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Toxic Love (1983)
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Toxic Love (1983)
Original name: Amore tossico
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The alienating and repetitive life of a group of heroin junkies in the 1980s Rome.
Style: rough, bleak, serious, realistic, gloomy, black comedy, dark comedy
Plot: addiction, italian neorealism, police officer, underground, heroin, drug addiction, social issues, prostitute, youth, beach, alcohol abuse, life is a bitch, rebellion, teenage life, deadend life, danger, rebelliousness, drug abuse, kids in trouble, gay, sea, fight, junkie, painter, drug addict ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: italy, europe, rome italy

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, rough and bleak films with plots about life is a bitch, youth, drug, society, drug abuse, drug dealing and drugs/alcohol mostly in Drama, Crime and Biography genres. Some movies like Toxic Love: Christiane F. (1981), Don't Be Bad (2015), Beneath the Surface (1997), The Panic in Needle Park (1971), Forever Mary (1989). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Christiane F. (1981)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 138 min.
Story: This movie portrays the drug scene in Berlin in the 70s, following tape recordings of Christiane F. 14 years old Christiane lives with her mother and little sister in a typical multi-storey apartment building in Berlin. She's fascinated by the ...
Style: disturbing, rough, bleak, depressing, harsh ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: addiction, heroin, drug addiction, junkie, drug abuse, drug addict, downfall, teenage girl, drug overdose, teenager, friendship, life is a bitch ...
Time: 70s, 80s, year 1981
Place: berlin germany, west berlin west germany, germany, europe, west germany
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Don't Be Bad (2015)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A story set in the 90s and in the outskirts of Rome to Ostia. A world where money, luxury cars, night clubs, cocaine and synthetic drugs are easy to run. A world in which Vittorio and Cesare, in their early twenties, act in search of their success.
Style: psychological, realistic, tense, captivating, hood
Plot: robbery, friendship, drug, murder, danger, rivalry, society, lgbt, gang, italian mafia, corruption, underground ...
Time: 90s, year 2015
Place: italy, rome italy
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67%
Beneath the Surface (1997)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 103 min.
Story: 23-year old Sandra has been doing drugs for many years and has realized that she is in need of some kind of treatment. At the clinic she is told that her pimp / boyfriend Roffe has turned his attention to Sandra's younger and well-behaving ...
Style: realistic, serious, rough, emotional
Plot: drug addiction, drug, redemption, hopes, prostitute, life is a bitch, rehabilitation, going straight, alcohol abuse, drug abuse, addiction, battles ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
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36%
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 ⇓
27%
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Forever Mary (1989)
Genre: Drama, Crime
Country: Italy
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A teacher discovers his calling. Marco relocates to Palermo from Milan and takes a job teaching in a reform school while he waits for a high school position. He tries to understand and motivate his handful of students, reading them colloquial ...
Style: serious, disturbing, realistic, touching, neorealism ...
Plot: reformatory, youth, transvestism, juvenile delinquency, prison, juvenile delinquent, life is a bitch, reform, school, teachers and students, prison life, transsexual ...
Time: 80s
Place: italy, sicily, europe, milan italy, palermo italy
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27%
Fort Apache the Bronx (1981)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story: From the sight of a police officer this movie depicts the life in New York's infamous South Bronx. In the center is "Fort Apache", as the officers call their police station, which really seems like an outpost in enemy's country. ...
Style: detective, realistic, bleak, grim, perverse ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: police, drug addiction, prostitute, murder, police brutality, cop killer, police station, violence, corrupt cop, hospital, cop, nypd ...
Time: 80s, year 1981
Place: new york, bronx new york city, usa
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26%
Drugstore Cowboy (1989)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Bob and his friends Dianne, Rick and Nadine have been drug addicts for years and live from one high to the next. Gus Van Sant attempts to show an intimate look into the lives of heroin addicts with his film Drugstore Cowboy.
Style: road movie, independent film, cult classic, depressing, dark ...
Audience: teens
Plot: drug abuse, junkie, addiction, heroin, drug addiction, drug, on the road, friendship, dark humor, drug addict, beat generation, recovery ...
Time: 70s, year 1989, 20th century, year 1971
Place: usa, portland oregon
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25%
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Wasted (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A high-school track star (Nick Stahl) watches without judgment as his two best friends (Summer Phoenix, Aaron Paul) abuse heroin.
Style: thought provoking, realistic, serious, rough, biting ...
Plot: drug addict, high school, friendship, heroin, downfall, life is a bitch, teenage life, kids in trouble, hopes, rehabilitation, lifestyle, going straight ...
