Movies like 9 Souls
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9 Souls (2003)
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Original name: ナイン・ソウルズ
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
After discovering a hole in their crowded cell, nine prisoners escape their confinement to track down the key of the universe, which a fellow prisoner known as the Counterfeit King said he had hidden.
Style:
serious, realistic, surreal, sincere, uplifting, sad, offbeat
Plot:
prison, on the run, escape, treasure hunt, criminal heroes, friendship, misfit, society, social misfits, chase, escaped prisoner, convict, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, money, porn, map, pimp, stash, school, prison escape, murderer, prostitute, wedding, death, murder ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
japan, asia
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, humorous and rough films with plots about society, criminal heroes, friendship, on the run, friends, chases and races and prison mostly in Drama, Crime and Comedy genres. Some movies like 9 Souls: Blue Spring (2001), Down by Law (1986), PornoStar (1998), Il capitano: A Swedish Requiem (1991), The Great Passage (2013). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Soon after being named the new leader of his high school's gang system, Kujo grows bored with the violence and hatred that surround him. He wants desperately to abandon his post… but his once-enviable position of power has a strange way of ...
Style:
bleak, realistic, disturbing, serious, manga
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
gang, rivalry, juvenile delinquency, friendship, life is a bitch, high school life, teenage life, society, high school, youth, coming of age, gangsters ...
Place:
japan, asia
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA, West Germany
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A disc jockey, a pimp and an Italian tourist escape from jail in New Orleans.
Style:
road movie, humorous, atmospheric, art house, meditative ...
Plot:
prison, friendship, prison escape, pimp, swamp, misfit, fight, gangsters, character study, crime gone awry, escape, partners ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
louisiana, new orleans, usa
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78%
Genre: Crime
Country: Japan
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A young man decides one day to start killing yakuza. After he kills his first two he gets roped into helping a wannabe gangster and his bumbling underlings to perform a hit. While things work out in the beginning, this young psychopath quickly ...
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disturbing, neo noir, tense, exciting, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
alienation, samurai, youth, stash, society, rivalry, prostitute, track down, gangsters, law enforcement, police investigation, drug dealing ...
Time:
90s
Place:
tokyo, japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Sweden, Finland, Germany
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
The film is based on a true occurrence in Sweden in 1988. A Finish couple murdered a young boy and his parents when they prevented the theft of the son's bicycle. The film tries to describe the relationship between the dominant Jari, who calls ...
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tense, psychological, realistic, serious, bleak ...
Plot:
murder, school bully, flashback, arrest, killer, manhunt, young lovers, capture, prisoner, murderer, prison, letter ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 80s
Place:
denmark, sweden, finland
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
Majime, an eccentric man in publishing company, who has unique ability of words, joins the team that will compile a new dictionary, ‘The Great Passage.’ In the eclectic team, he becomes immersed in the world of dictionaries. But the team is ...
Style:
feel good, realistic, serious, sentimental, sincere ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
workplace, fall in love, love and romance, workplace situations, social misfits, obsession, depression, socially awkward, unsuccessful, teamwork, japanese culture, dictionary ...
Time:
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47%
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Genre: Romance, Drama, Comedy
Country: Belgium
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Steve + Sky is a story about two struggling teenagers who are trying to find their own place in the world. He is a small-time crook recently released from prison and she is a prostitute craving some love and affection. They find each other in an ...
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serious, realistic, sentimental, humorous, melancholic ...
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prostitute, fall in love, love affair, love and romance, life is a bitch, pimp, misfit, criminal heroes, drug dealing, down on your luck, lifestyle, society ...
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46%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A corrupt businessman blackmails the lovelorn reprobate Atsushi into watching over his suitcase full of embezzled cash while he serves a jail sentence. Rather than wait for the man to retrieve his money, however, Atsushi decides to spend it all in ...
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
japan
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45%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Antoine, 11, is on holiday with his grandfather. One night he catches thieves hiding their booty in a pond. Antoine seizes the 40 million. But Liza, his new friend, is the daughter of one of the criminals. Both children soon face threats.
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous, feel good
Audience:
family outing, kids
Plot:
forest, heist, boy, family relations, disorder, friends, animal life, resort, bank, unlikely criminals, crime gone awry, nanny ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The lawyer is visiting a prison to meet with a violent criminal who has been condemned to death. During the visit, things turn bad, there is a riot where prisoners escape and the criminal escapes taking a lawyer hostage.
Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous
Plot:
escape, on the run, disorder, confined, odd couple, rebellion, politics, fugitives, nothing goes right, dishonesty, society, legal ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, 60s
Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 148 min.
Story:
Swallowtail Butterfly takes place in an alternate Japan, in a ghetto where immigrants from all over the world have come to live and make their fortune. The city is called Yentown, and it is much like Tokyo. Sixteen-year-old Ageha (Ito), a young girl ...
Style:
tense, realistic, serious, rough, atmospheric ...
Plot:
prostitute, forgery, sex, city, melancholy, money laundering, illegal prostitution, money, urban ghetto, disorder, crime gone awry, society ...
Time:
90s
Place:
japan, tokyo, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Family
Country: UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Based on the international best selling book. The true feel good story of how James Bowen, a busker and recovering drug addict, had his life transformed when he met a stray ginger cat.
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feel good, touching, sincere, psychological, realistic ...
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teens
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cat, homeless, human animal relationship, street musician, pet cat, guitarist, addiction, friendship, singer, drug addict, moral transformation, pets ...
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london
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A hippie radical, Huey Walker has been a fugitive for decades, accused of a crime that he may not have committed. Finally apprehended, Walker is escorted to trial by uptight 20-something FBI agent John Buckner. While the two seem to be polar ...
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kids
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train, friendship, chase, lsd, on the road, fbi, unlikely friendships, prison, criminal heroes, partners, fish out of water, mistaken identity ...
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Place:
oregon, san francisco, usa
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41%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Cassandra, a mute runaway girl, takes refuge in the cemetery in which her mother is laid to rest. She is watched over by Jorge, the cemetery caretaker, an illegal alien who is committed to the restoration of a classic '60 cadillac hearse. Shore ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous, touching, campy ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
teenage life, friendship, family problems, on the run, youth, social misfits, society, misfit, dysfunctional family, mute or deaf, dealing with death, college dropout ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
After going to prison for killing the boss of the Kanno gang, Seji Iwahashi (Tatsuya Nakadai) gets released early -- only to find that his former gang has merged with the Kannos. But with bitter resentments lingering on both sides, how long will it ...
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Plot:
yakuza, gangsters, samurai, gang, graphic violence, conspiracy, tough heroes, rivalry, criminal heroes, heroes, society, dishonesty ...
Time:
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Place:
japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Many immigrants, when they arrived in Spain, thought they had found paradise, soon thwarted all their dreams of prosperity. Many of them then decided to return to their land, but not so simple. In a pension match various immigrants end up ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, surreal, realistic, light ...
Plot:
friendship, misfit, social misfits, friends, social relations, immigrants, society, hotel, haunted by the past, love, widower, transvestite ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
madrid, spain, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Monroe and 'Joker' Johnson are two prisoners who despise each other. But after their prison transport crashes, they manage to escapechained to each other.
Style:
realistic, serious, exciting, rough, suspenseful
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
chase, escape, on the run, racism, prison, prison escape, interracial relations, racial prejudice, single mother, manhunt, fistfight, sheriff ...
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80s, 20th century
Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
107
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 167 min.
Story:
A film that explores the true meaning of a word by medical professionals, feelings of real people and the images that represent the word to the filmmaker. The viewer will get into a journey through true stories and feelings, chasing the true meaning ...
Style:
realistic, humorous, semi serious, funny, entertaining ...
Plot:
hip hop, social misfits, misfit, cause and meaning, friendship, rap, hip hop culture, pop culture, japanese culture, musician's life, friends, humour ...
Place:
japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Two contract killers cross paths in the middle of the same job and realize they are childhood friends. Together they take a break from killing and visit the small island they once called home. After reflecting on their past lives they decided to ...
Style:
captivating, serious, realistic, rough, surreal ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
hitman, gangsters, friendship, buddies, drug dealing, criminal heroes, friends, orphan, yakuza, childhood friend, death, massacre ...
Time:
90s
Place:
japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
859
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Following the death of his father, a suburbanite runs away from home and winds up on Chicago's South Side. After being mugged, the boy befriends a young hustler and, after stealing a gangster's car, the two embark on an adventure down ...
