Movies like Deja vu

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Deja vu (1990)
 7.5
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Deja vu (1990)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, History
Country: Poland, Soviet Union
Duration: 108 min.
Story: The Prohibition years. Chicago bootleggers suffer losses due to their betrayal by one Mick Nich - Mikita Nichiporuk. The mob decides to execute the traitor, who escaped to Odessa, USSR, and organized his own bootleg business there. The hitman, Pollack, arrives in Odessa, and realizes how hard it is to make the hit here, as compared to a civilized country like USA.
Style: dark comedy, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, independent film
Audience: boys' night
Plot: hitman, polish, summer, interwar period, perestroika, chase, gangster, betrayal, chases and races, danger, totalitarianism, satire, hidden identity, culture clash, disorder, fish out of water, dishonesty, criminal's revenge, criminal heroes, communism, amnesia, mistaken identity, american abroad, comedy of errors, hired killer ...
Time: 1930s, 30s
Place: russia, ussr, poland, usa, chicago, odessa ukraine
Keyword: gangsters, american

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Most similar movies to Deja vu

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, humorous, semi serious and suspenseful films with plots about disorder, gangster, dishonesty, criminal heroes, hitman, cons and scams and gang mostly in Comedy, Crime and Action genres. Some movies like Deja vu: Killer (1997), Point of No Return (1985), Boys Don't Cry (2000), Hoods (1998), The Shipment (2001). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Killer (1997)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: Poland
Duration: 104 min.
Story: An innocent cab driver is mistaken for a contract killer and imprisoned. Soon, he is sprung by a mob boss who needs "Killer" for a few more jobs.
Style: dark comedy, exciting, realistic, semi serious, suspenseful ...
Plot: hitman, mistaken identity, serial killer, mafia, renaissance, contract killer, danger, dishonesty, unlikely criminals, disorder, taxi, polish ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: poland, eastern europe, europe
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100%
Point of No Return (1985)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: Poland
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A sequel to "Vabank" (1981), introduces the same characters entangled in a duel between a former safecracker and a crooked bank manager.
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense
Audience: boys' night
Plot: vendetta, thief, caper, interwar period, gangster, hitman, heist, polish, disorder, uninhibited rivalry, law enforcement, chases and races ...
Time: 1930s, pre world war two
Place: poland, europe, warsaw poland, switzerland, zurich switzerland
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100%
Boys Don't Cry (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: Poland
Duration: 90 min.
Story: One of the best Polish comedies of the late 1990's, "Boys Don't Cry" is a satirical look at the gangsters of Poland and some teens who accidentally get involved with them.
Style: semi serious, witty, humorous, sad, realistic ...
Plot: nothing goes right, friends, gangster, prostitute, goofy hero, buddies, best friend, polish, disorder, friendship, violinist, father son relationship ...
Time: 90s
Place: poland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 4.9
 353
Hoods (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Angelo, together with a group of five other people, is ordered by his father, an Italian mobster, to kill the son of an enemy of his, who has destroyed one of his buildings with a bomb. The problems grow bigger when they discover that the person ...
Style: dark comedy, independent film, realistic, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: mobster, child in peril, gangster, criminal heroes, introspection, uninhibited rivalry, rivalry, danger, dishonesty, criminal's revenge, buddies, disorder ...
Time: year 1998, 90s
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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The Shipment (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A mob enforcer is hired to recover a shipment of Viagra gone awry.
Style: humorous, semi serious, realistic, feel good, light ...
Plot: gangster, hitman, drug dealing, dishonesty, unlikely criminals, disorder, partner, sexual humor, viagra
Place: usa, new york
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51%
 6.2
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Party 7 (2000)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Seven characters, introduced at the start of the film, get thrown together into the same hotel room: a thief who's stolen a suitcase of money from the mob, his ex-girlfriend, her obsessive boyfriend, the mob soldier sent to retrieve the ...
