Movies like Alpha Dog
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Alpha Dog (2006)
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
Johnny Truelove likes to see himself as tough. He's the son of an underworld figure and a drug dealer. Johnny also likes to get tough when things don't go his way. When Jake Mazursky fails to pay up for Johnny, things get worse for the Mazursky family, as Johnny and his 'gang' kidnap Jake's 15 year old brother and holds him hostage. Problem now is what to do with 'stolen boy?'
Style:
disturbing, serious, rough, teen, harsh, hood, realistic, dark, sad, erotic ...
Audience:
teens, kids, teen drama
Plot:
kidnapping, gang, sex scene, true crime, youth, friendship, culture clash, crime gone awry, gangster, unlikely friendships, revenge, menage a trois, loss of virginity, friends, first sex, parents and children, confrontation, buddies, unlikely relationship, weed, adolescence, nude, criminal heroes, murder, coming of age ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, year 1999, year 2003, year 2005
Place:
los angeles, usa, california, albuquerque new mexico, palm springs california
Keyword:
gangsters, jewish, music video, challenge
Most similar movies to Alpha Dog
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, rough, serious and disturbing films with plots about violence, gangster, murder, gun, profanity, drug and friendship mostly in Drama, Crime and Thriller genres. Some movies like Alpha Dog: The Basketball Diaries (1995), Havoc (2005), Savages (2012), Bully (2001), City of God (2002). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Film adaptation of street tough Jim Carroll's epistle about his kaleidoscopic free fall into the harrowing world of drug addiction.
Style:
emotional, rough, serious, realistic, bleak ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
addiction, heroin, drug abuse, basketball, downfall, life is a bitch, teenage life, junkie, drug addiction, drug overdose, teenager, adolescence ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1995, near future, 60s
Place:
new york, seattle, boston, usa, manhattan new york city
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100%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A wealthy Los Angeles teen and her superficial friends wants to break out of suburbia and experience Southern California's "gangsta" lifestyle. But problems arise when the preppies get in over their heads and provoke the wrath of a ...
Style:
disturbing, sexy, independent film, erotic, psychological ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
youth, nudity, teenager, sex scene, sex with a stranger, juvenile delinquency, promiscuity, hip hop, gang, gangster, erotica, female nudity ...
Time:
year 2005, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, california, usa
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100%
134K
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
Pot growers Ben and Chon face off against the Mexican drug cartel who kidnapped their shared girlfriend.
Style:
sexy, tense, intense, action packed, romantic ...
Audience:
chick flick, boys' night
Plot:
kidnapping, drug cartel, rescue, marijuana, violence, twists and turns, drug dealing, friendship, woman in danger, polyamory, gangster, drug lord ...
Time:
2010s, year 2012, 21st century
Place:
california, southern california, los angeles, usa, tijuana mexico ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA, France, UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
After finding himself at the constant abuse of his best friend Bobby, Marty has become fed up with his friend's twisted ways. His girlfriend, a victim of Bobby's often cruel ways, couldn't agree more and they strategize murdering ...
Style:
disturbing, bleak, realistic, controversial, sexy ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama, adult
Plot:
bullying, sexual abuse, rape, teenager, murder, nudity, sex, drug, rivalry, revenge, youth, teenage sex ...
Time:
year 2001, 90s, 20th century
Place:
usa, bronx new york city, florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
796K
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Brazil, France, Germany
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
Cidade de Deus is a shantytown that started during the 1960s and became one of Rio de Janeiro’s most dangerous places in the beginning of the 1980s. To tell the story of this place, the movie describes the life of various characters, all seen by ...
Style:
disturbing, rough, bleak, hood, stylized ...
Audience:
teen drama, adult
Plot:
gang, coming of age, storytelling, organized crime, society, gang war, juvenile delinquency, life is a bitch, photographer, journalism, favela, police corruption ...
Time:
2000s, 70s, year 2002, 20th century, year 2003 ...
Place:
latin america, rio de janeiro, brazil, south america
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A vending machine robbery by small time thief and drug addict Bobbie (Vincent Kartheiser) goes badly awry, and his friends contact street-wise thief and part-time druggie Mel (James Woods) to patch him up.Recognizing a kindred spirit, Mel befriends ...
Style:
realistic, tense, talky, controversial, suspense ...
Plot:
drug, addiction, drug addiction, adolescence, murder, junkie, heist, drug addict, violence, heroin, death, brutality ...
Time:
year 1998, 70s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, France
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Michael is a 12-year-old drug pusher who lives in a crowded house with his cousins and aunt. His father has become a street bum,but still meets with Fresh on occasion to play chess. Fresh is rather quiet in a crazy world. Fresh's sister is a ...
