Movies like Monster 2018

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Monster (2018)
 6.5
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Monster (2018)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: The story of Steve Harmon, a 17-year-old honor student whose world comes crashing down around him when he is charged with felony murder.
Style: captivating, anamorphic
Plot: imprisonment, teenager, murder, fighting the system, fight for justice, social injustice, black, social issues, criminal, life is a bitch, injustice, teenage life, society, social problems, social relations, showdown, homeless, poverty, expose, blaxploitation, legal battle, school, guilty, juvenile delinquent, innocence ...

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, disturbing, psychological and tense films with plots about life is a bitch, society, social problems, teenage life, teenager, criminal and fighting the system mostly in Drama, Crime and Thriller genres. Some movies like Monster: Gully (2019), Strike One (2014), Querô (2007), What the Night Can Do (2020), Young Adult Matters (2020). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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 2.6
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Gully (2019)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA, UK, Canada
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A slightly dystopian vision of LA, we follow three disaffected teenagers, Jessie, Calvin and Nicky, all victims of extreme childhoods, running supreme hedonistic riot as they try to work out a way in life.
Style: brutal, lyrical, tense, suspense, rough ...
Plot: friends, power, neighborhood, african american, gangster, racism, music, against the rules, dog, runaway, ghetto, fighting the system ...
Place: los angeles
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100%
 4.1
 317
Strike One (2014)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Juan Garcia is a boy on the threshold of manhood living in a gang-controlled neighborhood. His role models could not be further apart: his older sister Angie, a single mom, struggling to gain a foothold in the white corporate world and his uncle ...
Style: tense, suspense, disturbing, captivating
Plot: coming of age, gang, criminal gang, street gang, adolescence vs adulthood, family problems, gang member, gang war, bandit, life is a bitch, teenage life, grownups ...
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48%
 6.7
 374
Querô (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Querô is an orphan teenager, living alone near the docks in Santos, Brazil. Her mother, a prostitute, died when he was a baby, and he was raised in the bordello where she worked. He also doesn't know who his father is. Believing he rules his ...
Style: disturbing, captivating, psychological, tense
Plot: juvenile delinquent, society, teenager, organized crime, independence, social outcast, social issues, teenage life, social problems, fighting the system, life is a bitch, money problems ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
What the Night Can Do (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Luana is a 12-year-old girl struggling to grasp the world collapsing around her, as her parents separate and her estranged Grandfather falls ill. It takes one unlikely person to help her find her way.
Style: captivating, psychological, thrilling
Plot: teenage life, grownups, social problems, teenage girl, life is a bitch, female protagonist, teenage protagonist, society, adolescence, social issues, teenager, adolescence vs adulthood
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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Young Adult Matters (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 127 min.
Story: Wandering around the streets, Sejin, a pregnant teen, gets to know Juyeong and reunites with Jaepil and Sinji. The four musketeers go through a series of misfortunes, bumping into masochistic/sadistic characters and experiencing the brutality and ...
Style: psychological, captivating, disturbing, tense, suspense
Plot: homeless teenager, pregnant teenager, troubled teen, teenager, life is a bitch, social problems, teenage life, social misfits, society, relationship problems, female homosexuality, poverty ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
10,000 Black Men Named George (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: In the 1920s, the rights of American workers to join a labor union was still considered an open question, and African-Americans were routinely denied their civil and economic rights. 10,000 Black Men Named George, the title, refers to the fact ...
Style: disturbing, thought provoking, captivating, tense, contemplative ...
Plot: african american, racism, labor union, interracial relations, injustice, fighting the system, ambition, rise to the top, rebellion, life is a bitch, dishonesty, workplace ...
Time: 1920s, 1930s
Place: america
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Blood Done Sign My Name (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story: A drama based on the true story in which a black Vietnam-era veteran is allegedly murdered by a local white businessman who is later exonerated. The plot focuses on the role of a local high school teacher and the civil unrest that followed the ...
Style: disturbing, captivating, serious, realistic, thought provoking ...
Plot: racism, murder, social differences, life is a bitch, society, introspection, discrimination, social decay, injustice, small town life, small town, murderer ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: north carolina, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
April Showers (2009)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A look inside a tragedy through the eyes of a survivor. Based on actual events, April Showers is about picking up the pieces in the direct aftermath of school violence
Style: serious, captivating, sincere, realistic, gloomy ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: school shooting, friendship, teenage life, life turned upside down, society, social relations, high school, youth, life is a bitch, bullying, violent content, serial killer ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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 5.8
 450
Delinquent (2016)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Family, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Delinquent is the thrilling and dramatic exploration of a teenager's struggle to manage the fall-out of a robbery gone wrong.
