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EZ Streets (1996)
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EZ Streets (1996)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 539 min.
TV show
Story: EZ Streets is an American television drama series created by Paul Haggis. It premiered on CBS on October 27, 1996 with a two hour pilot telefilm. The series stars Ken Olin, Joe Pantoliano, and Jason Gedrick.
Style: detective, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, neo noir, heroic
Plot: police, politics, redemption, undercover agent, organized crime, life is a bitch, society, working undercover, bribery, law enforcement, police corruption, police detective, social decay, dishonesty, criminal heroes, protagonist as suspect, gangster, mafia, loneliness, police officer, violence, bdsm, hitman, religion, death ...
Time: 90s
Keyword: gangsters, irish

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, suspenseful, serious and rough films and TV series with plots about law enforcement, police, gangster, mafia, dishonesty, murder and organized crime mostly in Crime, Drama and Thriller genres. Some movies like EZ Streets: New York Undercover (1994), The Black Donnellys (2007), Crime Story (1986), Low Winter Sun (2013), Blue Murder (1995). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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New York Undercover (1994)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: New York Undercover is an American police drama that aired on the Fox television network from 1994 to 1998. The series stars Malik Yoba as Detective J.C. Williams and Michael DeLorenzo as Detective Eddie Torres, two undercover detectives in New York ...
Style: captivating, serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot: police, law enforcement, police detective, gang, working undercover, criminal heroes, city life, society, black, violence, police officer, woman with a gun ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: new york, usa
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95%
The Black Donnellys (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Meet the Donnelly brothers: Tommy, Jimmy, Kevin and Sean. There is nothing these four Irish brothers wouldn't do to protect each other, and for them that means lying, cheating, stealing and, occasionally, calling the cops. Narrated by wannabe ...
Style: captivating, rough, realistic, suspenseful, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: mafia, organized crime, mob boss, murder, vengeance, blind ambition, family business, rivalry, uninhibited rivalry, gang, criminal heroes, dishonesty ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, ireland, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
92%
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Crime Story (1986)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Crime Story is an American TV drama, created by Gustave Reininger and Chuck Adamson, that premiered in 1986 and ran for two seasons on NBC. The executive producer was Michael Mann, who had left his other series Miami Vice to oversee Crime Story and ...
Style: suspenseful, suspense, disturbing, detective, captivating ...
Plot: police, police detective, gangster, law enforcement, tough heroes, mafia, mobster, vendetta, danger, cop, rivalry, betrayal ...
Time: 20th century, 60s, year 1963
Place: chicago, usa, las vegas, illinois
⇓ similarity ⇓
87%
Low Winter Sun (2013)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story: Low Winter Sun is an American television drama series developed by Chris Mundy, starring Mark Strong and Lennie James. The series premiered on August 11, 2013, on AMC, with the first season consisting of ten episodes. It is based upon the 2006 ...
Style: tense, serious, rough, suspenseful, detective ...
Plot: murder, police detective, vengeance, right and wrong, law enforcement, rivalry, police corruption, perfect crime, dishonesty, dirty cop, revenge, deception ...
Time: 21st century
Place: detroit, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
87%
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Blue Murder (1995)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 198 min.
TV show
Story: Detective Sergeant Roger "The Dodger" Rogerson got fame because he knew how to take care of most dangerous and violent criminals. His success was, however, also due to the sinister alliance with violent underworld figures like Neddy Smith ...
Style: slasher, detective, realistic, serious, bleak ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: police corruption, investigation, serial killer, mysticism, nypd, police detective, prostitute, organized crime, master criminal, dishonesty, rise and fall, partners against crime ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, 90s
Place: australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
The Ghost Squad (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: The Ghost Squad was a 2005 British crime drama series produced by Company Pictures, for Channel 4. The show was created by Tom Grieves. Inspired by the real life "Ghost Squad" that existed between 1994 and 1998, secretly investigating ...
Style: suspenseful, rough, realistic, serious, detective ...
Plot: police corruption, working undercover, police investigation, dirty cop, boss and employee, dishonesty, law enforcement, undercover, idealism, society, undercover cop, undercover agent ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
The Last Don II (1998)
Genre: Drama, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 240 min.
TV show
Story: As the elder don dies, his young heir moves into the position. He quickly proves to be as ruthless as he tries to discover who has launched a plot to overthrow his rule and may be infiltrating other families. In a left over plot line, his aunt ...
Style: saga, realistic, serious, bleak, gloomy ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: mafia, gangster, mobster, organized crime, undercover, catholic, autism, godfather, mob boss, family relations, widower, brother sister relationship ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: las vegas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
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Wiseguy (1987)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Vinnie Terranova does time in a New Jersey penitentiary to set up his undercover role as an agent for the OCB (Organized Crime Bureau) of the United States. His roots in a traditional Italian city neighborhood form the underlying dramatic base ...
