Movies like Adulthood
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Adulthood (2008)
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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, serious, realistic, cult classic, gloomy, bleak
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
urban ghetto life, gang, vengeance, society, drug addict, teenage life, juvenile delinquency, youth, life is a bitch, criminal's revenge, ghetto, urban, starting over, urban ghetto, black, british gangster, drug, coming of age, troubled youth, drug crime, gangster, violence, sex, skinhead, caper ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
england, london, britain, united kingdom, europe
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Most similar movies to Adulthood
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, rough and hood films with plots about gang, gangster, society, urban, ghetto, life is a bitch and youth mostly in Drama, Crime and Thriller genres. Some movies like Adulthood: Kidulthood (2006), Blue Story (2019), My Brother the Devil (2012), Top Boy (2011), The Football Factory (2004). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A day in the life of a group of troubled 15-year-olds growing up in west London.
Style:
serious, tense, rough, hood, teen ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
bullying, gang, urban ghetto life, ghetto, juvenile delinquency, coming of age, urban, teenage life, social decay, gangster, friendship, teenage love ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
london, england, united kingdom, britain, europe
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Musical
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Feature adaptation of Rapman's YouTube series about two young friends who become rivals in a street war.
Style:
hood, heartbreaking, dark, tense, controversial ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
ghetto, street gang, gang member, bandit, gang, teenager, criminal gang, gunfight, gang violence, youth, friends, rivalry ...
Place:
london
Similarity:
90%
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, touching, bleak, serious, rough ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
gay muslim, gay couple, male homosexuality, lgbtq, gay, closeted homosexual, gang, lgbt, brother brother relationship, family relations, life is a bitch, juvenile delinquency ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
london, europe, east end london, england
Similarity:
100%
48K
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, anime ...
Plot:
gang, urban ghetto life, ambitious, leader, drug dealing, society, rivalry, teenage life, poverty, right hand man, partners in crime, social problems ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
london, england, east end london
Similarity:
67%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Sport
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
The Football Factory is more than just a study of the English obsession with football violence, it's about men looking for armies to join, wars to fight and places to belong. A forgotten culture of Anglo Saxon males fed up with being told ...
Style:
realistic, disturbing, serious, rough, grindhouse ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
soccer, hooligan, violence, dark humor, violent, organized crime, lifestyle, working class, football hooligan, dysfunctional family, drug, buddies ...
Time:
year 2004, 21st century
Place:
london, united kingdom, britain, europe, england ...
Similarity:
100%
359
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
In the summer of 2009, Charlie Ruez made a documentary. 6 months later the footage was seized for evidence by the Metropolitan Police Department. In 2010, the footage was released.
Style:
serious, tense, disturbing, rough, mockumentary ...
Plot:
found footage, gangster, drug dealing, gang, law enforcement, drug abuse, murder, violence spree, hooligan, thug, fighter, sexual content ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, europe, london
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Sport, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
After being wrongfully expelled from Harvard University, American Matt Buckner flees to his sister's home in England. Once there, he is befriended by her charming and dangerous brother-in-law, Pete Dunham, and introduced to the underworld of ...
Style:
serious, homoerotic, disturbing, factual, intense ...
Audience:
boys' night, teen drama, adult
Plot:
soccer, gang, hooligan, hooliganism, friendship, self discovery, subculture, buddies, friends, uninhibited rivalry, obsession, lifestyle ...
Time:
year 2005, 21st century
Place:
england, london, britain, europe, harvard university
Similarity:
100%
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, gang, gangster, society, urban, ghetto, hip hop, police raid, british gangster, mafia, rivalry, low lives ...
Time:
year 2012, 21st century
Place:
london, england, united kingdom, britain
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Nordvest is a gangsterfilm set in the suburbs of Copenhagen. Casper (18), the oldest of 3 siblings, survives life on the streets by committing burglaries for the neighbourhood boss, Jamal. When Casper gets an offer to work for Jamal’s rival ...
Style:
realistic, suspenseful, serious, tense, bleak ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
urban ghetto life, gang, gangster, juvenile delinquency, life is a bitch, friendship, family problems, criminal heroes, criminal's revenge, vengeance, teenage boy, organized crime ...
