Movies like The Grind 2009
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The Grind (2009)
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Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Luke, is a grifter who owes a significant debt to the Mexican mob. Set in the gritty underbelly of Gardena, CA Luke has to come up with one final scheme to pay back his debt or his life is at risk. Supported by his two only friends, Courtney and Josh, they come together to devise a plan that with a little blind luck just might get Luke out of the hole.
Style:
serious, rough, realistic, suspenseful, tense, neo noir
Plot:
danger, disorder, dishonesty, looking for sex, criminal's revenge, partner, rivalry, going straight, blind ambition, chaos and mayhem, female masturbation, voyeur, female pubic hair, gambling, voyeurism, cons and scams, gangster, criminal heroes, crime gone awry, unlikely criminals, hitman, dangerous animal, deadly, female removes her clothes, female full frontal nudity ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
mexico
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Most similar movies to The Grind
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, suspenseful and tense films with plots about dishonesty, deadly, danger, female nudity, murder, rivalry and nude mostly in Thriller, Drama and Crime genres. Some movies like The Grind: Dirty Work (2006), The Devil's Dominoes (2008), BlackMale (2000), From the Inside (2010), Net Games (2003). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Bad City is the tangled story of three men's lives: Manning, a dirty, disillusioned cop; Julian, king of drugs, thugs and prostitution; and Frank, a ruthless politician who destroys everything in the way of his ambition.
Style:
rough, suspenseful, serious, tense, realistic ...
Plot:
police detective, murder, police investigation, prostitute, gangster, reluctant partners, law enforcement, gambling, serial killer, danger, tough heroes, dangerous attraction ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
texas, chicago
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
On their way to a weekend hunting trip in the Ozarks, four friends get in to a car accident, killing the driver of the other car...
Style:
tense, suspense, psychological, captivating, serious ...
Plot:
gangster, vengeance, partner, dishonesty, rivalry, murder, danger, car accident, car, son, revenge, friend ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, chicago
Similarity:
50%
420
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The Plot is actually pretty crafty and full of (surprisingly) unsuspecting twists. The special effects are actually quite realistic which is surprising for such a low budget movie. Bokeeem Woodbine plays his role with a serious emotion that only ...
Style:
realistic, suspenseful, serious, suspense, tense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
heist, siblings relations, disorder, dishonesty, crime gone awry, cons and scams, blackmail, home invasion, lesbian, sex, voyeurism, female nudity ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
80%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Alone in their isolated home where no cars pass and no one lives nearby, Vincent and Tally suffer together in a loveless marriage. But what they don't know is that they are not as alone as they think -- a criminal and his psychotic brother are ...
Style:
tense, serious, suspenseful, suspense, independent film ...
Plot:
murder, kidnapping, cons and scams, danger, dishonesty, crime gone awry, murderous pair, rivalry, graphic violence, nudity, violent content, female nudity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
80%
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479
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
The successful publicist Adam Vance of the SFC is in the middle of a campaign to get an important Japanese client and is needy of sex because his traumatized wife Jennifer Vance was raped one year ago and is totally frigid, refusing to have sex. His ...
Style:
sexy, serious, suspenseful, realistic, erotic ...
Plot:
femme fatale, computers and web, extramarital affair, dangerous attraction, voyeurism, cyberspace, murder, technophobia, dishonesty, adultery, obsession, protagonist as suspect ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
77%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Ryder Hart is a private investigator and former police officer who is down on his luck and drinks too much. His estranged wife Anita runs a bar and restaurant called the Sunset Grill and is romantically involved with a cop who worked with Hart.
Style:
tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot:
unhappy marriage, alcoholic, voyeur, illicit affair, unfaithfulness, female pubic hair, caught having sex, cheating wife, dysfunctional marriage, sex scene, erotica, female nudity ...
Time:
90s
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
76%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Erika Eleniak as a woman who plans the murder of her husband ...
Style:
serious, suspense, intense, tense, realistic ...
Plot:
erotica, murder, cons and scams, crime gone awry, dishonesty, money, nothing goes right, murder of husband, danger, female nudity, blonde, infidelity ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
75%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
A stylish, cat-and-mouse suspense story about a young woman's sexual awakening and self-discovery. Alone on vacation in Crescent Bay, unexpectedly abandoned by both her boyfriend and her parents, HANNAH (Courtney Cole) gets caught up in a web ...
