduces her to a world of sex, drugs and cash. But it isn't long before ...
Style: tense, teen, realistic, sincere, disturbing ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, teen drama, adult
Plot: coming of age, drug addiction, teenager, peer pressure, friendship, addiction, dysfunctional family, teenage protagonist, underage drinking, teenage girl, mother daughter relationship, self harm ...
Time: year 2003, y2k, near future, 20th century, 2000s ...
Place: california, usa, los angeles, venice beach california
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23%
 4.3
 173
White Hot (1988)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A young man, short of money, is persuaided into looking after the business of a local drug dealer for a week or two. Up until then, the guy had been an honest and clean of drugs, but when he spends his days surrounded by riches and drugs, he cannot ...
Style: independent film
Plot: nudity, drug, cocaine, female nudity, gangster, drug dealing, drug addiction, drug addict, woman's neck broken, neck breaking
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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 586
Sweet Nothing (1995)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Angel celebrates the birth of his daughter by taking his first hit of crack cocaine. With the hesitant support of his wife, Monika, he joins a friend of his to deal drugs for a short time--enough time to get out of debt and buy some nice things for ...
Style: melancholic, realistic, serious, independent film, crying ...
Plot: drug addiction, drug abuse, loneliness, family problems, family relations, downfall, introspection, crumbling marriage, life is a bitch, misfit, money, addiction ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york, usa, bronx new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 6.8
 30
Endings (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Emmy Ferguson is a 10-year old who learns that, after a long bout with leukemia, today is probably her last day on earth. Chris Ryan is a 35-year-old drug addict who is determined to make this his last day. And Adonna Frost, suffering from advanced ...
Style: independent film
Plot: cancer, drug addict, terminal illness, drug addiction, family relations, death, dying, suicide, drug, journey, leukemia, breast cancer
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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 185
Angel Dusted (1981)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Cautionary anti-drug film based on a true story, made for NBC television. Drama about the effects on Jean Stapleton and Arthur Hill when their teenage son (John Putch, Stapleton's real-life son) gets spaced out on a marijuana joint laced with ...
Plot: drug, high school, mental institution, drug use, hallucination, stoner, drug abuse, pills, family relations, costume party, clinic, marijuana ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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 325
Cocaine Angel (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story: A week in the life of a young drug addict.
Style: realistic, serious, psychological, captivating, mumblecore ...
Plot: drug addiction, addiction, life is a bitch, rehabilitation, downfall, drug dealing, hopes, lifestyle, fired from the job, going straight, prostitute, couples ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, florida
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21%
 6.1
 137
Mallboy (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A boy climbs an unsteady path to adulthood under difficult circumstances in this drama from Australia. Shaun (Kane McNay) is a teenager growing up in a run-down suburb of Melbourne. His father Sam (Brett Swain) is in prison, while his mother Jenny ...
Plot: bad father, sister sister relationship, drug use, drinking, dancer, father son relationship, teenage boy, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, dancing, suburbs, family relations, male female relationship ...
Place: melbourne
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21%
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 1K
Animals (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: ANIMALS tells the story of Jude and Bobbie: a young couple that exist somewhere between homelessness and the fantasy of their imaginations. Though they masterfully con and steal in an attempt to stay one step ahead of their addiction, they are ...
Style: indie film
Plot: drug addict, recovery, homeless, overdose, male nudity, male pubic hair, drug, drug addiction, junkie, drug use, pubic hair
Place: illinois
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Kokoda Crescent (1989)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 83 min.
Story: The grandson of a war veteran is found dead from an overdose of heroin. He and his old army buddies swing into action and stake out the drug dealer, only to discover a web of police corruption surrounding the drug dealing. Given police complicity in ...
Style: realistic, serious, independent film
Plot: drug addiction, police corruption, friends, law enforcement, buddies, amateur detective, life is a bitch, dishonesty, vigilantism, drug abuse, family life, drug addict ...
Time: 80s
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21%
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South West 9 (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Five very different characters are thrown together in one weird, mashed up day. It started out like any other, but 24 hours later everything had changed. South West 9 takes you through the windscreen of the new millenium. The death of idealism, ...
Plot: drug addict, drug dealing, drug use, violence, lsd, trance, rave, drug addiction, drug dealer, drugged, drug trade, marijuana ...
Place: england
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21%
Desperate Lives (1982)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A brother and sister get caught up in the drug scene in their local high school, with tragic results.
Plot: drug addiction, high school, car crash, bare chested male, drug use, skateboard, hospital, propaganda, teenage boy, teenage girl, death, suicide ...
Time: 80s
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21%
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 1K
Go Ask Alice (1973)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story: A 14-year-old girl in late 1960's America is inadvertently sucked into an odyssey of sex and drugs. She eventually seeks help.
Style: psychedelic, realistic, serious, bleak, gloomy ...
Audience: teens
Plot: marijuana, recovery, hippie, drug, prostitute, addiction, high school, drug addiction, mother daughter relationship, cocaine, heroin, rape ...
Time: 70s, 60s
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20%
Days of Wine and Roses (1962)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: An alcoholic falls in love with and gets married to a young woman, whom he systematically addicts to booze so they can share his "passion" together.
Style: sexy, poignant, realistic, depressing, black and white ...
Plot: addiction, alcoholic, alcoholism, alcoholics anonymous, alcohol abuse, rehabilitation, recovery, love, drinking, drunk, drug addiction, secretary ...
Time: year 1962, 20th century, 60s
Place: san francisco, usa, texas, california, houston texas
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20%
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Drunks (1995)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: At the beginning of a nightly Alcoholics Anonymous meeting, Jim seems particularly troubled. His sponsor encourages him to talk that night, the first time in seven months, so he does - and leaves the meeting right after. As Jim wanders the night, ...
