Movies and TV shows like Top Boy

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Top Boy (2011)
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Top Boy (2011)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: A thrilling and raw crime drama following a gang of drug dealers in Hackney, London - an honest and gripping rendition of inner-city drug and gang culture.
Style: serious, sincere, suspenseful, rough, dramatic, anime, hood, tense, bleak, realistic ...
Plot: urban ghetto life, gang, teenage life, ambitious, life is a bitch, drug dealing, youth, poverty, rivalry, society, social problems, gang war, struggle, right hand man, partners in crime, financial problem, black, drug dealer, urban, violence, mafia, drug lord, african american, corruption, murder mystery ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: england, london
Keyword: gangsters, challenge

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Most similar movies to Top Boy

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, rough and tense films and TV series with plots about gangster, gang, society, urban, life is a bitch, ghetto and black mostly in Crime, Drama and Thriller genres. Some movies like Top Boy: Power (2014), The Wire (2002), Blue Story (2019), Snabba Cash (2021), Gomorrah (2014). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Power (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: James “Ghost” St. Patrick has it all: a beautiful wife, a gorgeous Manhattan penthouse, and the hottest, up-and-coming new nightclub in New York. His club, Truth, caters to the elite: the famous and infamous boldface names that run the city that ...
Style: serious, tense, realistic, captivating, erotic ...
Plot: nightclub, nightlife, drug dealing, ambition, nightclub owner, businessman, organized crime, money laundering, sexual activity, drug lord, double life, criminal ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
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93%
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The Wire (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 59 min.
TV show
Story: Told from the points of view of both the Baltimore homicide and narcotics detectives and their targets, the series captures a universe in which the national war on drugs has become a permanent, self-sustaining bureaucracy, and distinctions between ...
Style: clever, tense, detective, cynical, serious ...
Plot: organized crime, corruption, police detective, police, urban ghetto life, working undercover, life is a bitch, drug dealing, fighting crime, shooting, police investigation, urban decay ...
Time: 2000s, future, year 2002, 20th century, 1950s ...
Place: baltimore, maryland, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
90%
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Blue Story (2019)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Musical
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Feature adaptation of Rapman's YouTube series about two young friends who become rivals in a street war.
Style: thought provoking, hood, tense, dark, heartbreaking ...
Audience: teens
Plot: ghetto, street gang, gang member, gunfight, gangster, gang violence, gang, youth, teenager, friends, rivalry, friendship ...
Place: london
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Snabba Cash (2021)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 52 min.
TV show
Story: The lives of an ambitious businesswoman, a charming gang enforcer and a troubled teen collide amidst a desperate — and sinister — pursuit of wealth.
Style: captivating, suspense, tense, hood, entertaining
Plot: friendship, corruption, capitalism, money laundering, juvenile delinquency, criminal, money problems, financial problem, social problems, wealth, businessman, teenage life ...
Place: scandinavia, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
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 8.6
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Gomorrah (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy, Germany
Duration: 55 min.
TV show
Story: Based on Robert Saviano's bestselling book, this gritty Italian crime drama paints a portrait of the brutal Neapolitan crime organisation the Camorra, as seen through the eyes of Ciro Di Marzo, the obedient and self- confident right-hand man of ...
Style: serious, tense, disturbing, captivating, realistic ...
Plot: mafia, mob boss, drug lord, camorra, social decay, society, gang war, life is a bitch, gangster, strong violent content, urban, urban ghetto life ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: italy, naples italy, europe
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69%
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Adulthood (2008)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story: After serving six years for killing his schoolmate, a young man learns that someone is out for revenge.
Style: hood, rough, realistic, serious, cult classic ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: urban ghetto life, gang, vengeance, society, juvenile delinquency, teenage life, drug addict, life is a bitch, youth, criminal's revenge, ghetto, urban ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, united kingdom, britain, europe, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
Godfather of Harlem (2019)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 55 min.
