Movies like Illegal Tender
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Illegal Tender (2007)
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
After the gangsters who killed his father come to settle a score, a teenage boy and his mother turn the tables on the killers - one Latino family's quest for honor and revenge as the hunted become the hunters.
Style:
exciting, tense, captivating, psychological, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gang, on the run, pregnancy, haunted by the past, vigilantism, rivalry, drug dealing, revenge, murder, death of father, suspense, gangsters, parents and children, teenage life, vengeance, crime gone awry, criminal heroes, hitman, death, betrayal, beach, gunfight, wealth, suicide, drug dealer ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
puerto rico, usa, latin america, new york, bronx new york city
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, serious, realistic and rough films with plots about rivalry, murder, vengeance, danger, gangsters, deadly and revenge mostly in Crime, Drama and Thriller genres. Some movies like Illegal Tender: Empire (2002), The Ministers (2009), Primordial (2015), Wrong Turn at Tahoe (2009), Ready 2 Die (2014). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A big time drug dealer Victor Rosa is looking to get out of the game and sees his chance with a big deal with a new friend who happens to be a Wall St. stockbroker. Thinking this will be his chance to go out on top Victor soon finds out that he has ...
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intense, stylized, melancholic, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night, girls' night
Plot:
betrayal, organized crime, greed, drugs, twists and turns, gang, suspense, wall street, drug dealing, cons and scams, going straight, criminal heroes ...
Time:
80s
Place:
usa, new york, manhattan new york city, bronx new york city, miami
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95%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A NYPD detective attempts to avenge the death of her father, but unwittingly becomes involved with one of his killers.
Style:
tense, serious, captivating, psychological, realistic ...
Plot:
vengeance, rivalry, law enforcement, murder, unlikely couple, suspense, religious fanaticism, brainwashing, gangsters, murderous pair, romancing a criminal, strong violent content ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa
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85%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
Valerie Graves, a misanthropic, disillusioned woman in her mid-twenties, is haunted by sadistic urges that she has struggled to repress since childhood.
Style:
gothic, psychological, tense, neo noir
Plot:
antisocial behavior, female killer, death of friend, tough girl, vigilantism, chase, killing spree, one woman army, mercilessness, revenge, murder, money ...
Place:
ohio
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100%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A debt collector for the mob (Academy Award(R)-winner Cuba Gooding, Jr.) finds his fate taking a series of treacherous turns after his powerful boss and mentor (Miguel Ferrer) is caught in a dangerous double cross with the most dangerous drug dealer ...
Style:
realistic, suspenseful, rough, serious, exciting
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gangsters, revenge, drug dealing, gunfight, tough heroes, rivalry, violence spree, criminal heroes, vengeance, gang, hitman, bodyguard ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
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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.
Style:
serious, rough, suspenseful, exciting, realistic
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
chase, gang, murder, dishonesty, heist, disorder, on the run, crime gone awry, law enforcement, criminal's revenge, criminal heroes, gangsters ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
california, usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
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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:
serious, tense, suspenseful, realistic
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
hitman, undercover, witnessing a crime, gangsters, working undercover, introspection, crime gone awry, criminal heroes, rivalry, dishonesty, chase, vengeance ...
Place:
usa, miami, florida, new york
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53%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
The story centers on Charlie, a Los Angeles billionaire financial whiz who goes into self-imposed exile in Tijuana after his empire is revealed to have been a Ponzi scheme. While looking for the woman he abandoned there 25 years before, Charlie is ...
Style:
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boys' night
Plot:
gangsters, track down, on the run, rivalry, special agents, police corruption, law enforcement, vengeance, swat team, armed forces, graphic violence, survival ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, los angeles, latin america, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A man forced to abandon his wife and daughter years earlier must risk his life to settle an old score and reunite his family.
Style:
captivating, tense, psychological, realistic, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
family in danger, vengeance, rivalry, parents and children, homecoming, small town, forced into action, gang, save the day, murder, suspense, graphic violence ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Lila, a grief-stricken mother reeling from her son’s murder, attends a support group where she meets Eve, who urges her to take matters into her own hands to track down her son’s killers.
Style:
serious, tense, captivating, exciting, realistic ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
vengeance, suspense, murder, female protagonist, track down, graphic violence, hidden identity, dishonesty, organized crime, police, witness, conspiracy ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A drug kingpin's return home touches off a turf war.
Style:
tense, serious, rough, suspenseful, neo noir ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gangsters, manhunt, addiction, redemption, interracial relations, murder, journalism, criminal heroes, rise and fall, society, drug dealing, vengeance ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
usa, detroit, new york, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Four friends discover and accidentally kill a burglar -- who may not be alone -- in the kitchen during their weekly poker night.
Style:
psychological, tense, captivating, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
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Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
When his partner is killed, tough Irish detective Eddie Ryan (Robert Duvall) vows to avenge the death, whatever the cost. As he begins unraveling clues, his behavior becomes so outrageous that he's obliged to turn in his badge, but the ...
