Movies like The Funeral
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The Funeral (1996)
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
The story concerns the funeral of one of three brothers in a family of gangsters that lived in New York in 1930s. Details of the past of the brothers and their families are shown through a series of flashbacks.
Style:
neo noir, surprise ending, light, atmospheric, enigmatic, unusual plot structure, dark, melancholic, disturbing, talky ...
Plot:
mafia, organized crime, revenge, murder, vengeance, labor union, flashback, gangsters, catastrophe, time travel, world war one, relationships, gang, italian mafia, hitman, betrayal, addiction, brothers, hip hop, male nudity, lone hero, brutality, great depression, sexualized violence, communist ...
Time:
20th century, 1930s, 30s
Place:
new york, usa, london
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, melancholic and talky films with plots about gangsters, mentor, murder, dialogue, storytelling, runaway and catastrophe mostly in Drama, Crime and Thriller genres. Some movies like The Funeral: Mobsters (1991), Lawless (2012), Kill the Irishman (2011), At Close Range (1986), Little Odessa (1994). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
A mafia film in Tarantino style with a star-studded cast. Jimmy’s “The Saint” gangster career has finally ended. Yet now he finds him self doing favors for a wise godfather known as “The Man with the Plan.”
Style:
neo noir, atmospheric, psychological, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
gangsters, crime gone awry, mafia, one last job, organized crime, buddies, fall in love, hitman, redemption, gunfight, disorder, hopes ...
Time:
90s
Place:
usa, colorado, denver colorado, new jersey
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100%
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:
intense, talky, suspenseful, realistic, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gangsters, organized crime, mafia, friendship, betrayal, vengeance, gang, greed, suspense, murder, criminal heroes, tough heroes ...
Time:
1920s, 1910s, 1930s, year 1917
Place:
new york, las vegas, usa, coney island brooklyn new york city, manhattan new york city ...
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100%
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Set in the Depression-era Franklin County, Virginia, a bootlegging gang is threatened by authorities who want a cut of their profits.
Style:
intense, harsh, stylized, entertaining, brutal ...
Plot:
gangsters, mafia, organized crime, gang, bootlegging, smuggling, greed, prohibition, suspense, robbery, corruption, great depression ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century, year 1931, year 1940, 1940s
Place:
virginia, usa, appalachia, new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Over the summer of 1976, thirty-six bombs detonate in the heart of Cleveland while a turf war raged between Irish mobster Danny Greene and the Italian mafia. Based on a true story, kill the Irishman chronicles Greene's heroic rise from a tough ...
Style:
tense, brutal, talky, thought provoking, intense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gangsters, mafia, mob boss, gang, gang war, irish, criminal, corruption, organized crime, murder, hitman, caper ...
Time:
70s, 60s, 20th century, year 1960, year 1975 ...
Place:
usa, ireland, boston, ohio, new york ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Based upon the true story of Bruce Johnston Sr., his son, and his brothers; together, they constituted one of suburban Philadelphia's most notorious crime families during the 1970's. Their criminal activities ranged from burglary, theft... ...
Style:
disturbing, neo noir, realistic, bleak, tense ...
Plot:
organized crime, rape, small town, gang, gangsters, father son relationship, revenge, violent, murder, psychopath, violence, serial killer ...
Time:
70s, 80s, 20th century, year 1978
Place:
pennsylvania, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
The film follows the personal relationship between a father and his two sons, one of whom is a hit-man for the Russian mafia in Brooklyn.
Style:
dark, disturbing, bleak, gloomy, affectionate ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gangsters, gang, russian mafia, winter, redemption, hitman, jewish, snow, assassin, killer, coming of age, immigrants ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new york, tokyo, california, usa, brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
A vampiric doctoral student tries to follow the philosophy of a nocturnal comrade and control her thirst for blood.
Style:
scary, psychological, philosophical, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Plot:
vampire, supernatural, addiction, philosophy, drug abuse, transformation, infection, university, obsession, cult, life is a bitch, human nature ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new york, brooklyn new york city, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
gangsters, organized crime, betrayal, vengeance, violence, love triangle, murder, haunted by the past, couple relations, siblings relations, love and romance, dishonesty ...
