Movies like Empire 2002

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Empire (2002)
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Empire (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A big time drug dealer Victor Rosa is looking to get out of the game and sees his chance with a big deal with a new friend who happens to be a Wall St. stockbroker. Thinking this will be his chance to go out on top Victor soon finds out that he has been double crossed and his last option is to get revenge.
Style: intense, suspense, melancholic, stylized, rough, serious, suspenseful, hood, tense, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night, girls' night
Plot: betrayal, organized crime, gangster, greed, twists and turns, wall street, drug dealing, ghetto, going straight, criminal heroes, cons and scams, mafia, drug, gang, mother son relationship, revenge, money, criminal, violence, profanity, urban, dungeon, thug, die hard, thug life ...
Time: year 2002, 80s, contemporary
Place: usa, new york, miami, manhattan new york city, bronx new york city
Keyword: gangsters, latin, playstation, new yorker

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, suspenseful, serious and rough films with plots about gangster, organized crime, gang, violence, murder, betrayal and mafia mostly in Crime, Drama and Thriller genres. Some movies like Empire: Ash Wednesday (2002), 10th & Wolf (2006), Menace II Society (1993), Gloria (1999), Illegal Tender (2007). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Ash Wednesday (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Ash Wednesday is set in the Manhattan of the early 1980's and is about a pair of Irish-American brothers who become embroiled in a conflict with the Irish Mob.
Style: intense, rough, suspenseful, realistic, serious ...
Plot: organized crime, betrayal, gangster, violence, murder, love triangle, couple relations, haunted by the past, love and romance, dishonesty, siblings relations, irish mob ...
Time: 80s, year 2002, year 1983, year 1980
Place: new york, ireland, usa, brooklyn new york city, manhattan new york city
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10th & Wolf (2006)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A former street tough returns to his Philadelphia home after a stint in the military. Back on his home turf, he once again finds himself tangling with the mob boss who was instrumental in his going off to be a soldier.
Style: tense, serious, rough, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot: mafia, undercover, family relations, homecoming, haunted by the past, law enforcement, marines, desert, gangster, special agent, mobster, family dinner ...
Time: 80s, 90s, year 1984
Place: philadelphia, usa, pittsburgh, pennsylvania, iraq
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Menace II Society (1993)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Menace II Society is a coming of age tale detailing the summer after its protagonist Caine (Tyrin Turner) graduates from high school. This is Caine's story, which details real life in today's tough inner city.
Style: bleak, realistic, stylized, tense, hood ...
Audience: teens, teen drama, adult
Plot: hip hop, ghetto, african american, urban ghetto life, murder, police brutality, coming of age, street gang, friendship, organized crime, gangsta, gunfight ...
Time: 90s, year 1993, 20th century, 70s
Place: california, los angeles, usa, south central los angeles, north america
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.1
 6K
Gloria (1999)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Sharon Stone plays a street-wise, middle-aged moll standing up against the mobs, all of which is complicated by a 6 year old urchin with a will of his own who she reluctantly takes under her wing after his family has been gunned down.
Style: suspense, serious, suspenseful, touching, erotic ...
Plot: asthma, murder, gangster, justice, mafia, introspection, down on your luck, woman in danger, orphan, twists and turns, prison, betrayal ...
Time: year 1999, 20th century, 90s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Illegal Tender (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: After the gangsters who killed his father come to settle a score, a teenage boy and his mother turn the tables on the killers - one Latino family's quest for honor and revenge as the hunted become the hunters.
Style: exciting, captivating, tense, suspense, psychological ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gang, on the run, pregnancy, haunted by the past, rivalry, vigilantism, drug dealing, revenge, murder, death of father, danger, urban ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: puerto rico, usa, latin america, new york, bronx new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
 7.1
 143K
Margin Call (2011)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A thriller that revolves around the key people at an investment bank over a 24-hour period during the early stages of the financial crisis.
Style: suspense, realistic, serious, captivating, political ...
Plot: stock market, financial crisis, wall street, greed, economics, businessman, stock market crash, corporation, finance, corporate america, investments, bankruptcy ...
Time: 2010s, year 2011, 2000s, year 2008, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city, brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Poolhall Junkies (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A retired pool hustler is forced to pick up the stick again when his brother starts a game he can't finish.
Style: clever, witty, entertaining, stylized, serious ...
Plot: gambling, billiards, con men, con artists, gangster, vengeance, underdog, friendship, life philosophy, money, betrayal, justice ...
Time: year 2002, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Infiltrator (2016)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story: A U.S Customs official uncovers a massive money laundering scheme involving Pablo Escobar.
Style: suspense, realistic, dramatic, factual, tense ...
Audience: date night
Plot: drug lord, drug cartel, money laundering, drug, addiction, federal agent, money, investigation, biopic, undercover agent, organized crime, drug addiction ...
Time: year 2016, 80s, year 1985, 20th century
Place: colombia, middle east, florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 83K
Felon (2008)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A family man convicted of killing an intruder must cope with life afterward in the violent penal system.
Style: brutal, realistic, tense, emotional, serious ...
