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Michael Inside (2017)
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Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
An 18-year-old man, living on a Dublin housing estate with his grandfather, is caught holding drugs for his friend's older brother and sentenced to 3 months in prison.
Style:
tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, bleak, intense
Plot:
prison, young man, illegal drugs, drug, teenage life, teenager, drug dealer, life is a bitch, changing lives, teenage boy, lifestyle change, loss of innocence, juvenile delinquency, coming of age, social realism, empathy, character study, survival, family relations, isolation, hardship, city life, guilt, moral ambiguity, grandfather ...
Place:
ireland, dublin ireland
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out tense, captivating, intense and psychological films with plots about moral ambiguity, coming of age, isolation, survival, social realism, teenager and life is a bitch mostly in Drama, Adventure and Sci-Fi genres. Some movies like Michael Inside: The Evening Hour (2020), Penitent (2017), Bullet Collector (2011), Collisions (2018), Young Adult Matters (2020). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Cole Freeman maintains an uneasy equilibrium in his rural Appalachian town, looking after the old and infirm while selling their excess painkillers to local addicts. But when an old friend returns with plans that upend the fragile balance and ...
Style:
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Plot:
drug dealer, friendship, small town, family relations, addiction, character study, drug dealing, drug trade, city life, penance, illegal drugs, drug use ...
Time:
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Place:
west virginia, appalachia
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Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
After being imprisoned for dangerous driving, causing the death of a child and possession of illegal substances, Jason Buckley is finding it difficult to adjust to life outside prison.
Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A haunting, violent tale of a youth lost in an uncaring world, Bullet Collector is visual, nightmarish masterpiece. A shy 14-year-old boy, disconnected from home life and school, and sent to a hellish reform school, eventually lashes out on the ...
Style:
disturbing, bleak, visual, suspense, captivating ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
character study, innocence lost, unsettling, loneliness, coming of age, reform school, alienation, isolation, teenage crush, combat, teenager, teenage life ...
Time:
2010s
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The possibly devastating impact of the Trump administration crackdown on immigration, for one Bay Area family.
Style:
suspense, captivating, disturbing, realistic, emotional ...
Plot:
immigration, family drama, immigrant family, mysterious disappearance, changing lives, social problems, life is a bitch, teenager, teenage life, lifestyle change, disappearance, teenage girl ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
Wandering around the streets, Sejin, a pregnant teen, gets to know Juyeong and reunites with Jaepil and Sinji. The four musketeers go through a series of misfortunes, bumping into masochistic/sadistic characters and experiencing the brutality and ...
Style:
disturbing, suspense, tense, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Colombia
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Colombian director Víctor Gaviria melds stark realism with nail-biting thrills in this story about a teenage girl who is kidnapped and forced into marriage with a ferocious shantytown thug.
Style:
captivating, disturbing, psychological, suspense, intense ...
Plot:
rape, forced marriage, domestic abuse, family relations, relationships, violence, relationship problems, male female relationship, violent, life is a bitch, forbidden love, family problems ...
Place:
colombia, latin america
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Because he wanted to protect his little brother, Teddy, a young man without a history, is accused of the murder of his father and sent to a closed educational center, waiting for his trial for parricide. He then plunges into a brutal universe of ...
Style:
captivating, suspense, crime drama, intense, tense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
brothers, brother brother relationship, juvenile delinquency, father son relationship, scapegoat, abandoned baby, reform school, abusive father, brotherhood, domestic abuse, dysfunctional family, family problems ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Style:
disturbing, captivating, psychological, bleak, intense ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Place:
ireland, dublin ireland
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Faced with the trials and obstacles of life, the tight-knit community of Ste-Adeline has always remained united. But this time it's in shock and will have to face a situation that will confront the inhabitants with their contradictions. At the ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Similarity:
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351
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
It’s summer and the beginning of the long vacation period for eleven-year-old Martin, who lives on a farm, and, at a loss, observes his family’s disintegration : his mother lives locked-up in her room ; his older brother, who he adores, drowns ...