Style: semi serious, stylized, humorous, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot: thief, chase, love and romance, criminal's revenge, dishonesty, betrayal, hitman, mistaken identity, sexual content, gangster, mentally unstable, gang ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: new mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
True Identity (1991)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: In order to escape from the mob, an African-American man must disguise himself as a white man.
Style: light, realistic, semi serious, humorous, witty
Plot: hitman, satire, mafia, gangster, silly humor, disorder, switching roles, on the run, opposites attract, hidden identity, dishonesty, society ...
Time: year 1991, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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Silver Bears (1977)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Financial wizard "Doc" Fletcher (Michael Caine) is sent by crime boss Joe Fiore (Martin Balsam) to buy a bank in Switzerland in order to more easily launder their profits. When he arrives, Fletcher finds that the bank, acquired by his ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, witty, independent film
Plot: finance, bank, hidden identity, criminal heroes, femme fatale, nothing goes right, dishonesty, crime gone awry, betrayal, forgery, unlikely criminals, prodigy ...
Time: 70s
Place: switzerland, europe
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49%
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 6.8
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Vinci (2004)
Genre: Crime, Comedy
Country: Poland
Duration: 108 min.
Story: The sophisticated thief of art Robert "Cuma" Cuminski is released on probation from the local prison by the corrupt Doctor Wiaderny to organize the theft of the famous Leonardo Da Vinci painting "Lady with Ermine" for the dealer ...
Style: semi serious, suspenseful, humorous, captivating, realistic
Audience: boys' night
Plot: forgery, art theft, cons and scams, stolen painting, criminal heroes, caper, law enforcement, partner, nothing goes right, once in a lifetime opportunity, chases and races, heist ...
Time: year 2004, 21st century
Place: poland
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
One Two Three (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: India
Duration: 135 min.
Story: Laxminarayan lives a poor lifestyle in Mumbai along with his widowed mother, Kanta, who wants him to be a successful gangster like Batlabhai, and would like him to kill a few people, make enough money, then get married to Khujli's daughter, ...
Style: humorous, suspenseful, captivating, exciting, funny ...
Plot: hitman, mistaken identity, gangster, disorder, dishonesty, comedy of errors, down on your luck, bomb, chaos and mayhem, hotel, man with glasses, confusion ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
 5.8
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Safe Men (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Two untalented singers are mistaken for a pair of major league safe crackers in Providence, Rhode Island. The two are pressed into service by the local hoodlums and quickly find themselves in conflict with their professional colleagues. Romantic ...
Style: light, humorous, melancholic, absurd, buddy comedy ...
Plot: safecracker, heist, mistaken identity, organized crime, comedy of errors, cons and scams, gangster, farce, caper, justice, crime boss, unlikely criminals ...
Time: year 1998, 90s
Place: rhode island, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
 4.4
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Plan B (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA, Denmark
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A bookkeeper who thinks she killed three mobsters is subsequently promoted by her boss to be a hitman. |
Style: humorous, realistic, light, captivating, feel good ...
Audience: chick flick, boys' night
Plot: mafia, unlikely criminals, accidental killing, mob boss, crime gone awry, mistaken identity, gangster, female protagonist, dishonesty, cons and scams, women, kidnapping ...
Time: 21st century
Place: florida, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
The Hollywood Sign (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: Germany, USA, Netherlands
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Three washed-up actors must deliver the most convincing performances of their lives as part of a dangerous plot designed to finance their triumphant comeback.
Style: humorous, realistic, semi serious
Plot: hollywood, nothing goes right, crime gone awry, unlikely criminals, gangster, elderly, criminal heroes, dishonesty, disorder, cons and scams, heist, filmmaking ...
Place: las vegas, nevada, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Who Is Cletis Tout? (2001)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A comedy about a hitman who sees everything in terms of the movies and how mistaken identity is getting in the way of recovering a stash of diamonds that was stolen and subsequently hidden more than 20 years earlier.
Style: entertaining, clever, semi serious, humorous, dark comedy ...
Plot: mistaken identity, heist, partner, cons and scams, criminal heroes, goofy hero, disorder, hidden identity, dishonesty, diamond, hitman, moral dilemma ...
