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The Yellow Sea (2010)
 7.3
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The Yellow Sea (2010)
Original name: 황해
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea, Hong Kong, USA
Duration: 157 min.
Story: The region where the borders of North Korea, China, and Russia come together, forms a sort of modern day wild west, where more than half of the population relies on illegal activity in order to survive. In Yanbian, on the Chinese side of the border, Gu-nam wiles away his days driving a cab and spends his nights getting drunk and gambling. His wife went to Seoul to work and send back money, but it’s been months since he has heard from her. When local crime lord Myun offers to erase Gu-nam’s debts in exchange for a contract killing in Seoul, Gu-nam reluctantly accepts.
Style: exciting, suspenseful, serious, rough, bleak, neo noir, suspense, disturbing, psychological thriller, sincere ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: illegal immigrant, survival, violence, murder, gangster, gang war, on the run, bloodbath, taxi driver, life is a bitch, wife, chases and races, danger, gory, hitman, massacre, police, mobster, chase, mafia, revenge, asian, asian gangster, sex, taxi ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century, contemporary
Place: korea, asia, seoul, east asia, south korea
Keyword: gangsters, korean, chinese

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, realistic, serious and rough films with plots about gangster, murder, violence, rivalry, deadly, gang and mafia mostly in Action, Thriller and Crime genres. Some movies like The Yellow Sea: The Chaser (2008), A Dirty Carnival (2006), Trespass (1992), Beyond Hypothermia (1996), Catch .44 (2011). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Chaser (2008)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Joong-ho is a dirty detective turned pimp in financial trouble as several of his girls have recently disappeared without clearing their debts. While trying to track them down, he finds a clue that the vanished girls were all called up by the same ...
Style: disturbing, suspense, bloody, suspenseful, detective ...
Audience: adult
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Time: year 2008, 2000s, y2k, 21st century
Place: south korea, east asia, seoul, korea, asia
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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 ⇓
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Trespass (1992)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Two Arkansas firemen, Vince and Don, get hold of a map that leads to a cache of stolen gold in an abandoned factory in East St. Louis. What they don't know is that the factory is in the turf of a local gang, who come by to execute one of their ...
Style: exciting, tense, rough, bleak, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
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Time: 90s
Place: usa, illinois, arkansas, st. louis missouri
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Beyond Hypothermia (1996)
Genre: Action, Romance, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong, South Korea
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A mysterious and highly successful hitwoman in Hong Kong is paid to assassinate top-level crime bosses. After beginning a relationship with a noodle vendor, she decides to travel to South Korea to complete one last job. Unfortunately, the dead ...
Style: realistic, suspenseful, serious, stylized, neo noir ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: chase, assassination, gang, vengeance, survival, betrayal, frame up, gory, undercover, danger, assassination attempt, criminal heroes ...
Time: 90s
Place: hong kong, cambodia, asia, korea, seoul
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Catch .44 (2011)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: The lives of three female assassins take a sudden turn when their charming boss lures them into one last job. They soon find themselves thrust into a bizarre situation involving a psychotic hit man, a grizzled trucker and a delusional line cook.
Style: exciting, serious, suspenseful, suspense, predictable ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gangster, woman in danger, hitman, police officer, murder, gunfight, violent, mafia, hustler, femme fatale, spy, impersonating a police officer ...
Time: 21st century
Place: las vegas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Man from Nowhere (2010)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 119 min.
Story: His only friend called him 'the man from nowhere'... Taesik, a former special agent becomes a loner after losing his wife in a miserable accident and lives a bitter life running a pawnshop. He only has a few customers and a friend named ...
Style: serious, tense, brutal, exciting, touching ...
Audience: boys' night, manly
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Time: year 2010, y2k, 21st century
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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
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Time: year 2005, 2000s, 21st century
Place: south korea, east asia, asia, korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
 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
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⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Dog Bite Dog (2006)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong, Japan
Duration: 109 min.
Story: A young Cambodian man who has been trained to fight for money in his country is hired to kill someone in Hong Kong. He performs the hit and then flees from Hong Kong police, who are wrestling with internal problems of a model cop and his son, who is ...
