Movies like After the Storm 2001

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After the Storm (2001)
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After the Storm (2001)
Genre: Crime, Thriller, Action
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: On the run from smugglers and the police, world-weary scavenger Arno (Benjamin Bratt) takes a job as a courier for a tycoon. But when the tycoon's yacht goes down in a storm, can Arno partner with a fellow sea scavenger to loot the ship's bounty? What awaits are diamonds, emeralds and gold. Guy Ferland directs this tropical noir film, which is based on a short story by Ernest Hemingway. Armand Assante co-stars.
Style: serious, psychological, exciting, suspenseful, rough, realistic
Plot: gangster, adventurer, rivalry, escapades, manipulation, danger, rescue, gigolo, fisherman, treasure hunt, betrayal, dishonesty, criminal's revenge, treasure, underwater, criminal heroes, ship, femme fatale, underwater scene, manipulations, crime, crimes
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: bahamas
Keyword: gangsters

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Most similar movies to After the Storm

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, realistic, serious and exciting films with plots about rivalry, danger, dishonesty, gangster, chases and races, law enforcement and criminal heroes mostly in Thriller, Crime and Action genres. Some movies like After the Storm: Rebellion (2009), Finish Line (2008), Safehouse (2008), The Vivero Letter (1999), Billa II (2012). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Rebellion (2009)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 100 min.
Story: In a district within Hong Kong five gangs have an uneasy truce as they all work within the area. Chaos then ensues when triad leader Jimmy is shot. Jimmy's wife Cheung Wah then appoints his bodyguard Po as the temporary leader of the gang over ...
Style: exciting, serious, tense, captivating, psychological ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gangster, rivalry, assassination attempt, tough heroes, danger, save the day, murder, politics, car chase, couple relations, heroes, criminal heroes ...
Time: 21st century
Place: hong kong
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95%
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Finish Line (2008)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Minor league stock car racer Mitch Camponella gets closer to his NASCAR dreams when he's hired as private mechanic to a millionaire importer. But Mitch's ambition comes with a heavy price when he realizes that his new boss is a smuggler ...
Style: tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, suspenseful ...
Plot: chases and races, rivalry, arms dealing, unlikely criminals, smuggling, escapades, dream, manipulation, danger, dishonesty, auto racing, chase ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
93%
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Safehouse (2008)
Genre: Action, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Ex-FBI agent Cooper O'Neil thinks the dangerous times in his life are in the past; that is, until his former partner shows up dead at his marina home. O'Neil's old partner had a coveted thumb drive in his possession when he died, and ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, rough, tense, independent film ...
Plot: rescue, special agent, law enforcement, intrigue, danger, chases and races, dishonesty, vengeance, mafia, revenge, kidnapping, violent content ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
93%
The Vivero Letter (1999)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A man in Central America finds his brother's murdered body. It turns out that his brother has been murdered because he knows the whereabouts of a lost city in the jungle. The man teams up with a search expedition and goes off to hunt for these ...
Style: cliffhanger, exciting, realistic, serious, rough ...
Plot: treasure hunt, lost city, treasure hunter, murder, expedition, treasure, violent content, dishonesty, betrayal, escapades, adventurer, ancient mystery ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
87%
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Billa II (2012)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 129 min.
Story: David Billa a refugee comes to Rameswaram in Tamil Nadu and his journey begins into crime. Initially he starts as a local diamond smuggler. He eventually meets Abbasi, an underworld don in Goa and helps him out in a deal and wins his favor. For one ...
Style: serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful, exciting
Plot: gangster, criminal, gang, danger, fighting crime, tough law enforcer, vigilantism, partners against crime, rivalry, criminal's revenge, battles, indian mafia ...
Time: 21st century
Place: goa india, georgia
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
The Kill Reflex (1989)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Williamson plays a cop called 'Soda Cracker', whose partner was killed in a mysterious assassination. He is convinced that the murder was committed by his old enemy, Ivan Moss, played by Bo Svenson. Despite threats from the mob and from ...
Style: independent film, realistic, serious, exciting, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: blaxploitation, woman with a gun, gangster, battle zone, murder, police corruption, law enforcement, assassination, rivalry, vengeance, dishonesty, investigation ...
Time: 80s
Place: chicago, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
Assassins' Code (2011)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A corporate assassination forces opportunistic double agents from three nations to fight to retrieve a high-tech computer disk containing schematics for a deadly weapon.
