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Life Without Principle (2011)
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Original name: 奪命金
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A criminal, a bank clerk and a police officer find their destinies entwined when a loan shark gets assaulted after having withdrawn $10 million from the bank in the midst of the world financial crisis.
Style:
tense, rough, serious, suspenseful, atmospheric, realistic, captivating, bloody, crime drama, gloomy ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
stock exchange, hitman, bank clerk, crime investigation, human nature, life is a bitch, danger, moral dilemma, disorder, honest law enforcer, financial problem, financial ruin, police, criminal, financial crisis, husband wife relationship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, investigation, murder investigation, investor, chinese mafia, triad, mogul, down on your luck, loan ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
hong kong, china, asia
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, suspenseful and rough films with plots about gangster, rivalry, law enforcement, dishonesty, chinese mafia, murder and criminal heroes mostly in Drama, Crime and Action genres. Some movies like Life Without Principle: Expect the Unexpected (1998), Election 2 (2006), One Nite in Mongkok (2004), Protégé (2007), The Detective 2 (2011). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
In this "cops and robbers" film, a raid on a jewelry store staged by a band of amateur hold-up artists goes horribly wrong, leading to a shoot-out. The elite Organized Crime Bureau team, headed by Captain Ching King Gen, is poised to go ...
Style:
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Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
heroic bloodshed, organized crime, gunfight, rivalry, crime gone awry, law enforcement, criminal heroes, store, wooing, heist, disorder, mugging ...
Time:
90s
Place:
hong kong, asia
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Style:
serious, suspenseful, captivating, tense, rough ...
Plot:
triad, organized crime, election, henchman, dishonesty, rivalry, rules and policies, gangster, criminal heroes, asian gangster, criminal, crime boss ...
Time:
year 2006, 21st century
Place:
china, hong kong, asia
Similarity:
88%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Hong Kong nihilism. December 22, a street quarrel leads to the death of a gang leader's son. Next day, he seeks revenge on his brother, a rival boss. He calls on Liu, a fixer, to import a hit man from the mainland. Lai Fu, a tough and youthful ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, exciting, realistic, atmospheric ...
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boys' night
Plot:
hitman, gangster, organized crime, gang war, murder, mob boss, rivalry, gang, law enforcement, christmas, revenge, manhunt ...
Place:
china, hong kong
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Undercover officer Nick had spent the last seven years penetrating into the core of a drug ring working his way up from a street dealer post to the managerial position handling cargo deliveries for Kwan - the biggest player in the local heroin ...
Style:
serious, rough, bleak, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot:
undercover, drug dealing, mole, working undercover, drug abuse, life is a bitch, dishonesty, law enforcement, tragic hero, moral dilemma, organized crime, triad ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
hong kong, china, east asia, asia
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Mysteries keep revolving around Tam’s life.
Style:
realistic, stylized, serious, atmospheric, suspenseful ...
Plot:
police detective, investigation, law enforcement, police investigation, private detective, murder, riddles and clues, danger, killer, serial killer, violent content, urban ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
asia, china, thailand
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73%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Mike, a cop who is becoming increasingly frustrated with his tiresome job with little benefits, whilst the criminals live a life of luxury. He is offered a undercover job to infiltrate a Triad gang led by Boss Tin. Mike slowly becomes engrossed in ...
Style:
exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gambling, undercover, law enforcement, police investigation, gangster, partner, disorder, partners against crime, dishonesty, chases and races, gang, fall in love ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
hong kong
Similarity:
68%
465
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Three childhood friends join the Hong Kong Triads only to discover that fame and fortune will ultimately break them apart as only one can become the leader of the gang.
Style:
realistic, suspenseful, serious, rough
Plot:
triad, gangster, ambition, gang, rivalry, buddies, criminal heroes, friends, bandit, gang leader, criminal underworld, criminal gang ...
Time:
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Place:
hong kong, asia
Similarity:
65%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A drama-thriller centered on a democratic election within an organized crime society.
Style:
suspense, captivating, suspenseful, rough, neo noir ...
