Movies like Dead End 1998

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Dead End (1998)
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Dead End (1998)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story: After his ex-wife dies in a fall from her balcony, PoliceSgt. Henry Smovinsky gets custody of his troubled teenage son. Smovinsky soon finds out that his ex-wife was a high-class hooker, her death was not a suicide and that the police have chosen him as their prime suspect. Maggie Furness is the only cop willing to help him protect his son and track down the real killer.
Style: surprise ending, independent film
Plot: nypd, prostitute, police officer, police, murder, workout, juvenile delinquent, corrupt cop, drug use, father son relationship, gay slur, juvenile delinquency, death of mother, falling from height, cop, piercing, penetration, gay kiss, male underwear, bus station, working out
Place: pennsylvania, montreal, philadelphia, montreal quebec canada

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out independent film, suspenseful, rough and surprise ending films with plots about murder, police, police officer, cop, death, prostitute and female nudity mostly in Action, Thriller and Drama genres. Some movies like Dead End: Someone to Die For (1995), Dead Badge (1995), Devlin (1992), Caboose (1996), Ambushed (1998). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Someone to Die For (1995)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A policeman on the skids faces another tragedy when his daughter dies. When other police in his unit are being murdered, the viewer must decide which one of the suspects is responsible.
Style: independent film, twisted, surprise ending
Plot: murder, cop, female reporter, loss of daughter, back from the dead, tragic past, incest overtones, female nudity, betrayal, sex, violence, police officer killed ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 4.5
 138
Dead Badge (1995)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Policeman Dan Sampson happens to have the same badge # as deceased policeman Manny Torres, who died while on duty. The circumstances surrounding Torres' death, officially ruled a drug overdose, become Sampson's obsession. After Sampson ...
Style: surprise ending, independent film
Plot: nypd, corrupt cop, coroner, latina, policewoman, psychologist, tattoo, police, heroin, widow, whistleblower, police officer ...
Place: long beach california
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
 5.5
 230
Devlin (1992)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A troubled cop is framed in the murder of his brother-in-law, whose father is a political boss.
Style: surprise ending, neo noir
Plot: revenge, cop, corrupt cop, corruption, wedding, police officer, paraplegic, frame up, investigation, conspiracy, police, cover up ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 5.5
 79
Caboose (1996)
Genre: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story: An abandoned caboose becomes a junkie's hideout, a multiple murder has been committed. A police investigation leads nowhere, the crime remains unsolved, and Marceau, a hardened cop, resigns in the aftermath. But his troubles don't end ...
Style: neo noir
Plot: suspicion, police officer, drug use, murder, police
Place: montreal, canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Movie in collections
 5.9
 754
Ambushed (1998)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Jim Natter, the leader of a violent Kuk Klux Klan lodge, is shot dead. His teenage son Eric Natter is found nearby, and taken into police custody for his protection pending the investigation. While four cops drive him to a safe-house, they are ...
Style: suspense, independent film, realistic, serious, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: racism, youth, nypd, xenophobia, police, ku klux klan, white supremacy, special agent, partner, chases and races, dishonesty, legal investigation ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
The Son of No One (2011)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A rookie cop is assigned to the 118 Precinct in the same district where he grew up. The Precinct Captain starts receiving letters about two unsolved murders that happened many years ago in the housing projects when the rookie cop was just a kid. ...
Style: serious, tense, bleak, realistic, rough ...
Plot: police detective, police corruption, haunted by the past, law enforcement, murder, mental institution, husband wife relationship, police, nypd, police officer, sex crime, worship ...
Time: 80s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
City of Shadows (1987)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story: In the same vein as Cain and Abel, here we have two brothers, one a renegade cop and the other a murderer with a taste for little boys. The brothers come to blows, from which only one can walk away.
Style: neo noir, surprise ending, independent film
Plot: dirty cop, exploitation, sadomasochism, punk rocker, dwarf, dystopia, diner, midget, morgue, brother murders brother, opium den, pizza ...
Place: toronto ontario canada, canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Pale Blue Balloons (2008)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 150 min.
Story: Dave is a bad cop fighting a deadly heroin addiction while working a case deep inside the mafia. After killing numerous drug dealers and even undercover police officers for the mob, he is kept from his money for trivial reasons. As his drug problem ...
