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Cargo (2011)
547
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A young Russian woman, smuggled into America by human traffickers, and a notorious Egyptian transporter hired to drive her from the Mexican border to New York City, form an unlikely bond that transforms them and threatens to derail the traffickers' plans.
Style:
disturbing, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film
Plot:
human trafficking, rape, sex slavery, on the road, life is a bitch, society, brutality, abduction, model, trick, passport, russian immigrant, sex slave, kidnapping, confined, young, tied up, foreign language, duct tape, mattress, chloroform, crimes
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
usa
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, suspenseful and tense films with plots about life is a bitch, society, dishonesty, human trafficking, hopes, injustice and danger mostly in Drama, Crime and Thriller genres. Some movies like Cargo: Trance (2006), Russian Dolls: Sex Trade (2005), Blind Mountain (2007), The Paradise Suite (2015), Deacons for Defense (2003). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, Russia, France, Portugal
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
Sonia, a girl from St Petersburg, decides to seek a better life in western Europe. She first gets a job at a car dealer in Germany. But she is suddenly kidnapped and sold into sexual slavery. She will be dragged from country to country and ...
Style:
tense, touching, suspenseful, suspense, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
human trafficking, sex slavery, organized crime, prostitute, humiliation, abduction, violence against women, zoophilia, rape, russian abroad, naivete, mentally challenged ...
Place:
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100%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration: 50 min.
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Story:
Young women from Lithuania and Russia are taken to Belgium by a gang involved in the sex trade to work as sex slaves.
Style:
touching, erotic, suspense, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot:
violence against women, sex slavery, forced prostitution, sex trafficking, human trafficking, sexualized violence, striptease, sex club, slavery, sexploitation, organized crime, sexual abuse ...
Place:
eastern europe
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Blind Mountain follows a young woman, Bai Xuemei, in the early 1990s who recently graduated from college and attempts to find work to help pay for her brother's education. In the process, she is drugged, kidnapped and sold as a bride to a ...
Style:
disturbing, thought provoking, serious, sexual, controversial ...
Plot:
escape, sexual abuse, village, woman in danger, life is a bitch, confined, bullying, social relations, injustice, slavery, isolation, dishonesty ...
Time:
90s
Place:
china, tibet, asia
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands, Sweden, Bulgaria
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
The Paradise Suite is a story about six people finding each other and, sometimes with just one glance, influencing each other's lives irreversibly. For the beautiful young Bulgarian Jenya, her journey to Amsterdam turns out to be the opposite ...
Style:
anthology, erotic, stylized, suspenseful, realistic ...
Plot:
female nudity, forced sex, illegal immigrant, interracial couple, sex club, parallel story, hopes, human relationship, society, following a dream, social issues, encounter ...
Place:
amsterdam
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Andrew Luster, the heir to the Max factor fortune, is convicted of rape on 86 counts. This Lifetime original movie recounts the rapes committed by the infamous Andrew Luster and the women who brought him to justice.
Style:
serious, rough, disturbing, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot:
courtroom drama, investigation, injustice, life is a bitch, society, dishonesty, legal, nightclub, sexual abuse, rape, bounty hunter, rivalry ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
california
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Based on the true story of Clarence Brandley, a black man wrongly accused in 1980 of the murder of a 16-year-old white high school girl named Cheryl Ferguson. Brandley worked at Conroe High School, where Ferguson was visiting as a member of the ...
Style:
disturbing, realistic, emotional, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot:
prison, confined, uncover truth, courtroom drama, false accusation, dishonesty, law enforcement, society, legal, legal action, prison life, courtroom ...
Time:
80s
Place:
texas, usa
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
On the eve of her 16th birthday, Allison Riley disappears. When the police refuse their requests, her parents, Joanna and Case, reluctantly hire John Belton, a private investigator with a reputation for questionable procedures and a dark past. ...
Style:
suspense, tense, disturbing, psychological, thought provoking ...
Plot:
human trafficking, kidnapping, abduction, sex slavery, sex trafficking, sexploitation, exploitation, kidnapped child, slavery, slave girl, predator, social issues ...
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21%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
Inspired by a true story, this drama is set in 1965, not long after passage of the Civil Rights Act. Despite the Act, the African-American citizens of Bogalusa are still treated like third-class citizens, their fundamental rights as human beings ...