TV show
Story: Loosely based on infamous crime boss Bumpy Johnson, who in the early 1960s returned from ten years in prison to find the neighborhood he once ruled in shambles. With the streets controlled by the Italian mob, Bumpy attempts to regain his piece of ...
Style: suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing ...
Plot: gang leader, black cast, mobster, gang war, gang, violence, danger, crime boss, organized crime, power struggle, showdown, criminal gang ...
Time: 60s, 2020s, 2010s
Place: harlem, new york, harlem, new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Bullet Boy (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Ricky is just out of a young offenders institute, heading home to Hackney and determined to go straight. Instead, he heads straight for trouble when he becomes involved in a street confrontation, siding with his best friend Wisdom against a local ...
Style: realistic, psychological, serious, rough, hood ...
Plot: urban ghetto life, gang, youth, juvenile delinquency, urban, life is a bitch, going straight, kids in trouble, social decay, friendship, orphan, society ...
Place: england, africa, london, europe
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60%
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Love/Hate (2010)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Ireland
Duration: 51 min.
TV show
Story: Modern-day underworld characters Nidge and John Boy wrestle for control of Dublin's illicit drug trade in this forceful crime drama.
Style: suspenseful, realistic, tense, serious, rough ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: organized crime, ex convict, criminal heroes, addiction, rivalry, gang war, life is a bitch, gang, violent content, young man, rivals, profanity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: ireland, dublin ireland
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Gangs of London (2020)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: When the head of a criminal organisation, Finn Wallace is assassinated, the sudden power vacuum his death creates threatens the fragile peace between the intricate web of gangs operating on the streets of the city. Now it’s up to the grieving, ...
Style: rough, exciting, brutal, intellectual, suspense
Plot: mafia, gang war, organized crime, crime family, violence, father son relationship, murder, criminal, danger, bandit, gangster, mobster ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: london
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Ozark (2017)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: A financial adviser drags his family from Chicago to the Missouri Ozarks, where he must launder $500 million in five years to appease a drug boss.
Style: serious, realistic, suspense, suspenseful, spectacular ...
Plot: money laundering, drug cartel, danger, family relations, rivalry, murder, investigation, drug, teenage girl, organized crime, mafia, violence ...
Time: 2020s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: mexico, missouri, chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Ill Manors (2012)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Music
Country: UK
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Ensemble film revolving around characters living in Forest Gate, London. Over the course of a few days, six inter-linking stories explore issues of drug use, prostitution and urban poverty.
Style: tense, realistic, serious, hood, anthology ...
Plot: urban ghetto life, gangster, drug addict, society, urban, ghetto, hip hop, police raid, british gangster, mafia, rivalry, danger ...
Time: year 2012, 21st century
Place: london, england, united kingdom, britain
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Snowfall (2017)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story: Los Angeles. 1983. A storm is coming and it's name is crack. Set against the infancy of the crack cocaine epidemic and its ultimate radical impact on the culture as we know it, the story follows numerous characters on a violent collision course.
Style: sexy, dark drama, realistic, cynical, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: drug dealer, dea, african american, ghetto, drug crime, illegal drugs, drug, u.s. government, urban, latinx lead, gangster, black ...
Time: 80s, 2020s, year 1983
Place: usa, los angeles, central america, california, south central los angeles ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Sket (2011)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 83 min.
Story: When a young woman is cruelly and indiscriminately attacked by a notorious gang led by the violent Trey, her little 16 year old sister Kayla wants revenge and will stop at nothing to get it, even if it means joining a rival girl gang led by the ...
Style: suspenseful, rough, serious, realistic, bleak
Plot: girl gang, gang, vengeance, juvenile delinquency, teenage life, social decay, gang leader, youth, society, criminal heroes, rivalry, urban ghetto life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, britain, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Shiner (2000)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story: The past catches up with a ruthlessly ambitious boxing promoter.
