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Trapped (2008)
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Trapped (2008)
Original name: Anton
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, History, Romance, Thriller
Country: Ireland
Duration: 95 min.
Story: When Anton O'Neill returns home after five years at sea, he finds that 1970's Ireland is a radically different place to the one he left behind. Northern Ireland is in flames, and civil unrest has spilled south of the border to his beloved home in County Cavan. Blinded by hatred and misguided patriotism 'Anton' is led into an illicit world of violence and is forced to choose between his family and his country. Hunted and on the run, Anton is drawn into a battle of wills with the law and his former accomplices, ending in a showdown in which he must risk everything to protect the woman he loves.
Style: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, bleak
Plot: ira, terrorism, on the run, moral dilemma, police detective, love and romance, life is a bitch, rebellion, injustice, love affair, society, danger, law enforcement, rebelliousness, political unrest, homecoming, murder, anglo irish relations, nudity, chases and races, working class, solitary, state affairs, violent content, sex ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, year 1972
Place: ireland, europe, paris france, dublin ireland, belfast
Keyword: irish

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, suspenseful and rough films with plots about deadly, murder, life is a bitch, law enforcement, dishonesty, danger and society mostly in Drama, Thriller and Crime genres. Some movies like Trapped: Hennessy (1975), Baader (2002), No God, No Master (2013), Resurrection Man (1998), Marked Man (1996). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Hennessy (1975)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Set in the Seventies, Hennessy is a Irishman who believes in peace, but who has had connections to the IRA. Hennessy's family is killed, and he plots revenge, setting out to assassinate Queen Elizabeth of England.
Style: grindhouse, political, offbeat, independent film, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: ira, revenge, anglo irish relations, explosions, terrorism, manhunt, repression, royal family, political intrigue, political unrest, political corruption, assassination ...
Time: year 1975, 70s, 20th century
Place: ireland, london, europe, england, belfast
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95%
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 791
Baader (2002)
Genre: Action, Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany, UK
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Andreas Baader starts out as a small-time criminal. In Berlin, he is recruited by a revolutionary cell. They plan to overthrow the state.
Style: realistic, disturbing, suspenseful, rough, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: terrorism, terrorist, gang, danger, rebellion, social decay, state affairs, confined, fighting the system, rebelliousness, working class, political unrest ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, 60s
Place: germany, west germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
No God, No Master (2013)
Genre: Crime, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A plot to overthrow the United States government is uncovered in New York City in the summer of 1919 when William Flynn, a field agent for the Bureau of Investigation, is sent to investigate a bomb threat that has targeted some of America's ...
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film, art film
Plot: politics, investigation, state affairs, terrorism, society, danger, assassination, law enforcement, political unrest, assassination attempt, war on terror, anarchism ...
Time: 20th century, 1920s, year 1919
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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 ⇓
51%
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 355
Marked Man (1996)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A jailed auto mechanic must run for his life after he witnesses the murder of a fellow inmate by two prison guards.
Style: independent film, exciting, realistic, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot: frame up, murder, wrestling, chase, law enforcement, dishonesty, chases and races, on the run, life is a bitch, confined, criminal heroes, wrongfully committed ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 5.1
 140
Out on Bail (1989)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: South Africa, UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A Tennessee sheriff and lawyer want a jailed drifter to assassinate a mayoral candidate.
Style: independent film, serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot: sheriff, murder, corruption, dishonesty, life is a bitch, state affairs, mute or deaf, law enforcement, injustice, diner, bail, drifter ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
 6.9
 3K
Rebellion (2011)
Genre: Action, Drama, History
Country: France
Duration: 136 min.
Story: Dissidents in a French colony attack a police station and take hostages.
Style: serious, tense, sincere, realistic, thought provoking ...
Plot: military, hostage, politics, political unrest, culture clash, injustice, disorder, moral dilemma, life is a bitch, state affairs, confined, society ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
D.C. Sniper: 23 Days of Fear (2003)
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Based on the known events that shook the United States for 23 days in 2002. Within 24 hours six people were killed by a sniper in Maryland County. A man and his son get overlooked in all settings where shootings occur. The police, in cooperation ...
Style: exciting, serious, suspenseful, captivating, realistic
Plot: terrorism, sniper, police, serial killer, murder, police detective, danger, law enforcement, society, manhunt, killer, revolt ...
Place: washington d.c., virginia, maryland, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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Perfect Witness (1989)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A witness to a mob killing has second thoughts about testifying when he realizes his family might become a target.
Style: tense, serious, realistic, psychological, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: courtroom, witness, law, kidnapping, injustice, power relations, restaurant, murder, prison, law enforcement, chases and races, danger ...
