Movies like Rita 2024
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Rita (2024)
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Guatemala
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Rita, a 13 year old girl, runs away from her abusive father to the big city. She finds solace until she's placed in a safe house run by the State. Rita and her cellmates plots an escape that ends in a shocking act of violence.
Style:
tense, psychological, captivating, suspenseful, emotional, dark, intense, bleak
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
abuse, escape, social injustice, runaway, 13 year old, abusive father, trauma, teenager, violence, domestic violence, teenage girl, life is a bitch, teenage life, social problems, problem, survival, loss of innocence, desperation, female protagonist, coming of age, escape plan, friendship, isolation, street life, urban ...
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Most similar movies to Rita
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, psychological, tense and intense films with plots about isolation, survival, coming of age, life is a bitch, female protagonist, moral ambiguity and trauma mostly in Drama, Fantasy and Horror genres. Some movies like Rita: The Nights Belong to Monsters (2021), Angie: Lost Girls (2020), Princess (2022), Alive (2002), To Dream (2016). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Argentina
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Sol, a 17-year-old teenager, moves with her mother to the Gonzalo's home, the actual mother's boyfriend. In this town, where from the beginning Sol only finds hostility, she must face bullying from her schoolmates and Gonzalo's ...
Style:
disturbing, captivating, psychological, independent film, art house ...
Plot:
teenager, supernatural, owner dog relationship, life is a bitch, human dog relationship, teenage girl, teenage life, magic, magical creature, small town life, social problems, adolescence ...
Time:
2020s
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, Japan
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
After escaping from a sex trafficking ring, one teenage girl struggles to reconnect with herself and her family. To rescue her helpless friends, she must confront her own fears and help lead the police to her traffickers - at all costs.
Style:
tense, thrilling, suspenseful, captivating, dark ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
female protagonist, investigation, child trafficking, survivor, trauma, survival, teenage prostitute, life is a bitch, threat, sex worker, teenager, runaway ...
Similarity:
72%
205
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Princess is a young illegal immigrant from Nigeria who sells her body on the outskirts of a big city. Like an Amazon on the hunt, protected by her friends, she moves through a pinewood that stretches as far as the sea, an enchanted forest in which ...
Style:
suspenseful, captivating, psychological, thrilling, bleak ...
Plot:
sex trafficking, prostitution, human trafficking, female protagonist, illegal immigrant, african, exploitation, resilience, street life, illegal immigration, trauma, poverty ...
Place:
italy
Similarity:
68%
236
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
After a brutal attack, a 19-year-old girl falls into a self-destructive cycle.
Style:
captivating, thrilling, suspenseful, psychological, tense ...
Plot:
rape, self destructing, female protagonist, rape victim, trauma, secret, life is a bitch, problem, social problems, violence, survival, isolation ...
Similarity:
66%
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 67 min.
Story:
If your dreams could come true, what would you dream? If you could escape, where would you go? TO DREAM is a story about friendship, full of hope and intimacy, set against a harsh inner city backdrop. Best friends, LUKE and TOMMY, live in an ...
Style:
suspenseful, suspense, realistic, serious, emotional ...
Plot:
friendship between boys, friendship, hopes, domestic violence, loyalty, love, teenager, life is a bitch, abuse, best friend, destiny, violent father ...
Place:
london
Similarity:
63%
379
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Jordi é um adolescente que perdeu recentemente seu pai e que, junto à sua mãe, decide mudar de cidade para começar uma nova vida. Em princípio tudo parece bem, mas o destino reservado para ele será uma terrível surpresa já que quando Jordi ...
Style:
disturbing, psychological, captivating, emotional, dark ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
teenager, school bullying, bullying, family relations, teenage life, change of luck, family problems, social problems, new life, lifestyle, schoolboy, father son relationship ...
Similarity:
60%
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:
suspense, disturbing, captivating, tense, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
violence, female friendship, life is a bitch, teenage life, teenager, teenage girl, family problems, money problems, juvenile delinquency, social problems, society, teenage protagonist ...
Place:
indonesia
Similarity:
58%
536
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
The story of a young woman who takes an epic journey to claim her own darkness and sexuality so she can stop putting it into the hands of her abusive lover. When Inanna, a young actress, working as a stripper, becomes obsessed with a mask maker, ...
