Movies like Foreign Land

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Foreign Land (1995)
 7.4
 2K
Foreign Land (1995)
Original name: Terra Estrangeira
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Brazil, Portugal
Duration: 110 min.
Story: After the death of her mother, a young Brazilian decides to leave his country and travel to her native land. In a foreign land, he finds love and danger.
Style: neo noir, road movie, sad, black and white, mesmerizing, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Plot: brazilian military dictatorship, on the road, on the run, chase, gang, love and romance, interracial relations, couples, social differences, dealer, opposites attract, against the odds, dishonesty, gangster, love, sex, dancing, money, musician, food, violence, hitman, female nudity, politics, death ...
Time: year 1996, 90s, year 1990
Place: brazil, spain, lisbon portugal, sao paulo brazil, latin america, europe, madrid
Keyword: portuguese, gangsters, reading

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, suspenseful and neo noir films with plots about murder, death, cigarette smoking, gun, sex, gangster and dancing mostly in Drama, Crime and Thriller genres. Some movies like Foreign Land: So Close to Paradise (1998), Heaven's Burning (1997), Last Rites (1988), Rush (1991), The Nark (1982). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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So Close to Paradise (1998)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: China
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Two young farm workers, who like millions of others, leave their village to seek their fortunes in the city. Each chose a vastly different path to make it and become embroiled in misunderstandings, gangster brawls and police raids.
Style: neo noir, tense, realistic, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot: gangster, friendship, nightclub, love triangle, kidnapping, gang, betrayal, urban, city life, dangerous attraction, politics, dishonesty ...
Time: 90s
Place: china, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
Heaven's Burning (1997)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 99 min.
Story: In Sydney, the newly married Midori is honeymooning with her husband, Yukio. She does not love him and fakes her own kidnapping to escape the marriage. Her lover is supposed to meet her, but fails to appear. She goes to a bank to get some cash, only ...
Style: neo noir, cult classic, road movie, detective, semi serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: lovers on the run, hostage, on the run, obsession, revenge, bank robbery, love, yakuza, kidnapping, interracial romance, car chase, father son relationship ...
Time: 90s
Place: australia, sydney australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
92%
Samuel Fuller's Street of No Return (1989)
Genre: Action, Drama, Crime, Thriller
Country: France, Portugal
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Renowned director Samuel Fuller's final film stars Keith Carradine as a former pop music star whose career was cut short after his throat was slit for dating a gangster's girlfriend. Carradine roams the country as a vagrant, until the day ...
Style: neo noir, tense, realistic, serious, bleak ...
Plot: homeless, drifter, gangster, false accusation, vengeance, yacht, streetfighting, haunted by the past, political unrest, memory loss, police corruption, alcohol abuse ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
90%
 5.1
 1K
Last Rites (1988)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 103 min.
Story: After witnessing her lover being murdered by his jealous wife, Angela seeks refuge in a church where she encounters a young priest named Michael, who gives her sanctuary. But the killing was not a simple act of passion, as the victim had ties to ...
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, weeping, crying ...
Plot: sex with a priest, priest in love, italian mafia, wedding, church, infidelity, murder, prostitute, on the run, catholic church, castration, priest ...
Time: 80s
Place: new york, latin america, usa, manhattan new york city, vietnam ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
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 6.7
 10K
Rush (1991)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Undercover cop Jim Raynor (Jason Patric) is a seasoned veteran. His partner, Kristen Cates (Jennifer Jason Leigh), is lacking in experience, but he thinks she's tough enough to work his next case with him: a deep cover assignment to bring down ...
Style: neo noir, detective, realistic, twisted, depressing ...
Plot: drug addiction, addiction, undercover cop, drug, heroin, drug addict, police, paranoia, drug abuse, junkie, undercover police officer, spy ...
Time: 70s, 90s
Place: texas, usa, montana, houston texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
 6.5
 1K
The Nark (1982)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A Paris police detective (Richard Berry) plays rough with a prostitute (Nathalie Baye) and her pimp/lover (Philippe Léotard), whom he wants as an informant.
