Movies like Boys Cry

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Boys Cry (2018)
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Boys Cry (2018)
Original name: La terra dell'abbastanza
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Mirko and Manolo are best friends and live in the suburbs of Rome. They both live in poor conditions with their single parents, are still in school and struggle with occasional odd jobs to make ends meet. Together they share dreams of women, of sex and money, of a better life to come. Then, after killing a man in a hit-and-run one night, they get involved with the local mafia and their lives change dramatically.
Style: psychological, tense, captivating, realistic
Plot: mafia, criminal, hitman, gang member, working class, gang leader, murder, best friend, rivalry, society, danger, prostitution, pimp, female exploitation, mother son conflict, prostitute, sex scene, brothel, betrayal by friend, waiter, birthday party, hit and run, roma, drug money, female objectification ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: italy, rome italy

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Most similar movies to Boys Cry

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out tense, captivating, psychological and realistic films with plots about murder, rivalry, danger, mafia, gangster, society and gang mostly in Crime, Drama and Action genres. Some movies like Boys Cry: Piranhas (2019), The Turning Point (2021), Don't Be Bad (2015), Come Into the Light (2005), Gorbachev (2010). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Piranhas (2019)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Six boys race on their scooters through the narrow streets of their Sanità neighbourhood in Naples. They are fearless daredevils, desperate to make money like their role models, and wear designer clothes and the latest sneakers. These 15-year-olds ...
Style: rough, disturbing, suspenseful, bleak, suspense ...
Plot: mafia, coming of age, camorra, gang, rivalry, self discovery, hooliganism, gangster, fistfight, social decay, society, lifestyle ...
Time: year 2019, 21st century
Place: naples italy
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The Turning Point (2021)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A slacker who does his best to avoid confrontation strikes up an unlikely friendship with a dangerous thug who suddenly forces his way into his life.
Style: disturbing, captivating, psychological, tense, hood
Plot: unlikely friendships, lifestyle change, changing lives, social problems, criminal gang, lifestyle, swashbuckler, criminal, character change, bandit, escapades, ghetto ...
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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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30%
Come Into the Light (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A priest (Zingaretti - Inspector Montalbano) attends his new parish only to find the church empty, the locals uninterested and their children rude and abusive. He very gently sets about winning over first the children by providing them with a place ...
Style: tense, captivating, suspense, psychological, factual
Plot: coming of age, priest, hopes, murder, mafia, mob boss, church, hitman, fighting crime, rivalry, showdown, danger ...
Time: 90s
Place: italy, sicily, palermo italy
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30%
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Gorbachev (2010)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Marino Pacileo has a soft spot for gambling. When he discovers that Lila's father, the young Chinese girl that he is in love with cannot pay a debt, the gambler steals money from the jail he is in to help the love of his life.
Style: captivating, realistic, psychological, tense, contemplative ...
Plot: gambler, obsession, gambling, downfall, fall in love, love and romance, society, rivalry, couples, politician, life is a bitch, interracial relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: italy, naples italy, europe
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25%
After the Fall (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Bill Scanlin loses his job and embarks on a life of crime. As Bill stays ahead of the law, he discovers that sometimes the only thing worse than getting caught is getting away with it.
Style: psychological, tense, realistic, serious, captivating ...
Plot: downfall, protecting from truth, destructive relationship, unfulfillment, danger, family relations, rivalry, society, murder, crisis, uncontrollable, unlikely criminals ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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25%
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Solo (2006)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Jack Barrett is the type of guy no one calls Jack. He works for a group of businessmen known as "The Gentlemen" who operate within the fertile realm of the Sydney Underworld. Standover tactics, prostitution, illegal gambling, creative ...
Style: serious, captivating, tense, suspense, psychological ...
Plot: gangster, hitman, danger, rivalry, going straight, against the odds, dishonesty, assassin, murder, conspiracy, escapades, police corruption ...
Time: 21st century
Place: australia
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24%
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Salvo (2013)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A hitman for the Sicilian Mafia, Salvo is solitary, cold and ruthless. When he sneaks into a house to eliminate a man, he discovers Rita, a young blind girl who powerlessly stands by while her brother is assassinated. Salvo tries to close those ...
Style: tense, atmospheric, serious, realistic, captivating ...
Plot: hitman, mafia, gang war, blind girl, murder, danger, fall in love, couples, blind woman, mobster, gay, assassin ...
Time: 21st century
Place: italy, sicily
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24%
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Code 37 (2011)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A famous writer is violated in a sex-movie-theatre. He had a date with Roos, a young student who works also as a prostitute. Quickly it becomes clear that more students are active in the prostitution. Enough reason for Hannah and her team to go ...
