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 4.9
 228
Chop Shop (2014)
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 21 min.
TV show
Story: Friends Porter and Caine are two car thieves who find their close friendship tested. After his release from prison, Porter tries to go straight, but ultimately he decides to turn to what he does best - stealing cars.
Style: serious, exciting, rough, crime drama, fast ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: going straight, haunted by the past, hopes, chases and races, ambition, dishonesty, buddies, betrayal, friends, rise to the top, car chase, criminal ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles, california
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Chok Dee: The Kickboxer (2005)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Dida Diafat plays himself in this story based around his thai boxing career.
Style: sincere, exciting, rough, captivating, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, athlete and trainer, rise to the top, going straight, starting over, ambition, rivalry, human spirit, athlete's life, juvenile delinquency, prison life, kickass ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, asia, thailand, france
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 8.1
 9K
Vedam (2010)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 135 min.
Story: Five people from varied strata of society – a slum dweller who works as a cable operator, a runaway prostitute, a desperate woman drowning in debt, a rising musician, and a grief-stricken Muslim man – end up together in the same hospital, at a ...
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, suspense, tragic ending ...
Plot: crime gone awry, going straight, frame up, changing lives, testimony, pregnancy, life is a bitch, dishonesty, prostitute, urban ghetto life, gang, family relations ...
Time: year 2010, 21st century
Place: india
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 4.5
 45
Sous X (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Jean-Jacques spent 9 years in prison for robbery. When he comes out, he finds the neighborhood where he grew up but things have changed ... The country is in crisis, the young people are holding the business and his old friends are urging him to ...
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, tense
Audience: boys' night
Plot: starting over, going straight, hopes, gang, life is a bitch, urban ghetto, father son relationship, danger, violent content, gangster, ghetto
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe
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Cracks in Concrete (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Austria
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A drama centered on two men at different states in life: Ertan, an ex-con who is trying to make amends for his past actions and Mikail, a teen-aged drug runner an aspiring musician.
Style: serious, sincere, realistic, emotional, bleak
Plot: going straight, hidden identity, follow your dream, ex convict, family problems, family relations, estrangement, juvenile delinquency, youth, parents and children, teenage life, hopes ...
Time: 21st century
Place: vienna, europe, austria
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All Is Bright (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Two French Canadian ne’er-do-wells travel to New York City with a scheme to a get rich quick selling Christmas trees.
Style: humorous, semi serious, feel good, captivating, dark ...
Plot: christmas, fish out of water, nothing goes right, reluctant partners, going straight, partner, misfit, disorder, cons and scams, odd couple, dishonesty, hopes ...
Time: year 2013, 21st century
Place: new york, usa
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 7.5
 598
Halfway Home (2007)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Halfway Home is an American comedy series that aired on Comedy Central in Spring 2007. On its official website, Halfway Home is described as an "improvised half-hour show featuring the daily exploits of five ex-cons living together in a ...
Style: humorous, not serious, realistic, sitcom, offbeat
Plot: going straight, starting over, friendship, rehabilitation, disorder, social misfits, rehabilitation center, improv, ex convict, masturbation, hopes, wannabe ...
Time: 21st century
Place: california, los angeles, usa
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 8.5
 5K
The Corner (2000)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 376 min.
TV show
Story: The Corner presents the world of Fayette Street using real names and real events. The miniseries tells the true story of men, women and children living amid the open-air drug markets of West Baltimore. It chronicles a year in the lives of ...
Style: rough, serious, emotional, sitcom, crime drama ...
Plot: rehabilitation, heroin, addiction, drug dealing, drug abuse, african american, urban, lifestyle, teenage life, social decay, going straight, life is a bitch ...
Time: 90s
Place: baltimore
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For the Love of Money (2012)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Spanning over two decades, "For the Love of Money" follows the true account of an Israeli immigrant who searches for his piece of the American dream.
Style: realistic, suspenseful, serious, rough
Plot: mafia, starting over, ambition, going straight, lifestyle, hopes, profanity, criminal heroes, money, heist, hustler, violent content ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, 70s
Place: california, usa, los angeles, israel
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Saint John of Las Vegas (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: An ex-gambler is lured back into the game by a veteran insurance-fraud investigator.
Style: semi serious, humorous, realistic, road movie, offbeat ...
Plot: gambling, self discovery, on the road, going straight, life is a bitch, dishonesty, love and romance, hopes, starting over, escapades, down on your luck, dark humor ...
Time: year 2009, 21st century
Place: las vegas, usa, nevada
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 5.4
 1K
Shooters (2002)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Netherlands, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Gilly comes out of prison after serving a six year stretch and decides that he will now turn his life around and go straight. But when he returns to his South London home and visits his old colleague J, in hope of obtaining his share of the proceeds ...
