Movies like The Godfather Part II
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The Godfather Part II (1974)
1.3M
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 202 min.
Story:
In the continuing saga of the Corleone crime family, a young Vito Corleone grows up in Sicily and in 1910s New York. In the 1950s, Michael Corleone attempts to expand the family business into Las Vegas, Hollywood and Cuba.
Style:
epic, captivating, serious, visually appealing, dramatic, realistic, breathtaking, atmospheric, inspirational, political ...
Audience:
boys' night, manly
Plot:
mafia, gangsters, organized crime, revenge, ambition, melancholy, cosa nostra, corruption, immigrants, corrupt politician, murder, crime boss, rise to the top, gang, violence, suspense, italian immigrant, criminal heroes, vengeance, immigration, assassination, criminal, villain, mob boss, italian mafia ...
Time:
50s, 1940s, 20th century, 1920s, 60s, 1910s, 40s ...
Place:
new york, cuba, italy, las vegas, sicily, usa, europe ...
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Most similar movies to The Godfather Part II
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, stylized and tense films with plots about murder, gangsters, organized crime, mafia, violence, criminal and corruption mostly in Drama, Crime and Thriller genres. Some movies like The Godfather Part II: The Godfather (1972), The Irishman (2019), Casino (1995), Road to Perdition (2002), Goodfellas (1990). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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1.9M
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 175 min.
Story:
Spanning the years 1945 to 1955, a chronicle of the fictional Italian-American Corleone crime family. When organized crime family patriarch, Vito Corleone barely survives an attempt on his life, his youngest son, Michael steps in to take care of the ...
Style:
serious, epic, atmospheric, dramatic, captivating ...
Audience:
boys' night, chick flick
Plot:
mafia, organized crime, gangsters, greed, revenge, betrayal, crime family, pride and honor, corruption, murder, wedding, gang war ...
Time:
1940s, 50s, 20th century, post world war two
Place:
italy, new york, bronx new york city, europe, sicily ...
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96%
397K
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 209 min.
Story:
A mob hit man recalls his possible involvement with the slaying of Jimmy Hoffa.
Style:
captivating, exciting, tense, inspirational, thought provoking ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
mafia, organized crime, italian mafia, labor union, murder, gangsters, killer as protagonist, high society, prison, arrest, hitman, old man ...
Time:
1940s, 50s, 60s, 70s, 20th century ...
Place:
ireland, chicago illinois, philadelphia, pennsylvania, cuba ...
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100%
528K
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA, France
Duration: 178 min.
Story:
The life of the gambling paradise – Las Vegas – and its dark mafia underbelly.
Style:
realistic, clever, rough, captivating, stylized ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
organized crime, mafia, casino, gangsters, rise and fall, gambling, greed, criminal heroes, betrayal, suspense, fbi, money ...
Time:
70s, 80s, 20th century, year 1973, year 1980 ...
Place:
las vegas, usa, midwest, kansas city, costa rica ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Mike Sullivan works as a hit man for crime boss John Rooney. Sullivan views Rooney as a father figure, however after his son is witness to a killing, Mike Sullivan finds himself on the run in attempt to save the life of his son and at the same time ...
Style:
atmospheric, harsh, bleak, tense, emotional ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
gangsters, mafia, vengeance, organized crime, criminal's revenge, bank robbery, hitman, murder, revenge, on the run, coming of age, violence ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century, year 1931
Place:
illinois, usa, chicago illinois, michigan
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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1.2M
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 145 min.
Story:
The true story of Henry Hill, a half-Irish, half-Sicilian Brooklyn kid who is adopted by neighbourhood gangsters at an early age and climbs the ranks of a Mafia family under the guidance of Jimmy Conway.
Style:
rough, realistic, epic, brutal, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
mafia, organized crime, gangsters, rise and fall, criminal heroes, mentor, drugs, suspense, friends, cosa nostra, drug traffic, gang ...
Time:
70s, 50s, year 1970, 80s, year 1963 ...
Place:
new york, brooklyn new york city, italy, florida, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 229 min.
Story:
A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over thirty years later, where he once again must confront the ghosts and regrets of his old life.
Style:
melancholic, epic, ambiguous ending, atmospheric, breathtaking ...
Audience:
boys' night, kids
Plot:
gangsters, organized crime, friendship, mafia, prohibition, gunfight, rape, betrayal, childhood friend, criminal heroes, corruption, flashback ...
Time:
1930s, 60s, 1920s, year 1984, 20th century ...
Place:
new york, usa, italy, miami, florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
412K
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 55 min.
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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, captivating, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
mafia, organized crime, gangsters, killings, criminal heroes, dark humor, family life, family relations, violence, ambition, mob boss, criminal ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
new jersey, new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
91%
314K
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
An FBI undercover agent infilitrates the mob and finds himself identifying more with the mafia life at the expense of his regular one.
