Movies like Adulthood

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Adulthood (2008)
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Adulthood (2008)
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, teenage life, juvenile delinquency, drug addict, youth, life is a bitch, criminal's revenge, ghetto, urban, starting over, urban ghetto, black, british gangster, drug, coming of age, troubled youth, gangster, violence, skinhead, caper, criminal, studying ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: england, britain, united kingdom, london, europe
Keyword: gangsters

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Most similar movies to Adulthood

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, rough and hood films with plots about gang, gangster, society, urban, life is a bitch, ghetto 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), Hate (1995). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Kidulthood (2006)
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: hood, serious, tense, rough, teen ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: urban ghetto life, bullying, gang, ghetto, coming of age, juvenile delinquency, urban, teenage life, social decay, gangster, friendship, teenage love ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: london, england, united kingdom, britain, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.3
 8K
Blue Story (2019)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Musical
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Feature adaptation of Rapman's YouTube series about two young friends who become rivals in a street war.
Style: thought provoking, hood, tense, dark, heartbreaking ...
Audience: teens
Plot: ghetto, street gang, gang member, gunfight, gangster, gang violence, gang, youth, teenager, friends, rivalry, friendship ...
Place: london
⇓ similarity ⇓
94%
My Brother the Devil (2012)
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, bleak, touching, serious, rough ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: gay muslim, gay, gay couple, gang, brother brother relationship, lgbt, family relations, teenage boy, life is a bitch, closeted homosexual, juvenile delinquency, urban ghetto life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: london, europe, east end london, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 8.4
 39K
Top Boy (2011)
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: urban ghetto life, gang, ambitious, teenage life, life is a bitch, drug dealing, struggle, partners in crime, right hand man, poverty, social problems, gang war ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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 8.1
 194K
Hate (1995)
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, black and white, art house, disturbing, hood ...
Audience: teens
Plot: racism, rebel, ghetto, poverty, skinhead, youth, police brutality, police, friendship, rebellion, drug, misfit ...
Time: 20th century, year 1995, 90s
Place: paris france, france, middle east, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Football Factory (2004)
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, football, organized crime, dark humor, lifestyle, violent, violence, working class, dysfunctional family, football hooligan, drug ...
Time: year 2004, 21st century
Place: london, england, britain, united kingdom, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 4.6
 352
Terry (2011)
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, gang, law enforcement, drug dealing, murder, drug abuse, violence spree, thug, hooligan, fighter, sexual content ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, europe, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.1
 11K
Ill Manors (2012)
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, gangster, drug addict, society, urban, ghetto, hip hop, police raid, british gangster, mafia, rivalry, danger ...
Time: year 2012, 21st century
Place: london, england, united kingdom, britain
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Northwest (2013)
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, vengeance, criminal heroes, criminal's revenge, burglary, brother sister relationship ...
Time: year 2013, 21st century
Place: denmark, copenhagen
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Bullet Boy (2004)
Genre: 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, gang, youth, juvenile delinquency, urban, life is a bitch, going straight, kids in trouble, social decay, friendship, orphan, society ...
Place: england, africa, london, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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Sket (2011)
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: suspenseful, rough, serious, realistic, bleak
Plot: girl gang, gang, vengeance, juvenile delinquency, teenage life, social decay, gang leader, youth, society, criminal heroes, rivalry, urban ghetto life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, britain, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Green Street Hooligans (2005)
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, disturbing, factual, intense, bleak ...
Audience: boys' night, teen drama, adult
Plot: soccer, gang, hooliganism, friendship, self discovery, hooligan, subculture, friends, buddies, football, skinhead, bar fight ...
Time: year 2005, 21st century
Place: england, britain, europe, london, harvard university
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Blue Hill Avenue (2001)
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, bleak, realistic, rough, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gang, urban, friends, drug dealing, black, fighting crime, juvenile delinquency, police investigation, betrayal, urban ghetto life, criminal heroes, going straight ...
Place: usa, boston
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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 ⇓
22%
My Crazy Life (1993)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA, UK
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 ...
Plot: coming of age, friendship, chicano, juvenile delinquency, gang member, teenager, unlikely friendships, drug dealing, urban ghetto, urban, youth, urban ghetto life ...
Time: year 1993, 90s
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Straight Out of Brooklyn (1991)
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, realistic, serious, bleak ...
Audience: teens
Plot: urban, gang, black, hip hop, african american, hip hop culture, downbeat ending, blaxploitation, villain, thug life, thug, gangsta ...
Time: year 1991, 90s
Place: new york, usa, brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 5.4