Style:
sexy, realistic, serious, erotic, sexual
Plot:
voyeur, love and romance, mysterious character, infidelity, sexual relations, couples, dangerous attraction, dishonesty, beach, female masturbation, nudity, female nudity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
california
Similarity:
74%
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Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A mobster moves to a new town as a protected witness and tries to start over, only to find he can't escape his old ways
Style:
tense, suspenseful, serious, realistic, independent film
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
starting over, going straight, hidden identity, criminal heroes, special agent, gangster, vengeance, crime gone awry, tough heroes, danger, criminal's revenge, hitman ...
Place:
usa
Similarity:
74%
494
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Henry, an uptight businessman who sometimes acts with questionable ethics, nevertheless rejects Ron, a scam artist who wants a partner. Ron won't let up and finds a lever to blackmail Henry, whose daughter Gina has killed a pedestrian in a ...
Style:
psychological, realistic, serious, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot:
murder, hitman, unlikely criminals, parents and children, dishonesty, danger, manipulation, cons and scams, blackmail, serial killer, masturbation, hit and run ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
73%
699
Genre: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Terrified after having witnessed the cold-blooded murder of her boss and her cousin by vicious gangsters, an exotic dancer from Russia flees to England and assumes the identity of her dead relative only to discover that no matter how far you run, ...
Style:
erotic, realistic, serious, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
female detective, sex with teenager, making love, woman in jeopardy, females talking about sex, blonde, sexual pleasure, village, partner, reluctant partners, hitman, woman in danger ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, europe, russia
Similarity:
73%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Three ex-cons kidnap a famous movie star and force her to film a sex tape live on the internet for a paying audience.
Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful, sexploitation film
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
sexploitation, woman in danger, hostage, femme fatale, criminal's revenge, confined, movie star, criminal heroes, danger, crime gone awry, computers and web, kidnapping ...
Similarity:
72%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A tense and intricate web of deceit and betrayal entangles Archie, a wandering grifter who is hired by a traveling carnival owner to murder his beautiful wife.
Style:
realistic, suspenseful, tense, serious, erotic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
manhunt, murder, betrayal, crime gone awry, frame up, gangster, criminal heroes, law enforcement, femme fatale, dishonesty, protagonist as suspect, cons and scams ...
Place:
usa, new orleans, alabama
Similarity:
70%
473
Genre: Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Abel is a boxer turned debt collector who is struggling to provide for his young son. When he falls in love with beautiful car thief Kay, the couple plan for a new crime-free beginning. To fund their new law-abiding life, however, they conspire for ...
Style:
tense, sincere, bleak, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot:
gambling, redemption, dishonesty, crime gone awry, danger, partner, hopes, love affair, parents and children, love and romance, going straight, criminal heroes ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
spain, europe, barcelona
Similarity:
69%
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A young man about to get married earns extra cash by driving a local mobster, but things go awry when the mobster is shot dead by a rival crime boss.
Style:
realistic, rough, serious, suspenseful, erotic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
bare breasts, voyeur, coitus, female nudity, murder, betrayal, crime gone awry, gang, danger, criminal heroes, rivalry, criminal's revenge ...
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
69%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
Two young boys and a girl commit a diamond robbery on Halloween. During escape the girl is fatally shot. One of the boys knows a doctor (Jeremy London) who has a private clinic in his house. They decide to go to his house instead of the hospital ...
Style:
suspenseful, tense, captivating, psychological, suspense ...
Plot:
on the run, crime gone awry, confined, dishonesty, rivalry, fugitives, chase, gang, doctor, halloween, home invasion, master criminal ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
69%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Professional killer Gav Reed commits a grave mistake allowing himself to be videotaped (as she always does, for a documentary she hopes to sell to Hollywood about the real nocturnal 'eldest business' there) by Julie Spencer, one of Max ...
Style:
sexy, erotic, tense, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot:
dangerous attraction, sex scene, sexploitation, femme fatale, making love, investigation, sexual relations, who done it, murder, uncover truth, danger, dishonesty ...
Similarity:
68%
Genre: Thriller
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Ray Liotta stars as Jack Malloy, a hardcore career criminal until a near-death experience causes him to turn his world around. But when his former partner Drake is released from prison, he tracks Jack down to blackmail him into one last job. Jack is ...
Style:
serious, rough, suspenseful, tense, realistic
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
murder, criminal, revenge, vengeance, criminal heroes, criminal's revenge, going straight, frame up, husband wife relationship, ex convict, robbery, drug use ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
australia
Similarity:
68%
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Genre: Thriller
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Director Christophe Blanc delivers a fast-past thriller set to a background of Finland's stunning landscape. High-end car dealership owner Maxime is pursued by Finnish gangsters over unsatisfactory cars his dead partner sold them.
Style:
tense, serious, suspenseful, suspense, realistic ...
