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From the Edge of the City (1998)
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From the Edge of the City (1998)
Original name: Από Την Άκρη Της Πόλης
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Greece
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Minority-group Greeks from an outer suburb of Athens struggle with their life on society's fringe and exploitation of one another.
Style: rough, bleak, serious, realistic, gloomy, neo noir, lgbt cinema, disgusting, queer cinema, gay cinema
Audience: teens, pre-teens
Plot: lgbt, greek, male masturbation, migration, glbt, lgbtq, prostitute, suburbs, culture clash, immigrant, russian mafia, gay subtext, ocean, gang, youth, friends, misfit, life is a bitch, gays and lesbians, teenage life, social differences, society, down on your luck, urban, juvenile delinquency ...
Time: 90s
Place: greece, russia, chernobyl, europe, italy, kazakhstan, athens greece ...
Keyword: disgust, ocean or sea, russian, albanian

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, rough and crying films with plots about death, teenage boy, life is a bitch, society, youth, friendship and murder mostly in Drama, Crime and Romance genres. Some movies like From the Edge of the City: Mandragora (1997), The Ambitious Lover (1982), Pizza, Beer, and Cigarettes (1998), Midnight Dancers (1994), Ethan Mao (2004). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Mandragora (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 126 min.
Story: Marek is a 15-year-old from a provincial village who runs away to Prague when he begins to fail at school. He is mugged shortly after arriving in the city and is rescued by Honza with the promise of work. Marek is taken to an apartment, drugged, and ...
Style: disturbing, realistic, serious, rough, bleak ...
Plot: gay, rent boy, lgbt teen, male prostitution, gay teenager, lgbt, male prostitute, male objectification, male masturbation, gay interest, prostitution, runaway ...
Time: 90s
Place: czech republic, europe, prague
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The Ambitious Lover (1982)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Greece
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A husband and his lover plan the killing of his wife.
Style: teen sex comedy, detective
Plot: erotica, affair, adultery, failed marriage, transgender, bare butt, bare chested male, villain as protagonist, estranged husband, woman fights a man, seductive girl, unpunished antagonist ...
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100%
Pianese Nunzio, Fourteen in May (1996)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 114 min.
Story: A young priest crusades against organized crime in his Naples neighbourhood but falls in love with a 13-year old boy. It's the chance the gangsters were waiting for to get rid of the thorn in their side. Will they be able to force the boy to ...
Style: realistic, serious, touching, sexual, crying ...
Plot: gay, coming of age, lgbt, youth, religion, sex crime, age difference, glbt, family relations, unemployment, friendship, sex with a priest ...
Time: 90s
Place: italy, europe, naples italy, rome italy, milan italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Pizza, Beer, and Cigarettes (1998)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Argentina
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A couple of friends work for a taxi driver to rob his passengers, but they feel like they're getting ripped off. They decide to plan their own robberies, but they are amateurs and things don't go too well. One of the youths, Cordoba, whose ...
Style: hispanic, social, realistic, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot: heist, worker, mobster, teenager, gang, pregnancy, street gang, kids in trouble, urban ghetto, criminal heroes, crime gone awry, going straight ...
Time: 90s
Place: argentina, latin america, uruguay, buenos aires argentina
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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Midnight Dancers (1994)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Brothers Joel (Alex Del Rosario), Dennis (Grandong Cervantes) and Sonny (Lawrence David) work together as dancers at a low-rent gay bar in downtown Manila, in the Philippines. Despite his mother's pleas, Sonny decides to quit college to work ...
Style: tagalog, contemplative, sexual, sincere, serious ...
Plot: gay, glbt, lgbt, redemption, gays and lesbians, rent boy, death, lgbtq, sex crime, family relations, disco, nightclub ...
Time: 90s
Place: manila philippines, the philippines, japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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Ethan Mao (2004)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Kicked out of his house because he's gay, Ethan Mao returns home to steal and ends up holding his family hostage on a fateful Thanksgiving Day.
