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Hard Choices (1984)
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Hard Choices (1984)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A teenaged boy goes for a ride with his brother and the brother's friends, who proceed to rob a store and murder the clerk. They are caught and, despite the young boy's protestations, he is convicted of murder and sent to prison. A female social worker assigned to the boy's case not only believes him, but begins to fall in love with him, and determines to either help him prove his innocence or escape.
Style: independent film, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Plot: prison, escape, murder, on the run, heist, youth, love and romance, fall in love, chases and races, teenage life, society, drug dealing, store, law enforcement, juvenile delinquency, countryside, siblings relations, drug abuse, crime gone awry, death row, lovers on the run, kids in trouble, love, teenager, police officer ...
Time: 80s
Place: usa, tennessee

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, suspenseful and rough films with plots about murder, deadly, society, youth, teenage life, juvenile delinquency and rivalry mostly in Drama, Crime and Thriller genres. Some movies like Hard Choices: Too Young to Die? (1990), Tracks (2005), Wild Youth (1960), Dance with the One (2010), Bonnie & Clyde: The Real Story (1992). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Too Young to Die? (1990)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: An abused 15 year old is charged with a murder that carries the death penalty in this fact-based story.
Style: emotional, retro, cult classic, neo noir, sad ...
Audience: teens
Plot: teenage prostitute, death penalty, death row, murder, revenge, teenage prostitution, teenager, lawyer, prison, teenage girl, serial killer, age difference ...
Time: 80s
Place: oklahoma
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Tracks (2005)
Genre: Drama, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Peter, a frustrated suburban teenager, prefers to hang out by the railroad tracks with his friends and get rid of boredom. When the young men throw the switch one day just for fun, a catastrophe of unimaginable proportions occurs. A train derails ...
Style: realistic, serious, psychological, suspense, bleak
Plot: train, prison, juvenile delinquency, going straight, redemption, confined, teenage life, youth, false accusation, prison life, human spirit, hopes ...
Place: usa, new jersey
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39%
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Wild Youth (1960)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min.
Story: A teenage escapee from a correctional facility falls in with a drug dealer operating near the Mexican border.
Style: grindhouse, sexy, exciting, realistic, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: juvenile delinquent, drug, escape, stoner, gangster, farm, kids in trouble, disorder, mischievous children, society, criminal heroes, on the run ...
Time: year 1960, 50s
Place: new mexico, mexico, canada, latin america
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38%
Dance with the One (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Nate's little brother and hippie dad depend on him for literally everything, but the well-meaning, small time pot dealer Nate wants nothing more than to run away with Nikki, the love of his life, and get out of Texas.
Style: realistic, tense, suspense, captivating, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: drug dealing, haunted by the past, danger, family problems, family relations, teenage life, save the day, on the run, drug dealer, rivalry, mob boss, love ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Bonnie & Clyde: The Real Story (1992)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Bonnie Parker is estranged from her husband while still only just barely eighteen. Clyde Barrow, a handsome charmer who is in love with Bonnie, is a small-time thief, 'borrowing' cars to teach Bonnie to drive. He falls in with WD Jones, ...
Style: rough, serious, touching, sincere, realistic ...
Plot: criminal heroes, partner, on the run, chase, love and romance, heist, violence spree, murderous pair, outlaw, bank robber, criminal, serial killer ...
Time: 1930s
Place: usa, texas
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35%
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Hazard (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Shin is a Japanese university student living a boring and meaningless life. One day, he spots a book titled Dangerous Ways to Walk the World, in which he finds a page written about hazards in New-York. Eager to get out, he jets off to New-York to ...
Style: realistic, serious, rough, suspenseful, exciting
Audience: teen drama
Plot: teenage life, juvenile delinquency, youth, teenage rebellion, street gang, heist, escape, coming of age, shootout, car theft, sunset, cat ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, new york, usa, asia
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Normal Life (1996)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Chris Anderson and his wife Pam live a fairly normal life until Chris loses his job on the police force and secretly turns to robbing banks to make his wife's dreams come true. Upon discovering his secret, she joins his deadly crime wave and ...
Style: realistic, serious, tense, suspenseful, independent film
Plot: love, lovers on the run, relationships, bank, robbery, destructive relationship, bookstore, women, woman with a gun, good girl gone bad, book, husband wife relationship ...
Time: year 1996, 90s
Place: chicago, usa
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32%
Murder 1, Dancer 0 (1983)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Private eye Joe Dancer finds himself framed for manslaughter while trying to uncover a Hollywood scandal that could ruin a studio and destroy a top star's career.