Time:
year 2013, 21st century
Place:
denmark, copenhagen
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A parolee battles a gangster for the affections of a reclusive movie star.
Style:
visually appealing, melancholic, brutal, suspenseful, stylized ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
fall in love, gangster, revenge, violence, love and romance, organized crime, going straight, mentor, brother sister relationship, runaway, criminal heroes, dishonor among criminals ...
Time:
year 2010, 21st century
Place:
london, england, europe, los angeles
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Various stories of how crack cocaine has infiltrated the inner-city streets. Based on Buddy Giovinazzo's novel "Life is Hot in Cracktown".
Style:
disturbing, serious, thought provoking, realistic, bleak ...
Plot:
underage girl, street gang, transgression, urban ghetto life, outdoor sex, oral sex, coming of age, life is a bitch, juvenile delinquency, society, addiction, drug abuse ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
los angeles, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
100%
2K
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:
rough, suspenseful, serious, realistic, bleak
Plot:
vengeance, gang, girl gang, juvenile delinquency, teenage life, social decay, gang leader, life is a bitch, criminal heroes, rivalry, society, youth ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, britain, london
Similarity:
26%
223K
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Aimlessly whiling away their days in the concrete environs of their dead-end suburbia, Vinz, Hubert, and Said -- a Jew, African, and an Arab -- give human faces to France's immigrant populations, their bristling resentment at their social ...
Style:
bleak, art house, disturbing, cult classic, thought provoking ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
racism, rebel, poverty, skinhead, youth, ghetto, brutality, police brutality, friendship, rebellion, urban ghetto life, misfit ...
Time:
20th century, year 1995, 90s
Place:
paris france, france, middle east, europe
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
First there was Kidulthood then Adulthood now comes Noel Clarkes last installment brotherhood With Sam facing up to the new world he realizes it also comes with new problems and new challenges that he must face that he knows will require old friends ...
Style:
hood, dark, captivating
Plot:
ghetto, gang, criminal gang, urban, bandit, black, criminal, grownups, life is a bitch, gang member, skinhead, angry ...
Place:
united kingdom, london
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Action, 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, youth, gang, juvenile delinquency, urban, kids in trouble, going straight, life is a bitch, social decay, friendship, family problems, orphan ...
Place:
england, africa, london, europe
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Denmark, Netherlands, Sweden
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A love triangle featuring the trophy girlfriend of a petty drug lord, caught up in a web of luxury and violence in a modern dark gangster tale set in the beautiful port city of Bodrum on the Turkish Riviera.
Style:
melancholic, serious, captivating, scenic, disturbing ...
Audience:
chick flick, boys' night
Plot:
beach, sexual assault, male female relationship, erection, drug lord, forced sex, gangster, murder, wealth, lovers, physical abuse, love triangle ...
Time:
year 2019, 21st century
Place:
turkey
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
The Guvnors is a violent thriller set amongst the clans and firms of South East London, bringing two generations together in brutal conflict.
Style:
suspense, tense, realistic, serious, captivating ...
Plot:
gang, gangster, rivalry, ego clash, criminal's revenge, violent content, youth, hooligan, british gangster, urban, danger, society ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
london, england
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
A child of a middle class home with solid moral values is lured into a world of crime and corruption.
Style:
hood, realistic, rough, bleak, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gang, urban, friends, drug dealing, black, juvenile delinquency, fighting crime, police investigation, betrayal, urban ghetto life, criminal heroes, police corruption ...
Place:
usa, boston
Similarity:
22%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Goldie returns from five years at the state pen and winds up king of the pimping game. Trouble comes in the form of two corrupt white cops and a crime lord who wants him to return to the small time.
Style:
grindhouse, hood, independent film, funny, cult classic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
blaxploitation, urban, african american, black, exploitation, ghetto, pimp, corrupt cop, street life, corruption, revenge, prison ...
Time:
70s
Place:
oakland california, bay area, usa, california
Similarity:
20%
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:
hood, melancholic, brutal, serious, disturbing ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gang, brutality, ghetto, police investigation, urban, vengeance, hip hop, murder, lone hero, black, teenage life, drug dealing ...
Time:
90s, 70s
Place:
new jersey, new york, usa, california
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A Special Jury Award winner at the Sundance Film Festival, this drama stars a then-19-year-old Matty Rich (who also wrote and directed it). Rich plays Larry, a troubled teen living in the rough Red Hook section of Brooklyn who decides he wants out ...