Style:
hood, realistic, bleak, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
chess, coming of age, african american, ghetto, drug dealing, drug, hip hop, drug lord, drug addiction, father son relationship, black, adolescence ...
Time:
90s, year 1994
Place:
new york, brooklyn new york city, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
17K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
Mick O'Brien is a young Chicago street thug torn between a life of petty crime and the love of his girlfriend. But when the heist of a local drug dealer goes tragically wrong Mick is sentenced to a brutal juvenile prison where violence is a ...
Style:
neo noir, suspense, realistic, disturbing, serious ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
prison, teenager, youth, juvenile delinquency, violence, bullying, gangster, rivalry, brat pack, confined, society, gang war ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
chicago, usa, illinois
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, France
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
After four college girls rob a restaurant to fund their spring break in Florida, they get entangled with a weird dude with his own criminal agenda.
Style:
sexy, disturbing, stylized, sexual, surreal ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, date night, chick flick, teen drama
Plot:
party, spring break, debauchery, juvenile delinquency, rapper, murder, danger, nudity, summer, beach party, female killer, teenage life ...
Time:
2010s, year 2012, year 2013, 21st century
Place:
usa, florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 ⇓
100%
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA, UK, France, Germany, Japan
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Inspired by actual events, a group of fame-obsessed teenagers use the Internet to track celebrities' whereabouts in order to rob their homes.
Style:
sexy, stylized, teen, dark comedy, absurd ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, teen drama, adult
Plot:
heist, youth, teenage life, celebrity, juvenile delinquency, burglary, teenage girl, high school, coming of age, greed, high society, stupidity ...
Time:
2010s, year 2013, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
california, los angeles, usa, beverly hills
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
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:
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100%
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A single mother becomes Ariel Castro's first kidnapping victim, and finds herself trapped in his home with two other women for 11 years.
Style:
psychological, tense, serious, bleak, disturbing ...
Plot:
kidnapping, true crime, captivity, life is a bitch, violence, isolation, sexual abuse, woman in danger, rape, missing person, cruelty, abduction ...
Time:
2010s, year 2002, 2000s, year 2013, 21st century
Place:
ohio, usa, cleveland ohio
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Aileen Wuornos is an emotionally scarred highway hooker who shoots a sadistic trick who rapes her and ultimately becomes America's first female serial killer.
Style:
bleak, disturbing, psychological, depressing, emotional ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, teens, adult
Plot:
serial killer, lesbian, homeless, prostitute, lesbian love, mental illness, rape, female serial killer, murder, borderline personality disorder, gay, couples ...
Time:
year 2003, 20th century, 80s, 2000s, 90s
Place:
florida, usa, michigan, miami, ohio
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A group of teen-age runaways try to survive in the streets of Los Angeles. Drugs, prostitution, violence and bureaucratic indifference all pose threats to the kids, who nevertheless prefer this harsh life to going back to their families. King, ...
Style:
neo noir, cult classic, independent film, thought provoking, serious ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
teenage prostitution, prostitution, homelessness, realism, homeless, runaway, hustler, coming of age, drug addiction, troubled youth, criminality, street kid ...
Time:
year 1991, 90s
Place:
los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, History, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Italy, UK, China
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
The story of the kidnapping of 16-year-old John Paul Getty III and the desperate attempt by his devoted mother to convince his billionaire grandfather Jean Paul Getty to pay the ransom.
Style:
captivating, rough, tense, serious, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
kidnapping, ransom demand, billionaire, rich, mafia, kidnapped boy, violence, escape attempt, money, greed, wealth, rich man ...
Time:
year 2017, 70s, 2010s, year 1971, year 1973
Place:
rome italy, italy, saudi arabia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
After a friend overdoses, Spoon and Stretch decide to kick their drug habits and attempt to enroll in a government detox program. Their efforts are hampered by seemingly endless red tape, as they are shuffled from one office to another while being ...
Style:
dark comedy, hood, stylized, harsh, talky ...
Plot:
addiction, hip hop, drug addiction, drug, urban, drug abuse, murder, heroin, gangster, justice, crime gone awry, culture clash ...
Time:
20th century, year 1997, 90s
Place:
usa, detroit, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
This movie portrays the drug scene in Berlin in the 70s, following tape recordings of Christiane F. 14 years old Christiane lives with her mother and little sister in a typical multi-storey apartment building in Berlin. She's fascinated by the ...
Style:
disturbing, rough, bleak, depressing, harsh ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
addiction, heroin, drug addiction, junkie, drug abuse, drug addict, downfall, teenage girl, drug overdose, teenager, friendship, life is a bitch ...