Time: 21st century
Place: texas
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25%
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Less Than Zero (1987)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A college freshman returns to Los Angeles for the holidays at his ex-girlfriend's request, but discovers that his former best friend has an out-of-control drug habit.
Style: stylized, cult classic, visually stunning, cerebral, erotic drama ...
Audience: teens
Plot: drug addiction, friendship, drug addict, addiction, drug, drug abuse, male nudity, hedonism, male prostitute, male prostitution, christmas, high school ...
Time: 80s, year 1987
Place: los angeles, california, beverly hills, usa, palm springs california
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24%
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Salaam Bombay! (1988)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: India, USA, France, UK
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Before Slumdog Millionaire came Salaam Bombay!, Mira Nair’s Oscar-nominated drama tells the moving story of life on the streets of Bombay as seen through the eyes of Chaipu, a twelve-year-old boy living rough in the city.
Style: realistic, touching, social, offbeat, art house ...
Plot: coming of age, drug addiction, homeless, kids in trouble, drug, childhood, youth, poverty, friendship, betrayal, corruption, children ...
Time: year 1988, 80s, 20th century
Place: india, asia, bombay india, mumbai india
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24%
Another Day in Paradise (1998)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A vending machine robbery by small time thief and drug addict Bobbie (Vincent Kartheiser) goes badly awry, and his friends contact street-wise thief and part-time druggie Mel (James Woods) to patch him up.Recognizing a kindred spirit, Mel befriends ...
Style: realistic, tense, talky, controversial, suspense ...
Plot: drug, addiction, drug addiction, adolescence, murder, junkie, heist, drug addict, violence, heroin, death, brutality ...
Time: year 1998, 70s, 20th century
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24%
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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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24%
Dusty and Sweets McGee (1971)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A "straight" couple dabbles in drugs and become heroin addicts.
Style: serious, realistic, rough, emotional
Plot: drug addiction, drug, drug dealing, hustler, bare breasts, female nudity, thirtysomething life, kids in trouble, friends, life is a bitch, misfit, juvenile delinquency ...
Time: 70s, year 1971
Place: los angeles, california, usa
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23%
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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 ...
Plot: juvenile delinquency, organized crime, gang war, mafia, gangster, camorra, italian mafia, danger, gang, character study, power, debt ...
Time: year 2008, 2000s, 21st century
Place: italy, europe, southern italy, miami, venice ...
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23%
Romanzo Criminale (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, France, UK
Duration: 152 min.
Story: The Lebanese has a dream: to conquer the underworld of Rome. To carry out this feat without precedent he puts together a ruthless and highly organized gang. Their progress and changes in leadership take place over 25 years, from the 1970s into the ...
Style: serious, stylized, realistic, captivating, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gangster, gang, police investigation, criminal heroes, partner, law enforcement, leadership, rivalry, ransom, drug dealing, organized crime, inspector ...
Time: 80s, year 2005, 70s, 90s, 60s ...
Place: italy, rome italy
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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
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23%
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Ginostra (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France, Italy, USA
Duration: 139 min.
Story: An FBI Agent from America and his bride and young child travel to the Sicilian island of Ginostra to solve the murder of a key witness.
Style: tense, serious, suspenseful, rough, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: murder, island, orphan, life is a bitch, investigation, law enforcement, coming of age, sexual content, family in danger, dishonesty, danger, revenge ...
Time: 21st century
Place: italy, sicily, europe
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23%
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Wonderland (2003)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 104 min.
Story: On the afternoon of July 1, 1981, Los Angeles police responded to a distress call on Wonderland Avenue and discovered a grisly quadruple homicide. The police investigation that followed uncovered two versions of the events leading up to the brutal ...
Style: disturbing, suspenseful, tense, rough, bleak ...
Plot: murder, junkie, heroin, addiction, true crime, police investigation, violence, drug addiction, serial killer, drug, drug addict, crime gone awry ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, y2k, year 2003, year 1981
Place: los angeles, usa, pasadena california, sacramento california
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22%
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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 ...
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Timeless Bottomless Bad Movie (1997)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 144 min.
Story: A compilation of episodes from the lives of several of the amateur actors' (who are 'bad teens' and the homeless of Seoul) own experiences, this film sheds light on the dark side of Korean society. Feeling alienated and persecuted, ...
Style: anthology, postmodern, non-linear, controversial, experimental ...
