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The Limey (1999)
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The Limey (1999)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: The Limey follows Wilson, a tough English ex-con who travels to Los Angeles to avenge his daughter's death. Upon arrival, Wilson goes to task battling Valentine and an army of L.A.'s toughest criminals, hoping to find clues and piece together what happened. After surviving a near-death beating, getting thrown from a building and being chased down a dangerous mountain road, the Englishman decides to dole out some bodily harm of his own.
Style: neo noir, cult classic, suspense, non-linear, atmospheric, stylized, exciting, heartbreaking, entertaining, controversial ...
Plot: revenge, gangster, investigation, vengeance, father daughter relationship, mansion, death of daughter, ex convict, hitman, murder, showdown, englishman abroad, shootout, violence, memory, organized crime, home invasion, vigilante, ambush, death, criminal, police investigation, storytelling, courtroom, airplane ...
Time: 90s, year 1999, 60s, 20th century, 1960s
Place: los angeles, california, england, southern california, usa, london, pacific ocean ...

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Most similar movies to The Limey

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out tense, suspense, realistic and suspenseful films with plots about murder, death, corruption, storytelling, violent, violence and revenge mostly in Thriller, Crime and Drama genres. Some movies like The Limey: The Long Goodbye (1973), I'll Sleep When I'm Dead (2003), Sicario (2015), 8MM (1999), Stillwater (2021). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
The Long Goodbye (1973)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Detective Philip Marlowe tries to help a friend who is accused of murdering his wife.
Style: neo noir, detective, dark, cynical, atmospheric ...
Audience: manly
Plot: private detective, murder, cat, profanity, whodunit, investigation, beach, mental institution, supermarket, alcoholic, private investigator, loneliness ...
Time: 70s, year 1973, 20th century
Place: los angeles, malibu california, california, mexico, usa ...
Similarity:
100%
I'll Sleep When I'm Dead (2003)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Will Graham, a former London crime boss who has left his former life to live as a recluse in the forest. Haunted by the blood of those he has murdered, Will wishes never to return. But when his brother commits suicide, following a sexual assault at ...
Style: neo noir, atmospheric, tense, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: violence, revenge, anal rape, male nudity, vengeance, murder, male rape, rape victim, gay rape, suicide, dark hero, sexual assault ...
Time: year 2003, 70s, 21st century
Place: london, england, europe
Similarity:
100%
 7.7
 530K
Sicario (2015)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Mexico, Hong Kong
Duration: 121 min.
Story: A young female FBI agent joins a secret CIA operation to take down a Mexican cartel boss, a job that ends up pushing her ethical and moral values to the limit.
Style: realistic, brutal, harsh, suspense, neo noir ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: revenge, cia, drug cartel, drug smuggling, hitman, brutality, fbi, fbi agent, black ops, cia agent, vigilantism, murder ...
Time: 2010s, year 2016, year 2015, 21st century
Place: mexico, usa, texas, tucson arizona, arizona ...
Similarity:
100%
 6.6
 150K
8MM (1999)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: A small, seemingly innocuous plastic reel of film leads surveillance specialist Tom Welles down an increasingly dark and frightening path. With the help of the streetwise Max, he relentlessly follows a bizarre trail of evidence to determine the fate ...
Style: suspense, disturbing, psychological, erotic, brutal ...
Audience: adult
Plot: private detective, obsession, male nudity, videotaped sex, revenge, murder mystery, private investigator, sexual abuse, investigation, violent, serial killer, sex ...
Time: year 1999, 90s
Place: los angeles, california, new york, usa, pennsylvania ...
Similarity:
100%
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Stillwater (2021)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 139 min.
Story: Bill Baker, an American oil-rig roughneck from Oklahoma, travels to Marseille to visit his estranged daughter, Allison, who is in prison for a murder she claims she did not commit. Confronted with language barriers, cultural differences, and a ...
Style: suspense, inspirational, dramatic, disturbing, captivating ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: father daughter relationship, prisoner, father, mother in law son in law relationship, american football, murder, investigation, political conspiracy, framed for murder, accused of murder, hopes, family problems ...
Time: 2020s, 21st century
Place: france, oklahoma city, marseille
Similarity:
100%
 6.2
 46K
Synchronic (2019)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Two New Orleans paramedics' lives are ripped apart after encountering a series of horrific deaths linked to a designer drug with bizarre, otherworldly effects.
