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Dirty (2005)
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Dirty (2005)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Two gangbangers-turned-cops try and cover up a scandal within the LAPD.
Style: rough, realistic, suspenseful, serious, hood, crime drama, grim, bleak, hispanic
Audience: boys' night
Plot: police corruption, dirty cop, street gang, drug dealing, guilt, internal affairs, investigation, murder, working undercover, law enforcement, tough law enforcer, cop, police officer killed, urban, gangster, corrupt cop, interracial friendship, police shootout, black cop, police, russian roulette, spy, intelligence agency, car chase, profanity ...
Time: year 2005, contemporary
Place: los angeles, latin america, cuba
Keyword: gangsters, latin

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, suspenseful and rough films with plots about police corruption, law enforcement, murder, deadly, dishonesty, police investigation and police mostly in Crime, Thriller and Drama genres. Some movies like Dirty: Training Day (2001), Monument Ave. (1998), Street Kings 2: Motor City (2011), Snitch'd (2003), Caught in the Crossfire (2010). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Training Day (2001)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: On his first day on the job as a narcotics officer, a rookie cop works with a rogue detective who isn't what he appears.
Style: neo noir, realistic, tense, harsh, suspense ...
Audience: manly, boys' night, adult
Plot: police corruption, gang, corrupt cop, ghetto, gunfight, drug dealer, police, african american, rookie, mentor, dirty cop, drug ...
Time: year 2001, 2000s, 21st century
Place: los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Monument Ave. (1998)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Bobby O'Grady a low level member of a Boston Irish gang run by Jackie O'Hara. Jackie demands absolute, total loyalty to him. When Jackie kills one of Bobby's buddies, Teddy, Bobby and others have to keep it an absolute secret, even ...
Style: atmospheric, suspenseful, tense, serious, independent film ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gangster, murder, police investigation, investigation, police corruption, drug dealing, criminal heroes, witnessing a crime, dishonesty, juvenile delinquency, gang, life is a bitch ...
Time: year 1998, 90s
Place: boston, ireland, massachusetts, connecticut, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Street Kings 2: Motor City (2011)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Ray Liotta (Goodfellas) delivers an intense, electrifying performance in this explosive follow-up to the gritty urban crime thriller Street Kings. Liotta plays Detroit detective Marty Kingston, the leader of an undercover narcotics team, whose ...
Style: tense, exciting, realistic, serious, bleak ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: murder, police investigation, police corruption, investigation, uncover truth, vigilantism, partners against crime, working undercover, gunfight, corruption, partner, undercover ...
Time: 21st century
Place: detroit, michigan, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
 2.1
 204
Snitch'd (2003)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: When the South Side Gang and the Cut Throat Mafia start a drug war at a local high school in Santa Ana, CA, detective McClure goes undercover to investigate the brutal murder of a young Latina student. The gang members are the key suspects but ...
Style: serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful, independent film ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: undercover, gangster, police detective, juvenile delinquency, criminal heroes, gang, police investigation, police corruption, urban ghetto life, working undercover, law enforcement, drug dealing ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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Caught in the Crossfire (2010)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Two detectives investigating a gang-related find themselves targeted by both gang members and crooked cops.
Style: suspenseful, exciting, serious, hood, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: partners against crime, partner, gang, police detective, police investigation, law enforcement, police corruption, friendship, rivalry, danger, mafia, cop ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
 6.8
 120K
Street Kings (2008)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Tom Ludlow is a disillusioned L.A. Police Officer, rarely playing by the rules and haunted by the death of his wife. When evidence implicates him in the execution of a fellow officer, he is forced to go up against the cop culture he's been a ...
Style: suspense, neo noir, detective, hood, harsh ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: police corruption, dirty cop, police, corruption, gunfight, violence, police investigation, ghetto, twists and turns, gangster, cop, vigilantism ...
Time: year 2008, 2000s, 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
 2.3
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Death Toll (2008)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: New Orleans has the No. 1 per capita murder rating in the nation. A decade earlier the city was dubbed the "Murder Capital of the Country." Drugs and violence controlled the streets, taking a toll on the city's law enforcement, ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, realistic, exciting, captivating ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: murder, undercover, partner, police corruption, fighting crime, police investigation, partners against crime, danger, law enforcement, master criminal, dishonesty, tough guy ...
Place: usa, louisiana, new orleans
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Streets of Blood (2009)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A police officer's partner has died during Hurricane Katrina, but he later discovers that his partner may have been murdered. An investigation follows, taking the officer and his new partner into the depths of the criminal underworld.
Style: serious, realistic, bleak, rough, hood ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: ghetto, murder, investigation, police detective, undercover, law enforcement, chaos and mayhem, gunfight, cop, urban, gangster, police ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new orleans
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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 1K
Splinter (2006)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A gang member, suffering from severe memory loss, searches for his brother's murderer. He secretly enlists the aid of the investigating Detective, while other members of his gang are mysteriously and sadistically murdered.
