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The Code (2002)
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The Code (2002)
Original name: La mentale
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Dris is an ex-con, living in the borderline between a decent and a criminal life. He has a regular and simple work and lives a simple life with his wife Lise and loves his family. However, his childhood friends from his Arab community, including his best friend Yanis, are mobsters and his brother is a small time delinquent. Yanis tries to bring Dris back to his gang, and uses his former lover Nina to seduce him, taking him to expensive places to feel the importance of big money. Dris fights against the temptation, but an event will route him back to Yanis' gang and in a fight between gangs with tragic consequences for the whole community.
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, tense
Audience: boys' night
Plot: heist, gangster, gang, going straight, betrayal, crime gone awry, dishonesty, prison, drug dealing, friendship between men, organized crime, ex convict, kidnapping, siblings relations, cons and scams, horse, revenge, women, violence, motorcycle, pregnancy, gypsy, hostage, criminal, cemetery ...
Time: year 2002, contemporary
Place: paris france, france, europe
Keyword: gangsters, french, arabic

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, suspenseful, realistic and rough films with plots about gangster, criminal heroes, gang, rivalry, criminal, heist and dishonesty mostly in Crime, Thriller and Drama genres. Some movies like The Code: The Immortals (1995), The Crew (2008), Total western (2000), Styx (2001), A Gang Story (2011). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Immortals (1995)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: An elaborate heist unites 8 strangers in a simultaneous assault on targets all over the city- and explodes in a hailstorm of gunfire and high-speed chases in this powerful action-thriller. Recruited by a Mafia nightclub owner (Eric Roberts), 4 ...
Style: serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful, erotic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: heist, reluctant partners, gangster, crime gone awry, dishonesty, partner, disorder, odd couple, mind game, rivalry, criminal heroes, cons and scams ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
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100%
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The Crew (2008)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 123 min.
Story: Hoping to raise enough capital to finance a legitimate business and leave behind his life of crime, Liverpool underworld boss Ged Brennan sends his brother Ratter and a crew to pull a daring final heist. But when Ratter kills a drug kingpin during ...
Style: realistic, rough, serious, suspenseful, crime drama
Audience: boys' night
Plot: heist, betrayal, dishonesty, gang, criminal heroes, crime gone awry, gangster, brother brother relationship, lesbian, organized crime, british gangster, mafia ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.3
 740
Total western (2000)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 84 min.
Story: After a drug deal gone wrong, Bédé goes into hiding in the countryside at a reformative school for criminal youth. His location is found out, and he and the pupils have to protect themselves with whatever means they have.
Style: serious, rough, suspenseful, suspense, spaghetti western ...
Plot: juvenile delinquency, crime gone awry, gang, gangster, isolation, drug dealing, criminal heroes, violence, danger, nudity, farm, countryside ...
Time: 90s
Place: paris france, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 4.7
 491
Styx (2001)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Nelson puts his criminal ways behind him, having spent years as a first-rate safecracker. This resolution lasts until his brother finds himself owing money to organised crime and Nelson needs to do one last big job, with a few other professionals.
Style: suspenseful, rough, serious, realistic, fast ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: police shootout, debt, unlikely criminals, going straight, rivalry, criminal heroes, gang, dishonesty, master criminal, betrayal, brother brother relationship, safecracker ...
Place: cape town south africa, south africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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A Gang Story (2011)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 102 min.
Story: After growing up in a poor gypsy camp, Edmond Vidal, aka Momon, has retained a sense of family, unfailing loyalty and pride in his origins. Most of all, he has remained friends with Serge Suttel, with whom he first discovered prison life - for ...
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, tense, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: friendship, going straight, organized crime, prison, friends, gang, gypsy camp, criminal heroes, hopes, introspection, gypsy, mafia ...
Time: 70s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: france, lyon, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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Shooters (2002)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Netherlands, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Gilly comes out of prison after serving a six year stretch and decides that he will now turn his life around and go straight. But when he returns to his South London home and visits his old colleague J, in hope of obtaining his share of the proceeds ...
