Movies like Mercato
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Mercato (2025)
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Mercato takes us behind the scenes of today's soccer, a global industry with interests running into billions. Driss, a player agent, has seven days to save his skin before the end of the mercato...
Style:
tension
Plot:
soccer, football, negotiation, rivalry, agent, money, deadline, ambition, greed, globalization, industry, realism, corruption, scandal, airplane, violence, football player, hotel, debt, telephone call, father son relationship, infidelity, vegetarian, soccer match, money problems ...
Time:
contemporary
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Most similar movies to Mercato
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out tense, captivating, suspense and psychological films with plots about ambition, corruption, betrayal, realism, money, moral ambiguity and greed mostly in Drama, Thriller and Comedy genres. Some movies like Mercato: Side Games (2018), The Match (2019), Catacombe (2018), Meppadiyan (2022), The Referee (2013). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, Sport, Thriller
Country: Spain
TV show
Story:
The series focuses on businessman Mariano Hidalgo, who takes charge of the management of the modest Club Deportivo Leones. This second division team is in decline and Hidalgo will try to avoid his descent. This challenge serves to bring to light the ...
Style:
tense, disturbing, captivating, psychological, intense
Plot:
soccer, football, ambition, football team, businessman, business partner, football player, direction and purpose, sport team, business, ambitious, aspiration ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
spain, europe
Similarity:
95%
751
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
One football match on a dirt pitch near Rome becomes a day of reckoning as a young player, his coach and their team's owner wrestle internal demons.
Style:
suspense, captivating, disturbing, psychological, tension ...
Plot:
football, ambition, football team, soccer match, championship, redemption, soccer, athlete's life, intrigue, changing lives, soccer coach, sport team ...
Place:
rome italy
Similarity:
93%
508
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Belgium, Netherlands
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Pro soccer player Jermaine Slagter is entering his last days at his club. Outside of the field his life is falling apart.
Plot:
gambling, soccer, football, mobster, gambling addiction, bookies, violence, father, hate, car, debt, poverty ...
Place:
caribbean, china
Similarity:
92%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
While there is an old-fashioned feel to the story telling, it moves along new paths that are twisted enough to keep us interested and also has us clenching our fists.
Style:
thrilling, captivating, psychological, realistic, tense ...
Plot:
business, betrayal, corruption, money, money problems, investor, investments, fraud, politics, real estate, working class, greed ...
Place:
india
Similarity:
76%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, Argentina
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
An ambitious soccer referee ends up handling a crucial match between two small Sardinian teams
Style:
disturbing, captivating, tension, tense, suspense ...
Plot:
soccer, referee, football, football team, corruption, sport team, judge, athlete's life, football player, injustice, rivalry, playing football ...
Place:
sardinia
Similarity:
62%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Renzo Petrucci is forced to leave his job as general manager of a multinational oil company after corruption charges. Convinced that the woman who has taken his place has betrayed him, Renzo takes his revenge by killing her. Reinstated by the Board, ...
Style:
suspense, captivating, disturbing, dark, bleak ...
Plot:
corruption, revenge, murder, corporate conspiracy, murder of wife, oil tycoon, money, corrupt businessman, businessman, murderer, frame up, fight for justice ...
Similarity:
56%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
A fashion shoot in the desert goes horribly wrong when two hard-up rockers try their luck at robbing it.
Style:
tension, suspense, dark, bleak, grim ...
Plot:
robbery, heist, violence, loan shark, debt, danger, desperation, desert, isolation, moral ambiguity, chaos, greed ...
Similarity:
56%
124
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands
TV show
Story:
Lured by a world where money buys everything, a star footballer falls into the world of corruption and match fixing.
Style:
disturbing, suspense, captivating, psychological, crime drama ...
Plot:
soccer, football, fixed match, football team, athlete's life, football player, corruption, money, lifestyle change, conspiracy, soccer match, criminal underworld ...
Place:
russia, italy
Similarity:
55%
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876
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
Farhana, a devout Muslim woman and mother in a middle class family, with her family's consent, takes a call center job . Although the job gives Farhana freedom, it also leads her into a web of danger, when an individual who captivates her with ...
Style:
suspense, tense, psychological
Plot:
workplace, job, mother, motherhood, new job, financial difficulty, working woman, money, finance, money problems, middle class, working mom ...
Similarity:
54%
238
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Canada, Italy, Netherlands
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A young man whose father's fortune was stolen by his closest friends sets out to get revenge in this odyssey through the world's major financial centers.
