Movies like Burning Sands
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Burning Sands (2017)
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Deep into Hell Week, a favored pledgee is torn between honoring his code of silence or standing up against the intensifying violence of underground hazing.
Style:
psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, hood, black cinema
Audience:
teens
Plot:
brotherhood, university, friendship, youth, murder, society, danger, black, disorder, obsession, death, betrayal, parents and children, greed, dishonesty, hopes, ghetto, gang, college, woman, african american protagonist, gangster, blaxploitation, campus, deadly ...
Time:
year 2017
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out tense, psychological, captivating and disturbing films with plots about society, youth, friendship, rivalry, family relations, danger and parents and children mostly in Drama, Crime and Thriller genres. Some movies like Burning Sands: Lust Stories (2018), The Chi (2018), Seventeen (2019), First Time Felon (1997), Feed (2017). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Naturally-gifted cheerleader Ava is an instant hit at her new school, but her quick rise in popularity is threatened by the rivalry of cheer captain and Homecoming Queen Katrina, who puts Ava and the other new recruits through a brutal initiation ...
Style:
sincere, disturbing, psychological, captivating
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
cheerleader, teenager, parents and children, ambition, friendship, fight, rivalry, adaptation, family relations, society, youth, dishonesty ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
An anthology of four stories that sheds light on modern relationships from the viewpoint of the Indian woman.
Style:
sexy, anthology, erotic, captivating, touching ...
Plot:
illicit affair, sex, parents and children, vengeance, dishonesty, family relations, college, betrayal, fall in love, friendship, disorder, youth ...
Place:
india, indiana
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100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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Story:
A relevant, timely and distinctive coming-of-age story following a half dozen interrelated characters in the South Side of Chicago. The story centers on Brandon, an ambitious and confident young man who dreams about opening a restaurant of his own ...
Style:
unusual plot structure, mind bending, rough, suspense, hood ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
black cast, coming of age, black, brotherhood, single mother, murder witness, murder, society, grownups, rivalry, friendship, female masturbation ...
Time:
2010s, 2020s, 21st century
Place:
chicago
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
To find his therapy dog, a 17-year-old escapes from juvie and embarks on a journey of reconnection with his brother and grandmother through Cantabria.
Style:
psychological, sincere, captivating, disturbing
Audience:
date night, teens
Plot:
dog, teenager, friendship, youth, rescue, society, ambition, destiny, escapades, hopes, love, obsession ...
Place:
iberian peninsula
Similarity:
21%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Inspired by the true story of Greg Yance. In the film, Yance (Epps) is a hood who goes to jail for possession of drugs. He is given a choice: 5 years in jail or a couple of months in boot camp. He chooses boot camp and finds out it is tougher than ...
Style:
hood, inspirational, serious, realistic, tense ...
Plot:
black, urban, blaxploitation, boot camp, thug life, ghetto, prison, prison life, black history, thug, black man, drug dealing ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
21%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Olivia and Matthew Grey, 18-year-old twins born into a world of privilege and high expectations. There are almost no boundaries between them - even their dreams are connected.
Style:
psychological, touching, suspense, disturbing, captivating ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
anorexia, eating disorder, youth, love, hospital, hospitalization, life is a bitch, adaptation, illness, mental illness, redemption, society ...
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
16-year-old Jonas is in love with his best friend Isy, but she likes older boys. When Isy takes drugs at a party and loses control in the intoxication, Jonas friends Lenny and Martin make fun of it with Jonas. But then the situation escalates and ...
Style:
tense, psychological, suspense, unusual plot structure, disturbing
Plot:
rape, rape victim, friendship, youth, teenager, friend, teenage boy, classmate, mother daughter relationship, friends, family relations, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
germany
Similarity:
21%
582
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
After John’s absent father is struck by a stray bullet, Primo takes it upon himself to verse the young boy in the code of the streets—one founded on respect and upheld by fear. A member of the Bloods since the age of twelve—both in the film ...
Style:
realistic, serious, captivating, psychological, sexy ...