Audience: teens
Plot: urban, drug abuse, illegal drugs, strong violent content, juvenile delinquency, misfit, gang, lifestyle, youth, social misfits, society, violence spree ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: korea, asia, seoul
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Awaydays (2009)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story: On the Wirral in the grim early years of Margaret Thatcher's premiership, the opportunities for thrill seeking young men looking to escape 9 to 5 drudgery are what they've always been: sex, drugs, rock n' roll, fashion, football and ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, rough, realistic, tense ...
Plot: gang, hooligan, football, destructive relationship, juvenile delinquency, coming of age, teenage life, troublemaker, buddies, life is a bitch, violence spree, down on your luck ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: england, britain, liverpool
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21%
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Pure (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A young boy trying to deal with his mother's heroin addiction befriends a waitress who helps him cope with the tough situation.
Style: sincere, touching, emotional, serious, gloomy ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: rehabilitation, addiction, youth, drug abuse, prostitute, life is a bitch, dysfunctional family, parents and children, teenage life, going straight, drug addiction, friendship ...
Place: london, england, europe
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21%
The Basketball Diaries (1995)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Film adaptation of street tough Jim Carroll's epistle about his kaleidoscopic free fall into the harrowing world of drug addiction.
Style: emotional, rough, serious, realistic, bleak ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: addiction, heroin, drug abuse, basketball, downfall, life is a bitch, teenage life, junkie, drug addiction, drug overdose, teenager, adolescence ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1995, near future, 60s
Place: new york, seattle, boston, usa, manhattan new york city
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21%
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Overdose (1983)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Bilbao. The commander of the Guardia Civil, Evaristo Torrecuadrada discovers that his son Paco of 17 years old is a heroin addict. His hope was to see him in the Military Academy. Paco, by differences with his father, runs away from home with a ...
Style: hood, social, realistic, serious, rough ...
Plot: friendship, overdose, gangster, ghetto, juvenile delinquent, gang, spy, gays and lesbians, gay, prostitute, nudity, heroin addiction ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: europe, spain
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21%
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Blood Ties (1986)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story: An innocent American engineer is blackmailed by gangsters into a plot to assassinate his cousin, who is a judge in Sicily fighting the Mafia.
Style: serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful, poliziottesco
Plot: mafia, italian mafia, murder, kidnapping, gangster, danger, rescue, violent content, nudity, hitman, drug, deadly
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: sicily, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 5.9
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Zooey (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Angel and Zooey are not your typical newlyweds. Zooey is a professional prostitute and Angel is a drug dealer. Yet they are not without hopes and dreams, of escaping their life in the streets and starting a new in a fresh painted cottage with picked ...
Style: serious, realistic, rough, bleak, gloomy
Plot: love affair, going straight, lifestyle, addiction, drug abuse, love and romance, hopes, youth, society, life is a bitch, downfall, survival ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
The Sicilian Girl (2008)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Inspired to a true story, on November 5th 1991, Rita Atria a young 17-year-old Sicilian girl, goes to see an anti-Mafia judge Paolo Borsellino to denounce the Mafia system that was responsible for the murder of her father and her brother. It is the ...
Style: tense, rough, suspenseful, serious, emotional ...
Plot: betrayal, murder, village, testimony, danger, family life, mafia, sicilian, whistleblower, family relations, youth, vengeance ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, 80s, year 1985, year 1991
Place: sicily, palermo italy, europe, italy, rome italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Fort Apache Napoli (2009)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 108 min.
Story: The story of Giancarlo Siani, a journalist killed by the Neapolitan Mafia in 1985.
Style: serious, realistic, rough, tense, gloomy
Plot: journalism, idealism, mafia, uncover truth, investigation, life is a bitch, society, danger, dishonesty, gangster, italian mafia, corruption ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1985
Place: italy, europe, southern italy, naples italy
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20%
The Violent Four (1968)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A detective is assigned to head a manhunt for four violent bank robbers.
Style: poliziottesco, detective, neo noir, non-linear, exciting ...
Plot: police, robbery, police officer, politics, car chase, social commentary, anarchist, theft, tough heroes, heist, rivalry, chase ...
Time: 60s
Place: italy, milan italy
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20%
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Three (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 124 min.
Story: The final installment in director Lucas Belvaux's trilogy follows Pascal, a cop who sees a return to credibility in the capture of escaped convict Bruno--who in turn is harbored by Pascal's morphine-addicted wife Agnes. Pascal's ...
Style: contemplative, psychological, realistic, serious, bleak ...
Plot: drug dealing, police corruption, downfall, moral dilemma, introspection, haunted by the past, vengeance, life is a bitch, fugitives, on the run, destructive relationship, drug abuse ...
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20%
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