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Chronically Unfeasible (2000)
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Chronically Unfeasible (2000)
Original name: Cronicamente Inviável
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Filmed over a five-year period, Chronically Unfeasible dissects Brazilian problems, using six people who meet in a restaurant in São Paulo as models to illustrate political, sociological and economic disparities between Brazil's upper and lower classes.
Style: disturbing, rough, serious, realistic, biting, thought provoking, suspense
Plot: politics, rich and poor, fighting the system, social differences, social decay, life is a bitch, injustice, society, juvenile delinquency, working class, downfall, state affairs, corruption, hypocrisy, gay, lgbt, worker, restaurant, male masturbation, erection, down on your luck, contests and competitions, campaign, criminal heroes, urban ghetto life ...
Time: 90s
Place: brazil, latin america, rio de janeiro, sao paulo brazil

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, rough and disturbing films with plots about life is a bitch, society, youth, juvenile delinquency, urban ghetto life, teenage boy and murder mostly in Drama, Crime and Action genres. Some movies like Chronically Unfeasible: Pixote (1980), Pizza, Beer, and Cigarettes (1998), From the Edge of the City (1998), Cyclo (1995), Joe the King (1999). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Pixote (1980)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 128 min.
Story: Pixote, a 10-year-old runaway boy, is arrested on the streets of Sao Paulo during a police round-up homeless people. Pixote endures torture, degradation and corruption at a local youth detention center where two of the runaways are murdered by ...
Style: disturbing, depressing, bleak, realistic, rough ...
Plot: prostitution, street kid, sex with a minor, boy, coming of age, children, anal rape, child rape, breast feeding, loneliness, homeless, tragedy ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, year 1981
Place: brazil, latin america, rio de janeiro, africa, sao paulo brazil
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100%
Pizza, Beer, and Cigarettes (1998)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Argentina
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A couple of friends work for a taxi driver to rob his passengers, but they feel like they're getting ripped off. They decide to plan their own robberies, but they are amateurs and things don't go too well. One of the youths, Cordoba, whose ...
Style: hispanic, social, realistic, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot: heist, worker, mobster, teenager, gang, pregnancy, street gang, kids in trouble, urban ghetto, criminal heroes, crime gone awry, going straight ...
Time: 90s
Place: argentina, latin america, uruguay, buenos aires argentina
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
From the Edge of the City (1998)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Greece
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Minority-group Greeks from an outer suburb of Athens struggle with their life on society's fringe and exploitation of one another.
Style: serious, realistic, bleak, gloomy, rough ...
Audience: teens
Plot: lgbt, greek, male masturbation, glbt, migration, lgbtq, immigrant, culture clash, suburbs, prostitute, russian mafia, gay subtext ...
Time: 90s
Place: greece, russia, chernobyl, europe, kazakhstan ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
 7.2
 5K
Cyclo (1995)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Vietnam, France, Hong Kong
Duration: 123 min.
Story: Follows a young cyclo (bicycle cab) driver on his poverty-driven descent into criminality in modern-day Ho Chi Minh City. The boy's struggles to scratch out a living for his two sisters and grandfather in the mean streets of the city lead to ...
Style: disturbing, bleak, stylized, neo noir, controversial ...
Plot: poverty, vietnam war, gangster, coming of age, gang, youth, minimal dialogue, drug, corruption, mafia, prostitution, poetry ...
Time: year 1995, 90s
Place: saigon, vietnam, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Ali Zaoua: Prince of the Streets (2000)
Genre: Drama, Crime
Country: Morocco, Tunisia, France, Belgium, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Ali, Kwita, Omar and Boubker are street kids. The daily dose of glue sniffing represents their only escape from reality. Since they left Dib and his gang, they have been living on the portside of Casablanca. They live in constant fear of Dib's ...
Style: serious, captivating, rough, bleak, crying ...
Plot: homeless, street kid, youth, juvenile delinquency, teenage life, poverty, kids in trouble, life is a bitch, friendship, society, gang, vengeance ...
Time: 90s
Place: africa, middle east, maghreb, morocco
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Joe the King (1999)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A destitute 14 year old struggles to keep his life together despite harsh abuse at his mother's hands, harsher abuse at his father's, and a growing separation from his slightly older brother. Petty thefts for food grow into more major ...
Style: emotional, harsh, tense, rough, grim ...
Plot: coming of age, children, dysfunctional family, child abuse, working class, youth, boy, redemption, poverty, childhood, corporal punishment, debt ...
Time: year 1999, 70s, 90s
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Pianese Nunzio, Fourteen in May (1996)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 114 min.
Story: A young priest crusades against organized crime in his Naples neighbourhood but falls in love with a 13-year old boy. It's the chance the gangsters were waiting for to get rid of the thorn in their side. Will they be able to force the boy to ...
Style: realistic, serious, touching, sexual, crying ...