Style: neo noir, anthology, detective, realistic, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: sex, undercover police officer, undercover agent, prostitution, spy, gangster, nudity, hooker, french algerian war, vice squad, love triangle, male nudity ...
Time: 80s
Place: paris france, new york, france, brazil
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
Truth or Consequences, N.M. (1997)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Raymond Lembecke (Vincent Gallo) is a con just out of prison after serving time for selling drugs for his mob boss Tony Vago (Rod Steiger). (Lembecke was innocent and took the rap for Vago.) Lembecke thinks Vago owes him big time so, when his former ...
Style: intense, talky, serious, suspenseful, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: robbery, gangster, on the road, crime gone awry, hitman, on the run, prison, hostage, organized crime, police corruption, chase, ex convict ...
Time: year 1997, 90s
Place: new mexico, las vegas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
 5.9
 4K
B. Monkey (1998)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: When wistful introvert Alan Furnace meets quick-witted bombshell Beatrice, he has no idea of her secret life as "B. Monkey" -- the top thief-for-hire in London's criminal underworld. Charmed by Furnace's innocent and chivalrous ...
Style: neo noir, black comedy, cult classic, serious, realistic ...
Plot: teacher, sex, nudity, love, violence, gangster, hospital, storytelling, drinking, addiction, betrayal, british ...
Time: year 1998, 90s
Place: london, paris france, england, united kingdom, france ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
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Branded to Kill (1967)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 91 min.
Story: After botching his latest assignment, a third-ranked Japanese hit man becomes the target of another assassin.
Style: surreal, grindhouse, experimental, aesthetic, neo noir ...
Plot: yakuza, surrealism, hitman, assassin, killer, organized crime, gangster, contract killer, sex, female nudity, time travel, mafia ...
Time: year 1967, 60s, 20th century
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
 7.2
 2K
Deep Crimson (1996)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Mexico, France, Spain
Duration: 115 min.
Story: The life of a man who preys on unsuspecting women for a living is changed when he finds an accomplice in the woman who loves and controls him.
Style: neo noir, erotic, serious, realistic, clever ...
Plot: serial killer, true crime, lovers on the run, dangerous attraction, murderous pair, scam, anarchist, murderer, widow, on the run, misfit, freak ...
Time: 1940s, year 1996, 20th century
Place: latin america, iberian peninsula, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
 7.0
 7K
Burnt Money (2000)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Argentina, Spain, Uruguay
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Set in Argentina in 1965, the story follows the tumultuous relationship between two men who became lovers and ultimately ruthless bank robbers in a notoriously famous footnote in the annals of crime history. After a large-scale hold-up that turns ...
Style: sexy, erotic, intense, serious, realistic ...
Plot: gay, heist, gay romance, obsession, lgbt, male nudity, betrayal, gay sex, gay erotica, couples, gay cruising, homoeroticism ...
Time: year 1965, 60s, 90s
Place: argentina, latin america, uruguay, new york, buenos aires argentina ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
 6.5
 364
Gambling City (1975)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Luca Altieri is a gambler. He likes cards and he is a master in playing poker. He is a cardsharper too. He begins working for "The President", who has many gambling houses and everything seems to go well until Luca falls for Maria Luisa. ...
Style: poliziottesco, realistic, serious, suspenseful
Plot: gambling, police, casino, poker, gangster, female nudity, attempted rape, fall in love, on the run, chase, love and romance, dishonesty ...
Time: 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
My Brother's Gun (1997)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A teenager finds a gun loaded with three bullets and shoots at the guard of a supermarket when he discovers it stealing a comic. In his escape along the road he meets a girl who has tried to commit suicide without success and both decide to take a ...
Style: serious, realistic, bleak, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot: loser, on the run, murder, false accusation, strong violent content, lovers on the run, chases and races, life is a bitch, dishonesty, criminal heroes, fugitives, love and romance ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
The Trespasser (2001)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Brazil
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Estevão , Ivan e Gilberto são companheiros desde os tempos de faculdade e sócios de uma construtora de sucesso há mais de 15 anos. O relacionamento entre eles sempre foi muito bom, até que um desentendimento na condução dos negócios faz com ...
Style: tense, serious, suspenseful, captivating, realistic ...
