Movies like The General 1998

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The General (1998)
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The General (1998)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Ireland
Duration: 124 min.
Story: In a twenty-year career marked by obsessive secrecy, brutality and meticulous planning, Cahill netted over £40 million. He was untouchable - until a bullet from an IRA hitman ended it all.
Style: black and white, tense, serious, clever, intense, independent film, sincere, realistic, cynical, stylized ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: robbery, gangster, art theft, mastermind, master criminal, brutality, law enforcement, cons and scams, danger, mafia, organized crime, courtroom, harassment, heist, terrorism, war, politics, criminal, court, intrigue, irish mob, conflict, threat, political conflict, underworld ...
Time: 90s, year 1998, 80s, 50s, 20th century, 70s
Place: ireland, dublin ireland, europe
Keyword: gangsters, irish

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, suspenseful and tense films with plots about gangster, gang, criminal heroes, organized crime, murder, criminal and mafia mostly in Crime, Drama and Thriller genres. Some movies like The General: Veronica Guerin (2003), Mesrine: Public Enemy #1 (2008), Fifty Dead Men Walking (2008), Bonded by Blood (2010), Ordinary Decent Criminal (2000). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Veronica Guerin (2003)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Ireland, UK, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: In this true story, Veronica Guerin is an investigative reporter for an Irish newspaper. As the drug trade begins to bleed into the mainstream, Guerin decides to take on and expose those responsible. Beginning at the bottom with addicts, Guerin then ...
Style: suspense, intense, realistic, tense, emotional ...
Plot: journalism, investigation, strong female character, murder, gangster, justice, corruption, drug lord, police, drug dealing, heroin, journalist ...
Time: 90s, year 2003, 20th century
Place: ireland, dublin ireland, europe, amsterdam
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
Mesrine: Public Enemy #1 (2008)
Genre: Action, Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 133 min.
Story: The story of Jacques Mesrine, France's public enemy No. 1 during the 1970s. After nearly two decades of legendary criminal feats -- from multiple bank robberies and to prison breaks -- Mesrine was gunned down by the French police in Paris.
Style: intense, suspense, realistic, rough, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gangster, mob boss, chase, organized crime, mafia, prison, biopic, heist, character study, against the rules, notoriety, realism ...
Time: 20th century, y2k, year 2008, 70s
Place: france, paris france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
93%
Fifty Dead Men Walking (2008)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Based on Martin McGartland's real life story as a informant for the British Police to spy on the IRA. Taking place from 1987-1991, Martin (Jim Sturgess) works his way up the ranks of the IRA, while keeping his informant with the police Fergis ...
Style: factual, captivating, stylized, tense, political ...
Plot: ira, crime gone awry, storytelling, terrorism, brutality, secret agent, snitch, danger, undercover, state affairs, spy, trouble ...
Time: 80s, year 2008, 90s, 20th century
Place: ireland, canada, northern ireland, europe, scotland
⇓ similarity ⇓
93%
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 ⇓
90%
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Ordinary Decent Criminal (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: Ireland, Germany, UK, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Michael Lynch is a notorious criminal with two wives and a flair for showmanship. He's also a huge embarrassment to the local police, who are determined to bring him down once and for all.
Style: harsh, captivating, humorous, entertaining, clever ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gang of thieves, organized crime, gangster, robbery, justice, depression, happy ending, crime gone awry, redemption, adaptation, bank robbery, master criminal ...
Time: 80s, 90s, 20th century
Place: ireland, europe, dublin ireland
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
The Tiger's Tail (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 107 min.
Story: After a chance encounter, a Dubliner (Gleeson) is stalked by a murderous facsimile of himself.
Style: realistic, serious, suspense, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot: murder, cons and scams, life is a bitch, working class, social decay, dishonesty, hidden identity, stalking, family relations, psychopath, father son relationship, brother brother relationship ...
Time: year 2006
Place: ireland, dublin ireland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
 6.9
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Legend (2015)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story: Suave, charming and volatile, Reggie Kray and his unstable twin brother Ronnie start to leave their mark on the London underworld in the 1960s. Using violence to get what they want, the siblings orchestrate robberies and murders while running ...
Style: realistic, serious, brutal, tense, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: mafia, gang, rise and fall, gangster, abusive husband, psychopath, mobster, twins, relationships, mafioso, extortion, twin brother ...
Time: 60s, year 2015, 2010s, 90s, 50s ...
Place: london, england, east end london, west end london, scotland yard ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
The Infiltrator (2016)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story: A U.S Customs official uncovers a massive money laundering scheme involving Pablo Escobar.
Style: suspense, realistic, dramatic, factual, tense ...
Audience: date night
Plot: drug lord, drug cartel, money laundering, drug, addiction, federal agent, money, investigation, biopic, undercover agent, organized crime, drug addiction ...
