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The Krays (1990)
9K
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
The Krays is a film based on the lives and crimes of the British gangsters Ronald and Reginald Kray, twins who are often referred to as The Krays and were active in London in the 1960s.
Style:
neo noir, tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film, psychological, brutal, enigmatic ...
Plot:
gangster, twins, mafia, organized crime, mental illness, violent, murder, male nudity, brutality, british gangster, gang, criminal, mobster, violence, killer, lgbt, police, supernatural, rock, railway, post war, intrigue, sibling relationship, glbt, lgbtq ...
Time:
1940s, 60s, 20th century, 1950s, 70s, 50s, 1960s
Place:
england, london, europe
Keyword:
gangsters, matriarch
Most similar movies to The Krays
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, rough and suspenseful films with plots about murder, gangster, organized crime, gang, violence, mobster and biopic mostly in Drama, Crime and Biography genres. Some movies like The Krays: Legend (2015), Murderous Maids (2000), Veronica Guerin (2003), Rise of the Footsoldier (2007), Cass (2008). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
Suave, charming and volatile, Reggie Kray and his unstable twin brother Ronnie start to leave their mark on the London underworld in the 1960s. Using violence to get what they want, the siblings orchestrate robberies and murders while running ...
Style:
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Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
mafia, gang, rise and fall, gangster, abusive husband, psychopath, mobster, twins, relationships, mafioso, extortion, twin brother ...
Time:
60s, year 2015, 2010s, 90s, 50s ...
Place:
london, england, east end london, west end london, scotland yard ...
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Based on the true story of two chambermaids (the Papin sisters) of 1930s France who murdered their employer and her daughter. Christine Papin (Sylvie Testud), and Léa Papin (Julie-Marie Parmentier) are sisters with an already troubled past. Madame ...
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Time:
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Place:
france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Ireland, UK, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
In this true story, Veronica Guerin is an investigative reporter for an Irish newspaper. As the drug trade begins to bleed into the mainstream, Guerin decides to take on and expose those responsible. Beginning at the bottom with addicts, Guerin then ...
Style:
suspense, intense, realistic, tense, emotional ...
Plot:
journalism, investigation, strong female character, murder, gangster, justice, corruption, drug lord, police, drug dealing, heroin, journalist ...
Time:
90s, year 2003, 20th century
Place:
ireland, dublin ireland, europe, amsterdam
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Action, Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Rise of the Footsoldier follows the inexorable rise of Carlton Leach from one of the most feared generals of the football terraces to becoming a member of a notorious gang of criminals who rampaged their way through London and Essex in the late ...
Style:
serious, captivating, realistic, tense, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night
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Place:
england, united kingdom, britain, europe, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
The incredible true story of how an orphaned Jamaican baby, adopted by an elderly white couple and brought up in an all white area of London, became one of the most feared and respected men in Britain.
Style:
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Plot:
racism, adoption, interracial relations, bullying, lifestyle, going straight, self discovery, rise to the top, parents and children, rebellion, human spirit, rivalry ...
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
John Gotti rises to the top of the New York underworld to become the boss of the Gambino crime family. His life takes a tumultuous turn as he faces tragedy, multiple trials and a prison sentence.
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36%
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
The true story of Whitey Bulger, the brother of a state senator and the most infamous violent criminal in the history of South Boston, who became an FBI informant to take down a Mafia family invading his turf.
Style:
suspense, factual, intense, brutal, realistic ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
31K
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:
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Plot:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 180 min.
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Freddie Jackson is just out of prison. He's done his time, made the right connections and now he's ready to use them. His wife Jackie dreams of having her husband home but she's forgotten the rows and the girls Freddie can't ...
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Time:
80s, 20th century, 90s
Place:
england, london, east end london
⇓ 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 ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Germany, Ireland
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
An old gangster is advised that Freddie Mays would leave jail after thirty years in prison. His mood changes and he recalls when he was a young punk, who joined Freddie Mays' gang, a man he both envied and ultimately betrayed.
Style:
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Audience:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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34%
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
On the 6th December 1995, three Essex gang members were brutally murdered in cold blood. It’s now early 1997 and whoever killed the three men have yet to be brought to justice. An associate of the men, still mourning the loss of his friends, is ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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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.
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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9K
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
John Gotti, the head of a small New York mafia crew breaks a few of the old family rules. He rises to become the head of the Gambino family and the most well-known mafia boss in America. Life is good, but suspicion creeps in, and greed, ...
Style:
serious, realistic, rough
Plot:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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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:
poliziottesco, historical drama, contemplative, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
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Time:
1940s, 1930s, 50s, 20th century, post world war two ...
Place:
italy, sicily, europe, usa, new york ...
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32%
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 ...
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Plot:
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Time:
70s, year 2011, 60s, 20th century, year 1977 ...
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usa, ireland, ohio, new york, brooklyn new york city ...
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32%
Genre: Action, Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Brutal and celebrated Mafia gangster John Gotti (Danny Nucci) schemes, shoves and murders his way to the top of that world in this gritty biography told from the perspective of Salvatore Polisi (Jason Gedrick), who owns the Sinatra Club, where ...
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tense, serious, rough, suspenseful, realistic
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Plot:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
The story of the rise and fall of the infamous Chicago gangster Al Capone and the control he exhibited over the city during the prohibition years.
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⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Based upon the true story of Bruce Johnston Sr., his son, and his brothers; together, they constituted one of suburban Philadelphia's most notorious crime families during the 1970's. Their criminal activities ranged from burglary, theft... ...
Style:
neo noir, disturbing, tense, realistic, bleak ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
The story of British serial killer John Christie, who committed most or all of his crimes in the titular terraced house, and the miscarriage of justice involving Timothy Evans.
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Place:
new york, usa, florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
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Place:
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31%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, France
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
The story concerns the funeral of one of three brothers in a family of gangsters that lived in New York in 1930s. Details of the past of the brothers and their families are shown through a series of flashbacks.
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
Hoping to raise enough capital to finance a legitimate business and leave behind his life of crime, Liverpool underworld boss Ged Brennan sends his brother Ratter and a crew to pull a daring final heist. But when Ratter kills a drug kingpin during ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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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, tense, exciting, inspirational, crime drama ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
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Audience:
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