Style: disturbing, psychological, captivating, suspense
Plot: teenager, juvenile delinquent, bandit, troubled youth, robbery, teenage life, juvenile delinquency, teenage protagonist, social problems, life is a bitch, theft, burglar ...
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31%
 7.0
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I Was Here (2008)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Estonia, Finland, Taiwan
Duration: 95 min.
Story: An adaptation of a book by Sass Henno, I Was Here. First Arrest (Mina olin siin. 1. esimene arrest, 2005), one of the most important Estonian works of literature of recent years. Seventeen-year-old Rass is growing up in an Estonian suburb. In the ...
Style: captivating, psychological
Audience: teens
Plot: drug, social problems, gang, smuggling, bandit, criminal gang, illegal drugs, drug dealer, drug trade, drug smuggler, social misfits, drug dealing ...
Place: estonia
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
 4.9
 400
American Bully (2009)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A middle-American teenage boy who is affected by 9/11, terrorism, and the war in Iraq becomes involved in an isolated high school altercation that escalates into a hate crime that shocks the entire nation.
Style: psychological, tense, suspense, captivating, disturbing
Plot: changing lives, criminal, juvenile delinquency, terrorism, psychological trauma, terrorizing, teenager, life is a bitch, teenage life, terrorist attack, violent content, mind control ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
 5.1
 619
Funny Face (2020)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: In a Brooklyn threatened by disfigurement from greedy urban developers, two young people meet in a late-night bodega. Their unexpected bond takes on a romantic tone and brings solace to these two superheroes who are powerless in the face of ...
Style: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing, weird
Plot: revenge, social injustice, masked vigilante, life is a bitch, fight for justice, criminal, lynching, injustice, vigilantism, fight, young
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
 6.6
 165
Learn by Heart (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 93 min.
Story: The film follows children growing up in the projects, where they juggle the pressures of school and street life.
Style: captivating
Plot: teenager, teenage life, life is a bitch, saving a life, money problems, drug dealer, drug, life, drug dealing, fighting the system, assistant, friends ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
We Are the Wave (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 50 min.
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Story: A mysterious classmate leads four idealistic teens in a revolt against a rising tide of nationalistic fervor, but their movement takes a dark turn.
Style: psychological, captivating, intellectual
Plot: teenager, adaptation, white trash, social problems, fighting the system, social outcast, social misfits, rebelliousness, showdown, society, rebel, teenage life ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
The Warrior and the Savior (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Story: Orphaned by A.I.D.S., South African children Ibutho and Umsindisi SIlongo try to make a fresh start in the United States. What they do not know is that their struggles are far from over.
Style: captivating
Plot: children, orphan, adoption, immigration, african, social issues, social problems, social relations, kids in trouble, society, life is a bitch, prostitution ...
Place: new york, south africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Wilderness: Part One (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 157 min.
Story: Set in the near future around Shinjuku, Tokyo. Shinji got out from a youth detention center. Barikan suffers from stuttering and extreme shyness. These two men meet in a boxing gym. Shinji and Barikan become friends and pursue boxing under a ...
Style: captivating, psychological, disturbing, psychotronic
Plot: boxing, friendship, criminal, japanese man, life is a bitch, social problems, poor, boxer, social issues, society, poverty, female nudity ...
Time: near future
Place: japan, tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
 6.6
 1K
Heavens Fall (2006)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Successful New York attorney Sam Leibowitz travels to the South in 1933 to defend nine young black men accused of raping two women on an Alabama freight train.
Style: serious, sincere, disturbing, independent film, realistic ...
Plot: courtroom, false accusation, interracial relations, racism, discrimination, injustice, journalism, dedicated lawyer, human spirit, legal action, life is a bitch, power relations ...
Time: 1930s
Place: usa, alabama, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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 ⇓
27%
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The Fall of Sparta (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story: When we are young, we sometimes feel that the world is stacked against us. This is the case for 16 year-old Steeve Simard (Lévi Doré), who is entering his last year at Gaston-Miron High School in St-Lambert. A cynical intellectual with a critical ...
Style: thrilling, captivating, psychological
Plot: teenager, gay, teenage protagonist, social problems, teenage life, schoolboy, adolescence, social issues, lifestyle change, changing lives, high school life, school ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
 5.9
 192
Trophy Wife (2022)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Follows Toni, who has a complete breakdown and ends up in a mental facility after the unexpected news that his husband was murdered, and even her was a suspect. She must now fight to clear her name and figure out who betrayed her husband.