Plot:
gang, juvenile delinquency, urban ghetto life, haunted by the past, adolescence vs adulthood, society, coming of age, teaching the ways of the world, ghetto, gangster, violent content, drug dealing ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
21%
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187
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Mac and his high school gangster buddies try to take over the world of sports betting in a city filled with crime, prostitution and gambling. When the Mafia gets involved, they do whatever it takes to keep these tough young-bloods off their turf.
Style:
captivating, psychological, suspense, tense, exciting ...
Plot:
gambling, casino, high school, gangster, ambition, sport team, buddies, football, rivalry, friendship, danger, mafia ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
21%
234
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A thought-provoking drama about the power that a famous university professor holds over his students and assistants.
Style:
realistic, psychological, serious, captivating, independent film ...
Plot:
love triangle, power relations, dishonesty, ambition, unfulfillment, friendship, university, college, manipulation, power, mentor, teachers and students ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: Chile, France, Argentina, Portugal, Germany, Switzerland
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Mariana, an upper-class Chilean, feels a strange attraction towards her riding teacher, Juan, a former colonel with a shady past.
Style:
psychological, captivating, suspense, sincere, disturbing ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
seductress, father daughter relationship, sex scene, escapades, love, chase, society, rivalry, disorder, mentor, danger, simulated cunilingus ...
Time:
year 2017
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Fed up with her deadbeat grown kids and marginal urban existence, Juanita takes a Greyhound bus to Paper Moon, Montana - where she reinvents herself and finds her mojo.
Style:
captivating, touching, humorous, feel good, light ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
female nudity, sex, culture clash, love and romance, family relations, couples, life is a bitch, friendship, parents and children, hopes, society, escapades ...
Place:
usa
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Bangladesh
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
Based on a true story- A group of robbers broke into a house at night with the intention of committing robbery. The house was inhabited by two young girls and a disabled child and their mother. Not getting the desired money, the robbers started ...
Style:
captivating, realistic, disturbing, psychological, suspense ...
Plot:
murder, gangster, danger, criminal, bandit, family relations, rivalry, youth, friends, society, gang, vengeance ...
Place:
bangladesh
Similarity:
19%
570
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
To pay off his loan shark, failed actor Ryōsuke Kinuta is forced to smuggle dead bodies – and one live elite assassin – in the middle of the night.
Style:
serious, tense, captivating, psychological, heavy ...
Plot:
gang, smuggler, rivalry, yakuza, down on your luck, life is a bitch, danger, society, gay, gangster, disorder, dangerous animal ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Paloma, the new girl at an esteemed prep school, is drawn into the daily aggressions of warring senior class factions. She joins the Spades and becomes friends with the Spades’ leader, an enigmatic and scheming cheerleader named Selah.
Style:
captivating, tense, disturbing, suspense, psychological ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
cheerleader, boarding school, school, black, high school life, teenager, girlfriend girlfriend relationship, drug use, teenage girl, power struggle, fight for supremacy, underage drinking ...
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
NANCY, PLEASE tells the story of Paul Brawley, a gifted PhD candidate at Yale University. Paul has just moved into an apartment with his pragmatic girlfriend, Jen, and is struggling to complete his dissertation before embarking on a career in ...
Style:
realistic, serious, psychological, mumblecore, captivating ...
Plot:
university, obsession, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, roommate, book, career, relocation, society, college, dark humor, social misfits, misfit ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, connecticut
Similarity:
19%
372
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
Joy is an emotionally damaged young woman of eighteen, who was given up at birth, to grow up in homes and with foster families. She lives on the fringes of society, getting by on benefits and earning a little extra by playing the accordion in the ...
Style:
psychological, realistic, atmospheric, emotional, tense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
obsession, parents and children, life is a bitch, teenage life, redemption, shoplifting, mistaken identity, society, family relations, hopes, dysfunctional family, youth ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
Katarina is a music teacher obsessed with an unfinished symphony. She worries about her brother, Ondrej an introverted inventor whose financiers are reputedly shady and dangerous. Then one day, her ex-husband Pietro shows up in her house and locks ...
Style:
serious, realistic, cynical, surreal, psychological ...
Plot:
female nudity, obsession, murder, dishonesty, sexual relations, losing-it hero, captivity, confined, danger, disorder, mute or deaf, social misfits ...
