Movies like Five Corners
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Five Corners (1987)
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A psychotic young man returns to his old neighborhood after release from prison. He seeks out the woman he previously tried to rape and the man who protected her, with twisted ideas of love for her and hate for him.
Style:
disturbing, talky, serious, realistic, suspenseful, tense, enigmatic, unusual plot structure, melancholic, ironic ...
Plot:
prison, violence, psychopath, stalking, hitman, police investigation, visceral, character study, friendship, police detective, ex convict, rape, rapist, depression, hate, nude, love, catastrophe, gangsters, killer, twists and turns, revenge, relationships, loneliness, writers ...
Time:
20th century, 60s, year 1964, 1960s
Place:
new york, california, new jersey, usa, mississippi, bronx new york city
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, suspenseful, serious and melancholic films with plots about runaway, violence, murder, brutality, dialogue, storytelling and gangsters mostly in Drama, Crime and Thriller genres. Some movies like Five Corners: Death Wish (1974), Promising Young Woman (2020), The Brave One (2007), Gloria (1980), Julia (2008). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Italy
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
After his wife is murdered by street punks, a pacifistic New York City architect becomes a one-man vigilante squad, prowling the streets for would-be muggers after dark.
Style:
controversial, rough, harsh, disturbing, tense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
vigilante, vigilantism, violence, vengeance, revenge, police, murder, home invasion, rape and revenge, gang, gunfight, one against many ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city, tucson arizona, honolulu hawaii ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A young woman haunted by a tragedy in her past takes revenge on the predatory men unlucky enough to cross her path.
Style:
suspenseful, disturbing, realistic, dark, twist ending ...
Plot:
revenge, suspense, vengeance, medical school, rape, rape and revenge, violence, lust, bachelor party, sexual predator, oral sex, women ...
Place:
ohio, new york
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
A woman struggles to recover from a brutal attack by setting out on a mission for revenge.
Style:
realistic, serious, melancholic, suspenseful, atmospheric ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
vigilante, vengeance, vigilantism, suspense, woman with a gun, revenge, death, tragedy, corpse, loss of loved one, female protagonist, self defense ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city, san francisco
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51%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
When a young boy's family is killed by the mob, their tough neighbor Gloria becomes his reluctant guardian. In possession of a book that the gangsters want, the pair go on the run in New York.
Style:
tense, sexy, art house, neo noir, road movie ...
Audience:
kids, boys' night
Plot:
gangsters, mafia, gang, chase, women, twists and turns, murder, organized crime, hotel, gunfight, neighbor, police investigation ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
new york, new jersey, california, usa, pittsburgh ...
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51%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, USA, Mexico, Belgium
Duration: 144 min.
Story:
An alcoholic becomes involved in a fellow A.A. member's plan to kidnap her young son from the boy's wealthy grandfather.
Style:
disturbing, psychological, stylized, sexy, neo noir ...
Plot:
alcohol abuse, suspense, kidnapping, insanity, twists and turns, loneliness, mental illness, ransom, character study, life is a bitch, crime gone awry, anger ...
Place:
mexico, france, san diego california, europe, england ...
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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:
tense, realistic, atmospheric, bleak, neo noir ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gangsters, mafia, organized crime, friendship, character study, gang, money, urban ghetto life, life philosophy, friends, street gang, exotic dancer ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
new york, new jersey, usa
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50%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
A con man travels to Cambodia (also on the run from law enforcement in the U.S.) to collect his share in an insurance scam, but discovers more than he bargained for
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intense, stylized, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot:
betrayal, father son relationship, character study, greed, law enforcement, dishonesty, police investigation, cons and scams, unlikely friendships, friendship, runaway, fbi ...
Place:
usa, cambodia, new york, bangkok thailand
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Following a series of drug deals and murders, three criminals -- Fantasia, Ray Malcolm and Pluto -- travel from Los Angeles to Houston, finally arriving in a small Arkansas town to go into hiding. Two detectives from the LAPD, who are already on the ...
Style:
tense, suspenseful, neo noir, atmospheric, disturbing ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
small town, suspense, police investigation, heist, gunfight, gangsters, corruption, justice, law enforcement, criminal heroes, criminal, dishonesty ...
Time:
90s
Place:
los angeles, texas, arkansas, california, usa ...
