Movies like Essex Boys

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Essex Boys (2000)
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Essex Boys (2000)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Billy has just scored an entry-level position with the local crime cartel. His first job is to mind Jason, a newly released thug with a vicious temper. Jason thinks it's his job to teach Billy about crime, drugs and women. Little does he know that Billy has his eyes on Jason's own wife, Lisa. When an ecstasy deal goes bad, Jason vows revenge on the boss, while Billy looks to take out Jason. Before long, bodies start turning up
Style: rough, suspenseful, exciting, serious, psychological, realistic, neo noir, crime drama, crime thriller, independent film ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: drug dealing, murder, police, gang, ambition, criminal's revenge, criminal heroes, vengeance, rivalry, rise and fall, female pubic hair, british gangster, gangster, criminal, football, shipwreck, sex crime, mobster, underworld, football hooligan, drug dealer, rape victim, betrayal, profanity, law enforcement ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, 1990s
Place: england, britain, europe
Keyword: gangsters

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Most similar movies to Essex Boys

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out rough, serious, realistic and suspenseful films with plots about gangster, rivalry, gang, murder, law enforcement, criminal heroes and deadly mostly in Crime, Action and Thriller genres. Some movies like Essex Boys: Bonded by Blood (2010), Rise of the Footsoldier (2007), Black's Game (2012), The Business (2005), Pusher (1996). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Fall of the Essex Boys (2013)
Genre: Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min.
Story: The rise and fall of the Essex Boys gang - the drugs, the violence and, of course, the murders. The real story is the most shocking of all.
Style: realistic, rough, suspenseful, serious, tense
Plot: murder, drug dealing, gangster, gang, fighting crime, rise and fall, police investigation, law enforcement, who done it, police, violence, informant ...
Time: 90s, year 1995, year 1993, 20th century, 21st century
Place: england, netherlands, united kingdom, amsterdam
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100%
Bonded by Blood (2010)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story: In 1995, drug suppliers and career criminals Tony Tucker, Patrick Tate and Craig Rolfe were blasted to death by a shot gun whilst waiting in a Range Rover in Rettendon, Essex. The film charts their rise to become the most prolific dealers and feared ...
Style: tense, serious, rough, suspenseful, realistic
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gang, rise and fall, rivalry, partner, gangster, dishonesty, betrayal, criminal heroes, vengeance, drug dealing, ambition, violence ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: england, britain, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Rise of the Footsoldier (2007)
Genre: Action, Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Rise of the Footsoldier follows the inexorable rise of Carlton Leach from one of the most feared generals of the football terraces to becoming a member of a notorious gang of criminals who rampaged their way through London and Essex in the late ...
Style: serious, captivating, realistic, tense, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gang, hooligan, drug abuse, murder, criminal, betrayal, police investigation, partners in crime, criminal heroes, rivalry, vicious, dishonor among criminals ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, 90s
Place: england, united kingdom, britain, europe, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.7
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Black's Game (2012)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Iceland
Duration: 104 min.
Story: In the mid to late 90's, the Reykjavik crime and drug scene saw a drastic change from a relatively small and innocent world into a much more aggressive and violent one.. The film tells the story of this change through the fictional gang of ...
Style: tense, realistic, serious, suspenseful, captivating ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: drug dealing, orgy, violence, psychopath, police corruption, drug dealer, male nudity, corrupt law enforcer, gang, suicide, nightclub, new year's eve ...
Time: 90s, year 2012, 20th century
Place: iceland, scandinavia, europe, reykjavik iceland
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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The Business (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Spain
Duration: 97 min.
Story: During the '80s, a young man named Frankie dreams of escaping London's South East region, and his mother's thug of a boyfriend gives him just the opportunity. After beating up the abusive beau, Frankie runs off to Spain, where he ...
Style: captivating, serious, rough, suspenseful, dark ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: rise and fall, drug dealing, organized crime, drug dealer, femme fatale, on the run, gangster, drug abuse, murder, british gangster, ambition, friendship ...