Style: serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful, detective
Plot: private investigator, private detective, murder, hollywood, manipulation, police detective, chase, fighting crime, law enforcement, reluctant partners, on the run, uncover truth ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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Water & Power (2013)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Twin brothers nicknamed "Water" and "Power" from the hard scrabble Eastside streets of Los Angeles rise like prince's through the city's political and police ranks to become players in a complex and dangerous web of the ...
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, crime drama ...
Plot: law enforcement, danger, siblings relations, survival, political corruption, twins, police corruption, graphic violence, violent content, deadly
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles
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32%
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Breaking Point (1976)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: The Mafia tries to take revenge against a man who testified against them in court.
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough
Audience: boys' night
Plot: mafia, vigilante, exploitation, murder, law enforcement, dishonesty, rivalry, on the run, legal, blind ambition, vengeance, criminal heroes ...
Time: year 1976, 70s
Place: usa, philadelphia
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31%
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Wild Seven (2006)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: In this darkly karmic vision of Arizona, a man who breathes nothing but ill will begins a noxious domino effect as quickly as an uncontrollable virus kills. As he exits Arizona State Penn after twenty-one long years, Wilson has only one thing on the ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, suspense, captivating, realistic
Audience: boys' night
Plot: prison, criminal's revenge, frame up, vengeance, cons and scams, going straight, brutality, false accusation, life is a bitch, hooligan, escape, goofy hero ...
Place: arizona, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
American Born (1990)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A teenager who is obsessed with gangster movies believes himself to be a real gangster after his father is murdered.
Style: independent film, serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough
Plot: murder, mafia, teenage life, tough heroes, unlikely criminals, obsession, rivalry, vengeance, gangster, teenager, death of father, father ...
Time: 80s
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31%
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Brass (1985)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: The Chief of Detectives of the New York Police Department, is a tough cop who has worked his way up the ladder from being on a beat.
Style: serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful, detective
Audience: boys' night
Plot: kidnapping, partner, police detective, society, fighting crime, police investigation, partners against crime, amateur detective, dishonesty, law enforcement, murder, police station ...
Time: 80s
Place: new york
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31%
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Outlaw Country (2012)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A crime thriller/family drama set against the backdrop of southern organized crime and Nashville royalty where music, love, hope and tragedy collide. Created as a pilot for a TV Series which was not taken up, this has now been aired as a TV Movie.
Style: realistic, suspenseful, serious, captivating, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: family relations, gang, parents and children, love and romance, danger, society, violent content
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, tennessee
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A New York Heartbeat (2013)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Spider, a young gang leader, gets in over his head when he robs a notorious gangster. On the run, he's taken in by a sheltered young woman and her reclusive uncle, a legendary mobster gunned down by the same gangster now pursuing Spider.
Style: serious, rough, emotional, suspenseful, independent film ...
Plot: gangster, fall in love, on the run, criminal's revenge, danger, youth, rivalry, juvenile delinquency, vengeance, love and romance, crime gone awry, chases and races ...
Time: 20th century, 50s, 1950s
Place: new york, brooklyn new york city
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29%
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Weapons (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Weapons presents a series of brutal, seemingly random youth-related killings over the course of a weekend in a typical small town in America, and tragically reveals how they are all interrelated.
Style: rough, suspenseful, serious, disturbing, hood ...
Plot: vengeance, juvenile delinquency, working class, criminal heroes, youth, life is a bitch, society, small town, homecoming, murder, teenage pregnancy, ghetto ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa
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Wisdom (1986)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Unable to find work after a past felony, graduate John Wisdom and his girlfriend embark on a cross-country bank-robbing spree in order to aid American farmers.
Style: political, independent film, exciting, serious, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: bank, robbery, chase, brat pack, bank robbery, bank robber, destiny, gang, lovers on the run, cannon, love, terrorism ...
Time: 80s, year 1987
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29%
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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 ⇓
29%
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Kansas (1988)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A drifter becomes both a bank robber and a hero in this crime thriller. Andrew McCarthy stars as Wade Corey, who hitches a ride on a freight train already occupied by Doyle Kennedy (Matt Dillon), a charming ex-con who convinces Wade to accompany him ...
Style: independent film, realistic, serious, suspenseful
Audience: boys' night
Plot: brat pack, teenager, on the run, bank, drifter, bank robber, wedding, hostage, journalism, chases and races, fugitives, criminal's revenge ...
Time: 80s
Place: kansas, usa
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28%
Laws of Gravity (1992)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Jimmy and Jon are a couple of Brooklyn guys who somehow never found their way into workaday society; they never found their way into big-time crime, either.
Style: neo noir, independent film, realistic, serious, tense ...