Style: rough, tense, serious, suspenseful, realistic
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cons and scams, going straight, gangster, criminal heroes, drug dealing, life is a bitch, law enforcement, addiction, criminal's revenge, dishonesty, drug abuse, rivalry ...
Place: england, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
 6.7
 6K
The Nest (2002)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Laborie is a high-flying officer in the French special forces. Her mission is to escort Abedin Nexhep, a godfather of the Albanian mafia. Charged with heading a wide-reaching prostitution network, this formidable criminal is due to stand trial ...
Style: tense, harsh, exciting, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: mafia, siege, gangster, police investigation, hostage, master criminal, race against time, vengeance, partner, rivalry, crime gone awry, undercover ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 5.9
 8K
Empire (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A big time drug dealer Victor Rosa is looking to get out of the game and sees his chance with a big deal with a new friend who happens to be a Wall St. stockbroker. Thinking this will be his chance to go out on top Victor soon finds out that he has ...
Style: intense, stylized, melancholic, suspense, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: betrayal, organized crime, gangster, greed, twists and turns, drug dealing, wall street, ghetto, criminal heroes, going straight, cons and scams, mafia ...
Time: year 2002
Place: usa, new york, miami, bronx new york city, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Ultimate Heist (2009)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 95 min.
Story: The Malakian clan, a family of ruthless gangsters, controls the underworld of Southern France. At its head, the violent godfather Milo Malakian rules his world with an iron fist. His son and heir, Anton, dreams of breaking free and making his own ...
Style: serious, exciting, suspenseful, rough, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gangster, robbery, car theft, family relations, mafia, revenge, starting over, hopes, gang, heist, criminal heroes, dishonesty ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, south of france, riviera, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 5.8
 2K
Go Fast (2008)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Marek, a crime squad officer, sets out to avenge the death of his partner and best friend, who was killed by drug traffickers. He asks for a posting to a new undercover unit created to infiltrate a drug gang that imports hashish from Morocco using ...
Style: serious, rough, suspenseful, tense, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: vengeance, law enforcement, drug dealing, rivalry, gang, working undercover, marijuana, loss of partner, car chase, undercover, police procedural, police ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 5.0
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American Heist (2014)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, Luxembourg, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Two brothers, both with troubled paths, find themselves in the middle of one last bank job.
Style: suspenseful, tense, realistic, serious, ambiguous ending ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: robbery, heist, sibling relationship, crime gone awry, going straight, disorder, criminal heroes, hopes, haunted by the past, brother brother relationship, bank robber, betrayal ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new orleans, louisiana, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 7.1
 18K
36th Precinct (2004)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 111 min.
Story: The Film takes place in Paris, where two cops are competing for the vacant seat of chief of police while in the middle of a search for a gang of violent thieves. The movie is directed by Olivier Marchal, a former police officer who spent 12 years ...
Style: rough, tense, realistic, suspenseful, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night, manly
Plot: vengeance, rivalry, organized crime, police corruption, investigation, violence, dirty cop, twists and turns, police investigation, police, nudity, workplace intrigue ...
Time: year 2004, 21st century
Place: france, paris france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Monument Ave. (1998)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Bobby O'Grady a low level member of a Boston Irish gang run by Jackie O'Hara. Jackie demands absolute, total loyalty to him. When Jackie kills one of Bobby's buddies, Teddy, Bobby and others have to keep it an absolute secret, even ...
Style: atmospheric, suspenseful, tense, serious, independent film ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gangster, murder, police investigation, investigation, police corruption, drug dealing, criminal heroes, witnessing a crime, dishonesty, juvenile delinquency, gang, life is a bitch ...
Time: year 1998, 90s
Place: boston, ireland, massachusetts, connecticut, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Machine Gun McCain (1969)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 96 min.
