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Toxic Love (1983)
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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, gay, 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, sea, fight, junkie, painter, drug addict ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
italy, europe, rome italy
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Most similar movies to Toxic Love
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, society, drug abuse, drug, youth, drug dealing and addiction mostly in Drama, Crime and Biography genres. Some movies like Toxic Love: Christiane F. (1981), Don't Be Bad (2015), Beneath the Surface (1997), Overdose (1983), The Panic in Needle Park (1971). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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:
depressing, disturbing, rough, bleak, serious ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
addiction, drug addiction, heroin, drug abuse, drug addict, downfall, junkie, drug overdose, teenage girl, friendship, teenage life, teenage prostitution ...
Time:
70s, 80s, year 1981
Place:
berlin germany, west berlin west germany, europe, west germany, germany ...
Similarity:
100%
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, tense, realistic, captivating, hood
Plot:
robbery, friendship, drug, danger, murder, rivalry, society, corruption, sicilian mafia, lgbt, italian mafia, gang ...
Time:
90s, year 2015
Place:
italy, rome italy
Similarity:
67%
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:
serious, realistic, emotional, rough
Plot:
drug addiction, drug, redemption, life is a bitch, rehabilitation, prostitute, hopes, going straight, alcohol abuse, addiction, drug abuse, battles ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Crime, 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:
social, hood, serious, realistic, bleak ...
Plot:
gay interest, male nudity, coming of age, homosexual, friendship, male pubic hair, delinquent, drug overdose, father son relationship, bare chested male, overdose, juvenile delinquent ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
basque country, europe, spain
Similarity:
34%
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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:
disturbing, depressing, bleak, serious, rough ...
Plot:
addiction, drug abuse, drug addiction, drug use, drug, heroin addict, drug addict, heroin, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, death of pet, life philosophy, couple relations ...
Time:
20th century, year 1971, 70s
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, usa, new jersey, california
Similarity:
26%
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:
gay interest, youth, transvestism, homosexual, male prostitute, sexual assault, juvenile delinquency, prison, juvenile delinquent, reform, life is a bitch, school ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
italy, sicily, europe, milan italy, palermo italy
Similarity:
26%
677
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, life is a bitch, downfall, teenage life, kids in trouble, going straight, rehabilitation, juvenile delinquency, lifestyle ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
texas
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 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:
cult classic, road movie, independent film, depressing, grim ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
drug abuse, addiction, heroin, dark humor, drug addiction, drug, junkie, friendship, on the road, drug addict, beat generation, coming of age ...
Time:
70s, year 1989, 20th century, year 1971
Place:
usa, portland oregon
Similarity:
25%
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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:
erotic drama, erotic, stylized, art house, cerebral ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
drug addiction, drug addict, male nudity, friendship, male prostitution, male prostitute, hedonism, addiction, drug, drug abuse, homosexuality, love triangle ...
Time:
80s, year 1987
Place:
los angeles, beverly hills, california, usa, palm springs california ...
Similarity:
25%
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:
erotic, realistic, tense, talky, controversial ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
drug, addiction, making love, drug addiction, sex scene, adolescence, murder, junkie, heist, drug addict, violence, brutality ...
Time:
year 1998, 20th century, 70s
Place:
oklahoma city, california
Similarity:
24%
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, art house, offbeat ...
Plot:
kids in trouble, drug addiction, coming of age, homeless, red light district, drug, sex, childhood, youth, corruption, betrayal, friendship ...
Time:
year 1988, 20th century, 80s
Place:
india, mumbai india, asia, bombay india
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A "straight" couple dabbles in drugs and become heroin addicts.
Style:
serious, realistic, emotional, rough
Plot:
drug addiction, drug, hustler, female nudity, bare breasts, drug dealing, kids in trouble, thirtysomething life, friends, society, innocence lost, hopes ...
Time:
70s, year 1971
Place:
los angeles, usa, california
Similarity:
23%
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, bleak, rough, realistic
Plot:
juvenile delinquency, youth, friends, danger, society, life is a bitch, coming of age, social worker, social decay, urban ghetto life, teaching the ways of the world, street life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
italy, europe, naples italy
Similarity:
23%
829
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, law enforcement, investigation, orphan, life is a bitch, coming of age, sexual content, family in danger, danger, dishonesty, revenge ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
italy, sicily, europe
Similarity:
23%
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:
realistic, bleak, surprise ending, crime drama, perverse ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
murder, police, hospital, police station, prostitute, corrupt cop, hostage, police brutality, cop killer, guilt, police captain, puerto rican ...
Time:
80s, year 1981, 70s
Place:
bronx new york city, new york, usa, new jersey, san francisco ...
