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Brooklyn Rules (2007)
6K
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Brooklyn, 1985. With the mob world as a backdrop, three life-long friends struggle with questions of love, loss and loyalty.
Style:
realistic, captivating, psychological, atmospheric, rough, touching, serious, suspenseful
Plot:
friendship, gangster, friends, mafia, love affair, youth, coming of age, revenge, murder, crime family, rivalry, danger, city life, italian mafia, organized crime, gangsta, italian gangster, love and romance, profanity, fall in love, sexual content, urban, partner, bittersweet, buddies ...
Time:
80s, year 2007, 20th century, 70s
Place:
brooklyn new york city, new york, usa
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Most similar movies to Brooklyn Rules
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, rough and suspenseful films with plots about gangster, mafia, murder, urban, organized crime, criminal heroes and friendship mostly in Drama, Crime and Thriller genres. Some movies like Brooklyn Rules: A Bronx Tale (1993), The Funeral (1996), The Ministers (2009), Mobsters (1991), Mean Streets (1973). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
182K
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Set in the Bronx during the tumultuous 1960s, an adolescent boy is torn between his honest, working-class father and a violent yet charismatic crime boss. Complicating matters is the youngster's growing attraction - forbidden in his ...
Style:
sentimental, intense, suspense, hood, retro ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
mafia, coming of age, mentor, gangster, organized crime, gang leader, father son relationship, mobster, african american, friendship, mob boss, white male black female relationship ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, year 1960, year 1993, 90s ...
Place:
new york, bronx new york city, usa, new york state, new jersey
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
The story concerns the funeral of one of three brothers in a family of gangsters that lived in New York in 1930s. Details of the past of the brothers and their families are shown through a series of flashbacks.
Style:
surprise ending, neo noir, independent film, hood, philosophical ...
Plot:
murder, mafia, corpse, gangster, revenge, tragedy, grief, death of brother, suicide, brother brother relationship, organized crime, great depression ...
Time:
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Place:
new york, usa, london
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Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
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Style:
tense, serious, captivating, suspense, psychological ...
Plot:
profanity, vengeance, danger, rivalry, law enforcement, murder, unlikely couple, brainwashing, religious fanaticism, violent content, romancing a criminal, urban ...
Time:
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Place:
new york, usa
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50%
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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:
suspense, intense, talky, suspenseful, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gangster, mobster, organized crime, friendship, vengeance, tough heroes, greed, murder, criminal heroes, dishonesty, blind ambition, mafia ...
Time:
1920s, year 1991, year 1917, 1910s, 1930s
Place:
new york, israel, usa, coney island brooklyn new york city, brooklyn new york city ...
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127K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
A small-time hood must choose from among love, friendship and the chance to rise within the mob.
Style:
tense, atmospheric, neo noir, sexy, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
mafia, organized crime, friendship, gangster, epilepsy, urban ghetto life, money, strip club, street gang, stripper, character study, life philosophy ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1973
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, usa, north america, new jersey
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Using the Internet and global satellites, a group of gangsters pull off the biggest bank heist in the Mafia's history.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, rough, realistic, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
mafia, gangster, organized crime, cosa nostra, chases and races, master criminal, crime gone awry, dishonesty, betrayal, criminal heroes, bank, cons and scams ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new jersey, usa, miami
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Mob drama starring Ray 'Boom Boom' Mancini, Mia Sara and Costas Mandylor.
Style:
realistic, rough, serious, suspenseful, crime thriller ...
Plot:
friendship, betrayal, family business, organized crime, buddies, dishonesty, clergy, police, loyalty, moral dilemma, betrayal of trust, father figure ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
philadelphia, usa
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Don Roberto Luciano turns informer for the biggest Mafia trial in history, but his family pays a terrible price.
Style:
captivating, serious, political thriller, tense, realistic ...
Plot:
mafia, incestuous relationship, betrayal, illicit affair, italian mafia, filicide, gangster, organized crime, rivalry, family life, accidental incest, monastery ...
Time:
90s
Place:
italy, europe
Similarity:
45%
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A drama centered around Patty Montanari, the widowed mother of two who went to work for her lover Frank Russo, a captain in a Brooklyn crime family.
Style:
realistic, serious, tense, suspenseful, exciting ...
Plot:
criminal heroes, fall in love, dishonesty, gangster, unlikely criminals, parents and children, love affair, mind game, organized crime, italian mafia, italian gangster, mafia ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
44%
110
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Vic Trevi is an undercover FBI agent positioned to betray the people he calls family. Vic needs to find out the truth about his family before his family finds out the truth about him.
