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Plot Summary:
A young girl, after failing an exam, is forced by her father, a taxi-driver, to learn his profession. Soon she discovers that her father is not only a driver but also a member of a racist group eliminating immigrants, homosexual, transvestite, etc. people. She also falls in love with a boy, also a taxi-driver and a "socio" of the group.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 930
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: hood, rough, serious, realistic, disturbing
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Clandestine (2007)
Plot Summary:
Three boys escape from a youth prison in Spain, and head for the city of Madrid. Xabi and Joel, both Spanish, and an Arabic boy named Driss, quickly meet up with some eccentric people on the road. Joel, and the very cute and lovable Driss have no trouble hooking up with a couple girls that don't at all mind if the two handsome guys stay with them. The quietly intense Xabi, however, is dealing with some darker demons, and his personal reason for escaping the prison soon becomes apparent.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 604
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, psychological, tense, rough, bleak, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing
Similar in 82%
Sex, Lies and Death (2011)
Plot Summary:
Viviana (Andrea Lopez) and Alicia (Martha Isabel Bolaños) have never met, but they're about to get intimately acquainted. One day, while tipping drinks back in a bar, the two women strike up a conversation that quickly turns personal, Viviana is locked in an abusive marriage, and Alicia's female lover, Lorena (Carolina Sepulveda), has recently fallen for another woman. As the two women strangers find common ground in their lives, they enter into a secret pact to kill the people who have made their lives a living hell. Seductive, bloody and shocking events send them both plummeting down a destructive path from which there is no escape.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 255
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Colombia
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: serious, sexy, tense, suspense, sensual, realistic, surprise ending
Similar in 86%
Cholera Street (1997)
Plot Summary:
The film is set in a rundown, crime ridden neighborhood of Istanbul dubbed "Cholera Street" (Kolera Sokağı). Salih is a mechanic and son of a respected barber Ali. A woman Tina arrives at Cholera street where she takes up residence and works as a prostitute. Deniz is a ganster who gives himself the nickname "Reiss" ("Chief"), tries to take control of the neighbourhood through intidimation.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Turkey, Hungary, France
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: lgbt cinema, art house, serious, realistic, suspenseful, black comedy, dark comedy
Similar in 87%
Gasoline (2001)
Plot Summary:
Fiery, dark-haired Stella, an intense auto mechanic, and nervous, blonde Eleonora are young and in love. They operate a gas station peacefully, until Eleonora's mother appears and voices her disapproval of their romance.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 399
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, road movie, surreal
Similar in 86%
Heart of a Lion (2013)
Plot Summary:
Neo-Nazi falls in love with a woman who has a black son and finds himself fighting with conflicting feelings.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Finland, Sweden
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, realistic, psychological, sincere, suspense
Similar in 88%
And Tomorrow the Entire World (2020)
Plot Summary:
Luisa, a 20-year-old law student, joins a cell of the Antifa group when she and her friends Alfa and Lenor get to know about an upcoming attack planned by a local neo-Nazi gang. As they try to find out more, the three youngsters delve deeper into the scene linked to right-wing movements and their political connections, to the point where they will understand how much they are willing to go further, in order to defend their own beliefs.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, France
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, hood
Similar in 77%
The Lost Son (1999)
Plot Summary:
Xavier Lombard is a world-weary private eye in London, in exile from his native Paris; his best friend is Nathalie, a high-class call girl. He gets a call from an old friend from the Paris police department, now a businessman whose brother-in-law is missing. The missing man's parents hire Xavier over their daughter's objections, and quickly he finds himself in the realm of children's sexual slavery.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: erotic, detective, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, gloomy, neo noir, independent film
Similar in 85%
Last Resort (2000)
Plot Summary:
When a young Russian woman and her son leave Moscow to meet her fiancé, who fails to show up, she declares political asylum.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, realistic, serious, independent film
Similar in 83%
Boulevard (1994)
Plot Summary:
A street prostitute takes in an abused young woman on the run from her misogynist boyfriend, leading to both facing off against the prostitute's dreaded pimp and a relentless police detective out to arrest all of them.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 648
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: erotic, independent film, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, detective
