Movies like Crazy Joe

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Crazy Joe (1974)
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Crazy Joe (1974)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The rise and fall of a Mafia gangster, based on the life of murdered New York gangster "Crazy" Joey Gallo.
Style: grim, rough, bleak, serious, captivating, realistic, suspenseful, poliziottesco, cult film
Plot: mafia, mobster, criminal, blaxploitation, prison, restaurant, gangster, jail, heist, psychopath, gang, murder, society, store, godparent, criminal heroes, party, hostage, car chase, fire, catholic church, mansion, painting, traffic policeman, prison riot ...
Time: 70s, 60s, year 1960, 1960s
Place: new york, italy
Keyword: gangsters

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Most similar movies to Crazy Joe

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, rough and suspenseful films with plots about gangster, mafia, murder, criminal heroes, gang, deadly and dishonesty mostly in Crime, Drama and Thriller genres. Some movies like Crazy Joe: Gang War in Naples (1972), The Professor (1986), The Violent Four (1968), Laws of Gravity (1992), Breaking Point (1976). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Gang War in Naples (1972)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: The fast career of a young Neapolitan among contraband, gambling dens, bribes and illegality. He will upgrade its rank till the maximum level of the "Family".
Style: poliziottesco
Plot: mafia, smuggling, gambling, gang, bribery, mobster, camorra, extortion, young
Place: italy, napoli italy, naples italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Professor (1986)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 171 min.
Story: Vaguely inspired to the real story of boss of the Camorra's bosses Raffaele Cutolo, this is the story of the criminal career of "Il professore" (the professor). He is in prison, and by there he is able to build, step by step, an ...
Style: poliziottesco, realistic, serious, rough, suspenseful
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cosa nostra, mafia, camorra, italian mafia, police, female nudity, nazi, mobster, gulag, criminal, organized crime, murder ...
Time: year 1986, 80s, 20th century
Place: italy, naples italy, new york, napoli italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
The Violent Four (1968)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A detective is assigned to head a manhunt for four violent bank robbers.
Style: poliziottesco, detective, neo noir, non-linear, exciting ...
Plot: police, robbery, police officer, politics, car chase, social commentary, anarchist, theft, tough heroes, heist, rivalry, chase ...
Time: 60s
Place: italy, milan italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
Laws of Gravity (1992)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Jimmy and Jon are a couple of Brooklyn guys who somehow never found their way into workaday society; they never found their way into big-time crime, either.
Style: neo noir, independent film, realistic, serious, tense ...
Plot: american mafia, mafia, urban ghetto, criminal heroes, misfit, society, arms dealing, social misfits, juvenile delinquency, drug dealing, life is a bitch, city life ...
Time: year 1992, 90s
Place: new york, usa, brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
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Breaking Point (1976)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: The Mafia tries to take revenge against a man who testified against them in court.
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough
Audience: boys' night
Plot: mafia, vigilante, exploitation, murder, law enforcement, dishonesty, rivalry, on the run, legal, blind ambition, vengeance, criminal heroes ...
Time: year 1976, 70s
Place: usa, philadelphia
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Blood Ties (1986)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story: An innocent American engineer is blackmailed by gangsters into a plot to assassinate his cousin, who is a judge in Sicily fighting the Mafia.
Style: serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful, poliziottesco
Plot: mafia, italian mafia, murder, kidnapping, gangster, danger, rescue, violent content, nudity, hitman, drug, deadly
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: sicily, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
The Valachi Papers (1972)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 110 min.
Story: When Joe Valachi (Charles Bronson) has a price put on his head by Don Vito Genovese (Lino Ventura), he must take desperate steps to protect himself while in prison. An unsuccessful attempt to slit his throat puts him over the edge to break the ...
Style: tense, serious, realistic, bleak, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: prison, italian mafia, mafia, cosa nostra, mobster, hitman, organized crime, criminal, bad guy, spy, gangster, murder ...
Time: 1940s, year 1972, 1920s, 1930s, 1950s ...
Place: europe, italy, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Honor Thy Father (1973)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Joseph Bologna stars as Bill Bonanno in this made-for-television adaptation of the controversial bestseller from Gay Talese, chronicling the rise of New York's infamous Bonanno organized crime family. When his father disappears in 1964 and Bill ...
Style: serious, realistic, cynical, rough, semi documentary
Audience: boys' night
Plot: mafia, organized crime, gangster, tough heroes, gays and lesbians, ambition, family relations, husband wife relationship, violence, death, criminal, gang war ...
Time: 60s, year 1967
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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Witness to the Mob (1998)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Sammy 'The Bull' Gravano was mafiosi. He started out as a soldier, but his talent for murder, including the slayings of his best friends, his wife's brother and his own boss, Paul Castellano, saw him rise to under-boss in the Gambino ...