Style:
suspense, disturbing, captivating, psychological, melancholic ...
Plot:
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Time:
2000s
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Indonesia
Story:
A friendship of two young girls, Tina and Nadya, who have fallen into dark professions. Friendships often come at a heavy price and end in tragic death, just when they want to change the course of their lives.
Style:
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Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
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Place:
indonesia
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
High school senior Brandon is drowning in responsibilities when his world is turned upside down after being robbed at gunpoint by the girl of his dreams.
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling, dramatic, emotional ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
teenage boy, teenager, coming of age, teenage protagonist, responsibility, city life, relationship problems, male female relationship, relationships, love story, love affair, family relations ...
Time:
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Place:
los angeles, california
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
2010s
Place:
italy
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Candice longs to escape the boredom of her seaside town, but when a boy she dreams about turns up in real life, she becomes involved with a dangerous local gang.
Style:
captivating, suspense, disturbing, bleak
Plot:
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Place:
ireland
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
After years on his own in a post-pandemic Oklahoma, a 17 year-old doomsday prepper meets a pregnant girl who brings companionship, but also the danger of a gun-wielding group of survivors hellbent on building a new world.
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Country: UK, South Africa, Ireland
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A high-school girl who lives in a rural town in Japan struggles to define her own way in life. To help her impoverished family she works as a video fetish performer which leads to problems for her and her family with a criminal underworld.
Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
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Duration: 105 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Latvia, Lithuania, Belgium, France
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Oleg, a young Latvian butcher, arrives in Brussels in the hope of getting a better salary in a meat factory. His experience turns short after being betrayed by a colleague. Alone in a country where he doesn’t belong, he quickly falls under the ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
2010s
Place:
brussels, belgium, brussels belgium
Similarity:
20%
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Similarity:
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Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
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Style:
psychological, emotional, captivating, thrilling, intense ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Colombia, France
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
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Style:
tense, psychological, thrilling, captivating, dark ...
Plot:
prison life, teenager, guilt, trauma, juvenile detention, prison sentence, teenage boy, confined, jail, prison, prisoner, life is a bitch ...
Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Bangladesh
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Just as Moses was found in the river Nile, an infant is rescued from a river, and adopted by Miraj, Karim and Sajib in turns over the years, only to be abandoned at the various stages of his life. From innocence to becoming a gangster, the ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Country: Germany
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Carmela is thirty, beautiful and as untamed as an horsewoman. She is jobless and struggles to get by on her own, doing small day-to-day tasks. She makes ends meet by making use of the immigrants who populate the maze of alleyways of Naples' old ...
Style:
serious, dramatic, captivating, suspenseful, independent film ...
Plot:
female protagonist, character study, immigration, poverty, survival, thirtysomething life, life is a bitch, woman, illegal immigrant, 30 year old, life, immigrant ...
Place:
naples italy
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Near the shadow of the George Washington Bridge, a young Dominican teenager is hunted by a drug kingpin as his older brother must fight for both their survival over the course of a day in their Washington Heights neighborhood of New York.
Style:
suspenseful, captivating, thrilling, psychological, tense ...
Plot:
survival, brotherhood, drug, gang, drug dealer, criminal gang, street gangster, threat, drug lord, gangsta, bandit, gangster ...
Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
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Style:
tense, intense, crime drama, psychological thriller, dark ...
Plot:
pandemic, isolation, quarantine, murder mystery, moral ambiguity, character study, claustrophobia, guilt, suspicion, morality, investigation, cat and mouse ...
Time:
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264
Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
A retired army sergeant, a police officer and his wife and a drug dealer apparently have nothing in common, but they will unite for a greater good. When people start using explosives to fish on the edge of Salvador, Bahia, this group will do ...
Style:
tense, captivating, suspense, psychological, disturbing ...
Plot:
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Place:
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