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Run, Tecato, Run (1979)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Based on true incidents, Run, Tecato, Run depicts a junkie's efforts to get off heroin in order to reclaim and raise his daughter. Produced for $60,000, the film explores the connections between the Vietnam War, drug addiction and crime—juxtaposing these against Mexican American family, culture and spirituality.
Style:
independent film, period piece, tragic
Plot:
heroin, drug addiction, father daughter relationship, rehabilitation, redemption, family drama, character study, poverty, drug trade, street life, desperation, urban, male protagonist, family conflict, realism, war trauma, social realism, social commentary, vietnam veteran, moral ambiguity, blue collar, street crime, ptsd, catholic, grief ...
Time:
70s
Place:
texas, san antonio texas
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out melancholic, bleak, independent film and realistic films with plots about character study, moral ambiguity, social realism, urban, desperation, street life and redemption mostly in Drama, Crime and Romance genres. Some movies like Run, Tecato, Run: Drying Up the Streets (1978), 1982 (2013), Hazard (2024), H (1990), Who We Are Now (2017). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
An ex-junkie takes on seedy urban culture to try and locate his daughter.
Style:
emotional, bleak, tension, suspense, noir ...
Plot:
father daughter relationship, heroin, drug traffic, addiction, desperation, covert operation, street life, missing child, police procedural, redemption, social commentary, moral ambiguity ...
Time:
70s
Place:
toronto ontario canada
Similarity:
95%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
1982, a film inspired by true events at the onset of the crack epidemic in Philadelphia, tells the story of a father and his efforts to protect his gifted daughter from the insidious epidemic which has literally come home via her drug-addicted ...
Style:
crime drama, emotional, realistic, heartbreaking, period piece ...
Plot:
addiction, poverty, drug addiction, father daughter relationship, family drama, parenting, substance abuse, single father, social issues, protection, urban, sacrifice ...
Time:
80s
Place:
philadelphia
Similarity:
71%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A young man faces hard life choices and tragedies as he attempts to break the cycle of addiction tearing his family apart.
Style:
bleak
Audience:
adult
Plot:
substance abuse, family drama, addiction, social realism, desperation, isolation, moral dilemma, grief, poverty, rehabilitation, sacrifice, urban ...
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175
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A junkie couple board themselves in their apartment while they try to kick their heroin habit.
Style:
independent film, intense, tense, bleak, minimal cast ...
Plot:
drug addiction, heroin, desperation, claustrophobia, self destructing, isolation, confined space, realism, moral ambiguity, character study, rehabilitation, survival ...
Similarity:
63%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Recently released from prison, Beth is working with her public defender to get her son back from her sister, who was awarded legal custody while Beth was incarcerated for ten years. Soon after, Beth forms an unlikely alliance with Jess, an ...
Style:
emotional, independent film, melancholic, romantic drama, tense
Plot:
custody battle, mother daughter estrangement, rehabilitation, sister sister relationship, public defender, ex convict, motherhood, family drama, female protagonist, character study, women's issues, family conflict ...
Time:
2010s
Similarity:
62%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
True story of Jane Duco, a young nun who also had a job as a probation officer.
Style:
crime drama, emotional, juvenile, period drama
Plot:
nun, probation officer, religion, character study, prostitution, empathy, juvenile delinquency, ethical dilemma, drug addiction, rehabilitation, social realism, social work ...
Time:
70s
Similarity:
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136
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Four young heroin addicts scour the streets of Melbourne in search of some good-quality narcotics – or as they call it, 'pure shit’. In the space of 48 hours, a friend dies of an overdose, they are ripped off by criminals and arrested and ...
Style:
independent film, bleak, black comedy, existential, tragicomedy
Plot:
drug addiction, heroin, substance abuse, realism, street life, desperation, overdose, social realism, urban, poverty, counterculture, underground ...
Time:
70s
Place:
melbourne
Similarity:
57%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A steel factory that employs most of the town shuts down, leaving a man desperate to keep his family and friends together while alcohol consumes him in this depressing drama.
Style:
bleak, melancholic
Plot:
blue collar, unemployment, family drama, family crisis, small town, alcoholism, financial difficulty, addiction, desperation, social commentary, social realism, isolation ...
Time:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Muhammad returns home to Detroit to bury his stepfather and is thrust into settling his accounts, but Muhammad’s struggles with depression and addiction may finish him before he finishes the task.
Style:
serious, thought provoking, dramatic, captivating, melancholic ...
Plot:
grief, addiction, depression, mental health, loss, substance abuse, life & death, life, death, fight, depressed man, stepfather ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
detroit
Similarity:
57%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, France
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Keith, a small-time drug dealer is under house arrest at the home of his father in Baltimore. He re-enters a community scarred by unemployment, neglect and deeply entrenched segregation. There, he pushes back against his surrounding limitations as ...