Time: 80s, year 2005, 20th century
Place: colombia, britain, england, spain, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.3
 44K
Pusher (1996)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Denmark
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A drug pusher grows increasingly desperate after a botched deal leaves him with a large debt to a ruthless drug lord.
Style: tense, atmospheric, intense, talky, captivating ...
Plot: heroin, gangster, drug dealing, organized crime, drug, mafia, character study, drug addiction, drug dealer, hitman, visceral, tragedy ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, year 1996
Place: denmark, scandinavia, bolivia, copenhagen, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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The Big I Am (2010)
Genre: Action, Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A cruel twist of fate catapults small time crook Mickey Skinner into the big league, as head of a brutal London gang poised on the brink of a lucrative human-trafficking deal.
Style: suspenseful, rough, serious, tense, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gang, gangster, dishonesty, rivalry, criminal heroes, organized crime, criminal, nudity, strong violent content, profanity, ambition, unfulfillment ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, london, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
 5.7
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Outlaw (2007)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A group of people who feel betrayed by their government and let down by their police force form a modern-day outlaw posse in order to right what they see as the wrongs of society.
Style: realistic, serious, rough, suspenseful, grindhouse ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gangster, soldier, betrayal, society, police, vigilante, rivalry, dishonesty, gang, violent, ghetto, vigilantism ...
Place: england, britain, london, big ben london, united kingdom
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
 5.2
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Killing Time (1998)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min.
Story: After the mobster who murdered his partner is acquitted, semicorrupt detective Robert Bryant hires a beautiful female assassin, Maria, to kill him. When he discovers that he cannot afford Maria's services, Bryant is forced to hire another ...
Style: suspense, independent film, exciting, serious, realistic ...
Plot: hitman, vengeance, woman with a gun, police corruption, law enforcement, dishonesty, danger, femme fatale, rivalry, serial killer, goofy hero, chases and races ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 5.9
 3K
The Crew (2008)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 123 min.
Story: Hoping to raise enough capital to finance a legitimate business and leave behind his life of crime, Liverpool underworld boss Ged Brennan sends his brother Ratter and a crew to pull a daring final heist. But when Ratter kills a drug kingpin during ...
Style: realistic, rough, serious, suspenseful, crime drama
Audience: boys' night
Plot: heist, betrayal, dishonesty, gang, criminal heroes, crime gone awry, gangster, brother brother relationship, lesbian, organized crime, british gangster, mafia ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 7.3
 37K
Get Carter (1971)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Michael Caine is Jack Carter, a small-time hood working in London. When word reaches him of his brothers death, he travels to Newcastle to attend the funeral. Refusing to accept the police report of suicide, Carter seeks out his brother’s friends ...
Style: neo noir, grindhouse, tense, cult classic, grim ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: revenge, hitman, organized crime, investigation, mafia, murder, assassin, gangster, british gangster, gangsta, violent, vigilante ...
Time: 70s, year 1971, 20th century
Place: england, britain, northern england, europe, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Carlito's Way: Rise to Power (2005)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Jay Hernandez (Friday Night Lights), Mario Van Peebles (Ali), Luis Guzmán (Carlito's Way) and Sean Combs (Monster's Ball) star in the gripping tale of the early years of gangster legend Carlito Brigante. Seduced by the power of the brutal ...
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, stylized, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: puerto rican, gangster, mafia, gang, drug dealing, police corruption, master criminal, betrayal, vengeance, best friend, rise to the top, tragic hero ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: new york, usa, new york state
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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 1K
Shooters (2002)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Netherlands, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Gilly comes out of prison after serving a six year stretch and decides that he will now turn his life around and go straight. But when he returns to his South London home and visits his old colleague J, in hope of obtaining his share of the proceeds ...
Style: rough, tense, serious, suspenseful, realistic
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cons and scams, going straight, gangster, criminal heroes, drug dealing, life is a bitch, law enforcement, addiction, criminal's revenge, dishonesty, drug abuse, rivalry ...
Place: england, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 4.5
 710
High Voltage (1998)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: After unknowingly robbing a money laundering operation the heist crew must avoid mobsters.