Plot: gay, coming of age, lgbt, youth, religion, sex crime, age difference, glbt, family relations, unemployment, friendship, sex with a priest ...
Time: 90s
Place: italy, europe, naples italy, rome italy, milan italy
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28%
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Carandiru (2003)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Brazil, Argentina, Italy
Duration: 145 min.
Story: Carandiru, a story based on real facts and on the book written by the doctor Drauzio Varella, starts when he decides to carry out an AIDS prevention program inside Latin America’s largest prison: the Casa de Detenção de São Paulo, Carandiru, ...
Style: bleak, compassionate, captivating, touching, rough ...
Plot: prison, aids, doctor, prison life, fighting the system, gay, life is a bitch, fighting illness, protest, regret, lgbt, solitary ...
Time: 20th century, year 2003, 90s
Place: brazil, latin america, sao paulo, brazil, sao paulo brazil
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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A Children's Story (2004)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 94 min.
Story: The story focuses on the life of an 11-year old boy surrounded by criminality and poverty in the suburbs of Naples.
Style: disturbing, serious, rough, bleak, realistic
Plot: street kid, juvenile delinquency, youth, friends, danger, society, life is a bitch, coming of age, social worker, teaching the ways of the world, social decay, urban ghetto life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, italy, naples italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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Rodents (1999)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Ecuador
Duration: 107 min.
Story: The world of Salvador, a young and naive petty thief is changed by the arrival of his cousin Angel, an ex-convict in search of easy money, and with a hideout. Salvador gets wrapped up in Angel's twisted dealings in an attempt to escape from his ...
Style: realistic, gloomy, serious, rough, bleak ...
Plot: city life, latinos, stealing a car, friendship, prostitute, petty theft, teen social issues, robbery, dysfunctional family, teenage life, parents and children, society ...
Time: 90s
Place: ecuador, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Between the Canals (2011)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Ireland
Duration: 74 min.
Story: Three small time criminals from Dublin's North Inner City each aspire to be somebody in a fast changing society.
Style: serious, realistic, psychological, tense, captivating ...
Plot: juvenile delinquency, working class, urban ghetto life, moral dilemma, society, crime gone awry, drug dealing, unemployment, police detective, life is a bitch, downfall, st. patrick's day ...
Time: 21st century
Place: ireland, dublin ireland
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
 8.6
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City of God (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Brazil, France, Germany
Duration: 130 min.
Story: Cidade de Deus is a shantytown that started during the 1960s and became one of Rio de Janeiro’s most dangerous places in the beginning of the 1980s. To tell the story of this place, the movie describes the life of various characters, all seen by ...
Style: disturbing, rough, bleak, hood, stylized ...
Audience: teen drama, adult
Plot: gang, coming of age, storytelling, organized crime, society, gang war, juvenile delinquency, life is a bitch, photographer, journalism, favela, police corruption ...
Time: 2000s, 70s, year 2002, 20th century, year 2003 ...
Place: latin america, rio de janeiro, brazil, south america
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Midnight Dancers (1994)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Brothers Joel (Alex Del Rosario), Dennis (Grandong Cervantes) and Sonny (Lawrence David) work together as dancers at a low-rent gay bar in downtown Manila, in the Philippines. Despite his mother's pleas, Sonny decides to quit college to work ...
Style: tagalog, contemplative, sexual, sincere, serious ...
Plot: gay, glbt, lgbt, redemption, gays and lesbians, rent boy, death, lgbtq, sex crime, family relations, disco, nightclub ...
Time: 90s
Place: manila philippines, the philippines, japan
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26%
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Tsotsi (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK, South Africa
Duration: 95 min.
Story: The South African multi-award winning film about a young South African boy from the ghetto named Tsotsi, meaning Gangster. Tsotsi, who left home as a child to get away from helpless parents, finds a baby in the back seat of a car that he has just ...
Style: sincere, bleak, emotional, harsh, captivating ...
Audience: teen drama
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Time: 21st century
Place: south africa, africa, johannesburg south africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Our Lady of the Assassins (2000)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Spain, France, Colombia
Duration: 101 min.
Story: World-weary arthur Fernando has returned to his native Colombia to live out his days in peace. But Fernando's once-quiet hometown has become a hotbed of violence, drugs and corruption. On the brink of despair, Fernando meets Alexis, a ...
Style: disturbing, meditative, thought provoking, rough, contemplative ...
Plot: gay, murder, vengeance, poverty, lgbt, drug dealing, teenage life, fall in love, love affair, drug, writers, life is a bitch ...
Time: 90s
Place: colombia, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Life Is Hot in Cracktown (2009)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Various stories of how crack cocaine has infiltrated the inner-city streets. Based on Buddy Giovinazzo's novel "Life is Hot in Cracktown".
Style: disturbing, serious, thought provoking, realistic, bleak ...