Audience: date night, boys' night
Plot: prison, fighting the system, prison life, prison riot, life is a bitch, prison escape, prison gang, organized crime, life turned upside down, rivalry, murder, brutality ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.3
 139K
Good Time (2017)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: After a botched bank robbery lands his younger brother in prison, Connie Nikas embarks on a twisted odyssey through the city's underworld in an increasingly desperate—and dangerous—attempt to get his brother Nick out of jail.
Style: neo noir, suspense, independent film, brutal, captivating ...
Plot: prison, brother brother relationship, loneliness, stolen money, on the run, hospital, brother, mentally challenged person, mental disorder, robbery, promise, game playing ...
Time: year 2017, 2010s, year 2016, 21st century
Place: new york, brooklyn new york city, manhattan new york city, bronx new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Ministers (2009)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A NYPD detective attempts to avenge the death of her father, but unwittingly becomes involved with one of his killers.
Style: tense, serious, captivating, suspense, psychological ...
Plot: vengeance, danger, rivalry, profanity, law enforcement, unlikely couple, murder, brainwashing, religious fanaticism, strong violent content, violent content, chases and races ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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 10K
Mobsters (1991)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: The story of a group of friends in turn of the century New York, from their early days as street hoods to their rise in the world of organized crime...
Style: talky, suspense, intense, suspenseful, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: mobster, gangster, organized crime, friendship, betrayal, greed, murder, criminal heroes, blind ambition, dishonesty, gang, mob boss ...
Time: 1920s, year 1991, 1910s, 1930s, year 1917
Place: new york, israel, usa, coney island brooklyn new york city, brooklyn new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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 231K
Carlito's Way (1993)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 144 min.
Story: A Puerto-Rican ex-con, just released from prison, pledges to stay away from drugs and violence despite the pressure around him and lead on to a better life outside of NYC.
Style: neo noir, suspense, suspenseful, tense, melancholic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: organized crime, gangster, mafia, nightclub, tragic hero, drug dealing, mobster, drug, gunfight, violence, prison, drug lord ...
Time: 90s, 70s, 20th century, year 1993, year 1975
Place: new york, usa, grand central station manhattan new york city, harlem, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Knockaround Guys (2001)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Four sons of well-known New York mobsters must retrieve a bag of cash from a small Montana town ruled by a corrupt sheriff.
Style: suspense, stylized, intense, semi serious, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: father son relationship, mafia, organized crime, violence, mobster, profanity, gangster, small town, twists and turns, corrupt cop, uncle nephew relationship, bag of money ...
Time: year 2001, 21st century
Place: brooklyn new york city, montana, new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
We Own the Night (2007)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: A New York nightclub manager tries to save his brother and father from Russian mafia hitmen.
Style: suspense, harsh, stylized, captivating, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: organized crime, mafia, gangster, police, nightclub, gang, cop, brothers, hitman, multiple storylines, law enforcement, heroin ...
Time: year 2007, 20th century, year 1988, 80s
Place: new york, brooklyn new york city, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
 5.9
 20K
Kiss of Death (1995)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Jimmy Kilmartin is an ex-con living in Astoria in the New York City borough of Queens, trying to stay clean and raising a family with his wife Bev. But when his cousin Ronnie causes him to take a fall for driving an illegal transport of stolen cars, ...
Style: neo noir, suspense, surreal, intense, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gangster, murder, organized crime, prison, vengeance, undercover agent, mafia, violence, psychopath, revenge, law enforcement, master criminal ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york, usa
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26%
Miller's Crossing (1990)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Set in 1929, a political boss and his advisor have a parting of the ways when they both fall for the same woman.
Style: neo noir, atmospheric, tense, stylized, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: organized crime, corruption, irish mob, mafia, violence, blackmail, love triangle, gangster, mobster, betrayal, shootout, underworld ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, 1930s, 1920s, year 1990
Place: usa, new york, new orleans
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Monument Ave. (1998)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Bobby O'Grady a low level member of a Boston Irish gang run by Jackie O'Hara. Jackie demands absolute, total loyalty to him. When Jackie kills one of Bobby's buddies, Teddy, Bobby and others have to keep it an absolute secret, even ...
Style: atmospheric, suspenseful, tense, serious, independent film ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gangster, murder, police investigation, investigation, police corruption, drug dealing, criminal heroes, witnessing a crime, dishonesty, juvenile delinquency, gang, life is a bitch ...
Time: year 1998, 90s
Place: boston, ireland, massachusetts, connecticut, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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State of Grace (1990)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story: Terry Noonan returns home to New York's Hells Kitchen after a ten year absence. He soon hooks up with childhood pal Jackie who is involved in the Irish mob run by his brother Frankie. Terry also rekindles an old flame with Jackie's sister ...
Style: neo noir, suspense, tense, intense, atmospheric ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: mafia, organized crime, gangster, gang, irish gangster, homecoming, undercover, friendship, gunfight, st. patrick's day, irish mob, profanity ...
