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Madso's War (2010)
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Madso's War (2010)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A power vacuum develops when the top mob boss flees a federal indictment.
Style: exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, erotic, independent film, rough
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gangster, rivalry, criminal heroes, uninhibited rivalry, betrayal, murder, violence, mafia, bandit, gang, criminal, mafioso, gunfight, mob boss, criminal gang, irish mob, treasure hunt, profanity, sexual content, urban, violent content, prostitute, female nudity, fbi, sex scene ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: usa, boston, massachusetts
Keyword: gangsters, irish

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, suspenseful and rough films with plots about criminal heroes, gangster, rivalry, dishonesty, gang, murder and profanity mostly in Crime, Drama and Action genres. Some movies like Madso's War: Beyond the Trophy (2012), Chicago Overcoat (2009), Mafia (2012), Decisions (2011), Coast Mafia (2014). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Beyond the Trophy (2012)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Two rival gangs in Los Angeles and Las Vegas, led by Gino (Robert Miano) and Cole (Michael Madsen), are vying for control. Danny (Michael Masini), an LAPD undercover police detective, goes deep into gangland to infiltrate one gang to bring down both.
Style: exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film
Audience: boys' night
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Time: 21st century
Place: las vegas, los angeles, usa
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95%
Chicago Overcoat (2009)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: The fates of an aging hitman and a washed up detective become entwined when one last job leads to one last chance to settle an old score.
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Time: 21st century
Place: chicago, usa
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94%
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Mafia (2012)
Genre: Action, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story: Ving Rhames, Pam Grier, and Robert Patrick headline this throwback action thriller set in 1975, and following a renegade cop who skirts the law in order to capture a ruthless crime boss.
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Time: 20th century, 70s, year 1975
Place: pittsburgh, usa
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94%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Action
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: "Irish Eyes" explores the relationship between two Irish-American brothers in Boston born to immigrant parents and raised in a rough, working class Irish neighborhood. After watching their father being gunned down in front of their eyes as ...
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, exciting
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Time: 1940s, 70s, 50s, 1950s
Place: boston, ireland
⇓ similarity ⇓
93%
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Decisions (2011)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: When a group of friends decide to pull a bank heist to get out from underneath their money troubles. They quickly discover that things can unravel in a hurry! A compromised LAPD Detective (Corey Haim) on the take with a crime syndicate figure want ...
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Time: 21st century
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91%
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Coast Mafia (2014)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Story: Shin, a good family friend and business partner of the DeLeon family, assumes his role as head of the Coast Mafia.
Style: exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, detective
Plot: gangster, criminal heroes, family business, murder, money, mob
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story: In the streets of East Los Angeles, Manny is a formidable drug dealer. Impressed by his extravagant lifestyle and prowess, his young son, Kilo, yearns to follow in his footsteps. Kilo resolves to learn how to prosper in the drug world, and his new ...
Style: rough, realistic, serious, suspenseful, exciting
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Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles, california, usa, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
90%
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By the Gun (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A rising Boston gangster (Ben Barnes) endangers those around him when he starts to make moves without the knowledge of his boss (Harvey Keitel).
Style: serious, rough, realistic, suspenseful, interesting
Audience: boys' night
Plot: mafia, gangster, violence, gang, criminal heroes, revenge, father son relationship, betrayal, double life, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, crime boss, brother brother relationship ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
89%
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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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89%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
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Duration: 85 min.
Story: Quinn Forte had it all: power, money, a brother who idolized him, and a woman who loved him. He also had enemies. In the course of one night, he loses everything. Betrayed by someone in his inner circle, Quinn is set up and arrested. His father, the ...
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Consignment (2007)
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.
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87%
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Hot Boyz (2000)
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Story: Injustice begets a criminal. Kool is an artist without prospects, a black belt in karate, and in love with LaShawna, poised and college bound. One night she witnesses a stabbing and discovers the victim is a cop as he dies in her arms. She's ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
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86%
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86%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
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Country: USA
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⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller, Crime, Drama
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⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
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⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
 7.3
 64
Two Coyotes (2001)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
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⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
This Thing of Ours (2002)
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⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
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