Style: cult classic, tense, realistic, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gangster, hitman, courtroom drama, gang, mobster, cosa nostra, italian mafia, organized crime, gangsta, legal action, witnessing a crime, rivalry ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Eddie's friends are numerous, but the term friends is suspect. As a small time hood Eddie is about to go back to jail. In order to escape this fate he deals information on stolen guns to the feds. Simultaneously he is supplying arms to his bank ...
Style: neo noir, cynical, noir, retro, crime thriller ...
Audience: manly
Plot: gangster, criminal, betrayal, bartender, heist, hustler, robbery, mafia, organized crime, gang, city, politics ...
Time: year 1973, 70s, 20th century
Place: boston, massachusetts, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Romanzo Criminale (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, France, UK
Duration: 152 min.
Story: The Lebanese has a dream: to conquer the underworld of Rome. To carry out this feat without precedent he puts together a ruthless and highly organized gang. Their progress and changes in leadership take place over 25 years, from the 1970s into the ...
Style: serious, stylized, realistic, captivating, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gangster, gang, police investigation, criminal heroes, partner, law enforcement, leadership, rivalry, ransom, drug dealing, organized crime, inspector ...
Time: 80s, year 2005, 70s, 90s, 60s ...
Place: italy, rome italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Angel of Evil (2010)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy, France, Romania
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Set in Italy in the 1970s, VALLANZASCA is the true story of the Italian underworld’s most infamous outlaw. A criminal by age 9, Renato Vallanzasca grew up to become the country’s most notorious mobster before the age of 27. Vallanzasca and his ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, realistic, bleak, sincere ...
Plot: criminal, murder, kidnapping, gangster, romancing a criminal, gang, confined, master criminal, prison, controversy, mafia, robbery ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, 80s
Place: italy, europe, milan italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Hell Up in Harlem (1973)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Tougher than Shaft and smoother than Superfly, this high-voltage sequel to Black Caesar explodes with enough action to incinerate New York City. Packed with machine-gun mayhem and riveting adventure, Hell Up in Harlem is nothing less than a ...
Style: grindhouse, neo noir, grim, hood, crime drama ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: blaxploitation, exploitation, gangster, black, mafia, gang, murder, mobster, gotham city, underground, ghetto, police corruption ...
Time: 70s
Place: new york, harlem, usa, coney island brooklyn new york city, los angeles ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
The Death Collector (1976)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A kid from the neighborhood goes to work for the Mafia as a collector.
Style: suspense, grindhouse, crime drama, independent film, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: mafia, organized crime, exploitation, mobster, twin towers, serial killer, italian mafia, crime wave, gangster, hitman, kids in trouble, disorder ...
Time: 70s
Place: new jersey, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Black Caesar (1973)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Tommy Gibbs is a tough kid, raised in the ghetto, who aspires to be a kingpin criminal. As a young boy, his leg is broken by a bad cop on the take, during a payoff gone bad. Nursing his vengeance, he rises to power in Harlem, New York. Angry at the ...
Style: grindhouse, cult classic, hood, crime drama, grim ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: blaxploitation, gangster, black, mafia, tough guy, mobster, exploitation, organized crime, gang, ghetto, blues, african american gangster ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, 1950s, year 1965, year 1972 ...
Place: new york, harlem, usa, california, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Willie Dynamite (1974)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Willie Dynamite is a pimp who operates in New York City. Willie was a big success as a pimp, but now, just as fast as he rose to the top, he has hit bottom. A former prostitute who has become a social worker tries to get Willie to clean up his life ...
Style: crime drama, grim, hood, captivating, realistic ...
Plot: blaxploitation, prostitute, black, urban, pimp, african american, cop, violent content, isolation, cons and scams, social decay, urban ghetto life ...
Time: 70s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Mafioso: The Father The Son (2001)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: When the head of a mafia clan is perceived to be weakening, his family suffers a series of attacks. It is up to his son, Frankie, to figure out who’s behind the plot before they are all wiped out.
Style: rough, serious, suspenseful, realistic, suspense
Plot: gang, working undercover, family business, betrayal, witnessing a crime, criminal heroes, master criminal, rivalry, criminal's revenge, gangster, law enforcement, hitman ...
Time: 21st century
Place: philadelphia
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Bella Mafia (1997)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Don Roberto Luciano turns informer for the biggest Mafia trial in history, but his family pays a terrible price.
Style: captivating, serious, political thriller, tense, realistic ...
Plot: mafia, betrayal, incestuous relationship, gangster, italian mafia, filicide, organized crime, rivalry, family life, monastery, revenge, mobster ...
Time: 90s
Place: europe, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Lucky Luciano (1973)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, France, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Lucky Luciano is one of the bosses of the Mafia. He orders the slaughter of 40 other responsibles, therefore becoming the only boss. But a few years later he is put into jail. In 1946, he got a pardon and is sent back to Sicilia. There, he begins ...
Style: poliziottesco, historical drama, contemplative, serious, realistic ...
Plot: cosa nostra, mafia, mobster, ambition, organized crime, democrat, mafioso, gangster, american mafia, intelligence agency, biopic, life is a bitch ...
Time: 1940s, 1930s, 50s, 20th century, post world war two ...