Plot:
organized crime, election, rise to the top, ego clash, rivalry, ambition, asian gangster, uninhibited rivalry, rules and policies, temperamental, merciless, elimination ...
Time:
year 2005, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
china, hong kong, asia
Similarity:
65%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
On a cold winter’s day Sergey Sobolev, a major at the local police office, is driving to the hospital where his wife is about to give birth to their child. High from happiness, he’s driving too fast and runs down a boy on a passage walk, who ...
Style:
tense, serious, suspenseful, suspense, touching ...
Plot:
moral dilemma, change of heart, corrupt law enforcer, disorder, police station, life is a bitch, life turned upside down, police corruption, social decay, police, justice, depression ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
russia
Similarity:
64%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A man becomes a cop in order to take down the police superintendent who may have killed his father, and that of a vengeful Triad boss.
Style:
exciting, suspense, captivating, tense, crime drama ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
spy, gangster, danger, rivalry, dishonesty, police corruption, snitch, undercover, law enforcement, police, police shootout, revenge ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
hong kong, asia
Similarity:
64%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
In the early 1970s, the Governor of Hong Kong decided to clean up the police force. The ICAC was established, whose operation branch was headed by Yim. Bong and Unicorn also joined the ICAC. Despite threats of violence and intimidation, they managed ...
Style:
tense, captivating, atmospheric, suspense, serious ...
Plot:
drug dealing, police corruption, police investigation, money laundering, gang, rivalry, society, cop, dishonesty, strong violent content, profanity, scapegoat ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, 60s
Place:
hong kong, china, asia
Similarity:
60%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Jack and Martin are members of rival Chinese triads in the middle of a gang war. Both of their gang leaders like to get advice from a fortune teller living in Thailand. On one such trip, Martin's gang ambushes Jack's at a Thai hotel. There ...
Style:
neo noir, crime drama, realistic, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
heroic bloodshed, chinese mafia, heroes, gunfight, triad, partner, gangster, battles, friends, hitman, criminal heroes, law enforcement ...
Time:
90s
Place:
hong kong, asia, thailand
Similarity:
59%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Police inspector and excellent hostage negotiator Ho Sheung-Sang finds himself in over his head when he is pulled into a 72 hour game by a cancer suffering criminal out for vengeance on Hong Kong's organized crime syndicates.
Style:
sexy, suspense, neo noir, dramatic, tense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
terminal illness, revenge, thief, cross dressing, race against time, chase, heist, buddy cop, heroic bloodshed, gunfight, negotiator, maverick cop ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
china, asia, hong kong
Similarity:
59%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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Style:
tense, suspense, captivating, heroic, crime thriller
Plot:
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Time:
90s
Place:
hong kong, china
Similarity:
58%
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Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
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Style:
tense, rough, suspenseful, suspense, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
china, hong kong, asia
Similarity:
58%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
Sang-hoon is a lowlife gangster, a debt collector exercising thuggish ways to collect his money. The recipient of nothing but anger since his childhood, he expresses himself through violence. When he finally encounters someone who can stand up to ...
Style:
serious, realistic, tense, emotional, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
asia, south korea, korea
Similarity:
53%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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Style:
neo noir, serious, suspenseful, realistic, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
police detective, police investigation, goofy hero, gang, partners against crime, rivalry, investigation, murder, tough law enforcer, law enforcement, master criminal, dishonesty ...
Place:
hong kong, china, asia
Similarity:
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542
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Two pounds of pressure on a trigger pays really well... Ex special forces mercenary and now hardened criminal Vic, lives in a world of cons, double crosses, crooked cops, mob bosses and drug dealing crime lords. Playing by his own rules, Vic and his ...
Style:
exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, rough ...
Plot:
fighting crime, gangster, hitman, police detective, drug dealing, rivalry, danger, murder, crime boss, city life, dishonesty, tough law enforcer ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
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Similarity:
52%
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Country: Hong Kong, Singapore, China
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
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Style:
neo noir, suspense, tense, exciting, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night, girls' night
Plot:
chinese mafia, triad, gangster, police, organized crime, spy, vengeance, murder, police investigation, survival, asian gangster, recruit ...
