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Blood of My Blood (2007)
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Original name: Padre nuestro
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Argentina
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A Mexican boy smuggles himself to Brooklyn to meet his long-lost father - only to have his identity stolen upon arrival by an impostor who seeks to steal the fathers' fortune.
Style:
psychological, serious, suspenseful, tense, rough, realistic
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
family relations, parents and children, starting over, estrangement, hopes, on the road, criminal heroes, u.s. mexico border, mexican immigrant, boy, border, little boy, coming of age, mexican american border, immigrant, prostitute, profanity, society, violent content, father, human trafficking, immigrants
Time:
year 2007, 21st century, contemporary
Place:
brooklyn new york city
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Most similar movies to Blood of My Blood
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, suspenseful and tense films with plots about family relations, parents and children, violent content, graphic violence, society, criminal heroes and profanity mostly in Drama, Thriller and Crime genres. Some movies like Blood of My Blood: Beyond the Sky (2006), The Parts You Lose (2019), Stockholm, Pennsylvania (2015), El cartel (2009), The Narrows (2008). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Malboro and Cucu, the starring characters, are two brothers who split after the older one, Malboro, went to prison five years. One day he is set free, willing to return to his life. Cucu is the younger brother, who has become a boxer with possible ...
Style:
suspenseful, tense, psychological, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
disorder, family relations, siblings relations, estrangement, brother brother relationship, male objectification, orphan, urban, male nudity, nudity, bare butt, female bare legs ...
Time:
year 2006, 21st century
Place:
mexico, latin america
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
An unlikely friendship unfolds between a young deaf boy, Wesley, and a fugitive criminal who takes refuge in an abandoned barn on the family’s rural North Dakota farm.
Style:
suspense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens, family outing, boys' night
Plot:
boy, deaf, forensics, runaway, friendship, criminal, friend, disabled person, teenage life, estrangement, choice, violent ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A young woman is returned home to her biological parents after living with her abductor for 17 years.
Style:
psychological, realistic, serious, tense, independent film ...
Plot:
stockholm syndrome, kidnapping, homecoming, parents and children, family problems, redemption, hopes, child abuse, fish out of water, isolation, teenage girl, starting over ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
pennsylvania, usa
Similarity:
39%
524
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Based on Mexico's current criminal climate, EL CÁRTEL is a rare look into the values and practices of the world's most intriguing and enigmatic industry - the multi-billion dollar business of drug trafficking. When Jules Land, a naïve ...
Style:
serious, realistic, psychological, tense, independent film ...
Plot:
border, drug dealing, media, chase, journalist, business, drug cartel, drug, violence, tough heroes, once in a lifetime opportunity, criminal heroes ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
mexico, latin america
Similarity:
35%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A 19 year old Brooklyn boy who is torn between two worlds when his photography portfolio wins him a partial scholarship to NYU. He must figure out how to balance his Italian neighborhood roots with the expansive, sophisticated world on the other ...
Style:
serious, tense, captivating, suspense, psychological ...
Plot:
college student, moral dilemma, parents and children, city life, family relations, human nature, self discovery, society, coming of age, hot and sexy, nypd, urban ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york, brooklyn new york city
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
18 year old Jason Dorkel belongs to a community of gypsies. He is about to celebrate his baptism when his half-brother Fred returns after fifteen years in prison. Together, with their last brother, the violent, hot-headed Michael and their Christian ...
Style:
tense, realistic, psychological, captivating, suspense ...
Plot:
on the road, crime gone awry, youth, coming of age, profanity, on the run, running from police, thief, rivalry, murder, danger, chase ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Michelle a single mother is kidnapped by three masked men and held hostage until she is forced to rob a bank which is the only option she has to saving her only child's life while they are both wired to explode.
Style:
psychological, serious, rough, suspenseful, realistic ...
Plot:
confined, heist, woman in danger, single parent, danger, unlikely criminals, isolation, crime gone awry, parents and children, bank, kidnapping, child in peril ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
30%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
The lives of a nightclub owner, a crime boss, a stripper, a bartender, two hitmen, a prostitute and a psychic take a turn for the worse when they are trapped in an escaped mental patient's sinister path of madness and destruction.
