Movies and TV shows like Underbelly

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Underbelly (2008)
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Underbelly (2008)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, History, Mystery
Country: Australia
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Underbelly is an Australian television true crime-drama series which broadcasts on the Nine Network. Each series is based on real-life events.
Style: serious, captivating, rough, realistic, anthology, erotic, dramatic, detective, sensual
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gang war, mafia, power struggle, violence spree, gang, gangster, family relations, lawyer, mob boss, disorder, criminal heroes, trial, female nudity, criminal, sex, violent, cop, nordic, underworld, robbery, debt, danger, relatives, dishonor among criminals, violent content ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, 80s, 70s, 2000s, 1920s, 2010s ...
Place: australia, oceania
Keyword: gangsters, russian, australian

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, rough and captivating films and TV series with plots about gangster, mafia, organized crime, criminal heroes, gang, criminal and gang war mostly in Crime, Drama and Action genres. Some movies like Underbelly: Love/Hate (2010), The Black Donnellys (2007), The Take (2009), The Sopranos (1999), Bikie Wars: Brothers in Arms (2012). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Love/Hate (2010)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Ireland
Duration: 51 min.
TV show
Story: Modern-day underworld characters Nidge and John Boy wrestle for control of Dublin's illicit drug trade in this forceful crime drama.
Style: suspenseful, realistic, tense, serious, rough ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: organized crime, ex convict, criminal heroes, addiction, rivalry, gang war, life is a bitch, gang, violent content, young man, rivals, profanity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: ireland, dublin ireland
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The Black Donnellys (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Meet the Donnelly brothers: Tommy, Jimmy, Kevin and Sean. There is nothing these four Irish brothers wouldn't do to protect each other, and for them that means lying, cheating, stealing and, occasionally, calling the cops. Narrated by wannabe ...
Style: captivating, rough, realistic, suspenseful, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: mafia, organized crime, mob boss, murder, vengeance, blind ambition, family business, rivalry, uninhibited rivalry, gang, criminal heroes, dishonesty ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, ireland, usa
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The Take (2009)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 180 min.
TV show
Story: Freddie Jackson is just out of prison. He's done his time, made the right connections and now he's ready to use them. His wife Jackie dreams of having her husband home but she's forgotten the rows and the girls Freddie can't ...
Style: serious, captivating, rough, bleak, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: mob boss, mafia, respect, power struggle, relatives, british, betrayal, criminal heroes, gangster, crime boss, ex convict, victim ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, 90s
Place: england, london, east end london
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The Sopranos (1999)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 55 min.
TV show
Story: The Sopranos is an American television drama created by David Chase. The series revolves around the New Jersey-based Italian-American mobster Tony Soprano and the difficulties he faces as he tries to balance the conflicting requirements of his home ...
Style: serious, cynical, clever, psychological, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: organized crime, mafia, killings, mob boss, dark humor, criminal heroes, family life, gangster, violence, parents and children, dysfunctional family, family relations ...
Time: 90s, 2000s, year 1999, 20th century, 21st century
Place: new jersey, new york, usa
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Bikie Wars: Brothers in Arms (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: Bikie Wars: Brothers in Arms is a six-part Australian drama miniseries, screened on Network Ten on 15 May 2012. Bikie Wars is based on the book Brothers in Arms by Lindsay Simpson and Sandra Harvey. The screenplay was written by Greg Haddrick, Roger ...
Style: disturbing, tense, serious, rough, captivating ...
Plot: biker, rivalry, gang war, lifestyle, criminal heroes, cause and meaning, criminal gang, bandit, conflict, street gang, showdown, profanity ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: australia
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100%
Gangster's Paradise: Jerusalema (2008)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: South Africa
Duration: 119 min.
Story: This South African movie tracks the rise of a once-petty criminal to the heights of the criminal underworld. After cutting his teeth on hijacking, before moving onto bigger game, an ambitious man hits a setback when most of his gang are shot.
Style: serious, rough, realistic, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot: urban ghetto life, organized crime, gang war, gangster, gang of thieves, thief, ambition, buddies, life is a bitch, gang, criminal heroes, black ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: south africa, africa, johannesburg south africa
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100%
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East West 101 (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Australia
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Zane Malik and the Major Crime Squad investigate crime and murder in all quarters of multicultural Sydney.