Time:
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Place:
hong kong, asia, china, thailand
Similarity:
51%
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Country: China, France
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, serious, atmospheric, emotional, tense ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
china, east asia, asia
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Set in Shanghais Gangster era of the early 1900s, THE LAST TYCOON tells the tale of CHENG (Chow Yun-Fat), a young man who is set up by the chief of police (Sammo Hung) and must leave the life he knows and QIU (Monica Mok), the woman he loves, to ...
Style:
tense, suspenseful, serious, exciting, captivating ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
chinese mafia, gangster, rivalry, betrayal, dishonesty, heroic bloodshed, love triangle, danger, fight club, triad, violent content, gang ...
Time:
20th century, 1920s, 1930s, 90s
Place:
china, shanghai, asia
Similarity:
48%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France, Italy, USA
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
An FBI Agent from America and his bride and young child travel to the Sicilian island of Ginostra to solve the murder of a key witness.
Style:
tense, serious, suspenseful, rough, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
murder, island, law enforcement, investigation, orphan, life is a bitch, coming of age, sexual content, family in danger, danger, dishonesty, revenge ...
Time:
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Place:
italy, sicily, europe
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong, China, Japan
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A detective helps a friend investigate the mysterious death of his father.
Style:
suspenseful, tense, serious, realistic, rough ...
Plot:
murder, law enforcement, haunted by the past, perfect crime, partner, investigation, dishonesty, corrupt law enforcer, police detective, partners against crime, private detective, triad ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
china, asia
Similarity:
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
A detective goes against the successor to a drug-trafficking crime syndicate, who aspires for a society free of drugs by orchestrating anarchy in Hong Kong.
Style:
disturbing, suspenseful, psychological, tense, suspense ...
Plot:
chinese mafia, drug crime, drug, criminal, danger, criminal underworld, gangster, drug dealing, battles, criminal's revenge, youth, criminal heroes ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
hong kong
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
When Triad leader Hung considers leaving the world of the gangsters, a brutal war begins in the world of jiang-hu. Meanwhile, an internal conflict begins between Hung and his best man, Left-Hand.
Style:
tense, crime drama, serious, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
gangster, rivalry, triad, criminal heroes, right hand man, heroic bloodshed, chinese mafia, underworld, brotherhood, organized crime, power struggle, betrayal ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
hong kong, china, asia
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Dominican Republic
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A cop works against his country's corrupt government in order to find justice on a case.
Style:
tense, serious, suspenseful, rough, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
rivalry, tough heroes, uncover truth, vengeance, hitman, heroes, vigilantism, political corruption, betrayal, dishonesty, danger, haunted by the past ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
south america, new york, usa
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Based on the true story of how the FBI brought down one of Detroit's most notorious mobsters.
Style:
rough, suspenseful, serious, realistic, independent film
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
fighting crime, investigation, criminal, law enforcement, gangster, undercover, profanity, fbi, mobster, violent content, special agent, working undercover ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
detroit, michigan, usa
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
To pay off his debt as a gambler, a man drags his sister and step-brother into a life of crime and a violent war between rival gang lords.
Style:
crime drama, cult classic, exciting, serious, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
heroic bloodshed, triad, chinese mafia, wedding, gangster, gang, betrayal, rich and poor, godparent, urban, gory, gambling ...
Time:
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Place:
hong kong, asia
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A friendship is formed between an ex-gangster, and two groups of hitmen - those who want to protect him and those who were sent to kill him.
Style:
rough, suspenseful, serious, exciting, neo noir ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gangster, hitman, friendship, starting over, heroic bloodshed, frame up, danger, dishonesty, vengeance, babies and infants, professional killer, crime boss ...
Time:
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Place:
east asia, china, macau
Similarity:
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
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Style:
tense, harsh, atmospheric, exciting, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
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Time:
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