Movies like The Valachi Papers

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The Valachi Papers (1972)
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The Valachi Papers (1972)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 110 min.
Story: When Joe Valachi (Charles Bronson) has a price put on his head by Don Vito Genovese (Lino Ventura), he must take desperate steps to protect himself while in prison. An unsuccessful attempt to slit his throat puts him over the edge to break the sacred code of silence.
Style: tense, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, neo noir, poliziottesco
Audience: boys' night
Plot: prison, italian mafia, mafia, cosa nostra, mobster, hitman, organized crime, criminal, spy, bad guy, murder, gangster, prohibition era, heroes, friendship, life is a bitch, master criminal, fugitives, prison life, rebellion, chases and races, fighting the system, legal, society, ambition ...
Time: 1940s, year 1972, 60s, 1930s, 1920s, 1950s, 50s ...
Place: italy, europe, new york
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, rough and suspenseful films with plots about gangster, murder, mafia, mobster, gang, organized crime and criminal heroes mostly in Crime, Drama and Biography genres. Some movies like The Valachi Papers: The Professor (1986), Charlie (2004), Witness to the Mob (1998), Gotti (1996), Boss of Bosses (2001). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Professor (1986)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 171 min.
Story: Vaguely inspired to the real story of boss of the Camorra's bosses Raffaele Cutolo, this is the story of the criminal career of "Il professore" (the professor). He is in prison, and by there he is able to build, step by step, an ...
Style: poliziottesco, realistic, serious, rough, suspenseful
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cosa nostra, mafia, camorra, italian mafia, police, female nudity, nazi, mobster, gulag, criminal, organized crime, murder ...
Time: year 1986, 80s, 20th century
Place: italy, naples italy, new york, napoli italy
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 5.5
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Charlie (2004)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Set in Post World War II Britain, chronicles the rise and fall of real life British crime lord Charlie Richardson.
Style: realistic, serious, disturbing, rough, bleak ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: courtroom drama, gang, tough heroes, legal, fighting the system, rivalry, rebellion, society, juvenile delinquency, criminal's revenge, rise and fall, betrayal ...
Time: 60s
Place: south africa, london, africa, europe, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
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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 ⇓
35%
 7.2
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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 ⇓
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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 ⇓
32%
 5.9
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Mobsters (1991)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: The story of a group of friends in turn of the century New York, from their early days as street hoods to their rise in the world of organized crime...
Style: talky, suspense, intense, suspenseful, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: mobster, gangster, organized crime, friendship, betrayal, greed, murder, criminal heroes, blind ambition, dishonesty, gang, mob boss ...
Time: 1920s, year 1991, 1910s, 1930s, year 1917
Place: new york, israel, usa, coney island brooklyn new york city, brooklyn new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Lucky Luciano (1973)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, France, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Lucky Luciano is one of the bosses of the Mafia. He orders the slaughter of 40 other responsibles, therefore becoming the only boss. But a few years later he is put into jail. In 1946, he got a pardon and is sent back to Sicilia. There, he begins ...
Style: poliziottesco, historical drama, contemplative, serious, realistic ...
Plot: cosa nostra, mafia, mobster, ambition, organized crime, democrat, mafioso, gangster, american mafia, intelligence agency, biopic, life is a bitch ...
Time: 1940s, 1930s, 50s, 20th century, post world war two ...
Place: italy, sicily, europe, usa, new york ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Honor Thy Father (1973)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Joseph Bologna stars as Bill Bonanno in this made-for-television adaptation of the controversial bestseller from Gay Talese, chronicling the rise of New York's infamous Bonanno organized crime family. When his father disappears in 1964 and Bill ...
Style: serious, realistic, cynical, rough, semi documentary
Audience: boys' night
Plot: mafia, organized crime, gangster, tough heroes, gays and lesbians, ambition, family relations, husband wife relationship, violence, death, criminal, gang war ...
Time: 60s, year 1967
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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Second Breath (1966)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 150 min.
Story: With his customary restraint and ruthless attention to detail, director Jean-Pierre Melville follows the parallel tracks of French underworld criminal Gu (the inimitable Lino Ventura), escaped from prison and roped into one last robbery, and the ...
Style: neo noir, black and white, noir, crime drama, exciting ...
Audience: manly
Plot: robbery, criminal, caper, fugitive, jazz, post war, dream, escape, manipulation, organized crime, mafia, planning ...
Time: year 1966, 60s
Place: france, paris france, europe, south of france, marseille
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
The Many Saints of Newark (2021)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Young Anthony Soprano is growing up in one of the most tumultuous eras in Newark, N.J., history, becoming a man just as rival gangsters start to rise up and challenge the all-powerful DiMeo crime family. Caught up in the changing times is the uncle ...