Style:
hood, independent film, serious, realistic, bleak ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
urban, gang, black, hip hop, african american, black gangster, blaxploitation, downbeat ending, hip hop culture, thug life, villain, thug ...
Time:
year 1991, 90s
Place:
new york, usa, brooklyn new york city
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
On the Wirral in the grim early years of Margaret Thatcher's premiership, the opportunities for thrill seeking young men looking to escape 9 to 5 drudgery are what they've always been: sex, drugs, rock n' roll, fashion, football and ...
Style:
serious, rough, suspenseful, tense, realistic ...
Plot:
gang, hooligan, football, destructive relationship, juvenile delinquency, coming of age, teenage life, troublemaker, violence spree, life is a bitch, buddies, unemployment ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
england, britain, liverpool
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Kenneth (who likes to call himself Kay) begins to realise he's just another wannabe bad boy... even less than a loser in fact. After quitting his job at Laimsbury's, Kay vows to become a respected gangster... or cry trying. A ...
Style:
humorous, captivating, light, entertaining, hood ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
urban, coming of age, white trash, city life, youth, society, ambition, lifestyle, misfit, ghetto, hip hop, black ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, britain, europe
Similarity:
19%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Mousie and Sad Girl are childhood best friends in a contemporary Los Angeles poor Hispanic neighborhood. But when Sad Girl becomes pregnant by Mousie's boyfriend, a drug dealer named Ernesto, the two become bitter enemies. While their dispute ...
Style:
realistic, talky, serious, hood, cult classic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
gang, gang member, coming of age, friendship, chicano, juvenile delinquency, teenager, drug dealing, unlikely friendships, gangster, urban ghetto, urban ...
Time:
year 1993, 90s
Place:
los angeles, south america, usa, tokyo, california ...
Similarity:
19%
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, sexual, captivating, crime drama, independent film ...
Plot:
gang, criminal gang, urban ghetto life, ghetto, urban, black, blaxploitation, hip hop, african american, father son relationship, father son reunion, drug dealing ...
Time:
90s, 80s, year 1992
Place:
los angeles, california, usa, south central los angeles, africa
Similarity:
19%
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, captivating, tense, suspense, hood ...
Plot:
dealer, police, betrayal, urban, haunted by the past, rivalry, save the day, danger, gangsta, ghetto, gang, murder ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, london, britain
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
The film follows three young men as they are drawn into lives of crime. Nick (Crowley) uses his entry-level corporate job to commit credit card fraud and deals drugs on the side. K-Luv (Mackie) is a member of the "V-Dubs", an ...
Style:
rough, realistic, serious, bleak, tense ...
Plot:
urban ghetto life, gangster, juvenile delinquency, racism, social decay, dishonesty, city life, dysfunctional family, police investigation, interracial relations, drug dealing, law enforcement ...
Place:
usa, san francisco
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Boyz n the Hood is the popular and successful film and social criticism from John Singleton about the conditions in South Central Los Angeles where teenagers are involved in gun fights and drug dealing on a daily basis.
Style:
cult classic, brutal, independent film, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
hip hop, gang, ghetto, african american, poverty, coming of age, urban ghetto life, street gang, juvenile delinquency, rapper, gangster, teenager ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 80s, year 1991, year 1984
Place:
los angeles, south central los angeles, california, america, usa ...
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama, Crime, Action
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Frustrated with being broke, Beans decides that the only way to grasp the American Dream is to take it.
Style:
hood, serious, rough, suspenseful, bleak ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
urban ghetto life, gang, urban, gangster, drug dealing, family life, ghetto, buddies, juvenile delinquency, friendship, social decay, chaos and mayhem ...
Time:
year 2002
Place:
usa, memphis, philadelphia
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
The story focuses on the life of an 11-year old boy surrounded by criminality and poverty in the suburbs of Naples.
Style:
disturbing, serious, bleak, rough, realistic
Plot:
juvenile delinquency, youth, friends, danger, society, life is a bitch, coming of age, social worker, social decay, urban ghetto life, teaching the ways of the world, street life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
italy, europe, naples italy
Similarity:
18%
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