Movies like The Business 2005

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The Business (2005)
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The Business (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Spain
Duration: 97 min.
Story: During the '80s, a young man named Frankie dreams of escaping London's South East region, and his mother's thug of a boyfriend gives him just the opportunity. After beating up the abusive beau, Frankie runs off to Spain, where he lands a job delivering a package to the dapper Playboy Charlie, a gangster who takes him under his wing. Working as Charlie's driver, Frankie is immersed in a world of fast cars and pretty women -- but all the excess could be his undoing.
Style: rough, serious, captivating, suspenseful, dark, crime drama, indie film, crime thriller, realistic, stylized ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: rise and fall, drug dealing, organized crime, drug dealer, femme fatale, murder, on the run, drug abuse, gangster, british gangster, ambition, friendship, danger, power relations, football, sex, drug, mafia, business, killer, criminal, cocaine, driver, mental illness, robbery ...
Time: 80s, year 2005, 20th century
Place: colombia, england, britain, spain, london
Keyword: gangsters, partners, algerian, dutch, colombian

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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, gang, violence, betrayal, criminal heroes and organized crime mostly in Crime, Drama and Thriller genres. Some movies like The Business: Layer Cake (2004), The Departed (2006), Casino (1995), Scarface (1983), Outlaw (2007). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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 ...
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The Departed (2006)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Hong Kong
Duration: 151 min.
Story: To take down South Boston's Irish Mafia, the police send in one of their own to infiltrate the underworld, not realizing the syndicate has done likewise. While an undercover cop curries favor with the mob kingpin, a career criminal rises ...
Style: twist ending, suspense, surprise ending, clever, tense ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: mafia, police, organized crime, mole, mobster, undercover cop, twists and turns, undercover, gunfight, corruption, working undercover, gangster ...
Time: 2000s, year 2006, 21st century
Place: boston, america, persia, massachusetts, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 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 ⇓
100%
 8.3
 909K
Scarface (1983)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 170 min.
Story: After getting a green card in exchange for assassinating a Cuban government official, Tony Montana stakes a claim on the drug trade in Miami. Viciously murdering anyone who stands in his way, Tony eventually becomes the biggest drug lord in the ...
Style: serious, cult classic, exciting, rough, suspense ...
Audience: manly, date night, boys' night, adult
Plot: gangster, mafia, organized crime, gunfight, drug lord, mob boss, drug cartel, drug dealing, cocaine, drug abuse, ambition, violence ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1983, year 1980
Place: miami, cuba, miami beach, florida, bolivia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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Outlaw (2007)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A group of people who feel betrayed by their government and let down by their police force form a modern-day outlaw posse in order to right what they see as the wrongs of society.
Style: realistic, serious, rough, suspenseful, grindhouse ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gangster, soldier, betrayal, society, police, vigilante, rivalry, dishonesty, gang, violent, ghetto, vigilantism ...
Place: england, britain, london, big ben london, united kingdom
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.2
 3K
Hyena (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Good policing doesn't necessarily mean doing everything by the book. But as the business of crime in London turns to favour the Albanians and Turks, how does a "good" policeman survive?
Style: serious, realistic, tense, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: police corruption, gangster, murder, drug dealing, danger, police investigation, law enforcement, dishonesty, gang, drug, human trafficking, corruption ...
Time: 21st century
Place: london, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.0
 4K
Essex Boys (2000)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Billy has just scored an entry-level position with the local crime cartel. His first job is to mind Jason, a newly released thug with a vicious temper. Jason thinks it's his job to teach Billy about crime, drugs and women. Little does he know ...
Style: suspenseful, rough, exciting, serious, psychological ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: drug dealing, murder, police, criminal's revenge, ambition, gang, criminal heroes, vengeance, rise and fall, rivalry, female pubic hair, british gangster ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: england, britain, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.5
 274K
Blow (2001)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: A boy named George Jung grows up in a struggling family in the 1950's. His mother nags at her husband as he is trying to make a living for the family. It is finally revealed that George's father cannot make a living and the family goes ...
Style: depressing, touching, emotional, serious, epic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: drug addiction, drug lord, drug abuse, drug dealing, friendship, drug, drug dealer, drug cartel, rise and fall, addiction, gangster, drug use ...
Time: 70s, year 2001, 20th century, 80s, near future ...
Place: latin america, colombia, california, mexico, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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The Football Factory (2004)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Sport
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story: The Football Factory is more than just a study of the English obsession with football violence, it's about men looking for armies to join, wars to fight and places to belong. A forgotten culture of Anglo Saxon males fed up with being told ...
Style: realistic, disturbing, serious, rough, grindhouse ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: soccer, hooligan, football, organized crime, dark humor, lifestyle, violent, violence, working class, dysfunctional family, football hooligan, drug ...