Style: tense, suspenseful, realistic, rough, neo noir ...
Plot: boxing, gang, ambition, vengeance, athlete's life, rivalry, dishonesty, down on your luck, gangster, boxer, promoter, father son relationship ...
Time: 90s
Place: europe, england, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
My Brother the Devil (2012)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Fourteen-year-old Mo is a lonely, sensitive boy whose hunger for the rant and banter of buddies makes him prone to tread dangerous territories. He idolizes his handsome older brother, Rashid, a charismatic, well-respected member of a local gang, ...
Style: realistic, bleak, touching, serious, rough ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: gay muslim, gay, gay couple, gang, brother brother relationship, lgbt, family relations, teenage boy, life is a bitch, closeted homosexual, juvenile delinquency, urban ghetto life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: london, europe, east end london, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Ali Zaoua: Prince of the Streets (2000)
Genre: Drama, Crime
Country: Morocco, Tunisia, France, Belgium, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Ali, Kwita, Omar and Boubker are street kids. The daily dose of glue sniffing represents their only escape from reality. Since they left Dib and his gang, they have been living on the portside of Casablanca. They live in constant fear of Dib's ...
Style: serious, captivating, rough, bleak, crying ...
Plot: homeless, street kid, youth, juvenile delinquency, teenage life, poverty, kids in trouble, life is a bitch, friendship, society, gang, vengeance ...
Time: 90s
Place: africa, middle east, maghreb, morocco
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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The Corner (2000)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 376 min.
TV show
Story: The Corner presents the world of Fayette Street using real names and real events. The miniseries tells the true story of men, women and children living amid the open-air drug markets of West Baltimore. It chronicles a year in the lives of ...
Style: rough, serious, emotional, sitcom, crime drama ...
Plot: rehabilitation, heroin, addiction, drug dealing, drug abuse, african american, urban, lifestyle, teenage life, social decay, going straight, life is a bitch ...
Time: 90s
Place: baltimore
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Peaky Blinders (2013)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 2109 min.
TV show
Story: A gangster family epic set in 1919 Birmingham, England and centered on a gang who sew razor blades in the peaks of their caps, and their fierce boss Tommy Shelby, who means to move up in the world.
Style: serious, atmospheric, tense, stylized, captivating ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: organized crime, gangster, gang, mafia, gang war, determination, cruelty, mob boss, power struggle, crime boss, family relations, rivalry ...
Time: 1920s, 20th century, ancient times, 1910s, victorian era
Place: england, britain, ireland, birmingham alabama, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Romanzo criminale - La serie (2008)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
TV show
Story: Romanzo Criminale – La serie - is a television series Italian based on the eponymous novel by judge Giancarlo De Cataldo, and it is the second adaptation of the film Romanzo Criminale directed by Michele Placido. The first series quickly achieved ...
Style: serious, captivating, rough, suspense, realistic ...
Plot: gang, mafia, organized crime, police, criminal heroes, gangster, law enforcement, drug dealing, police detective, dishonesty, violence, italian mafia ...
Time: 80s, 70s, 20th century, 90s
Place: italy, rome italy
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50%
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City of Men (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: City of Men is a Brazilian television programme created by Kátia Lund and Fernando Meirelles, the directors of the film City of God. The series was watched by 35 million viewers in Brazil and was released internationally on DVD shortly after the ...
Style: stylized, captivating, serious, atmospheric, rough ...
Plot: kids in trouble, friendship, street gang, juvenile delinquency, life is a bitch, social decay, street kid, struggle, social problems, society, youth, gang ...
Time: 21st century
Place: brazil, rio de janeiro, sao paulo brazil, latin america
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15%
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Gang Tapes (2001)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: When a brutal carjacking yields a videocamera, a teenage boy decides to document his life and the lives of his fellow gangbangers.
Style: serious, rough, hood, suspense, tense ...