Time: year 2016, 80s, year 1985, 20th century
Place: colombia, middle east, florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
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The Bank Job (2008)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA, Australia
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Terry is a small-time car dealer trying to leave his shady past behind and start a family. Martine is a beautiful model from Terry's old neighbourhood who knows that Terry is no angel. When Martine proposes a foolproof plan to rob a bank, Terry ...
Style: suspense, exciting, tense, clever, talky ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: heist, bank robbery, robbery, bank, caper, political corruption, blackmail, mobster, crime gone awry, car salesman, organized crime, murder ...
Time: year 2008, 70s, 20th century, year 1971
Place: london, england, britain, united kingdom, bahamas ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
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 ⇓
83%
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 ⇓
83%
Kill the Irishman (2011)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Over the summer of 1976, thirty-six bombs detonate in the heart of Cleveland while a turf war raged between Irish mobster Danny Greene and the Italian mafia. Based on a true story, kill the Irishman chronicles Greene's heroic rise from a tough ...
Style: tense, brutal, talky, intense, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: mafia, gangster, mob boss, gang war, irish mob, hitman, gang, corruption, organized crime, assassin, murder, caper ...
Time: 70s, year 2011, 60s, 20th century, year 1977 ...
Place: usa, ireland, ohio, new york, brooklyn new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
Mesrine: Killer Instinct (2008)
Genre: Action, Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Canada, Italy
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Jacques Mesrine, a loyal son and dedicated soldier, is back home and living with his parents after serving in the Algerian War. Soon he is seduced by the neon glamour of sixties Paris and the easy money it presents. Mentored by Guido, Mesrine turns ...
Style: bleak, tense, realistic, suspense, intense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: organized crime, mafia, robbery, against the rules, rise to the top, prison, prison escape, gangster, mob boss, romancing a criminal, heist, biopic ...
Time: 60s, year 2008, y2k, 2000s, 1950s ...
Place: france, paris france, canada, montreal, africa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
81%
Resurrection Man (1998)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Belfast, in 1970s. Victor Kelly is a young protestant man who hates the Catholics so much that one night he begins to brutally murder them. A reporter soon tries to uncover the murder and obtained prestige for himself, while Victor sinks deeper into ...
Style: disturbing, serious, bleak, suspenseful, independent film ...
Plot: murder, serial killer, brutality, psychopath, journalism, investigation, master criminal, uncover truth, ira, trouble, violence, anglo irish relations ...
Time: 70s
Place: ireland, northern ireland, england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
 6.9
 191K
Black Mass (2015)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 123 min.
Story: The true story of Whitey Bulger, the brother of a state senator and the most infamous violent criminal in the history of South Boston, who became an FBI informant to take down a Mafia family invading his turf.
Style: suspense, factual, intense, brutal, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: mafia, corruption, gangster, irish mob, violence, murder, mob boss, true crime, mobster, illness, brutality, organized crime ...
Time: year 2015, 70s, 80s, 2010s, year 2016 ...
Place: boston, peru, usa, massachusetts, santa monica california ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
 7.2
 9K
Gotti (1996)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: John Gotti, the head of a small New York mafia crew breaks a few of the old family rules. He rises to become the head of the Gambino family and the most well-known mafia boss in America. Life is good, but suspicion creeps in, and greed, ...
Style: serious, realistic, rough
Plot: italian mafia, mafia, crime boss, gangster, mobster, gangsta, organized crime, biopic, american mafia, mob boss, entrepreneur, criminal ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
 6.7
 15K
Gangster No. 1 (2000)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Germany, Ireland
Duration: 103 min.
Story: An old gangster is advised that Freddie Mays would leave jail after thirty years in prison. His mood changes and he recalls when he was a young punk, who joined Freddie Mays' gang, a man he both envied and ultimately betrayed.
Style: intense, tense, rough, suspenseful, bleak ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gangster, rise and fall, organized crime, psychopath, torture, mafia, betrayal, prison, violence, gang war, leadership, extortion ...
Time: year 2000, future, 60s, 20th century, 80s ...
Place: london, england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
 7.5
 413K
The Town (2010)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Doug MacRay is a longtime thief, who, smarter than the rest of his crew, is looking for his chance to exit the game. When a bank job leads to the group kidnapping an attractive branch manager, he takes on the role of monitoring her – but their ...
Style: suspense, captivating, serious, crime thriller, clever ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: bank robbery, heist, robbery, gunfight, thief, romancing a criminal, group of criminals, gang, organized crime, gangster, love affair, perfect crime ...
Time: year 2010, 2010s, 21st century
Place: boston, usa, florida, massachusetts
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
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Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story: A man robs a bank to pay for his lover's operation; it turns into a hostage situation and a media circus.
Style: cerebral, tense, suspenseful, suspense, neo noir ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: bank robbery, heist, robbery, hostage, character study, bank, bank robber, hostage situation, criminal heroes, cop, mishap, gangster ...
Time: 20th century, year 1972, year 1975, 70s
Place: new york, persia, brooklyn new york city, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
The Long Good Friday (1980)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 114 min.
