Movies like Lord of War
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Lord of War (2005)
323K
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France, Germany, USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
Yuri Orlov is a globetrotting arms dealer and, through some of the deadliest war zones, he struggles to stay one step ahead of a relentless Interpol agent, his business rivals and even some of his customers who include many of the world's most notorious dictators. Finally, he must also face his own conscience.
Style:
clever, thought provoking, realistic, harsh, political, factual, intellectual, entertaining, cerebral, cynical ...
Audience:
kids, boys' night
Plot:
business, greed, corruption, arms dealer, arms dealing, cold war, suspense, ukrainian, millionaire, rags to riches, organized crime, smuggling, gunrunner, rise and fall, human nature, cynic, gangsters, drugs, notoriety, pride and honor, interpol, russian mafia, mafia, drug addiction, criminal heroes ...
Time:
80s, 2000s, year 2001, 20th century, year 1983, year 1982, year 1991 ...
Place:
africa, bolivia, new york, latin america, brooklyn new york city, beirut lebanon, europe
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, interesting, talky and complex films with plots about corruption, brutality, suspense, gangsters, greed, violence and dialogue mostly in Drama, Crime and Thriller genres. Some movies like Lord of War: War Dogs (2016), The Wolf of Wall Street (2013), Gold (2016), Blow (2001), American Made (2017). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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228K
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Crime, Drama, War
Country: USA, Romania
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Based on the true story of two young men, David Packouz and Efraim Diveroli, who won a $300 million contract from the Pentagon to arm America's allies in Afghanistan.
Style:
realistic, intense, funny, humorous, factual ...
Plot:
corruption, arms dealer, smuggling, friendship, rise and fall, gunrunner, military, betrayal, heist, suspense, business, kidnapping ...
Time:
2000s, year 2008, year 2005, 21st century
Place:
iraq, las vegas, middle east, baghdad iraq, albania ...
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93%
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 180 min.
Story:
A New York stockbroker refuses to cooperate in a large securities fraud case involving corruption on Wall Street, corporate banking world and mob infiltration. Based on Jordan Belfort's autobiography.
Style:
clever, captivating, motivational, cynical, biting ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
corruption, money, business, wall street, wealth, greed, stock market, rise and fall, stock broker, rags to riches, addiction, american dream ...
Time:
80s, 90s, 20th century, year 1987, year 1983
Place:
new york, geneva switzerland, usa, manhattan new york city, italy ...
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81%
66K
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Kenny Wells, a modern-day prospector, hustler, and dreamer, is desperate for a lucky break. Left with few options, Wells teams up with an equally luckless geologist to execute a grandiose, last-ditch effort: to find gold deep in the uncharted jungle ...
Style:
tense, inspirational, intellectual, suspenseful, surprise ending ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
jungle, business, greed, gold, treasure hunt, mining, suspense, gold mine, justice, brutality, ethnic conflict, life philosophy ...
Time:
90s, 80s, year 1988
Place:
southeast asia, indonesia, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
89%
265K
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
A boy named George Jung grows up in a struggling family in the 1950's. His mother nags at her husband as he is trying to make a living for the family. It is finally revealed that George's father cannot make a living and the family goes ...
Style:
touching, thought provoking, depressing, emotional, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
drugs, drug addiction, gangsters, drug lord, rise and fall, drug abuse, friendship, drug cartel, drug dealing, cocaine, drug use, addiction ...
Time:
70s, 80s, 50s, 60s, 90s ...
Place:
california, colombia, latin america, boston, mexico ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
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191K
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA, Japan, Colombia
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
The true story of pilot Barry Seal, who transported contraband for the CIA and the Medellin cartel in the 1980s.
Style:
exciting, factual, emotional, captivating, humorous ...
Plot:
pilot, money laundering, drugs, cia, drug cartel, smuggler, cocaine, fbi, sex scene, money, drug traffic, aviation ...
Time:
80s, year 1978, 70s, year 1986, year 1983 ...
Place:
colombia, latin america, usa, panama, central america ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
92%
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2.1M
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 154 min.
Story:
A burger-loving hit man, his philosophical partner, a drug-addled gangster's moll and a washed-up boxer converge in this sprawling, comedic crime caper. Their adventures unfurl in three stories that ingeniously trip back and forth in time.
Style:
neo noir, witty, exciting, clever, bloody ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
drugs, dark humor, gunfight, organized crime, violent, violence, overdose, hitman, gangsters, killings, multiple storylines, cocaine ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 70s
Place:
los angeles, california, usa
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67%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 167 min.
Story:
It's 1863. America was born in the streets. Amsterdam Vallon returns to the Five Points of America to seek vengeance against the psychotic gangland kingpin, Bill the Butcher, who murdered his father years earlier. With an eager pickpocket by ...
Style:
tense, stylized, epic, rough, atmospheric ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
revenge, gang, gangsters, vengeance, organized crime, street gang, violent, crime boss, betrayal, courage, racism, gang war ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, edwardian era, 50s, 1840s ...