Time:
80s, year 1980, year 1983
Place:
new york, boston, ireland, usa, brooklyn new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
In 1934, the second most lucrative business in New York City was running "the numbers". When, Madam Queen, the powerful woman who runs the scam in Harlem, is arrested. Ellsworth "Bumpy" Johnson takes over the business and must ...
Style:
stylized, intense, melancholic, factual, splatter ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gangsters, mafia, organized crime, african american, gunfight, violence, betrayal, corruption, death, destiny, prison, greed ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century, 70s
Place:
new york, harlem, california, illinois, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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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 ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Brett Sprague is a violent and psychopathic man, who is released on parole after serving a sentence for assault. As he returns to his family house and we watch him and his brothers, Stevie and Glenn, for the next 24 hours, it becomes clear this day ...
Style:
disturbing, rough, visually appealing, allegory, splatter ...
Plot:
prison, murder, psychopath, dysfunctional family, redemption, australian, violence, suburbs, catastrophe, brothers, adaptation, brutality ...
Time:
90s
Place:
australia, california, sydney australia, oceania, tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Gambling fever -- along with a brutal bookie -- leads three crooked cops into a double-dealing scheme that lands them in hot water way over their heads.
Style:
neo noir, sexy, bloody, absurd, bad ending ...
Plot:
gambling, addiction, redemption, betrayal, police corruption, crime gone awry, heist, nude, death of protagonist, police officer, gunfight, murder ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
california, new jersey, usa, arizona, phoenix arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
The Krays is a film based on the lives and crimes of the British gangsters Ronald and Reginald Kray, twins who are often referred to as The Krays and were active in London in the 1960s.
Style:
dark, disturbing, harsh, melancholic, bleak ...
Plot:
gangsters, twins, mafia, gang, organized crime, mental illness, violent, murder, brutality, criminal, male nudity, violence ...
Time:
1940s, 60s, 20th century, 50s, 70s
Place:
england, london, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A cop clashes with his priest brother while investigating the brutal murder of a young prostitute
Style:
neo noir, talky, suspenseful, psychological, intense ...
Plot:
murder, catholic priest, priest, politics, serial killer, redemption, political corruption, police corruption, desert, catholic, church, manipulation ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, 50s
Place:
los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
A shy and mute seamstress goes insane after being attacked and raped twice in one day. She wanders the New York streets at night in a sexy black dress with her attacker's gun strapped to her garter belt, blowing away any man who tries to pick ...
Style:
disturbing, neo noir, controversial, bloody, tense ...
Plot:
rape, revenge, murder, sexual abuse, vengeance, vigilante, rape and revenge, serial killer, femme fatale, killing spree, one woman army, violence ...
Time:
80s
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
A proud strip club owner is forced to come to terms with himself as a man, when his gambling addiction gets him in hot water with the mob, who offer him only one alternative.
Style:
neo noir, art house, atmospheric, cerebral, cynical ...
Plot:
gangsters, gambling, murder, nightclub, mafia, gambling debt, female nudity, hitman, strip club, crime gone awry, paranoid, dark humor ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
california, usa, los angeles, texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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 ⇓
37%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Jessie is an aging career criminal who has been in more jails, fights, schemes, and lineups than just about anyone else. His son Vito, while currently on the straight and narrow, has had a fairly shady past and is indeed no stranger to illegal ...
Style:
intense, clever, funny, talky, tense ...
Plot:
heist, dysfunctional family, father son relationship, caper, grandfather grandson relationship, gangsters, robbery, death of father, father son estrangement, ex convict, career criminal, death of grandfather ...
Time:
80s
Place:
new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Fed up with mistreatment at the hands of both management and union brass, and coupled with financial hardships on each man's end, three auto assembly line workers hatch a plan to rob a safe at union headquarters.
Style:
realistic, disturbing, clever, neo noir, cynical ...
