Movies like Angel Express
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Angel Express (1998)
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Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Angel Express is a film about people restlessly seeking for the ultimate experience. Set in late nineties Berlin, it shows images of radical change: Young urban heroes in the glare of flashlights; an environment in which coldness and affection or lust for power and friendship go hand in hand.
Style:
dark, existential, tense, atmospheric, neo noir, indie film, independent film, tragic
Plot:
nightlife, alienation, identity crisis, moral ambiguity, loneliness, underground, corruption, police corruption, youth culture, violence, friendship, greed, urban decay, sex work, counterculture, haunting, prostitution, mature, photography, love, sex, prostitute, police, party, female nudity ...
Time:
90s, 1990s
Place:
berlin germany, germany
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out tense, intense, melancholic and dark films with plots about moral ambiguity, female nudity, urban, alienation, violence, female full frontal nudity and friendship mostly in Drama and Crime genres. Some movies like Angel Express: Long Live the Bride (2015), A Tame Song for a Brave People (1976), Silvester Countdown (1997), Diary of a Sinner (1974), Der Skorpion (1997). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France, Belgium
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
In a despairing, fatalistic Rome, Nicola finds himself flirting with the city’s dark side. Drinking too much and living among drifters, petty criminals and anxious immigrants, Nicola becomes entwined in an insurance scam that leads him further ...
Style:
bleak, dark, intense, suspenseful, melancholic ...
Plot:
violence, insurance scam, criminal underworld, urban decay, police investigation, moral ambiguity, corruption, drinking, poverty, isolation, class conflict, anti hero ...
Place:
rome italy, italy
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95%
Genre: Drama
Country: Venezuela
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Gilberto, a young man from the countryside, arrives in the city with the aim of carving out a future for himself. Initially he is dazzled by the sparkling image of the city, the spoiler of civilization, which will batter him until his personality ...
Style:
realistic, dark, bleak, intense, melancholic
Plot:
drug addiction, urban decay, moral ambiguity, loss of innocence, social realism, coming of age, poverty, nightlife, character study, violence, corruption, identity crisis ...
Time:
70s
Similarity:
92%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A young Berlin couple travel to a friend's place for the celebration of Silvester and New Year's Eve. During that period, we witness today's juvenile sub-culture, especially the ways of keeping a partnership - or breaking it up in ...
Style:
realistic, romantic drama, emotional, indie film, melancholic
Plot:
new year's eve, celebration, young couple, youth culture, breakup, subculture, bittersweet, slice of life, nightlife, intimate, urban, jealousy ...
Time:
90s
Place:
berlin germany
Similarity:
86%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Helena, 29, a single mother with an 11-year-old daughter, is a moderately successful actress who earns a living as an escort in the sex industry. Her relationship with her own mother, a singing teacher, is tense, and she’s also increasingly ...
Style:
suspense, tense, disturbing, independent film, art house ...
Plot:
female protagonist, single mother, mother daughter relationship, sex work, single parent, sexual content, family problems, family relations, sexual relations, life is a bitch, sexuality, sexploitation ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
berlin germany
Similarity:
80%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
The revealing story of the shocking exploits of those who fulfill the most bizarre fantasies.
Style:
grindhouse, intense, controversial, disturbing, bleak ...
Plot:
pimp, sexploitation, suicide, self destructing, exploitation, desperation, moral ambiguity, loneliness, character study, alienation, obsession, mental illness ...
Similarity:
71%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Josef Bertholt is head of operations of the Munich Police's drug squad. When his wife Lily is the victim of a hit by drug dealers, he becomes even more obsessed with his work.
Style:
crime drama, dark, suspenseful, tense, intense ...
Plot:
drug, police, father son relationship, drug traffic, law enforcement, gang, family drama, investigation, addiction, undercover, revenge, obsession ...
Time:
90s
Place:
munich germany, germany
Similarity:
70%
Genre: Drama
Country: Portugal
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
A look at the urban society of the seventies. The story of Marta a young and pretty girl, who leaves her husband to search for her true identity. She doesn't quite know what she wants, but at least she knows what she's escaping from. Soon ...
Style:
psychological, suspense, melancholic, tense, atmospheric ...
Plot:
female protagonist, identity crisis, urban, character study, social commentary, escape, murder, social realism, loneliness, isolation, suspicion, moral ambiguity ...
Time:
70s
Similarity:
69%
266
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Ex-showgirl and part-time hooker Rogers looses her legitimate job at a casino because of an abusive trick. She gets revenge when she is blacklisted and her son is threatened.
Style:
dark, crime drama, suspenseful, tense, intense ...
Plot:
revenge, retribution, payback, protective mother, female protagonist, mother son relationship, moral ambiguity, abuse, survival, streetwise, sex work, urban ...
Time:
90s
Place:
las vegas
Similarity:
65%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico, Spain, Argentina, France, Brazil, UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Adaptation and unification in a single story of several stories by the writer Rubem Fonseca, where the theme of violence in contemporary society is explored.