Style: serious, psychological, disturbing, rough, realistic ...
Plot: gay, friendship, thanksgiving, juvenile delinquency, haunted by the past, lgbt, family problems, society, drug dealing, rehabilitation, youth, survival ...
Place: los angeles, boston
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Our Lady of the Assassins (2000)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Spain, France, Colombia
Duration: 101 min.
Story: World-weary arthur Fernando has returned to his native Colombia to live out his days in peace. But Fernando's once-quiet hometown has become a hotbed of violence, drugs and corruption. On the brink of despair, Fernando meets Alexis, a ...
Style: disturbing, meditative, thought provoking, rough, contemplative ...
Plot: gay, murder, vengeance, poverty, lgbt, drug dealing, teenage life, fall in love, love affair, drug, writers, life is a bitch ...
Time: 90s
Place: colombia, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Speedway Junky (1999)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Israel
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A naive drifter runs away from his army father in hopes of making it on the car racing circuit. In Las Vegas, he meets a young scam artist, who develops a crush on him. He is then introduced to a whole gang led by a young hustler. The racer-to-be ...
Style: talky, serious, realistic, slang, feel good ...
Plot: male prostitution, friendship, gay, scam, male prostitute, best friend, teenage life, bare chested male, gay interest, gay friend, high school life, love and romance ...
Time: 90s
Place: las vegas, nevada, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Cyclo (1995)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Vietnam, France, Hong Kong
Duration: 123 min.
Story: Follows a young cyclo (bicycle cab) driver on his poverty-driven descent into criminality in modern-day Ho Chi Minh City. The boy's struggles to scratch out a living for his two sisters and grandfather in the mean streets of the city lead to ...
Style: disturbing, bleak, stylized, neo noir, controversial ...
Plot: poverty, vietnam war, gangster, coming of age, gang, youth, minimal dialogue, drug, corruption, mafia, prostitution, poetry ...
Time: year 1995, 90s
Place: saigon, vietnam, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Less Than Zero (1987)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A college freshman returns to Los Angeles for the holidays at his ex-girlfriend's request, but discovers that his former best friend has an out-of-control drug habit.
Style: stylized, cult classic, visually stunning, cerebral, erotic drama ...
Audience: teens
Plot: drug addiction, friendship, drug addict, addiction, drug, drug abuse, male nudity, hedonism, male prostitute, male prostitution, christmas, high school ...
Time: 80s, year 1987
Place: los angeles, california, beverly hills, usa, palm springs california
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Pixote (1980)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 128 min.
Story: Pixote, a 10-year-old runaway boy, is arrested on the streets of Sao Paulo during a police round-up homeless people. Pixote endures torture, degradation and corruption at a local youth detention center where two of the runaways are murdered by ...
Style: disturbing, depressing, bleak, realistic, rough ...
Plot: prostitution, street kid, sex with a minor, boy, coming of age, children, anal rape, child rape, breast feeding, loneliness, homeless, tragedy ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, year 1981
Place: brazil, latin america, rio de janeiro, africa, sao paulo brazil
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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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 ⇓
33%
The Child I Never Was (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 83 min.
Story: A serial killer dispassionately discusses the nuts and bolts of his grisly avocation, as well as the youthful traumas which helped to mold him into a psychopath, in this disturbing independent drama from Germany, based on the true story of of ...
Style: disturbing, psychological, serious, bleak, art house ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: pedophilia, pedophile, sexual obsession, sexual predator, youth, murder, coming of age, psychopath, investigation, sexual abuse, serial killer, brutality ...
Time: year 1976, year 1962, year 1966, 21st century
Place: germany, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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Twist (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story: In a gritty retelling of the Dickens's classic, Twist takes Oliver and the Artful Dodger out of the poorhouse and onto the streets, where junk is the currency and hustling is the game.
Style: rough, suspenseful, serious, realistic, crying ...
Plot: juvenile delinquency, male prostitute, life is a bitch, drug abuse, lgbt, pimp, kids in trouble, addiction, sexual relations, youth, apprentice, society ...
