Films and programs like The Bear

Sweetbitter

Series Age rating: 16 Year: 2018 IMDB Rating: 7

Shortly after arriving in New York City, 22-year-old Tess lands a job at a celebrated downtown restaurant. Swiftly introduced to the world of drugs, alcohol, love, lust, dive bars, and fine dining, sh...

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Go for It!

Film Age rating: 14 Year: 2011 IMDB Rating: 3.7

Carmen is a good student with a bad attitude who lives for dancing in the underground clubs of Chicago. She yearns to be 'somebody' but is afraid to believe in herself. Her immigrant Mexican, working-...

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The Chi

Series Age rating: 16 Year: 2018 IMDB Rating: 7.6

A relevant, timely and distinctive coming-of-age story following a half dozen interrelated characters in the South Side of Chicago. The story centers on Brandon, an ambitious and confident young man w...

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AmericanEast

Film Age rating: 17 Year: 2008 IMDB Rating: 6.1

Summer in L.A., it's hot. Homeland Security has set the threat level at red; they're searching for several Arabs alleged to be terrorists. Mustafa, an Egyptian immigrant who runs a falafel shop, comes...

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Six Feet Under

Series Age rating: 15 Year: 2001 IMDB Rating: 8.7

A darkly comic look at members of a dysfunctional L.A. family that run a funeral business. When death is your business, what is your life? For the Fisher family, the world outside of their family-ow...

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Beaten

Film Age rating: n/a Year: 2005 IMDB Rating: 6.5

A hard man in a hard world, Michael has a secret. Haunted by a tormented past and childhood betrayal, when violence erupts in his home the whole family fights to stop their world from crumbling. Micha...

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Fleishman Is in Trouble

Series Age rating: 18 Year: 2022 IMDB Rating: 7.7

Recently separated forty-something Toby Fleishman dives into the brave new world of app-based dating with the kind of success he never had dating in his youth. But just at the start of his first summe...

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This Lady Called Life

Film Age rating: 15 Year: 2020 IMDB Rating: 7.1

Becoming a chef is Aiye’s greatest desire. But. She is a young, struggling, single mother who has been abandoned by her family. To settle for defeat, or to fight against all odds to become the chef of...

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The Outfit

Film Age rating: 15 Year: 2022 IMDB Rating: 7.2

Leonard is an English tailor who used to craft suits on London’s world-famous Savile Row. After a personal tragedy, he’s ended up in Chicago, operating a small tailor shop in a rough part of town wher...

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