Movies like Lookin' Italian

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Lookin' Italian (1994)
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Lookin' Italian (1994)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: After an unfortunate incident causes him to leave the "family business" and move to Los Angeles, Vinny Pallazzo is living a quiet life. When his nephew, Anthony, moves in with him, Vinny slowly learns to live life to the fullest again. However, Anthony is young, and is living life in the fast lane. He brings out the demons from Vinny's past. Now Vinny must try to stop Anthony from making the same mistakes that changed his life forever.
Style: independent film, tense, serious, realistic
Plot: revenge, bookstore, gang, family relations, redemption, introspection, moral dilemma, haunted by the past, going straight, hopes, criminal heroes, gangster, love, dancing, basketball, poker, violence, young woman, youth, murder, mafioso, church, african american, hollywood, slum ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york, los angeles, usa, california
Keyword: gangsters

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Most similar movies to Lookin' Italian

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, independent film and tense films with plots about family relations, gang, gangster, society, life is a bitch, murder and youth mostly in Drama, Crime and Romance genres. Some movies like Lookin' Italian: Row Your Boat (1999), Hell's Kitchen (1998), Virgil Bliss (2001), Strays (1997), Ash Wednesday (2002). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Row Your Boat (1999)
Genre: Drama, Crime, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Jon Bon Jovi plays Jamey Meadows, a man newly released from prison who has found himself homeless on the crazy streets of New York City. Slowly, he must try to build his life up from the gutter. Resisting constant offers from his brother, played by ...
Style: independent film, serious, realistic
Plot: rock, redemption, homeless, fall in love, criminal heroes, prison, immigrant, male female relationship, gunfight, interracial romance, threat, baby ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
Hell's Kitchen (1998)
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: serious, rough, suspenseful, disturbing, tense ...
Plot: crime gone awry, haunted by the past, murder, friendship, criminal's revenge, dishonesty, gang, life is a bitch, drug dealing, criminal heroes, heist, infidelity ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
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Virgil Bliss (2001)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Fresh out of a long stretch in prison, Virgil Bliss (Clint Jordan) vows to go straight in this gritty, character-driven drama. But finding a job, a wife and a sense of purpose doesn't come easy when you're living in a halfway house ...
Style: serious, realistic, psychological, independent film
Plot: prostitute, going straight, prison, redemption, downfall, starting over, haunted by the past, hopes, rehabilitation, unlikely criminals, life is a bitch, society ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa, florida, brooklyn new york city, manhattan new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
 5.5
 2K
Strays (1997)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Rick (Diesel) is frustrated by the repetitious grind of one-night stands and aimless hustling. Whilst looking for more to his life he meets Heather (Lanza), a neighbour. Rick takes the opportunity to escape his boring life style with her, but soon ...
Style: cult classic, tense, serious, realistic
Plot: urban, drug dealer, hunting, redemption, gang, male nudity, fall in love, social misfits, coming of age, hopes, introspection, juvenile delinquency ...
Time: future, 90s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
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Ash Wednesday (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Ash Wednesday is set in the Manhattan of the early 1980's and is about a pair of Irish-American brothers who become embroiled in a conflict with the Irish Mob.
Style: intense, rough, suspenseful, realistic, serious ...
Plot: organized crime, betrayal, gangster, violence, murder, love triangle, couple relations, haunted by the past, love and romance, dishonesty, siblings relations, irish mob ...
Time: 80s, year 2002, year 1983, year 1980
Place: new york, ireland, usa, brooklyn new york city, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
 6.5
 30
Refuge (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The lives of a Hollywood actress battling drug addiction, a teen with a violent past, a teacher fighting to keep a dream alive, and a cop caught in a love triangle are brought together by fate.
Style: realistic, serious, tense, touching, independent film ...
Plot: love triangle, haunted by the past, hopes, redemption, youth, dedicated educator, addiction, high school life, love
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, california, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
 5.9
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Squeeze (1997)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Ty, Hector, and Bao are close friends in a tough section of Boston, where they're called "the PG-13 crew." They're 14, decent kids with few skills who've bailed out of school. A small gang of older tough guys, led by Marcus ...
Style: independent film, serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot: gang, black, gas station, kids in trouble, urban ghetto, realism, friends, optimism, friendship, drug dealing, juvenile delinquency, society ...
Time: year 1997, 90s
Place: massachusetts, boston
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
 4.3
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Five Thirteen (2013)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: In this tension-packed thriller, brothers Mike and Tre set out in search of better lives, trying to leave their demons behind for good. After being released from prison for a crime he didn't commit, Mike's only care in the world is to ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, realistic, tense, independent film
Audience: boys' night
Plot: starting over, going straight, hopes, family relations, parents and children, released from prison, father daughter relationship, false accusation, life is a bitch, brother brother relationship, violent content, siblings relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
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American Me (1992)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Edward J. Olmos made his directorial bow with the powerhouse crime saga American Me. Olmos stars as street-gang leader Santana, who during his 18 years in Folsom Prison rules over all the drug-and-murder activities behind bars. Upon his release, ...