Style:
tense, realistic, neo noir, clever, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
mafia, gangsters, undercover, organized crime, fbi, mentor, investigation, working undercover, suspense, undercover agent, gang, law enforcement ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1978
Place:
new york, new jersey, florida, usa, miami ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 162 min.
Story:
In the midst of trying to legitimize his business dealings in 1979 New York and Italy, aging mafia don, Michael Corleone seeks forgiveness for his sins while taking a young protege under his wing.
Style:
epic, visually appealing, serious, stylized, sad ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
mafia, gangsters, organized crime, revenge, violence, guilt, murder, assassination, father daughter relationship, father son relationship, catholic church, psychology ...
Time:
70s, 80s, 60s, 20th century, year 1979 ...
Place:
italy, new york, palermo italy, sicily, atlantic city new jersey ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
855K
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 170 min.
Story:
After getting a green card in exchange for assassinating a Cuban government official, Tony Montana stakes a claim on the drug trade in Miami. Viciously murdering anyone who stands in his way, Tony eventually becomes the biggest drug lord in the ...
Style:
serious, exciting, rough, harsh, psychological ...
Audience:
date night, manly, boys' night
Plot:
gangsters, mafia, organized crime, gunfight, drug lord, drug cartel, mob boss, cocaine, ambition, drug dealing, drug abuse, violence ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1980
Place:
miami, miami beach, cuba, florida, bolivia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
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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, bleak ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gangsters, mafia, crime boss, gang war, parent child relationship, police corruption, suburbs, man hits a woman, melancholy, corrupt politician, lawyer, criminal ...
Time:
50s, 1930s, 1940s, 1920s, 20th century
Place:
cuba, italy, europe, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, United Arab Emirates
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
A thriller set in New York City during the winter of 1981, statistically one of the most violent years in the city's history, and centered on a the lives of an immigrant and his family trying to expand their business and capitalize on ...
Style:
intense, dark, atmospheric, tense, serious ...
Plot:
mafia, oil, american dream, gangsters, corruption, organized crime, truck, suspense, business ethics, immigrants, winter, twists and turns ...
Time:
year 1981, 70s, 20th century, 80s
Place:
new york, usa, new jersey, brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA, China
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
A con man, Irving Rosenfeld, along with his seductive partner Sydney Prosser, is forced to work for a wild FBI agent, Richie DiMaso, who pushes them into a world of Jersey powerbrokers and mafia.
Style:
clever, tense, intense, cynical, tricky ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
partners in crime, twists and turns, fbi, cons and scams, mafia, organized crime, heist, deception, gangsters, scam, political corruption, strip club ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1978, 80s
Place:
new jersey, usa, atlantic city new jersey, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 157 min.
Story:
Following the death of his employer and mentor, Bumpy Johnson, Frank Lucas establishes himself as the number one importer of heroin in the Harlem district of Manhattan. He does so by buying heroin directly from the source in South East Asia and he ...
Style:
serious, tense, realistic, harsh, clever ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
mafia, organized crime, gangsters, heroin, mob boss, drug lord, police, drugs, gang, crime boss, drug traffic, criminal ...
Time:
60s, 70s, 20th century, year 1968, year 1970 ...
Place:
new york, new jersey, bronx new york city, harlem, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
222K
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, atmospheric, suspenseful, tense, melancholic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gangsters, mafia, organized crime, nightclub, suspense, tragic hero, drug dealing, drugs, gang, gunfight, prison, violence ...
Time:
70s, 90s, 20th century, year 1975
Place:
new york, usa, grand central station manhattan new york city, harlem, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Movies similar to The Godfather
146K
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Set in the Bronx during the tumultuous 1960s, an adolescent boy is torn between his honest, working-class father and a violent yet charismatic crime boss. Complicating matters is the youngster's growing attraction - forbidden in his ...
Style:
sentimental, intense, realistic, touching, reflective ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gangsters, mafia, coming of age, organized crime, mentor, loyalty, gang leader, father son relationship, friendship, african american, gang, brutality ...
Time:
60s, year 1960, 20th century, year 1968
Place:
new york, bronx new york city, usa, new york state, new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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, captivating, suspenseful, atmospheric, tense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
mafia, gangsters, mob boss, organized crime, prohibition, criminal heroes, corruption, smuggling, businessman, americana, ambitious, elimination ...
Time:
1920s, 20th century
Place:
new jersey, usa, atlantic city, new york, chicago illinois ...
⇓ 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 ⇓
67%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France, Germany, USA, Japan
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
An African-American Mafia hit man who models himself after the samurai of old finds himself targeted for death by the mob.
Style:
atmospheric, thought provoking, art house, stylized, captivating ...
