Movies like Bal-Can-Can
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Bal-Can-Can (2005)
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Drama, War
Country: Italy, UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A Macedonian military deserter and his Italian blood-brother are searching for a dead grandmother wrapped up in a stolen carpet, all over the Balkan's criminal underworld.
Style:
dark comedy, satirical, road movie, captivating, disturbing, semi serious, crime drama, funny, neo noir, black humor
Plot:
satire, criminal, mafia, fight, caper, mafioso, gangster, journey, friendship, smuggling, corruption, organized crime, criminal underworld, moral ambiguity, desertion, violence, anti war, political satire, absurdism, misfit, freak, adventurer, chaos, european, revenge ...
Place:
balkan, eastern europe, macedonia, former yugoslavia, italy
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, satirical, semi serious and dark comedy films with plots about satire, moral ambiguity, gangster, criminal, corruption, organized crime and revenge mostly in Comedy, Crime and Action genres. Some movies like Bal-Can-Can: The Mafia, The Salesman (2007), Jil Jung Juk (2016), Big Dippers (2005), Dogwashers (2020), Devadas (2018). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Action, Comedy
Country: South Korea
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
With the looming free trade agreement between the US and South Korea, even a mafia gang thinks it should become more globalized and professional. Doo-shik is picked to infiltrate a mega corporation and steal their methods for success.
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satirical, captivating, semi serious, dark comedy, crime drama ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
south korea, seoul
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95%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 136 min.
Story:
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Style:
satirical, dark comedy, semi serious, disturbing, captivating ...
Plot:
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Two small time crooks steal a briefcase and are amazed to find it contains £2million. But when it seems that the money was going to be used to pay the ransom for a kidnapped boy they try to get the money back to the owner.
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling, semi serious, dark comedy ...
Plot:
ransom, kidnapping, gangster, criminal, conscience, moral dilemma, stolen money, problem, heist gone wrong, moral ambiguity, caper, desperation ...
Time:
2000s
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85%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
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Duration: 107 min.
Story:
When a narco past his prime refuses to pay a debt to an upstart, only a secret stash of money can save his men. But guess what the gardener just found?
Style:
satirical, black comedy, entertaining, humorous, captivating ...
Plot:
satire, dark humor, drug, gang leader, crime boss, drug dealing, drug lord, criminal gang, gang, drug dealer, criminal, bandit ...
Place:
latin america
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 159 min.
Story:
A sincere doctor Das works at a private clinic, where he meets the dreaded don Deva who arrives injured. After the treatment, Das and Deva form a deep friendship until Deva's mafia background and gruesome history causes a rift in their bond.
Style:
crime drama, satirical, thrilling, semi serious, captivating ...
Plot:
gangster, doctor, police, friendship, intrigue, satire, betrayal, underworld, loyalty, violence, mafia, crime boss ...
Place:
india
Similarity:
69%
Genre: Action, Comedy
Country: South Korea
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A Korean mobster's bumbling assistants team up with a street-smart hooker to find their employer's missing drug money.
Style:
satirical, captivating, semi serious, buddy comedy, dark comedy ...
Plot:
drug, satire, criminal, escapades, drug dealer, money problems, bandit, criminal gang, stolen money, gang, drug lord, drug dealing ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
south korea
Similarity:
69%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Fate, the pensions crisis and a steadfast refusal to accept the injustice of old age have contrived to force law abiding, retired couple, Arthur and Martha Goode into a life of crime.
Style:
satirical, disturbing, captivating, semi serious, dark comedy ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
senior citizen, bank robber, robbery, criminal, satire, theft, money problems, elderly man, burglar, married couple, stealing money, husband wife relationship ...
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67%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy
Country: Turkey
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Ali Senay and Ilber, the two partners of Senay Cüccaciye, sell garden dwarfs. When their company starts to dwindle, they decide to participate in a gardening fair in Sofia with the plan to meet new people from the sector in an attempt to drum up ...
Style:
captivating, light, buddy comedy, action comedy, satirical ...
Plot:
mafia, business, unlikely hero, escapades, corrupt businessman, powerful corporation, corporate conspiracy, teamwork, corporation, showdown, businessman, fight ...
Place:
turkey, balkan, russia, azerbaijan
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65%
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Egypt
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
After 3 years have passed since the end of the events of the first part, the four brothers are trying in various ways to preserve the covenant they made to themselves to stay away from a life of theft and crime, but one event in their lives changes ...