Time:
70s, 80s, year 1981
Place:
berlin germany, west berlin west germany, germany, europe, west germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Adventure, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Set on the border, where Mexico becomes the crucible and the fearsome gangs of today’s Mexican countryside, the gauntlet, to freedom. The stories of a girl living in Honduras and hungering for a brighter future, and two teen gang members, for whom ...
Style:
road movie, serious, bleak, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
gang, immigrant, juvenile delinquency, rape, street gang, social problems, family reunited, train, gang member, u.s. mexico border, hopes, illegal immigrant ...
Time:
year 2009, 21st century
Place:
mexico, latin america, central america, guatemala
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 145 min.
Story:
The true story of Henry Hill, a half-Irish, half-Sicilian Brooklyn kid who is adopted by neighbourhood gangsters at an early age and climbs the ranks of a Mafia family under the guidance of Jimmy Conway.
Style:
rough, suspense, realistic, epic, brutal ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
organized crime, mafia, gangster, rise and fall, mobster, cosa nostra, mentor, criminal, badass, friends, italian mafia, biopic ...
Time:
70s, 50s, 90s, year 1990, year 1970 ...
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28%
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
An FBI undercover agent infilitrates the mob and finds himself identifying more with the mafia life at the expense of his regular one.
Style:
neo noir, realistic, clever, suspense, tense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
mafia, organized crime, fbi, undercover, mentor, mobster, investigation, working undercover, undercover agent, italian mafia, law enforcement, friends ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1997, 90s, year 1978
Place:
new york, new jersey, usa, miami, florida ...
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27%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A cop (Matthew McConaughey) who moonlights as a hit man agrees to kill the hated mother of a desperate drug dealer (Emile Hirsch) in exchange for a tumble with the young man's virginal sister (Juno Temple).
Style:
neo noir, disturbing, dark comedy, suspense, surreal ...
Plot:
psychopath, murder, hitman, violent, sex, greed, deal, cheating wife, nudity, character study, police detective, family relations ...
Time:
year 2011, 21st century
Place:
texas, usa, oklahoma, dallas texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
A man robs a bank to pay for his lover's operation; it turns into a hostage situation and a media circus.
Style:
cerebral, tense, suspenseful, suspense, neo noir ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
bank robbery, heist, robbery, hostage, character study, bank, bank robber, hostage situation, criminal heroes, cop, mishap, gangster ...
Time:
20th century, year 1972, year 1975, 70s
Place:
new york, persia, brooklyn new york city, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
97K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Several ordinary high school students go through their daily routine as two others prepare for something more malevolent. The film chronicles the events surrounding a school shooting.
Style:
disturbing, bleak, psychological, realistic, controversial ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
school shooting, bullying, mass murder, teacher, school, violence, murder, high school, youth, teenager, serial killer, boy ...
Time:
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Place:
usa, oregon, ireland, portland oregon
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26%
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
The true story of suburban housewife Gertrude Baniszewski, who kept a teenage girl locked in the basement of her Indiana home during the 1960s.
Style:
disturbing, harsh, serious, bleak, brutal ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama, adult
Plot:
child abuse, true crime, torture, dysfunctional family, murder, captivity, courtroom drama, family problems, domestic violence, court, trial, mistreatment ...
Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
The real-life struggle of an honest New York City cop against a corrupt system.
Style:
suspense, realistic, serious, neo noir, psychological ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
police corruption, corruption, fighting the system, police, whistleblower, undercover cop, police investigation, corrupt cop, mafia, social decay, biopic, life is a bitch ...
Time:
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Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city, greenwich village manhattan new york city, bronx new york city
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26%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A retired thief swears revenge on the lunatic who murdered his brother and partner, while going on the run with the loot they stole.
Style:
neo noir, suspenseful, perverse, hood, independent film ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
heist, betrayal, gangster, gang, robbery, murder, violence, money, kidnapping, brother, ghetto, criminal ...
Time:
year 1997, 90s, 20th century
Place:
los angeles, california, usa, florida, palm springs california
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
119K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
A small-time hood must choose from among love, friendship and the chance to rise within the mob.
Style:
neo noir, tense, realistic, atmospheric, bleak ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gangster, mafia, organized crime, friendship, money, character study, urban ghetto life, life philosophy, mobster, friends, urban, street gang ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1973
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 142 min.
Story:
Spike Lee's take on the "Son of Sam" murders in New York City during the summer of 1977 centering on the residents of an Italian-American South Bronx neighborhood who live in fear and distrust of one another.
Style:
disturbing, psychological, captivating, realistic, serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, killer, murder, psychopath, punk, infidelity, true crime, lust, dark humor, punk rock, drug, profanity ...
Time:
70s, 90s, year 1999, year 1977, 20th century
Place:
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26%
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