Style: tense, captivating, atmospheric, psychological, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: police investigation, murder, law enforcement, parents and children, gain trust, haunted by the past, college, prostitution, rivalry, danger, urban, strong female presence ...
Time: 21st century
Place: belgium, ghent, europe
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24%
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Miami (2017)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Miami is the story of two sisters who have grown up separately. The older sister, Angela, is an exotic dancer with her own touring dance group. The younger, Anna, on the threshold of adulthood, lives in a small town working in sales. When their ...
Style: exciting, suspense, psychological, tense, captivating ...
Plot: sister sister relationship, criminal, debt, dancer, blackmail, mafia, russian mafia, criminal gang, stepsister stepsister relationship, extortion, sister, murder ...
Time: 2010s
Place: finland
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23%
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Chiko (2008)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Germany, Italy
Duration: 92 min.
Story: This is the story of Isa, who grows up in a Hamburg suburb. It might be one of the world's richest cities but every beast has its belly and here, in the very underbelly, Chiko lives in a world where violence, staking and keeping a claim, and ...
Style: serious, tense, captivating, suspense, psychological ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: drug dealer, gang, cocaine, immigrant, friendship, rivalry, ambition, murder, smuggling, betrayal, deception, danger ...
Time: 21st century
Place: hamburg germany, germany, europe
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22%
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Silent Witness (2011)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Prominent defense attorney Tony Lord returns to his hometown to defend an old friend, a teacher accused of murdering one of his students. The case re-opens the heartache from Tony's own high school days, when he was a student falsely accused of ...
Style: realistic, captivating, tense, psychological, suspenseful ...
Plot: murder, courtroom drama, homecoming, courtroom, friendship, legal, lawyer, danger, rivalry, family relations, law, deadly
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, ohio
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22%
Women of Mafia (2018)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 138 min.
Story: A former police officer goes under cover in the mafia.
Style: tense, captivating, suspense, serious, realistic ...
Plot: female agent, mafia, special agent, gang, rivalry, danger, fighting crime, life is a bitch, secret agent, drug, undercover agent, outlaw gang ...
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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
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20%
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Perez. (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Demetrio Perez is a tough prosecutor torn between the corruption inherent in his job and the desire to do right by his family. But when opportunity presents itself and his daughter Thea falls in love with a Mafioso’s son, Perez has to cut through ...
Style: tense, serious, psychological, captivating, suspense ...
Plot: lawyer, gangster, danger, rivalry, dishonesty, blackmail, legal, protection, camorra, child in peril, manipulation, female nudity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: italy, naples italy
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20%
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Pericle (2016)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, France, Belgium
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A failed porn actor, working as an enforcer for a mafia kingpin, finds himself confronted with an all-out turf war after an errand goes drastically wrong. Going on the run is his only option.
Style: suspense, touching, tense, psychological, exciting ...
Plot: mafia, murder, organized crime, crime boss, mob boss, death, rivalry, gang war, betrayal, society, chase, criminal heroes ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe
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20%
The Ministers (2009)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A NYPD detective attempts to avenge the death of her father, but unwittingly becomes involved with one of his killers.
Style: tense, serious, captivating, suspense, psychological ...
Plot: vengeance, danger, rivalry, profanity, law enforcement, unlikely couple, murder, brainwashing, religious fanaticism, strong violent content, violent content, chases and races ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york
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19%
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Tainted Souls (2017)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 101 min.
Story: The lives of the tenants of a lower-class apartment building in the outskirts intersect on a backdrop of crime, drug dealing, confused feelings and tainted relationships, in a lucid portrait of contemporary Rome. Marcello, a bisexual former body ...
Style: touching, suspense, tense, disturbing, psychological
Plot: illegal drugs, relationships, murder, gay, bodybuilder, love, mafia, gangster, family business, friendship, friends, criminal heroes ...
Time: 21st century
Place: italy
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19%
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Now or Never (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 92 min.
Story: As a mother, in principle, you do not rob banks. But these days, it can be a solution for the future of your home, and not to give up on your dreams. Playing the thieves can quickly become dangerous and bad encounters can turn into a love story ...
Style: realistic, captivating, psychological, tense, serious ...
Plot: family relations, parents and children, unemployment, down on your luck, family in crisis, society, plan, bankruptcy, danger, black, family problems, life is a bitch ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
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19%
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Mafia Inc (2019)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 143 min.
Story: The Gamache, tailors from father to son, have been dressing the Mafia family Paternò for three generation. Vincent "Vince" Gamache works on behalf of Frank the godfather with his eldest son Giaco. Vince, reckless and rash, seeks to earn ...
Style: tense, suspense, psychological, suspenseful, contemplative ...
Plot: mafia, cosa nostra, gang war, crime boss, violence, organized crime, mob boss, crime family, family business, gangster, murder, betrayal ...