Place: italy, sicily, europe, usa, new york ...
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One Eyed King (2001)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Residents of Manhattan's Hell's Kitchen attempt to balance family and friendship against the harsh street life that unfolds around them
Style: serious, suspenseful, rough, realistic, independent film
Plot: gangster, gang, fight, mafia, city life, mafioso, criminal, caper, urban setting, embezzler, crime boss, irish mob ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
El padrino: The Latin Godfather (2004)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story: In the streets of East Los Angeles, Manny is a formidable drug dealer. Impressed by his extravagant lifestyle and prowess, his young son, Kilo, yearns to follow in his footsteps. Kilo resolves to learn how to prosper in the drug world, and his new ...
Style: rough, realistic, serious, suspenseful, exciting
Audience: boys' night
Plot: crime boss, gangster, prison gang, prison, criminal heroes, juvenile delinquency, prison life, life is a bitch, gang, dishonesty, drug dealing, urban ghetto ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles, california, usa, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Hell's Kitchen (1998)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: When a robbery goes awry, the bandits all end up in a puddle of blood and only one lives and goes to jail for five years. Upon his release, the girlfriend wants her new boyfriend to kill him. Only trouble is the boyfriend knows that the fault was ...
Style: serious, rough, suspenseful, disturbing, tense ...
Plot: crime gone awry, haunted by the past, murder, friendship, criminal's revenge, dishonesty, gang, life is a bitch, drug dealing, criminal heroes, heist, infidelity ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
New Jersey Drive (1995)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: New Jersey Drive is a 1995 film about black youths in Newark, New Jersey, the unofficial "car theft capital of the world". Their favorite pastime is that of everybody in their neighborhood: stealing cars and joyriding. The trouble starts ...
Style: realistic, hood, melancholic, brutal, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gang, brutality, police, police investigation, urban, vengeance, hip hop, ghetto, murder, lone hero, black, teenage life ...
Time: 90s
Place: new jersey, new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Black Eye (1974)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: An ex-police officer operating a private detective business comes face to face with a syndicate-backed dope ring.
Style: neo noir, serious, realistic, rough, bleak ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: blaxploitation, private investigator, murder, drug dealing, private detective, injustice, urban ghetto, gambling, urban ghetto life, who done it, cons and scams, life is a bitch ...
Time: 70s
Place: usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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The Ruthless (2019)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Milan, Italy, 1967. Santo Russo, a boy of Calabrian origin, arrives north with his parents and younger brother to find better living conditions. Due to an absurd misunderstanding and his father's contempt, Santo ends up in prison, where he gets ...
Style: realistic, harsh, suspense, serious, tense ...
Plot: drug lord, mafia, mob boss, italian mafia, bank robbery, gunfight, robbery, anti hero, mobster, life philosophy, organized crime, ambition ...
Time: 80s, 90s, 60s, 2000s
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Citizen Gangster (2011)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Based on a real WWII vet and family man turned bank robber. Disillusioned by his post war circumstances, Eddie Boyd is torn between the need to provide for his young family and an unfulfilled dream to head to Hollywood to become a star. He discovers ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, stylized, realistic, neo noir ...
Plot: heist, true crime, gang, police brutality, family relations, criminal heroes, murder, war veteran, struggling actor, man in a wheelchair, bank, robbery ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, 50s, 1950s
Place: canada, toronto ontario canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story (2004)
Genre: Drama, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Redemption tells the story of Stan "Tookie" Williams, founder of the Crips L.A. street gang. Story follows his fall into gang-banging, his prison term, and his work writing children's novels encouraging peace and anti-violence ...
Style: uplifting, realistic, serious, emotional, bleak ...
Plot: prison, violence, justice, adaptation, brutality, hopes, human spirit, death row, redemption, life is a bitch, journalism, murder ...
Time: 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
This Thing of Ours (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Using the Internet and global satellites, a group of gangsters pull off the biggest bank heist in the Mafia's history.
Style: serious, rough, suspenseful, realistic, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: mafia, gangster, organized crime, master criminal, chases and races, cosa nostra, partner, criminal heroes, dishonesty, betrayal, crime gone awry, bank ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new jersey, usa, miami
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Confessions of a Police Captain (1971)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Confessions of a Police Captain (Italian: Confessione di un commissario di polizia al procuratore della repubblica, also known as Confessions of a Police Commissioner to the District Attorney) is an Italian crime-drama film about a cop starring ...
Style: poliziottesco, grindhouse, serious, realistic, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: female nudity, police, mafia, police officer, corruption, italian mafia, corrupt, love letter, woman with a gun, organized crime, bureaucracy, psychology ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Gang War in Milan (1973)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A Milan pimp faces off against a ruthless and greedy French gangster whom wants to unite organized crime in Italy.
Style: poliziottesco, realistic, serious, suspenseful, rough
Plot: police, murder, gangster, gang war, strong violent content, nudity, urban, dishonesty, criminal heroes, rivalry, betrayal, criminal's revenge ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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