Plot: hitman, murder, crime gone awry, cons and scams, social differences, betrayal, dishonesty, society, partner, blackmail, friends, workplace intrigue ...
Time: 21st century
Place: brazil, latin america, sao paulo brazil
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
Night of the Running Man (1995)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A Las Vegas cab driver finds a million dollars of stolen money in his cab after his fare is murdered. Soon after, a ruthless hitman is in persuit; he will stop at nothing to recover the money and dispose of all witnesses.
Style: serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful, exciting ...
Plot: hitman, on the run, gangster, chase, heist, tough heroes, danger, dishonesty, law enforcement, pursuit, murder, crime boss ...
Time: 90s
Place: las vegas, usa, salt lake city utah, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
We Own the Night (2007)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: A New York nightclub manager tries to save his brother and father from Russian mafia hitmen.
Style: suspense, harsh, stylized, captivating, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: organized crime, mafia, gangster, police, nightclub, gang, cop, brothers, hitman, multiple storylines, law enforcement, heroin ...
Time: year 2007, 20th century, year 1988, 80s
Place: new york, brooklyn new york city, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
 6.3
 3K
Captives (1994)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A beautiful young dentist working in a tough British prison starts to become attracted to a violent inmate after the break-up of her marriage, and embarks upon an illicit affair with him, with terrible consequences for all.
Style: suspenseful, erotic, tense, serious, realistic ...
Plot: forbidden love, prison, destiny, erotica, bittersweet, obsession, mad love, lost girl, flirting, partner, outlaw, dentist ...
Time: year 1994, 90s
Place: england, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
 5.9
 13K
Billy Bathgate (1991)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: In the year 1935, a teen named Billy Bathgate finds first love while becoming the protégé of fledgling gangster Dutch Schultz.
Style: stylized, erotic, realistic, serious, gloomy ...
Plot: organized crime, mafia, teenage boy, gangster, nudity, lake, waterfall, great depression, coming of age, drinking, death, chase ...
Time: 1930s, year 1991, 20th century
Place: new york, usa, bronx new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
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Four Days in September (1997)
Genre: Action, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Brazil, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Fernando, a journalist, and his friend César join terrorist group MR8 in order to fight Brazilian dictatorial regime during the late sixties. Cesare, however, is wounded and captured during a bank hold up. Fernando then decides to kidnap the ...
Style: realistic, political, talky, suspenseful, manga ...
Plot: military coup, dictator, terrorist, kidnapping, politics, freedom, communism, revolution, drinking, brazilian military dictatorship, secrets, espionage ...
Time: 20th century, year 1997, 60s, year 1967, year 1969 ...
Place: brazil, latin america, mexico city, algeria, portugal ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
Being at Home with Claude (1992)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min.
Story: It's hard to review this movie without giving anything away. Suffice it to say that it depicts the crime of one member of a gay male relationship and the desperate struggle for the lead character to make those around him understand the reason ...
Style: contemplative, psychological, realistic, serious, talky ...
Plot: gay, lgbt, lgbtq, glbt, murder, couples, law enforcement, legal, gays and lesbians, life is a bitch, love and romance, mind game ...
Time: 90s
Place: canada, montreal, quebec
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
The Air I Breathe (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A drama based on an ancient Chinese proverb that breaks life down into four emotional cornerstones: happiness, pleasure, sorrow and love. A businessman bets his life on a horse race; a gangster sees the future; a pop star (Gellar) falls prey to a ...
Style: emotional, touching, stylized, intense, non-linear ...
Plot: gangster, love, dishonesty, supernatural ability, doctors and patients, hitman, power relations, philosophy, justice, true love, hospital, suicide ...
Time: year 2007, future, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
 7.0
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Fast, Fast (1981)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Angela begins to hang around with Pablo and his gang of young robbers.
Style: hood, realistic, serious, bleak, suspenseful ...
Plot: gang, juvenile delinquent, bank robbery, robbery, coming of age, gangster, ghetto, juvenile delinquency, kids in trouble, disorder, love and romance, danger ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: iberian peninsula, madrid, spain, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
 5.8
 1K
Dog Day (1984)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Dog Day is a 1984 film starring Lee Marvin. A criminal shows up at a farmhouse with the law on his heels and several million dollars in his possession. The supporting cast includes Tina Louise and Juliette Mills. The movie was directed by Yves ...