Style: psychological, rough, suspenseful, tense, psychological thriller ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gang, serial killer, police investigation, vengeance, life is a bitch, police corruption, uncover truth, wrestler, urban, gory, city life, violence spree ...
Place: california, usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 4.1
 1K
Hot Boyz (2000)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Injustice begets a criminal. Kool is an artist without prospects, a black belt in karate, and in love with LaShawna, poised and college bound. One night she witnesses a stabbing and discovers the victim is a cop as he dies in her arms. She's ...
Style: hood, realistic, suspenseful, serious, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gangster, gang, urban, frame up, racism, life is a bitch, police investigation, murder, social decay, police corruption, false accusation, law enforcement ...
Time: 90s
Place: usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 4.9
 464
Double Bang (2001)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: An honest cop enters the dark world of murder and corruption.
Style: realistic, suspenseful, serious, independent film
Audience: boys' night
Plot: murder, investigation, undercover, hidden identity, working undercover, dishonesty, law enforcement, fighting crime, police corruption, master criminal, vengeance, rivalry ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
The Mod Squad (1999)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Three minor delinquints (Danes, Ribisi, and Epps) are recruited by a cop (Farina) working undercover to bust a cop/drug ring. When the officer who recruited them is killed, they go above and beyond the call of duty to solve the murder; and bust the ...
Style: suspense, serious, rough, suspenseful, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: chase, police corruption, partner, investigation, working undercover, female warrior, criminal heroes, partners against crime, conspiracy, drug, corruption, prostitution ...
Time: 90s, year 1999, 20th century
Place: california, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 5.9
 441
Turning Point (2009)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Laughing (MICHAEL TSE) is formally a police undercover. However due to a drug trafficking case, Inspector Pan (FELIX WONG) is hot on his trails. Before Laughing becomes a police undercover, he works under triad leader Yi (ANTHONY WONG). Yi treats ...
Style: realistic, serious, rough, suspenseful, exciting
Plot: working undercover, car chase, secret agent, fighting crime, hidden identity, police investigation, rivalry, espionage, partner, police corruption, love affair, master criminal ...
Time: 21st century
Place: hong kong
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Brooklyn's Finest (2009)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story: Enforcing the law within the notoriously rough Brownsville section of the city and especially within the Van Dyke housing projects is the NYPD's sixty-fifth precinct. Three police officers struggle with the sometimes fine line between right and ...
Style: tense, realistic, suspense, neo noir, hood ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: corrupt cop, police corruption, police, corruption, organized crime, rookie, nypd, dirty cop, betrayal, swat team, robbery, murder ...
Time: year 2010, year 2009, 21st century
Place: new york, brooklyn new york city, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Hyena (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Good policing doesn't necessarily mean doing everything by the book. But as the business of crime in London turns to favour the Albanians and Turks, how does a "good" policeman survive?
Style: serious, realistic, tense, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: police corruption, gangster, murder, drug dealing, danger, police investigation, law enforcement, dishonesty, gang, drug, human trafficking, corruption ...
Time: 21st century
Place: london, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Guilty by Association (2003)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: There is no honor without truth. When gang wars spin out of control in downtown Washington D.C., one man steps onto the battlefirld to hunt down a ruthless killer. A young man has been released from prison and is determined to build a new life for ...
Style: suspenseful, realistic, rough, serious
Audience: boys' night
Plot: police corruption, police investigation, law enforcement, criminal heroes, friendship, partner, drug dealing, investigation, redemption, battles, reluctant partners, gang ...
Place: usa, washington d.c., los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Rampage: The Hillside Strangler Murders (2006)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Kenneth Bianchi, one of the two serial rapists and killers who terrorized the Los Angeles area in the late 1970s, is giving police station interviews to psychiatrist Samantha Stone, who has disquieting lifestyle issues of her own. It falls to her to ...
Style: psychological, rough, suspenseful, realistic, bleak ...
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, murder, mind game, police investigation, who done it, mental illness, life is a bitch, killer, misogynist, serial rapist, strangler ...
Time: 70s, year 1978
Place: los angeles, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 6.0
 81K
Shaft (2000)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: New York police detective John Shaft arrests Walter Wade Jr. for a racially motivated slaying. But the only eyewitness disappears, and Wade jumps bail for Switzerland. Two years later Wade returns to face trial, confident his money and influence ...
Style: stylized, suspense, intense, hood, realistic ...
Audience: manly, boys' night, adult
Plot: murder, blaxploitation, racism, police officer, gunfight, corruption, police investigation, police corruption, drug lord, urban, tough law enforcer, violence ...
Time: year 2000, y2k, 90s, 20th century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city, switzerland
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Q & A (1990)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story: A young district attorney seeking to prove a case against a corrupt police detective encounters a former lover and her new protector, a crime boss who refuse to help him.
