Movies like The Jackal 2010
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The Jackal (2010)
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Original name: Çakal
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Akın's life, who lived with a father he didn't like and a sick mother, changed after he lost his mother. He plans to start a new life with the money he steals from the carpentry workshop where he works. When his girlfriend Deniz dismisses this dream as ridiculous and leaves him, he accepts an offer from his friend İdris. This offer involves working as a foot soldier for a mafia group.
Style:
crime drama, dark, tense, bleak, neo noir, suspenseful, grim
Plot:
violence, poverty, organized crime, desperation, urban, male protagonist, working class, moral ambiguity, gangster, underworld, escape, betrayal, corruption, class struggle, family conflict, realism, urban decay, crime family, anti hero, revenge, friendship, ambition, coming of age, fate, mafia ...
Time:
contemporary
Place:
istanbul turkey
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Most similar movies to The Jackal
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out crime drama, tense, dark and suspenseful films with plots about betrayal, moral ambiguity, revenge, violence, organized crime, corruption and urban mostly in Drama, Crime and Action genres. Some movies like The Jackal: American Mobster (2010), Gang War in Naples (1972), Glo (2024), Cardboard Gangsters (2017), Street Flow 2 (2023). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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:
95%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
The fast career of a young Neapolitan among contraband, gambling dens, bribes and illegality. He will upgrade its rank till the maximum level of the "Family".
Style:
poliziottesco, crime drama, dark, tense, brutal ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
mafia, smuggling, camorra, organized crime, violence, crime boss, ambition, power struggle, rise to power, criminal underworld, gang war, urban ...
Time:
70s
Place:
naples italy, italy, napoli italy
Similarity:
75%
14
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Story:
Forced to navigate dangerous environments to keep her mother alive, Glo gets entangled with a mob boss and finds her life spiraling out of control.
Style:
crime thriller, crime drama, suspense, tense, neo noir ...
Plot:
desperation, survival, mother daughter relationship, mob boss, female protagonist, organized crime, violence, urban, underworld, corruption, crime family, moral ambiguity ...
Similarity:
75%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Ireland
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A group of young Cardboard Gangsters attempt to gain control of the drug trade in Darndale, chasing the glorified lifestyle of money, power and sex.
Style:
realistic, thought provoking, serious, crime thriller, tense ...
Plot:
drug dealing, friendship, danger, street life, gang, rivalry, working class, violence, power struggle, urban, mature, realism ...
Place:
ireland, dublin ireland
Similarity:
69%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Struggling to overcome cycles of betrayal, revenge and violence, the Traoré brothers continue to fight for a brighter future in a seedy Paris suburb.
Style:
crime drama, thrilling, suspenseful, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
revenge, criminal, street life, gang violence, violence, brotherhood, brother brother relationship, brothers, life is a bitch, social problems, moral ambiguity, social commentary ...
Place:
paris france
Similarity:
68%
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:
67%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
Four Boys come to Mandya from Different place of India to start their career in crime and extortion from builders and high profiles peoples and they succeed...One day things take a turn when one of them (ganpat) missing.
Style:
crime drama, dark, tense, suspenseful, tragic
Plot:
extortion, gangster, violence, moral ambiguity, corruption, organized crime, missing person, streetwise, realism, rise and fall, criminal syndicate, betrayal ...
Similarity:
66%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Four drug dealers with completely different backgrounds band together to become the most feared force in the business.
Style:
crime drama, harsh, dark, tense, bleak ...
Plot:
violence, drug dealing, survival, street life, realism, moral ambiguity, gang, betrayal, social commentary, ambition, confrontation, poverty ...
Place:
new york, dominican republic
Similarity:
65%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India, Thailand, Bangladesh
Duration: 141 min.
Story:
Amal works as a security guard in a mall and is tempted by the world of wealth surrounding him. When a close friend introduces him to the underworld element, he becomes trapped in a web of greed, lust and crime.
Style:
crime thriller, crime drama, grim, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot:
temptation, greed, underworld, downfall, class conflict, anti hero, moral ambiguity, betrayal, violence, security guard, working class, corruption ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
kolkata
Similarity:
63%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
In Boston, the four Naldoff brothers make a comfortable living running money scams. But the youngest brother, Lee, is dangerously attracted to the excitement of the underworld lifestyle. When Lee puts a hit on a wealthy businessman, he unknowingly ...
Style:
crime drama, crime thriller, dark, suspense, tense ...
Plot:
gangster, brothers, scam, organized crime, mafia, underworld, criminal underworld, crime family, brotherhood, violence, moral ambiguity, hitman ...