Place: canada, toronto ontario canada, quebec
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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L.I.E. (2001)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: In this biting and disturbing coming-of-age tale from writer-director Michael Cuesta, life is bittersweet along the L.I.E., also known as the Long Island Expressway, as suburban teen Howie Blitzer learns all too clearly. In the space of a week, he ...
Style: disturbing, bleak, controversial, brutal, enigmatic ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: gay, male prostitution, coming of age, lgbt teen, sexual abuse, pedophile, juvenile delinquent, pedophilia, gay cruising, mentor, youth, boy ...
Time: year 2001, 21st century
Place: long island, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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Hostage (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Greece, Turkey, Austria
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Inspired by the real-life story of a bus hijacking in Northern Greece, HOSTAGE explores the sensitive issue of Greek-Albanian relations through a young Albanian who takes over an intercity bus. Upon hijacking the bus, he takes the seven passengers ...
Style: disturbing, tense, psychological, serious, bleak ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: hostage, racism, hijacking, terrorism, immigrant, society, save the day, confined, danger, rivalry, one man army, against the odds ...
Time: 21st century
Place: albania, greece, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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Jimmy Zip (1999)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: An abused runaway with pyromaniac tendencies teams up with a metal sculptor. Together they blow away the art world and a local crime boss.
Style: independent film, realistic, serious, rough, grunge
Plot: youth, child abuse, hollywood, friendship, coming of age, best friend, performer's life, kids in trouble, friends, urban, addiction, down on your luck ...
Time: 90s
Place: usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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Head On (1998)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Nineteen-year-old Ari confronts both his sexuality and his Greek family. Ari despises his once-beloved parents, former radical activists, for having entombed themselves in insular tradition. Ari is obsessed with gay sex, although he does make an ...
Style: independent film, lgbt cinema, terrifying, serious, realistic ...
Plot: gay, lgbt, transgender, lgbtq, glbt, drug abuse, violence, homosexuality, lgbtqi, greek, drug addiction, brutality ...
Time: 90s
Place: australia, melbourne, oceania
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Joe the King (1999)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A destitute 14 year old struggles to keep his life together despite harsh abuse at his mother's hands, harsher abuse at his father's, and a growing separation from his slightly older brother. Petty thefts for food grow into more major ...
Style: emotional, harsh, tense, rough, grim ...
Plot: coming of age, children, dysfunctional family, child abuse, working class, youth, boy, redemption, poverty, childhood, corporal punishment, debt ...
Time: year 1999, 70s, 90s
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Rodrigo D: No Future (1990)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Music
Country: Colombia
Duration: 93 min.
Story: "Rodrigo D: No futuro" explores the bleak and precarious lives of working class street kids in Medellín. So dangerous is this world that three of its nonprofessional actors have been killed violently since production wrapped in 1988. ...
Style: captivating, realistic, serious, gloomy, rough ...
Plot: punk rock, drug dealing, juvenile delinquency, poverty, neighborhood, suicide, juvenile delinquent, conflict, heavy metal, rock, teenage life, city life ...
Time: 80s
Place: colombia
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29%
The Wounded Man (1983)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Henri is a lonely, isolated young man who lets no one get close to him. He meets a street hustler and comes out of his shell, going 180 degrees into gay obsession. Though he has yet to physically approach the object of his affection, Henri builds up ...
Style: erotic, serious, psychological, realistic, sexual ...
Plot: lgbt, gay, nudity, gay love, gay erotica, traumatic childhood, lgbtq, family relations, obsession, male nudity, male pubic hair, gay interest ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: paris france, france, frankfurt germany, africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Flawless (1999)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: An ultraconservative police officer suffers a debilitating stroke and is assigned to a rehabilitative program that includes singing lessons - with the drag queen next door.
Style: talky, independent film, thinking, comedy drama, light ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: gay, stroke, transgender, transvestism, gender, drag queen, lgbt, lgbtq, gay lead character, loneliness, friendship, gay slur ...