Style: realistic, suspenseful, serious, atmospheric, detective ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: undercover, mafia, undercover agent, organized crime, gangster, investigation, working undercover, fbi, special agent, tough law enforcer, law enforcement, dishonesty ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: new jersey, usa, miami
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
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Cement (2000)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: What's the bond between partners, between brothers, and between spouses? In L.A., Bill Holt handcuffs Sean Rickhart inside a rebar frame for a freeway pillar at a construction site; Bill's going to bury Sean in quick-drying cement. Guided ...
Style: neo noir, serious, rough, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: police corruption, gangster, criminal's revenge, life is a bitch, rivalry, criminal heroes, law enforcement, dishonesty, police investigation, drug dealing, addiction, showbiz ...
Time: 90s
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
Brooklyn South (1997)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Brooklyn South is an American ensemble police drama series that aired on CBS for only one season during the 1997–98 television season. The series was co-created by Steven Bochco, Bill Clark, David Milch and William M. Finkelstein. Bochco is the ...
Style: detective, serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful
Plot: police, swat team, nypd, legal, die hard, police officer, partner, tough heroes, police detective, partners against crime, criminal heroes, fighting crime ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york, usa, brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
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 ⇓
64%
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High Incident (1996)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: High Incident is a police drama series produced by DreamWorks Television for the ABC network. The show was created by Steven Spielberg, Michael Pavone, Eric Bogosian and Dave Alan Johnson. It first aired on March 4, 1996, running a total of 32 ...
Style: detective, rough, bleak, exciting, realistic ...
Plot: law enforcement, nypd, society, fighting crime, suburbs, suburban life, police officer, police, sergeant, female police officer
Time: 90s
Place: california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
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The Shield (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 47 min.
TV show
Story: The story of an inner-city Los Angeles police precinct where some of the cops aren't above breaking the rules or working against their associates to both keep the streets safe and their self-interests intact.
Style: tense, rough, exciting, suspenseful, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: police corruption, police detective, law enforcement, corrupt cop, dirty cop, cop, police brutality, dishonesty, cruelty, murder, tough law enforcer, peril ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
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Line of Fire (2003)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Line of Fire is a crime drama television series that was broadcast on ABC for 11 episodes in the winter of 2003-2004. It starred Leslie Bibb and Jeffrey D. Sams as two rookie FBI agents assigned to the bureau's Richmond, Virginia branch, where ...
Style: exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, detective
Plot: fbi, undercover, fighting crime, working undercover, gangster, special agent, workplace, law enforcement, haunted by the past, nypd, gay slur, criminal heroes ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
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The Wire (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 59 min.
TV show
Story: Told from the points of view of both the Baltimore homicide and narcotics detectives and their targets, the series captures a universe in which the national war on drugs has become a permanent, self-sustaining bureaucracy, and distinctions between ...
Style: clever, tense, detective, cynical, serious ...
Plot: organized crime, corruption, police detective, police, urban ghetto life, working undercover, life is a bitch, drug dealing, fighting crime, shooting, police investigation, urban decay ...
Time: 2000s, future, year 2002, 20th century, 1950s ...
Place: baltimore, maryland, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
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The Handler (2003)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: The Handler is a crime series created by Canadian writer-producer Chris Haddock, airing in the United States on CBS in the 2003-04 season. The show starred Joe Pantoliano as Joe Renato, an FBI agent assigned to train and handle young undercover ...
Style: rough, realistic, suspenseful, serious
Plot: fbi, special agent, law enforcement, officers and cadets, working undercover, basic training, undercover, government agency, crime solving, fbi agent, undercover cop, die hard ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
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Mafiosa (2006)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 416 min.
TV show
Story: By the will of her dead uncle who was murdered Sandra Paoli is propelled to the head of a powerful mafia clan. She becomes a respected, but also hated, woman in a world of men, murder and criminality.
Style: serious, rough, suspenseful, semi serious, captivating ...
Plot: murder, mafia, criminal's revenge, family business, betrayal, drug dealing, gang, family problems, death in the family, gangster, police corruption, family relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
Prince of the City (1981)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 167 min.
Story: New York City detective Daniel Ciello agrees to help the United States Department of Justice help eliminate corruption in the police department, as long as he will not have to turn in any close friends. In doing so, Ciello uncovers a conspiracy ...
Style: tense, neo noir, detective, realistic, bleak ...
Audience: manly
Plot: corruption, police, drug addiction, drug, lawyer, police corruption, addiction, whistleblower, fighting the system, police investigation, betrayal, redemption ...
Time: 70s, year 1981, 80s, 20th century
Place: new york, america, usa, virginia, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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Brotherhood (2006)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: A working-class Irish family rules a city built on loyalty and corruption. The Caffee brothers, Tommy, a rising politician desperate for reelection, and Michael, a hardened criminal returning from seven years on the run and eager to reclaim his ...
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, atmospheric, political ...