Place:
los angeles, usa
Similarity:
19%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
The Ames' seem to have built the perfect life until their six year old daughter is kidnapped; over the course of seven days they begin to uncover secrets about their past that could rip their marriage and lives apart.
Style:
emotional, serious, realistic, captivating, tense ...
Plot:
kidnapping, uncover truth, family relations, danger, parents and children, under the surface, disorder, life turned upside down, secret, women of color, african american, black girl ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
louisiana, new orleans
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 120 min.
TV show
Story:
Asiye is young and beautiful girl who works as a manicurist in a small beauty salon. She lives in a poor neighborhood with her family and wants to get married as soon as possible in order to get rid of her step mothers evil tongue. When she learns ...
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, disturbing, tense, suspense
Plot:
murder, mafia, revenge, greed, friendship, love, mob boss, gang war, death, crime boss, mercilessness, chase ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
turkey
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Two teenage outsiders are demoralized daily at school, until an idea for vengeance offers them a terrifying release.
Style:
unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, thought provoking, psychological ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
bullying, friendship, school shooting, police, boy, friendship between boys, tragedy, best friend, revenge, school, teenage boy, junior high school ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
kentucky, usa
Similarity:
18%
483
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Summer is a carefree teenage girl whose world is turned upside down when her mother abruptly converts to Islam and becomes a different person. At first resistant to the faith, she begins to reevaluate her identity after becoming attracted to a ...
Style:
psychological, contemplative, unusual plot structure, tense, captivating ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
desire, woman, religious conversion, coming of age, daughter, mother, teenager, youth, faith, family relations, society, parents and children ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
TV show
Story:
The Black Family a once powerful respected family has lost power in the city of Jacksonville.11 years has past and now the city is controlled by 4 family's.Young Antonio must return to the city and reclaim the Black family's respect and ...
Style:
suspenseful, tense, bleak, enigmatic, disturbing
Plot:
rivalry, vengeance, danger, organized crime, revenge, dishonesty, murder, betrayal, death, violence, friendship, culture clash ...
Place:
usa
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
After a popular teen falls to her death, her best friend basks in the glow of the social media attention, while their rival seeks to avenge the past and uncover the truth behind the mysterious death.
Style:
captivating, disturbing, tense, suspense, psychological ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
high school, social media, popularity, revenge, investigation, death of best friend, psychopath, fame, teenage life, private investigation, murder investigation, ambition ...
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Celess and Tina play the game too well to be considered your average gold diggers. And they're winning too. But when the jaw-dropping secret they both share is exposed, the same shovel that got them out of the dirt could very well bury them.
Style:
tense, captivating, disturbing, suspense, crime drama ...
Plot:
golddigger, secret, female friendship, secrets, black, women, money, female protagonist, betrayal, moral ambiguity, intrigue, deception ...
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A 21-year-old reformed gangster's devotion to his family and his future is put to the test when he is released from prison and returns to his old stomping grounds in Watts, Los Angeles.
Style:
touching, serious, hood, crime drama, feel good ...
Plot:
hopes, going straight, family relations, parents and children, street kid, society, urban ghetto life, black lives matter, gang, blaxploitation, urban, black ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
los angeles, indiana, usa
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
Not available
Style:
psychological, tense, serious, suspenseful, realistic ...
Plot:
friendship, terrorism, partner, rivalry, buddies, danger, confined, dishonesty, mind game, betrayal, disorder, isolation ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
italy, europe, sicily
Similarity:
18%
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:
18%
110
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Vic Trevi is an undercover FBI agent positioned to betray the people he calls family. Vic needs to find out the truth about his family before his family finds out the truth about him.
Style:
psychological, tense, suspense, disturbing, suspenseful
Plot:
undercover, gangster, undercover agent, betrayal, who done it, friendship, youth, murder, partners against crime, uncover truth, friends, godfather ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
After popular and charismatic megachurch leader Hamilton Spears commits suicide, his teenage daughter Hannah's life goes off the rails. The only thing keeping her together is her new boyfriend, Oliver. When she finds evidence pointing to a ...
Style:
suspense, captivating, psychological, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot:
murder, investigation, clergy, amateur detective, uncover truth, youth, society, dishonesty, danger, teenager, soul, strong female presence ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
18%
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