Time: year 1999, 20th century, 90s
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Tsotsi (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK, South Africa
Duration: 95 min.
Story: The South African multi-award winning film about a young South African boy from the ghetto named Tsotsi, meaning Gangster. Tsotsi, who left home as a child to get away from helpless parents, finds a baby in the back seat of a car that he has just ...
Style: sincere, bleak, emotional, harsh, captivating ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: baby, poverty, urban ghetto life, society, slum, friendship, childhood, coming of age, murder, street life, robbery, african ...
Time: 21st century
Place: south africa, africa, johannesburg south africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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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 ⇓
28%
The Deputy and the Congressman (1978)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Madrid, Roberto Orbea is a member of the Spanish communist party. He is married to Carmen, and he has been elected as Deputy in the first democratic elections in Spain. But his enemies, the fascist, know his double life. Roberto likes boys, and they ...
Style: sensual, social, political, thought provoking, captivating ...
Plot: lgbt, gay, politics, gays and lesbians, unfaithfulness, triad, seductive, eroticism, hustler, one night stand, politician, hospital ...
Time: 70s
Place: spain, madrid, europe, venice
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
My Own Private Idaho (1991)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: In this loose adaptation of Shakespeare's "Henry IV," Mike Waters is a gay hustler afflicted with narcolepsy. Scott Favor is the rebellious son of a mayor. Together, the two travel from Portland, Oregon to Idaho and finally to the ...
Style: road movie, surreal, art house, lgbt cinema, cult classic ...
Audience: teens, chick flick
Plot: gay, homosexual, friendship, homosexuality, friendship between men, lgbt, male prostitute, character study, alienation, unrequited love, love, road trip ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, year 1991
Place: idaho, portland oregon, seattle, rome italy, indiana ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Chronically Unfeasible (2000)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Filmed over a five-year period, Chronically Unfeasible dissects Brazilian problems, using six people who meet in a restaurant in São Paulo as models to illustrate political, sociological and economic disparities between Brazil's upper and ...
Style: disturbing, serious, rough, biting, realistic ...
Plot: politics, social decay, rich and poor, social differences, fighting the system, injustice, working class, society, life is a bitch, downfall, juvenile delinquency, state affairs ...
Time: 90s
Place: brazil, latin america, sao paulo brazil, rio de janeiro
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Hurricane Streets (1997)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Marcus is a kid on Manhattan's mean streets. He's turning 15, his father is dead, his mother is in prison for smuggling undocumented aliens. His grandmother is raising him. He has four close buddies who have a basement clubhouse; they ...
Style: independent film, realistic, serious, rough, bleak ...
Plot: coming of age, gang, friendship, dysfunctional family, boy, children, violence, teenager, runaway, worship, smuggling, theft ...
Time: year 1997, 90s
Place: new york, new mexico, lower east side manhattan new york city, manhattan new york city, alaska
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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If.... (1968)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 111 min.
Story: The film is a caustic portrait of a traditional English boys’ boarding school, where social hierarchy reigns supreme and power remains in the hands of distanced and ineffectual teachers and callously vicious prefects in the Upper Sixth. But three ...
Style: surreal, disturbing, controversial, dark comedy, stylized ...
Audience: teens
Plot: revolution, social satire, boarding school, private school, school shooting, coming of age, boys' school, violence, teacher, adolescence, surrealism, corporal punishment ...
Time: year 1968, 60s, 20th century
Place: england, britain, europe, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Tough Enough (2006)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 98 min.
Story: From the youth directed novel of the same name by Greogor Tressnow comes a film by Detlev Buck that is a realistic portrait of life in the section of Berlin called Neukölln. It’s about power and weakness, delinquents and victims, and the ...
Style: realistic, suspenseful, serious, tense, rough ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: juvenile delinquency, street gang, youth gang, coming of age, gang, bullying, friendship, urban ghetto, urban ghetto life, parents and children, high school life, murder ...
Time: 21st century
Place: germany, berlin germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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