Style:
crime drama, psychological, semi serious, thrilling, captivating ...
Plot:
brothers, family problems, criminal, relationship problems, family life, brother brother relationship, crime boss, satire, marital problem, danger, underworld, organized crime ...
Place:
egypt, cairo egypt
Similarity:
63%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
Abhi wants to make a feature film with an antagonist as his lead and finds the perfect muse in the ruthless Gaddalakonda Ganesh. How he finally manages to make his debut forms the crux of the tale.
Style:
crime drama, captivating, satirical, masala, emotional ...
Plot:
gangster, filmmaking, satire, battles, criminal gang, director, bandit, gang member, criminal underworld, gang, criminal, fight ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
india
Similarity:
62%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 53 min.
Story:
A feature independent film by Brent Kado. Neonoir comedy about the idyllic heartland, confronting truths and folly of the American Dream gone bad. The Boss has a job for 3 of the Valley's top goons. Can they finish without f'ing up or will ...
Style:
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Plot:
moral ambiguity, satire, small town, cautionary tale, anti hero, crime and punishment, corruption, violence, deadpan, heist, revenge, small town life ...
Similarity:
61%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, India
Duration: 158 min.
Story:
When a clever, carefree gangster is recruited to help an overseas crime lord take down a rival, he is caught off guard by the moral dilemmas that follow.
Style:
crime drama, light, captivating, intense, tense ...
Plot:
gangster, crime boss, organized crime, immigrant, underworld, moral ambiguity, anti hero, moral dilemma, criminal, partners in crime, escapades, master criminal ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
london, india
Similarity:
61%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: India
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
Angered by the corruption that stopped him from becoming a CBI officer, a young man forms a gang who pose as CBI officers and raids the corrupt.
Style:
satirical, captivating, semi serious, crime drama, fast paced ...
Plot:
corruption, political corruption, heist, satire, vigilante, justice, bandit, fighting the system, criminal gang, corrupt businessman, police corruption, outlaw gang ...
Place:
india
Similarity:
61%
Genre: Action, Comedy
Country: Thailand
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A man's teeth crooked ghastly. Need a plan to get rich fast so he enlists the help from a limping woman and a blindfolded man. They decide to join the Mafia and help kidnap the politician's son, but things go terribly wrong when they ...
Style:
satirical, psychological, semi serious, captivating, dark comedy ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
mafia, kidnapping, poverty, friendship, satire, gangster, friends, poor, mafioso, gang, escapades, family problems ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
thailand, southeast asia
Similarity:
60%
356
Genre: Drama, Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Three Englishmen working as waiters on a cruise ship in 1927 are given a chance to work for the Al Capone gang.
Style:
tense, crime drama, disturbing, captivating, suspense ...
Plot:
mafia, gangster, organized crime, al capone, crime family, mobster, gang, criminal gang, bandit, crime boss, outlaw gang, street gang ...
Time:
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
An eccentric but faithful mafia, Chi-sung is sent to prison for his part in a gang fight. But when his parents are attacked by a rival mob and his own people take no action, he realizes that a decade of loyalty towards the gang has become futile. ...
Style:
satirical, suspense, disturbing, captivating, tense
Plot:
revenge, prison escape, competitor, mafioso, battles, gangster, fight, satire, gang member, mob hit, crime boss, mafia ...
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Style:
tense, disturbing, suspense, captivating, thrilling ...
Plot:
female protagonist, female agent, agent, betrayal, espionage, spy thriller, investigation, heist, mafia, female detective, bandit, special agent ...
Place:
malta
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59%
Genre: Action, Comedy
Country: Denmark
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
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Style:
satirical, entertaining, captivating, semi serious
Plot:
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57%
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Country: China
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Assassins, scammers, gangsters, cops, a washed-up bicycle racer, and a body continually cross paths; usually with negative outcomes.
Style:
dark comedy, humorous, exciting, semi serious, captivating ...
Plot:
gangster, smuggling, city life, rivalry, police, friendship, organized crime, satire, assassin, violent, corruption, farce ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
china
Similarity:
56%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Musical
Country: Japan
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Retired Yakuzas open a ramen restaurant and become an overnight sensation, thanks to their recipe developed in prison. But a mysterious upstart gang is taking down every Yakuza family one by one, drawing the chefs back into the gangland underworld ...