Style: rough, tense, serious, suspenseful, realistic
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cons and scams, going straight, gangster, criminal heroes, drug dealing, life is a bitch, law enforcement, addiction, criminal's revenge, dishonesty, drug abuse, rivalry ...
Place: england, london
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 6.1
 2K
Hardcore (2004)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Greece
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Leaving behind a hard life with their families, two young girls end up in a brothel, fall in love and support one another against the adversities and violence of the night.
Style: captivating, serious, rough, stylized, controversial ...
Plot: lesbian relationship, brothel, lesbian, lesbian sex, drug abuse, femme fatale, life is a bitch, going straight, youth, love and romance, destructive relationship, dangerous attraction ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, greece
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 5.6
 98
Gangsterland (2010)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Ronald, an eight year-old biracial boy, sees his life turning upside down after witnessing the brutal murder of his mother by his father. Often moved from one foster home to the next, Ronald is recruited by a street gang where he dwells in a life of ...
Style: realistic, serious, captivating, psychological, tense ...
Plot: gangster, gang, going straight, parents and children, society, life is a bitch, family relations, death of mother, revenge, held captive, children, hopes ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada, montreal
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The Christening (2010)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Poland
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Michal has what he always dreamed of: a beautiful wife named Magda, a newborn son, his own firm. He chooses an old friend, Janek, to be the godfather of his child. This is just the beginning of Michal's plan, who asks his friend to take an ...
Style: realistic, serious, atmospheric, gloomy, bleak
Plot: going straight, haunted by the past, life is a bitch, one more chance, friends, godparent, husband wife relationship, criminal heroes, reform, rescue from drowning, death by drowning, best friend ...
Time: 21st century
Place: poland
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Ball in the House (2001)
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Relative Evil (aka Ball in the House) - When JJ (Jonathan Tucker) returns home from rehab, he is greeted by a conniving family who are plotting to cash in on a life insurance policy before his 18th birthday
Style: realistic, serious, captivating, bleak, gloomy ...
Audience: teens
Plot: against the odds, teenage life, dysfunctional family, kids in trouble, going straight, drug abuse, addiction, family problems, misfit, rehabilitation, social misfits, life is a bitch ...
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 5.3
 321
River's End (2005)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Corbin plays a fictional Menard County sheriff who uses country savvy and cowboy logic to straighten out his angry teen-aged grandson, Clay, a high school senior who can't seem to stay out of trouble.
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, suspense, crying
Plot: juvenile delinquency, small town, going straight, danger, youth, teenage life, wilderness, family life, kids in trouble, cheerleader, escapades, family in crisis ...
Time: 21st century
Place: texas, usa
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 6.8
 5K
Clean (2004)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: France, Canada, UK
Duration: 111 min.
Story: After losing her husband to a heroin overdose, Emily Wang fights to overcome her own addictions and to be reconciled with her estranged son.
Style: stylized, atmospheric, touching, serious, sincere ...
Plot: addiction, drug overdose, prison, redemption, road trip, loneliness, life is a bitch, going straight, rock star, musician's life, custody, estranged son ...
Time: year 2004
Place: paris france, ontario canada, vancouver, canada, france ...
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 5.0
 2K
Ecstasy (2011)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 99 min.
Story: ECSTASY is a dark romantic comedy, based on the controversial book, “Ecstasy”, by Irvine Welsh. “Ecstasy”, was translated into 20 languages and was a number one bestseller in over 20 countries. Mr. Welsh’s first book, “Trainspotting”, ...
Style: psychological, thought provoking, captivating, tense, realistic ...
Plot: rave, ecstasy, going straight, introspection, couples, fall in love, addiction, drug dealing, hopes, clubbing, drug, party ...
Time: 21st century
Place: britain, scotland, edinburgh scotland
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Revelation Road: The Beginning of the End (2013)
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Josh McManus, a traveling salesman with a cloudy past, finds himself in a dusty West Texas town at the wrong time. After a crippling series of earthquakes throws the entire world into chaos, a traveling salesman will have to fight his way through a ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, suspense, tense, disgusting ...
Plot: apocalypse, christian, gang, faith, small town, religious, wrong place wrong time, good versus evil, going straight, chaos, rivalry, society ...
Time: 21st century
Place: texas, usa
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Three Dancing Slaves (2004)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Annecy is no tourist destination for three working-class Algerian brothers and their father, in the months after their mother has died. Marc is deeply troubled: he tries to stiff drug dealers and then plots revenge. Christophe is released from jail, ...
Style: touching, sentimental, emotional, serious, lgbt cinema ...
Plot: gay, three brothers, transsexual, lgbt, male nudity, dysfunctional family, working class, drug dealing, going straight, teenage life, family problems, youth ...