Style:
suspenseful, disturbing, suspense, captivating, crime drama ...
Plot:
violence, serial killer, killing, who done it, antisocial behavior, life is a bitch, murder, murderer, criminal, social problems, moral ambiguity, globalization ...
Place:
brazil, new york, miami
Similarity:
64%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A promising law student from a good family is driven by a cool cardsharper into a downward spiral of criminality, discovering a part of himself he had never known.
Style:
tense, disturbing, captivating, dark, suspenseful ...
Plot:
student, moral ambiguity, escapades, problem, lawyer, criminal, gambling, criminal underworld, mature, identity crisis, law student, obsession ...
Similarity:
62%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 136 min.
Story:
Kazu attacks a bar in Kabukicho, a Tokyo red-light district, and flees to his hometown with abducts Machiko, a pole dancer he's been stuck on. They begin living together, but their happiness is short lived as their pasts torment them both.
Style:
psychological, thrilling, captivating, suspenseful, crime drama ...
Plot:
gambler, male female relationship, changing lives, lifestyle change, relationships, troubled past, love affair, couple relations, prostitute, mysterious past, confronting the past, red light district ...
Place:
tokyo, japan
Similarity:
62%
Genre: Drama
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Petr is a courier, a messenger as a matter of fact. He is one of those young men who believe that on their bikes they have become part and parcel of the atmosphere of modern cities. He is a non-conformist who refuses to settle into today‘s ...
Style:
melancholic, art house, moody
Plot:
anti conformist, bike messenger, alienation, loneliness, rebellion, frustration, anti hero, anti establishment, identity crisis, existential crisis, angry, working class ...
Similarity:
61%
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Rita is a naïve 18-year-old from the sticks who has come to Moscow to meet up with the man who impregnated her a few months earlier. Unfortunately, his name and address was written on a piece of paper in her luggage, which was promptly stolen upon ...
Style:
realistic, melancholic, tense, art house, indie film
Plot:
coming of age, character study, mature, social realism, survival, isolation, escape, alienation, street life, slice of life, identity crisis, moral ambiguity ...
Place:
moscow russia, russia
Similarity:
60%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, Monaco
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Pascale, married to an architect, misses her flight to London and is forced to stay in Berlin, at the Kleinhoff Hotel where she stayed as a student. Karl, a would-be revolutionary lives in the adjoining room and Pascale spies him and his ...
Style:
erotic, ambiguous ending, tense, noir
Plot:
voyeurism, hotel, suicide, female protagonist, loneliness, alienation, melancholy, sex, obsession, tragic romance, political unrest, sexual tension ...
Place:
west berlin west germany, berlin germany
Similarity:
58%
159
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Judith decides to go on her own to the salsa-dancing night, even though her boyfriend, with whom she goes there every week, can’t accompany her. A stranger, with whom she briefly dances, offers to walk her home. Next morning, upon returning home, ...
Style:
psychological, tense, disturbing, serious, captivating ...
Plot:
female protagonist, rape victim, sexual assault, trauma, problem, violence, sexual abuse, rape, violent, unsettling, justice, moral ambiguity ...
Place:
germany
Similarity:
56%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Marc, an unexperienced medical doctor from Germany arrives at the Hospital Universitario del Valle in Cali, Colombia for his internship and soon finds himself in-between a raging gang war in Siloé, a Cali barrio. In the hospital he has to care ...
Style:
crime drama, intense, tense, intercultural, emotional ...
Plot:
violent, gang violence, social realism, moral dilemma, mature, urban decay, friendship, alienation, poverty, isolation, loyalty, coming of age ...
Similarity:
56%
456
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Bruno is an idealistic hero who questions the meaning of life in this confusing and sometimes hallucinatory erotic drama. After a night in jail, he is gang-raped by punk rockers in a garbage dump. He later saves an old man who believes he is ...
Style:
surreal, erotic, sexy, erotic drama, dark drama ...
Plot:
female nudity, absurd humor, rape, surrealism, sexual abuse, violent, alienation, hallucination, desperation, moral ambiguity, identity crisis, character study ...
Similarity:
55%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
No overview found.
Style:
intense, emotional, psychological, tense, existential ...
Plot:
survival, domestic drama, death, moral ambiguity, identity, friendship, brain tumor, claustrophobia, introspection, intimate, sexuality, dinner party ...
Time:
2000s
Similarity:
54%
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116
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, Austria, Switzerland
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
No overview found.
Style:
crime drama, bleak, realistic, atmospheric, period piece ...
Plot:
drug, heroin, drug dealing, underworld, addiction, character study, moral ambiguity, ambition, violence, street life, hashish, rise and fall ...
Time:
60s
Place:
hamburg germany, west germany
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
In a German town, teacher Irene leads an inconspicuous, boring, lonely life. One day, a man rings at her door and slips in. It's an armed convict from the prison next door, escaped with a leg wound. He now makes her a prisoner in her own home. ...
Style:
psychological thriller, tense, crime drama, dark, intense ...