Story: After serving 12 years behind bars for armed robbery, tough guy Hank McCain finds himself the pawn of a ruthless mob runt's rebellion against a high level don. When McCain discovers that he's been betrayed and abandoned by his new ...
Style: serious, rough, suspenseful, realistic, neo noir ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: heist, casino, on the run, crime gone awry, politics, gang, prison, betrayal, criminal heroes, rivalry, love affair, gambling ...
Time: year 1969, 60s
Place: las vegas, long beach california, san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Force of Execution (2013)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Seagal stars as mob kingpin Mr. Alexander, an old-school boss who rules his criminal empire with both nobility and brutality. For a simple prison hit, he sends his best enforcer and protégé Roman Hurst (Foster). When the hit goes wrong, Hurst is ...
Style: serious, exciting, rough, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gangster, drug dealing, going straight, criminal heroes, danger, tough heroes, hitman, prisoner, violence, organized crime, prison, hand to hand combat ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Payback: Straight Up (2006)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 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, ambiguous ending, realistic, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: revenge, betrayal, vengeance, criminal, prostitute, tough heroes, organized crime, criminal's revenge, crime boss, corrupt cop, husband wife relationship, gangster ...
Time: 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 6.4
 732
Action Man (1967)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 100 min.
Story: An American (Robert Stack) talks a retired French crook (Jean Gabin) into robbing a bank, but kidnappers demand the loot as ransom.
Style: cynical, serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful
Audience: boys' night
Plot: restaurant, kidnapping, bank, adventurer, criminal's revenge, drug dealing, criminal heroes, redemption, dishonesty, confined, unlikely criminals, going straight ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 4.4
 22K
Setup (2011)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A group of friends plan out a detailed heist that turns deadly when one betrays the other by taking off with the goods. Taking matters into his own hands, Sonny seeks out his revenge teaming up with the most dangerous mob boss in town to get back ...
Style: realistic, exciting, serious, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: danger, chases and races, crime gone awry, dishonesty, heist, gangster, partner, prisoner, criminal, disorder, revenge, bank robber ...
Time: 21st century
Place: detroit, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Movie in collections
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The Crew (2015)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 81 min.
Story: It’s bad men versus worse men as thieves face off against dealers in this super slick French heist thriller from the director of Chrysalis and The Assault.
Style: suspense, psychological, captivating, tense, exciting ...
Plot: heist, bank robbery, brother brother relationship, bank robber, robbery, armed robbery, gang of thieves, violence, murder, death, criminal heroes, mafia ...
Time: year 2015, 21st century
Place: paris france, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Easy Money III: Life Deluxe (2013)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 127 min.
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 ...
Style: serious, tense, realistic, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: mafia, murder, revenge, gang, working undercover, danger, missing person, criminal heroes, nordic, drug, mob boss, crime boss ...
Time: 21st century
Place: eastern europe, scandinavia, stockholm sweden
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Mesrine: Killer Instinct (2008)
Genre: Action, Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Canada, Italy
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Jacques Mesrine, a loyal son and dedicated soldier, is back home and living with his parents after serving in the Algerian War. Soon he is seduced by the neon glamour of sixties Paris and the easy money it presents. Mentored by Guido, Mesrine turns ...
Style: bleak, tense, realistic, suspense, intense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: organized crime, mafia, robbery, against the rules, rise to the top, prison, prison escape, gangster, mob boss, romancing a criminal, heist, biopic ...
Time: 60s, year 2008, y2k, 2000s, 1950s ...
Place: france, paris france, canada, montreal, africa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
The Second Wind (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 155 min.
Story: Gu, a famous gangster, has just escaped from jail. All french police is after him. Before leaving the country with Manouche, the woman he loves, Gu needs a final job to get some money. The job works, but a police's scheming makes Gu appear as a ...
Style: realistic, rough, serious, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot: gangster, criminal heroes, law enforcement, dishonesty, betrayal, heist, criminal, organized crime, righting the wronged, mugging, escape, armored truck ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, paris france, marseille
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Mesrine: Public Enemy #1 (2008)
Genre: Action, Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 133 min.