Style:
suspense, fast paced, dark, independent film, period drama
Plot:
revenge, finance, wealth, betrayal, greed, loss of fortune, corporation, ambition, deception, corruption, trust, loss ...
Place:
new york, hong kong, london, montreal, paris france ...
Similarity:
53%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Romania
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A young man from Constanța who has his own business aims to expand, but he doesn't have the resources.
Style:
road movie, crime drama, art house, melancholic, tense ...
Plot:
social commentary, journey, moral ambiguity, coming of age, transformation, moral dilemma, character study, realism, ambition, betrayal, survival, smuggling ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
transylvania, romania, black sea, bucharest
Similarity:
53%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Voyoucratie is FGKO’s new film project. It’s a dramatic fiction about a young gangster’s chaotic path into life crushed by a criminal universe that he can’t escape from. It’s also about a frozen portrait of a youth trapped by a system that ...
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, captivating, contemplative, unusual plot structure ...
Plot:
father son relationship, money, murder, police, heist, drug dealer, family relations, heroes, going straight, chase, violence, society ...
Time:
year 2015, 21st century
Place:
france
Similarity:
51%
22K
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Thailand
Duration: 146 min.
Story:
A talented young street-food cook pushes herself to the limit after accepting an invitation to train under an infamous and ruthless chef.
Style:
psychological, captivating, emotional, tense, intense ...
Plot:
food, chef, restaurant, cooking, female protagonist, rivalry, female chef, passion, culinary arts, problem, restaurant owner, competitor ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
thailand
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Lalo is a fourteen year old teenager who, from an naive approach, gets involved in the underground world of the gas theft mafia while he's trying to make money to buy a gift for Ana and win her heart.
Style:
tense, crime drama, suspenseful, suspense, disturbing ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
teenager, survival, risk, innocence lost, criminal, money problems, juvenile delinquency, troubled youth, threat, teenage life, in love, struggle for survival ...
Place:
mexico
Similarity:
50%
141
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A limo driver attempts to outrun his bad habits.
Style:
dark, crime drama, psychological, dramatic, independent film ...
Plot:
hollywood, addiction, fame, substance abuse, greed, betrayal, celebrity culture, character study, temptation, loss of control, urban, realism ...
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Turkey
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Nisa opens her eyes under the wreckage right after an earthquake. While she is struggling to survive and find a solution from under the narrow space where she is stuck, she glimpses the sky from a tiny hole above her, which helps her stay alive. In ...
Style:
tension, existential
Audience:
adult
Plot:
earthquake, claustrophobia, trapped, survival, perseverance, isolation, resilience, hopes, female protagonist, realism, rescue, desperation ...
Place:
turkey, istanbul turkey
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A repo man skips town after his life is threatened.
Style:
independent film, crime drama, suspense, neo noir, tense ...
Plot:
canuxploitation, anti hero, character study, moral ambiguity, office politics, urban, male protagonist, existential crisis, realism, working class, violence, corruption ...
Time:
70s
Place:
vancouver, canada
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Drama
Country: Iceland, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Jack Davis finds himself adrift after his father, the legendary Coach Davis, cuts him from his renowned soccer club, the Carolina Mantis. Estranged from his father, at odds with his brother, Mantis All-Star goalie Sam, and desperate for purpose, ...
Style:
disturbing, psychological, captivating
Plot:
soccer, soccer coach, brother brother relationship, father son relationship, soccer match, athlete and trainer, follow your dream, male female relationship, love affair, relationships, family relations, sport team ...
Similarity:
41%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
After going down in the fifth round, boxer Bud Gordon bowed out of the limelight. Now residing in a fixer-upper apartment in New Jersey with his girlfriend, Bud longs for his former Manhattan glory. In an effort to get back in the game, he makes a ...
Style:
neo noir, crime drama, captivating, tense, psychological ...
Plot:
boxer, boxing, murder, restaurant, revenge, character study, moral ambiguity, rivalry, danger, ethical dilemma, ambition, corruption ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new jersey, manhattan new york city, usa
Similarity:
40%
149
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Argentina
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
"Chicos ricos" obviously tells the story of two successful advertisers Andy and Tomás who worked outside the country and have now joined an agency in Buenos Aires. The film takes place almost entirely in a large house where both intend to ...
Style:
suspenseful, rough, comedy drama, tension, serious ...
Plot:
prostitute, drug dealing, dishonesty, party, advertising, thief, mansion, robbery, house party, drug dealer, celebration, satire ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
buenos aires argentina, argentina, latin america
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
The women in a small rural town join forces to form a football club in order to save the funding for their city's field.