Style: disturbing, realistic, talky, intense, emotional ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: prison, prison gang, gang, sexual abuse, racism, jail, mafia, rape, gangster, violence, juvenile delinquency, justice ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, 70s, year 1992, 50s ...
Place: los angeles, california, usa, san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
American Heart (1992)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Jack is now out of jail and he meets Nick, his adolescent son. Their relationship will be complicated, because Jack has a problem with alcohol. But his love for Nick will help him to get over the past and reach his dreams.
Style: realistic, serious, emotional, touching, rough ...
Audience: manly
Plot: father son relationship, adaptation, complex characters, boy, starting over, prison, going straight, estrangement, family relations, prisoner, society, human nature ...
Time: 20th century, year 1992, 90s
Place: seattle, usa, alaska, washington state
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
 6.6
 9K
The Funeral (1996)
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.
Style: neo noir, independent film, surprise ending, hood, philosophical ...
Plot: mafia, gangster, organized crime, revenge, labor union, murder, vengeance, mobster, madness, ghetto, world war one, sex crime ...
Time: year 1996, 20th century, 1930s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
 7.2
 6K
Dinner Rush (2000)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Is it just another evening at the hugely popular Italian restaurant of proprietor and bookmaker Louis Cropa in New York? Anything but as tonight's guests include; a local police detective and his wife specially invited by the owner; on the ...
Style: tense, atmospheric, witty, enigmatic, stylized ...
Plot: gambling, mafia, hitman, gangster, cooking, organized crime, complex characters, crime gone awry, violent content, lifestyle, family relations, siblings relations ...
Time: 20th century, year 2000, 90s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
South Central (1992)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A man is put to prison for 10 years. Coming out of prison he wants to live a normal life and stop with crime but his son has yet followed the criminal path of his father.
Style: hood, captivating, sexual, crime drama, social ...
Plot: urban ghetto life, gang, ghetto, urban, black, african american, hip hop, criminal gang, drug dealing, blaxploitation, organized crime, black history ...
Time: 90s, year 1992, 80s
Place: los angeles, california, usa, south central los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
 6.1
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Gang Tapes (2001)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: When a brutal carjacking yields a videocamera, a teenage boy decides to document his life and the lives of his fellow gangbangers.
Style: serious, rough, hood, suspense, tense ...
Plot: gang, found footage, ghetto, urban, social decay, tough heroes, life is a bitch, juvenile delinquency, drug dealing, teenage life, kids in trouble, going straight ...
Place: los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
A Gangland Love Story (2010)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: The younger sister of a feared African American crime boss and the nephew of his powerful Latina nemesis go on the run in a customized Cadillac convertible packed with $20 million in drugs in this romantic crime drama. Julia and Romano have fallen ...
Style: captivating, suspense, tense, psychological, bleak ...
Plot: gangster, lovers on the run, chase, forbidden love, young lovers, rivalry, family relations, gang, drug dealing, interracial relations, escape, danger ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Grace & Mercy (2006)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: In poor health and dead broke, Grace has a plan to provide a future for her young daughter. With the help of her sister Mercy, she robs her former employer. But an alarm goes off during the robbery and they escape into a nearby church. They hold the ...
Style: touching, serious, uplifting, emotional, contemplative ...
Plot: hostage, church, crime gone awry, unlikely criminals, self discovery, clergy, fugitives, introspection, life is a bitch, on the run, criminal heroes, redemption ...
Time: 21st century
Place: california, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Jason's Lyric (1994)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: The story of a young man who must confront his own fears about love as well as his relationships with family and friends.
Style: hood, sexy, romantic, erotic, tense ...
Audience: date night
Plot: ghetto, urban, black, hip hop, african american, love, family relations, black history, sex scene, violence, thug life, black lives matter ...
Time: year 1994, 90s
Place: asia, vietnam, houston texas, texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
 6.4
 16K
Baby Boy (2001)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story: The story of Jody, a misguided, 20-year-old African-American who is really just a baby boy finally forced-kicking and screaming to face the commitments of real life. Streetwise and jobless, he has not only fathered two children by two different ...
Style: hood, stylized, intense, light, emotional ...
Plot: womanizer, single parent, gang, african american, black, unlikely friendships, gangster, urban, organized crime, twists and turns, ghetto, hip hop ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles, california, south central los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Grand Canyon (1991)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story: Grand Canyon revolved around six residents from different backgrounds whose lives intertwine in modern-day Los Angeles. At the center of the film is the unlikely friendship of two men from different races and classes brought together when one finds ...
Style: realistic, clever, touching, anthology, spiritual ...
Plot: adoption, midlife crisis, unrequited love, friendship, grand canyon, cynicism, teen angst, regret, father son relationship, compassion, rescue, interracial friendship ...
Time: year 1991, 90s, 20th century
Place: los angeles, arizona, usa
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44%
Witness Protection (1999)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Would you be willing to walk away from everyone and everything you've ever known in exchange for your safety? This is the question facing career criminal Bobby "Bats" Batton (Tom Sizemore); on the outs with the mob and facing ...