Style: exciting, realistic, serious, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: bank robbery, criminal heroes, disorder, danger, chases and races, gangster, shootout, crime gone awry, rivalry, law enforcement, good versus evil, bank ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Leak 2000 (2000)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Based on a book about an infamous real scandal in the Dutch crime scene, the film aims at exposing the horrors caused by corruption on both sides of the law. A rookie policeman is coerced into obtaining secret information from a childhood friend ...
Style: exciting, tense, suspenseful, rough, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: drug dealing, false accusation, police detective, police corruption, investigation, law enforcement, dishonesty, danger, betrayal, rivalry, corrupt law enforcer, drug cartel ...
Place: amsterdam, europe, holland
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Bloody Tie (2006)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 117 min.
Story: In this uncompromising vision of the gritty Korean underworld, a crystal meth dealer with a tragic past is forced to team up with a renegade cop to take down a powerful crime lord. Reminiscent of the Hong Kong action films of the 80’s but full of ...
Style: rough, exciting, serious, suspenseful, bloody ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: police corruption, snitch, undercover, criminal's revenge, drug abuse, dealer, law enforcement, criminal heroes, drug dealing, gangster, dishonesty, rivalry ...
Time: 21st century
Place: busan, asia, korea, south korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 5.2
 2K
Once a Thief (1996)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Set in Hong Kong and Vancouver, the story follows Mac Ramsey and Li Ann Tsei, lovers and professional thieves who are separated while fleeing the powerful Hong Kong underworld crime lord who raised and trained them. After being imprisoned in Hong ...
Style: suspense, rough, suspenseful, realistic, stylized ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: woman with a gun, gangster, renegade, rivalry, manhunt, haunted by the past, vengeance, law enforcement, criminal's revenge, master criminal, going straight, love triangle ...
Time: 90s
Place: hong kong, canada, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
The Italian Connection (1972)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Italy, West Germany
Duration: 95 min.
Story: When a shipment of heroin disappears between Italy and New York, a small-time pimp in Milan is framed for the theft. Two professional hitmen are dispatched from New York to find him, but the real thieves want to get rid of him before the New York ...
Style: poliziottesco, grindhouse, erotic, cult classic, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: mafia, organized crime, hitman, police, police officer, manhunt, revenge, female nudity, mobster, drug, explosions, italian mafia ...
Time: year 1972, 20th century, 70s
Place: italy, europe, new york, milan italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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Go Fast (2008)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Marek, a crime squad officer, sets out to avenge the death of his partner and best friend, who was killed by drug traffickers. He asks for a posting to a new undercover unit created to infiltrate a drug gang that imports hashish from Morocco using ...
Style: serious, rough, suspenseful, tense, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: vengeance, law enforcement, drug dealing, rivalry, gang, working undercover, marijuana, loss of partner, car chase, undercover, police procedural, police ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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Black Gunn (1972)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A successful and popular nightclub owner who believes financial independence is the path to equality and success, must act as a go-between for militant-minded brother and the white gang syndicate his brother has attacked and robbed. Their ...
Style: independent film, neo noir, fast, exciting, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: blaxploitation, vietnam war, organized crime, black, gangster, racism, nightclub, injustice, chase, gang, fighting the system, chases and races ...
Time: year 1972, 70s
Place: vietnam, asia, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Easy Money III: Life Deluxe (2013)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 127 min.
Story: JW now lives in exile and is more than ever determined to find out what happened to his missing sister Camilla. Every trace leads him to the world of organized crime in Stockholm. Jorge is about to do his last score - the largest robbery in Swedish ...
Style: serious, tense, realistic, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: mafia, murder, revenge, gang, working undercover, danger, missing person, criminal heroes, nordic, drug, mob boss, crime boss ...
Time: 21st century
Place: eastern europe, scandinavia, stockholm sweden
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 5.8
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Bad Country (2014)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: When Baton Rouge police detective Bud Carter busts contract killer Jesse Weiland, he convinces Jesse to become an informant and rat out the South's most powerful crime ring.