Plot:
captivity, confined, psychological manipulation, hostage, home invasion, claustrophobia, stockholm syndrome, moral ambiguity, prison escape, mature, slow burn, character study ...
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
In this French Canadian drama, the life of a paraplegic painter implodes when an old girlfriend comes back into his life and accuses him of raping her 15 years earlier.
Style:
emotional, psychological, melancholic, controversial, intense ...
Plot:
painter, guilt, introspection, character study, memory, moral ambiguity, flashback, artist, betrayal, male protagonist, identity crisis, isolation ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
It s Christmas Eve in London, 1974 - and seven lonely people are on the town, looking to grab that elusive slice of enjoyment. So who better to contact than an escort agency- providing high-class ladies and gentlemen for anyone willing to pay the ...
Style:
melancholic, period piece, erotic, comedy drama, sexploitation film
Plot:
loneliness, christmas eve, racism, prostitution, isolation, sex work, urban, multiple storylines, sex, nightlife, metropolis, rejection ...
Time:
70s
Place:
london
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama
Country: Ecuador, Colombia, France
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
No Autumn, No Spring depicts modern day Guayaquil City and its invisible generation. Iván Mora Manzano’s punk ballad of rebellion, confrontation and the disenfranchised reveals the tribulations of young men and women who struggle deeply with the ...
Style:
existential, melancholic, independent film
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, youth, punk, adolescence, alienation, social commentary, youth culture, rebellion, identity crisis, urban, escape, moral ambiguity ...
Place:
ecuador
Similarity:
47%
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233
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Jordi is going to make it big, cost what it may, juggling a stock exchange portfolio; Cristina combines booze, drugs and sex in the celebration of her birthday; and Pau, in search of strong emotions, turns to violence, xenophobic attitude. Three ...
Style:
melancholic, intense, existential, independent film, erotic
Plot:
coming of age, frustration, youth, violence, xenophobia, drug use, alienation, youth culture, realism, urban, alcohol abuse, recklessness ...
Place:
barcelona
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Drama
Country: Bulgaria
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Two best friends get involved into the domination games of two mafia bosses in post-communist Bulgaria. Clutching like crayfish to the baits of everyday life, they determine their fates: without the other one knowing, they are manipulated to take ...
Style:
crime drama, political, atmospheric, bleak, tense ...
Plot:
mafia, social commentary, corruption, manipulation, realism, power struggle, moral ambiguity, friendship, organized crime, betrayal, desperation, working class ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
bulgaria
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Herbert is a German embassy official in Georgia. He lives an inane life until he meets twelve-year-old girl Sashka who makes him laugh and feel responsibility. Soon he is in trouble because he is suspected of pedophilia, meets corrupt policemen, ...
Style:
melancholic, realistic, tense, psychological, suspense
Plot:
friendship, loneliness, unlikely friendships, character study, police corruption, corruption, social commentary, bittersweet, social realism, intimate, violence, male protagonist ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
eastern europe, tbilisi
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Bruno is a cynical but attractive business man, owner of a strip-club. He has to replace his best dancer, Katy, after her suicide. Applicants would do anything to get this job, but only Damy, gorgeous and mysterious girl, catches his attention. What ...
Style:
dark, suspense, intense, sensual, erotic ...
Plot:
suicide, revenge, femme fatale, nightlife, mystery woman, seduction, deception, sexuality, cat and mouse, manipulation, female protagonist, obsession ...
Time:
2000s
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Drama
Country: Chile, USA, France
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
After a night of partying, Vicente is involved in a hit-and-run that kills a man. Vicente claims his innocence, but he was drunk and high. A tangled web of lies buries the truth, making a social scandal disappear — exonerating the real culprit, ...
Style:
tense, intense, suspense, atmospheric, moody ...
Plot:
hit and run, summer, corruption, cover up, scandal, false accusation, justice, coming of age, youth, guilt, social inequality, privilege ...
Time:
2010s, year 2013
Place:
chile, latin america
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 64 min.
Story:
Wolfgang follows a ransom note from his supposed illegal kidney donor Irina back to Istanbul, the city which he would love to erase from memory. Donor and recipient collide and struggle for a fair solution after which there is a bitter new beginning
Style:
crime drama, dark, tense, existential, intercultural ...
Plot:
organ trafficking, black market, male protagonist, ethical dilemma, alienation, moral ambiguity, identity crisis, human trafficking, midlife crisis, cat and mouse, revenge, slow burn ...
Place:
istanbul turkey, germany
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Many exotic characters meet in São Paulo night, looking for love and adventure: Malu, a model; Mauro, the drag queen; Teddy, the hustler; Guto, the gay reporter; and Marta, an actress.
Style:
sensual, melancholic, independent film, erotic, gay cinema
Plot:
prostitution, lgbt, drag queen, night, lgbtq, nightlife, love, sexuality, nightclub, urban, friendship, hustler ...
Time:
80s
Place:
brazil, sao paulo brazil
Similarity:
43%
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