Time: year 2004, 21st century
Place: london, england, britain, united kingdom, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Bonded by Blood (2010)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story: In 1995, drug suppliers and career criminals Tony Tucker, Patrick Tate and Craig Rolfe were blasted to death by a shot gun whilst waiting in a Range Rover in Rettendon, Essex. The film charts their rise to become the most prolific dealers and feared ...
Style: tense, serious, rough, suspenseful, realistic
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gang, rise and fall, rivalry, partner, gangster, dishonesty, betrayal, criminal heroes, vengeance, drug dealing, ambition, violence ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: england, britain, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
 6.7
 15K
Gangster No. 1 (2000)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Germany, Ireland
Duration: 103 min.
Story: An old gangster is advised that Freddie Mays would leave jail after thirty years in prison. His mood changes and he recalls when he was a young punk, who joined Freddie Mays' gang, a man he both envied and ultimately betrayed.
Style: intense, tense, rough, suspenseful, bleak ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gangster, rise and fall, organized crime, psychopath, torture, mafia, betrayal, prison, violence, gang war, leadership, extortion ...
Time: year 2000, future, 60s, 20th century, 80s ...
Place: london, england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
What Doesn't Kill You (2008)
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, captivating, realistic, rough ...
Plot: friendship, heist, infidelity, family problems, buddies, downfall, haunted by the past, danger, criminal heroes, legal, drug addiction, introspection ...
Time: year 2008, 20th century, 21st century
Place: usa, boston, massachusetts
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
 5.9
 8K
Empire (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A big time drug dealer Victor Rosa is looking to get out of the game and sees his chance with a big deal with a new friend who happens to be a Wall St. stockbroker. Thinking this will be his chance to go out on top Victor soon finds out that he has ...
Style: intense, stylized, melancholic, suspense, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: betrayal, organized crime, gangster, greed, twists and turns, drug dealing, wall street, ghetto, criminal heroes, going straight, cons and scams, mafia ...
Time: year 2002
Place: usa, new york, miami, bronx new york city, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
 6.5
 3K
Shifty (2008)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Shifty, a young crack cocaine dealer in London, sees his life quickly spiral out of control when his best friend returns home. Stalked by a customer desperate to score at all costs, and with his family about to turn their back on him for good, ...
Style: serious, tense, captivating, suspense, dark ...
Plot: dealer, police, betrayal, haunted by the past, urban, save the day, rivalry, gangsta, ghetto, gang, danger, murder ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, london, britain
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
The Long Good Friday (1980)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 114 min.
Story: In the late 1970s, Cockney crime boss Harold Shand, a gangster trying to become a legitimate property mogul, has big plans to get the American Mafia to bankroll his transformation of a derelict area of London into the possible venue for a future ...
Style: neo noir, atmospheric, tense, harsh, serious ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: ira, gangster, organized crime, mafia, car bomb, danger, crime boss, revenge, rivalry, great ending, underworld, murder ...
Time: 70s, year 1980, 80s, 20th century
Place: england, london, ireland, britain, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
 5.5
 5K
Pusher (2012)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story: In London, a drug dealer grows increasingly desperate over the course of a week after a botched deal lands him in the merciless clutches of a ruthless crime lord. The more desperate his behavior, the more isolated he becomes until there is nothing ...
Style: suspenseful, rough, stylized, serious, hood ...
Plot: strip club, drug dealing, gangster, crime gone awry, criminal heroes, on the run, danger, nothing goes right, chase, disorder, violence, debt ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: london, england, east end london
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
 5.9
 3K
The Crew (2008)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 123 min.
Story: Hoping to raise enough capital to finance a legitimate business and leave behind his life of crime, Liverpool underworld boss Ged Brennan sends his brother Ratter and a crew to pull a daring final heist. But when Ratter kills a drug kingpin during ...
Style: realistic, rough, serious, suspenseful, crime drama
Audience: boys' night
Plot: heist, betrayal, dishonesty, gang, criminal heroes, crime gone awry, gangster, brother brother relationship, lesbian, organized crime, british gangster, mafia ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Killing Them Softly (2012)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Jackie Cogan is an enforcer hired to restore order after three dumb guys rob a Mob protected card game, causing the local criminal economy to collapse.
Style: neo noir, suspenseful, intense, tense, bleak ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, adult
Plot: robbery, gambling, gangster, organized crime, hitman, brutality, assassin, mafia, violence, murder, crime gone awry, gang ...
Time: year 2012, 2010s, year 2008, 2000s, 21st century
Place: new orleans, louisiana, usa, orlando florida, florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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Carlito's Way: Rise to Power (2005)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Jay Hernandez (Friday Night Lights), Mario Van Peebles (Ali), Luis Guzmán (Carlito's Way) and Sean Combs (Monster's Ball) star in the gripping tale of the early years of gangster legend Carlito Brigante. Seduced by the power of the brutal ...
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, stylized, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: puerto rican, gangster, mafia, gang, drug dealing, police corruption, master criminal, betrayal, vengeance, best friend, rise to the top, tragic hero ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: new york, usa, new york state
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Illegal Tender (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: After the gangsters who killed his father come to settle a score, a teenage boy and his mother turn the tables on the killers - one Latino family's quest for honor and revenge as the hunted become the hunters.
