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posted 16 years ago by fantazydk
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I just watched Gomorra and i think that its one of my all time favourite movies! I like the authentic style of the movie, and the director made a great job in choosing the places to shoot it, and making a great atmosphere in the movie.

I have also watched Hate (La haine) and City of God, and thought if anyone could recommend some movies in similar style? Like some movie shot at neighborhoods with social problems, not nessacarily about mafia or gangsters, but somehow with same theme. I prefer realistic films, and im open for anything. Not only hot shot hollywood movies, but also foreign movies.

Go for it, come with some recommendations! :)

[–] Tchoutoye 15 years ago

Lukas Moodysson - Lilja 4-ever
Children in the Russian ghetto of Lasnamäe (Tallinn, Estonia), about human trafficking and forced prostitution.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0300140/

Artur Aristakisyan - Ladoni (Palms)
Poor and neglected children in trashy town in Russia. Beautifully filmed in b/w.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0168845/

Harmony Korine - Gummo
White trash kids in an American town.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119237/

Larry Clark - Kids
Sex, drugs and violence among teenage kids. Written by Harmony Korine.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113540/

Constantinos Giannaris - From The Edge of the City
Greek version of "Kids", about Pontic Greek immigrants from the former Soviet Union in Athens.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0181547/

Lodge Kerrigan - Clean Shaven
About a schizophrenic father who tries to get his daughter back from an adoptive family.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106579/

Ulrich Seidl - Import/Export
Underpaid Ukrainian nurse has to take on an extra job in the porn industry to feed her child, emigrates to Austria where she is treated badly by Austrians.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0459102/

Ulrich Seidl - Hundstage (Dog Days)
Heatwave in a Vienna suburb. The middle class have social problems of their own.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0290661/

Paul Andrew Williams - London To Brighton
More a traditional gangster film, but still very gritty and deals with child prostitution.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0490166/

[–] espalhalixo 10 years ago

I'm very familiar with these two movies:

Harmony Korine - Gummo
Larry Clark - Kids

Great recomendations!

But I have to thank you for mentioning the other movies. I own a pirate copy (I'm sorry) of Ulrich Seidl - Import/Export, and this post made me want to watch it.

Thank you!

[–] Iwatchondrugs 8 years ago

Blood in,Blood out,also known as Bound by honor.

[–] mechafi 8 years ago

Ulrich Seidl films are great. I might add that Import/Export and Hundstage also have this "hyperlink cinema" approach or what it is called in that they have several independent stories loosely/thematically connected. Import/Export actually has two such stories: The one aforementioned where the Ukrainian nurse emigrates to Austria to seek "better life" and ends up working in the sex industry and the other where an Austrian guy who has fallen on hard times goes to Ukraine with his stepfather to install gambling machines and also to seek "better life". So it is a deconstruction of the common "East European woman emigrates to the West" trope and also portrays the underdogs of the Austrian society who have to look for their livelihood in the East.

I'd like to recommended the films of an Estonian director Veiko Õunpuu, especially the Autumn Ball (Sügisball), based on Mati Unt's book, which tells six different stories set in the rundown Soviet-style suburds of Tallinn. It is very much like Hundstage and does have a similar atmosphere to Gomorra.

And I didn't notice that anyone above mentioned Soderbergh's Traffic which is the one that I think started this "many loosely connected storylines" thing (although it wasn't the first such film, of course). Traffic's gritty Mexican storyline and the San Diego story do have some stylistic similarities to Gomorra as well. But maybe Traffic's a no-brainer so no-one bothered to mention it.

[–] Pistolpete332010 12 years ago

A poster mentioned This is England which is not a bad recommendation.

I saw Hunger and Gomorrah back to back. They are both very much so docu-style films with no real story-arc, at least no in a conventional sense. There's no hero, villain, or character arcs. It's gritty, raw, neutral, objective, and monolithic in style (Gomorraw more so for the mono part).

Don't push it. Don't push it or I'll give you a war you won't believe. Let it go.

[–] waltwhitmansniece 11 years ago

"The dreamlife of angels" shows a side of France rarely filmed.
And it features the best 2 performances I have ever seen.

[–] brunolavida 11 years ago

Un Prophète

"I've seen horrors... horrors that you've seen. But you have no right to call me a murderer."

[–] ClenRen 11 years ago

Nattbus 807

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[–] CinemaNaut 8 years ago

Pusher. The opening scene in Gomorrah reminded me so much of that.

Early Innaritu films have a similar cinematic look to to them if you like the bleak style.

I could also recommend the french prison movie Un Prophete.