Style: independent film
Plot: cop, bad cop, drug addiction, shootout, drug, urban setting, death, car chase, corrupt cop, heroin, mafia, prostitute ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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 4.4
 9K
211 (2018)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Bulgaria
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Inspired by one of the longest and bloodiest real-life events in police history, Officer Mike Chandler and a young civilian passenger find themselves under-prepared and outgunned when fate puts them squarely in the crosshairs of a daring bank heist ...
Style: suspense, surprise ending, rough, suspenseful
Audience: boys' night
Plot: police, bank robbery, murder, heist, partners against crime, good versus evil, justice, revenge, police investigation, violence, life philosophy, fight scenes ...
Place: afghanistan, massachusetts
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
 5.6
 1K
Stag (1997)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Victor Mallick returned to his home and found out that all of his friends have arranged a surprise bachelor/stag party for him. Two strippers were hired to cheer up the party. However, when some of the men accidentally killed one of the strippers, ...
Style: psychological, independent film, realistic, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot: death, murder, suicide, hooker, stripper, suburbs, friendship, wrongfully committed, friends, disorder, drug dealing, witnessing a crime ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
 4.2
 167
Nightstick (1987)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A cop tries to prevent a gang of extortionists from blowing up New York City with nitroglycerin.
Plot: police, brother brother relationship, mafia, prostitute, bad cop, drug, gun in mouth
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Shooting Heroin (2020)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A small town community comes together to eradicate the heroin epidemic from its midst by whatever means necessary.
Style: exciting, disturbing, independent film
Plot: police, violence, revenge, murder, sibling relationship, child in peril, conflict, suspect, police officer, murder investigation, obsession, addiction ...
Place: south america
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Deadly Surveillance (1991)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A detective investigates a series of murders that he begins to suspect are being committed by a woman involved in prostitution and narcotics trafficking.
Style: captivating, tense, suspense, psychological, detective ...
Plot: stalking, accused of murder, drug, investigation, murder, suspicion, serial killer, danger, police detective, twists and turns, confined, femme fatale ...
Place: usa, montreal
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Restraining Order (1999)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Robert Woodfield is a criminal defense attorney, and he has defended a lot of criminals, many of whom are guilty, but has maintained that everyone deserves a competent defense, which he provides whether they are guilty or not. Currently he is ...
Style: independent film
Plot: law, lawyer, female nudity, murderer, police officer, police, female police officer, policewoman killing, uniform, gunshot
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
 5.4
 794
Back in Action (1994)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Two men have different motivations but the same goal when they team up and mount an assault on a powerful drug gang.
Style: erotic, suspense, detective, independent film, neo noir
Plot: organized crime, martial arts, mobster, wrestling, making love, sex scene, green beret, unrequited love, vigilante, buddy cop, gun fu, thug ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
 6.8
 56
Permanent (2014)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Six unrelated people must push through their past and the mob underworld to discover what has controlled each of them all these years. Sex, Drugs, Guns and God have created a series of events which will leave each of them changed forever.
Style: independent film
Plot: murderer, police officer, redemption, sex scene, drug addict, money, murder, fire, priest, police, corpse, death ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
The Last Witness (1999)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A woman becomes entangled in the conspiracy of two world governments to assassinate an international leader in New York.
Style: cliffhanger, realistic, serious, exciting, suspenseful ...
Plot: spy, witness, political conspiracy, conspiracy, intrigue, assassination, special agent, undercover, chases and races, state affairs, law enforcement, dangerous attraction ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city, south africa, connecticut ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 5.3
 431
Khuddar (1994)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 167 min.
Story: Honest Police Inspector Siddhant Suri takes it upon himself to bring to justice the people who are involved in human flesh trading business only to aggravate his fellow colleague inspector Adarsh Vardhan who is corrupt. Adarsh decides to teach ...
Plot: police, cop, corrupt cop, police station, anger, tough cop, humiliation, frustration, blind woman, election, riot, police inspector ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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No Code of Conduct (1998)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A cop (Charlie Sheen), his partner (Dacascos), and his father (Martin Sheen) uncover a plot by city elders to smuggle drugs from Mexico into Phoenix, Arizona.