Time: 80s, 90s, 20th century
Place: new york, ireland, manhattan new york city, usa, grand central station manhattan new york city
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23%
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Black Caesar (1973)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Tommy Gibbs is a tough kid, raised in the ghetto, who aspires to be a kingpin criminal. As a young boy, his leg is broken by a bad cop on the take, during a payoff gone bad. Nursing his vengeance, he rises to power in Harlem, New York. Angry at the ...
Style: grindhouse, cult classic, hood, crime drama, grim ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: blaxploitation, gangster, black, mafia, tough guy, mobster, exploitation, organized crime, gang, ghetto, blues, african american gangster ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, 1950s, year 1965, year 1972 ...
Place: new york, harlem, usa, california, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 7.2
 119K
Mean Streets (1973)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: A small-time hood must choose from among love, friendship and the chance to rise within the mob.
Style: neo noir, tense, realistic, atmospheric, bleak ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gangster, mafia, organized crime, friendship, money, character study, urban ghetto life, life philosophy, mobster, friends, urban, street gang ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, year 1973
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 7.0
 161K
The Drop (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Bob Saginowski finds himself at the center of a robbery gone awry and entwined in an investigation that digs deep into the neighborhood's past where friends, families, and foes all work together to make a living - no matter the cost.
Style: serious, realistic, tense, suspense, cerebral ...
Audience: girls' night, teens, boys' night
Plot: twists and turns, robbery, fall in love, organized crime, danger, criminal heroes, crime boss, catholic, gangster, mafia, church, criminal's revenge ...
Time: year 2014, 90s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: new york, boston, brooklyn new york city, massachusetts, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 6.2
 7K
In Too Deep (1999)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A fearless cop is taking on a ruthless crimelord. He knew the risks. He just didn't know how far he would have to go.
Style: hood, entertaining, exciting, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gangster, ghetto, hip hop, friendship, brutality, transformation, betrayal, mentor, twists and turns, urban, police detective, chase ...
Time: year 1999, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Sugar Hill (1993)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: In the Harlem neighborhood of New York City, the Mafia steps in when a drug dealer quits his partner brother to lead a straight life with his girlfriend.
Style: hood, serious, suspenseful, tense, realistic ...
Plot: urban, drug dealing, black, gang, going straight, urban ghetto, juvenile delinquency, life is a bitch, addiction, siblings relations, drug abuse, gangster ...
Time: 90s, year 1993
Place: usa, harlem, new york, harlem, new york city, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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 3K
By the Gun (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A rising Boston gangster (Ben Barnes) endangers those around him when he starts to make moves without the knowledge of his boss (Harvey Keitel).
Style: serious, rough, realistic, suspenseful, interesting
Audience: boys' night
Plot: mafia, gangster, violence, gang, criminal heroes, revenge, father son relationship, betrayal, double life, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, crime boss, brother brother relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: boston, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 5.8
 10K
Waist Deep (2006)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: An ex-convict (Tyrese) gets tangled up with a gang after his car is hijacked with his son inside.
Style: hood, intense, suspense, exciting, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: kidnapping, hip hop, gangster, chase, african american, urban, african american gangster, revenge, car chase, ghetto, black, ex convict ...
Time: year 2006, 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Charlie Valentine (2009)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: The film chronicles the exploits of the title character, Charlie, played by Raymond J. Barry (Training Day) a career criminal intent on scoring one last big pay day. When his "perfect crime" goes bad, Charlie flees to Los Angeles to hide ...
Style: serious, rough, realistic, suspenseful, independent film
Audience: boys' night
Plot: dishonesty, criminal heroes, heist, family relations, strong violent content, betrayal, crime gone awry, parents and children, disorder, violence, mafia, robbery ...
Time: 21st century
Place: california, usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 7.0
 14K
Paid in Full (2002)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Ace is an impressionable young man working for a dry cleaning business. His friend, drug dealer Mitch goes to prison. In an unrelated incident, he finds some cocaine in a pants pocket. Soon, Ace finds himself dealing cocaine for Lulu. Via lucky ...
Style: hood, tense, rough, realistic, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: urban ghetto life, rapper, organized crime, ghetto, urban, drug dealing, drug, gangster, drug lord, black, rise and fall, street life ...
Time: 80s, year 2002, 20th century, year 1986
Place: harlem, new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Never Die Alone (2004)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A drug kingpin's return home touches off a turf war.
Style: hood, tense, serious, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gangster, manhunt, addiction, ghetto, redemption, murder, interracial relations, journalism, criminal heroes, rise and fall, dishonesty, life is a bitch ...
Time: year 2004, 2000s
Place: usa, detroit, los angeles, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
King of New York (1990)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A former drug lord returns from prison determined to wipe out all his competition and distribute the profits of his operations to New York's poor and lower classes in this stylish and ultra violent modern twist on Robin Hood.
Style: neo noir, atmospheric, hood, intense, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gang, organized crime, drug lord, mob boss, gangster, murder, chase, violence, african american gangster, cocaine, drug, urban ...
Time: year 1990, 20th century, 80s, 90s
Place: new york, italy, usa, bronx new york city, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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