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The Stick Up Kids (2008)
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
People always told Santos he was something special. His Uncle told him to get a skill, so he became a hustler and with his three,they became "The Stick Up Kids" Harlem would never be the same. They thought they had it all... Money, cars, the lifestyle and the lingo. The only two words They didn't know were JURISDICTION AND GENTRIFICATION but in their world it was all for one and one for all until an unexpected, mysterious death, forced "The Stick Up Kids"to change their focus from doing crime to stopping the "North Manhattan Project". Now it was up to Santos to pull off one last sting before it destroyed them all. Watch out America. 'The Stick Up Kids" are coming to your town!
Style:
realistic, serious, psychological, captivating, independent film, rough, suspenseful, crime drama
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gang, rivalry, friends, buddies, criminal's revenge, urban ghetto life, society, dishonesty, cons and scams, african american, black, profanity, sexual content, criminal heroes, urban ghetto, violent content, urban setting, graphic violence, gentrification, crime, crimes
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
new york, harlem, usa, manhattan new york city, harlem manhattan new york city
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, rough and independent film films with plots about society, rivalry, urban, gangster, gang, urban ghetto life and life is a bitch mostly in Drama, Crime and Action genres. Some movies like The Stick Up Kids: Stretch (2011), The System Within (2006), The Street King (2002), The Citizen (2012), The Pleasure of Being Robbed (2008). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Thailand, Hong Kong
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
china, asia
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
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serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough, exciting
Plot:
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Time:
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100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
gang, drug dealing, rivalry, juvenile delinquency, law enforcement, life is a bitch, siblings relations, urban ghetto, destiny, blind ambition, police detective, shakespeare ...
Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Yearning to leave behind his life of misfortune in the Middle East, Ibrahim Jarrah wins the U.S. Green Card Lottery for a chance to become an American citizen. Ibrahim lands in New York City the day before 9/11…and the events of the September ...
Style:
realistic, captivating, serious, uplifting, psychological ...
Plot:
hopes, starting over, immigrant, society, 9/11, urban, immigration, rivalry, xenophobia, green card, perseverance, identity crisis ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min.
Story:
A curious and lost Eleonore looks for something everywhere, even in the bags of strangers who find themselves sadly smiling only well after she's left their lives. They owe her their thanks.
Style:
mumblecore, clever, semi serious, humorous, realistic ...
Plot:
friends, cons and scams, criminal heroes, friendship, thief, city life, lifestyle, dishonesty, female protagonist, character study, loneliness, slice of life ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city, brooklyn new york city
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100%
582
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
After John’s absent father is struck by a stray bullet, Primo takes it upon himself to verse the young boy in the code of the streets—one founded on respect and upheld by fear. A member of the Bloods since the age of twelve—both in the film ...
Style:
realistic, serious, captivating, psychological, sexy ...
Plot:
gang, juvenile delinquency, urban ghetto life, haunted by the past, adolescence vs adulthood, society, coming of age, teaching the ways of the world, ghetto, gangster, violent content, drug dealing ...
Time:
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Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
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Style:
emotional, serious, realistic, touching, crime drama ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
harlem, new york
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
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Style:
tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, captivating ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gangster, rise and fall, rise to the top, vengeance, society, life is a bitch, ambition, rivalry, criminal's revenge, dishonesty, frame up, british gangster ...
Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
24%
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342
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
An Italian street hood gets romantically involved with a woman who is the ex-girlfriend of a leader of a white supremacist gang, after being being brutally attacked by the gang he seeks revenge via his street connections.
Style:
bleak, rough, realistic, serious, crime drama ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
vengeance, rivalry, racism, police corruption, gangster, youth, urban ghetto, city life, going straight, law enforcement, life is a bitch, dishonesty ...
Place:
usa, california, los angeles
Similarity:
24%
244
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Tony Smalls is a burned out lawyer looking for a new direction in life. He's forced to put his plans on hold when his sister Nia asks him to defend her fiance', a gang kingpin who is under arrest for a triple murder that he says he ...
Style:
serious, realistic, rough, hood, captivating ...
Plot:
courtroom drama, fighting the system, gang, society, legal, dishonesty, courtroom, homeless, thug life, poverty, african american, black ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, detroit
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
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Style:
serious, suspenseful, realistic, disturbing, bleak ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
drug dealing, buddies, immigrant, partner, cons and scams, friends, misfit, dishonesty, mental illness, junkie, violent content, profanity ...