Style: independent film, realistic, talky, spiritual, serious ...
Plot: alcoholic, drug addiction, drug, addiction, alcohol abuse, drinking, recovery, self discovery, redemption, drug abuse, drug addict, heroin ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Purgatory House (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: An inside glimpse of how it feels to be a teen in today's disconnected world. PURGATORY HOUSE chronicles the after-life journey of Silver Strand: a lonely teen who abandons her life of turmoil and drug addiction, only to find herself caught ...
Style: gothic, serious, independent film, non-linear, realistic
Audience: teens
Plot: drug abuse, surrealism, teen angst, supernatural power, hopes, misfit, addiction, teenage life, family problems, social misfits, life is a bitch, youth ...
Time: 21st century
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20%
Augusta, Gone (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Martha is a businesswoman and divorced mother of two children - Augusta and Jack. However, when docile Augusta becomes a teenager, feelings of anger and self-hate cause her personality to undergo a scary transformation, and Martha realizes that this ...
Style: suspense, rough, disturbing, psychological, teen ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: life is a bitch, lifestyle, dysfunctional family, kids in trouble, rise and fall, single parent, hopes, alcohol abuse, uncontrollable, intrigue, teenage life, mother daughter relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: maine, san francisco
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19%
 6.7
 2K
Shy People (1987)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: A New York journalist visits her distant cousin for the first time to write an article about her hard life in the bayous of Louisiana. The journalist's wild, drug-addicted daughter adds tensions between the two relatives' cultures.
Style: retro, grindhouse, southern gothic, independent film, atmospheric ...
Plot: family relations, swamp, deep south, summer, journalist, rural area, drug addiction, sibling relationship, starting over, drug abuse, isolation, family life ...
Time: year 1987, 80s
Place: louisiana, new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Around the Fire (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Simon is an intelligent and privileged young man whose family expects him to become a Princeton graduate. Crying out for attention from his reserved and cool hearted family, Simon commits numerous petty crimes and is soon sent away to boarding ...
Style: serious, realistic, disturbing, touching, independent film
Plot: rehabilitation, addiction, boarding school, youth, life is a bitch, teenage life, friends, love and romance, society, parents and children, social differences, dysfunctional family ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 6.0
 73
Takiaispallo (1970)
Genre: Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 79 min.
Story: Aaro Saarinen is a foreman in the paper mill. The new generation continually questions his authority in both at work and at home.
Plot: youth culture, unfaithful husband, marital problem, troubled teen, family relations, job, father son relationship, teenage girl, mother daughter relationship, children, housewife, cheating ...
Time: 70s
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19%
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 5K
The Trip (1967)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Paul Groves, a television commercial director, is in the midst of a personality crisis. His wife Sally has left him and he seeks the help of his friend John, a self-styled guru who's an advocate of LSD. Paul asks John to be the guide on his ...
Style: atmospheric, psychedelic, psychological, surreal, grindhouse ...
Plot: lsd, hippie, drug, drug abuse, counterculture, hallucination, self discovery, drug addiction, midlife crisis, unfulfillment, estrangement, weed ...
Time: 60s, year 1967
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
The Panic in Needle Park (1971)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: This movie is a stark portrayal of life among a group of heroin addicts who hang out in Needle Park in New York City. Played against this setting is a low-key love story between Bobby, a young addict and small-time hustler, and Helen, a homeless ...
Style: depressing, disturbing, bleak, serious, rough ...
Plot: addiction, drug addiction, drug abuse, drug use, drug addict, heroin, drug, heroin addict, life philosophy, death of pet, redemption, loneliness ...
Time: 20th century, year 1971, 70s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Jim, the World's Greatest (1975)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: One of his earlier pieces, Don Coscarelli (of Phantasm Phame) has a knack for seeing the world through the eyes and heart of a young boy. He offers a Peter Pan-esque adventure to men from the boomers to present day, with each generation being ...
Style: independent film
Plot: troubled teen, teen angst, alcoholic father, abuse, brother, teenager
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19%
Being Charlie (2015)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Charlie is a troublesome 18-year-old who breaks out of a youth drug treatment clinic, but when he returns home to Los Angeles, he's given an intervention by his parents and forced to go to an adult rehab. There, he meets a beautiful but ...
Style: touching, melancholic, thought provoking, sentimental, sincere ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: drug addict, teenager, drug rehab, drug addiction, drug, coming of age, rehabilitation, hitchhiking, escape, love, intervention, heroin ...
Place: los angeles
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19%
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Love Lives On (1985)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A 15-year-old girl must choose between continuing her pregnancy and undergoing treatment for her fast-growing cancer.
Plot: terminal illness, domestic violence, hospital, coming of age, fall in love, priest, first love, chemotherapy, pregnant teenager, unwed mother, pregnancy and birth, pregnancy ...
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19%
 7.2
 41K
Honey Boy (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: The story of a child star attempting to mend his relationship with his law-breaking, alcohol-abusing father over the course of a decade, loosely based on Shia LaBeouf’s life.
Style: inspirational, independent film, psychological, touching, sincere ...
Audience: kids
Plot: father son relationship, rehabilitation, absent mother, child protagonist, abusive father, motel, child, alcoholic father, forgiveness, group therapy, childhood trauma, boyhood ...
Time: year 2019, year 2015, 90s, year 2005, year 1995 ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
The Last Passport (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: THE LAST PASSPORT takes place in a passport office...or so you think. George Miller is a 70 year old man who through a variety of encounters, takes us on a journey through his mysterious past to show us we are not all that different.
Style: independent film
Plot: alcoholics anonymous meeting, male female relationship, gay interest, family relations, military, husband wife relationship, police, love, marriage, father son relationship, friendship, post office ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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