Plot: gang, found footage, ghetto, urban, social decay, tough heroes, life is a bitch, juvenile delinquency, drug dealing, teenage life, kids in trouble, going straight ...
Place: los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Gangster's Paradise: Jerusalema (2008)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: South Africa
Duration: 119 min.
Story: This South African movie tracks the rise of a once-petty criminal to the heights of the criminal underworld. After cutting his teeth on hijacking, before moving onto bigger game, an ambitious man hits a setback when most of his gang are shot.
Style: serious, rough, realistic, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot: urban ghetto life, organized crime, gang war, gangster, gang of thieves, thief, ambition, buddies, life is a bitch, gang, criminal heroes, black ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: south africa, africa, johannesburg south africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Ganglands (2021)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story: Mehdi, a qualified robber, and Liana, an apprentice thief, get involved in a turf war between drug dealers, and have to collaborate in order to save their loved ones.
Style: suspense, disturbing, tense, captivating, hood
Plot: drug dealer, drug lord, organized crime, gang, criminal, thief, gang war, partners in crime, bandit, criminal gang, robbery, showdown ...
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28%
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Sugarhouse (2007)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Tom is a middle-class city boy whose life has reached breaking point. he thinks D - a young desperate drug addict can give him what he needs. But what D’s offering comes with more than just a price tag…. Tom is completely out of his depth when ...
Style: serious, rough, suspenseful, suspense, hood ...
Plot: gangster, hitman, psychopath, master criminal, drug dealing, criminal heroes, life is a bitch, love affair, drug abuse, addiction, collision, gang ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, london, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
A Day In The Life (2009)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Music, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Onyx rapper Sticky Fingaz directs and stars in this hip-hop musical about a gangster who becomes caught up in a bloody war between two feuding crime families while struggling to leave the streets behind. When Black's family raids one of ...
Style: hood, serious, tense, captivating, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: hip hop, rivalry, gang, vengeance, urban ghetto life, gangster, moral dilemma, going straight, introspection, drug dealing, lifestyle, urban ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, california, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
 5.9
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Squeeze (1997)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Ty, Hector, and Bao are close friends in a tough section of Boston, where they're called "the PG-13 crew." They're 14, decent kids with few skills who've bailed out of school. A small gang of older tough guys, led by Marcus ...
Style: independent film, serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot: gang, black, gas station, kids in trouble, urban ghetto, realism, friends, optimism, friendship, drug dealing, juvenile delinquency, society ...
Time: year 1997, 90s
Place: massachusetts, boston
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
 5.5
 2K
Montana (2014)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story: In the mean streets of London's East End, a former Serbian commando and a fourteen-year old boy plot revenge against a powerful crime lord and his ruthless lieutenants. As our heroes prepare to take on their enemies, the boy is mentored in the ...
Style: exciting, serious, captivating, tense, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: vengeance, hitman, assassin, haunted by the past, teaching the ways of the world, coming of age, gangster, master criminal, urban, black, mafia, revenge plot ...
Time: 21st century
Place: london, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Desperate Measures (2022)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story: Rowan's life spirals when Finn is coerced into a botched drug deal by a local gang. With Finn's life on the line and a violent gang leader encroaching on her life, Rowan is faced with recouping the money that Finn lost.
Style: tense, captivating, suspenseful, thrilling, psychological
Plot: drug, gang war, drug smuggling, criminal gang, life is a bitch, gang member, bandit, money problems, crime boss, gangster, criminal, threat ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
 6.5
 3K
Shifty (2008)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Shifty, a young crack cocaine dealer in London, sees his life quickly spiral out of control when his best friend returns home. Stalked by a customer desperate to score at all costs, and with his family about to turn their back on him for good, ...
Style: serious, tense, captivating, suspense, dark ...
Plot: dealer, police, betrayal, haunted by the past, urban, save the day, rivalry, gangsta, ghetto, gang, danger, murder ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, london, britain
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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