Style: captivating, tense, suspense, disturbing, dramatic ...
Plot: mafia, criminal, gangster, mob boss, mobster, gang war, mafioso, black man white woman sex, cosa nostra, organized crime, criminal underworld, crime boss ...
Time: 60s, year 1971, 70s, year 1967, year 1972
Place: new york, new jersey, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
 7.0
 51K
Gomorrah (2008)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 137 min.
Story: An inside look at Italy's modern-day crime families, the Camorra in Naples and Caserta. Based on a book by Roberto Saviano. Power, money and blood: these are the "values" that the residents of the Province of Naples and Caserta have ...
Style: disturbing, tense, harsh, realistic, serious ...
Plot: juvenile delinquency, organized crime, gang war, mafia, gangster, camorra, italian mafia, danger, gang, character study, power, debt ...
Time: year 2008, 2000s, 21st century
Place: italy, europe, southern italy, miami, venice ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
The Sicilian Clan (1969)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 122 min.
Story: Roger Santet is a convicted murderer sprung from prison by the Sicilian clan headed by the aging Vittorio Manalese. They conspire to steal a large cache of jewels from an exhibit in Rome. As they are preparing for the heist, the mobster's ...
Style: neo noir, noir, crime drama, exciting, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: heist, caper, mafia, organized crime, sicilian, gangster, robbery, female nudity, prison escape, unfaithful wife, revenge, mobster ...
Time: year 1969, 60s
Place: rome italy, france, venice, italy, paris france ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
The Stone Killer (1973)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A Los Angeles detective is sent to New York where he must solve a case involving an old Sicilian Mafia family feud.
Style: retro, hood, detective, grindhouse, neo noir ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gangster, mafia, tough guy, war veteran, surveillance, showdown, vigilante, ghetto, cosa nostra, gang, brainwashing, gunfight ...
Time: 70s
Place: new york, usa, vietnam, asia, mojave desert ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
 7.8
 102K
A Prophet (2009)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 155 min.
Story: Sentenced to six years in prison, Malik El Djebena (Tahar Rahim) is alone in the world and can neither read nor write. On his arrival at the prison, he seems younger and more brittle than the others detained there. At once he falls under the sway of ...
Style: harsh, tense, bleak, rough, atmospheric ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: prison, mafia, gangster, prison life, cruelty, organized crime, coming of age, prison gang, racial slur, jail, guilt, respect ...
Time: year 2009, 2000s, year 2010, 90s, 21st century
Place: france, europe, paris france, marseille
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
 8.2
 560K
Casino (1995)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA, France
Duration: 178 min.
Story: The life of the gambling paradise – Las Vegas – and its dark mafia underbelly.
Style: realistic, clever, rough, suspense, neo noir ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: organized crime, mafia, casino, rise and fall, gangster, gambling, money, greed, mobster, betrayal, cosa nostra, criminal heroes ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, year 1995, 80s, 90s ...
Place: las vegas, chicago, missouri, israel, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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 ⇓
30%
 6.2
 3K
The Family (1970)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Italy, France, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A hitman is double-crossed by his girlfriend and barely escapes a murder attempt. He then sets out to take his revenge on the woman and the gang boss who put her up to it.
Style: poliziottesco, action thriller, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: hitman, car chase, revenge, vengeance, murder, police, vigilante, killer, femme fatale, gangster, heroes, dishonesty ...
Time: 60s
Place: new orleans, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
 9.2
 2.0M
The Godfather (1972)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 175 min.
Story: Spanning the years 1945 to 1955, a chronicle of the fictional Italian-American Corleone crime family. When organized crime family patriarch, Vito Corleone barely survives an attempt on his life, his youngest son, Michael steps in to take care of the ...
Style: serious, epic, dramatic, atmospheric, captivating ...
Audience: boys' night, manly, chick flick, adult
Plot: mafia, organized crime, gangster, greed, revenge, mob boss, crime family, mobster, cosa nostra, wedding, pride and honor, corruption ...
Time: 1950s, 1940s, 20th century, 50s, year 1972 ...
Place: italy, new york, bronx new york city, europe, sicily ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Capone (1975)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: The story of the rise and fall of the infamous Chicago gangster Al Capone and the control he exhibited over the city during the prohibition years.
Style: realistic, suspenseful, rough, serious, psychotronic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gangster, murder, rise and fall, police investigation, mafia, prohibition, brutality, gunfight, jail, female nudity, criminal heroes, gang ...
Time: 1920s, year 1975, 1930s
Place: chicago, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
The French Detective (1975)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 91 min.
