Movies like Short Sharp Shock
If Short Sharp Shock's mix of friendship, street gang and arms deal stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what Short Sharp Shock's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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The Edge of Heaven
2007 · Directed by Fatih Akin · 122 min7.2
Why you'll like itAlso directed by Fatih Akin · Also a German drama
The lives of six German-Turkish immigrants are drawn together by circumstance: An old man and a prostitute forging a partnership, a young scholar reconciling his past, two young women falling in love, and a mother…
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Miller's Crossing
1990 · Directed by Joel Coen · 115 min7.4
Why you'll like itShares: street gang · Also drama and crime · From the same decade (1990s)
Set in 1929, a political boss and his advisor have a parting of the ways when they both fall for the same woman.
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River's Edge
1986 · Directed by Tim Hunter · 100 min6.6
Why you'll like itShares: drugs · Also crime and drama
A group of high-school friends must come to terms with the fact that one of them, Samson, killed another, Jamie. Faced with the brutality of death, each must decide whether to turn their friend in to the police, or to…
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Snowtown
2011 · Directed by Justin Kurzel · 120 min6.3
Why you'll like itShares: drugs · Also crime and drama
Based on true events, 16 year-old Jamie falls in with his mother's new boyfriend and his crowd of self-appointed neighborhood watchmen, a relationship that leads to a spree of torture and murder.
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Scarface
1983 · Directed by Brian De Palma · 170 min8.2
Why you'll like itAlso crime and drama
After getting a green card in exchange for assassinating a Cuban government official, Tony Montana stakes a claim on the drug trade in Miami.