Time: 2010s, year 1994, 80s, 90s, year 1980 ...
Place: canada, montreal, quebec, rome italy, venezuela
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19%
The Devil's Teardrop (2010)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story: When a man known only as "The Digger" opens fire in a train station many are left dead. The only clue the FBI has is a hand written letter with demands on it. Agent Margurete needs help analyzing it and the best is retired specialist ...
Style: serious, tense, captivating, psychological, suspenseful ...
Plot: hitman, special agent, law enforcement, danger, murder, rivalry, swat team, armed forces, die hard, criminal heroes, psychopath, fbi agent ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, washington d.c.
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19%
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Gardenia (1979)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A businessman comes into conflict with a gangster when he refuses to allow drugs to be sold through his restaurant.
Style: poliziottesco
Plot: restaurant owner, city, exploitation, revenge, restaurant, murder, friendship, mafia, blackmail, italian restaurant, drug, hitman
Time: 70s
Place: rome italy, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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Flinch (2021)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A young Hitman who lives with his mother catches feelings for the witness of a murder he commits.
Style: captivating, suspense, tense, neo noir
Plot: kidnapped, hitman, murder, witnessing a crime, murder witness, killer, bandit, criminal, murderer, attempted murder, criminal gang, gang ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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Crazy Joe (1974)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The rise and fall of a Mafia gangster, based on the life of murdered New York gangster "Crazy" Joey Gallo.
Style: grim, realistic, serious, captivating, rough ...
Plot: mobster, mafia, blaxploitation, criminal, prison, gangster, restaurant, jail, godparent, heist, store, murder ...
Time: 70s, 60s, year 1960
Place: new york, italy
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18%
 5.6
 484
The Mobfathers (2016)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 94 min.
Story: The godfather of the triad Jing Hing and his senior bosses need to select a new boss to run the daily operations of the five gangs under their control. Chuck, a lifelong member of the triad, dreams of being the elected one, but his wife wants him to ...
Style: captivating, heroic, banned
Plot: gang leader, gang war, godfather, father son relationship, terminal illness, gang, heroic bloodshed, criminal gang, gang member, mafioso, bandit, criminal ...
Place: china, hong kong
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18%
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West 32nd (2007)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea, USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: When John Kim, an ambitious young lawyer, takes on a pro bono case to exonerate a fourteen-year-old boy from a first degree murder charge, he finds a world he never knew existed in the underbelly of Manhattan - the Korean underworld.
Style: tense, captivating, atmospheric, psychological, suspense ...
Plot: lawyer, gangster, ambition, mafia, fish out of water, murder, rivalry, danger, law, dialogue, korean american, tough heroes ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city, korea
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18%
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Stratos (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Greece, Germany, Cyprus
Duration: 137 min.
Story: At age 19, Stratos committed a crime of passion. He spent half his life in prison, where underground boss Leonidas took him under his wing. One day during a rival gang attack, Leonidas saved his life. Stratos never forgot this. A free man now, ...
Style: tense, serious, captivating, psychological, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: tunnel, danger, forced into action, redemption, save the day, police officer, chaos, obsession, hired killer, curse, bakery, master criminal ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: greece, athens greece
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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Pudhupettai (2006)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 168 min.
Story: The story is set in the backdrop of the slums of Pudhupettai in Chennai, as the title suggests, where a high school kid Kokki Kumar (Dhanush) sees his mom dead after he comes back from watching a movie. His father, the murderer is also planning to ...
Style: suspense, captivating, tense, epic, cult classic
Plot: mob hit, politician, gangster, gang leader, gang, criminal, organized crime, murder, mafioso, violence, mafia, outlaw gang ...
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18%
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Cost of a Soul (2010)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Wounded in the war, Tommy Donahue and DD Davis return home from Iraq to the slum neighborhood they grew up in. Tommy returns to his wife, Faith, whom he abandoned while she was pregnant to escape a life of crime. Tommy meets his disabled six ...
Style: realistic, serious, tense, psychological, captivating ...
Plot: racism, murder, iraq war, urban ghetto, homecoming, haunted by the past, family problems, society, gang, war veteran, profanity, violent content ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, philadelphia, pennsylvania
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
How I Fell in Love with a Gangster (2022)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 185 min.
Story: A mysterious woman recounts the rise and fall of Nikodem "Nikoś" Skotarczak, one of the biggest gangsters in Poland's history. Inspired by a true story.
Style: suspense, captivating, tense, disturbing, enigmatic
Plot: mafia, gangster, mob boss, gang, mysterious girl, outlaw gang, organized crime, crime boss, criminal, criminal gang, mafioso, gang leader ...
Place: poland
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18%
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