Style:
tense, serious, suspenseful, realistic, fast ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
hitman, mental illness, mentally unstable, vengeance, criminal's revenge, violence spree, sexual content, murder, strip club, nightclub, crime boss, nudity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
29%
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582
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
After John’s absent father is struck by a stray bullet, Primo takes it upon himself to verse the young boy in the code of the streets—one founded on respect and upheld by fear. A member of the Bloods since the age of twelve—both in the film ...
Style:
realistic, serious, captivating, psychological, sexy ...
Plot:
gang, juvenile delinquency, urban ghetto life, haunted by the past, adolescence vs adulthood, society, coming of age, teaching the ways of the world, ghetto, gangster, violent content, drug dealing ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
29%
468
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Greece
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
In a country shaken by major political events, three generations of a Greek family clash over an inside-the-family adoption.
Style:
serious, realistic, psychological, tense, captivating ...
Plot:
family relations, family problems, political unrest, society, state affairs, parents and children, danger, rivalry, human nature, greek, riot, profanity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
greece
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
The film chronicles the exploits of the title character, Charlie, played by Raymond J. Barry (Training Day) a career criminal intent on scoring one last big pay day. When his "perfect crime" goes bad, Charlie flees to Los Angeles to hide ...
Style:
serious, rough, realistic, suspenseful, independent film
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
criminal heroes, dishonesty, heist, family relations, strong violent content, betrayal, crime gone awry, parents and children, disorder, violence, mafia, robbery ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
california, usa, los angeles
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A young Australian woman reluctantly agrees to help a Chinese mother search for her missing daughter and becomes involved in human trafficking and the sex slave trade.
Style:
serious, tense, psychological, captivating, disturbing ...
Plot:
sex trafficking, human trafficking, sexual abuse, missing person, deportation, gangster, immigrant, manipulation, social decay, prostitute, trafficking, kidnapping ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
australia, melbourne
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Real Gangsters tells the story of the Lo Giacamo family, one of the most successful crime syndicates in New York City. Run by cousins Vincent Lo Giacamo and Jack Lo Giacamo, Real Gangsters shows how these two men maintain control of their dangerous ...
Style:
tense, realistic, suspenseful, serious, cynical ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gangster, rivalry, rise and fall, family business, family relations, unfulfillment, ambition, danger, organized crime, mafia, society, outlaw ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york
Similarity:
26%
629
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A detective must uncover the truth behind the death of his daughter. But the truth hits close to home.
Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, independent film ...
Plot:
investigation, riddles and clues, estrangement, family relations, danger, parents and children, murder, death in the family, police detective, murder investigation, father daughter relationship, porn industry ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A thriller centered on a young boxer trying to distance himself from his father's gangster past and the relationship with his trainer.
Style:
realistic, suspenseful, serious, bleak, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
boxer, gangster, haunted by the past, danger, parents and children, athlete and trainer, escape from reality, family problems, starting over, boxing, rivalry, violent content ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england
Similarity:
25%
632
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
State secrets, sincere convictions, ecstatic crowds, a regal lifestyle, prying journalists, suspicious disappearances: what goes on behind the scenes in the halls of power or the daily life of a President.
Style:
realistic, suspenseful, serious, captivating, romantic drama ...
Plot:
head of state, ambition, intern, fall in love, idealism, parents and children, state affairs, family relations, hopes, politics, society, coming of age ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
A descent into hell, Jesper Ganslandt's disturbing and suspenseful second feature begins with a man waking up in unfamiliar surroundings, only to find the life he knew the day before is gone.
Style:
disturbing, contemplative, tense, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
losing-it hero, hell, introspection, moral dilemma, human nature, family relations, disorder, life turned upside down, heroes, parents and children, surrealism, father ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, eastern europe
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
An average man finds himself in a position to prevent the murder of a family member -- the unnerving descent of a man caught between resilience and ruthlessness.
Style:
tense, psychological, serious, suspenseful, independent film ...
Plot:
moral dilemma, life is a bitch, rivalry, dishonesty, human nature, life turned upside down, feud, murder, violent content, nudity, sexual content, alcohol abuse ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
25%
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium, Senegal
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
The debut feature from Franco-Senegalese filmmaker Dyana Gaye charts the interconnected destinies of three far-flung sojourners across three continents. A quiet drama, about the anxieties of negotiating journeying to foreign countries and making a ...