Plot:
loneliness, gangsters, mafia, hip hop, african american, samurai, loner, hitman, racial slur, professional killer, friendship, vengeance ...
Time:
future, 90s, 20th century
Place:
new york, usa, new jersey, africa, brooklyn new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
A gangster family epic set in 1919 Birmingham, England and centered on a gang who sew razor blades in the peaks of their caps, and their fierce boss Tommy Shelby, who means to move up in the world.
Style:
serious, atmospheric, tense, stylized, captivating ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
gangsters, organized crime, gang, mafia, gang war, determination, cruelty, crime boss, power struggle, rivalry, society, family relations ...
Time:
1920s, 20th century, 1910s
Place:
england, ireland, britain, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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Movies like Scarface
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 583 min.
Story:
The multigenerational saga of the rise and fall of the Corleone crime family.
Style:
surprise ending, epic
Plot:
crime boss, cosa nostra, gangsters, mafia, sicilian mafia, loss of son, car bomb, pregnancy, widower, brother sister relationship, new year's eve, bondage ...
Time:
60s, 50s, 80s, 70s, 20th century ...
Place:
southern italy, vatican, sicily, las vegas, miami ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Norway, USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
Frank Tagliano (Steven Van Zandt), is a former member of the New York mob. After testifying in a trial in the United States, Tagliano is relocated to Lillehammer in Norway through the FBI's witness protection program. Frank Tagliano was ...
Style:
witty, talky, stylized, humorous, entertaining ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
mafia, culture clash, dark humor, gangsters, lifestyle change, blackmail, starting over, middle aged, business venture, small town life, businessman, fish out of water ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
norway, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, France, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Lucky Luciano is one of the bosses of the Mafia. He orders the slaughter of 40 other responsibles, therefore becoming the only boss. But a few years later he is put into jail. In 1946, he got a pardon and is sent back to Sicilia. There, he begins ...
Style:
serious, realistic, captivating, talky, rough ...
Plot:
gangsters, mafia, cosa nostra, ambition, organized crime, american mafia, intelligence agency, criminal heroes, life is a bitch, legal, law enforcement, rivalry ...
Time:
1940s, 1930s, 50s, 20th century, 60s ...
Place:
italy, sicily, usa, europe, naples italy ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Young Treasury Agent Elliot Ness arrives in Chicago and is determined to take down Al Capone, but it's not going to be easy because Capone has the police in his pocket. Ness meets Jimmy Malone, a veteran patrolman and probably the most ...
Style:
stylized, suspenseful, clever, tense, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night, manly
Plot:
mafia, gangsters, organized crime, corruption, smuggling, tough cop, tough law enforcer, gunfight, suspense, prohibition, tax evasion, prohibition era ...
Time:
1930s, 1920s, 20th century
Place:
chicago illinois, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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 ⇓
23%
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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 ⇓
22%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 167 min.
Story:
It's 1863. America was born in the streets. Amsterdam Vallon returns to the Five Points of America to seek vengeance against the psychotic gangland kingpin, Bill the Butcher, who murdered his father years earlier. With an eager pickpocket by ...
Style:
tense, stylized, epic, rough, atmospheric ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
revenge, gang, gangsters, vengeance, organized crime, street gang, violent, crime boss, betrayal, courage, racism, gang war ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, edwardian era, 50s, 1840s ...
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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, cynical ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gangsters, organized crime, mafia, corruption, irish mob, blackmail, love triangle, violence, gang, betrayal, twists and turns, mayor ...
Time:
1930s, 1920s, 20th century
Place:
usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, War
Country: USA
Duration: 147 min.
Story:
At the height of the Vietnam war, Captain Benjamin Willard is sent on a dangerous mission that, officially, "does not exist, nor will it ever exist." His goal is to locate - and eliminate - a mysterious Green Beret Colonel named Walter ...
Style:
psychological, bleak, atmospheric, disturbing, surreal ...
Plot:
vietnam war, insanity, jungle, anti war, mission, military, violence, army, soldier, violent, war, secret mission ...
Time:
20th century, 60s, year 1969
Place:
vietnam, cambodia, asia, the philippines, southeast asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
30K
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 136 min.
Story:
New York gangster Ben 'Bugsy' Siegel takes a brief business trip to Los Angeles. A sharp-dressing womanizer with a foul temper, Siegel doesn't hesitate to kill or maim anyone crossing him. In L.A. the life, the movies, and most of all ...
Style:
realistic, stylized, intense, talky, tense ...
Plot:
mafia, gambling, casino, organized crime, gangsters, hollywood, jewish, suspense, ambition, rise and fall, love affair, bohemian life ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, 1930s, year 1945, 70s
Place:
las vegas, los angeles, usa, new york, california ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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