Plot:
gangster, danger, vengeance, life turned upside down, family relations, loss of partner, murder, disorder, family in danger, brother brother relationship, skinny dipping, mafia ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
finland, europe
Similarity:
65%
Genre: Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
In The Burial Society, Sheldon Kasner, an unlikely criminal who works as a bank loan manager, infiltrates the mysterious world of the Chevrah Kadisha (the Jewish society that prepares bodies for burial according to ancient ritual) in order to steal ...
Style:
realistic, serious, suspenseful, twisted, biting ...
Plot:
unlikely criminals, survival, disorder, cons and scams, dishonesty, crime gone awry, gangster, bank, down on your luck, secret society, faked death, embezzlement ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
middle east
Similarity:
65%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A neglectful mother concocts a plan to kill her live-in nanny when she discovers the nanny is having an affair with her husband.
Style:
tense, serious, suspenseful, realistic, captivating ...
Plot:
vengeance, family relations, love affair, danger, nanny, attempted murder, adultery, urban, disorder, couple relations, crime gone awry, hitman ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
63%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A female parole officer unwittingly gets involved with a handsome photographer who might be a serial killer.
Style:
sexy, erotic, suspenseful, rough, suspense ...
Plot:
strangulation, dangerous attraction, femme fatale, female masturbation, lust, erotica, policewoman, redheaded woman, promiscuous woman, naked woman, public nudity, female pubic hair ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
62%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Clayton Pierce is an agent working under deep cover. Although he is a top agent, he is questioning his loyalty after twenty years of service. His devotion has already cost him his wife, family and personal life. During a de-briefing from his last ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, suspense, tense, independent film ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
working undercover, save the day, memory loss, undercover, rivalry, political conspiracy, government agency, danger, dishonesty, political corruption, terrorism, antidote ...
Similarity:
62%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
When a stunt man dies in Miami, his uncle, a New York mob boss, sends a hit man to tail the stunt coordinator, whom the boss wants dead. The hit man, Eric O'Bryne, gets close to his mark's daughter, and through her he asks her dad to teach ...
Style:
tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
hitman, undercover, witnessing a crime, gangster, introspection, working undercover, rivalry, criminal heroes, crime gone awry, dishonesty, danger, assassin ...
Place:
usa, cuba, florida, new york, miami
Similarity:
62%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Pro Beach Volleyball star, Kelly Reyes, faces challenges everyday, fierce competitors, the press, but nothing could prepare her for him.
Style:
suspenseful, realistic, serious, psychological, scary
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
serial killer, stalking, dangerous attraction, voyeur, police investigation, danger, rivalry, murder, psychopath, obsession, mind game, woman in danger ...
Place:
usa, beverly hills
Similarity:
61%
627
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A man just released from a mental institution gets involved in a gold mine scheme while trying to avoid the cops, a wrathful drug dealer, and a sultry femme fatale.
Style:
suspenseful, serious, atmospheric, realistic, neo noir ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
bare breasts, femme fatale, master criminal, haunted by the past, unlikely partners, confined, drug dealing, criminal heroes, dishonesty, friendship, couples, gold mine ...
Place:
usa, nevada, reno nevada
Similarity:
61%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A mysterious attacker is preying on the rich and decadent set in an elite community.
Style:
erotic, serious, realistic, sexy, mind bending ...
Plot:
lesbian sex, fondling, female nudity, sexploitation, sex, erotica, lesbianism, lust, voyeurism, bare breasts, voyeur, coitus ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Similarity:
59%
Genre: Thriller
Country: Australia, France, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A wealthy man married to a beautiful younger woman puts her fidelity to the test.
Style:
sexy, tense, realistic, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot:
unfaithful wife, female nudity, femme fatale, betrayal, dangerous attraction, mind game, vengeance, obsession, dishonesty, rivalry, love affair, manipulation ...
Place:
usa, new orleans
Similarity:
59%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
An industrialist's wife is kidnapped and held for ransom.
Style:
serious, exciting, suspenseful, rough, independent film ...
Plot:
kidnapping, hostage, daring rescue, missing person, danger, confined, race against time, crime gone awry, survival, escapades, rivalry, ransom ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
59%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The feature weaves an intricate tale about childhood best-friends that have an unusually strong bond and a more intriguing secret. Both young men are on the right path to promising futures, a first round NFL draft pick, and a talented art major on a ...
Style:
neo noir, serious, bleak, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot:
gambling, best friend, betrayal, vengeance, rivalry, intrigue, murder, dishonesty, ambition, obsession, interracial, sexual content ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
58%
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