Style:
exciting, realistic, serious, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
city, car chase, sociopath, police officer, gangsters, graphic violence, police detective, tough heroes, loss of partner, vigilantism, law enforcement, vengeance ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
new york, usa, puerto rico
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
In this modern day version of Shakespeare's Macbeth, a hitman heeds a spiritualist's prophesies that he will rise to the head of his family. He starts his ascension by clandestinely executing the heads of the family and casting the blame ...
Style:
serious, realistic, exciting, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gangsters, mafia, hitman, mob boss, rivalry, ambition, dishonesty, murder, tough heroes, violence, fortune teller, betrayal ...
Time:
80s
Place:
usa, new york, bronx new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Two detectives investigating a gang-related find themselves targeted by both gang members and crooked cops.
Style:
suspenseful, exciting, serious, tense, captivating ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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
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boys' night
Plot:
gangsters, rise and fall, rivalry, gang, drug dealing, betrayal, vengeance, ambition, partners, criminal heroes, dishonesty, violence ...
Time:
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Place:
england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A two-bit criminal takes on the Mafia to avenge his brother's death. Earl Macklin is a small time criminal who is released from prison after an unsuccessful bank robbery only to discover that a pair of gunmen killed his brother.
Style:
neo noir, realistic, serious, exciting, gloomy ...
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boys' night
Plot:
revenge, mafia, prison, murder, hitman, brother brother relationship, bank robbery, organized crime, rivalry, crime gone awry, gangsters, chase ...
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Place:
st. louis missouri
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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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 ...
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Plot:
gang, family relations, parents and children, mafia, murder, father son relationship, lawyer, reprisal, rivalry, suspense, gangsters, graphic violence ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
marseille, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
It's a hard crime story about a Philadelphia shop owner who has enough of the criminals' violences and ravages. He organizes a patrol of civil people. It all starts to go wrong because his team's actions are taken as racial ...
Style:
exciting, tense, psychological, realistic, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
revenge, violence, teenager, exploitation, vietnam war, city, vigilantism, vengeance, racism, interracial relations, murder, brutality ...
Time:
80s
Place:
philadelphia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Dominican Republic
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A cop works against his country's corrupt government in order to find justice on a case.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, serious, rough, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
uncover truth, rivalry, haunted by the past, hitman, heroes, dishonesty, political corruption, vengeance, vigilantism, betrayal, life is a bitch, strong violent content ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
When Detective Ben Simm's wife is killed, he has to learn to be both father and mother to his little girl while searching for a Vigilante that has his own sense of justice.
Style:
disturbing, tense, suspenseful, serious, bleak ...
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31%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
After surviving a sneak attack on himself and fellow agents Jimmy and Gene as they were transporting drug kingpin Raymond Manta out of a Mexican jail, FBI agent Jeff Douglas becomes an uwitting pawn of the White Hand drug cartel. Mistakenly told ...
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boys' night
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Time:
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Place:
las vegas, usa, nevada, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Jay Hernandez (Friday Night Lights), Mario Van Peebles (Ali), Luis Guzmán (Carlito's Way) and Sean Combs (Monster's Ball) star in the gripping tale of the early years of gangster legend Carlito Brigante. Seduced by the power of the brutal ...
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boys' night
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Place:
new york, usa, new york state
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
The seemingly random killings of an assassin puzzle her former lover, a wealthy Greek crime boss whose organization is jeopardized by his love for her, and the detective following her rising body count
Style:
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Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
murder, gangsters, vengeance, police investigation, hitman, criminal's revenge, tough heroes, police detective, dishonesty, rivalry, betrayal, woman with a gun ...
Time:
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Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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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 ...
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Audience:
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gangsters, mafia, vengeance, organized crime, criminal's revenge, bank robbery, hitman, murder, revenge, on the run, coming of age, violence ...
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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 ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, Brazil
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
In a dark and decadent area of São Paulo, the exiled Americans Sinatra and his son Paul own a brothel. Paul is a compulsive gambler addicted in cocaine and his father is married with the former prostitute Angie, and they have a little son. When a ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
When a robbery goes awry, the bandits all end up in a puddle of blood and only one lives and goes to jail for five years. Upon his release, the girlfriend wants her new boyfriend to kill him. Only trouble is the boyfriend knows that the fault was ...
Style:
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Plot:
crime gone awry, murder, friendship, haunted by the past, dishonesty, drug dealing, gang, gangsters, criminal's revenge, life is a bitch, criminal heroes, infidelity ...
Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Bob Saginowski finds himself at the center of a robbery gone awry and entwined in an investigation that digs deep into the neighborhood's past where friends, families, and foes all work together to make a living - no matter the cost.
Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
When Baton Rouge police detective Bud Carter busts contract killer Jesse Weiland, he convinces Jesse to become an informant and rat out the South's most powerful crime ring.
Style:
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29%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
"The Prodigy" tells the story of small-time enforcer Truman Fisher's vicious conflict with a sadistic assassin who has chosen the unwilling Truman to be his successor. The assassin, who goes by the alias Rains and whose exploits have ...
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