Similar in 76%
Straight (2007)
Plot Summary:
Straight is the story of a messy love triangle between two men and a woman. Nazim (Eralp Uzun) is a hot young Turkish guy involved in petty crime. He goes out each night with his buddies, cruising for girls and dealing drugs in a seedy city square populated with hookers. None of his buddies suspect that on many of those nights he ends up in the arms of men. Since he met David (Florian Sonnefeld) on the street, his hetero façade is rapidly crumbling. His friends seem to pick up on the new vibe and wonder what’s up. David is from a bourgeois Jewish family and slumming it. He hangs out on the street pretending to look for drugs, but what he really wants is Nazim. Their first hookup is alternately hot, tender and filled with guilt. Nevertheless, their affair develops in secret against all odds. Further entangling things is David’s Polish-German girlfriend (Beba Ebner), who is revolting against her strict Catholic upbringing by going out with this punkish Jewish boyfriend.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 174
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 59 min
Plot tags: captivating, realistic, emotional, psychological, sexy, sincere, serious, sexual, independent film, disgusting
Similar in 88%
End of Love (2008)
Plot Summary:
Stuck in a Christian 'rehabilitation' camp, Ming recalls his double life, a whirlwind of sex and drugs as a rent boy, and a sedate, romantic life with the older and more conservative Yen. Secrets and lies haunt their relationship, as Ming's mother confronts her son's sexuality in a most extreme fashion and Yen tries to get Ming to give up hustling.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 321
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, sexy, erotic, gloomy, sexual, hot
Similar in 85%
Fast, Fast (1981)
Plot Summary:
Angela begins to hang around with Pablo and his gang of young robbers.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: hood, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Similar in 81%
Walking the Edge (1985)
Plot Summary:
A Los Angeles taxi driver helps a distraught young woman on the run from gangsters after they murder her husband and young son.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 878
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: neo noir, hood, independent film, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Similar in 86%
Russia 88 (2009)
Plot Summary:
A gang of skinheads 'Russia 88' are filming propaganda videos in order to place it on the internet. At the same time the camera records the life of the gang, they become accustomed to this and stop paying attention to it. The leader of the gang 'Blade' discovers that his sister is dating a guy from the Caucausus. This family drama develops into a tragedy.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: heartbreaking, serious, psychological, intense, rough
Similar in 79%
Flipping (1996)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 179
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: crime drama, independent film, tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Similar in 86%
Rosario Tijeras (2005)
Plot Summary:
Rosario Tijeras has been abused by men all her life, initially by her stepfather. Years later, she works as a paid assassin, seducing men and killing them when they least expect it. She meets Emilio, a wealthy womanizer, and his best friend, Antonio, at a nightclub, and starts an affair with Emilio despite Antonio's growing feelings for her. But circumstances bring her closer to Antonio, until her past catches up with her in a devastating way.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Colombia, Mexico, Spain, Brazil
Duration: 126 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, rough, realistic, hood
Similar in 77%
The Bull (2019)
Plot Summary:
The 1990s. Empty shelves in the shops, an economic abyss and criminal dramas that unfold literally at every corner. The young leader of a criminal gang Anton Bykov, with the nickname “Bull”, must make money in whatever way to provide for his family. After a local shootout, Anton ends up in the police station, from where he is released at the intervention of Moscow’s crime lords. In exchange, the latter asks Anton for a small, but dangerous service.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 896
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: realistic, tense, bleak, serious, harsh, suspenseful, captivating, disturbing
Similar in 81%
Skinheads vs. Hooligans (1998)
Plot Summary:
An interracial couple is attacked and the woman is gang-raped in a random attack. This prompts the woman to commit suicide and the man decides to seek revenge from the inside by joining the gang. However, once inside he learns of the reasons (poverty, social rejection) for their existence and starts developing a kinship until he is asked to kill someone to prove his loyalty.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 936
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: independent film, tense, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing
Similar in 84%
Speak Up! It's So Dark... (1993)
Plot Summary:
Psychological drama about the meeting between a neo-nazi and a Jewish doctor.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 222
Genere: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: psychological, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing
Similar in 85%
Ander (2009)
Plot Summary:
A love story between a Basque farmer and a Peruvian immigrant.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 968
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags: sincere, atmospheric, serious, emotional, realistic, lgbt cinema, gay cinema, queer cinema
Similar in 84%
Nattbuss 807 (1997)
Plot Summary:
Kalle, en kille i 18-års åldern har hamnat lite snett i livet. Han umgås mest med främlingsfientliga personer. Carlos är en kille i 16-års åldern, han har bott i Sverige större delen av sitt liv med sin mor och hennes äldre bror. Hans pappa är kvar i hemlandet Bolivia. Carlos och hans bror är med i ett mindre gäng bestående mest av invandrare. Filmen handlar om konflikten mellan Kalle och Carlos, samt deras respektive gäng, en konflikt med tragiska konsekvenser.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: rough, bleak, serious, emotional, realistic, disturbing, cult film
Similar in 86%
Jason's Lyric (1994)
Plot Summary:
The story of a young man who must confront his own fears about love as well as his relationships with family and friends.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: hood, sexy, romantic, erotic, tense, rough, serious, realistic, gloomy, independent film
Similar in 81%
Sucker Punch (2003)
Plot Summary:
Mike Sullivan spends his nights kidnapping runaways so his boss, Lamar, can turn them into prostitutes. He is a crack addict and a thief and he is in love with a resentful prostitute, Rhonda, who doesn't love him back. Although he has aspirations of escaping this world, it isn't until he is nearly killed by corrupt cops for stealing money from his boss that he decides to redeem himself. In an attempt to save his own soul, he tries to get Rhonda out of the business, and is forced to battle Lamar and his henchmen, as well as Rhonda's unwillingness to change. As punishment for betraying Lamar, Mike is forced into a series of misdeeds, and in a shocking ending, must commit unredeemable acts as he tries to save Rhonda and himself.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 171
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: captivating, psychological, tense, semi serious, crime drama, rough, serious, realistic, disturbing, independent film
Similar in 75%
Our Lady of the Assassins (2000)
Plot Summary:
World-weary arthur Fernando has returned to his native Colombia to live out his days in peace. But Fernando's once-quiet hometown has become a hotbed of violence, drugs and corruption. On the brink of despair, Fernando meets Alexis, a beautiful but hardened street kid who lives by the rule of the gun. Together, they forge an unlikely relationship.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Spain, France, Colombia
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: disturbing, meditative, rough, thought provoking, serious, realistic, contemplative, crying, sexy, enigmatic
Similar in 75%
Execution of Justice (1999)
Plot Summary:
The story of an assassin who killed a mayor in the 1970's in what was known as the "Twinkie Defense".
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 274
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, serious, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, controversial, surprise ending, queer cinema
Similar in 82%
Head On (1998)
Plot Summary:
Nineteen-year-old Ari confronts both his sexuality and his Greek family. Ari despises his once-beloved parents, former radical activists, for having entombed themselves in insular tradition. Ari is obsessed with gay sex, although he does make an unenthusiastic attempt to satisfy the sister of one of his best friends. While all of this is going on, he's facing problems with his traditional Greek parents, who have no clue about his sexual activities.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: independent film, lgbt cinema, terrifying, sincere, touching, serious, realistic, erotic, rough, sexy
Similar in 79%
Breaking Point (1976)
Plot Summary:
The Mafia tries to take revenge against a man who testified against them in court.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 340
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Similar in 87%
Higher Learning (1995)
Plot Summary:
Malik (Omar Epps) is an African-American student attending on a track scholarship; academics are not his strong suit, and he goes in thinking that his athletic abilities will earn him a free ride through college. Fudge (Ice Cube), a "professional student" who has been at Columbus for six years so far, becomes friendly with Malik and challenges his views about race and politics in America.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags: realistic, hood, intense, thought provoking, serious, emotional, tense, disturbing, inspirational, touching
Similar in 85%
Adulthood (2008)
Plot Summary:
After serving six years for killing his schoolmate, a young man learns that someone is out for revenge.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: hood, rough, serious, realistic, cult classic, gloomy, bleak
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New Jersey Drive (1995)
Plot Summary:
New Jersey Drive is a 1995 film about black youths in Newark, New Jersey, the unofficial "car theft capital of the world". Their favorite pastime is that of everybody in their neighborhood: stealing cars and joyriding. The trouble starts when they steal a police car and the cops launch a violent offensive that involves beating and even shooting suspects.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: realistic, hood, brutal, melancholic, rough, serious, suspenseful, disturbing, cult classic, independent film