Style: suspense, lovecraft, psychological, tense, captivating ...
Plot: time travel, drug, ambulance, best friend, paramedic, brain tumor, time, swamp, racism, chemotherapy, investigation, alligator ...
Time: 2010s, 2020s, 21st century
Place: new orleans, louisiana
Similarity:
100%
Where the Truth Lies (2005)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 107 min.
Story: An ambitious reporter probes the reasons behind the sudden split of a 1950s comedy team.
Style: sexy, period piece, erotic, suspense, disturbing ...
Audience: kids
Plot: murder, sexualized violence, investigation, hotel, journalist, sex, sex party, sexual obsession, lesbian, threesome, lesbian cunnilingus, cover up ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, year 1957, year 2005, 50s ...
Place: new jersey, los angeles, miami
Similarity:
100%
 7.3
 26K
Point Blank (1967)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: After being double-crossed and left for dead, a mysterious man named Walker single-mindedly tries to retrieve the rather inconsequential sum of money that was stolen from him.
Style: neo noir, surreal, ambiguous ending, noir, tense ...
Audience: boys' night, manly
Plot: organized crime, revenge, vengeance, betrayal, gangster, flashback, left for dead, anti hero, hitman, murder, robbery, money ...
Time: 20th century, future, year 1967, 60s
Place: usa, san francisco, california, los angeles
Similarity:
22%
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L.A. Confidential (1997)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 138 min.
Story: Three detectives in the corrupt and brutal L.A. police force of the 1950s use differing methods to uncover a conspiracy behind the shotgun slayings of the patrons at an all-night diner.
Style: neo noir, tense, suspense, captivating, atmospheric ...
Audience: adult
Plot: corruption, police corruption, organized crime, police, murder, police detective, twists and turns, murder mystery, police brutality, justice, shootout, gunfight ...
Time: 1950s, 50s, year 1997, 90s, 20th century ...
Place: los angeles, california, usa, arizona, persia ...
Similarity:
21%
 6.5
 25K
Wonderland (2003)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 104 min.
Story: On the afternoon of July 1, 1981, Los Angeles police responded to a distress call on Wonderland Avenue and discovered a grisly quadruple homicide. The police investigation that followed uncovered two versions of the events leading up to the brutal ...
Style: suspenseful, bleak, tense, rough, detective ...
Audience: adult
Plot: addiction, heroin, sex, police investigation, drug addiction, murder, serial killer, drug, junkie, true crime, drug addict, life is a bitch ...
Time: 20th century, year 1981, y2k, year 2003, 80s ...
Place: los angeles, pasadena california, usa, sacramento california, california
Similarity:
20%
The Long Good Friday (1980)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 114 min.
Story: In the late 1970s, Cockney crime boss Harold Shand, a gangster trying to become a legitimate property mogul, has big plans to get the American Mafia to bankroll his transformation of a derelict area of London into the possible venue for a future ...
Style: neo noir, cynical, harsh, atmospheric, tense ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: gangster, ira, organized crime, mafia, crime boss, terrorist, car bomb, danger, revenge, rivalry, criminal's revenge, murder ...
Time: 70s, year 1980, 80s, 20th century
Place: england, ireland, london, britain, europe ...
Similarity:
20%
 7.2
 207K
Layer Cake (2004)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: When a seemingly straight-forward drug deal goes awry, XXXX has to break his die-hard rules and turn up the heat, not only to outwit the old regime and come out on top, but to save his own skin...
Style: neo noir, intense, tense, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: organized crime, violence, sex, drug dealing, twists and turns, gangster, chase, murder, drug, british gangster, drug lord, caper ...
Time: year 2004, 70s, 90s, 60s, 20th century
Place: london, england, britain, amsterdam, netherlands ...
Similarity:
20%
To Live and Die in L.A. (1985)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: A fearless Secret Service agent will stop at nothing to bring down the counterfeiter who killed his partner.
Style: neo noir, suspense, cult classic, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: revenge, car chase, police, terrorist, investigation, murder, male pubic hair, vigilante, hitman, undercover, police investigation, vengeance ...
Time: 80s, year 1985, 20th century
Place: los angeles, southern california, usa, california
Similarity:
19%
 7.5
 229K
Traffic (2000)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 147 min.