Style: realistic, serious, rough, tense, bleak ...
Plot: police detective, racism, police investigation, haunted by the past, fighting crime, law enforcement, rivalry, ego clash, society, loss of son, woman with a gun, nypd ...
Time: 21st century
Place: australia
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Gomorrah (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy, Germany
Duration: 55 min.
TV show
Story: Based on Robert Saviano's bestselling book, this gritty Italian crime drama paints a portrait of the brutal Neapolitan crime organisation the Camorra, as seen through the eyes of Ciro Di Marzo, the obedient and self- confident right-hand man of ...
Style: serious, tense, disturbing, captivating, realistic ...
Plot: mafia, mob boss, drug lord, camorra, social decay, society, gang war, life is a bitch, gangster, strong violent content, urban, urban ghetto life ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: italy, naples italy, europe
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Animal Kingdom (2010)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Following the death of his mother, J finds himself living with his estranged family, under the watchful eye of his doting grandmother, Smurf, mother to the Cody boys. J quickly comes to believe that he is a player in this world. But, as he soon ...
Style: tense, disturbing, bleak, realistic, atmospheric ...
Plot: gangster, interrogation, violence, complex characters, justice, investigation, drug dealer, character study, vengeance, law enforcement, bad mother, power struggle ...
Time: year 2010, 2010s, 21st century
Place: australia, melbourne, oceania, peru
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Boardwalk Empire (2010)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 55 min.
TV show
Story: Boardwalk Empire is a period drama focusing on Enoch "Nucky" Thompson (based on the historical Enoch L. Johnson), a political figure who rose to prominence and controlled Atlantic City, New Jersey, during the Prohibition period of the ...
Style: serious, costume drama, captivating, suspenseful, atmospheric ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: mafia, gangster, mob boss, organized crime, prohibition, smuggling, criminal heroes, corruption, politician, mobster, female nudity, american history ...
Time: 1920s, 2000s, 2010s, 1900s, year 2010 ...
Place: new jersey, usa, cuba, atlantic city new jersey, atlantic city ...
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The Godfather: A Novel for Television (1977)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 434 min.
TV show
Story: A seven-hours-plus adaptation of Francis Ford Coppola's "The Godfather" and "The Godfather, Part II" - with new scenes added and some old ones lengthened. Originally broadcast on the NBC television network in November of ...
Style: epic, serious, captivating, rough, saga ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: mafia, crime boss, gang war, mobster, lawyer, melancholy, corrupt politician, police corruption, parent child relationship, rise to power, casino, patriarch ...
Time: 1930s, 1950s, 1920s, 1940s, 20th century
Place: europe, cuba, italy
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Corleone (2007)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min.
TV show
Story: Il Capo dei Capi (The Boss of the Bosses) is a six-part Italian miniseries which debuted on Canale 5 between October and November 2007. It tells the story of Salvatore Riina, alias Totò u Curtu, a mafioso boss from Corleone, Sicily. Riina is played ...
Style: captivating, serious, realistic, rough
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cosa nostra, criminal heroes, gangster, mafia, organized crime, bribery, italian mafia, notoriety, mobster, corrupt politician, murder, corruption ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, 70s, 60s, 1940s ...
Place: italy, sicily, palermo italy, southern italy
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Beyond Outrage (2012)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 110 min.
Story: As the police launch a full-scale crackdown on organized crime, it ignites a national yakuza struggle between the Sanno of the East and Hanabishi of the West. What started as an internal strife in Outrage has now become a nationwide war in Outrage ...
Style: tense, realistic, serious, rough, noir ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: yakuza, gangster, criminal heroes, law enforcement, rivalry, gang, danger, elimination, japanese mafia, power struggle, police, organized crime ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: japan, asia
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100%
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The Last Don (1997)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 258 min.
TV show
Story: Sprawling Mario Puzo novel about an Italian family of gangsters draws the inevitable comparison to "The Godfather", but does find its own direction. Headed by Don Domenico Clericuzio, the family executes a rival gang on the night of the ...
Style: psychological, realistic, serious, gloomy, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: mafia, organized crime, gangster, mobster, family relations, daughter, honeymoon, criminal, rivalry, italian mafia, gangsta, interracial ...