Similarity:
22%
53K
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, Belgium
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:
tense, harsh, realistic, serious, depressing ...
Plot:
juvenile delinquency, gang war, mafia, camorra, gangster, death, danger, organized crime, italian mafia, gang, power, character study ...
Time:
year 2008, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
italy, napoli italy, europe, venice, miami ...
Similarity:
22%
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:
lgbt cinema, realistic, serious, bleak, gloomy ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
lgbt, greek, nude young male, male pubic hair, russian mafia, male prostitute, gay sex, homosexuality, teenage boy, male nudity, rent boy, migration ...
Time:
90s
Place:
greece, geneva switzerland, europe, kazakhstan, italy ...
Similarity:
22%
765K
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Renton, deeply immersed in the Edinburgh drug scene, tries to clean up and get out, despite the allure of the drugs and influence of friends.
Style:
disturbing, psychedelic, captivating, dark comedy, black comedy ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens, teen drama
Plot:
addiction, heroin, drug addiction, drug abuse, existentialism, dark humor, counterculture, junkie, life is a bitch, subculture, dialogue, social misfits ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1996
Place:
scotland, edinburgh scotland, london, england, britain ...
Similarity:
22%
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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:
suspenseful, bleak, tense, rough, detective ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
addiction, heroin, sex, police investigation, drug addiction, murder, serial killer, drug, junkie, true crime, drug addict, life is a bitch ...
Time:
20th century, year 1981, y2k, year 2003, 80s ...
Place:
los angeles, pasadena california, usa, sacramento california, california
Similarity:
22%
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, experimental, controversial, non-linear ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
urban, drug abuse, illegal drugs, strong violent content, kids in trouble, realism, juvenile delinquency, society, youth, violence spree, lifestyle, life is a bitch ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
seoul, korea, asia
Similarity:
22%
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, making love, gang, police investigation, criminal heroes, partner, law enforcement, rivalry, leadership, ransom, drug dealing, sex scene ...
Time:
80s, year 2005, 90s, 70s, 20th century ...
Place:
rome italy, italy
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Croatia
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The film is set over the course of a New Year's Eve night in the Croatian port city of Split, where it follows three parallel plots. The first plot line features a small-time drug dealer Nike (Marinko Prga) and a young widow Marija (Nives ...
Style:
serious, disturbing, neo noir, rough, realistic ...
Plot:
new year, drug abuse, new year's eve, murder, dealer, small town, juvenile delinquency, drug dealing, concert, social decay, going straight, addiction ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
croatia, eastern europe, bosnia, europe, former yugoslavia
Similarity:
22%
11K
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:
depressing, rough, atmospheric, serious, political ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
prostitution, street kid, child abuse, boy, sex with a minor, coming of age, 10 year old, child rape, children, nude boy, violent, loneliness ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, year 1981
Place:
brazil, south america, latin america, rio de janeiro, sao paulo brazil ...
Similarity:
22%
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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, rough, suspenseful, tense, realistic ...
Plot:
gang, hooligan, football, destructive relationship, juvenile delinquency, coming of age, teenage life, troublemaker, violence spree, life is a bitch, buddies, unemployment ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
england, britain, liverpool
Similarity:
21%
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:
rough, emotional, teen, harsh, serious ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
addiction, heroin, drug abuse, basketball, downfall, drug, teenage life, life is a bitch, drug overdose, teenager, high school, drug addiction ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, near future, 60s, year 1995 ...
Place:
boston, new york, seattle, usa, manhattan new york city ...
Similarity:
21%
3K
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, drug abuse, youth, parents and children, prostitute, dysfunctional family, teenage life, going straight, friendship, life is a bitch, hopes ...
Place:
london, europe, england
Similarity:
20%
72
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, gloomy, bleak
Plot:
love affair, lifestyle, going straight, drug abuse, addiction, life is a bitch, love and romance, hopes, survival, downfall, society, drug dealing ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york
Similarity:
20%
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:
italian police, police, robbery, police officer, politics, car chase, social commentary, anarchist, theft, tough heroes, heist, chases and races ...
Time:
60s
Place:
italy, milan italy
Similarity:
20%
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, italian gangster, danger, life is a bitch, society, dishonesty, gangster, italian mafia ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1985
Place:
italy, europe, southern italy, naples italy
Similarity:
20%
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:
psychological, serious, realistic, bleak, art house ...
Plot:
terrorist, police corruption, drug dealing, haunted by the past, introspection, moral dilemma, downfall, drug abuse, addiction, destructive relationship, life is a bitch, fugitives ...
Similarity:
20%
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