Place: alps, paris france
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 6.5
 1K
Leo (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A young mother is plagued by a tragic mistake and alienates her little boy. A brilliant writer is released from prison after serving a 15-year sentence and begins working at Vic's Diner. Their stories converge when the man must overcome ...
Style: realistic, serious, captivating, suspense, sincere ...
Plot: released from prison, infidelity, prison, going straight, life is a bitch, family problems, love affair, prison life, confined, husband wife relationship, hot and sexy, pregnancy ...
Time: 60s
Place: mississippi
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 5.7
 2K
'R Xmas (2001)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, France
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A New York drug dealer is kidnapped, and his wife must try to come up with the money and drugs to free him from his abductors before Christmas.
Style: rough, suspenseful, serious, realistic, neo noir ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: christmas, drug dealer, life is a bitch, criminal heroes, going straight, ransom demand, gangster, drug dealing, friendship, interracial relations, drug abuse, abduction ...
Time: year 1993
Place: new york, usa
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 6.7
 1K
Life Support (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: The true-life story of a mother who overcame an addiction to crack and became a positive role model and an AIDS activist in the black community.
Style: serious, realistic, thought provoking, touching, sincere ...
Plot: aids, hiv, drug abuse, lifestyle, going straight, friendship, drug addict, addiction, life is a bitch, rehabilitation, hopes, society ...
Place: new york, usa
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 7.0
 3K
Breathing (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Austria
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A 19-year-old is coming out of prison and trying to build a new life but he can't deal with his guilt.
Style: serious, realistic, touching, sincere, gloomy
Plot: teenage boy, prison life, guilt, youth, going straight, self discovery, starting over, redemption, haunted by the past, human nature, juvenile delinquency, hopes ...
Time: 21st century
Place: austria, europe
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 5.4
 1K
The Code (2002)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Dris is an ex-con, living in the borderline between a decent and a criminal life. He has a regular and simple work and lives a simple life with his wife Lise and loves his family. However, his childhood friends from his Arab community, including his ...
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, tense
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gangster, heist, going straight, gang, betrayal, dishonesty, crime gone awry, drug dealing, prison, ex convict, organized crime, friendship between men ...
Time: year 2002
Place: france, paris france, europe
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A Somewhat Gentle Man (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 113 min.
Story: After serving a 12-year sentence for killing the man that slept with his wife, a man ponders whether he should try and reconcile with his family, or take revenge on those who turned him in.
Style: dark comedy, semi serious, humorous, captivating, psychological ...
Plot: dark humor, childbirth, going straight, family relations, snitch, parents and children, rivalry, gangster, released from prison, ex convict, winter, criminal ...
Time: 21st century
Place: oslo norway, europe
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 4.7
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Styx (2001)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Nelson puts his criminal ways behind him, having spent years as a first-rate safecracker. This resolution lasts until his brother finds himself owing money to organised crime and Nelson needs to do one last big job, with a few other professionals.
Style: suspenseful, rough, serious, realistic, fast ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: police shootout, debt, unlikely criminals, going straight, rivalry, criminal heroes, gang, dishonesty, master criminal, betrayal, brother brother relationship, safecracker ...
Place: cape town south africa, south africa
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 7.5
 6K
Breathless (2008)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 130 min.
Story: Sang-hoon is a lowlife gangster, a debt collector exercising thuggish ways to collect his money. The recipient of nothing but anger since his childhood, he expresses himself through violence. When he finally encounters someone who can stand up to ...
Style: realistic, serious, tense, rough, emotional ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gangster, friendship, self discovery, going straight, loan shark, hitman, danger, redemption, starting over, hopes, child in peril, rebellious youth ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century
Place: asia, korea, south korea
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 5.8
 771
Coastlines (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: An ex-con returns to his Florida hometown after three years and becomes involved with the wife of his best friend, the local sheriff.
Style: touching, sincere, serious, realistic, contemplative ...
Plot: infidelity, going straight, vengeance, starting over, couples, family problems, human nature, dishonesty, rehabilitation, love and romance, friendship, love affair ...
Place: florida, usa
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All Dogs Go to Heaven (1989)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: Ireland, UK, USA, France
Duration: 84 min.
Story: When a casino owning dog named Charlie is murdered by his rival Carface, he finds himself in Heaven basically by default since all dogs go to heaven. However, since he wants to get back at his killer, he cons his way back to the living with the ...
Style: touching, sad, sweet, sentimental, entertaining ...
Audience: kids, family friendly, pre-teens, family outing, preschool
Plot: dog, childhood, afterlife, animal, orphan, heaven, angel, talking animal, anthropomorphic animal, furry, friendship, death ...
Time: 1930s, 90s, 20th century, year 1939
Place: new orleans, louisiana, usa
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