City of God
2002 · Crime · Fernando Meirelles and Kátia Lund · 2h 8m
Two boys grow up in a Rio housing project through the sixties and seventies, one drifting toward photography and the other toward the drug trade. It moves fast and jumps between dozens of lives.
- Strongly heavy
- Strongly realistic
- Clearly fast
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Sicario
88% alike
2015 · Thriller
An FBI agent is recruited onto a cross-border task force going after a cartel, and is told very little about who she is working for or what the job actually is. She spends the film trying to find out.
- Strongly heavy
- Clearly realistic
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The Big Short
87% alike
2015 · Comedy
A handful of investors work out that the American housing market is built on bad loans and bet against it, while everyone tells them they are wrong. Fast and jokey, and it stops to explain the finance.
- Strongly realistic
- Clearly complicated
- Clearly fast
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The Departed
87% alike
2006 · Crime
A young cop goes undercover inside a Boston crime boss's crew while one of the boss's own men rises through the state police, and each side works out there is a rat. It is long, loud and full of swearing.
- Clearly heavy
- Clearly realistic
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