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Awaydays (2009)
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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 fighting.
Style: rough, serious, suspenseful, tense, bleak, realistic, gloomy, cult film
Plot: gang, hooligan, football, teenage life, juvenile delinquency, coming of age, destructive relationship, life is a bitch, unemployment, down on your luck, troublemaker, buddies, violence spree, gay, youth, skinhead, football hooligan, hooliganism, criminal, brutality, subculture, soccer, angry, hoodie, exodus ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: england, britain, liverpool
Keyword: new wave

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, rough and bleak films with plots about gang, society, gangster, life is a bitch, skinhead, angry and youth mostly in Drama, Crime and Sport genres. Some movies like Awaydays: The Football Factory (2004), Green Street Hooligans (2005), This Is England (2006), Cass (2008), Siberian Education (2013). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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%
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 ⇓
75%
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This Is England (2006)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A story about a troubled boy growing up in England, set in 1983. He comes across a few skinheads on his way home from school, after a fight. They become his new best friends even like family. Based on experiences of director Shane Meadows.
Style: emotional, political, depressing, stylized, harsh ...
Audience: teens
Plot: skinhead, racism, childhood, adolescence, neo nazi, coming of age, nationalism, friendship, youth, children, xenophobia, prejudice ...
Time: 80s, year 1983, year 2006, 2000s, 20th century
Place: england, britain, united kingdom, northern england, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.4
 7K
Cass (2008)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story: The incredible true story of how an orphaned Jamaican baby, adopted by an elderly white couple and brought up in an all white area of London, became one of the most feared and respected men in Britain.
Style: psychological, serious, realistic, rough, powerful ...
Plot: racism, adoption, interracial relations, bullying, lifestyle, going straight, self discovery, rise to the top, parents and children, rebellion, human spirit, rivalry ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: england, britain, london, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Siberian Education (2013)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 110 min.
Story: The story of a gang of children growing up in a community of banished criminals, in a forgotten corner of the former Soviet Union. This community rejects the world outside. The only law it obeys… is its own. Against this backdrop two best friends, ...
Style: serious, realistic, rough, suspense, gloomy ...
Plot: friendship, uninhibited rivalry, rivalry, teenage life, social misfits, crime and punishment, society, social relations, isolation, parents and children, misfit, mafia ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, 21st century
Place: russia, siberia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Green Street 3: Never Back Down (2013)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story: An old firm leader returns to Green Street for Revanche after receiving a call that his little brother was killed, but is he able to cope with a new type of hooliganism and can he find his killer?
Style: serious, exciting, suspenseful, rough, realistic
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, uninhibited rivalry, gang, ambition, society, vengeance, violence spree, friends, soccer, hooliganism, football, football hooligan ...
Time: 21st century
Place: london, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Neds (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, France, Italy
Duration: 124 min.
Story: NEDs (Non Educated Delinquents) is the story of a young man’s journey from prize-winning schoolboy to knife-carrying teenager. Struggling against the low expectations of those around him, John McGill changes from victim to avenger, scholar to NED, ...
Style: rough, serious, realistic, bleak, disturbing ...
Plot: juvenile delinquency, street kid, bullying, coming of age, gang war, youth, social decay, teenage life, society, realism, social problems, rebellion ...
Time: year 2010, 70s, 20th century
Place: scotland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 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 ⇓
39%
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Top Dog (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Hooligan boss Billy Evans has it all - a successful business, a beautiful family and respect on the terraces. But when he clashes with gangster Mickey over a backstreet proetection racket, Billy soon finds himself out of his depth as they look to ...
Style: rough, tense, realistic, serious, suspenseful
Audience: boys' night
Plot: downfall, rivalry, ambition, gang, unfulfillment, criminal heroes, blind ambition, football hooligan, hooligan, criminal, football, nationalism ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 4.7
 2K
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 ⇓
37%
 6.6
 13K
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, realistic, serious, cult classic ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: urban ghetto life, gang, vengeance, society, juvenile delinquency, teenage life, drug addict, life is a bitch, youth, criminal's revenge, ghetto, urban ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, united kingdom, britain, europe, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 7.0
 4K
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 ⇓
34%
Made in Britain (1982)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 76 min.
Story: Trevor sometimes-violent skinhead with no regard for authority, and would rather spend his time stealing cars than sitting in the detention centre to which he is sent. His social worker, Harry Parker, tries to do his best, but Trevor is only ...
Style: disturbing, controversial, powerful, terrifying, cult classic ...
Plot: skinhead, juvenile delinquency, racism, urban ghetto life, neo nazi, punk, subculture, hooligan, youth, urban, social realism, club ...
Time: year 1982, 80s
Place: britain, europe, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Crossing the Line (1990)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Sport
Country: UK
Duration: 116 min.
Story: An unemployed Scottish miner (Liam Neeson) is forced into bare-knuckle boxing to make ends meet.
Style: rough, realistic, serious, cult classic, bleak ...
Plot: boxing, life is a bitch, contests and competitions, gambling, athlete's life, lifestyle, rivalry, working class, down on your luck, unemployment, mixed martial arts, illegal fistfight ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: scotland, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
The Rise & Fall of a White Collar Hooligan (2012)
Genre: Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Casual football hooligan Mike Jacobs is going nowhere in life when he meets old friend Eddie Hill at a football match that turns nasty off the pitch. Under Eddie’s tutelage he soon finds himself inducted into the world of credit card fraud, where ...
Style: serious, realistic, rough
Audience: boys' night
Plot: hooligan, rise and fall, ambition, lifestyle, gang, buddies, dishonesty, cons and scams, british gangster, football hooligan, angry, bank robber ...