Style: suspenseful, semi serious, tense, suspense, exciting ...
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Place: hong kong, china, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Soo: Revenge for a Twisted Fate (2007)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 122 min.
Story: Tae-soo tries to steal from a gang. The gang catches Tae-Soo's brother, Tae-Jin, instead. The incident causes the brothers to separate. Tae-Soo becomes a mob fixer and an assassin. Tae-Jin becomes a police detective. When a call brings the ...
Style: exciting, tense, suspense, captivating, fast ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: revenge, hidden identity, escapades, gang, haunted by the past, murder, rivalry, manhunt, martial arts, identical twins, police officer, fight ...
Time: 21st century
Place: south korea, asia, korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 7.8
 145K
I Saw the Devil (2010)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 144 min.
Story: Kyung-chul is a dangerous psychopath who kills for pleasure. He has committed infernal serial murders in diabolic ways that one cannot even imagine and his victims range from young women to even children. The police have chased him for a long time, ...
Style: bleak, psychological, disturbing, dark, tense ...
Audience: date night, manly, adult
Plot: serial killer, revenge, vengeance, murder, psychopath, violence, macabre, extreme violence, gory, mercilessness, brutality, torture ...
Time: 2010s, year 2010, year 2000, 2000s, 21st century
Place: south korea, korea, asia, east asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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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 ...
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Audience: boys' night
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Running Scared (2006)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 122 min.
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Audience: boys' night
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Time: year 2006, 2000s, 21st century
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Story: After fighting his way through an apartment building populated by an army of dangerous criminals and escaping with his life, SWAT team member Rama goes undercover, joining a powerful Indonesian crime syndicate to protect his family and uncover ...
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Audience: boys' night, manly
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Confession of Murder (2012)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 119 min.
Story: On the day the 15-year statute of limitations expired on a high profile serial murder case that claimed the lives of 10 women, a family member of the victim throws himself off the building in front of Choi Hyeong-goo, the detective in charge of the ...
Style: tense, suspenseful, rough, detective, stylized ...
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Time: 21st century
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⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Walking the Edge (1985)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A Los Angeles taxi driver helps a distraught young woman on the run from gangsters after they murder her husband and young son.
Style: hood, neo noir, independent film, realistic, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
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Time: 80s
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Nowhere to Hide (1999)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Over the next 72 days, Detective Woo will push his skills to the limits and his team of cops to the edge as they conduct a manhunt for an elusive criminal. Woo takes the law into his own hands as the hunt becomes personal, and as his target may get ...
Style: stylized, neo noir, fast, serious, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
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Time: 90s
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⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: In the wilderness of British Columbia, two hunters are tracked and viciously murdered by Aaron Hallum. Former Special Operations instructor, L.T. Bonham is approached and asked to apprehend Hallum, his former student, who has 'gone rogue' ...
Style: suspense, intense, brutal, slasher, psychological ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
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31%
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On the Job (2013)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Philippines
Duration: 118 min.
Story: On The Job is about the ambitions and passions of four men trying to make a living, for themselves and their families. It shows the parallels between two prison inmates who are contract killers, and the two agents of the law investigating the ...
Style: realistic, serious, exciting, suspenseful, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gangster, corruption, danger, corrupt law enforcer, honest law enforcer, assassination, politics, criminal heroes, dishonesty, asian, prison, contract killer ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: the philippines, asia, manila philippines
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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 ⇓
30%
Ichi the Killer (2001)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 129 min.
Story: As sadomasochistic yakuza enforcer Kakihara searches for his missing boss he comes across Ichi, a repressed and psychotic killer who may be able to inflict levels of pain that Kakihara has only dreamed of.
Style: disturbing, controversial, dark comedy, bloody, splatter ...
Audience: boys' night
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Time: year 2001, 2000s, 21st century
Place: japan, east asia, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
We Own the Night (2007)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: A New York nightclub manager tries to save his brother and father from Russian mafia hitmen.