Style: crime drama, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Audience: boys' night
Plot: witness protection program, organized crime, gang, betrayal, gangster, dishonesty, criminal heroes, rivalry, ghost, couple relations, murder, witnessing a crime ...
Time: 90s
Place: seattle, boston, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Generation Now (2008)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A multi-cultural celebration of young people triumphing in the face of adversity, societal pressures and difficult familial situations.
Style: captivating, realistic, serious, touching, independent film ...
Plot: gang, friendship, lifestyle, teenage life, family relations, society, life is a bitch, hopes, youth, rich and poor, drug abuse, against the odds ...
Time: year 2006, 21st century
Place: usa, california, san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
 6.3
 2K
China Girl (1987)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Teenage lovers Tony (Richard Panebianco) and Tyan-Hwa (Sari Chang) tip the balance of power in New York's Little Italy and Chinatown.
Style: romantic, crime drama, independent film, realistic, serious ...
Plot: forbidden love, gang, tragic love, racism, shakespeare, tragedy, triad, love, teenager, organized crime, italian mafia, caper ...
Time: year 1987
Place: new york, italy, europe, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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Cost of a Soul (2010)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Wounded in the war, Tommy Donahue and DD Davis return home from Iraq to the slum neighborhood they grew up in. Tommy returns to his wife, Faith, whom he abandoned while she was pregnant to escape a life of crime. Tommy meets his disabled six ...
Style: realistic, serious, tense, psychological, captivating ...
Plot: racism, murder, iraq war, urban ghetto, homecoming, haunted by the past, family problems, society, gang, war veteran, profanity, violent content ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, philadelphia, pennsylvania
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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City of Industry (1997)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A retired thief swears revenge on the lunatic who murdered his brother and partner, while going on the run with the loot they stole.
Style: neo noir, suspenseful, perverse, hood, independent film ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: heist, betrayal, gangster, gang, robbery, murder, violence, money, kidnapping, brother, ghetto, criminal ...
Time: year 1997, 90s, 20th century
Place: los angeles, california, usa, florida, palm springs california
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 6.3
 493
Federal Hill (1994)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: In Providence's Italian neighborhood, Federal Hill, five young are immersed in drugs, crime and violence. Everything changes when one of the guys in the band know love.
Style: black and white, independent film, serious, realistic, tense
Plot: gangster, college, drug, youth, friendship, partner, best friend, life is a bitch, fall in love, going straight, society, drug dealing ...
Time: year 1994, 90s
Place: rhode island, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 6.1
 2K
The Narrows (2008)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A 19 year old Brooklyn boy who is torn between two worlds when his photography portfolio wins him a partial scholarship to NYU. He must figure out how to balance his Italian neighborhood roots with the expansive, sophisticated world on the other ...
Style: serious, captivating, tense, psychological, suspense ...
Plot: college student, moral dilemma, parents and children, city life, family relations, human nature, self discovery, society, coming of age, hot and sexy, nypd, family in crisis ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york, brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Hurricane Streets (1997)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Marcus is a kid on Manhattan's mean streets. He's turning 15, his father is dead, his mother is in prison for smuggling undocumented aliens. His grandmother is raising him. He has four close buddies who have a basement clubhouse; they ...
Style: independent film, realistic, serious, rough, bleak ...
Plot: coming of age, gang, friendship, dysfunctional family, boy, children, violence, teenager, runaway, worship, smuggling, theft ...
Time: year 1997, 90s
Place: new york, new mexico, lower east side manhattan new york city, manhattan new york city, alaska
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
The Thief & the Stripper (2000)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Jack just lost his P.I. license and his life is on a downward spiral. He decides to steal a cash briefcase from the local gangsters. He hides in a strip joint owned by a local mob legend Jimmie D and pays a stripper to help him escape. The gangsters ...
Style: realistic, serious, rough, tense
Plot: gangster, law enforcement, criminal heroes, stripper, murder, henchman, deception, nudity, sex, female nudity, corvette
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: california
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 6.4
 7K
Levity (2003)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA, France
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Manuel Jordan is a man who is free after serving 23 years for killing a teenager during an attempted robbery. After nearly two decades of staring at his victim's face on a newspaper clipping in his cell, the paroled man attempts to find ...
Style: touching, emotional, melancholic, philosophical, psychological ...
Plot: murder, prison, friendship, robbery, justice, gang, going straight, haunted by the past, human nature, rehabilitation, ex convict, parole ...
Time: year 2003, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 7.3
 12K
The Wanderers (1979)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: The streets of the Bronx are owned by 60’s youth gangs where the joy and pain of adolescence is lived. Philip Kaufman tells his take on the novel by Richard Price about the history of the Italian-American gang ‘The Wanderers.’
Style: grindhouse, cult classic, hood, serious, realistic ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, street gang, rock and roll, cheerleader, gang, american football, bullying, high school, teenager, male orgasm, bare chested male, male pubic hair ...
Time: 60s, year 1979, year 1963, 20th century
Place: new york, usa, bronx new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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