Movies like The Brave 1997
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The Brave (1997)
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
A down-on-his-luck American Indian recently released from jail is offered the chance to "star" as the victim of a snuff film, the resulting pay of which could greatly help his poverty stricken family.
Style:
serious, realistic, disturbing, suspenseful, suspense, surreal, controversial, cult classic, spectacular, independent film ...
Audience:
date night, adult
Plot:
family relations, life is a bitch, misfit, injustice, social decay, gang, alcohol abuse, society, unemployment, self sacrifice, male female relationship, violence, hipster, erotica, indians, house, native, child hero, film industry, american indian, adult film industry, badass, teacher, torture, fear of death ...
Time:
90s
Place:
american
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Most similar movies to The Brave
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, disturbing and gloomy films with plots about life is a bitch, society, family relations, parents and children, alcohol abuse, family problems and unemployment mostly in Drama and History genres. Some movies like The Brave: Sweet Nothing (1995), The Turning (1992), Older Than America (2008), Hi, Tereska (2001), In the Custody of Strangers (1982). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Angel celebrates the birth of his daughter by taking his first hit of crack cocaine. With the hesitant support of his wife, Monika, he joins a friend of his to deal drugs for a short time--enough time to get out of debt and buy some nice things for ...
Style:
melancholic, realistic, serious, independent film, crying ...
Plot:
drug addiction, drug abuse, loneliness, family problems, family relations, downfall, introspection, crumbling marriage, life is a bitch, misfit, money, dysfunctional family ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new york, usa, bronx new york city, new jersey
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Gillian Anderson in her first ever screen role. Anderson's psycho boyfriend, Cliff, returns to his home town seething with pent-up frustration and rage. Four years earlier his family was on the verge of breaking up. Noe he's returned to ...
Style:
erotic, independent film, serious, psychological, realistic ...
Plot:
making love, alcoholic mother, ku klux klan, sex scene, infidelity, neo nazism, family problems, family relations, psychopath, couples, crumbling marriage, obsession ...
Time:
year 1992, 90s
Place:
virginia, west virginia, usa
Similarity:
92%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
The truth of the past come to light in a series of haunting visions in this drama. The strange visions grow more vivid with each passing day, a young woman of Native American heritage begins piecing together a Catholic priests diabolical plot to ...
Style:
bleak, tense, serious, disturbing, realistic ...
Plot:
genocide, against humanity, dishonesty, haunted by the past, clergy, life is a bitch, family relations, priest, native, american indian, winter, strong female lead ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, minnesota
Similarity:
90%
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Teenager Tereska comes from poor family and has to face difficult world and mean people around her.
Style:
disturbing, touching, serious, realistic, bleak ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
sexual initiation, friendship, life is a bitch, teenage life, misfit, dull life, society, youth, working class, down on your luck, unemployment, loneliness ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
poland
Similarity:
89%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A teenage delinquent who goes on a drunken joyride is left in jail overnight by his parents in the hope that he might learn a lesson from it. But events follow which result in the boy spending far longer behind bars than anyone had foreseen.
Style:
serious, realistic, thought provoking, disturbing
Plot:
prison, self defense, family problems, family relations, injustice, society, youth, life is a bitch, confined, juvenile delinquency, teenage life, custody ...
Time:
80s
Similarity:
89%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Story of a man Bill Januson whose pride in being the head of his family won't let him accept help from his sick daughters doctor. He has to prove to his kids that even with the death of his wife and the loss of his job that they can and will ...
Style:
crying, serious, realistic, emotional, gloomy ...
Plot:
starving child, starvation, youth, doctor, single parent, unemployment, family problems, family relations, life is a bitch, human nature, human spirit, society ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
usa
Similarity:
87%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
An erotic melodrama about the public and private lives of sex workers. Josie Hunter (aka Blake Pickett) co-starred in the role of Erica, a single mother who works a stripper, and sometimes as a prostitute to support her daughter. But when the threat ...
Style:
erotic, independent film, realistic, serious, gloomy ...
Plot:
female pubic hair, making love, lesbian sex, prostitution, stripper, masturbation, voyeurism, sex, lesbianism, sleaze, college, sex scene ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
84%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
A small-town father is forced to make difficult, heartbreaking decisions in order to save his two daughters.
Style:
realistic, serious, psychological, emotional, gloomy
Plot:
dog fighting, parents and children, life is a bitch, family relations, custody, urban ghetto, unemployment, gambling, society, redemption, nursing, skinny dipping ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, south carolina
Similarity:
77%
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Genre: Drama
Country: South Africa, USA, UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Shirley Adams spends her days caring for her disabled son, Donovan - he was shot in the back of the neck on his way home from school one afternoon over a year ago. Since then the Adams family has lost all their worldly possessions to medical bills. ...