Style:
surreal, dark, captivating, psychological, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
female protagonist, sexuality, female pubic hair, abuse, borderline personality disorder, sexual relations, surrealism, relationship problems, relationships, male female relationship, sexual abuse, manipulation ...
Similarity:
58%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
When Mr. Deen discovers one of his students has been living out of his car and thrown into jail, he decides to bail him out. Determined to curb Nate’s self-destructive behavior, Deen quickly discovers a host of dark secrets slowly tearing Nate ...
Style:
psychological, emotional, captivating, thrilling, intense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
teenager, trauma, life is a bitch, teenage life, troubled past, tragic past, confronting the past, moral dilemma, self destructing, redemption, desperation, abuse ...
Similarity:
57%
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:
psychological, captivating, thrilling, tense, emotional ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, desperation, high school, poverty, problem, teenage life, life is a bitch, social problems, teenager, money problems, japanese girl, female protagonist ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
japan
Similarity:
55%
210
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:
psychological, captivating, social, disturbing, emotional ...
Plot:
coming of age, teenage girl, teenager, social commentary, small town, hypocrisy, community, secrets, family drama, life, adolescence, social issues ...
Similarity:
53%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
A young runaway ends up homeless with no choice but to try to survive life on the streets.
Style:
psychological, thrilling, captivating, emotional, independent film ...
Plot:
street life, social issues, homeless, homelessness, social problems, lifestyle, city life, urban setting, realism, resilience, poverty, survival ...
Similarity:
52%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, Netherlands
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
The story of Liam, a neglected teenager who lives in a family where alcohol, violence and sex play the main role. He grows up to be a confused youngster which ends in a very aggressive act to break with his past.
Style:
psychological, thrilling, captivating, dark, realistic ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
teenager, family relations, domestic abuse, alcoholism, trauma, troubled past, foster home, life is a bitch, tragic past, confronting the past, dysfunctional family, young adult ...
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Noémie (15 years old) has lived in a youth center for three years. When she loses all hope of being taken back by her mother, Noémie runs away in search of meaning and freedom. She goes to join her friend Léa, a former member of the center, who ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling, suspenseful, dark ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
prostitution, teenage girl, pimp, female protagonist, social issues, exploitation, sexploitation, underage, teen romance, teenager, relationship problems, tragic love ...
Place:
montreal
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
This is the story of three sensitive teens who are forced to deal with violence at home, violence at school. It is a story of friendship, of love and hate, where the adolescents world is revealed as cruel and beautiful, a world where the desire to ...
Style:
realistic, touching, serious, suspenseful, emotional ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
friendship, teenage love, teenage life, love and romance, coming of age, buddies, youth, family relations, violence, bullying, graphic violence, trauma ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
israel, palestine
Similarity:
50%
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Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 136 min.
Story:
Ammu's thought marriage was a fairy tale – full of love and magic, ends when her cop-husband Ravi hit her for the very first time. What Ammu thought was a one-off incident soon turned into a never-ending cycle of abuse, trapping her and ...
Style:
thrilling, psychological, captivating, suspense, realistic ...
Plot:
domestic violence, female protagonist, marital abuse, abusive husband, dysfunctional marriage, husband wife relationship, violence, family relations, police officer, unhappy marriage, life is a bitch, male female relationship ...
Place:
india
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A desperate woman kidnaps and enforces rehab on her violent brother in a last-ditch effort to save their lives.
Style:
thrilling, captivating, psychological, emotional, intense ...
Plot:
addiction, kidnapping, family conflict, sibling relationship, dysfunctional family, social problems, problem, family problems, life is a bitch, abuse, hostage situation, desperation ...
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
An eighteen year old beautiful and restless girl runs away from home to find freedom which she much dreamed of. She come across, instead, is the unsavory characters that start on the road to prostitution.
Style:
dark, emotional, bleak, intense, grim ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
prostitution, runaway, loss of innocence, coming of age, youth, female protagonist, sexploitation, manipulation, street life, abuse, danger, urban ...
Similarity:
45%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, USA, Romania
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
A captive daughter endures around two decades of abuse at the hands of a sadistic father. One day, destiny presents her with an opportunity to break free.
Style:
tense, disturbing, suspense, psychological thriller, captivating ...