Plot: street gang, urban ghetto life, coming of age, life is a bitch, juvenile delinquency, society, addiction, drug abuse, gang rape, oral sex, youth, criminal heroes ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
 7.4
 16K
Sweet Sixteen (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK, Germany, Spain
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Determined to have a normal family life once his mother gets out of prison, a Scottish teenager from a tough background sets out to raise the money for a home.
Style: disturbing, realistic, sentimental, bleak, depressing ...
Audience: teens, toddlers, teen drama
Plot: heroin, coming of age, innocence lost, drug dealing, juvenile delinquency, prison, drug dealer, downfall, dysfunctional family, family relations, teenager, life is a bitch ...
Time: year 2002, 90s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: scotland, glasgow scotland, europe, united kingdom
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25%
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City of M (2000)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Peru
Duration: 102 min.
Story: After exhausting all legal channels in his search for a job, "M" struggles with the decision of whether or not to enter a life of crime by helping his friends deliver drugs to Miami.
Style: serious, suspenseful, rough, realistic, bleak
Plot: drug dealing, unemployment, introspection, life is a bitch, society, down on your luck, cocaine, petty theft, criminal heroes, city life, urban, rape ...
Time: 90s
Place: peru, usa, florida, latin america, miami
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Duration: 104 min.
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Style: serious, sincere, thought provoking, realistic
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24%
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Gomorrah (2008)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 137 min.
Story: An inside look at Italy's modern-day crime families, the Camorra in Naples and Caserta. Based on a book by Roberto Saviano. Power, money and blood: these are the "values" that the residents of the Province of Naples and Caserta have ...
Style: disturbing, tense, harsh, realistic, serious ...
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24%
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The City (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: The stories of four Hispanic immigrants living in New York City.
Style: black and white, independent film, anthology, serious, realistic ...
Plot: immigrant, homeless, working class, culture clash, money, father daughter relationship, school, storytelling, poverty, photographer, boy, ethnicity ...
Time: year 1998, 90s
Place: new york, mexico, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
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The Son of the Shark (1993)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Belgium, France, Luxembourg
Duration: 90 min.
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Style: realistic, serious, rough, touching
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Time: year 1993, 90s
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Blood In, Blood Out (1993)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 180 min.
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Style: intense, entertaining, bad ending, realistic, serious ...
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Plot: gay, murder, lgbt, insanity, miscarriage of justice, injustice, power relations, fighting the system, dedicated lawyer, boss and employee, legal action, state affairs ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 6.7
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Argentina, France
Duration: 90 min.
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Style: thought provoking, serious, rough, captivating, disturbing ...
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Time: 21st century
Place: argentina
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 5.9
 347
Squeeze (1997)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
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Style: independent film, serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot: gang, black, gas station, kids in trouble, urban ghetto, realism, friends, optimism, friendship, drug dealing, juvenile delinquency, society ...
Time: year 1997, 90s
Place: massachusetts, boston
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 5.8
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Trans (1998)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Ryan Kazinski, 16, is in juvenile detention in Fort Myers, Florida. He gets away one day, and the world is all before him: where should he go, what should he do? Should he try to find his mom? Should he head for Colorado, where he's daydreamed ...
Style: independent film, experimental, serious, realistic, atmospheric
Plot: escape, on the run, woods, urban ghetto life, bus, teenage life, prison life, prison, on the road, urban ghetto, kids in trouble, society ...
Time: 90s
Place: florida, colorado, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 6.1
 1K
Steel Toes (2006)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Steel Toes is a provocative exploration of the inescapable and insidious presence of racial and religious intolerance in our society.
Style: psychological, realistic, disturbing, serious, tense ...
Plot: racism, skinhead, confined, juvenile delinquency, life is a bitch, introspection, legal, misfit, prison, husband wife relationship, neo nazi, father son relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada, quebec, montreal
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Almost Brothers (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil, Chile, France
Duration: 102 min.
Story: The strange friendship between two men of opposite social classes. Miguel is a senator. His childhood friend Jorge is a major drug-dealer. In the 1970s, they meet in prison: Miguel was there for political reasons, and Jorge, as a common criminal.
Style: realistic, serious, suspense, captivating
Plot: friendship, prison, social differences, jail, friends, life is a bitch, youth, gang, drug dealing, politics, society, rich and poor ...
Time: 70s, 50s
Place: rio de janeiro, brazil
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 6.1
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Ethan Mao (2004)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Kicked out of his house because he's gay, Ethan Mao returns home to steal and ends up holding his family hostage on a fateful Thanksgiving Day.
Style: serious, psychological, disturbing, rough, realistic ...
Plot: gay, friendship, thanksgiving, juvenile delinquency, haunted by the past, lgbt, family problems, society, drug dealing, rehabilitation, youth, survival ...
Place: los angeles, boston
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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