Style:
uplifting, realistic, serious, emotional, touching ...
Plot:
disability, family problems, family relations, parents and children, hopes, single parent, human spirit, life is a bitch, introspection, small town, family in crisis, social decay ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
africa, south africa, cape town south africa
Similarity:
76%
111
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
A young man drops out of college to fix his family when he senses something is terribly wrong at home.
Style:
psychological, disturbing, serious, suspense, independent film ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, estrangement, family problems, life is a bitch, redemption, youth, crumbling marriage, domestic disturbance, social decay, curses spells and rituals, family life, parents and children ...
Time:
90s
Place:
malibu california, bahamas
Similarity:
73%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Breaking out of prison with a child in her womb and a dream of a normal existence, Arlene Holsclaw (Rebecca De Mornay) resolves to get a job and lead a good, Christian life. But the ghosts from her past -- including an ex-boyfriend (Rob Knepper) who ...
Style:
tense, serious, realistic, rough, gloomy ...
Plot:
family relations, family problems, custody, family life, parents and children, prison, life is a bitch, society, going straight, hopes, strong female presence, female protagonist ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
69%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
This MTV film dramatizes the horrific hate-crime killing of 21-year-old Matthew Shepard (Cy Carter) in Wyoming. In 1998, Shepard, a gay college student, was savagely beaten by Russell Henderson (Ian Somerhalder) and Aaron McKinney (Brendan ...
Style:
disturbing, emotional, realistic, serious, bleak ...
Plot:
youth, murder, life is a bitch, social decay, society, gay slur, gay teenager, gay, real life, gender, gays and lesbians, injustice ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
wyoming, wisconsin
Similarity:
66%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Curse of the Starving Class is a play by Sam Shepard, considered the first of a series on family tragedies. Drama about a dirt-poor 1950's-era farm family. Dad's a foul talking drunk and Mom is desperately trying to save what's left ...
Style:
gloomy, independent film, realistic, serious
Plot:
alcoholic, poverty, farm, family relations, coming of age, family life, family in crisis, unemployment, cons and scams, rich and poor, dysfunctional family, midlife crisis ...
Time:
20th century, 50s, 1920s
Similarity:
65%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
At an isolated frontier outpost, a colonial magistrate suffers a crisis of conscience when an army colonel arrives looking to interrogate the locals about an impending uprising, using cruel tactics that horrify the magistrate.
Style:
costume drama, suspenseful, disturbing, realistic, suspense ...
Plot:
desert, colonialism, imperialism, interrogation, prisoners of war, forbidden love, torture, danger, social decay, life is a bitch, isolation, self sacrifice ...
Time:
victorian era
Place:
mongolia, italy, austria, east asia
Similarity:
63%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
A drama based on the true story in which a black Vietnam-era veteran is allegedly murdered by a local white businessman who is later exonerated. The plot focuses on the role of a local high school teacher and the civil unrest that followed the ...
Style:
thought provoking, disturbing, captivating, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
racism, murder, social differences, introspection, life is a bitch, society, discrimination, social decay, injustice, small town life, small town, murderer ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
north carolina, usa
Similarity:
62%
382
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
The stories of four Hispanic immigrants living in New York City.
Style:
black and white, independent film, anthology, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
immigrant, homeless, working class, culture clash, storytelling, poverty, school, father daughter relationship, money, photographer, hobo, tramp ...
Time:
year 1998, 90s
Place:
new york, mexico, usa, tokyo, new jersey ...
Similarity:
62%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Living in rural Texas is a dysfunctional family: an abusive dad, a Vietnam vet with a war wound that's left him impotent; a compliant wife and a son of about 20, two small sons who look a lot like their brother. The dad harbors a secret, and he ...
Style:
disturbing, sexy, psychological, serious, suspense ...
Audience:
girls' night, adult, teen drama
Plot:
incest, sexual abuse, parents and children, dysfunctional family, missing person, murder, forbidden love, female nudity, implied incest, child abuse, investigation, life is a bitch ...
Time:
90s
Place:
texas, asia, usa, vietnam, san francisco
Similarity:
57%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A socially inept man's amateur porn film wins him a contract with a small-time pornography distribution company, where he faces a series of moral crises and is forced to face his own porn addiction.
Style:
erotic, sensual, contemplative, serious, realistic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
erotica, pole dancer, prostitute, sexual abuse, adult filmmaking, nudity, porn industry, stripper, female nudity, sex, adult film industry, film industry ...
Time:
90s
Place:
usa, california, los angeles
Similarity:
57%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Difficult tale of poor, struggling South Carolinian mother & daughter, who each face painful choices with their resolve and pride. Bone, the eldest daughter, and Anney her tired mother, grow both closer and farther apart: Anney sees Glen as ...