Style: independent film, realistic, serious, rough, suspenseful
Audience: boys' night
Plot: corrupt, corrupt cop, cop, tango, cash, car chase, gang, drug lord, attempted murder, murder, police operation, partner ...
Time: 90s
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Brooklyn's Finest (2009)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story: Enforcing the law within the notoriously rough Brownsville section of the city and especially within the Van Dyke housing projects is the NYPD's sixty-fifth precinct. Three police officers struggle with the sometimes fine line between right and ...
Style: tense, realistic, suspense, neo noir, hood ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: corrupt cop, police corruption, police, corruption, organized crime, rookie, nypd, dirty cop, betrayal, swat team, robbery, murder ...
Time: year 2010, year 2009, 21st century
Place: new york, brooklyn new york city, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 3.1
 403
Days of Power (2017)
Genre: Action, Drama, Music, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: On their 2010 tour, an International Pop Star and band mates mysteriously disappear. As past and present merge, they find themselves searching for answers and fighting for more than just their own lives when a concealed industry is revealed.
Style: allegory, independent film
Plot: breeding, kidnapping, plot twist, escape, dance, animal rescue, female empowerment, puppy, animal
Time: 2010s
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
The Park Is Mine (1985)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A Vietnam vet (Tommy Lee Jones) takes forceful control of Central Park to remember those who served and died in the Vietnam War
Style: psychological, realistic, serious, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: vietnam war, vietnam veteran, terrorism, mental disorder, survival, suicide, reporter, protest, mercenary, canuxploitation, murder, mayor ...
Time: 80s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 5.1
 320
Abducted (1986)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A mixed-up mountain boy kidnaps a pretty college student.
Style: surprise ending, independent film
Plot: kidnapping, creature feature, nature, home invasion, murder, hunting, wilderness, father son relationship, damsel in distress, woman, runner, filicide ...
Time: year 1986
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Movie in collections
 7.3
 450
Moondru Mugam (1982)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 134 min.
Story: Overview Coming Soon...
Plot: police, reincarnation, dual role, cop, court, adoption, murder, death of brother, reporter, flashback, twins separated at birth, impersonation ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
American Rampage (1989)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: No overview found.
Style: independent film, gay cinema
Plot: woman with a gun, police officer killed, revenge, tough cop, car chase, policewoman, female nudity, cartel, police officer, drug dealer, lapd, police ...
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 4.3
 243
The Chain (1996)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: When unjustly imprisoned in a South American jail, a tough cop and a renegade arms dealer must set aside their differences to escape.
Style: independent film
Plot: prison, cop, renegade, jail, escape, arms dealer, police officer
Place: south america
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 4.9
 184
Natural Causes (1994)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: An American links her mothers death in Bankok to a plot involving Vietnamese refugees.
Style: independent film
Plot: murder, espionage, cia, death of mother, death
Place: thailand
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 4.9
 557
Slow Burn (2000)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The murder of the ex-wife of Doctor Sam Charney (Rutger Hauer) leads Detective Della Wilder (Pam Grier) to uncover a series of women's murders somehow linked to a big pharmaceutical company.
Style: serious, rough, suspenseful, realistic, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: heroes, murder, psychopath, female detective, reluctant partners, law enforcement, police investigation, who done it, partner, dishonesty, life is a bitch, partners against crime ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 5.7
 872
Streets (1990)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Tough drama looks at the plight of a young L.A. prostitute, who shoots heroin to get through the day, sells sex just to survive, and eats roadkill sometimes when there isn't anything else available. Into this futile existence is thrown a psycho ...
Style: cult classic, independent film, psychotronic, realistic, serious ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: juvenile delinquency, serial killer, prostitute, killer, cop, rescue, on the run, runaway, illiteracy, heroin, youth, society ...
Time: 80s
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 7.6
 18K
Mahaan (2022)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 163 min.
Story: A man's family leaves him when he strays from the path of ideological living in his search for personal freedom. However, as he realizes his ambitions, he also misses the presence of his son in his life. Having fulfilled his dream of becoming a ...
Style: surprise ending, cult classic, independent film, epic, masterpiece
Plot: violence, friendship, gangster, mafia, revenge, father son relationship, fight, gang, mob boss, crime family, patriarch, brutality ...
Time: 2020s, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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