Style: cult classic, neo noir, slasher, sexual, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: farm, heist, sexuality, on the run, helicopter, fugitive, disorder, lovers on the run, betrayal, chases and races, criminal heroes, dishonesty ...
Time: 80s
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
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 5.1
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The Tenants (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 97 min.
Story: The story of a Jewish novelist, Harry Lesser, struggling to complete his latest work, and his antagonistic relationship with a black writer who moves in down the hall.
Style: rough, suspenseful, serious, tense, realistic ...
Plot: friendship, interracial relations, manuscript, couple relations, writer's life, couples, losing-it hero, friend, father son relationship, interracial couple, black cast, writers ...
Time: 70s, year 2005, year 1972
Place: usa, new york, detroit, harlem, coney island brooklyn new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
 6.5
 11K
The Good Thief (2002)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Ireland, UK, France, Canada, USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: A compulsive gambler plans the heist of his life - a priceless collection of art from the world-class Casino Riviera in Monte Carlo.
Style: exciting, suspenseful, humorous, serious, entertaining ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: casino, heist, gambling, robbery, betrayal, one last job, prostitute, drug addiction, caper, forgery, painting, character study ...
Time: year 2002
Place: monte carlo, france, french riviera, europe, monaco ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
The Tesseract (2003)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan, Thailand, UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A psychologist, an Englishman, a bellboy and a wounded female assasin have their fates crossed at a sleazy Bangkok hotel.
Style: tense, psychological, serious, suspenseful, mind blowing ...
Plot: hitman, haunted by the past, criminal heroes, rivalry, danger, crime gone awry, police investigation, death in the family, destiny, dishonesty, death of child, butterfly effect ...
Place: thailand, asia, bangkok thailand
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
 7.3
 194K
Layer Cake (2004)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story: When a seemingly straight-forward drug deal goes awry, XXXX has to break his die-hard rules and turn up the heat, not only to outwit the old regime and come out on top, but to save his own skin...
Style: neo noir, intense, clever, tense, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gangster, heist, murder, chase, sex, drug, drug lord, caper, plot twist, violence, drug addiction, organized crime ...
Time: year 2004, 60s, 90s, 70s, 20th century
Place: england, london, britain, amsterdam, netherlands ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
 6.2
 20K
Revenge (1990)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Michael ‘Jay’ Cochran has just left the Navy after 12 years and he's not quite sure what he's going to do, except that he knows he wants a holiday. He decides to visit Tiburon Mendez, a powerful but shady Mexican businessman who he ...
Style: sexy, erotic, suspense, emotional, intense ...
Plot: betrayal, dangerous attraction, love triangle, couple relations, revenge, vengeance, adultery, unfaithful wife, friendship, desert, extramarital affair, love ...
Time: 80s, 90s
Place: mexico, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
 7.4
 37K
Pierrot le Fou (1965)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Pierrot escapes his boring society and travels from Paris to the Mediterranean Sea with Marianne, a girl chased by hit-men from Algeria. They lead an unorthodox life, always on the run.
Style: road movie, surreal, atmospheric, art house, visual ...
Plot: on the road, on the run, lovers on the run, road trip, smuggling, betrayal, infidelity, surrealism, couple relations, couples, vietnam war, tragic love ...
Time: 20th century, year 1965, near future, 60s
Place: france, paris france, mediterranean sea, europe, provence ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
 6.5
 3K
Sara (1997)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Poland
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Forty-something Leon is an alcoholic, ex-special forces barely scraping by when he's hired by a mobster to protect his 16 year old daughter. Not only does Leon have to clean up his act, but also handle the romantic advances of his ward and the ...
Style: suspenseful, stylized, sincere, serious, realistic
Audience: teens
Plot: age difference, forbidden love, girl man relationship, love affair, older man younger woman relationship, sex with a minor, love and romance, danger, love, gangster, shooting, alcohol abuse ...
Time: 90s
Place: poland, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
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