Time: 80s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
A Show of Force (1990)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: In this thriller, television reporter Kate Ryan de Meléndez investigates the death of two radical Puerto Rican activists, whom she begins to believe may have been framed and murdered by undercover American agents.
Style: realistic, serious, rough, suspenseful
Plot: murder, investigation, undercover, police corruption, media, legal, journalism, amateur detective, law enforcement, uncover truth, price of justice, working undercover ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: puerto rico
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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 2K
Johnny Was (2006)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Ireland
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Johnny Doyle escapes a violent past in Ireland to lie low in London, until his former mentor Flynn breaks out of Brixton Prison...
Style: serious, rough, sincere, realistic, neo noir ...
Plot: gangster, danger, drug abuse, haunted by the past, rivalry, criminal heroes, drug dealing, starting over, murder, greed, ira, anglo irish relations ...
Place: ireland, england, london, europe, belfast
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
The Third Wave (2003)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Finland
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Johan Falk hasn't been working for over a year since he resigned from the police. Most of all he wants to move out to the countryside, but fate has a different thought.
Style: serious, rough, suspenseful, realistic
Plot: murder, organized crime, police detective, gangster, dishonesty, danger, investigation, law enforcement, tough law enforcer, gang, woman in danger, nordic ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, holland
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
The Witness Files (1999)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A former actress, unjustly sent to prison eight years earlier, is forced to testify against a mafia hit man.
Style: independent film, exciting, realistic, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot: witness, trial, district attorney, police detective, danger, chase, life is a bitch, chases and races, legal, law enforcement, couple relations, dishonesty ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Nothing Personal (1995)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Ireland
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A raw depiction of the Belfast 'troubles' as savage tribal warfare. Set shortly after the 1975 cease fire, the film focuses on the tribulations of Kenny, Protestant leader of a group of Shankill Road Loyalists, and his one-time friend ...
Style: realistic, serious, tense, rough, bleak ...
Plot: ira, trouble, anglo irish relations, chaos, injustice, terrorism, gang, heroes, life is a bitch, society, dedicated lawyer, danger ...
Time: 70s
Place: ireland, northern ireland, europe, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
The Black Pimpernel (2007)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Mexico, Denmark
Duration: 95 min.
Story: The story about Swedish ambassador in Chile - Harald Edelstam - and his heroic actions to protect the innocent people from the execution during and after the military coup on September 11th 1973.
Style: serious, captivating, rough, suspenseful, realistic ...
Plot: ambassador, political intrigue, military coup, politics, life is a bitch, political unrest, society, injustice, human spirit, revolution, human rights, diplomacy ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, year 1973
Place: chile, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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Mean Dog Blues (1978)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Former TV documentary filmmaker Mel Stuart tries to inject an acceptable degree of verisimilitude in Mean Dog Blues. A victim of circumstance, country and western musician Paul Ramsey (Gregg Henry) finds himself on a Southern chain gang. Captain ...
Style: grindhouse, independent film, realistic, serious, tense ...
Plot: prison, escape, murder, corruption, forest, false accusation, female nudity, rape, injustice, power relations, tough heroes, life is a bitch ...
Time: year 1978, 20th century, 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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The Mad Bomber (1973)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A Los Angeles police detective hunts a rapist and a bomber of public buildings.
Style: independent film, tense, realistic, serious, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: exploitation, mental disorder, explosions, rapist, police detective, bomber, psychopath, woman in danger, law enforcement, chases and races, life is a bitch, danger ...
Time: 70s
Place: usa, california, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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Cal (1984)
Genre: Drama, Thriller, Romance
Country: UK, Ireland
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Cal, a young man on the fringes of the IRA, falls in love with Marcella, a Catholic woman whose husband, a Protestant policeman, was killed one year earlier by the IRA.
Style: art house, political, contemplative, tense, serious ...
Plot: ira, terrorism, trouble, guilt, religion, international relations, war on terror, anglo irish relations, female pubic hair, couples, political unrest, tragic love ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, 80s
Place: northern ireland, europe, ireland
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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 5.8
 403
The Break (1997)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, Spain, Germany, Ireland, Japan
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Dowd, an IRA prisoner in the H-blocks, is gloomily facing his sentence, until he joins a comrade in a risky escape. Dowd begins a new life in New York, but he might as well be in prison again - until he strikes up a friendship with co-worker Tulio ...
Style: realistic, serious, gloomy, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot: ira, jail, prison, anglo irish relations, conflict, struggle, friendship, haunted by the past, nursing, fall in love, hopes, assassination attempt ...
Time: year 1997, 20th century, 90s
Place: ireland, usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Dossier K. (2009)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Belgium, Netherlands
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Vincke and Verstuyft are detectives of the Antwerp police department. This time they have to deal with the Albanian mob and some problems in their own police division.