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
159K
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
A young and impatient stockbroker is willing to do anything to get to the top, including trading on illegal inside information taken through a ruthless and greedy corporate raider whom takes the youth under his wing.
Style:
realistic, political, intense, talky, serious ...
Audience:
manly
Plot:
stock broker, wall street, stock market, yuppie, stock exchange, businessman, ambition, betrayal, capitalism, business, workplace, lawyer ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
new york, canada, manhattan new york city, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Movie in collections
398K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Doug MacRay is a longtime thief, who, smarter than the rest of his crew, is looking for his chance to exit the game. When a bank job leads to the group kidnapping an attractive branch manager, he takes on the role of monitoring her – but their ...
Style:
exciting, intense, captivating, serious, clever ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
heist, bank robbery, robbery, gunfight, romancing a criminal, group of criminals, thief, gang, gangsters, organized crime, suspense, love affair ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
boston, usa, florida, massachusetts
⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Two criminal drifters without sympathy get more than they bargained for after kidnapping and holding for ransom the surrogate mother of a powerful and shady man.
Style:
intense, neo noir, cynical, rough, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gangsters, kidnapping, gunfight, twists and turns, crime gone awry, ransom, suspense, pregnancy, car chase, rags to riches, confined, disorder ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 2000s
Place:
mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Egocentric bandit Salvatore Guiliano fights the Church, the Mafia, and the landed gentry while leading a populist movement for Sicilian independence.
Style:
intense, serious, realistic, campy, melancholic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
mafia, betrayal, gangsters, sicilian, gunfight, leadership, ambition, political unrest, politics, society, dishonesty, class differences ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s
Place:
sicily, italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Two victims of traumatized childhoods become lovers and psychopathic serial murderers irresponsibly glorified by the mass media.
Style:
controversial, atmospheric, disturbing, brutal, surreal ...
Plot:
psychopath, serial killer, dark humor, violence, insanity, violent, satire, mass murder, criminal heroes, murderous pair, lovers on the run, media ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
arizona, nevada, new mexico, paris france, london ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 ...
Style:
tense, brutal, talky, thought provoking, intense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gangsters, mafia, mob boss, gang, gang war, irish, criminal, corruption, organized crime, murder, hitman, caper ...
Time:
70s, 60s, 20th century, year 1960, year 1975 ...
Place:
usa, ireland, boston, ohio, new york ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
764K
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Brazil, France, Germany
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
Cidade de Deus is a shantytown that started during the 1960s and became one of Rio de Janeiro’s most dangerous places in the beginning of the 1980s. To tell the story of this place, the movie describes the life of various characters, all seen by ...
Style:
disturbing, rough, bleak, stylized, dark ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
gang, society, coming of age, organized crime, journalism, gang war, juvenile delinquency, life is a bitch, photographer, police corruption, gangsters, drug dealing ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, 80s, 60s
Place:
rio de janeiro, latin america, brazil, south america, africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 162 min.
Story:
In the midst of trying to legitimize his business dealings in 1979 New York and Italy, aging mafia don, Michael Corleone seeks forgiveness for his sins while taking a young protege under his wing.
Style:
epic, visually appealing, serious, stylized, sad ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
mafia, gangsters, organized crime, revenge, violence, guilt, murder, assassination, father daughter relationship, father son relationship, catholic church, psychology ...
Time:
70s, 80s, 60s, 20th century, year 1979 ...
Place:
italy, new york, palermo italy, sicily, atlantic city new jersey ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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24K
Genre: Drama, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
In the shadowy world of drone warfare, combat unfolds like a video game–only with real lives at stake. After six tours of duty, Air Force pilot Tom Egan now fights the Taliban from an air-conditioned bunker in the Nevada desert. But as he yearns ...
Style:
tense, thought provoking, psychological, intense, suspenseful ...
Plot:
drone, war, military, moral dilemma, murder, terrorism, suspicion, taliban, family relations, family problems, family life, aviation ...
Time:
year 2001, year 2010, 21st century
Place:
las vegas, middle east, iraq, usa, nevada ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
100K
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 155 min.
Story:
Sentenced to six years in prison, Malik El Djebena (Tahar Rahim) is alone in the world and can neither read nor write. On his arrival at the prison, he seems younger and more brittle than the others detained there. At once he falls under the sway of ...
Style:
harsh, tense, bleak, rough, atmospheric ...
Audience:
manly, boys' night
Plot:
prison, mafia, gangsters, prison life, confined, cruelty, organized crime, prison escape, gang, coming of age, drugs, convict ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe, paris france, marseille, california
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26%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 180 min.
Story:
Based on the true life experiences of poet Jimmy Santiago Baca, the film focuses on half-brothers Paco and Cruz, and their bi-racial cousin Miklo. It opens in 1972, as the three are members of an East L.A. gang known as the "Vatos Locos", ...
Style:
intense, bad ending, entertaining, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
gang, gangsters, street gang, prison, prison gang, drug abuse, drug addiction, violence spree, destiny, jail, police shootout, corruption ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, 80s
Place:
los angeles, california, usa, ecuador, guatemala ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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184K
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:
factual, brutal, intense, captivating, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gangsters, mafia, organized crime, corruption, fbi, violence, murder, illness, brutality, irish mob, true crime, arms dealing ...