Plot:
father, child abuse, female protagonist, trauma, psychological abuse, domestic abuse, locked in a basement, locked in, captive, despot, brother sister relationship, father and daughter ...
Similarity:
45%
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:
44%
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:
homeless teenager, pregnant teenager, troubled teen, poverty, teenager, social problems, life is a bitch, teenage pregnancy, coming of age, teenage life, social misfits, relationship problems ...
Similarity:
44%
63
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
The story of Tv, beginning on the night he agrees to run away from his affluent suburb in Quebec City to save his best friend Samu. The two 15-year-olds' escape quickly turns into a desperate flight from the police and adults. Their encounter ...
Style:
suspenseful, psychological, captivating, thrilling, dramatic ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
adolescence, family conflict, teenager, runaway, coming of age, youth, friendship, problem, life is a bitch, grownups, teenage life, police chase ...
Place:
quebec
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Fantasy
Country: India
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
The story narrates the struggle of a girl, the victim of a brutal gang rape, to survive in an infinite field of grass, where a thief helps her to survive.
Style:
tense, intense, emotional, bleak, dark ...
Plot:
gang rape, survival, sexual abuse, female protagonist, violence, isolation, escape, post traumatic stress, social commentary, redemption, moral ambiguity, hopes ...
Similarity:
43%
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: France
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
In the heart of a city, the inhabitants of a tower wake up one morning to find that their building is shrouded in an opaque fog, obstructing doors and windows - a strange dark matter that devours anything that tries to pass through it. Trapped, the ...
Style:
suspenseful, captivating, psychological, thrilling, tense ...
Plot:
survival, fog, survival horror, trapped, isolation, claustrophobia, tower, paranormal activity, death threat, supernatural, threat, paranormal ...
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Eini grows up isolated from society with her father who does everything he can to make Eini believe that the world outside and the people out there are evil, and that all that has to do with sexuality and adulthood is dangerous.
Style:
dark fairy tale, tense, melancholic, art house, intense
Plot:
trauma, abusive father, loss of innocence, imagination, coming of age, female protagonist, claustrophobia, sexual repression, haunting, escape, survival, magic realism ...
Place:
eastern europe
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
Kimi faces financial difficulties by taking an illegal loan to pay off her father’s medical fee, but he passed away. She is emotionally exhausted for being demanded every day for the payment of debts. One day, Kimi takes her friend Masami’s ...
Style:
suspenseful, tense, disturbing, dark, thrilling ...
Plot:
debt, murder, female protagonist, raped woman, zombie, sex scene, rape, supernatural, haunting, violence, ghost, sexual abuse ...
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Amy, a young woman is on the run with her young son Adrian from her abusive ex-girlfriend. When the past rises up to haunt them, they must confront the forces threatening them from both outside and in.
Style:
tense, atmospheric, psychological, gothic horror, captivating ...
Plot:
female protagonist, problem, threat, confronting the past, troubled past, family problems, dark past, life is a bitch, mother and son, on the run, escape, paranoia ...
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A group of troubled teen girls get lost in a vast Caribbean island wilderness and must survive an elusive enemy as well as each other.
Style:
dramatic, visually appealing, captivating, sentimental, enigmatic ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
mother daughter relationship, peter pan, motherhood, fantasy world, family life, couples, love and romance, family relations, parents and children, youth, female protagonist, trauma ...
Place:
caribbean
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
Mishima Kiko was exploited by her own family. When she was little, her mother neglected her. After her mother remarried, Kiko was abused mentally and physically by her mother, stepfather, and younger stepbrother. She didn't belong to this ...
Style:
thrilling, captivating, psychological, melancholic, heartbreaking ...
Plot:
domestic abuse, abuse, trauma, domestic violence, neglect, bullying, dysfunctional family, social problems, life is a bitch, traumatic past, violence, family problems ...
Place:
japan
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
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Story:
Based on the classic Grimm Brothers tale The Handless Maiden, and Stephanie Oakes’ novel The Sacred Lies of Minnow Bly, and adapted and updated by Tucker, Sacred Lies is about a handless teen who escapes from a cult and finds herself in juvenile ...
Style:
suspenseful, suspense, tense, captivating, disturbing ...
Plot:
disability, investigation, teenager, trauma, murder mystery, suspicion, body horror, handicapped, jailed, problem, suspect, prison ...
Similarity:
35%
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