Time: year 2001
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Madigan's Millions (1968)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: Italy, Spain, USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: No overview found.
Style: humorous, semi serious, exciting, feel good, captivating ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: heist, cons and scams, disorder, partner, dishonesty, chase, crime gone awry, goofy hero, money, gangster, police, hooligan ...
Time: 60s
Place: italy, rome italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight (1971)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: This is the funny story about two warring Mafia gangs in New York. The weaker gang use incredibly a lion to blackmail the opposite gang's "clients". The police succeeds to stop one of the gang, while the other remain without the Boss.
Style: slapstick, realistic, semi serious, humorous
Plot: mafia, gangster, gang, silly humor, disorder, hitman, goofy hero, criminal heroes, assassination attempt, gang war, lion, police ...
Time: year 1971, 70s, 20th century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Fool N Final (2007)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 144 min.
Story: A bunch of misfits and gangsters embarks on a journey to find a lost and stolen diamond.
Style: exciting, semi serious, realistic, suspenseful, humorous
Plot: gang, disorder, danger, rivalry, criminal heroes, dishonesty, cons and scams, chases and races, goofy hero, gangster, diamond theft, bookies ...
Time: 21st century
Place: asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
You Move You Die (2007)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Mike has the girl, the time and the place.The problem is he doesn't have the ring, Before Mike has an opportunity to propose his engagement ring is stolen.Mike is desperate to recover it. He and his friends have one hour to get the ring back ...
Style: semi serious, exciting, suspenseful, humorous, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gangster, obsessive quest, partner, criminal heroes, chase, gang, chases and races, buddies, fight, engagement, tough heroes, shootout ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new zealand
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Never a Dull Moment (1968)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: When practicing for a role, actor Jack is mistaken for the killer Ace. He doesn't realize this until it's too late and is carried off to gangster boss Leo Smooth, who wants Ace to do a job for him. Fearing for his life, Jack plays his ...
Style: hilarious, semi serious, realistic, humorous
Audience: pre-teens, date night
Plot: mistaken identity, heist, artwork, escape, silly humor, gangster, estate, tough heroes, disorder, hitman, gang, criminal heroes ...
Time: 60s, 1930s
Place: paris france, new york, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
 6.2
 3K
Dirty Deeds (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: Australia, Canada
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Set in 1960's Sydney, this is the story of an Australian gangster whose booming business, buoyed by the influx of U.S. soldiers in town for R&R during their tours in Vietnam, attracts the attention of first the Chicago mafia, and then their ...
Style: exciting, rough, suspenseful, semi serious, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: gangster, hitman, soldier, blind ambition, dishonesty, rivalry, crime gone awry, criminal's revenge, chase, drug dealing, criminal heroes, law enforcement ...
Time: 20th century, 60s, 70s, year 1969
Place: australia, sydney australia, chicago, asia, vietnam ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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My Blue Heaven (1990)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: FBI agent Barney Coopersmith is assigned to protect former Mafia figure turned informant Vincent Antonelli. In the witness protection program one is supposed to keep a low profile, but that is something that Antonelli has trouble doing. Coopersmith ...
Style: humorous, funny, light, talky, intense ...
Plot: fbi agent, gangster, small town, organized crime, witness protection, fbi, fish out of water, district attorney, switching roles, hidden identity, vengeance, hitman ...
Time: 80s
Place: california, new york, usa, italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
The Umbrella Coup (1980)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: France
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Grégoire Lecomte, the unlucky actor anxious to find a "real job", goes to take a screen test for a role of a killer, but gets to mafiosi by mistake. He takes their don for a producer, and they mistake him for a hitman with whom they had ...
Style: humorous, realistic, semi serious, suspenseful
Plot: hitman, contract killer, killer, danger, criminal heroes, dishonesty, disorder, hotel, down on your luck, comedy of errors, gangster, birthday party ...