Style:
psychological, tense, suspense, disturbing, suspenseful
Plot:
undercover, gangster, undercover agent, betrayal, who done it, friendship, youth, murder, partners against crime, uncover truth, friends, godfather ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
43%
187
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Mac and his high school gangster buddies try to take over the world of sports betting in a city filled with crime, prostitution and gambling. When the Mafia gets involved, they do whatever it takes to keep these tough young-bloods off their turf.
Style:
captivating, psychological, suspense, tense, exciting ...
Plot:
gambling, casino, high school, gangster, ambition, sport team, buddies, football, rivalry, friendship, danger, mafia ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
In Providence's Italian neighborhood, Federal Hill, five young are immersed in drugs, crime and violence. Everything changes when one of the guys in the band know love.
Style:
black and white, independent film, serious, realistic, tense ...
Plot:
gangster, college, drug, youth, friendship, best friend, partner, gays and lesbians, gang, juvenile delinquency, going straight, criminal heroes ...
Time:
year 1994, 90s
Place:
rhode island, usa, canada, new jersey
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Rick (Diesel) is frustrated by the repetitious grind of one-night stands and aimless hustling. Whilst looking for more to his life he meets Heather (Lanza), a neighbour. Rick takes the opportunity to escape his boring life style with her, but soon ...
Style:
cult classic, realistic, serious, tense
Plot:
urban, male nudity, drug dealer, hunting, gang, redemption, couples, urban ghetto, family relations, friends, youth, coming of age ...
Time:
future, 90s
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Dito Montiel, a successful author, receives a call from his long-suffering mother, asking him to return home and visit his ailing father. Dito recalls his childhood growing up in a violent neighborhood in Queens, N.Y., with friends Antonio, ...
Style:
emotional, period piece, harsh, rough, intense ...
Audience:
teens, kids
Plot:
coming of age, childhood, friendship, urban ghetto life, foul language, street kid, swimming pool, gangster, loss of friend, depression, anger, life is a bitch ...
Time:
80s, 2000s, year 2006, y2k, 20th century ...
Place:
new york, california, america, usa, north america ...
Similarity:
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542
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Two pounds of pressure on a trigger pays really well... Ex special forces mercenary and now hardened criminal Vic, lives in a world of cons, double crosses, crooked cops, mob bosses and drug dealing crime lords. Playing by his own rules, Vic and his ...
Style:
exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, rough ...
Plot:
fighting crime, gangster, hitman, police detective, drug dealing, rivalry, danger, murder, crime boss, city life, dishonesty, tough law enforcer ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
california, usa, los angeles
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Provocative, outrageously profane and surprisingly tender amidst an explosion of unbridled testosterone, 44 INCH CHEST explores the masculine ego at breaking point, testing whether fear is stronger than love. Colin (Ray Winstone) is in agony, ...
Style:
tense, serious, surreal, atmospheric, bleak ...
Plot:
infidelity, gay friend, vengeance, confined, rivalry, friendship, abduction, narration, couples, family relations, danger, british gangster ...
Time:
year 2009, 20th century, 21st century
Place:
england, london, europe
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Nick Romano is a young Italian American fighting his own personal demons. He's got a chip on his shoulder and a lot to prove. Teamed with his crazy but always loyal partner Carlo, the two small time hoods are on the streets trying to hustle and ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous, suspenseful, crime drama ...
Plot:
mafia, crime family, gangster, criminal heroes, couples, curses spells and rituals, organized crime, mobster, loyalty, crime boss, underworld, hustler ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, miami, new york
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A promising college athlete takes a turn for the worse when he hooks up with old highschool friends during his summer break.
Style:
serious, surreal, realistic, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot:
white trash, student athlete, drug dealing, baseball, teen drinking, high school friends, prostitute, juvenile delinquency, friendship, youth, buddies, lifestyle ...
Place:
california, usa
Similarity:
41%
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121
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
"The Rally" is a gritty drama which follows several families living in a town riddled with crime and corruption. As the local church works to bring positive change to the town, they are confronted at every turn by those that desire to keep ...
Style:
realistic, serious, captivating, psychological, rough ...