Story: The story of Jacques Mesrine, France's public enemy No. 1 during the 1970s. After nearly two decades of legendary criminal feats -- from multiple bank robberies and to prison breaks -- Mesrine was gunned down by the French police in Paris.
Style: intense, suspense, realistic, rough, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gangster, mob boss, chase, organized crime, mafia, prison, biopic, heist, character study, against the rules, notoriety, realism ...
Time: 20th century, y2k, year 2008, 70s
Place: france, paris france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Movie in collections
 6.7
 20K
Easy Money (2010)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Germany, Denmark, France
Duration: 124 min.
Story: A three-tiered story centered around drugs and organized crime, and focused on a young man who becomes a runner for a coke dealer.
Style: serious, psychological, rough, tense, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: drug lord, cocaine, sexual content, taxi driver, drug dealing, gangster, danger, dishonesty, betrayal, lifesaver, one last job, nordic ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, eastern europe, stockholm sweden
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Blood of Redemption (2013)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
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 ...
Style: realistic, rough, serious, suspenseful, tense
Audience: boys' night
Plot: frame up, betrayal, criminal heroes, haunted by the past, tough heroes, rivalry, dishonesty, twists and turns, organized crime, criminal, murder, revenge ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Easy Money II: Hard to Kill (2012)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 99 min.
Story: JW is serving hard time in prison and struggling to get back on an honest path. There are glimmers of hope in his life - some venture capitalists are interested in a new piece of trading software he's developed, and while behind bars he's ...
Style: rough, suspenseful, tense, serious, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: criminal, disorder, on the run, gangster, crime gone awry, master criminal, criminal's revenge, cons and scams, violence, mafia, nordic, gang ...
Time: 21st century
Place: eastern europe, scandinavia
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 6.6
 36K
22 Bullets (2010)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Charly Matteï has turned his back on his life as an outlaw. For the last three years, he's led a peaceful life devoting himself to his wife and two children. Then, one winter morning, he's left for dead in the parking garage in ...
Style: tense, serious, suspense, exciting, unusual plot structure ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: vengeance, mafia, criminal's revenge, mobster, violence, police investigation, revenge, murder, revenge plot, shooting, organized crime, betrayal ...
Time: year 2010, 21st century
Place: france, marseille, provence, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 4.4
 334
Detour (1998)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: When Danny and his gang attempt to rob the warehouse of a mob boss, they find themselves on the run. Danny goes back to his hometown to find his mother has recently died leaving him the farm on the condition that he must open the dairy and run it ...
Style: independent film, realistic, serious, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot: on the run, warehouse, mob boss, gangster, gang, crime gone awry, criminal heroes, rivalry, dishonesty, going straight, law enforcement, betrayal ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Truth or Consequences, N.M. (1997)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Raymond Lembecke (Vincent Gallo) is a con just out of prison after serving time for selling drugs for his mob boss Tony Vago (Rod Steiger). (Lembecke was innocent and took the rap for Vago.) Lembecke thinks Vago owes him big time so, when his former ...
Style: intense, talky, serious, suspenseful, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: robbery, gangster, on the road, crime gone awry, hitman, on the run, prison, hostage, organized crime, police corruption, chase, ex convict ...
Time: year 1997, 90s
Place: new mexico, las vegas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 4.3
 1K
Played (2006)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min.
Story: An examination of the malevolent London underworld with it's despicable criminal underground. Ray (Mick Rossi) just finished an eight year prison sentence after getting set up. Now he is back on the streets to settle the score.
Style: tense, serious, suspenseful, rough, realistic ...
Plot: murder, prison, criminal underworld, criminal heroes, criminal, gangster, crime gone awry, dishonesty, released from prison, corrupt cop, police detective, police investigation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: london, england, europe, los angeles, britain
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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