Style:
sincere, realistic, serious, touching
Plot:
on the road, parents and children, fish out of water, dishonesty, friendship, society, immigrant, hopes, starting over, family relations, culture clash, migration ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
italy, new york, france, africa
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A young Texan mother who loses her child to foster care begins smuggling Mexicans across the border.
Style:
realistic, touching, tense, captivating, suspense ...
Plot:
mexican american border, custody, smuggling, immigrant, introspection, single parent, parents and children, society, life is a bitch, haunted by the past, illegal immigration, poverty ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, texas
Similarity:
24%
494
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
An ex-con tries to go straight but also wants to get back money he's owed for the job that put him in prison. He meets a waitress who's also seen her share of trouble and they start up a tenuous relationship. Then there's a murder and ...
Style:
tense, suspenseful, rough, serious, realistic
Plot:
going straight, lovers on the run, starting over, criminal heroes, haunted by the past, love affair, criminal's revenge, love and romance, hopes, woman in danger, couples, chases and races ...
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
A couple goes to dangerous lengths to find a lung donor for their daughter.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, captivating, tense, psychological ...
Plot:
transplant, male pubic hair, doctor, moral dilemma, child illness, parents and children, family problems, society, escapades, couple relations, female nudity, male nudity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
mexico, latin america, usa
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
This powerful, hard-edged crime drama explores the dark side of the American immigrant experience and dares to ask, "How far would you go to survive?" Lana’s only chance to escape the war-torn Balkans is her long-lost brother, Darko, a ...
Style:
serious, realistic, rough, bleak, gloomy ...
Plot:
starting over, survival, immigrant, gangster, criminal heroes, prostitute, society, life is a bitch, urban ghetto life, betrayal, revenge, violent content ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
chicago, usa, bosnia herzegovina
Similarity:
24%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Alienated and cold, The Mortician (Method Man) processes the corpses with steely disregard. He is lonely and isolated. He is introduced to his new employee, Noah, (EJ Bonilla) by the morgue boss (Edward Furlong). Noah is a volatile youth working as ...
Style:
neo noir, psychological, tense, bleak, serious ...
Plot:
mortician, insomnia, haunted by the past, murder, redemption, emotionless, social decay, danger, corpse, black, urban ghetto, hopes ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A wife and mother starts an affair with a young missionary... with disastrous consequences.
Style:
suspenseful, realistic, tense, suspense, captivating ...
Plot:
sex scene, stalking, obsession, infidelity, dangerous attraction, danger, parents and children, single parent, couples, love triangle, forbidden love, cheating wife ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, florida
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Johnnie Cooper served time for an armed robbery that also his father and brother participated in. When he's released from jail he's determined to live a normal life and gets work at a gas station. But soon his brother pays a visit.
Style:
independent film, tense, realistic, serious, rough ...
Plot:
professional killer, hitman, parole officer, gas station, profanity, escape, family relations, disorder, prison, cons and scams, siblings relations, car chase ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
latin america, mexico
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A decent but troubled young man is sent to a psychiatric institution for the criminally insane and soon finds himself in a fight for his life battling ghosts inside his head and very real enemies all around him.
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, tense, rough, independent film ...
Plot:
mental institution, murder, psychopath, redemption, mentally unstable, criminal psychologist, woman in danger, crime and punishment, haunted by the past, prison, love, prison life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
22%
424
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A tragic tale of an Asian youth's gang life in South East Los Angeles, set during the mid 80's to the early 90s.
Style:
realistic, rough, suspenseful, serious, crime drama
Plot:
juvenile delinquency, gang, best friend, youth, rivalry, urban ghetto life, tough heroes, criminal heroes, prison, murder, society, life is a bitch ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
On the trail of her missing sister, Charlotte enlists the help of Wayne, an ex-Marine and alcoholic, to infiltrate the Church of One Accord - a community of snake-handlers who risk their lives seeking salvation in the Holy Ghost.
Style:
tense, serious, psychological, suspenseful, realistic ...
Plot:
religions or cults, missing person, rescue, uncover truth, woman in danger, clergy, danger, religion, religious fanaticism, brainwashing, anti christianity, faith ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
22%
259
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A teen commits murder, gets away with it and a year later, he turns himself in, but before doing so, he confesses to the victim's family.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, rough, suspense, crime drama ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gang, going straight, haunted by the past, police investigation, criminal heroes, gangster, redemption, teenage life, society, crime gone awry, drug dealing, hopes ...
Similarity:
22%
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