Movies like River's Edge 2018

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River's Edge (2018)
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River's Edge (2018)
Original name: リバーズ・エッジ
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Haruna Wakagusa is a high school student who lives with her mother. Ichiro Yamada is gay and Haruna’s classmate. He is bullied at school, but Haruna sticks up for Ichiro. They become intimate and Ichiro tells Haruna his secret. He found a dead body along the riverside. A new body is soon found.
Style: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, manga
Plot: high school student, bullying, classmate, closeted homosexual, japanese schoolgirl, gay, lgbt, life is a bitch, high school life, social problems, secret, asian, mature, river, eating disorder, dead body, boys love, female nudity, japanese woman, voyeurism, japanese girl, corpse, cunnilingus, classroom, fellatio ...
Place: japan, tokyo

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out disturbing, suspense, captivating and tense films with plots about life is a bitch, social problems, criminal, bullying, teenager, high school life and society mostly in Drama, Crime and Thriller genres. Some movies like River's Edge: Helter Skelter (2012), Angel Guts: High School Co-Ed (1978), The Katsuragi Murder Case (2016), Demon Covered in Scars (2017), Double Mints (2017). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Helter Skelter (2012)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 127 min.
Story: Through round after round of extensive plastic surgery and vigorous maintenance, Ririko has become the absolute manifestation of beauty, and becomes a wildly successful model, actress, and singer. However, soon, her body, unable to withstand the ...
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Plot: capitalism, lesbian, flaunting, feminine beauty, plastic surgeon, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, female nudity, sex scene, hair, fandom, skirt, fashion ...
Place: tokyo, japan, east asia
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Angel Guts: High School Co-Ed (1978)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 79 min.
Story: Three gangsters spend their time assaulting students until their leader feels guilty and saves a young girl from being raped. Following the incident the gang decides he must now prove himself by raping her himself.
Style: erotic, controversial
Plot: erotica, exploitation, rape, sex scene, trio, brother sister relationship, gang, motorcycle, japanese schoolgirl, misogynist, sex, psychopath ...
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The Katsuragi Murder Case (2016)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 120 min.
Story: The Katsuragi Household that runs a small store may appear serene. But as the younger son Minoru commits a murder on the street, the family is exposed to the public. Is there anybody that is behind this murder case?
Style: tense, psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
Plot: depression, murderer, dysfunctional family, life is a bitch, family relations, father son relationship, murder, family problems, husband wife relationship, inheritance, family business, killing spree ...
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Demon Covered in Scars (2017)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Mai (Rika Adachi) is a high school student. She attends a new school and there she meets her classmate Shino (Manami Enosawa). Shino was bullied by Mai's friends back in their middle school days. Table have now turned.
Style: tense, captivating, psychological
Plot: bullying, bully, japanese schoolgirl, schoolgirl, new friend, adolescence, school, teenage life, teenager, life is a bitch, social problems, new student ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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Double Mints (2017)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Mitsuo Ichikawa receives a phone call from Mitsuo Ichikawa. Their names are pronounced the same, but spelled differently using kanji. They also graduated from the same high school. Back in their high school days, Mitsuo Ichikawa was like a ...
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Seto and Utsumi (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 75 min.
Story: Utsumi and Seto's daily routine is to spend their afterschool hours just jabbering with one another along a riverbed. Getting excited over trivial word play, agonizing over the content of an email to be sent to a girl, and, at times, talking ...
Style: psychological, disturbing, captivating
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Kakegurui (2019)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 119 min.
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Inspired by a true story, Girl Fight recounts the harrowing story of a 16-year-old, stellar high school student whose life spirals downward when her former friends conspire to upload onto the Internet a shocking video of them beating her up.
Style: realistic, touching, serious, psychological, tense ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: bullying, teenager, family relations, teenage life, life turned upside down, high school, disorder, parents and children, youth, high school life, social relations, computers and web ...
Time: 21st century
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Hand Rolled Cigarette (2020)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A retired British Chinese soldier, a young South Asian man, an encounter at Chungking Mansions. Coincidentally, they both offended the same gang boss. What has given them a new lease of life and how do they rediscover themselves through each ...
Style: psychological, suspense, captivating, disturbing, neo noir
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Place: hong kong, china
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Himizu (2011)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 129 min.
Story: Two teenagers and a group of people made homeless by a tsunami try and make their way in a devastated Japan
Style: psychological, serious, stylized, bleak, existential ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: teen angst, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, youth, human nature, teenage life, earthquake, teenager, mental illness, suicide, obsession, heartwarming, dystopia ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
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Audience: teen drama
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Detective Mitarai's Casebook: The Clockwork Current (2016)
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Country: Japan
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Story: Private Detective Kiyoshi Mitarai and Miyuki Ogawa arrive in Fukuyama, Hiroshima Prefecture. They are interested in a case which involves discovered bodies. The bodies were found drifting in the Seto Inland Sea, where the currents repeat every 6 ...
Style: disturbing, tense, suspense, captivating, psychological
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Country: Japan
Duration: 157 min.
Story: Set in the near future around Shinjuku, Tokyo. Shinji got out from a youth detention center. Barikan suffers from stuttering and extreme shyness. These two men meet in a boxing gym. Shinji and Barikan become friends and pursue boxing under a ...
Style: captivating, psychological, disturbing, psychotronic
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Time: near future
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