Movies like Miami Vice 2006
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Miami Vice (2006)
130K
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
Miami Vice is a feature film based on the 1980s action drama TV series. The film tells the story of vice detectives Crockett and Tubbs and how their personal and professional lives are dangerously getting mixed.
Style:
visually stunning, intense, rough, serious, suspenseful, action packed, erotic, neo noir, stylized, action thriller ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
drug smuggling, police detective, drug dealing, partners against crime, buddy cop, justice, vengeance, partner, mole, cartel, drug cartel, drug, law enforcement, tough law enforcer, drug lord, danger, working undercover, buddies, fbi, chase, cop, dangerous attraction, sniper, buddy, american football ...
Time:
year 2006, 2000s, 21st century, contemporary
Place:
miami, florida, south america, usa, colombia, havana cuba, geneva switzerland ...
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Most similar movies to Miami Vice
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, suspenseful, rough and serious films with plots about murder, violence, police officer, police, gangster, vengeance and pistol mostly in Action, Crime and Thriller genres. Some movies like Miami Vice: To Live and Die in L.A. (1985), Collateral (2004), The Sweeper (1996), L.A. Takedown (1989), Harsh Times (2005). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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:
100%
464K
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Cab driver Max picks up a man who offers him $600 to drive him around. But the promise of easy money sours when Max realizes his fare is an assassin.
Style:
neo noir, clever, tense, atmospheric, suspense ...
Audience:
date night, manly, boys' night
Plot:
hitman, hostage, taxi, taxi driver, contract killer, sociopath, twists and turns, assassin, nihilism, merciless, professional killer, death ...
Time:
year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, california, south america, southern california, persia ...
Similarity:
83%
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A young renegade undercover cop with a propensity for violence and a past history involving the murder of his cop father and the remainder of his family is recruited by a vigilante group with a leader who wants only to kill all criminals and those ...
Style:
independent film, fast, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
vigilante, vigilantism, working undercover, action violence, home invasion, police shootout, police officer, police detective, murder, car chase, special agent, partner ...
Time:
90s
Place:
los angeles, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Michael Mann's (HEAT, MIAMI VICE) gutsy telefilm tells the tale of two skilled professionals--one a cop, the other a criminal--who aren't as different as they think.Vincent Hanna (Scott Plank) is an intense cop on the trail of ruthless ...
Style:
exciting, tense, realistic, serious, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
bank robbery, criminal, shootout, robbery, police, bank robber, police shootout, cybersecurity, violent content, police detective, urban, tough law enforcer ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
los angeles, usa, california
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Jim Davis is an ex-Army Ranger who finds himself slipping back into his old life of petty crime after a job offer from the LAPD evaporates. His best friend is pressured by his girlfriend Sylvia to find a job, but Jim is more interested in hanging ...
Style:
tense, bleak, intense, hood, serious ...
Plot:
drug, drinking, corruption, street gang, gangster, addiction, transformation, profanity, depression, culture clash, redemption, lapd ...
Time:
year 2005, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, mexico, colombia, south america, latin america ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Three minor delinquints (Danes, Ribisi, and Epps) are recruited by a cop (Farina) working undercover to bust a cop/drug ring. When the officer who recruited them is killed, they go above and beyond the call of duty to solve the murder; and bust the ...
Style:
suspense, serious, rough, suspenseful, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
chase, police corruption, partner, investigation, working undercover, criminal heroes, partners against crime, conspiracy, drug, maverick cop, corruption, redemption ...
Time:
year 1999, 20th century, 90s
Place:
california, los angeles, usa
Similarity:
100%
294K
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Veteran buttoned-down LAPD detective Roger Murtaugh is partnered with unhinged cop Martin Riggs, who -- distraught after his wife's death -- has a death wish and takes unnecessary risks with criminals at every turn. The odd couple embark on ...
Style:
detective, entertaining, suspense, tense, humorous ...
Audience:
manly, boys' night, girls' night
Plot:
police, gunfight, reluctant partners, buddy, buddy cop, christmas, chase, badass, police partner, police officer, car chase, police investigation ...
Time:
80s, year 1987, 20th century
Place:
los angeles, california, usa, vietnam, beverly hills ...
Similarity:
50%
313K
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Marcus Burnett is a hen-pecked family man. Mike Lowry is a foot-loose and fancy free ladies' man. Both are Miami policemen, and both have 72 hours to reclaim a consignment of drugs stolen from under their station's nose. To complicate ...
Style:
humorous, buddy comedy, exciting, funny, action comedy ...
Audience:
manly, girls' night, teens, boys' night
Plot:
buddy cop, drug lord, murder, murder investigation, partners against crime, two man army, law enforcement, friendship between men, police corruption, police investigation, african american, working undercover ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1995
Place:
miami, florida, usa, north america
Similarity:
60%
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Rita Rizzoli is a narcotics cop with a plethora of disguises. When a drug shipment is hijacked, the thieves don't know that the drug is unusually pure and packs of 'Fatal Beauty' begin turning up next to too many dead bodies. Mike ...