Style: rough, exciting, suspenseful, realistic, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: hitman, murder, investigation, police, police investigation, law enforcement, rivalry, danger, snitch, informant, swamp, deep south ...
Time: 80s, year 1983, 21st century
Place: southern usa, usa, louisiana
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 6.1
 100
Consignment (2007)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Consignment is the authentic and brutal story of an East Coast drug dealer forced to flee to California only to realize state lines don't erase past sins.
Style: suspenseful, rough, realistic, serious, independent film
Audience: boys' night
Plot: drug dealing, gangster, on the run, going straight, police investigation, starting over, gang, hitman, criminal's revenge, rivalry, buddies, law enforcement ...
Place: california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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Bullets, Blood & a Fistful of Ca$h (2006)
Genre: Action, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: A hard boiled tale of bloody revenge that interweaves the stories of nine criminals. The story takes place in one day, on the eve of an all out syndicate war. Through a twisted series of events, the interweaving narratives are put on an ...
Style: rough, realistic, serious, suspenseful, action packed ...
Plot: rivalry, partner, vengeance, police detective, police investigation, gang, partners against crime, criminal heroes, dishonesty, law enforcement, drug dealing, gory ...
Time: 21st century
Place: california
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
 3.9
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Mafia (2012)
Genre: Action, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story: Ving Rhames, Pam Grier, and Robert Patrick headline this throwback action thriller set in 1975, and following a renegade cop who skirts the law in order to capture a ruthless crime boss.
Style: serious, exciting, suspenseful, rough, crime drama ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gangster, rivalry, vengeance, tough heroes, criminal heroes, murder, police officer, love, drug dealer, graphic violence, black, profanity ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, year 1975
Place: pittsburgh, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
Johan Falk: De 107 patrioterna (2012)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Germany
Duration: 92 min.
Story: It's a beautiful day in Slottsskogen, Gothenburg idyllic city park, when suddenly the unthinkable happens - gunfire amidst all people. Two gangsters shooting game against each other and a large police operation starts. The conflict grows ...
Style: exciting, suspenseful, serious, tense, captivating ...
Plot: gang war, gangster, vengeance, tough law enforcer, danger, police surveillance, rivalry, police detective, law enforcement, nordic, murder, criminal ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
 5.8
 4K
Vendetta (2013)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Special ops interrogation officer Jimmy Vickers (Danny Dyer) tracks down a gang who slaughtered his parents while at the same time avoiding being tracked down by his old unit and the cops. With police closing in and his old unit on his trail, he has ...
Style: exciting, realistic, suspenseful, rough, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: vengeance, vigilante, police, vendetta, murder, vigilantism, revenge, rivalry, gang, violence spree, wartime, violent ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
24 Hours in London (2000)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: London gangster Christian has a plan to kill off the opposition, but things get messy when a witness survives.
Style: serious, rough, suspenseful, stylized, surprise ending
Audience: boys' night
Plot: police, criminal's revenge, hitman, gangster, murder, witnessing a crime, fighting crime, police investigation, rivalry, dishonesty, danger, law enforcement ...
Time: 90s
Place: london, england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
Born to Raise Hell (2010)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A hard core Interpol Agent is assigned to an Eastern European task force to target gun trafficking and dope running throughout the Balkans. While investigating a Russian gun dealer, his team is caught in a bloody street war between a Gypsy gang and ...
Style: serious, rough, suspense, tense, hood ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gang, gangster, loss of partner, law enforcement, chases and races, danger, revenge, brutality, martial arts, violence, murder, ghetto ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, bucharest, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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 2K
Crazy Six (1997)
Genre: Action, Crime
Country: Slovakia, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: In a crumbling Europe, powerful mafia families have emerged from the anarchy to vie for control of the lucrative arms trade.
Style: serious, suspenseful, rough, realistic, exciting ...
Plot: gangster, law enforcement, criminal's revenge, drug dealing, rivalry, government agency, master criminal, life is a bitch, addiction, violence, crime boss, communism ...
Time: future
Place: europe, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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