Style:
disturbing, realistic, emotional, thought provoking, touching ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
dysfunctional family, sexual abuse, child abuse, rape, coming of age, parents and children, childhood trauma, life is a bitch, pedophile, physical abuse, child molestation, sexual assault ...
Time:
1940s, 1950s, 20th century, 90s, 50s
Place:
south carolina, southern usa, usa
Similarity:
56%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Manny tries to get his crack addict brother, Danny, to clean up.
Style:
cult classic, realistic, serious, emotional, gloomy ...
Plot:
drug addiction, heroin, sibling relationship, family relations, drug abuse, family life, unemployment, siblings relations, addiction, against the odds, society, youth ...
Time:
year 1991, 90s
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
53%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A young man with Down's Syndrome romantically pursues a small town single mom who is still mixed up with her volatile ex-boyfriend.
Style:
sincere, serious, touching, melancholic, independent film ...
Plot:
impossible love, single parent, life is a bitch, love and romance, friendship, hopes, society, social relations, human spirit, misfit, mother son relationship, psychopath ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A bullied student sees visions of a rabbit he was forced to kill as a child, and those visions propel him into a state where his imagination causes him to carry out violent acts.
Style:
serious, disturbing, rough, dark, poetic ...
Plot:
high school, bullying, mental illness, kids in trouble, rebelliousness, friendship, life is a bitch, society, imagination, teenage boy, child abuse, house ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A man has thrown away love and a woman has given up on love. The two souls meet in a brief summer in the northern city of Hakodate.
Style:
realistic, serious, rough, touching, romantic ...
Plot:
fall in love, dysfunctional family, prostitute, life is a bitch, social decay, family problems, friends, society, love and romance, friendship, haunted by the past, sexual content ...
Time:
year 2013, 21st century
Place:
japan, hokkaido
Similarity:
50%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Set during the cull of the stray dogs in the city of Bucharest, The Wild Dogs weaves together a week in the lives of several citizens of and visitors to the hauntingly beautiful city. Geordie, a visiting Canadian pornographer, Bogdan, a reluctant ...
Style:
thought provoking, realistic, serious, disturbing, bleak
Plot:
culture clash, rich and poor, social decay, family relations, life is a bitch, society, redemption, friendship, city life, homelessness, deformity, friends ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
romania, europe
Similarity:
50%
155
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Ellen's life is turned upside down after her wealthy hubby vanishes at sea. Everyone close to her is a liar - especially Ellen's missing spouse. Was this a case of an affair gone bad? A corporate cover-up? Or something far more sinister? ...
Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, mind bending
Plot:
couple relations, infidelity, murder, love affair, couples, dishonesty, life is a bitch, who done it, dangerous attraction, alcohol abuse, debt, father figure ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Based on the novel by the same name, We Were the Mulvaneys is a sensitive portrayal of one family's journey as they face conflict, fear, tragedy and ultimately, themselves.
Style:
realistic, serious, emotional, touching, gloomy ...
Plot:
family relations, family life, family problems, couples, love and romance, life is a bitch, family in crisis, alcohol abuse, brother brother relationship, loneliness, trouble, fear ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
The story of an Aboriginal family's attempts to forge a new life for themselves within the segregated society. At the urging of headstrong teenager Trilby, the Comeaways relocate from their family camp, to a house in the main town.
Style:
political, serious, realistic, independent film
Plot:
australian aboriginal, blaxploitation, indigenous people, native, native american, family relations, segregation, couples, life is a bitch, love and romance, coming of age, misfit ...
Time:
70s
Place:
africa, australia
Similarity:
43%
430
Genre: Drama
Country: Argentina, France, Spain, Belgium
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, serious, captivating, disturbing
Plot:
adoption, human trafficking, injustice, unwanted pregnancy, moral dilemma, family relations, obsessive quest, life is a bitch, self discovery, society, social differences, babies and infants ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
argentina, france, buenos aires argentina
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Andrew Luster, the heir to the Max factor fortune, is convicted of rape on 86 counts. This Lifetime original movie recounts the rapes committed by the infamous Andrew Luster and the women who brought him to justice.
Style:
serious, rough, disturbing, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot:
courtroom drama, investigation, injustice, life is a bitch, society, dishonesty, legal, nightclub, sexual abuse, rape, bounty hunter, rivalry ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
california
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Thatcherism and the Irish troubles provide the backdrop for this study of Mick, a well-meaning youth in Sheffield, who has, unlike Dickens' Pip, no expectations. Mick lives with his parents, works on his motorbike, looks for work, and every two ...
Style:
independent film, black and white, serious, realistic, psychological ...
Plot:
unemployment, passionate kiss, job interview, boy, little boy, injustice, power relations, family relations, friends, society, coming of age, youth ...
Time:
year 1981, 80s, future
Place:
england, bristol, europe, ireland
Similarity:
42%
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