Time:
70s, 80s, 20th century, year 1981, year 1995 ...
Place:
boston, new jersey, usa, massachusetts, miami ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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, suspenseful, brutal, tense, intense ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
gangsters, robbery, gambling, mafia, organized crime, hitman, heist, murder, brutality, crime gone awry, gang, violence ...
Time:
2000s, year 2008, 70s, 21st century
Place:
new orleans, louisiana, usa, florida, orlando florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA, China
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
A con man, Irving Rosenfeld, along with his seductive partner Sydney Prosser, is forced to work for a wild FBI agent, Richie DiMaso, who pushes them into a world of Jersey powerbrokers and mafia.
Style:
clever, tense, intense, cynical, tricky ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
partners in crime, twists and turns, fbi, cons and scams, mafia, organized crime, heist, deception, gangsters, scam, political corruption, strip club ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1978, 80s
Place:
new jersey, usa, atlantic city new jersey, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Jimmy Kilmartin is an ex-con living in Astoria in the New York City borough of Queens, trying to stay clean and raising a family with his wife Bev. But when his cousin Ronnie causes him to take a fall for driving an illegal transport of stolen cars, ...
Style:
neo noir, surreal, intense, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gangsters, murder, organized crime, prison, betrayal, suspense, vengeance, undercover agent, mafia, heist, violence, revenge ...
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90s
Place:
new york, usa
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26%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
When two brothers organize the robbery of their parents' jewelry store, the job goes horribly wrong, triggering a series of events that send them and their family hurtling towards a shattering climax.
Style:
disturbing, psychological, bleak, realistic, neo noir ...
Plot:
robbery, suspense, dysfunctional family, heist, blackmail, crime gone awry, greed, nude, heist gone wrong, adultery, murder, divorce ...
Time:
70s, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, rio de janeiro, brazil, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Movie in collections
314K
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
An FBI undercover agent infilitrates the mob and finds himself identifying more with the mafia life at the expense of his regular one.
Style:
tense, realistic, neo noir, clever, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
mafia, gangsters, undercover, organized crime, fbi, mentor, investigation, working undercover, suspense, undercover agent, gang, law enforcement ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1978
Place:
new york, new jersey, florida, usa, miami ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
Llewelyn Moss stumbles upon dead bodies, $2 million and a hoard of heroin in a Texas desert, but methodical killer Anton Chigurh comes looking for it, with local sheriff Ed Tom Bell hot on his trail. The roles of prey and predator blur as the ...
Style:
neo noir, serious, suspenseful, atmospheric, tense ...
Plot:
hitman, suspense, psychopath, desert, human nature, serial killer, greed, peril, brutality, sheriff, death, murderer ...
Time:
20th century, year 1980, 80s
Place:
texas, el paso texas, mexico, austin texas, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Fed up with mistreatment at the hands of both management and union brass, and coupled with financial hardships on each man's end, three auto assembly line workers hatch a plan to rob a safe at union headquarters.
Style:
realistic, disturbing, clever, neo noir, cynical ...
Plot:
union, working class, labor union, gangsters, heist, female nudity, blaxploitation, fighting the system, crime gone awry, suspense, criminal, factory worker ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
michigan, detroit, africa, usa
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26%
19K
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
The new warden of a small prison farm in Arkansas tries to clean it up of corruption after initially posing as an inmate.
Style:
realistic, factual, harsh, serious, captivating ...
Plot:
prison, corruption, abuse of power, prison escape, fighting the system, prison warden, undercover, brutality, suspense, abuse, justice, liberal ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, 60s
Place:
california, louisiana, new jersey, arkansas, southern usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
A U.S Customs official uncovers a massive money laundering scheme involving Pablo Escobar.
Style:
tense, realistic, dramatic, factual, clever ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
drug lord, drugs, money laundering, suspense, addiction, gangsters, drug cartel, federal agent, investigation, death, undercover agent, organized crime ...
Time:
80s, 70s, year 1985, 20th century
Place:
latin america, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
50K
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
An inside look at Italy's modern-day crime families, the Camorra in Naples and Caserta. Based on a book by Roberto Saviano. Power, money and blood: these are the "values" that the residents of the Province of Naples and Caserta have ...
Style:
disturbing, tense, harsh, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
juvenile delinquency, organized crime, gang war, mafia, gang, camorra, character study, power, debt, social decay, death, life is a bitch ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
italy, rio de janeiro, europe, naples italy, manhattan new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 167 min.
Story:
New York City detective Daniel Ciello agrees to help the United States Department of Justice help eliminate corruption in the police department, as long as he will not have to turn in any close friends. In doing so, Ciello uncovers a conspiracy ...
Style:
tense, neo noir, realistic, bleak, intense ...
Plot:
police, corruption, gangsters, drug addiction, lawyer, police corruption, city, whistleblower, fighting the system, redemption, betrayal, police investigation ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, 80s
Place:
new york, new jersey, usa, washington d.c., virginia
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