Story: In the late 1970s, Cockney crime boss Harold Shand, a gangster trying to become a legitimate property mogul, has big plans to get the American Mafia to bankroll his transformation of a derelict area of London into the possible venue for a future ...
Style: neo noir, atmospheric, tense, harsh, serious ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: ira, gangster, organized crime, mafia, car bomb, danger, crime boss, revenge, rivalry, great ending, underworld, murder ...
Time: 70s, year 1980, 80s, 20th century
Place: england, london, ireland, britain, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
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 ⇓
77%
 7.3
 68K
Sexy Beast (2000)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Spain, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: The idyllic life of retired safecracker Gal is put at risk when a psychotic gangster from his past arrives at his villa in southern Spain, intent on bringing him out of retirement for one last job.
Style: dark comedy, neo noir, talky, psychological, atmospheric ...
Audience: date night, boys' night
Plot: heist, robbery, retired, mafia, safecracker, caper, organized crime, one last job, british gangster, bank robbery, psychopath, character study ...
Time: year 2000, year 2001, 20th century, 90s
Place: spain, england, mediterranean sea, europe, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
Miller's Crossing (1990)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Set in 1929, a political boss and his advisor have a parting of the ways when they both fall for the same woman.
Style: neo noir, atmospheric, tense, stylized, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: organized crime, corruption, irish mob, mafia, violence, blackmail, love triangle, gangster, mobster, betrayal, shootout, underworld ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, 1930s, 1920s, year 1990
Place: usa, new york, new orleans
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
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The Preacher (2004)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Different solution new movie ;-) The Preacher tells the story about the rise and fall off a dutch mafiaboss. The movie is based on the story of Klaas Bruinsma.
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, rough, controversial ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gangster, dishonesty, assassination, betrayal, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, murder, hitman, gunfight, true crime, organized crime, serial killer, mob boss ...
Time: 80s, 70s, 20th century, 90s
Place: holland, amsterdam
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
 7.0
 161K
The Drop (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Bob Saginowski finds himself at the center of a robbery gone awry and entwined in an investigation that digs deep into the neighborhood's past where friends, families, and foes all work together to make a living - no matter the cost.
Style: serious, realistic, tense, suspense, cerebral ...
Audience: girls' night, teens, boys' night
Plot: twists and turns, robbery, fall in love, organized crime, danger, criminal heroes, crime boss, catholic, gangster, mafia, church, criminal's revenge ...
Time: year 2014, 90s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: new york, boston, brooklyn new york city, massachusetts, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
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Goodfellas (1990)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 145 min.
Story: The true story of Henry Hill, a half-Irish, half-Sicilian Brooklyn kid who is adopted by neighbourhood gangsters at an early age and climbs the ranks of a Mafia family under the guidance of Jimmy Conway.
Style: rough, suspense, realistic, epic, brutal ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: organized crime, mafia, gangster, rise and fall, mobster, cosa nostra, mentor, criminal, badass, friends, italian mafia, biopic ...
Time: 70s, 50s, 90s, year 1990, year 1970 ...
Place: new york, brooklyn new york city, italy, florida, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
 6.4
 5K
Nokas (2010)
Genre: Action, Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Norway
Duration: 87 min.
Story: In the morning of April 5, 2004, the greatest bank robbery in Norwegian history was carried out in Stavanger. The robbery itself is the main character of the story, and it is illuminated from several angles in the course of the film, from the ...
Style: tense, realistic, suspenseful, mindfuck, hood ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: police officer killed, robbery, confined, incompetent police, master criminal, thief, heist, money, true crime, nordic, hunting, gangster ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
Boss of Bosses (2001)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: The story of the rise and fall of the powerful New York City organized crime boss, Paul Castellano.
Style: serious, tense, rough, suspenseful, realistic
Audience: boys' night
Plot: mafia, hitman, rise and fall, murder, undercover, going straight, master criminal, rivalry, downfall, police corruption, gangster, organized crime ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, year 1985, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
American Gangster (2007)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 157 min.
Story: Following the death of his employer and mentor, Bumpy Johnson, Frank Lucas establishes himself as the number one importer of heroin in the Harlem district of Manhattan. He does so by buying heroin directly from the source in South East Asia and he ...
Style: serious, tense, realistic, suspense, harsh ...
Audience: manly, boys' night, adult
Plot: organized crime, mafia, gangster, mob boss, heroin, drug lord, mobster, police, violence, crime boss, drug traffic, gang ...
Time: 60s, 70s, year 2007, 20th century, year 1970 ...
Place: new york, new jersey, vietnam, china, cuba ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
Excellent Cadavers (1999)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Fact based story about the political battle that was waged against the Mafia in Sicily during the late 1980's and early 1990's. Chazz Palminteri plays Giovanni Falcone, a crusading prosecutor who tried to use money trails as a way to ...
Style: suspense, independent film, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Plot: cosa nostra, mafia, italian mafia, law, organized crime, sicilian mafia, italian history, historical figure, society, idealism, law enforcement, politics ...
Time: 80s, 90s
Place: sicily, italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
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