Style:
semi serious, captivating, action comedy, crime thriller, fast paced ...
Plot:
yakuza, gang, criminal, mobster, criminal gang, mob hit, mafioso, organized crime, bandit, mafia, gang war, urban ...
Place:
tokyo
Similarity:
54%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 180 min.
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Story:
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Style:
tense, crime drama, disturbing, satirical, captivating ...
Plot:
gangster, ambition, revenge, criminal underworld, criminal's revenge, crime boss, organized crime, society, criminal, satire, betrayal, power struggle ...
Place:
sydney australia
Similarity:
53%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Four grandmothers accidentally kill a conman and, to cover it up, they get rid of the body. When the conman's partner shows up, things go south.
Style:
dark comedy, captivating, semi serious, disturbing, dark ...
Plot:
con artists, satire, crime investigation, murder, irony, criminal, investigation, elderly, women, elderly woman, female protagonist, murder mystery ...
Similarity:
53%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: UK, France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A small-time drug-dealer gets into big trouble when a corrupt East London cop tries to steal a consignment meant for Welsh-Jamaican Yardies.
Style:
suspense, tense, exciting, crime thriller, dark comedy ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
drug dealing, corruption, police corruption, violence, corrupt cop, fight, drug dealer, death, murder, friendship, drug, gang ...
Place:
london
Similarity:
52%
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323
Genre: Action, Drama, Comedy, Crime
Country: Ireland, Netherlands, UK
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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Style:
dark comedy, ambiguous ending, moody
Plot:
cannabis, drug smuggling, social commentary, urban, drug, friendship, gangster, heist gone wrong, working class, moral ambiguity, criminal underworld, irreverent ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
ireland, dublin ireland
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Action, Comedy
Country: South Korea
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Jang Choon-dong is a traffic officer who aspires to become a homicide detective. He is assigned to go undercover to infiltrate a gangster network. Meanwhile, Lee Joong-dae, a member of Kwang-seob's gang, goes undercover himself by joining the ...
Style:
semi serious, detective, psychological, thrilling, captivating ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
mafia, ambition, satire, police, undercover, problem, bandit, police detective, criminal, working undercover, undercover agent, gang ...
Place:
seoul
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Security guard Pickle and his trash collector friend Belly Button kill time together in night shifts watching the American-educated boss's dash-cam recordings of his various sexual encounters with women. Against the buddies' will, ...
Style:
semi serious, disturbing, psychological, captivating, independent film ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
satire, factory, found footage, security guard, voyeurism, changing lives, workplace situations, lifestyle change, workplace, male camaraderie, friendship, corruption ...
Place:
taiwan
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
Adapted from the manga Hell Dogs by Fukamachi Akio.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, captivating, serious, dark ...
Plot:
japanese mafia, gangster, ex cop, criminal underworld, police, gang, undercover cop, revenge, ex-cop, mafia, criminal gang, criminal ...
Place:
japan, tokyo
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A few weeks before the Fall of the Berlin Wall, Pago, Rice and Bibi leave the calm city of Cesena looking for adventure: a ten-days-long holiday in Eastern Europe, in those places where the Soviet regime is still alive.
Style:
disturbing, semi serious, captivating, satirical, buddy comedy ...
Plot:
satire, italian abroad, road trip, friends, travel, lifestyle change, escapades, friendship, changing lives, group of friends, cold war, fish out of water ...
Place:
eastern europe
Similarity:
49%
318
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
In "Monday" Maniek and Dawid got hold of some dirty money. In "Tuesday" they invest them in a strip club.
Style:
satirical, captivating, disturbing, semi serious, humorous ...
Plot:
satire, striptease, seductress, silly humor, sexual humor, stripper, seduction, humour, sexual content, strip club, nightlife, black market ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
poland
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 185 min.
Story:
A mysterious woman recounts the rise and fall of Nikodem "Nikoś" Skotarczak, one of the biggest gangsters in Poland's history. Inspired by a true story.
Style:
crime drama, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing ...
Plot:
mafia, gangster, organized crime, crime boss, mob boss, mafioso, gang, criminal, outlaw gang, criminal gang, mysterious girl, corruption ...
Time:
70s, 80s, 90s
Place:
poland, eastern europe
Similarity:
48%
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