Style: suspense, harsh, stylized, captivating, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: organized crime, mafia, gangster, police, nightclub, gang, cop, brothers, hitman, multiple storylines, law enforcement, heroin ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Night of the Running Man (1995)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A Las Vegas cab driver finds a million dollars of stolen money in his cab after his fare is murdered. Soon after, a ruthless hitman is in persuit; he will stop at nothing to recover the money and dispose of all witnesses.
Style: serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful, exciting ...
Plot: hitman, on the run, gangster, chase, heist, tough heroes, danger, dishonesty, law enforcement, pursuit, murder, crime boss ...
Time: 90s
Place: las vegas, usa, salt lake city utah, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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Last Man Standing (1996)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: John Smith is a mysterious stranger who is drawn into a vicious war between two Prohibition-era gangs. In a dangerous game, he switches allegiances from one to another, offering his services to the highest bidder. As the death toll mounts, Smith ...
Style: neo noir, stylized, serious, suspenseful, exciting ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: gangster, mafia, gang war, small town, betrayal, shootout, violence, one man army, gunfight, tough guy, one against many, prohibition ...
Time: 20th century, 1930s, 1920s, year 1932
Place: texas, mexico, usa, austin texas, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 129 min.
Story: This is the story of Ryu, a deaf man, and his sister, who requires a kidney transplant. Ryu's boss, Park, has just laid him off, and in order to afford the transplant, Ryu and his girlfriend develop a plan to kidnap Park's daughter. Things ...
Style: disturbing, depressing, psychological, bloody, harsh ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: kidnapping, revenge, organ donation, gory, violent, suicide, transplant, vigilante, mute or deaf, rape and revenge, vengeance, ransom ...
Time: 2000s, y2k, year 2003, 21st century
Place: korea, south korea, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
 7.2
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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 ⇓
30%
 7.8
 51K
The Killer (1989)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Mob assassin Jeffrey is no ordinary hired gun; the best in his business, he views his chosen profession as a calling rather than simply a job. So, when beautiful nightclub chanteuse Jennie is blinded in the crossfire of his most recent hit, Jeffrey ...
Style: exciting, suspense, cult classic, atmospheric, bloody ...
Audience: boys' night, date night, manly
Plot: hitman, assassin, heroic bloodshed, organized crime, gunfight, friendship, triad, revenge, one last job, yakuza, violent, mob boss ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, year 1989
Place: hong kong, china, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Eastern Promises (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A Russian teenager, living in London, dies during childbirth but leaves clues to a midwife in her journal, that could tie her child to a rape involving a violent Russian mob family.
Style: neo noir, disturbing, serious, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot: gangster, mob boss, russian mafia, prostitution, murder, male nudity, rape, brutality, death in childbirth, child prostitute, investigation, organized crime ...
Time: year 2007, 2000s, 21st century
Place: england, london, st. petersburg russia, europe, scotland yard ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
 5.9
 4K
Villain (2020)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story: After 10 years, Eddie Franks is out of prison and trying to stay on the straight and narrow, but his drug-mule brother, Sean has other ideas. Rival gangster brothers demand Sean repay his debt to them, causing Eddie to get tangled in the crossfire, ...
Style: suspenseful, suspense, tense, captivating, disturbing ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: danger, rivalry, police, murder, debt, society, violence, escapades, family relations, gangster, ghetto, gang ...
Place: london
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
 6.7
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Gangster Squad (2013)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Los Angeles, 1949. Ruthless, Brooklyn-born mob king Mickey Cohen runs the show in this town, reaping the ill-gotten gains from the drugs, the guns, the prostitutes and — if he has his way — every wire bet placed west of Chicago. And he does it ...
Style: rough, exciting, stylized, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night, chick flick, manly, teens
Plot: mob boss, organized crime, mafia, gangster, partners against crime, law enforcement, corruption, revenge, police brutality, squad, power struggle, love triangle ...
Time: 1940s, year 2013, 2010s, 20th century, year 1949 ...
Place: los angeles, california, israel, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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