Time:
turn of the century
Place:
boston, new england
Similarity:
60%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 155 min.
Story:
A stark portrayal of the hardships faced by farmers, Mulshi Pattern tackles some of the raging issues of our times. The film lays bare the deep flaws of the system which turns the farmer into a criminal and a social outcast.
Style:
realistic, crime drama, thrilling, suspenseful, psychological ...
Plot:
revenge, land grab, social injustice, poverty, realism, corrupt system, rural area, problem, fight, money, countryside, money problems ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
india
Similarity:
57%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
On her 60th birthday, the proud owner of a Los Angeles strip club, finds herself in hot water over a twenty-five year old debt to the mob, leading her on a downward spiral of violence and revenge through the underbelly of Los Angeles.
Style:
neo noir, disturbing, suspense, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot:
revenge, strip club, organized crime, female protagonist, crime boss, problem, gang, bandit, mafia, criminal gang, mafioso, mob hit ...
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
55%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Dakota Smith is an experienced policeman with a problem: his partner was shot dead, and corrupt cops are responsible. Dak's investigation leads him to widespread corruption in the department, as well as a corrupt district attorney. Smith finds ...
Style:
crime drama, detective, tense, noir, suspenseful ...
Plot:
police corruption, corruption, investigation, murder investigation, revenge, moral ambiguity, male protagonist, violence, conspiracy, betrayal, urban, divorced father ...
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
50%
179
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 142 min.
Story:
Supari is a modern-day drama of greed, ambition, power and deceit. Four best friends end up owing 500,000 rupees to Mamta Sekhri, a woman involved in various underworld activities. The friends are forced to kill for money (an act called) ...
Style:
crime drama, tense, suspense, dark, neo noir ...
Plot:
organized crime, hitman, underworld, criminal underworld, contract killing, friendship, gangster, gang violence, assassination, violence, moral dilemma, urban ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
mumbai india, bombay india
Similarity:
50%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The suburb that is a society in a society, a place where young guys do anything for respect. A place where criminality and violence is a part of life. The movie is about Malik, a guy without family and land of origin, and who has made crime and ...
Style:
crime drama, intense, tension, bleak, grim ...
Plot:
gang, violence, survival, youth, respect, urban, social commentary, moral ambiguity, desperation, male protagonist, alienation, poverty ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
eastern europe
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
An Obsession is Aoyama's remake for the 1990s of Akira Kurosawa's Stray Dog ("Nora inu," 1949). The basic plot situation is the same: a cop, after losing his gun to a killer, sets out on a search for the criminal who in the end ...
Style:
detective, suspense, dark, crime drama, suspenseful ...
Plot:
murder, obsession, investigation, trauma, violence, cat and mouse, moral ambiguity, police procedural, loss, crime spree, guilt, revenge ...
Time:
90s
Place:
japan
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
.Ex-boxer Paul Choquino decides to finance his upcoming wedding by robbing reputed drug lord Benito Mussolini Bonacci. But everything that can go wrong in the burn does and Paul is left running from the law, the mob and one of the members of his own ...
Style:
crime drama, tense, suspenseful, dark comedy, noir ...
Plot:
betrayal, heist, heist gone wrong, robbery, ex boxer, organized crime, drug lord, criminal underworld, anti hero, pursuit, chase, fugitive ...
Place:
south america
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Egypt
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A guy whose father was an assisstant to a drug dealer who killed him . So when the guy when he grow up he worked with the same dealer . At the end he killed the dealer for his father .
Style:
crime drama, dark, suspenseful, tense
Plot:
drug dealer, justice, vendetta, vengeance, betrayal, gangster, violence, revenge killing, organized crime, father son relationship, revenge, street crime ...
Time:
2000s
Similarity:
47%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Restless and young, best buddies Selim and Çaça live a meager existence on the outskirts of Istanbul. By day they breed pigeons on the roof, by night they roam the streets with their entourage in their pimped-up car, "My Orange Angel". ...
Style:
crime drama, melancholic, satirical
Plot:
poverty, coming of age, street life, youth, friendship, urban, gang, mafia, male bonding, ambition, working class, corruption ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
istanbul turkey
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 110 min.
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Story:
It tells the story of Cemal, a poor and ambitious young man who lives in Adana, what he can sacrifice for money and power.
Style:
tense, suspense, psychological, disturbing, captivating ...
Plot:
power struggle, ambition, power, political intrigue, money problems, life is a bitch, problem, intrigue, money, corruption, greed, moral ambiguity ...