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50%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A Vietnam veteran, Charles Rane, returns home after years in a POW camp and is treated as a hero. When thugs invade his home to steal the silver coins he received for his service, they mangle his hand and leave him and his family for dead. Rane ...
Style:
bleak, stylized, harsh, neo noir, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
violence, vigilante, vigilantism, murder, revenge, gunfight, vietnam war, exploitation, macabre, complex characters, vietnam veteran, home invasion ...
Time:
70s, 80s
Place:
texas, vietnam, asia, san antonio texas, el paso texas ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Belfast, in 1970s. Victor Kelly is a young protestant man who hates the Catholics so much that one night he begins to brutally murder them. A reporter soon tries to uncover the murder and obtained prestige for himself, while Victor sinks deeper into ...
Style:
disturbing, serious, suspenseful, bleak, sexy ...
Plot:
murder, serial killer, brutality, dark hero, psychopath, journalism, master criminal, investigation, uncover truth, ira, gang, violence ...
Time:
70s
Place:
ireland, europe, england, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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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:
tense, bleak, realistic, stylized, serious ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
african american, ghetto, urban ghetto life, gangsters, hip hop, murder, police brutality, friendship, coming of age, street gang, organized crime, drugs ...
Time:
90s, year 1993, 20th century, 70s
Place:
california, los angeles, usa, north america
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49%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Germany, Ireland
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
An old gangster is advised that Freddie Mays would leave jail after thirty years in prison. His mood changes and he recalls when he was a young punk, who joined Freddie Mays' gang, a man he both envied and ultimately betrayed.
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intense, tense, rough, suspenseful, bleak ...
Audience:
boys' night
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gangsters, rise and fall, organized crime, psychopath, mafia, betrayal, prison, violence, gang war, gang, leadership, extortion ...
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future, 60s, 20th century, 90s, 80s ...
Place:
london, england, europe
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49%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
The Minus Man is a 1999 film based on the novel by Lew McCreary. It was directed by Hampton Fancher, who also wrote the screenplay. The film centers on a psychotic killer whom Fancher describes as "a cross between Psycho's Norman Bates, ...
Style:
psychological, clever, disturbing, thought provoking, rough ...
Plot:
serial killer, american football, christmas, psychopath, small town, killer, violence, murder, death, violent, mentor, psychology ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
oregon, vancouver
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49%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Red is an aging scam-artist who's just been released from prison together with Ronnie, a young and not-so-bright hoodlum who is easily manipulated. Their new business is to organize fake-money sales and then kill the buyer to take his money; ...
Style:
exciting, neo noir, suspenseful, tense, intense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
undercover cop, murder, suspense, organized crime, prison, redemption, revenge, vengeance, investigation, undercover, working undercover, master criminal ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
california, los angeles, usa
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49%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
A young district attorney seeking to prove a case against a corrupt police detective encounters a former lover and her new protector, a crime boss who refuse to help him.
Style:
talky, intense, rough, suspenseful, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
police corruption, corruption, murder, investigation, police brutality, gangsters, lawyer, fighting the system, law enforcement, legal, dedicated lawyer, dishonesty ...
Time:
80s
Place:
usa, new york, new jersey, puerto rico
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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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, surreal, intense, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gangsters, murder, organized crime, prison, betrayal, suspense, vengeance, undercover agent, mafia, heist, violence, revenge ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new york, usa
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48%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
After his daughter died in a hit and run, Freddy Gale has waited six years for John Booth, the man responsible, to be released from prison. On the day of release, Gale visits Booth and announces that he will kill him in one week. Booth uses his time ...
Style:
bleak, suspenseful, intense, emotional, psychological ...
Plot:
haunted by the past, murder, obsession, hit and run, tragedy, vengeance, redemption, loss of daughter, justice, suspense, crime gone awry, car accident ...
Time:
90s
Place:
los angeles, nebraska, usa, california
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48%
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, dark, suspenseful, serious, tense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gangsters, betrayal, murder, vengeance, gang, police investigation, investigation, police corruption, witnessing a crime, criminal heroes, drug dealing, best friends ...
Time:
90s
Place:
boston, ireland, connecticut, massachusetts, new jersey ...
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48%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Germany
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Set during the Rodney King riots, a robbery homicide investigation triggers a series of events that will cause a corrupt LAPD officer to question his tactics.