Plot: american mafia, mafia, urban ghetto, criminal heroes, misfit, society, arms dealing, social misfits, juvenile delinquency, drug dealing, life is a bitch, city life ...
Time: year 1992, 90s
Place: new york, usa, brooklyn new york city
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28%
Cold Around the Heart (1997)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A jewel thief moves towards a reunion of revenge with his lover, who pushed him out of their speeding getaway car.
Style: neo noir, tense, cynical, captivating, realistic ...
Plot: lovers on the run, interracial, robbery, hitchhiker, chase, chases and races, criminal's revenge, dishonesty, betrayal, crime gone awry, rivalry, love and romance ...
Time: year 1997, 90s
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28%
New Jersey Drive (1995)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: New Jersey Drive is a 1995 film about black youths in Newark, New Jersey, the unofficial "car theft capital of the world". Their favorite pastime is that of everybody in their neighborhood: stealing cars and joyriding. The trouble starts ...
Style: realistic, hood, melancholic, brutal, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gang, brutality, police, police investigation, urban, vengeance, hip hop, ghetto, murder, lone hero, black, teenage life ...
Time: 90s
Place: new jersey, new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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Ready 2 Die (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: After a violent bank robbery, the trio of hoods make their way across East L.A. carrying a blood-soaked bag of money. When word gets out, they must fend off gangs and crooked cops alike as they strive to keep the loot and stay alive.
Style: serious, suspenseful, rough, exciting, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gang, chase, murder, dishonesty, heist, profanity, gangster, disorder, on the run, crime gone awry, criminal's revenge, criminal heroes ...
Time: 21st century
Place: california, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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Love Is the Drug (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Jonah Brand (John Patrick Amedori) isn't necessarily the type of guy who would interest ultra-hot Sara Weller (Lizzy Caplan). But when she and her friends find out he works at a pharmacy, they charm him into their circle and gain his trust with ...
Style: serious, emotional, independent film, suspenseful, suspense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: love triangle, juvenile delinquency, lifestyle, teenage love, drug abuse, drug dealing, family relations, youth, life is a bitch, kids in trouble, social relations, teenage life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: california, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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Trans (1998)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Ryan Kazinski, 16, is in juvenile detention in Fort Myers, Florida. He gets away one day, and the world is all before him: where should he go, what should he do? Should he try to find his mom? Should he head for Colorado, where he's daydreamed ...
Style: independent film, experimental, serious, realistic, atmospheric
Plot: escape, on the run, woods, urban ghetto life, bus, teenage life, prison life, prison, on the road, urban ghetto, kids in trouble, society ...
Time: 90s
Place: florida, colorado, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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Women's Prison (1988)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A young woman about to get married discovers all too late that her spouse has mafia connections, when violence breaks out during her wedding. Caught up in the crossfire Lynn gets arrested and thrown into a women's prison.
Style: captivating, serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot: prison, escape, wrongfully committed, false accusation, frame up, bookies, prison life, kids in trouble, law enforcement, rebelliousness, vigilantism, rivalry ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: hong kong
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Accused at 17 (2009)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A teenager is accused of murdering a classmate and claims that she was framed by her best friend. Her mother must try to find the truth.
Style: suspenseful, realistic, tense, serious
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: prank, disorder, friendship, police investigation, law enforcement, vengeance, murder, dishonesty, crime gone awry, friends, youth, teenager ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Like a Puppet Out of Strings (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Two Brothers; Tom and Felipe, have moved up the ranks of the street gangs because they have no greater devotion than the protection of each other. Luis, former gang member, is now a cop, his life having been turned around by Angelica, a female cop. ...
Style: serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful
Plot: juvenile delinquency, going straight, gang, redemption, law enforcement, youth, society, urban ghetto, murder, brother brother relationship, hopes, life is a bitch ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Jesse Stone: No Remorse (2010)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Police Chief Jesse Stone, who was suspended by the Paradise, Mass. Town Council, begins moonlighting for his friend, State Homicide Commander Healy, by investigating a series of murders in Boston, leaving Rose and Suitcase to handle a crime spree in ...
Style: serious, rough, suspenseful, tense, realistic
Plot: murder, jesse stone, investigation, law enforcement, police investigation, small town, murder investigation, serial killer, die hard, secret service, cop, chief of police ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, boston, new england
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Rhapsody (2001)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: The life of a beautiful rising female recording star is placed in jeopardy when she witnesses the drive-by shooting of a rival rap-star in Las Vegas. Wanted by both the killers and the corrupt police, the young woman must go into hiding while three ...
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough, independent film
Plot: best friend, youth, frame up, musician's life, drug dealing, vengeance, rivalry, hip hop, murder, manipulation, urban, siblings relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: las vegas
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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