Time:
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Place:
london, europe
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Rayne Johnson is a shrewd investment company assistant who turns a mob slaying into a golden opportunity for a new improved lifestyle, managing to outsmart the crooked cops who are very eager to see her disappear.
Style:
suspenseful, exciting, serious, rough, realistic
Plot:
criminal's revenge, fighting crime, vigilantism, hitman, gang, danger, betrayal, car chase, dishonesty, rivalry, law enforcement, police corruption ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
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Style:
hood, independent film, cynical, realistic, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
hip hop, urban, ghetto, rapper, black, discrimination, hip hop culture, gang, drug dealing, partner, gangster, friends ...
Time:
90s
Place:
south america, los angeles, new orleans, california, usa ...
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
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Style:
serious, suspenseful, realistic, bleak, hood ...
Plot:
found footage, law enforcement, friendship, moral dilemma, social decay, teenage life, youth, social differences, society, danger, partner, filmmaking ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
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Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Similarity:
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752
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, psychological, captivating, atmospheric, sexy ...
Plot:
friends, city life, understanding, friendship, society, family relations, gay, best friend, urban, twentysomething life, friend, sex
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa, britain
Similarity:
20%
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Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A young man coming home after serving time in the penitentiary finds his city in control by local thugs, stops at nothing to gain sole control of a city he feels is rightfully his.
Style:
captivating, tense, exciting, suspense, independent film ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
murder, gang, criminal's revenge, rivalry, gangster, drug dealing, urban ghetto, buddies, ego clash, love, prison, police ...
Time:
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Similarity:
20%
610
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
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Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough, hood ...
Plot:
gang, criminal heroes, danger, on the run, society, disorder, urban ghetto, race against time, rivalry, chases and races, urban, angry ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, england, birmingham alabama
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
sexy, sentimental, captivating, tense, psychological ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
usa, nevada, las vegas
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Tommy, a talented Puerto Rican painter living in the South Bronx, befriends Allen, a white kid who's faced constant harassment since moving to the neighborhood with his single mother, Susan.
Style:
rough, serious, disturbing, realistic, crime drama ...
Plot:
kids in trouble, lifestyle, gang, friendship, urban ghetto life, life is a bitch, prodigy, redemption, drug dealing, vengeance, police corruption, human nature ...
Time:
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Place:
south america, new york, usa
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil, Chile, Spain
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Three young Brazilian try to help a terminally ill woman who lives in the slums of Rio de Janeiro. Their youthful idealism is shattered with the cruel reality of police brutality.
Style:
realistic, serious, social, psychological, rough ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
rio de janeiro, brazil
Similarity:
20%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
A high-level government hit squad is sent into the streets in order to complete a deadly mission.
Style:
realistic, suspenseful, rough, serious, stylized ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gang, rival gang, working undercover, life is a bitch, undercover, urban ghetto life, rivalry, partners against crime, danger, partner, hip hop, gang war ...
Time:
90s
Place:
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Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
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Style:
hood, serious, realistic, tense, rough
Plot:
gang, profanity, prison, danger, rivalry, crime boss, gang leader, criminal's revenge, evidence, police, merciless, corpse ...
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Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, serious, tense, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
usa, philadelphia, pennsylvania
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Lorie Walker ( Meagan Good), attends a ritzy private school in a small southern town. Raised by her grandmother Valerie ( Ruby Dee), she often daydreams of becoming a professional dancer. After a chance meeting with a renowned music video director, ...
Style:
realistic, psychological, atmospheric, captivating, serious
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
usa
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, serious, rough, suspense, independent film
Plot:
hip hop, rise to the top, gang, rise and fall, rivalry, ambition, gangster, society, buddies, drug dealing, uninhibited rivalry, criminal heroes ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, tennessee, nashville tennessee
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Consignment is the authentic and brutal story of an East Coast drug dealer forced to flee to California only to realize state lines don't erase past sins.
Style:
rough, suspenseful, serious, realistic, independent film
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
drug dealing, gangster, going straight, starting over, on the run, police investigation, gang, hitman, criminal heroes, criminal's revenge, law enforcement, buddies ...
Place:
california, usa
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Moyher's good boy Benny Silman from Brooklyn becomes an economics student at Arizona State University for the sun and sexy girls- and the proximity of gambling paradise Las Vegas. Benny aces his studies, being a mathematical genius, but the one ...
Style:
realistic, serious, tense, captivating
Plot:
gambling, bookies, friendship, lifestyle, ambition, couples, culture clash, college life, follow your dream, youth, fall in love, buddies ...
Place:
usa, nevada, arizona, las vegas, new york
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19%
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