Style:
tense, harsh, intense, stylized, captivating ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
police corruption, police investigation, police brutality, police officer, police, corruption, investigation, rookie, robbery, partners, fighting the system, testimony ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, year 1992
Place:
los angeles, california, new jersey, usa, southern california
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48%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
New Jersey Drive is a 1995 film about black youths in Newark, New Jersey, the unofficial "car theft capital of the world". Their favorite pastime is that of everybody in their neighborhood: stealing cars and joyriding. The trouble starts ...
Style:
realistic, brutal, melancholic, serious, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gang, brutality, police, police investigation, vengeance, gangsters, hip hop, murder, lone hero, teenage life, youth, on the run ...
Time:
90s, 70s
Place:
new jersey, new york, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A career criminal who has been deformed since birth is given a new face by a kindly doctor and paroled from prison. It appears that he has gone straight, but he is really planning his revenge on the man who killed his mentor and sent him to prison.
Style:
intense, harsh, serious, neo noir, gloomy ...
Audience:
manly, boys' night
Plot:
prison, murder, plastic surgery, vengeance, betrayal, gangsters, robbery, suspense, rehabilitation, revenge, operation, heist ...
Time:
80s
Place:
new orleans, usa, new jersey, texas, los angeles
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48%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A female rookie in the police force engages in a cat and mouse game with a pistol wielding psychopath who becomes obsessed with her.
Style:
neo noir, exciting, tense, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
policewoman, serial killer, chase, psychopath, murder, female protagonist, police investigation, police, investigation, runaway, mind game, stalking ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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48%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A retired thief swears revenge on the lunatic who murdered his brother and partner, while going on the run with the loot they stole.
Style:
neo noir, suspenseful, sexy, talky, visually appealing ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gangsters, gang, betrayal, heist, murder, kidnapping, violence, money, death, twists and turns, criminal, nude ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
los angeles, california, florida, usa, palm springs california
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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:
gangsters, organized crime, mafia, interrogation, suspense, violence, investigation, complex characters, justice, character study, vengeance, drug dealer ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
australia, melbourne australia
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48%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Italy, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Tom Ripley - cool, urbane, wealthy, and murderous - lives in a villa in the Veneto with Luisa, his harpsichord-playing girlfriend. A former business associate from Berlin's underworld pays a call asking Ripley's help in killing a rival. ...
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psychological, tense, suspenseful, stylized, absurd ...
Plot:
murder, serial killer, suspense, gangsters, greed, vengeance, human nature, redemption, cons and scams, dishonesty, intrigue, mind game ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
italy, milan italy, berlin germany, europe, france
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
In the year 1935, a teen named Billy Bathgate finds first love while becoming the protégé of fledgling gangster Dutch Schultz.
Style:
stylized, sexy, unusual plot structure, visually appealing, light ...
Plot:
gangsters, organized crime, mafia, gang, teenage boy, lake, waterfall, great depression, coming of age, murder, death, lawyer ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century
Place:
new york, usa, bronx new york city
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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 ...
Style:
intense, stylized, melancholic, rough, suspenseful ...
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boys' night, girls' night
Plot:
betrayal, organized crime, greed, drugs, twists and turns, gang, suspense, wall street, drug dealing, cons and scams, going straight, criminal heroes ...
Time:
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Place:
usa, new york, manhattan new york city, bronx new york city, miami
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Sweden, Canada, USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Deputy Sheriff Lou Ford is a pillar of the community in his small west Texas town, patient and apparently thoughtful. Some people think he is a little slow and maybe boring, but that is the worst they say about him. But then nobody knows about what ...
Style:
disturbing, psychological, neo noir, surreal, rough ...
Plot:
small town, murder, psychopath, killer, sadism, serial killer, violence, revenge, violent, twists and turns, deputy, investigation ...
Time:
50s, 20th century
Place:
texas, usa, austin texas
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48%
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:
serious, suspenseful, touching, sexy, intense ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
gangsters, asthma, murder, women, suspense, justice, runaway, mafia, woman in danger, down on your luck, introspection, twists and turns ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 80s
Place:
new york, usa
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48%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
When two brothers organize the robbery of their parents' jewelry store, the job goes horribly wrong, triggering a series of events that send them and their family hurtling towards a shattering climax.
Style:
disturbing, psychological, bleak, realistic, neo noir ...
Plot:
robbery, suspense, dysfunctional family, heist, blackmail, crime gone awry, greed, nude, heist gone wrong, adultery, murder, divorce ...
Time:
70s, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, rio de janeiro, brazil, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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