Time: 20th century, 60s, 80s, 70s
Place: usa, las vegas
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Romanzo criminale - La serie (2008)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
TV show
Story: Romanzo Criminale – La serie - is a television series Italian based on the eponymous novel by judge Giancarlo De Cataldo, and it is the second adaptation of the film Romanzo Criminale directed by Michele Placido. The first series quickly achieved ...
Style: serious, captivating, rough, suspense, realistic ...
Plot: gang, mafia, organized crime, police, criminal heroes, gangster, law enforcement, drug dealing, police detective, dishonesty, violence, italian mafia ...
Time: 80s, 70s, 20th century, 90s
Place: italy, rome italy
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50%
City Homicide (2006)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: City Homicide was an Australian television drama series that aired on the Seven Network between 27 August 2007 and 30 March 2011. The series was set on the Homicide floor of a metropolitan police headquarters in Melbourne. The main characters were ...
Style: realistic, suspenseful, rough, exciting, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: murder investigation, murder, danger, police investigation, who done it, fighting crime, dishonesty, uncover truth, police corruption, partners against crime, law enforcement, protagonist as suspect ...
Time: 21st century
Place: australia, melbourne
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Mafiosa (2006)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 416 min.
TV show
Story: By the will of her dead uncle who was murdered Sandra Paoli is propelled to the head of a powerful mafia clan. She becomes a respected, but also hated, woman in a world of men, murder and criminality.
Style: serious, rough, suspenseful, semi serious, captivating ...
Plot: murder, mafia, criminal's revenge, family business, betrayal, drug dealing, gang, family problems, death in the family, gangster, police corruption, family relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
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Last King of the Cross (2023)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Australia
TV show
Story: Inspired by John Ibrahim's best-selling autobiography, this series is an operatic story of two brothers, Sam and John Ibrahim who organize the street but lose each other in their ascent to power. The story tracks John Ibrahim's rise from a ...
Style: tense, exciting, captivating, dramatic, suspenseful
Plot: gangster, autobiography, female nudity, city, brother, police, money, bandit, gunfight, brothers, extortion, heroin ...
Time: 90s, 80s
Place: sydney australia, australia
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Bandits Can't Rule the World (2015)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 120 min.
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Story: The series tells the life of Hizir Cakirbeyli. It has entered the realm of the mafia at a young age.
Style: tense, realistic, rough, serious, suspenseful
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gangster, criminal heroes, tough heroes, leadership, drug dealing, society, violence, blood, greed, murder, rage, gang ...
Time: 1920s
Place: usa
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Rise of the Footsoldier (2007)
Genre: Action, Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Rise of the Footsoldier follows the inexorable rise of Carlton Leach from one of the most feared generals of the football terraces to becoming a member of a notorious gang of criminals who rampaged their way through London and Essex in the late ...
Style: serious, captivating, realistic, tense, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gang, hooligan, drug abuse, murder, criminal, betrayal, police investigation, partners in crime, criminal heroes, rivalry, vicious, dishonor among criminals ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, 90s
Place: england, united kingdom, britain, europe, london
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Bad Blood (2017)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 47 min.
TV show
Story: A dramatization of the life and death of Montreal mob boss Vito Rizzuto.
Style: suspense, disturbing, realistic, suspenseful, captivating
Plot: mafia, crime family, criminal underworld, mob boss, gangster, organized crime, mafioso, criminal, family relations, lifestyle, group of criminals, criminal's revenge ...
Place: montreal, quebec, canada
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Vegas (2012)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story: Ralph Lamb wants to be left in peace to run his ranch, but Las Vegas is now swelling with outsiders and corruption which are intruding on his simple life. Recalling Lamb's command as a military police officer during World War II, the Mayor ...
Style: serious, stylized, suspenseful, rough, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: sheriff, organized crime, greed, corruption, police investigation, mafia, power struggle, rivalry, father son relationship, cowboy, mobster, gambling ...
Time: 60s, 20th century, year 1960, year 1961
Place: las vegas, usa
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20%
Nameless Gangster: Rules of the Time (2012)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 134 min.
