Movies like Election

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Election (2005)
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Election (2005)
Original name: 黑社會
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A drama-thriller centered on a democratic election within an organized crime society.
Style: suspense, rough, captivating, suspenseful, neo noir, bloody, crime drama, tense, serious, realistic ...
Plot: organized crime, election, rise to the top, rivalry, ambition, ego clash, triad, uninhibited rivalry, rules and policies, asian gangster, elimination, temperamental, merciless, gangster, power struggle, murder, undercover, crime boss, underworld, brotherhood, mafia, martial arts, kung fu, gang, yakuza ...
Time: year 2005, 2000s, 21st century, contemporary
Place: china, hong kong, asia
Keyword: gangsters, chinese, retrospective

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Most similar movies to Election

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, suspenseful and rough films with plots about rivalry, gangster, gang, organized crime, mafia, criminal heroes and dishonesty mostly in Crime, Drama and Thriller genres. Some movies like Election: New World (2013), Drug War (2012), PTU: Police Tactical Unit (2003), Protégé (2007), Infernal Affairs II (2003). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Election 2 (2006)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 93 min.
Story: As election time nears, current Triad chairman Lok (Simon Yam) faces competition from his godsons. At the same time, Jimmy (Louis Koo) looks to increase his business relations with mainland China.
Style: suspenseful, serious, rough, captivating, realistic ...
Plot: organized crime, triad, election, henchman, gangster, rivalry, rules and policies, criminal heroes, dishonesty, ambition, criminal, crime boss ...
Time: year 2006, 21st century
Place: china, hong kong, asia
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100%
 7.5
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New World (2013)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 135 min.
Story: An undercover cop has his loyalties tested when the boss of the corporate gang he's spent years infiltrating dies.
Style: neo noir, suspenseful, realistic, captivating, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gangster, gang war, mole, gang leader, moral dilemma, criminal gang, mafia, organized crime, undercover cop, police, betrayal, mind game ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: south korea, korea, asia, east asia, seoul
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.0
 11K
Drug War (2012)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 107 min.
Story: The taciturn police commander Zhang leads an undercover drugs team and in his continuous battle against the ubiquitous drug barons, takes up arms against his arch enemy, Timmy Choi. When he gets hold of Choi, he makes a deal with him: in exchange ...
Style: serious, rough, tense, exciting, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: war on drugs, drug cartel, whistleblower, mole, criminal, recruit, law enforcement, betrayal, dishonesty, triad, gang, shooting ...
Time: year 2012, 21st century
Place: china, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
PTU: Police Tactical Unit (2003)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Over the course of one night, a team of cops frantically search for their colleague's missing gun.
Style: neo noir, serious, suspenseful, exciting, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: police investigation, police detective, gang, investigation, partners against crime, goofy hero, rivalry, murder, tough law enforcer, master criminal, law enforcement, dishonesty ...
Place: hong kong, china, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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Protégé (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Undercover officer Nick had spent the last seven years penetrating into the core of a drug ring working his way up from a street dealer post to the managerial position handling cargo deliveries for Kwan - the biggest player in the local heroin ...
Style: serious, bleak, rough, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot: drug dealing, mole, undercover, working undercover, drug abuse, life is a bitch, dishonesty, law enforcement, tragic hero, moral dilemma, organized crime, triad ...
Time: 21st century
Place: hong kong, china, east asia, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Infernal Affairs II (2003)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong, Singapore, China
Duration: 119 min.
Story: In this prequel to Mou gaan dou (2002), Chan Wing Yan has just become an undercover cop in the triads while Lau Kin Ming joins the police force. Both the triads and the police find an enemy in a rival crime boss.
Style: suspense, neo noir, tense, exciting, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: chinese mafia, gangster, triad, organized crime, spy, murder, police, police investigation, survival, recruit, police detective, mind game ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1995, year 1991, year 1997 ...
Place: hong kong, asia, china, thailand
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
 5.2
 603
Bad Blood (2010)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 91 min.
Story: When the boss of a ruling Hong Kong triad is arrested and executed in China for counterfeiting money, mayhem ensues as the mob's leading contenders circle the throne.
Style: captivating, exciting, bleak, tense, bloody ...
Plot: triad, martial arts, rivalry, female warrior, betrayal, law enforcement, fight, killer, female martial artist, murder, danger, female fight ...
Time: 21st century
Place: china
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
 6.7
 14K
Flash Point (2007)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Detective Sergeant Ma Jun, known for dispensing his own brand of justice during arrests, teams up with an undercover cop, Wilson, to try and bring down three merciless Vietnamese brothers running a smuggling ring in the months before mainland ...
Style: exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, non stop action ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, drug lord, kung fu, fighting crime, fight, police investigation, gang, danger, rivalry, working undercover, vigilantism, arrest ...
Time: 20th century, year 2007, 90s
Place: hong kong, china, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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Infernal Affairs (2002)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Chan Wing Yan, a young police officer, has been sent undercover as a mole in the local mafia. Lau Kin Ming, a young mafia member, infiltrates the police force. Years later, their older counterparts, Chen Wing Yan and Inspector Lau Kin Ming, ...