Time: 70s
Place: cannes, paris france, riviera
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Even Angels Eat Beans (1973)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: Italy, France, Spain
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Two nice guys, a wrestler (Bud Spencer) and an Ice-cream vendor (Giuliano Gemma) are mistaken for dangerous killers by an important local gangster, whose nickname is "Sorriso". With the help of many funny coincidences they play along with ...
Style: humorous, realistic, semi serious, slapstick, slapstick comedy
Plot: mafia, italian mafia, odd couple, fistfight, gangster, partner, disorder, nothing goes right, goofy hero, chases and races, unlikely criminals, criminal heroes ...
Time: 1920s, 20th century
Place: new york, chicago, usa, charleston south carolina
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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Meet the Mobsters (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Down-and-out lounge singer Johnny Slade is hired by a mystery man to open a hot new club, the catch being he's given a new--and terrible--song to sing each night. Noticing that whenever he sings one a new crime is committed, Johnny gradually ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous
Plot: gangster, ambition, disorder, artists and showbiz, lifestyle, dishonesty, introspection, moral dilemma, hidden identity, musician's life, mistaken identity, hitman ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Minbo: the Gentle Art of Japanese Extortion (1992)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 123 min.
Story: A grand old Japanese hotel is trying to get a prestigious contract as the site of a summit meeting of important foreign officials. Unfortunately, this hotel is quite popular with the Yakuza (Japanese gangsters) and is a favorite target of theirs for ...
Style: witty, semi serious, realistic, clever, humorous ...
Plot: yakuza, mafia, japanese mafia, extortion, hotel, gangster, satire, unlikely criminals, danger, tough heroes, mistaken identity, nothing goes right ...
Time: year 1992, 90s
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
American Cousins (2003)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Two American mafiosi, Gino and Settimo, take refuge in the Glasgow cafe owned by their Scottish/Italian cousin, but he isn't the tough guy they'd expected. Gino and Settimo try to repay Roberto's hospitality by chasing off a debt ...
Style: semi serious, rough, realistic, humorous
Plot: gangster, crime gone awry, cons and scams, hidden identity, chase, criminal heroes, criminal's revenge, dishonesty, hitman, disorder, life turned upside down, cafe ...
Place: scotland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
The Biggest Bundle of Them All (1968)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A kidnapped mobster (Vittorio De Sica) persuades his captors to help him rob platinum ingots from a train.
Style: semi serious, realistic, exciting, stylized, humorous
Audience: boys' night
Plot: heist, kidnapping, train robbery, exploitation, gangster, mafia, disorder, rescue, unlikely criminals, betrayal, criminal heroes, criminal's revenge ...
Time: 60s
Place: italy, europe, naples italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
 4.5
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Baby on Board (1993)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Maria (Carol Kane) is the wife of a murdered Mafia bookkeeper. With her baby in tow, she tracks the hitman to the airport, intending to shoot the man. A pickpocket causes the gun to discharge prematurely, and now it's Maria who is being ...
Style: independent film, slapstick, semi serious, realistic, humorous ...
Plot: taxi, driver, chase, gangster, hitman, disorder, fall in love, dishonesty, vengeance, rivalry, chases and races, babies and infants ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
 3.8
 239
Down the Drain (1990)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A dishonest lawyer devises a scheme to rob a bank by recruiting criminals he has represented to do the job for him. When the robbery is completed, he learns that the "loot" from the vault is in fact a microchip containing top-secret ...
Style: independent film, exciting, realistic, semi serious, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: heist, disorder, rivalry, criminal heroes, crime gone awry, dishonesty, law enforcement, betrayal, farce, underworld, crooked lawyer, girlfriend ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
The Wrong Arm of the Law (1963)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min.
Story: The crooks in London know how it works. No one carries guns and no one resists the police. Then a new gang appears that go one better. They dress as police and steal from the crooks. This upset's the natural order of the police/criminal ...
Style: black and white, black comedy, dark comedy, realistic, not serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: police, robbery, impostor, espionage, police officer, disguise, bank robber, dark humor, police detective, disorder, friends, hidden identity ...
Time: year 1963, 60s
Place: london, england, europe, scotland yard
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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