Story: A corrupted customs officer, Choi Ik-hyeon, faces losing his job. Then, his life turns around as he meets ganster Choi Hyeong-bae who has connection with the Yakuza. They quickly form a partnetship; Hyeong-bae helps Ik-hyeon set up a business with ...
Style: serious, tense, realistic, rough, crime drama ...
Plot: organized crime, gangster, rise and fall, police, mafia, rise to the top, ambition, gang war, unlikely criminals, betrayal, dishonesty, disorder ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: south korea, busan, asia, korea
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19%
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Blue Murder (1995)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 198 min.
TV show
Story: Detective Sergeant Roger "The Dodger" Rogerson got fame because he knew how to take care of most dangerous and violent criminals. His success was, however, also due to the sinister alliance with violent underworld figures like Neddy Smith ...
Style: slasher, detective, realistic, serious, bleak ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: police corruption, investigation, serial killer, mysticism, nypd, police detective, prostitute, organized crime, master criminal, dishonesty, rise and fall, partners against crime ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, 90s
Place: australia
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19%
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Fat Tony & Co (2014)
Genre: Crime
Country: Australia
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story: The true story of Tony Mokbel; how he grew entangled with the country’s most notorious underworld figures, how he built his massive fortune, and how he became a fugitive on a yacht bound for Greece, desperate to escape mounting criminal law ...
Style: captivating, rough, serious, realistic
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gang war, manhunt, criminal heroes, fugitives, chases and races, gangster, rise to the top, wanted, ambition, drug dealing, true crime, crime boss ...
Time: 21st century
Place: australia
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Undercover (2011)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Bulgaria
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Just an ordinary boy from the Sofia suburbs becomes the first bulgarian undercover cop. Forced by his father when he was young to lie and cheat, Martin becomes the perfect liar. That skill, and also the hatred of the 'underworld' makes ...
Style: realistic, suspenseful, rough, serious, exciting ...
Plot: hidden identity, mob boss, undercover, gang war, gangster, danger, organized crime, peril, mission, corruption, promotion, law enforcement ...
Time: 21st century
Place: bulgaria
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Easy Money III: Life Deluxe (2013)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 127 min.
Story: JW now lives in exile and is more than ever determined to find out what happened to his missing sister Camilla. Every trace leads him to the world of organized crime in Stockholm. Jorge is about to do his last score - the largest robbery in Swedish ...
Style: serious, tense, realistic, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: mafia, murder, revenge, gang, working undercover, danger, missing person, criminal heroes, nordic, drug, mob boss, crime boss ...
Time: 21st century
Place: eastern europe, scandinavia, stockholm sweden
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The Lord of the Skies (2013)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Mexico, Colombia
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Set in the 1990s, these are the life and times of Amado Carrillo Fuentes, a man who became the head of the Juárez cartel. Nicknamed “El Señor de los Cielos” (Lord of the Skies) because of the large fleet of airplanes he used to transport ...
Style: captivating, suspenseful, realistic, serious, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: drug cartel, cartel, rise to the top, master criminal, drug, money, drug lord, gangster, smuggling, drug dealing, generosity, gang war ...
Time: 90s, 80s, 20th century
Place: latin america, colombia, mexico
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Gangs of London (2020)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: When the head of a criminal organisation, Finn Wallace is assassinated, the sudden power vacuum his death creates threatens the fragile peace between the intricate web of gangs operating on the streets of the city. Now it’s up to the grieving, ...
Style: rough, exciting, brutal, intellectual, suspense
Plot: mafia, gang war, organized crime, crime family, violence, father son relationship, murder, criminal, danger, bandit, gangster, mobster ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: london
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Can't Change the Meeting Place (1979)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 372 min.
TV show
Story: After WWII is over, a young officer Volodya Sharapov returns to Moscow to work in MUR - Moskovskiy Ugolovny Rozysk (Moscow Criminal Police). There he meets Gleb Zheglov who is a chief of a squad which fights organized crime. Their main task is to ...
Style: realistic, serious, suspense, suspenseful, detective ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: post war, law enforcement, gang, rookie, gangster, undercover agent, working undercover, police investigation, mafia, murder mystery, criminal, homicide ...
Time: 1940s, post world war two
Place: soviet union, russia, moscow russia, ussr
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