Story: When political thugs murder an opponent's volunteer and also kill a cop, chief inspector Verjeat believes the politician who hired them is as guilty as the murderous goon. Verjeat's pursuit of the councilman, Lardatte, gets him a warning ...
Style: crime drama, realistic, serious, bleak, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: politics, police officer, judiciary, hostage, murder, manslaughter, prostitute, partner, price of justice, police corruption, political corruption, police investigation ...
Time: year 1975, 70s
Place: france, europe, paris france, normandy
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
 6.2
 662
Crazy Joe (1974)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The rise and fall of a Mafia gangster, based on the life of murdered New York gangster "Crazy" Joey Gallo.
Style: grim, realistic, serious, captivating, rough ...
Plot: mobster, mafia, blaxploitation, criminal, prison, gangster, restaurant, jail, godparent, heist, store, murder ...
Time: 70s, 60s, year 1960
Place: new york, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Gotti (2018)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: John Gotti rises to the top of the New York underworld to become the boss of the Gambino crime family. His life takes a tumultuous turn as he faces tragedy, multiple trials and a prison sentence.
Style: serious, rough, suspenseful, realistic, disgusting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cosa nostra, gangster, godfather, profanity, federal bureau of investigation, father son relationship, mafia, brutality, organized crime, mobster, parents and children, family relations ...
Time: 70s, 80s, 20th century, year 1997, year 2002 ...
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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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 ...
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29%
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The St. Valentine's Day Massacre (1967)
Genre: Crime, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Chicago February 14th 1929. Al Capone finally establishes himself as the city's boss of organised crime. In a north-side garage his hoods, dressed as policemen, surprise and mow down with machine-guns the key members of Bugs Moran's rival ...
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gangster, true crime, death, mafia, hitman, gunfight, historical figure, gang, law enforcement, criminal heroes, rivalry, battles ...
Time: 1920s, year 1967, 60s, 20th century, year 1929 ...
Place: chicago, usa, illinois
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Once Upon a Time in America (1984)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 229 min.
Story: A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over thirty years later, where he once again must confront the ghosts and regrets of his old life.
Style: epic, ambiguous ending, melancholic, breathtaking, atmospheric ...
Audience: boys' night, kids, adult
Plot: gangster, organized crime, mafia, friendship, prohibition, rape, gunfight, betrayal, childhood friend, corruption, criminal heroes, mobster ...
Time: 1930s, 60s, 1920s, 20th century, year 1984 ...
Place: new york, usa, america, israel, china ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Hoodlum (1997)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story: In 1934, the second most lucrative business in New York City was running "the numbers". When, Madam Queen, the powerful woman who runs the scam in Harlem, is arrested. Ellsworth "Bumpy" Johnson takes over the business and must ...
Style: hood, stylized, black and white, neo noir, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: mafia, organized crime, mobster, african american, gangster, black, gangsta, black history, urban, corruption, gunfight, death ...
Time: 1930s, 90s, 20th century
Place: harlem, new york, israel, illinois, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Someone Behind the Door (1971)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A brain doctor (Anthony Perkins) with an unfaithful wife (Jill Ireland) brings home an amnesiac (Charles Bronson) and gets him to commit murder.
Style: slasher, serious, realistic, psychological, tense ...
Plot: amnesia, vengeance, infidelity, affair, manipulation, rivalry, murder, memory loss, doctor patient relationship, psychological manipulation, doctor, mental patient ...
Time: year 1971, 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Romanzo Criminale (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, France, UK
Duration: 152 min.
Story: The Lebanese has a dream: to conquer the underworld of Rome. To carry out this feat without precedent he puts together a ruthless and highly organized gang. Their progress and changes in leadership take place over 25 years, from the 1970s into the ...
Style: serious, stylized, realistic, captivating, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gangster, gang, police investigation, criminal heroes, partner, law enforcement, leadership, rivalry, ransom, drug dealing, organized crime, inspector ...
Time: 80s, year 2005, 70s, 90s, 60s ...
Place: italy, rome italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
The Sicilian Girl (2008)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Inspired to a true story, on November 5th 1991, Rita Atria a young 17-year-old Sicilian girl, goes to see an anti-Mafia judge Paolo Borsellino to denounce the Mafia system that was responsible for the murder of her father and her brother. It is the ...
Style: tense, rough, suspenseful, serious, emotional ...
Plot: betrayal, murder, village, testimony, danger, family life, mafia, sicilian, whistleblower, family relations, youth, vengeance ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, 80s, year 1985, year 1991
Place: sicily, palermo italy, europe, italy, rome italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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 ⇓
28%
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