Style: exciting, captivating, tense, suspense, psychological ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gang, on the run, pregnancy, haunted by the past, rivalry, vigilantism, drug dealing, revenge, murder, death of father, danger, urban ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: puerto rico, usa, latin america, new york, bronx new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 7.2
 60K
Animal Kingdom (2010)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Following the death of his mother, J finds himself living with his estranged family, under the watchful eye of his doting grandmother, Smurf, mother to the Cody boys. J quickly comes to believe that he is a player in this world. But, as he soon ...
Style: tense, disturbing, bleak, realistic, atmospheric ...
Plot: gangster, interrogation, violence, complex characters, justice, investigation, drug dealer, character study, vengeance, law enforcement, bad mother, power struggle ...
Time: year 2010, 2010s, 21st century
Place: australia, melbourne, oceania, peru
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 5.6
 8K
Playing God (1997)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Stripped of his medical license after performing an operation while high on amphetamines, famed LA surgeon Dr Eugene Sands abandons his former life only to find himself crossing paths with Raymond Blossom, an infamous counterfeiter. Employed as a ...
Style: psychological, intense, tense, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: fbi, gangster, drug addiction, murder, betrayal, undercover, haunted by the past, heist, mind game, dishonesty, drug dealing, working undercover ...
Time: 90s, year 1997
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Deadly Outlaw: Rekka (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 96 min.
Story: After Kunisada's Yakuza leader and father figure is brutally murdered, he and his best friend go on a two-man mission to avenge his death, killing other Yakuza leaders leading to a final confrontation by the old man's killers..
Style: rough, suspenseful, stylized, serious, crime drama ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: hitman, yakuza, danger, gangster, murder, betrayal, criminal's revenge, vigilantism, police investigation, chase, master criminal, lone wolves ...
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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 7.0
 161K
The Drop (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Bob Saginowski finds himself at the center of a robbery gone awry and entwined in an investigation that digs deep into the neighborhood's past where friends, families, and foes all work together to make a living - no matter the cost.
Style: serious, realistic, tense, suspense, cerebral ...
Audience: girls' night, teens, boys' night
Plot: twists and turns, robbery, fall in love, organized crime, danger, criminal heroes, crime boss, catholic, gangster, mafia, church, criminal's revenge ...
Time: year 2014, 90s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: new york, boston, brooklyn new york city, massachusetts, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
King of New York (1990)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A former drug lord returns from prison determined to wipe out all his competition and distribute the profits of his operations to New York's poor and lower classes in this stylish and ultra violent modern twist on Robin Hood.
Style: neo noir, atmospheric, hood, intense, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gang, organized crime, drug lord, mob boss, gangster, murder, chase, violence, african american gangster, cocaine, drug, urban ...
Time: year 1990, 20th century, 80s, 90s
Place: new york, italy, usa, bronx new york city, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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 ⇓
24%
 6.9
 201K
Legend (2015)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story: Suave, charming and volatile, Reggie Kray and his unstable twin brother Ronnie start to leave their mark on the London underworld in the 1960s. Using violence to get what they want, the siblings orchestrate robberies and murders while running ...
Style: realistic, serious, brutal, tense, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: mafia, gang, rise and fall, gangster, abusive husband, psychopath, mobster, twins, relationships, mafioso, extortion, twin brother ...
Time: 60s, year 2015, 2010s, 90s, 50s ...
Place: london, england, east end london, west end london, scotland yard ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Brighton Rock (2010)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, France
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Charts the headlong fall of Pinkie, a razor-wielding disadvantaged teenager with a religious death wish.
Style: psychological, serious, tense, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot: gangster, gang war, waitress, revenge, witnessing a crime, dishonesty, danger, criminal heroes, couples, murder, woman in danger, gang ...
Time: 20th century, 60s
Place: england, brighton, britain, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Eastern Promises (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A Russian teenager, living in London, dies during childbirth but leaves clues to a midwife in her journal, that could tie her child to a rape involving a violent Russian mob family.
Style: neo noir, disturbing, serious, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot: gangster, mob boss, russian mafia, prostitution, murder, male nudity, rape, brutality, death in childbirth, child prostitute, investigation, organized crime ...
Time: year 2007, 2000s, 21st century
Place: england, london, st. petersburg russia, europe, scotland yard ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 4.3
 1K
Played (2006)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min.
Story: An examination of the malevolent London underworld with it's despicable criminal underground. Ray (Mick Rossi) just finished an eight year prison sentence after getting set up. Now he is back on the streets to settle the score.
Style: tense, serious, suspenseful, rough, realistic ...
Plot: murder, prison, criminal underworld, criminal heroes, criminal, gangster, crime gone awry, dishonesty, released from prison, corrupt cop, police detective, police investigation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: london, england, europe, los angeles, britain
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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