Style:
suspenseful, disturbing, thought provoking, tense, bleak ...
Plot:
racism, politics, injustice, culture clash, state affairs, vigilantism, social decay, discrimination, police corruption, african american, blaxploitation, black ...
Time:
60s
Place:
usa, louisiana
Similarity:
21%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A Pakistani involved in a planned attack in New York City experiences a crisis of conscience.
Style:
psychological, disturbing, tense, suspenseful, poignant ...
Plot:
terrorism, islam, injustice, vengeance, society, couple relations, life is a bitch, rivalry, introspection, danger, false accusation, politics ...
Time:
year 2005
Place:
new york, paris france, france, usa, europe ...
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Fundamentalist sect member BeckyLyn is accused of killing her husband. Queenie, another wife in the polygamist sect, doesn't believe BeckyLyn is capable of such violence and desperate to prove her innocence reaches out to her excommunicated son ...
Style:
realistic, serious, disturbing, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
polygamy, murder, false accusation, righting the wronged, society, religions or cults, church, estrangement, uncover truth, arranged marriage, religion, life is a bitch ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, utah
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
The truth of the past come to light in a series of haunting visions in this drama. The strange visions grow more vivid with each passing day, a young woman of Native American heritage begins piecing together a Catholic priests diabolical plot to ...
Style:
bleak, tense, serious, disturbing, realistic ...
Plot:
genocide, against humanity, dishonesty, haunted by the past, clergy, life is a bitch, family relations, priest, native, american indian, winter, strong female lead ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, minnesota
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
In this story inspired by real characters, three girls from America, Nigeria and India are trafficked through an elaborate global network and enslaved in a Texas brothel, and must together attempt a daring escape to reclaim their freedom.
Style:
disturbing, realistic, serious, rough, sexual ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
human trafficking, slavery, sex slavery, forced labor, captivity, abduction, woman in danger, forced prostitution, life is a bitch, female friendship, sex trafficking, rape ...
Place:
northern california, new delhi, nigeria, houston texas
Similarity:
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784
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
An aspiring young photographer finds himself caught up in a heady world of money, sex, and privilege when he moves to wealthy Long Island in the summer of 2008.
Style:
serious, realistic, independent film, suspense, tense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
coming of age, society, social decay, youth, rich, suburbs, suburban life, teenager, bare chested male, summer, international crisis, human nature ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa, new york, long island
Similarity:
20%
641
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
BLACKOUT takes you inside the personal journey of what went down and what it was really like in Brooklyn, NY on August 14. It examines the nature of man to take advantage of his own fellow man outside of normal conditions, in times of weakness and ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, realistic, rough, disturbing ...
Plot:
society, chaos and mayhem, city life, interracial relations, blackout, lie, danger, violence, nypd, urban, stash, woman
Time:
year 2003, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa, new york
Similarity:
20%
795
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Caden Welles is living life as large as any 20-year-old could dream … until his eyes are opened to a world few Americans know still exists: a thriving human-trafficking trade. Spurred by a true purpose, an unlikely new friendship, and the prayers ...
Style:
disturbing, thought provoking, sentimental, suspenseful, realistic ...
Plot:
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Time:
21st century
Place:
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Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Slovenia, Serbia
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, psychological, serious, tense, bleak ...
Plot:
on the road, hopes, life is a bitch, escapades, getting home, survival, danger, society, wartime life, introspection, dystopia, runaway child ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Allie moves to Texas and embraces the slower pace of life and gun culture. She tries to maintain healthy relationships as the weapons she uses to protect herself lead her to a paranoid withdrawal from life.
Style:
serious, tense, realistic, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
starting over, haunted by the past, hopes, danger, life is a bitch, unfulfillment, weapons, coming of age, life turned upside down, on the road, down on your luck, woman in danger ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
texas, usa
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
In a rural Appalachian community haunted by the legacy of a Civil War massacre, a rebellious young man struggles to escape the violence that would bind him to the past.
Style:
realistic, serious, captivating, tense, neo noir ...
Plot:
civil war, starting over, haunted by the past, social relations, life is a bitch, friendship, danger, family relations, mountain, coming of age, youth, hopes ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
north carolina, usa, appalachia
Similarity:
19%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A young man sells drugs to rich kids, but finding love gives him reason to leave the gritty life. However, the gritty life has trouble letting go.
