Movies with gritty vibe

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Realistic Intimate Bleak Deliberate Intense

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Constructed from over 500 hours of never-before-seen footage, this documentary centers on the personal life and career of the controversial football player Diego Maradona who played for SSC Napoli and Argentina in the 1980s.

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Personal life vs career, Public scrutiny of athletes, Sport achievement under pressure, Media portrayal pressure, Biography through a lens, Era of 1980s sports

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Realistic Claustrophobic Dry Fast-paced Stylish

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JJ, aka John Shaft Jr., may be a cyber security expert with a degree from MIT, but to uncover the truth behind his best friend’s untimely death, he needs an education only his dad can provide. Absent throughout JJ’s youth, the legendary locked-and-loaded John Shaft agrees to help his progeny navigate Harlem’s heroin-infested underbelly.

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Family loyalty under strain, Loyalty under pressure, Trust and deception, Intergenerational duty, Crime versus legitimacy, Silence and complicity in crime

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Realistic Tense Intimate Deliberate Humid

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Jimmie Fails dreams of reclaiming the Victorian home his grandfather built in the heart of San Francisco. Joined on his quest by his best friend Mont, Jimmie searches for belonging in a rapidly changing city that seems to have left them behind.

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Friendship under strain, Gentrification pressure, Memory of place, Urban space and identity, Belonging amid displacement, Family legacy and property

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Tense Dry Oppressive Gritty Charged

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Follow the 10-year reunion of the Deadwood camp to celebrate South Dakota's statehood. Former rivalries are reignited, alliances are tested and old wounds are reopened, as all are left to navigate the inevitable changes that modernity and time have wrought.

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Loyalty under pressure, Deception and influence, Violence as negotiation, Land investment leverage, Frontier authority vs capital, Rivalries reemerge

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Realistic Intimate Raw Claustrophobic Fast-paced

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One night in Tokyo, Leo, a young boxer, meets his first love, Monica, an imprisoned sex worker. Caught up in a drug-smuggling scheme, they find themselves pursued by a corrupt cop, a yakuza, his nemesis, and a female assassin.

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Loyalty under threat, Fate vs agency, Trauma and addiction, Illness as leverage, Crime underworld pressure, Deception within crime

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Realistic Tense Claustrophobic Brutal Bleak

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While on a prison furlough, a lowly criminal evades his guards and returns to his old stomping ground to take revenge on the people who turned him into a cold blooded killer.

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Loyalty under pressure, Revenge fuels violence, Crime and retribution, Brother against brother, Frame up consequences, Loanshark leverage, Pub as arena

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Realistic Claustrophobic Bleak Deliberate Relentless

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The film tells the true story of Elisa Sánchez Loriga and Marcela Gracia Ibeas, two women in 1901 Spain who fell deeply in love. To overcome societal and legal barriers to their relationship, Elisa assumes a male identity, enabling the pair to marry in secret. Their daring act makes them the first recorded same-sex couple to marry in Spain, but their love is tested as they face relentless persecution and sacrifice.

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19th century, Lesbian relationship, Spanish authorities, 1900s era, Same-sex marriage

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Tense Claustrophobic Bleak Procedural Dry

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Palermo, Sicily, 1980. Mafia member Tommaso Buscetta decides to move to Brazil with his family fleeing the constant war between the different clans of the criminal organization. But when, after living several misfortunes, he is forced to return to Italy, he makes a bold decision that will change his life and the destiny of Cosa Nostra forever.

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Loyalty under pressure, State versus crime, Collaboration and consequence, Justice through testimony, Fear and public scrutiny, Power and influence networks

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Tense Bleak Intense Gritty Reflective

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Three young women were sentenced to death in the infamous Manson murder case, but when the death penalty was lifted, their sentence became life imprisonment. One young graduate student was sent in to teach them – and through her we witness their transformations as they face the reality of their horrific crimes.

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Raw Dry Fast-paced Stylish Oppressive

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What if a child from another world crash-landed on Earth, but instead of becoming a hero to mankind, he proved to be something far more sinister?

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Abuse of power, Violence and consequence, Parental duty vs control, Outsider youth isolation, Secret origins and danger, Power vs humanity

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