Story: An exploration of the United States of America's war on drugs from multiple perspectives. For the new head of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, the war becomes personal when he discovers his well-educated daughter is abusing cocaine ...
Style: suspense, political, realistic, thought provoking, anthology ...
Plot: drug traffic, organized crime, drug abuse, drug dealer, drug lord, addiction, drug addiction, drug cartel, drug, war on drugs, politics, corruption ...
Time: year 2000, y2k, 20th century, 90s, 2000s
Place: mexico, latin america, california, ohio, los angeles ...
Similarity:
19%
 6.4
 7K
Cop (1988)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: An obsessive, insubordinate homicide cop is convinced a serial killer is loose in the Hollywood area and disobeys orders in order to catch him.
Style: neo noir, perverse, psychological, suspenseful, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: serial killer, vigilante, murder, cop, police corruption, killer, investigation, psychopath, police officer, blood, corruption, brutality ...
Time: 80s
Place: los angeles, san francisco
Similarity:
19%
Mulholland Falls (1996)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: In 1950s Los Angeles, a special crime squad of the LAPD investigates the murder of a young woman.
Style: neo noir, tense, suspense, serious, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: murder, political corruption, police, police investigation, conspiracy, revenge, betrayal, gangster, dishonesty, partners against crime, mafia, law enforcement ...
Time: 20th century, 1950s, year 1996, 50s
Place: los angeles, california, usa, mulholland drive
Similarity:
19%
 7.4
 48K
Thief (1981)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: Frank is an expert professional safecracker, specialized in high-profile diamond heists. He plans to use his ill-gotten income to retire from crime and build a nice life for himself complete with a home, wife and kids. To accelerate the process, he ...
Style: neo noir, noir, retro, cult classic, perverse ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: safecracker, bank robbery, robbery, mafia, organized crime, character study, heist, criminal, bank robber, great ending, violence, betrayal ...
Time: 80s, year 1981, 20th century, 70s
Place: chicago, usa, illinois, los angeles, new jersey
Similarity:
18%
 7.0
 153K
Payback (1999)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: With friends like these, who needs enemies? That's the question bad guy Porter is left asking after his wife and partner steal his heist money and leave him for dead -- or so they think. Five months and an endless reservoir of bitterness later, ...
Style: neo noir, suspense, black comedy, visually stunning, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: vengeance, revenge, money, mafia, robbery, violence, betrayal, organized crime, twists and turns, greed, anti hero, prostitute ...
Time: future, 70s, 20th century
Place: chicago, usa, new york
Similarity:
18%
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Killing Them Softly (2012)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Jackie Cogan is an enforcer hired to restore order after three dumb guys rob a Mob protected card game, causing the local criminal economy to collapse.
Style: neo noir, brutal, suspenseful, intense, tense ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, adult
Plot: robbery, violence, mafia, organized crime, gangster, hitman, poker, brutality, crime gone awry, assassin, murder, sex ...
Time: year 2012, 2010s, year 2008, 2000s, 70s ...
Place: louisiana, usa, florida, orlando florida, new orleans
Similarity:
18%
Menace II Society (1993)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Menace II Society is a coming of age tale detailing the summer after its protagonist Caine (Tyrin Turner) graduates from high school. This is Caine's story, which details real life in today's tough inner city.
Style: stylized, bloody, serious, rough, hood ...
Audience: teens, teen drama, adult
Plot: ghetto, hip hop, friendship, african american, urban ghetto life, murder, police brutality, violence, coming of age, gangster, organized crime, street gang ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, 70s, year 1993
Place: los angeles, california, usa, south central los angeles, north america
Similarity:
18%
We Own the Night (2007)
Genre: 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: mafia, organized crime, police, gangster, nightclub, gang, cop, brothers, hitman, lone hero, multiple storylines, law enforcement ...
Time: year 2007, 20th century, year 1988, 80s, 70s
Place: new york, brooklyn new york city, usa, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
18%
 7.1
 114K
Brick (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A teenage loner pushes his way into the underworld of a high school crime ring to investigate the disappearance of his ex-girlfriend.
Style: neo noir, cerebral, detective, teen, stylized ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: high school, twists and turns, murder mystery, loner, murder, investigation, teenager, amateur detective, whodunit, coming of age, adolescence, drug dealing ...