Style:
semi serious, feel good, thrilling, captivating, satirical
Plot:
soccer, football team, soccer match, women's football (soccer), soccer coach, football player, small town life, satire, countryside, ambition, women, female protagonist ...
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain, Mexico
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Rafael, a young man from the provinces, works as a waiter in a resort and helps himself economically having sex for money with rich older women. During a bomb threat, he is discovered in bed with one of the guest, Leonor Marchioness of Montenegro, ...
Style:
detective, gay cinema
Plot:
impotent husband, male nudity, female nudity, gigolo, corruption, infidelity, terrorism, money, politics, assassination, aristocrat, investigation ...
Place:
spain
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Turkey, France, Germany, Netherlands, Greece, Croatia
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
With the mayoral election approaching, Emre, the newly-appointed state prosecutor of the small Turkish town of Yaniklar, which is suffering from a water supply crisis, gradually descends into trouble after a young local woman is raped.
Style:
tense, disturbing, captivating, suspense, tension ...
Plot:
investigation, prosecutor, gay, water shortage, drugged, corruption, politics, cultural difference, violence, gay interest, small town, crime investigation ...
Place:
turkey, asia
Similarity:
36%
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Mitri is 15 years old and lives in a village in Senegal. Like all the youngsters of his age, he plays football, dreaming of the Barcelona and Chelsea Football Clubs. When an agent sees him, Mitri believes in his luck. But, in order to go chasing ...
Style:
realistic, touching, captivating, psychological, serious
Plot:
football, follow your dream, immigrant, hopes, athlete and trainer, athlete's life, life is a bitch, youth, ambition, soccer, desire for fame, disorder ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, africa, europe, paris france
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min.
Story:
Teenage nurses give love therapy. Lots of action when they try to straighten out the corrupt hospital staff.
Style:
medical drama, tension, suspense, period piece, independent film
Audience:
adult
Plot:
exploitation, healing, female empowerment, investigation, rebellion, scandal, nurse, hospital, sexploitation, revenge, sensuality, vigilante justice ...
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 142 min.
Story:
Jayarajan (Mohanlal), an over-enthusiastic assistant manager at a tea plantation plans to loot a huge amount. He lures two debt-ridden subordinates, Chandran (Rahman) and Johnny (Nedumudi Venu), into his conspiracy.
Style:
crime drama, intense, realistic, tense, suspense ...
Plot:
conspiracy, betrayal, ambition, manipulation, greed, moral ambiguity, debt, ethical dilemma, guilt, corruption, power struggle, scandal ...
Similarity:
34%
581
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Dominic Brunt’s impressive second feature after the beloved ‘Emmerdale’ actor took the genre by storm with BEFORE DAWN is a tense female revenge saga - a frightening true-life crime thriller graced by a scalpel-sharp screenplay and ...
Style:
suspenseful, disturbing, captivating, tense, suspense ...
Plot:
loan shark, woman in danger, money, female protagonist, debt, money problems, victim, financial problem, needing money, single mother, torture, man punching a woman ...
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Gabrielle Deneige is an independent, ambitious TV weather girl torn between her love of a distinguished author several decades her senior, and the attentions of a headstrong, potentially unstable young suitor. An unspoken past between the two men ...
Style:
sexy, semi serious, realistic, tense, dark comedy ...
Plot:
older man younger woman relationship, love triangle, male female relationship, dangerous attraction, wedding, love and romance, dishonesty, infidelity, extramarital affair, wife, couple relations, ambition ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, lyon, portugal, europe, lisbon portugal
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Philippines
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A foul-mouthed woman fights for her soul in the belly of the city. Working for a human trafficking agency controlled by a powerful syndicate, she sees no evil, hears no evil. In a society like ours, you have only two choices—to be a victim or a ...
Style:
tense, realistic, disturbing, serious, bleak ...
Plot:
moral dilemma, social decay, woman in danger, workplace situations, political corruption, life is a bitch, workplace, rivalry, danger, dishonesty, workplace intrigue, survival ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
the philippines
Similarity:
32%
172
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
In a rural town where football is war and the quarterback is king, comes a tense re-imagining of MACBETH with a bloody twist to prove that Lady and King Macbeth didn't kill for power - They killed for love.
Style:
tense, disturbing, suspense, captivating
Plot:
passion, abusive father, small town, male female relationship, love affair, small town life, partners in crime, love and romance, couple relations, organized crime, tragic love, ambition ...
Similarity:
32%
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