 5K
Anuvahood (2011)
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, entertaining, light, hood ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: urban, coming of age, white trash, youth, city life, ambition, society, misfit, lifestyle, ghetto, hip hop, black ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, britain, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 5.7
 4K
Awaydays (2009)
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, suspenseful, rough, realistic, tense ...
Plot: gang, hooligan, football, destructive relationship, juvenile delinquency, coming of age, teenage life, troublemaker, buddies, life is a bitch, violence spree, down on your luck ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: england, britain, liverpool
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Movie in collections
 6.6
 3K
The Mack (1973)
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, funny, cult classic, independent film ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: blaxploitation, urban, black, exploitation, african american, ghetto, black history, gangsta, mafia, tough guy, blues, hip hop ...
Time: 70s
Place: bay area, usa, california, oakland california
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Sucker Free City (2004)
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, racism, life is a bitch, social decay, juvenile delinquency, drug dealing, dishonesty, city life, police investigation, dysfunctional family, law enforcement ...
Place: usa, san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 5.9
 347
Squeeze (1997)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Ty, Hector, and Bao are close friends in a tough section of Boston, where they're called "the PG-13 crew." They're 14, decent kids with few skills who've bailed out of school. A small gang of older tough guys, led by Marcus ...
Style: independent film, serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot: gang, black, gas station, kids in trouble, urban ghetto, realism, friends, optimism, friendship, drug dealing, juvenile delinquency, society ...
Time: year 1997, 90s
Place: massachusetts, boston
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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 ⇓
21%
State Property (2002)
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, suspenseful, rough, bleak ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: urban ghetto life, gang, urban, gangster, drug dealing, family life, ghetto, ambition, social decay, city life, criminal heroes, juvenile delinquency ...
Time: year 2002
Place: usa, philadelphia, memphis
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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 7.8
 153K
Boyz n the Hood (1991)
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: disturbing, tense, hood, cult classic, bleak ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: hip hop, ghetto, african american, poverty, gang, urban ghetto life, street gang, juvenile delinquency, rapper, coming of age, black, african american gangster ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, 80s, year 1991, year 1984
Place: los angeles, california, america, south central los angeles, usa ...
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20%
 6.5
 3K
Shifty (2008)
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, tense, captivating, suspense, dark ...
Plot: dealer, police, betrayal, haunted by the past, urban, save the day, rivalry, gangsta, ghetto, gang, danger, murder ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, london, britain
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 4.0
 241
As Night Comes (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Troubled 17-year-old Sean Holloway falls in with a group of teenage outcasts called 'The Misfits,' whose charismatic leader, Ricky, takes him under his wing. But as Sean becomes more and more entangled in the gang's anarchist ways, ...
Style: serious, captivating, tense, psychological, slasher ...
Plot: youth, halloween, rivalry, juvenile delinquency, gang, vengeance, teenager, violence, social misfits, gory, chaos and mayhem, teenage life ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 6.9
 3K
Monga (2010)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 140 min.
Story: Set in the 1980s, “Monga” centers on five boys (Mosquito, Monk, Dragon, White Monkey and A-Lan) who join the "Gang of Princes" who are tired of being pushed around. As the "Gang of Princes" rise in stature, they come into ...
Style: realistic, tense, serious, exciting, captivating ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: juvenile delinquency, friendship, friends, society, urban ghetto life, youth, power relations, teenage life, heroic bloodshed, organized crime, rivalry, danger ...
Time: 21st century
Place: taiwan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 6.2
 13K
Belly (1998)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Tommy Brown and Sincere are best friends as well as infamous and ruthless criminals and shot-callers in the hood. Respected by many but feared by all. As the police are closing in on them and new players are looking for a come up, will their reign ...
Style: hood, independent film, stylized, crime drama, realistic ...
Plot: urban ghetto life, african american gangster, hip hop, gangster, urban, african american, ghetto, black, drug, violence, drug dealer, gang ...
Time: year 1998, 90s
Place: jamaica, new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 7.3
 7K
I.D. (1995)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Four policemen go undercover and infiltrate a gang of football hooligans hoping to route out their leaders. For one of the four, the line between 'job' and 'yob' becomes more unclear as time passes . . .
Style: independent film, contemplative, serious, psychological, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: hooligan, soccer, football, police, violent, gang, undercover, football hooligan, skinhead, hooliganism, re-education, anarchist ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: england, britain, yorkshire, london, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
Wall of Silence (2004)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story: The tale of a gang killing near a south-east London council estate.
Style: bleak, serious, suspenseful, realistic, slasher ...
Plot: life is a bitch, chaos and mayhem, injustice, gang, teenage life, city life, estate, murder mystery, disaster, wiretap, urban, deadly
Time: 21st century
Place: london, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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