Style:
detective, crying, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
police investigation, violence, undercover, tough girl, undercover cop, female police officer, female protagonist, drug dealer, one woman army, good versus evil, murder, reluctant partners ...
Time:
80s, year 1987
Place:
los angeles, california, usa, beverly hills
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 48 min.
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Story:
The story of the Miami Police Department's vice squad and its efforts to end drug trafficking and prostitution, centered on the unlikely partnership of Sonny Crockett and Ricardo Tubbs - who first meet when Tubbs is undercover in a drug cartel.
Style:
detective, serious, exciting, stylized, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
undercover, law enforcement, police, partner, partners against crime, drug dealing, rivalry, undercover cop, two man army, machismo, working undercover, cop ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
miami, florida, usa
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
After a drug-op gone bad, Joey Gazelle is put in charge of disposing the gun that shot a dirty cop. But things goes wrong for Joey after the neighbor kid stole the gun and used it to shoot his abusive father. Now Joey has to find the kid and the gun ...
Style:
bloody, clever, cult classic, brutal, action packed ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
violent, child abuse, gunfight, gangster, police corruption, undercover agent, mafia, mob boss, plot twist, racism, gory, police investigation ...
Time:
year 2006, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
new jersey
Similarity:
100%
287K
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 147 min.
Story:
Out-of-control, trash-talking buddy cops Marcus Burnett and Mike Lowrey of the Miami Narcotics Task Force reunite, and bullets fly, cars crash and laughs explode as they pursue a whacked-out drug lord from the streets of Miami to the barrios of ...
Style:
entertaining, stylized, exciting, action packed, humorous ...
Audience:
manly, girls' night, teens, boys' night, adult
Plot:
buddy cop, car chase, foul language, drug lord, buddies, partner, gunfight, chase, gangster, police, violent, vigilante ...
Time:
year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
miami, florida, south america, iran, usa ...
Similarity:
17%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Buxom do-gooders Donna and Nicole set out to reclaim the stolen Alexa diamond from its hiding place in Russia … only to run into their nemesis, Martin Kane.
Style:
erotic, cult classic, independent film
Plot:
sex scene, making love, woman with a gun, contract killer, big breasts, skinny dipping, exploitation, spy, helicopter, hired killer, bare chested male, villainess ...
Time:
90s
Place:
las vegas, russia, hawaii
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
An L.A. cop investigates the death of his partner in the swamps of Louisiana. Enlisting the help of an ex-cop who lost his hand to an alligator many years before.
Style:
suspense, neo noir, independent film
Plot:
buddy cop, swamp, police, serial killer, boat, blonde, sexy woman, female nudity, pretty woman, crocodile, river, naked woman ...
Place:
new orleans
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
FBI agent Cara Landry is sent on an undercover assignment to gather evidence on Damian Medina, a Mexican casino owner running a counterfeiting operation for the Cali drug cartel...
Style:
erotic, independent film, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
female agent, counterfeiter, one woman army, terrorism, sexual attraction, croupier, betrayal, seduction, undercover agent, woman with a gun, night, casino ...
Time:
90s
Place:
mexico city, mexico
Similarity:
100%
138K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
Pot growers Ben and Chon face off against the Mexican drug cartel who kidnapped their shared girlfriend.
Style:
sexy, tense, action packed, intense, erotic ...
Audience:
chick flick, boys' night, teens
Plot:
violence, twists and turns, rescue, kidnapping, sex scene, drug cartel, marijuana, drug dealing, friendship, woman in danger, polyamory, organized crime ...
Time:
year 2012, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
california, southern california, afghanistan, south america, los angeles ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A former cop's ex-wife marries a stockbroker, who it turns out has cheated the Mafia out of a large sum of money. They kidnap the wife to force the husband to pay the money back. The ex-cop has to rescue her.
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, crime drama, independent film
Plot:
kidnapping, hostage, mobster, cop, mafia, organized crime, rescue, danger, betrayal, violence, male protagonist, cat and mouse ...
Time:
year 1991, 90s
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Drug baron Peter Loomis (Patrick Stewart) has his $400 million dollar drug fortune stolen in South America. Loomis sends Armor O'Malley (Denis Leary), a ruthless killer to find his money. Cole Parker (Mario Van Peebles), a DEA Agent is on a ...
Style:
suspense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, erotic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
drug dealing, female mercenary, female killer, female assassin, chase, criminal's revenge, gangster, partner, working undercover, jungle, criminal heroes, lone wolves ...
Time:
90s, year 1993
Place:
latin america, usa, south america, new york
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Plainclothes policemen Brian and Mike use an elderly woman's apartment for surveillance, hoping to catch a fugitive gangster. They develop a warm relationship with their hostess, whom they call "granny." Meanwhile, each man develops a ...