Plot:
crime boss, drug addict, city life, dishonesty, rivalry, society, teenager, religion, faith, family problems, love, family life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Three teenage friends get in way over their head when they cross a down-home crime syndicate. They hope to make a break for it and escape their dead-end existence in a cotton-mill town but get sucked into the seedy underbelly of organized crime when ...
Style:
captivating, bleak, tense, serious, suspense ...
Plot:
small town, juvenile delinquency, gangster, danger, friendship, love and romance, betrayal, love triangle, farm, rivalry, hot and sexy, jealousy ...
Place:
texas, britain, usa
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Residents of Manhattan's Hell's Kitchen attempt to balance family and friendship against the harsh street life that unfolds around them
Style:
serious, rough, suspenseful, realistic, independent film
Plot:
gangster, gang, irish mob, mafia, fight, mafioso, city life, criminal, crime boss, caper, urban setting, gangsta ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Action, Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Brutal and celebrated Mafia gangster John Gotti (Danny Nucci) schemes, shoves and murders his way to the top of that world in this gritty biography told from the perspective of Salvatore Polisi (Jason Gedrick), who owns the Sinatra Club, where ...
Style:
tense, serious, suspenseful, rough, realistic
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
mafia, organized crime, gangster, gang, gang leader, criminal heroes, rise to the top, dishonesty, heist, mobster, tough guy, crime boss ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
new york, usa, brooklyn new york city
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Jimmy and Jon are a couple of Brooklyn guys who somehow never found their way into workaday society; they never found their way into big-time crime, either.
Style:
neo noir, independent film, tense, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
mafia, american mafia, urban ghetto, heist, urban ghetto life, low lives, chaos and mayhem, urban, down on your luck, murder, city life, life is a bitch ...
Time:
year 1992, 90s
Place:
new york, usa, brooklyn new york city
Similarity:
40%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
One of Kojak's old enemies uses Ariana, a young Greek girl, as bait to trap the legendary New York detective. Meanwhile, Kojak finds himself a brash young associate.
Style:
detective, suspense, tense, emotional, noir ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
urban, police procedural, danger, investigation, kidnapping, bait, rescue, female victim, cat and mouse, betrayal, revenge, hostage ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
40%
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, suspenseful, serious, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
mafia, gangster, hitman, crime family, gang, courtroom drama, gangsta, italian mafia, organized crime, cosa nostra, professional killer, italian gangster ...
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
Jamie is 21. She's from Atlanta. She's come to Brooklyn to visit her friend Samantha, but she can't find her. Jamie meets a stranger named Charlie on the subway and spends 24 hours hanging out with him.
Style:
mumblecore, realistic, captivating, light, atmospheric ...
Plot:
friendship, friends, unlikely couple, city life, party, love, girlfriend, society, hipster, human relationship, lifestyle, urban ...
Place:
new york, usa, brooklyn new york city
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Two childhood friends from South Boston turn to crime as a way to get by, ultimately causing a strain in their personal lives and their friendship.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, realistic, captivating, rough ...
Plot:
friendship, infidelity, heist, family problems, downfall, buddies, haunted by the past, legal, criminal heroes, danger, snow, drug addiction ...
Time:
20th century, year 2008, 21st century
Place:
usa, boston, massachusetts
Similarity:
39%
613K
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, neo noir, stylized ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
organized crime, mafia, casino, rise and fall, gangster, betrayal, money, gambling, greed, criminal heroes, mobster, cosa nostra ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, 90s, 80s, year 1973 ...
Place:
las vegas, chicago, missouri, israel, usa ...
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 162 min.
Story:
In the midst of trying to legitimize his business dealings in 1979 New York and Italy, aging mafia don, Michael Corleone seeks forgiveness for his sins while taking a young protege under his wing.
Style:
saga, epic, neo noir, visually appealing, bad ending ...
Audience:
manly, boys' night, adult
Plot:
mafia, organized crime, revenge, gangster, violence, cosa nostra, italian mafia, murder, guilt, sicilian mafia, assassination, catholic church ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, 80s, year 1990, year 1980 ...
Place:
italy, sicily, palermo italy, new york, atlantic city new jersey ...
Similarity:
39%
161
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A former ranch hand confronts the realities of drug addiction and runs afoul of a local gangster after he moves to Los Angeles.
Style:
serious, realistic, tense, captivating, crime drama ...
Plot:
gangster, going straight, life is a bitch, self discovery, addiction, drug, rancher, father son relationship, pimp, drug dealer, rivalry, danger ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
los angeles, usa, south america
Similarity:
39%
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