Style:
humorous, intense, feel good, talky, melancholic ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
gang, hitman, culture clash, youth, gangsters, chase, runaway, disaster, violent, loneliness, enormously long battle scene, car ...
Time:
80s
Place:
new orleans, chicago illinois, usa, southern usa, louisiana
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
117
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Set in present day Burbank, California and the surrounding San Fernando Valley area, . BENNY BIG-TIME (The BBT) learns his brother has been arrested on suspicion of a few recent bank robberies. With every bit of the life savings he's socked ...
Style:
humorous, captivating, tense, light, exciting ...
Plot:
heist, bank, crime gone awry, stalking, on the run, caper, underground, friendship, destiny, righting the wronged, disorder, unlikely criminals ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
california
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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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, sincere, touching, realistic ...
Plot:
partners, criminal heroes, heist, on the run, love and romance, chase, murderous pair, violence spree, bank robber, criminal, gangsters, serial killer ...
Time:
1930s
Place:
usa, texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Second year high school student Kodaka Hasegawa has transferred to his new school about a month ago, but he still hasn't made any friends. Kodaka Hasegawa was born from a Japanese father and a British mother. Because of his appearance, people ...
Style:
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Audience:
teens
Plot:
friendship, friends, youth, teenage love, society, social misfits, physical appearance, self discovery, teenage life, love and romance, social relations, high school life
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Three men are on death row. Jaggu (Jackie Shroff), a lawyer and a poet, is serving a sentence for murdering his wife because she was cheating on him with another man. Nagya (Nagesh Kukunoor), a man angry with the whole world, is arrested for ...
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serious, tense, bleak, touching, realistic ...
Plot:
introspection, confined, prison life, prison, hopes, redemption, criminal heroes, death row, twists and turns, murder, family problems, prisoner ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Elijah has been bounced from group home to group home throughout his turbulent young life. What has sustained him is his art. After a promised scholarship is taken away, Elijah ends up in a fight that result in the death of another boy. Now, ...
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Plot:
prison, injustice, hip hop, prison life, redemption, juvenile delinquency, criminal heroes, musician's life, life sentence, murder, youth, life is a bitch ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
493
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Yuko is a Japanese girl who was taken hostage in Iraq while volunteering there as an aid worker. Finally released and back in her hometown, Yuko finds herself ostracized as a national disgrace by society that sees her helping a country other than ...
Style:
psychological, realistic, serious, bleak, gloomy ...
Plot:
journalism, confined, homecoming, estrangement, hopes, misfit, propaganda, life is a bitch, social misfits, society, chase, hostage ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan, iraq, middle east, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
Left behind by a circus, a camel wanders to the house of a simple middle-aged couple in a Polish village. Although the wife is initially bewildered by the strange and unexpected animal, her husband immediately adopts it as a pet.
Style:
sincere, serious, realistic, mind bending, psychedelic ...
Plot:
pets, small town, social relations, social misfits, crumbling marriage, working class, misfit, society, intolerance, camel, husband wife relationship, circus ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
poland
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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 ...
Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful
Plot:
prison, escape, on the run, murder, kids in trouble, crime gone awry, lovers on the run, juvenile delinquency, society, law enforcement, love and romance, drug dealing ...
Time:
80s
Place:
tennessee, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
823
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain, Argentina
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
In the summer of 1928, several inmates from the National Penitentiary in Buenos Aires managed to escape. The film narrates the fate of each of these runaways in search of their destiny - tough men with their own ethical codes and ready to do ...
Style:
suspenseful, rough, captivating, serious, realistic
Plot:
fugitives, prison, on the run, criminal heroes, starting over, confined, couple relations, couples, prison life, destiny, society, escape ...
Time:
1920s
Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Deadbeat dad kidnaps his kids from the bus to an abusive foster home and they go on a run. The cops are after them, they bicker constantly and his idea of a way out is grim, yet this dangerous ride might just turn them into a family.
Style:
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kids, teens, manly
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
new orleans, las vegas
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A poor young woman is recruited by a friendly couple traveling in an RV into becoming part of the dark world of truck stop prostitution.
Style:
psychological, serious, realistic, talky
Plot:
prostitute, on the road, adultery, family life, small town, on the run, social misfits, youth, society, cons and scams, pimp, friendship ...
Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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