Time: year 2005, y2k, 21st century
Place: california, los angeles, usa
Similarity:
18%
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A petty thief posing as an actor is brought to Los Angeles for an unlikely audition and finds himself in the middle of a murder investigation along with his high school dream girl and a detective who's been training him for his upcoming role...
Style: detective, neo noir, funny, black comedy, sexy ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: private detective, dark humor, satire, actor, thief, murder mystery, cheerleader, buddy, accidental killing, violent, buddy cop, kidnapping ...
Time: year 2005, 2000s, 80s, year 1980, 21st century
Place: los angeles, venice beach california, california, denver colorado, usa ...
Similarity:
50%
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Rolling Thunder (1977)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A Vietnam veteran, Charles Rane, returns home after years in a POW camp and is treated as a hero. When thugs invade his home to steal the silver coins he received for his service, they mangle his hand and leave him and his family for dead. Rane ...
Style: grindhouse, neo noir, stylized, harsh, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: vigilante, revenge, home invasion, vengeance, vigilantism, murder, vietnam war, exploitation, insomnia, macabre, complex characters, character study ...
Time: 70s, year 1977, year 1973, 80s
Place: texas, el paso texas, vietnam, asia, san antonio texas ...
Similarity:
17%
Boiling Point (1993)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Red is an aging scam-artist who's just been released from prison together with Ronnie, a young and not-so-bright hoodlum who is easily manipulated. Their new business is to organize fake-money sales and then kill the buyer to take his money; ...
Style: suspense, neo noir, exciting, suspenseful, tense ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: undercover, prison, murder, organized crime, revenge, investigation, redemption, vengeance, tough heroes, one last job, crime boss, ex convict ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: california, los angeles, usa
Similarity:
17%
 7.0
 169K
The Drop (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, 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: serious, cerebral, tense, realistic, suspense ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, boys' night
Plot: robbery, twists and turns, fall in love, criminal's revenge, catholic, danger, criminal heroes, criminal, organized crime, crime boss, hitman, church ...
Time: year 2014, 2010s, 90s, 21st century
Place: boston, new york, brooklyn new york city, massachusetts, usa
Similarity:
17%
A Walk Among the Tombstones (2014)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Private investigator Matthew Scudder is hired by a drug kingpin to find out who kidnapped and murdered his wife.
Style: neo noir, suspense, psychological, bleak, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: private detective, murder, serial killer, kidnapping, revenge, drug dealer, murder of wife, sniper, flashback, hostage, mafia, violent ...
Time: year 2014, 2010s, 20th century, year 1991, year 1999 ...
Place: brooklyn new york city, new york, usa
Similarity:
17%
 6.1
 86K
Broken City (2013)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: In a broken city rife with injustice, ex-cop Billy Taggart seeks redemption and revenge after being double-crossed and then framed by its most powerful figure, the mayor. Billy's relentless pursuit of justice, matched only by his streetwise ...
Style: neo noir, suspenseful, rough, political, intense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: revenge, private detective, conspiracy, twists and turns, betrayal, politics, infidelity, mayor, political corruption, corruption, haunted by the past, private investigator ...
Time: year 2013, 2010s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, brooklyn new york city, usa, new jersey ...
Similarity:
17%
 8.2
 920K
Prisoners (2013)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 153 min.
Story: When Keller Dover's daughter and her friend go missing, he takes matters into his own hands as the police pursue multiple leads and the pressure mounts. But just how far will this desperate father go to protect his family?
Style: twist ending, psychological, suspenseful, atmospheric, neo noir ...
Audience: teens, family friendly, adult
Plot: kidnapping, investigation, revenge, serial killer, torture, twists and turns, vigilantism, police investigation, plot twist, brutality, vigilante, cop ...
Time: year 2013, 2010s, future, 21st century
Place: pennsylvania, bolivia, georgia, usa, boston
Similarity:
17%
 6.6
 21K
Ripley's Game (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Italy, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Tom Ripley - cool, urbane, wealthy, and murderous - lives in a villa in the Veneto with Luisa, his harpsichord-playing girlfriend. A former business associate from Berlin's underworld pays a call asking Ripley's help in killing a rival. ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, neo noir, absurd, atmospheric ...
Plot: hitman, perfect crime, murder, serial killer, greed, vengeance, redemption, cons and scams, criminal heroes, gangster, danger, intrigue ...
Time: year 2002, 21st century
Place: italy, berlin germany, europe, france, milan italy
Similarity:
17%