Plot:
union, working class, labor union, gangsters, heist, female nudity, blaxploitation, fighting the system, crime gone awry, suspense, criminal, factory worker ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
michigan, detroit, africa, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Marty Lakewood is a reporter forced to leave Chicago and his family because he had uncovered too much police corruption. He returns to his small home town on the California coast to his ailing mother and prostitute sister, with whom he had an ...
Style:
neo noir, sexy, talky, stylized, noir ...
Plot:
incest, incestuous sex, brother sister incest, brother sister relationship, murder, foul language, prostitute, sex scene, dark humor, violence, reporter, dysfunctional family ...
Time:
80s, 50s, 1920s
Place:
california, usa, chicago illinois
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A parolee battles a gangster for the affections of a reclusive movie star.
Style:
melancholic, brutal, dark, visually appealing, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gangsters, fall in love, violence, love and romance, organized crime, mentor, going straight, twists and turns, runaway, crime boss, dishonor among criminals, criminal heroes ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, london, europe, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Is it just another evening at the hugely popular Italian restaurant of proprietor and bookmaker Louis Cropa in New York? Anything but as tonight's guests include; a local police detective and his wife specially invited by the owner; on the ...
Style:
tense, atmospheric, witty, enigmatic, twist ending ...
Plot:
gangsters, food, revenge, murder, hitman, mafia, organized crime, complex characters, crime gone awry, gambling, graphic violence, lifestyle ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
new york, california, new jersey, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Belgium, Netherlands
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
Young Limburg cattle farmer, Jacky Vanmarsenille, is approached by an unscrupulous veterinarian to make a shady deal with a notorious West-Flemish beef trader. But the assassination of a federal policeman, and an unexpected confrontation with a ...
Style:
disturbing, bleak, emotional, thought provoking, surreal ...
Plot:
mafia, friendship, violence, farm, character study, life is a bitch, haunted by the past, revenge, notoriety, organized crime, tragic event, murder ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
belgium, france, flanders
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
Strike is a young city drug pusher under the tutelage of drug lord Rodney Little. When a night manager at a fast-food restaurant is found with four bullets in his body, Strike's older brother turns himself in as the killer. Det. Rocco Klein ...
Style:
thought provoking, realistic, reflective, dark, neo noir ...
Plot:
gangsters, gang, organized crime, hip hop, violence, blaxploitation, murder, ghetto, investigation, african american, mentor, police ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new york, brooklyn new york city, new jersey, california, africa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
The story of a young man who must confront his own fears about love as well as his relationships with family and friends.
Style:
sexy, romantic, disturbing, harsh, unusual plot structure ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
gangsters, african american, love, hip hop, ghetto, relationships, family relations, violence, sex scene, life & death, revenge, runaway ...
Time:
90s
Place:
asia, vietnam, texas, houston texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Follows veteran police officer Dave Brown, the last of the renegade cops, as he struggles to take care of his family, and fights for his own survival.
Style:
bleak, intense, neo noir, thought provoking, rough ...
Plot:
police corruption, brutality, police, police brutality, bigotry, dysfunctional family, scandal, dishonesty, drugs, law enforcement, sister sister relationship, suspense ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, year 1999
Place:
california, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
The gruesome death of a prostitute brings suspicion on one of her clients, James Wayland, a brilliant, self-destructive and epileptic heir to a textile fortune. So detectives Braxton and Kennesaw take Wayland in for questioning, thinking they can ...
Style:
surprise ending, psychological, suspenseful, talky, clever ...
Plot:
murder, police investigation, twists and turns, investigation, guilt, mind game, suspense, law enforcement, prostitute, brutality, dishonesty, rivalry ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Wayne Dobie is a shy cop whose low-key demeanor has earned him the affectionate nickname "Mad Dog." After Mad Dog saves the life of Frank Milo, a crime boss and aspiring stand-up comedian, he's offered the company of an attractive ...
Style:
neo noir, sweet, humorous, clever, sexy ...
Plot:
gangsters, mafia, organized crime, nude, sarcasm, violence, violent, runaway, robbery, relationships, redemption, suspense ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
usa, chicago illinois
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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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
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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