Style:
erotic, realistic, crime drama, independent film, atmospheric ...
Plot:
house arrest, ex convict, drug dealer, father son relationship, social realism, character study, urban decay, intimate, segregation, moral ambiguity, poverty, male protagonist ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
baltimore
Similarity:
57%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
It tells his story in the turbulent days near the end of the Vietnam War, as a young Chicano man questioning his and his people’s place in society as thousands of his Latino brethren return from the war in coffins.
Style:
independent film, historical drama, aesthetic
Plot:
identity crisis, vietnam war, social injustice, realism, racial discrimination, working class, slice of life, alienation, street life, political activism, solidarity, coming of age ...
Time:
70s
Place:
san antonio texas, texas
Similarity:
56%
189
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:
crime drama, bleak, realistic, crime thriller, tense ...
Plot:
addiction, drug traffic, temptation, drug dealer, drug use, loss of innocence, family tragedy, urban, cautionary tale, moral ambiguity, desperation, character study ...
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Qasem is a roadblock employee at the municipality, trying to improve his life while facing problems with his wife Narges.
Style:
realistic, neorealism
Plot:
corruption, domestic drama, family drama, social realism, social commentary, working class, character study, moral ambiguity, city life, desperation, bribery, ambition ...
Place:
iran, tehran
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Drama
Country: Bulgaria, UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The real story of the journalist Vesela Toteva (in the role is her daughter -Valentina Karoleva) searching for her own happiness during the dynamic and uncertain 90's in Bulgaria. A tale about drugs, fall, fear and redemption.
Style:
thought provoking, suspense, serious, dark, rough ...
Plot:
heroin, addiction, journalist, junkie, drug addiction, fear, family drama, female protagonist, single mother, mother daughter relationship, drug, second chance ...
Place:
bulgaria, eastern europe
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
"Les Enfants Du Désordre " depicts a lost generation ,a distraught youth who finds comfort in drugs .Marie ,an unwed young mother, a former junkie- prostitute, is in a reformatory school :she has been a misfit for most of her life. If ...
Style:
bleak, melancholic
Plot:
character study, drug addiction, substance abuse, female protagonist, desperation, rehabilitation, alienation, realism, street life, prostitution, social commentary, single mother ...
Time:
80s
Place:
france
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
feature film written, produced by, and starring Ralph Waite (best known as John Walton, Sr., on the long-running CBS television series, "The Waltons"). The film tells the story of Sam (Donald Moffat), a recovering alcoholic who feels ...
Style:
independent film, melancholic, emotional, art house, existential ...
Plot:
slum, homelessness, street life, alcoholism, friendship, character study, urban, male protagonist, identity crisis, social realism, poverty, survival ...
Time:
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Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
48%
105
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
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Style:
poignant, melancholic, independent film, contemplative, realistic ...
Plot:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
An ex-football star, paralyzed from the waist down during Vietnam, accepts the challenge of coaching football in a juvenile reform school.
Style:
inspirational, motivational, emotional, serious, period piece
Plot:
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Time:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
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Style:
semi autobiographical, disturbing, psychological, realistic, captivating ...
Plot:
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Place:
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Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
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Style:
dramatic, crime drama, realistic, emotional, tense ...
Plot:
father son relationship, family drama, family conflict, double life, coming of age, identity crisis, moral ambiguity, drug trade, moral dilemma, mother son relationship, betrayal, ambition ...
Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Bangladesh
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
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Style:
crime drama, realistic, emotional, bleak, melancholic ...
Plot:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Story:
Many things can go wrong, or not , when a drug addict , a prostitute and a singer past his prime come together to rob their employer.
Style:
crime drama, emotional, tense, crime thriller, ambiguous ending ...
Plot:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Portugal
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
Feature film
Style:
bleak, melancholic, tragic ending, intense, art house ...
Plot:
poverty, hopelessness, drug addiction, pain, desperation, prostitution, illness, isolation, alienation, self destructing, character study, sacrifice ...
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
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Style:
independent film, serious, realistic, dark drama, psychological ...
Plot:
drug addiction, addiction, drug addict, drug abuse, life is a bitch, pills, couples, loss of control, self destructing, substance abuse, character study, introspection ...
Time:
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Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
41%
85
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, bleak, serious, heartbreaking, emotional ...
Plot:
homelessness, life is a bitch, life turned upside down, family relations, misfit, unemployment, social misfits, society, family problems, poverty, hardship, survival ...
Time:
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Place:
miami, usa, florida
Similarity:
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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:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
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Style:
road movie, emotional, realistic, melancholic
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
melancholic, period piece, road movie, art house
Plot:
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