Style: exciting, serious, suspenseful, tense, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: espionage, working undercover, hitman, rivalry, undercover, danger, dishonesty, vengeance, woman with a gun, spy, haunted by the past, uninhibited rivalry ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
 5.6
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Tell (2014)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Ethan Tell is a small time crook who makes a big-time score when he steals 1 million dollars. Ironically, his life radically changes for the worst when he discovers that stealing the money was the easy part and he now must keep his partner, his ...
Style: exciting, serious, suspenseful, realistic, captivating ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: life turned upside down, rivalry, danger, on the run, going straight, dishonesty, violent content, sexual content, profanity, criminal heroes, chases and races, money ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
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Ten Dead Men (2008)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: You can’t outrun your past. That is the extremely painful lesson that Ryan (Brendan Carr)is learning right now, as spectres of his past life of crime have returned to haunt him, destroying the only person he holds dear, and nearly killing him in ...
Style: exciting, serious, captivating, tense, suspense ...
Plot: martial arts, vengeance, gangster, danger, betrayal, rivalry, murder, haunted by the past, starting over, chase, gory, prodigy ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
 3.4
 2K
Cash (2007)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 137 min.
Story: 'Cash' is a high octane heist thriller set in Cape Town, South Africa.The film revolves around an ace con artist,(Ajay Devgan) who hires a set of top notch robbers (Esha Deol, Zayed Khan, Dia Mirza and Riteish Deshmukh) to steal a set of ...
Style: exciting, captivating, tense, suspense, realistic ...
Plot: heist, rivalry, cons and scams, betrayal, forgery, dishonesty, caper, gang, escapades, deception, danger, criminal heroes ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india, south africa, africa, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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Beeper (2002)
Genre: Thriller, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Richard Avery, whose young son is kidnapped while they travel in India. Embarking on a desperate quest to rescue him, and with a beeper providing his only lead, Avery seeks help from unlikely sources, including a drug lord and a beautiful but ...
Style: serious, rough, exciting, suspenseful, independent film ...
Plot: missing child, kidnapping, drug dealing, rescue, manipulation, child in peril, hostage, confined, parents and children, danger, crime gone awry, doctors and patients ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
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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 ⇓
61%
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 1K
Deadwater (2008)
Genre: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When a WWII-era battleship, reactivated and deployed in the Persian Gulf for black-op interrogations, falls radio silent, an elite Marine task force, along with an NCIS investigator and two scientists, are sent to investigate. When the Marines ...
Style: serious, exciting, suspenseful, rough, realistic
Plot: military, danger, survival, world war two, undercover, ship, ghost, escapades, battles, rescue, battleship, eye ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
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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
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59%
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Dead Drop (2013)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: After surviving a fall from a plane 3000-feet over the ocean, a former CIA operative turned government contractor re-infiltrates a dangerous North Mexican drug trafficking ring to find his own killer. With his memory unraveling, he descends into a ...
Style: exciting, serious, suspenseful, realistic, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: undercover, betrayal, danger, tough heroes, dishonesty, chases and races, master criminal, working undercover, revenge, car chase, spy, rivalry ...
Time: 21st century
Place: mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
 5.8
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Newsmakers (2009)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Russia, Sweden
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A gang of crooks robbing cash collectors, run into a police surveillance team and the inadequate police response results in a gunfight. A TV crew on assignment in the area happens to capture this humiliation on camera, and this example of police ...
Style: exciting, serious, rough, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: manipulation, dishonesty, gang, law enforcement, media, rivalry, journalism, criminal heroes, cop, dystopia, police officer, tough law enforcer ...
Time: 21st century
Place: russia, moscow russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
Johan Falk: Barninfiltratören (2012)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Germany
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A group of young robbers, specializing in robbing shopping center security guards, are raging through out Gothenburg. A robbery goes awry when an innocent passerby is killed. Ricky, the gang's young leader, tries to quickly find an expert who ...
Style: serious, exciting, realistic, captivating, tense ...
Plot: crime gone awry, law enforcement, danger, investigation, hunt down, nordic, rivalry, heist, swedish, criminal, tough law enforcer, disorder ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
Harold Robbins' Body Parts (2001)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Ty's pal J.J. frames him in a murder and cocaine theft in Hong Kong in 1992. Ty's wife Rachel may be in on the con, so, when Ty gets early release from prison as a gesture of good will from the city's new Mainland government, he ...
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, tense
Audience: boys' night
Plot: prostitute, on the run, cons and scams, drug dealing, rivalry, betrayal, vengeance, criminal heroes, chases and races, prison, partner, law enforcement ...
Place: the philippines, hong kong, asia, usa, california ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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Crash and Burn (2008)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: When undercover FBI agent Kevin Hawkins (Erik Palladino, E.R.) agrees to infiltrate the ruthless underground world of choppers, he is quickly thrown into a world of fast cars and high stakes. Pitted between a ruthless crime boss (Michael Madsen, ...