Place:
turkey
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Hit man Antonio Mancuso travels to Italy to make the big time. He meets and befriends Mafia boss Don Vincenzo. Mancurso becomes part of the organization and the more he gets to know Vincenzo the more he wants his job but Mancurso will learn that ...
Style:
suspense, crime drama, dark, poliziottesco, tense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
mafia, crime family, hitman, mob boss, ambition, power struggle, organized crime, mafioso, violence, betrayal, gangster, underworld ...
Time:
70s
Place:
italy, sicily, milan italy, cincinnati ohio, rome italy ...
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Belgium, Netherlands
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
On the streets of Antwerp, Badia, Junes and Volt are trying to tear themselves away from their past, but the underworld is inexorably pulling them back in. Adamo has worked his way up to become one of the most influential figures in the Antwerp drug ...
Style:
crime thriller, dark, suspenseful, tense, bleak ...
Plot:
drug trade, gangster, underworld, violence, betrayal, gang violence, power struggle, street life, danger, loyalty, organized crime, moral ambiguity ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
antwerp, belgium
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A young man in Berlin is fed up with being the stooge of his criminal boss. New film by Detlev Buck based on a short story by Ferdinand von Schirach.
Style:
crime drama, tense, dark, suspenseful, realistic ...
Plot:
gangster, criminal underworld, betrayal, organized crime, power struggle, moral ambiguity, ambition, urban, male protagonist, fate, corruption, heist ...
Place:
berlin germany, tokyo
Similarity:
45%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
After a man gets out of prison, he decides to go straight and leave his life of crime behind him. However, when he gets home he finds that his brother is in danger and the family farm is in foreclosure. He plans to take revenge on those responsible, ...
Style:
crime drama, suspense, tense, grim, noir ...
Plot:
revenge, ex convict, redemption, homecoming, desperation, brothers, male protagonist, second chance, farm, danger, retribution, violence ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A yakuza gang gets driven out of Yokohama by a big gang from Tokyo. They relocate to Okinawa to violently start over.
Style:
crime drama, brutal, dark, period piece, tense ...
Plot:
yakuza, organized crime, crime family, gang warfare, violence, power struggle, underworld, loyalty, revenge, moral ambiguity, honor, machismo ...
Time:
70s
Place:
okinawa japan, tokyo
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
After narrowly escaping arrest in Prague, Czech mobster Radim "Kácko" Kraviec flees first to Seychelles and then to South Africa where he continues with his criminal endeavours. However, his illicit activities cannot go unnoticed forever.
Style:
crime drama, tense, dark, suspenseful, brutal ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
gangster, organized crime, criminal underworld, escape, crime boss, fugitive, violence, power struggle, investigation, moral ambiguity, corruption, outlaw ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
south africa, johannesburg south africa
Similarity:
42%
159
Genre: Drama
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
A flat broke aging boxer, living on the verge of existence, teams up with the equally desperate people in the city's suburbia to steal, cheat, and even kill for the money.
Style:
black and white, crime drama, bleak, neo noir, noir ...
Plot:
boxing, suburbs, survival, desperation, urban decay, poverty, corruption, violence, heist, moral ambiguity, hopelessness, working class ...
Time:
60s
Place:
eastern europe, belgrade, former yugoslavia
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A cold-lighted Palermo of the 90's. A single day. Unnamed characters slide towards the fulfillment of their destiny. A story of causes and effects, in which crimes affect not only the victims, but the perpetrators too. And from which no one, in ...
Style:
psychological, crime drama, captivating, thrilling, dark ...
Plot:
criminal, life, problem, fatalism, fate, moral ambiguity, realism, urban decay, slow burn, minimalism, social commentary, corruption ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
When a convicted drug smuggler leaves prison after 22 years for one youthful mistake, he just wants to start over and obey the law. But, unable to find work, he's forced to take a supposedly legitimate job with his old crime partners. And they ...
Style:
realistic, serious, captivating, psychological, crime drama ...
Plot:
prison, starting over, drug dealing, prisoner, prison sentence, ex convict, drug traffic, released from prison, rivalry, society, moral ambiguity, desperation ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Torino, febbraio 1996. Il furgone blindato (e scortato dalla polizia) delle Poste effettua il solito giro di ritiro sacchi-valori dagli uffici periferici. La mattina dopo, all'apertura dei plichi, la sorpresa : denaro ed assegni sono stati ...
Style:
crime drama, serious, realistic, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot:
investigation, desperation, heist, moral ambiguity, poverty, anti hero, escape, friendship, cat and mouse, hopelessness, male friendship, character study ...
Place:
italy, turin italy
Similarity:
39%
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