Style:
realistic, serious, stylized, suspenseful
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
buddy cop, surveillance, gangster, pregnancy, undercover cop, partner, friends, law enforcement, gang, partners against crime, single parent, tough law enforcer ...
Time:
90s
Place:
hong kong, asia
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Action, Crime
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Two undercover police officers must try to prevent a multi-million dollar nuclear arms deal among several mob factions.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, stylized, rough, fast ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
abuse, undercover, adultery, infidelity, gangster, police investigation, fighting crime, working undercover, law enforcement, master criminal, rivalry, police corruption ...
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Armed men hijack a New York City subway train, holding the passengers hostage in return for a ransom, and turning an ordinary day's work for dispatcher Walter Garber into a face-off with the mastermind behind the crime.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, stylized, intense, action thriller ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
train, hostage, caper, heist, outsmarting, hijacking, terrorist, terrorism, passenger, chase, police investigation, fbi ...
Time:
year 2009, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
new york, coney island brooklyn new york city, usa, manhattan new york city, brooklyn new york city ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
College student Jake Lo is pursued by smugglers, mobsters and crooked federal agents after he witnesses a murder by a Mafia kingpin.
Style:
exciting, cult classic, intense, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night, manly, teens
Plot:
martial arts, gangster, police investigation, violent, police corruption, justice, gunfight, danger, fighting crime, tough law enforcer, fight scenes, murder ...
Time:
year 1992, 90s
Place:
chicago, los angeles, usa, beijing china, bangkok thailand ...
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Just retired from the Drug Enforcement Agency, John Hatcher returns to his hometown and quickly discovers that drugs have infiltrated his old neighborhood. Determined to drive the dealers out, Hatcher crosses paths with a ferocious Jamaican drug ...
Style:
suspense, neo noir, serious, exciting, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night, manly
Plot:
martial arts, revenge, gangster, vigilante, lone hero, murder, vengeance, jamaican, violence, hand to hand combat, drug lord, voodoo ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, 90s
Place:
jamaica, usa, chicago, colombia, latin america ...
Similarity:
22%
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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:
exciting, serious, suspenseful, intense, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night, manly, chick flick, teens
Plot:
mafia, organized crime, gangster, mob boss, squad, tough law enforcer, undercover cop, partners against crime, law enforcement, revenge, corruption, violent ...
Time:
1940s, year 2013, 2010s, 20th century, year 1949 ...
Place:
los angeles, california, israel, usa
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A Chicago cop is caught in a middle of a gang war while his own comrades shun him because he wants to take an irresponsible cop down.
Style:
exciting, cult classic, suspense, detective, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
martial arts, hitman, police officer, one man army, revenge, police, mafia, gangster, chase, police investigation, police corruption, car chase ...
Time:
80s, year 1985
Place:
chicago, usa, texas, new jersey
Similarity:
21%
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:
21%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Seagal is Nico Toscani, an Italian immigrant, American patriot, ex-CIA agent, aikido specialist, and unorthodox Chicago policeman. He is as committed to his job as he is to his personalized brand of justice: expert and thorough bone-crushing.
Style:
suspense, exciting, realistic, serious, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night, manly
Plot:
martial arts, conspiracy, aikido, undercover, heroic bloodshed, corruption, drug dealing, vengeance, drug lord, police, vietnam war, kung fu ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, 70s
Place:
chicago, vietnam, usa, illinois, las vegas ...
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
On New Year's Eve, inside a police station that's about to be closed for good, officer Jake Roenick must cobble together a force made up cops and criminals to save themselves from a mob looking to kill mobster Marion Bishop.
Style:
suspense, exciting, serious, realistic, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
siege, police station, police corruption, shootout, unlikely partners, criminal's revenge, survival, sniper, attempted murder, danger, machine gun, swat team ...
Time:
year 2005, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
detroit, usa, los angeles
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Veteran cop Nick Pulovski is used to playing musical partners; many of the partners he's had in the past have died on the job, and often as a result of Nick's risky tactics. But the rookie who's been assigned to help Nick bust a ...
Style:
suspense, entertaining, intense, semi serious, exciting ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, girls' night
Plot:
chase, police investigation, pitbull, buddy cop, reluctant partners, buddy, car, car chase, buddies, partner, danger, hostage ...
Time:
80s
Place:
los angeles, san francisco, california
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
John Shaft is back as the lady-loved black detective cop on the search for the murderer of a client.
Style:
epic, neo noir, grim, hood, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
blaxploitation, private detective, murder, gangster, chase, exploitation, police investigation, undercover, black, investigation, black cop, racism ...
Time:
year 1972, 70s, 20th century
Place:
new york, harlem, usa, tokyo, africa
Similarity:
20%
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