Style: psychological, suspenseful, tense, neo noir, intense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: mole, police, triad, organized crime, gangster, undercover, betrayal, mob boss, mafia, double life, cop, corruption ...
Time: year 2002, y2k, year 2004, future, 2000s ...
Place: hong kong, china, east asia, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Eye in the Sky (2007)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The head of an elite Hong Kong surveillance unit (Simon Yam) keeps one eye on his rookie apprentice (Kate Tsui) and the other on a notorious criminal (Tony Leung Ka Fai) he suspects of masterminding a recent jewel heist in this tense thriller from ...
Style: tense, exciting, serious, captivating, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: master criminal, undercover, fighting crime, police investigation, law enforcement, police detective, heist, rivalry, working undercover, agent, murder, found footage ...
Time: 21st century
Place: hong kong, china, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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 10K
Exiled (2006)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A friendship is formed between an ex-gangster, and two groups of hitmen - those who want to protect him and those who were sent to kill him.
Style: serious, suspenseful, rough, exciting, neo noir ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gangster, hitman, friendship, starting over, heroic bloodshed, vengeance, dishonesty, danger, frame up, babies and infants, crime boss, triad ...
Time: year 2006
Place: east asia, china, macau
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Infernal Affairs III (2003)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Infernal Affairs III is a 2003 Hong Kong crime thriller film directed by Andrew Lau and Alan Mak. It is the third installment in the Infernal Affairs film series, and is both a sequel and a semi-prequel to the original film, as it intercuts events ...
Style: neo noir, serious, realistic, tense, captivating ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gangster, triad, police, mob boss, spy, gang war, working undercover, twists and turns, mole, police detective, police investigation, gang ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: hong kong, china, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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 7K
City on Fire (1987)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Ko Chow is an undercover cop who is under pressure from all sides. His boss, Inspector Lau, wants him to infiltrate a gang of ruthless jewel thieves; in order to do this he must obtain some handguns; his girlfriend wants him to commit to marriage or ...
Style: neo noir, cult classic, action thriller, crime drama, bloody ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: organized crime, heroic bloodshed, heist, gangster, robbery, triad, male bonding, police, police officer, undercover, undercover cop, yakuza ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: china, hong kong, asia, hawaii
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Colour of the Truth (2003)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A man becomes a cop in order to take down the police superintendent who may have killed his father, and that of a vengeful Triad boss.
Style: exciting, captivating, suspense, tense, crime drama ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: spy, gangster, danger, rivalry, dishonesty, undercover, police corruption, snitch, law enforcement, police, police shootout, revenge ...
Time: 21st century
Place: hong kong, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
A Better Tomorrow (1986)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A reforming ex-gangster tries to reconcile with his estranged policeman brother, but the ties to his former gang are difficult to break.
Style: neo noir, bloody, cult classic, intense, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: friendship, heroic bloodshed, triad, gunfight, organized crime, police, yakuza, mafia, mobster, hate, criminal underworld, crime boss ...
Time: 80s, year 1986, future, 20th century
Place: hong kong, china, asia, taiwan, taipei
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
A Dirty Carnival (2006)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 140 min.
Story: Byung-du is a 29-year-old career criminal, working for the middle-rank enforcer Sang-chul. Burdened with a terminally ill mother and taking care of younger siblings, Byung-du is feeling financial pressure as a substitute patriarch. When the big boss ...
Style: suspenseful, rough, captivating, serious, tense ...
Audience: manly
Plot: gangster, gang, murder, director, debt, rivalry, criminal heroes, rise and fall, gang war, ambition, financial problem, right hand man ...
Time: y2k, 21st century
Place: seoul, korea, asia, south korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Running Out of Time (1999)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Police inspector and excellent hostage negotiator Ho Sheung-Sang finds himself in over his head when he is pulled into a 72 hour game by a cancer suffering criminal out for vengeance on Hong Kong's organized crime syndicates.
Style: suspense, neo noir, dramatic, sexy, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: terminal illness, thief, heist, revenge, cross dressing, race against time, chase, swat team, heroic bloodshed, buddy cop, gunfight, die hard ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: china, asia, hong kong
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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I Corrupt All Cops (2009)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 112 min.
Story: In the early 1970s, the Governor of Hong Kong decided to clean up the police force. The ICAC was established, whose operation branch was headed by Yim. Bong and Unicorn also joined the ICAC. Despite threats of violence and intimidation, they managed ...
Style: tense, captivating, suspense, atmospheric, realistic ...
Plot: drug dealing, police investigation, police corruption, rivalry, gang, money laundering, society, cop, dishonesty, strong violent content, profanity, scapegoat ...
Time: 20th century, 60s, 70s
Place: hong kong, china, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Triad (2012)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Three childhood friends join the Hong Kong Triads only to discover that fame and fortune will ultimately break them apart as only one can become the leader of the gang.