Style:
realistic, rough, suspenseful, serious, cult classic ...
Plot:
going straight, juvenile delinquency, materialism, destiny, society, drug abuse, life is a bitch, urban ghetto life, drug dealing, fight scenes, urban ghetto, transplant ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
los angeles, south america, usa, california, chicago
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
tense, captivating, suspenseful, atmospheric, serious ...
Plot:
conspiracy, interracial relations, social relations, dishonesty, society, law enforcement, lifestyle, murder, friendship, life is a bitch, murder investigation, small town ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century
Place:
georgia, usa
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, serious, rough, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
orphanage, working undercover, immigrant, legal action, society, life is a bitch, kidnapping, spy, fraud, undercover agent, abduction, tough heroes ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
18%
344
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A fast-paced thriller about a vital and terrifying subject - the trafficking of children - with the heart-stopping vibrancy, compassion and energy that only the fate of children inspires. This is a story that touches all our lives. And it's ...
Style:
captivating, tense, serious, thought provoking, realistic ...
Plot:
human trafficking, uncover truth, society, confined, police detective, law enforcement, danger, investigation, child in peril, captivity, rescue, life is a bitch ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, europe
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Philadelphia, 1976. The city of Brotherly Love is waging a successful war against crime led by its tough-talking mayor, Frank Rizzo. But a maverick investigative reporter, Jonathan Neumann, has heard some troubling rumors: stories of innocent people ...
Style:
thought provoking, serious, rough, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Plot:
journalism, police corruption, amateur detective, murder, legal investigation, media, fighting the system, uncover truth, wrongful conviction, police brutality, state affairs, dishonesty ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
philadelphia
Similarity:
18%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Lachlan MacAldonich is a self-described “lazy Scotsman” and former guitar player for a once-popular 1990s rock band. No longer famous, he now lives a comfortably numb existence working on an organic farm outside Los Angeles. He drinks himself ...
Style:
realistic, serious, psychological, captivating, independent film ...
Plot:
music, haunted by the past, deportation, musician's life, introspection, life is a bitch, estrangement, society, drug, young love, musician, dancing ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, california, los angeles
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A Louisiana woman discovers that a trusted neighbor has installed video surveillance equipment in her home to spy on her family. As a result, the real-life Wilson lobbied for a 1999 state law passed in nine other states since making video voyeurism ...
Style:
psychological, serious, tense, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Plot:
hidden camera, mysterious character, obsession, surveillance, family problems, society, dishonesty, espionage, trust, neighbor, legislation, legal action ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
louisiana
Similarity:
18%
430
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina, France, Spain, Belgium
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
No overview found.
Style:
realistic, serious, captivating, disturbing
Plot:
adoption, human trafficking, injustice, unwanted pregnancy, moral dilemma, family relations, obsessive quest, life is a bitch, self discovery, society, social differences, babies and infants ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
argentina, france, buenos aires argentina
Similarity:
17%
413
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
The heart breaking coming of age story of four teens growing up in 1989 blue collar New York, and the bond that would tie them together for life.
Style:
realistic, psychological, tense, captivating, serious ...
Plot:
teenage life, life is a bitch, youth, friendship, coming of age, manslaughter, drug use, crime and punishment, society, friends, chaos and mayhem, bong ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
new york
Similarity:
17%
177
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Everybody has a little murder in their heart... somewhere.
Style:
sexual, independent film, realistic, serious, emotional ...
Plot:
female nudity, rape, blind woman, blindness, sexual awakening, disability, family relations, friends, hopes, misfit, confined, youth ...
Time:
80s
Similarity:
17%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Six people tell their stories on a single subject - how they got wrongfully convicted to death penalty, but later got exonerated.
Style:
serious, realistic, disturbing, suspenseful, mockumentary
Plot:
rebellion, death row, false accusation, racism, injustice, courtroom drama, society, hopes, life is a bitch, confined, legal, prison life ...
Similarity:
17%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A young man testifies against his mother for killing the father with secondhand smoke.
Style:
realistic, thought provoking, serious, captivating, tense ...
Plot:
courtroom drama, murder, legal investigation, legal action, society, couple relations, legal, rivalry, dishonesty, jury, evidence, uncover truth ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
17%
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