Style: tense, serious, psychological, detective, captivating ...
Plot: mafia, vengeance, fighting crime, police detective, rivalry, danger, law enforcement, murder, gangster, mob boss, violent content, partner ...
Time: 21st century
Place: belgium, antwerp, albania, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
The Adventurers (1970)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 171 min.
Story: The wealthy playboy son of an assassinated South American diplomat discovers that his father was really murdered on orders of the corrupt president of the country--a man who was his father's friend and who, in fact, his father had helped put ...
Style: sexy, exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot: heiress, revolution, politics, age-gap relationship, treasure hunt, protest, murder, fighting the system, older woman younger man relationship, decadence, revenge, corruption ...
Time: 70s, 60s
Place: latin america, europe, rome italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Moonshine Highway (1996)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: The plans of a moonshine runner trying to make a better life by becoming a stock car racer go awry when the local sheriff is determined to kill the driver over an affair with his wife.
Style: exciting, realistic, serious, rough, suspenseful
Audience: boys' night
Plot: tough heroes, profanity, estrangement, heist, police corruption, love affair, working undercover, rivalry, heroes, society, couple relations, introspection ...
Time: 50s, 20th century, 1950s
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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 ⇓
37%
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 675
The Informant (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A former Irish Republican Army fighter, Gingy McAnally (Anthony Brophy), is reluctant about being called back into service after serving time in prison. He executes the grisly task but ends up captured by a sympathetic British police lieutenant ...
Style: serious, realistic, tense, suspenseful, independent film
Plot: terrorism, ira, struggle, conflict, 007, anglo irish relations, trouble, spy, freedom, life is a bitch, society, fighting the system ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: ireland, northern ireland, europe, belfast
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 6.9
 2K
Backyard (2009)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 122 min.
Story: An astonishing fictional account of the unending series of murders of young women in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, which began in 1996. Most of the victims are low-paid laborers who have been drawn to the town by the possibility of work at American-owned ...
Style: serious, rough, psychological, suspenseful, bleak ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, police investigation, woman in danger, fighting crime, incompetent police, injustice, law enforcement, danger, dishonesty, police corruption, u.s. mexico border ...
Place: mexico, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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 689
Dirty Hearts (2011)
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Brazil, Japan
Duration: 90 min.
Story: In 1945, Japan surrendered to the United States and the Second World War was over. Right? Wrong. For eighty percent of the Japanese community in Brazil, Japan had won the war and defeat was nothing more than American propaganda. The few immigrants ...
Style: serious, bleak, disturbing, tense, realistic ...
Plot: terrorism, society, immigrant, state affairs, life is a bitch, couples, hidden truth, husband wife relationship, brainwashing, world war two, nazi, mobster ...
Time: 20th century, post world war two, 1940s, year 1945
Place: brazil, germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Freeway Killer (2010)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: For years he terrorized California motorists as he rode the endless highways searching for his next victim. The discarded bodies turned up beaten, sexually assaulted and horribly mutilated. Deceptively charming and intelligent, the scheming murderer ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, rough, scary, realistic ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, psychopath, rape and murder, who done it, strong violent content, police detective, law enforcement, life is a bitch, stalking, danger, physical appearance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Fools of Fortune (1990)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 109 min.
Story: A Protestant Irish family is caught up in a conflict between Irish Republicans and the British army.
Style: serious, realistic, independent film
Plot: ira, anglo irish relations, murder, family relations, arson, family life, alcohol abuse, political unrest, society, vengeance, rebellion, state affairs ...
Time: 1920s, 20th century
Place: ireland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
 6.3
 3K
Switch (2011)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 104 min.
Story: In Montreal, the unemployed fashion designer Sophie Malaterre is shown a website, switch.com, where it is possible to switch houses with a stranger for vacation. Sophie seeks an apartment in Paris nearby the Eiffel Tower that belongs to Bénédicte ...
Style: serious, exciting, suspenseful, realistic, suspense ...
Plot: psycho killer, woman in danger, mistaken identity, murder, chase, investigation, cons and scams, false accusation, on the run, police investigation, twists and turns, frame up ...
Time: 21st century
Place: paris france, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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 204
Snitch'd (2003)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: When the South Side Gang and the Cut Throat Mafia start a drug war at a local high school in Santa Ana, CA, detective McClure goes undercover to investigate the brutal murder of a young Latina student. The gang members are the key suspects but ...
Style: serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful, independent film ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: undercover, gangster, police detective, juvenile delinquency, criminal heroes, gang, police investigation, police corruption, urban ghetto life, working undercover, law enforcement, drug dealing ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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