Style: serious, exciting, rough, suspenseful, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: gangster, secret agent, gang, law enforcement, undercover, secret identity, danger, dishonesty, friends, undercover agent, speed, automobile ...
Time: 21st century
Place: california, usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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Gun (2010)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Detroit gun runner Rich (Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson) works to sniff out a traitor in his midst after being targeted by the FBI and having barely surviving a weapons deal gone awry. Rich was all set to unload a serious supply of firepower ...
Style: suspenseful, realistic, serious, rough, hood
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: snitch, dishonesty, rivalry, betrayal, criminal, ghetto, hip hop, gang, hip hop culture, gangster, discrimination, black man white woman relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: detroit, usa
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52%
Assassins Run (2013)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, Russia
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Maya becomes the target of the Russian mafia after her husband, a successful American businessman, is killed.
Style: serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: danger, prison life, rescue, ballet, kidnapping, frame up, woman in danger, twists and turns, betrayal, gangster, on the run, dishonesty ...
Time: 21st century
Place: russia, st. petersburg russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
Hard Boiled Sweets (2012)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Ex-con Johnny is forced into pulling a heist he wants nothing to do with. Mob boss ‘Shrewd’ Eddie has one million is dirty cash stashed at his home, just waiting to be stolen. But what Johnny doesn’t know is that seven other very dangerous ...
Style: captivating, suspense, tense, psychological, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: heist, gangster, rivalry, pimp, cons and scams, danger, mob boss, murder, escapades, violent, outlaw, shrewd ...
Time: 21st century
Place: london, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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Billa (2007)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 130 min.
Story: The intertwined stories of an international Don in Malaysia, David Billa, chased by the cops, an Indian police officer, a woman who wants to avenge the death of her brother, and a lowly thief, Velu who shares with Billa, an unusual connection.
Style: exciting, realistic, serious, suspenseful
Plot: law enforcement, rivalry, working undercover, twists and turns, danger, disorder, hidden identity, criminal heroes, master criminal, chases and races, gangster, switching roles ...
Time: 21st century
Place: asia, malaysia
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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I Against I (2012)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Focusing on the timeless themes of jealousy, murder and betrayal, 'I Against I' is set over one night and utilises different time lines to reveal a dark and unexpected conclusion to a simple mystery premise. The main protagonists, opposite ...
Style: exciting, atmospheric, serious, tense, captivating ...
Plot: twists and turns, gangster, betrayal, survival, danger, trapped, rivalry, murder, deadly
Time: 21st century
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
Johan Falk: Organizatsija Karayan (2012)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Germany
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Johan Falk's stepdaughter Nina has gotten in contact with her biological father, Orjan, discovering that he is in debt to an Estonian construction company in Gothenburg, leading to Nina's kidnapping.
Style: rough, realistic, exciting, suspenseful, serious
Plot: police investigation, tough law enforcer, danger, law enforcement, chase, gangster, police procedural, organized crime, nordic, swedish, criminal, urban ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
 7.0
 3K
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 ⇓
50%
 5.2
 395
Black (2009)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 115 min.
Story: A Senegalese bank-robber born and raised in France is getting over a disastrous heist. As he considers going straight, his cousin calls him from Dakar with an easy opportunity.
Style: serious, exciting, rough, suspenseful, realistic
Plot: interpol, heist, crime gone awry, escapades, danger, rivalry, dishonesty, disorder, diamond theft, bank robbery, black panthers, pistol ...
Time: 21st century
Place: africa, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Killers 2: The Beast (2002)
Genre: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: No overview found.
Style: psychological, serious, realistic, scary, rough ...
Plot: mental institution, criminal heroes, danger, gangster, dangerous animal, drug dealing, rivalry, confined, vengeance, murder, doctor, female fighter ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
The Killers Edge (1991)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A cop teams up with an FBI agent to track down a counterfeiter.
Style: independent film, serious, realistic, exciting, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: police officer, vietnam veteran, fbi, counterfeiter, cop, special agent, rivalry, betrayal, confined, forgery, undercover, chases and races ...
Time: 90s
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
 5.6
 855
The Hard Easy (2006)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Two separate teams of jewel thieves, one low-rent and one upscale, both desperate, converge on the same score at the exact same time, and a simple job turns out very complicated and very bloody.
Style: serious, exciting, suspenseful, rough, realistic
Audience: boys' night
Plot: criminal's revenge, gang, unlikely criminals, heist, crime gone awry, criminal heroes, master criminal, gangster, stock broker, gambling, compulsive gambler, ex wife ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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