Style: suspenseful, rough, serious, realistic
Plot: triad, gangster, gang, rivalry, ambition, criminal heroes, buddies, friends, criminal underworld, bandit, gang leader, criminal ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: hong kong, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 6.0
 358
Wo Hu (2006)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 101 min.
Story: The Hong Kong Police placed 1000 undercover officers in the various Triad groups in their efforts to bring down the criminal organization in Hong Kong. After one undercover officer's identity is discovered and he is killed, the pressure is put ...
Style: tense, captivating, suspense, psychological, heroic ...
Plot: gang, working undercover, undercover, rivalry, hidden identity, law enforcement, partner, police officer killed, secret police, fighting crime, mafia, danger ...
Time: 21st century
Place: hong kong
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
A Bittersweet Life (2005)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Kim Sun-woo is an enforcer and manager for a hotel owned by a cold, calculative crime boss, Kang who assigns Sun-Woo to a simple errand while he is away on a business trip; to shadow his young mistress, Heesoo, for fear that she may be cheating on ...
Style: suspense, bleak, psychological, atmospheric, tense ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: hitman, gunfight, asian gangster, organized crime, revenge, vengeance, mafia, betrayal, gangster, fall in love, brutality, character study ...
Time: year 2005, 2000s, 21st century
Place: south korea, east asia, asia, korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 6.8
 15K
Outrage (2010)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 109 min.
Story: The story begins with Sekiuchi, boss of the Sannokai, a huge organized crime syndicate controlling the entire Kanto region, issuing a stern warning to his lieutenant Kato and right-hand man Ikemoto, head of the Ikemoto-gumi. Kato orders Ikemoto to ...
Style: serious, tense, cynical, realistic, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: yakuza, gang member, organized crime, gangster, hanging, gang war, danger, rivalry, gory, merciless, criminal's revenge, violence spree ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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The Departed (2006)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Hong Kong
Duration: 151 min.
Story: To take down South Boston's Irish Mafia, the police send in one of their own to infiltrate the underworld, not realizing the syndicate has done likewise. While an undercover cop curries favor with the mob kingpin, a career criminal rises ...
Style: twist ending, suspense, surprise ending, clever, tense ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: mafia, police, organized crime, mole, mobster, undercover cop, twists and turns, undercover, gunfight, corruption, working undercover, gangster ...
Time: 2000s, year 2006, 21st century
Place: boston, america, persia, massachusetts, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Miller's Crossing (1990)
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, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: organized crime, corruption, irish mob, mafia, violence, blackmail, love triangle, gangster, mobster, betrayal, shootout, underworld ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, 1930s, 1920s, year 1990
Place: usa, new york, new orleans
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Bonded by Blood (2010)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story: In 1995, drug suppliers and career criminals Tony Tucker, Patrick Tate and Craig Rolfe were blasted to death by a shot gun whilst waiting in a Range Rover in Rettendon, Essex. The film charts their rise to become the most prolific dealers and feared ...
Style: tense, serious, rough, suspenseful, realistic
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gang, rise and fall, rivalry, partner, gangster, dishonesty, betrayal, criminal heroes, vengeance, drug dealing, ambition, violence ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: england, britain, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Battles Without Honor and Humanity (1973)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 99 min.
Story: In the teeming black markets of postwar Japan, Shozo Hirono and his buddies find themselves in a new war between factious and ambitious yakuza...
Style: grindhouse, captivating, exciting, realistic, serious ...
Plot: yakuza, organized crime, betrayal, mafia, gang, female nudity, samurai, mafioso, battles, tough guy, humanity, japanese mafia ...
Time: post world war two, 1940s, 20th century
Place: hiroshima japan, japan, tokyo, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Real Gangsters (2013)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Real Gangsters tells the story of the Lo Giacamo family, one of the most successful crime syndicates in New York City. Run by cousins Vincent Lo Giacamo and Jack Lo Giacamo, Real Gangsters shows how these two men maintain control of their dangerous ...
Style: tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, cynical ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gangster, rise and fall, rivalry, family business, family relations, ambition, unfulfillment, organized crime, danger, mafia, society, outlaw ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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 316
Marseille (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Alex, the son of a gang boss from Marseilles, joins the French Foreign Legion to avoid a hit put out on him by the Corsican Mafia. Four years later, Alex deserts and returns to Marseilles to get back together with Katia, his former girlfriend. But ...
Style: captivating, psychological, tense, suspense, serious ...
Plot: gang, danger, family relations, parents and children, murder, mafia, father son relationship, lawyer, reprisal, rivalry, black, violent content ...
Time: year 2014, 21st century
Place: marseille, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 7.1
 3K
Overheard (2009)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong, Singapore, China
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The story revolves around three members of a police surveillance squad conducting an investigation into a financial investment group involved in criminal fraud. The focus of the plot, however, is actually on the three officers themselves who stumble ...
Style: realistic, tense, captivating, psychological, neo noir ...
Plot: police investigation, partner, corporate crime, undercover, dishonesty, secretly observing, business, danger, rivalry, espionage, hustler, stock market ...
Time: 21st century
Place: hong kong, china, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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