Style: talky, intense, neo noir, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: police corruption, corruption, murder, investigation, police brutality, lawyer, fighting the system, life is a bitch, dishonesty, protagonist as suspect, legal, dedicated lawyer ...
Time: 80s
Place: usa, new york, puerto rico
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Internal Affairs (1990)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Keen young Raymold Avila joins the Internal Affairs Department of the Los Angeles police. He and partner Amy Wallace are soon looking closely at the activities of cop Dennis Peck whose financial holdings start to suggest something shady. Indeed Peck ...
Style: suspense, neo noir, suspenseful, intense, atmospheric ...
Plot: police corruption, internal affairs, corrupt cop, police investigation, corruption, manipulation, psychopath, police, abusive husband, rivalry, law enforcement, dishonesty ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, 90s
Place: los angeles, usa
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21%
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The Box (2007)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A disgraced former LAPD detective leads a home invasion in search of millions in stolen money. The plan goes awry and homicide detectives seeking answers interrogate the only survivors; a thief and a victim.
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, rough, surprise ending ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: murder, criminal heroes, police investigation, mind game, crime gone awry, vengeance, law enforcement, survival, dishonesty, master criminal, rivalry, confined ...
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21%
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Officer Down (2005)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A policewoman unwittingly puts her family in danger when she uncovers corruption in her department.
Style: serious, exciting, rough, suspenseful, independent film ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: vigilantism, vigilante, uncover truth, fighting the system, police detective, rivalry, danger, vengeance, law enforcement, police corruption, society, life is a bitch ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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One Good Cop (1991)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: When his loyal longtime partner, a widower, is killed in the line of duty and leaves behind three young children, Artie Lewis (Michael Keaton), a dedicated New York City cop and his wife, Rita (Rene Russo), decide to take the kids in. But the lives ...
Style: exciting, emotional, intense, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot: father daughter relationship, orphan, drug dealer, partner, murder, law enforcement, family relations, cop, drug dealing, fighting crime, working undercover, police corruption ...
Time: year 1991, 90s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Against the Law (1997)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A trigger-happy outlaw goes on the run and a burned out, disillusioned cop gives chase. They end up head-to-head in a Los Angeles shoot out.
Style: independent film, realistic, serious, suspenseful
Audience: boys' night
Plot: serial killer, cop killer, police officer, tough cop, beach, reporter, duel, showdown, cop, journalism, chases and races, partners against crime ...
Time: 90s
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Vice (2008)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Michael Madsen stars as Max Walker, a down-and-out cop who becomes the target of a bloodthirsty drug cartel after he leads a narcotics bust to intercept a large shipment of heroin. When someone starts picking off his team members -- and the drugs ...
Style: serious, rough, suspenseful, realistic
Audience: boys' night
Plot: police investigation, police corruption, partner, law enforcement, undercover, drug dealing, crime gone awry, partners against crime, dishonesty, working undercover, nypd, protagonist as suspect ...
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20%
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Bad Bizness (2003)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: After three women get killed, policewoman gets involved in the underworld of drugs and pornographic movies, when she starts investigating the case.
Style: suspenseful, realistic, serious, independent film, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: prostitute, serial killer, investigation, murder, danger, law enforcement, dishonesty, urban ghetto, working undercover, city life, erotica, sting operation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: indonesia
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Urban Justice (2007)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Seagal plays a man with a dark and violent past, who seeks revenge for the murder of his son.
Style: suspenseful, rough, exciting, serious, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: revenge, martial arts, gang, investigation, chase, murder, gangster, danger, law enforcement, dishonesty, death in the family, husband wife relationship ...
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 4.1
 853
Ready 2 Die (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: After a violent bank robbery, the trio of hoods make their way across East L.A. carrying a blood-soaked bag of money. When word gets out, they must fend off gangs and crooked cops alike as they strive to keep the loot and stay alive.
Style: serious, suspenseful, rough, exciting, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gang, chase, murder, dishonesty, heist, profanity, gangster, disorder, on the run, crime gone awry, criminal's revenge, criminal heroes ...
Time: 21st century
Place: california, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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 4K
Shakedown (1988)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: When a local drug dealer shoots a dishonest cop in self-defense, lawyer and renegade undercover cop join forces to clear him. But when their investigation leads them into a maze of greed and corruption, they learn that in a town where everything is ...
Style: realistic, suspenseful, rough, serious, neo noir ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: lawyer, police corruption, drug dealer, fighting the system, police investigation, legal action, bad cop, drug dealing, law enforcement, partners against crime, dishonesty, reluctant partners ...
Time: 80s
Place: new york, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
The Arrangement (1999)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A drug deal hijacked by a third party, they leave the drugs and take the money. A stripper witnesses a murder and now the Mafia's after but there is nowhere safe to hide.
Style: independent film, tense, exciting, serious, realistic ...
Plot: stripper, reluctant partners, violent content, partner, gangster, profanity, hitman, chases and races, law enforcement, amateur detective, dishonesty, fighting crime ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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