Plot: irish mob, politician, family relations, dysfunctional family, mafia, criminal, profanity, family problems, ambition, political corruption, criminal heroes, politics ...
Place: usa, ireland, rhode island
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Shades of Blue (2016)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Sexy New York detective and single mother Harlee Santos fell in with a tight-knit group of dirty cops, taking bribes and protection money that she uses to provide the best life for her honest, talented daughter. But when she's trapped by the ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, realistic, suspense, detective ...
Plot: police detective, police, working undercover, fbi, police corruption, law enforcement, police investigation, nypd, moral dilemma, dishonesty, undercover, legal ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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 ⇓
48%
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The Octopus (1984)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Italy, Austria, France, UK, Germany, Spain, Sweden
Duration: 402 min.
TV show
Story: Corrado Cattani is a police inspector whose life is devoted to fighting the Italian mafia (known here as "La Piovra" or "The Octopus").
Style: serious, tense, suspenseful, bleak, realistic ...
Plot: cosa nostra, mafia, murder, law enforcement, society, fighting crime, family relations, police investigation, family life, organized crime, smuggling, gangster ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: sicily, italy, palermo italy, europe, southern italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
 6.4
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The Yards (2000)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: In the rail yards of Queens, contractors repair and rebuild the city's subway cars. These contracts are lucrative, so graft and corruption are rife. When Leo Handler gets out of prison, he finds his aunt married to Frank Olchin, one of the big ...
Style: tense, bleak, neo noir, emotional, intense ...
Plot: corruption, betrayal, political corruption, murder, whistleblower, character study, police corruption, false accusation, mafia, female nudity, injustice, life is a bitch ...
Time: year 2000, 2000s, 90s
Place: new york, brooklyn new york city, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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Undercover (2011)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Bulgaria
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Just an ordinary boy from the Sofia suburbs becomes the first bulgarian undercover cop. Forced by his father when he was young to lie and cheat, Martin becomes the perfect liar. That skill, and also the hatred of the 'underworld' makes ...
Style: realistic, suspenseful, rough, serious, exciting ...
Plot: hidden identity, mob boss, undercover, gang war, gangster, danger, organized crime, peril, mission, corruption, promotion, law enforcement ...
Time: 21st century
Place: bulgaria
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
 7.0
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The Bridge (2010)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: The Bridge was a Canadian police drama commissioned by CTV and CBS starring Aaron Douglas. The name of the series is derived from the bridge which connects the wealthy Rosedale neighborhood of Toronto with one of its poorest, St. James Town. The ...
Style: realistic, serious, captivating, psychological, detective ...
Plot: police, law enforcement, partner, workplace, fighting crime, workplace situations, police officer, investigation, dirty cop, coworker relationship, nypd, lesbian ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada, toronto ontario canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Romanzo criminale - La serie (2008)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
TV show
Story: Romanzo Criminale – La serie - is a television series Italian based on the eponymous novel by judge Giancarlo De Cataldo, and it is the second adaptation of the film Romanzo Criminale directed by Michele Placido. The first series quickly achieved ...
Style: serious, captivating, rough, suspense, realistic ...
Plot: gang, mafia, organized crime, police, criminal heroes, gangster, law enforcement, drug dealing, police detective, dishonesty, violence, italian mafia ...
Time: 80s, 70s, 20th century, 90s
Place: italy, rome italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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L.A. Dragnet (2003)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Sgt. Joe Friday and his partner Frank Smith methodically investigate crimes in Los Angeles.
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough, detective
Audience: boys' night
Plot: police detective, police investigation, partners against crime, fighting crime, society, law enforcement, police, die hard, investigation, car chase, nypd, crime investigation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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Kingpin (2003)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Rule the family. Control the empire. A Change in power looms imminent in the drug cartel family.
Style: realistic, rough, suspenseful, serious, crime drama
Audience: boys' night
Plot: drug cartel, drug dealing, drug smuggling, family relations, brother brother relationship, partner, police corruption, rivalry, gangster, drug abuse, addiction, siblings relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: texas, usa, el paso texas, thailand, michigan ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
In Face of the Crime (2010)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany, Austria
Duration: 479 min.
TV show
Story: Im Angesicht des Verbrechens is a German television series about the Russian mafia in Berlin. It received high critical acclaim, but the viewer figures were disappointing. It was broadcast by ARTE and Das Erste.
Style: realistic, disturbing, serious, captivating, detective ...
Plot: police, prostitute, society, dishonesty, law enforcement, organized crime, prostitution, money, police investigation, love, danger, murder ...
Time: 21st century
Place: germany, berlin germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Robbery Homicide Division (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Robbery Homicide Division was an American police procedural television series on CBS, created by Barry Schindel with executive producer Michael Mann. Schindel has been nominated for three Emmy Awards.
Style: tense, rough, serious, suspenseful, exciting ...
Plot: police detective, police, police investigation, fighting crime, society, workplace situations, law enforcement, murder, workplace, partner, police station, cop ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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