Time: year 2012, 21st century
Place: england, britain
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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 ⇓
32%
This Is England '86 (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 47 min.
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Story: This Is England '86 is a 2010 British drama miniseries written by Shane Meadows and Jack Thorne, a spin-off from the 2006 film This Is England. Shaun has just finished his final exams and he realizes he is no longer a kid. It's mid ...
Style: emotional, sentimental, disturbing, touching, serious ...
Plot: subculture, skinhead, life is a bitch, youth, friendship, friends, rebelliousness, teenage life, sexual relations, adolescence, couples, student ...
Time: 20th century, year 1986, 80s
Place: england, yorkshire, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
A Children's Story (2004)
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, rough, bleak, realistic
Plot: street kid, juvenile delinquency, youth, friends, danger, society, life is a bitch, coming of age, social worker, teaching the ways of the world, social decay, urban ghetto life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, italy, naples italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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Scum (1979)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story: This is the hard and shocking story of life in a British Borstal for young offenders. The brutal regime made no attempt to reform or improve the inmates and actively encouraged a power struggle between the 'tough' new inmate and the ...
Style: disturbing, rough, tense, serious, controversial ...
Plot: prison, racism, boy, youth, rebellion, corruption, revenge, riot, rape, juvenile delinquency, kids in trouble, sadism ...
Time: year 1979, near future, 70s, 20th century
Place: england, britain, united kingdom
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Green Street Hooligans 2 (2009)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: When the top players of the Green Street Elite are imprisoned following a deadly battle with their archenemies Millwall every day becomes a fight for survival. On the inside, rival firms and prison guards will stop at nothing to make their lives a ...
Style: serious, rough, realistic, suspense, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: prison, hooligan, lifestyle, mob violence, buddies, confined, uninhibited rivalry, society, rivalry, soccer, football, violence ...
Time: year 2009
Place: england, britain, london, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
16 Years of Alcohol (2003)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story: 16 Years of Alcohol is a 2003 drama film written and directed by Richard Jobson, based on his 1987 novel. The film is Jobson's first directorial effort, following a career as a television presenter on BSkyB and VH-1, and as the vocalist for the ...
Style: psychological, serious, realistic, touching, suspense ...
Plot: skinhead, alcohol abuse, alcoholic, addiction, society, family problems, life is a bitch, racial slur, couples, gang, misfit, youth ...
Place: europe, scotland, edinburgh scotland
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Bonded by Blood (2010)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story: In 1995, drug suppliers and career criminals Tony Tucker, Patrick Tate and Craig Rolfe were blasted to death by a shot gun whilst waiting in a Range Rover in Rettendon, Essex. The film charts their rise to become the most prolific dealers and feared ...
Style: tense, serious, rough, suspenseful, realistic
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gang, rise and fall, rivalry, partner, gangster, dishonesty, betrayal, criminal heroes, vengeance, drug dealing, ambition, violence ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: england, britain, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
 6.0
 5K
Offender (2012)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Justice needs to be served at Britain's most notorious young offenders institute.
Style: serious, realistic, tense, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot: robbery, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, prison life, confined, male nudity, teenage boy, life is a bitch, vengeance, vigilantism, prison, chase, juvenile delinquency ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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Rhymes for Young Ghouls (2013)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story: In 1976, a Mi'gMaq teenager plots revenge against the sadistic Indian agent who imprisoned her in a residential school where rape and abuse are common.
Style: serious, psychological, atmospheric, realistic, gloomy ...
Audience: teens
Plot: native american, juvenile delinquency, teenage life, youth, vengeance, life is a bitch, drug dealing, society, rivalry, indigenous people, revenge, racism ...
Time: 70s, year 1976, 20th century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
 6.9
 2K
Small Faces (1995)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Three teenage brothers, gang-member Bobby, troubled mama's boy Alan and self-assured prankster Lex, reside in a downtrodden section of Glasgow, Scotland, circa 1968. But while Bobby and Alan are beginning to experience the power of raging ...
Style: realistic, bleak, independent film, tense, serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: working class, dysfunctional family, coming of age, gang, youth, subculture, artist, violence, children, british gangster, angry, boy ...
Time: year 1996, 20th century, 90s
Place: scotland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
 5.6
 2K
Screwed (2011)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 110 min.
Story: The film is a semi-biographical story based on the experiences of former prison guard Ronnie Thompson who spent seven years working in some of the UK's most dangerous prisons. Based on Thompson's book of the same name, the project stars ...
Style: rough, disturbing, serious, tense, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: prison, prison life, violence spree, life is a bitch, downfall, fish out of water, misfit, law enforcement, confined, haunted by the past, corrupt officer, estrangement ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, britain, europe, united kingdom
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
 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 ⇓
30%
 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 ⇓
29%
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 298
City of M (2000)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Peru
Duration: 102 min.
Story: After exhausting all legal channels in his search for a job, "M" struggles with the decision of whether or not to enter a life of crime by helping his friends deliver drugs to Miami.
Style: serious, suspenseful, rough, realistic, bleak
Plot: drug dealing, unemployment, introspection, life is a bitch, society, down on your luck, cocaine, petty theft, criminal heroes, city life, urban, rape ...
Time: 90s
Place: peru, usa, florida, latin america, miami
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
 6.1
 12K
God's Pocket (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A boozy lowlife tries to bury the truth about his crazy stepson's suspicious death, but a nosy newspaper columnist and the young man's mother complicate matters.
Style: tense, psychological, captivating, rough, neo noir ...
Plot: working class, urban ghetto life, uncover truth, investigation, life turned upside down, down on your luck, society, life is a bitch, suspicion, death, neighborhood, irish mob ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, 21st century
Place: philadelphia, pennsylvania, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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