Movies like Hard Luck
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Hard Luck (2006)
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Three converging story lines involving bootleggers, a serial killer and drug dealers are followed. A former drug dealer tries to go straight, but comes across a stash of stolen drugs. Meanwhile, a middle-aged suburban housewife hides a sadistic and vicious streak.
Style:
suspense, serious, suspenseful, realistic
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
serial killer, gangster, chase, drug dealing, danger, dishonesty, psychopath, hitman, car chase, on the run, partner, witnessing a crime, drug abuse, going straight, criminal heroes, violence, criminal, gunfight, robbery, police officer, black, drug, money, alcohol abuse, chases and races ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Keyword:
gangsters, partners
Most similar movies to Hard Luck
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, serious, realistic and rough films with plots about deadly, law enforcement, chases and races, rivalry, dishonesty, murder and gangster mostly in Thriller, Drama and Action genres. Some movies like Hard Luck: Moving Target (1996), Consignment (2007), Backflash (2001), The Line (2009), Truth or Consequences, N.M. (1997). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A bounty hunter with a pregnant wife who is urging him to get a regular job gets framed for murder and trapped in a war between Russian gangsters.
Style:
suspenseful, serious, intense, independent film, realistic
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
heroes, chase, hand to hand combat, murder, gangster, fugitives, dishonesty, chases and races, criminal's revenge, on the run, master warrior, violence ...
Time:
90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Consignment is the authentic and brutal story of an East Coast drug dealer forced to flee to California only to realize state lines don't erase past sins.
Style:
suspenseful, rough, realistic, serious, independent film
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Plot:
drug dealing, gangster, on the run, going straight, police investigation, starting over, gang, hitman, criminal's revenge, rivalry, buddies, law enforcement ...
Place:
california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
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730
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A woman is released from prison and heads home to help outwit a local mob boss and pull off the scam of a lifetime.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, suspense, action packed, realistic
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Plot:
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
The story centers around veteran assassin Mark Shields as he tracks down, Pelon, the elusive head of the Salazar Crime Cartel. Through twists of fate, Shields ends up with a local woman, Olivia who is also fighting her own demons for the sake of her ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, exciting, realistic, rough ...
Plot:
drug dealing, drug abuse, gangster, hitman, mentally unstable, law enforcement, master criminal, criminal heroes, assassin, spy, killer, professional ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
mexico, tijuana mexico, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Raymond Lembecke (Vincent Gallo) is a con just out of prison after serving time for selling drugs for his mob boss Tony Vago (Rod Steiger). (Lembecke was innocent and took the rap for Vago.) Lembecke thinks Vago owes him big time so, when his former ...
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Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
robbery, gangster, on the road, crime gone awry, hitman, on the run, prison, hostage, organized crime, police corruption, chase, ex convict ...
Time:
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Place:
new mexico, las vegas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, Romania
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Sonni Griffith, a top US Secret Agent must protect a witness as he crosses Europe.
Style:
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boys' night
Plot:
law enforcement, terrorism, undercover, on the run, woman in danger, save the day, survival, espionage, race against time, witnessing a crime, rivalry, escapades ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
676
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A kick-ass professional car thief, Sage, (Taryn Manning), steals a classic '66 Charger on a challenge. It turns out the car belongs to a serial killer (is there another kind?), who proceeds to slice and dice her friends because he wants his car ...
Style:
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Plot:
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37%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A former drug-dealer photojournalist (Michael Paré) returns to Los Angeles and helps friends terrorized by his ex-partner (Dennis Hopper).
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
90s
Place:
los angeles, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Ethan Tell is a small time crook who makes a big-time score when he steals 1 million dollars. Ironically, his life radically changes for the worst when he discovers that stealing the money was the easy part and he now must keep his partner, his ...
Style:
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Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
After a group of young revolutionaries break into a company's corporate headquarters and steal $5,000,000 worth of heroin to keep it off the street, they call on San Francisco Police Lieutenant Virgil Tibbs for assistance.
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boys' night
Plot:
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Place:
usa, san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
For opposite reasons, an undercover federal agent and a small time hood join forces to take on a union of drug lords and dirty cops.
Style:
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Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Netherlands, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Gilly comes out of prison after serving a six year stretch and decides that he will now turn his life around and go straight. But when he returns to his South London home and visits his old colleague J, in hope of obtaining his share of the proceeds ...
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35%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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34%
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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33%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
When the South Side Gang and the Cut Throat Mafia start a drug war at a local high school in Santa Ana, CA, detective McClure goes undercover to investigate the brutal murder of a young Latina student. The gang members are the key suspects but ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
In lawless storm ravaged New Orleans, eleaguered Detective Sean Riley is trying to cope with the death of his young son and the abandonment of his wife. Facing a probable suspension from the department, Riley is teamed with a young homicide ...
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Plot:
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Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
After a violent bank robbery, the trio of hoods make their way across East L.A. carrying a blood-soaked bag of money. When word gets out, they must fend off gangs and crooked cops alike as they strive to keep the loot and stay alive.
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⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Former CIA Operative, James Dial is coaxed back into action to kill a terrorist in London, but it all goes wrong and he is forced into hiding, where he meets and befriends a 12 year old girl.
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Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
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Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Sam Dietz, the relentless police detective, returns to Los Angeles from a self-imposed exile to help the police solve another series of brutal killings committed by another crafty serial killer whom targets Dietz's latest love interest.
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Story:
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Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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