Style: thrilling, captivating, psychological
Plot: murder mystery, murderer, who done it, undercover, life is a bitch, secret, problem, mental disorder, murder, murder investigation, female protagonist, investigation ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
 4.8
 648
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
South Central (1992)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A man is put to prison for 10 years. Coming out of prison he wants to live a normal life and stop with crime but his son has yet followed the criminal path of his father.
Style: hood, captivating, sexual, crime drama, social ...
Plot: urban ghetto life, gang, ghetto, urban, black, african american, hip hop, criminal gang, drug dealing, blaxploitation, organized crime, black history ...
Time: 90s, year 1992, 80s
Place: los angeles, california, usa, south central los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
 7.3
 898
Freedom Song (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Freedom Song (2000) is a made-for-TV film based on true stories of the Civil Rights Movement in Mississippi in the 1960s. It tells the story of the struggle of African Americans to register to vote in the fictional town of Quinlan. In the midst of ...
Style: thought provoking, sincere, captivating, emotional, political ...
Plot: african american, racism, fighting the system, interracial relations, rebellion, life is a bitch, injustice, teenage life, discrimination, parents and children, politics, society ...
Time: 90s
Place: mississippi, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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 6.6
 2K
Layla M. (2016)
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Jordan
Duration: 98 min.
Story: 18-year-old Layla, a Dutch girl with Moroccan roots, joins a group of radical Muslims. She encounters a world that nurtures her ideas initally, but finally confronts her with an impossible choice.
Style: psychological, disturbing, captivating, tense
Plot: islam, jihad, muslim, teen rebel, juvenile delinquency, teenage girl, life is a bitch, social misfits, suspicion, white trash, society, relationship problems ...
Place: netherlands
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
 7.6
 3K
Father (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: Serbia, France, Germany, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Nikola’s children are taken away from him after social services decide that he is too poor to provide them with a decent living environment. He sets off on foot to lodge a complaint in Belgrade.
Style: captivating, independent film, social
Plot: corruption, small town, corrupt official, dysfunctional family, parents and children, fighting the system, social issues, social problems, foster home, small town life, foster child, social relations ...
Place: serbia
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
The White Tiger (2021)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: India, USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story: An ambitious Indian driver uses his wit and cunning to escape from poverty and rise to the top. An epic journey based on the New York Times bestseller.
Style: social, suspense, captivating, thought provoking, dramatic ...
Audience: date night
Plot: rise to the top, social injustice, poverty, corruption, master servant relationship, class differences, caste system, master and servant, rags to riches, chauffeur, religion, driver ...
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
 6.6
 3K
The Stoker (2010)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A shell-shocked Afghanistan war hero named Ivan Skryabin (Mikhail Skryabin) spends his days stoking the fire in a giant coal furnace. When he isn’t tending the flames, he keeps busy with other activities. He works on a historical novel. His adult ...
Style: tense, captivating
Plot: criminal, society, crime boss, social relations, social problems, writers, writer's life, underworld, russian mafia, coitus, snow, sex scene ...
Time: 90s
Place: soviet union, st. petersburg russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 5.3
 9K
Echo Boomers (2020)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Five post grads figure the best way to get back at the unfair economy and live the life they've always wanted is to steal from the rich and give to themselves.
Style: intense, suspenseful, serious, thought provoking, social ...
Plot: class differences, social injustice, society, fighting the system, social differences, life philosophy, hopes, human existence, life is a bitch, greed, changing lives, poverty ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 6.7
 142
Boy Crush (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, France, Germany
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Seven short films in which gay youths and young men negotiate society, sometimes successfully, sometimes not. In several, teen boys come out, perhaps first to a close friend - how will the friends react? For some youths, coming out risks violence. ...
Style: captivating, psychological, disturbing
Plot: gay, lgbt, youth, gay youth, gay love, teenager, friendship between men, gay interest, male male relationship, gay best friend, society, gay culture ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Harlan County War (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A Kentucky woman whose mine-worker husband is nearly killed in a cave-in, and whose father is slowly dying of black lung disease, joins the picket lines for a long, violent strike.
Style: disturbing, realistic, rough, independent film, captivating ...
Plot: strike, fighting the system, rebellion, price of justice, against the odds, poverty, legal, society, ambition, life is a bitch, human nature, human spirit ...
Time: 70s, year 1973, year 1974
Place: kentucky, appalachia, usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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