Movies like Night and the City

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Night and the City (1992)
 5.8
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Night and the City (1992)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Looking to get rich quick, an unsuccessful lawyer uses dishonest means to try to become a boxing promoter.
Style: neo noir, cult classic, tense, serious, realistic, talky, gloomy, independent film
Plot: boxing, lawyer, law, waitress, obsession, betrayal, rivalry, ambition, career change, dishonesty, criminal heroes, unlikely couple, cons and scams, power relations, empire, legal, crime, neo-noir, crimes
Time: year 1992, 90s
Place: new york, usa

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Most similar movies to Night and the City

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, suspenseful and neo noir films with plots about dishonesty, murder, gangster, rivalry, betrayal, deadly and criminal heroes mostly in Drama, Crime and Thriller genres. Some movies like Night and the City: Silent Witness (2011), Shadows & Lies (2010), True Confessions (1981), Laws of Gravity (1992), Hell's Kitchen (1998). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Silent Witness (2011)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Prominent defense attorney Tony Lord returns to his hometown to defend an old friend, a teacher accused of murdering one of his students. The case re-opens the heartache from Tony's own high school days, when he was a student falsely accused of ...
Style: realistic, captivating, tense, psychological, suspenseful ...
Plot: murder, courtroom drama, homecoming, courtroom, friendship, legal, lawyer, danger, rivalry, family relations, law, deadly
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, ohio
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
Shadows & Lies (2010)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The story of William Vincent as he recounts the eccentric and curious path that has brought him, at mortal risk, to New York City, after four years in exile, to rescue a woman he scarcely knows, Ann, from the vague crime syndicate that first brought ...
Style: tense, rough, serious, realistic, neo noir ...
Audience: date night
Plot: fall in love, danger, love and romance, dishonesty, criminal heroes, rescue, lovers on the run, woman in danger, criminal, gangster, rivalry, girl ...
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
94%
True Confessions (1981)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A cop clashes with his priest brother while investigating the brutal murder of a young prostitute
Style: neo noir, detective, intelligent, talky, suspenseful ...
Plot: murder, catholic priest, cop, priest, politics, serial killer, redemption, clergy, political corruption, police corruption, desert, catholic ...
Time: 1940s, year 1981, 20th century, 1950s
Place: los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
Laws of Gravity (1992)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Jimmy and Jon are a couple of Brooklyn guys who somehow never found their way into workaday society; they never found their way into big-time crime, either.
Style: neo noir, independent film, realistic, serious, tense ...
Plot: american mafia, mafia, urban ghetto, criminal heroes, misfit, society, arms dealing, social misfits, juvenile delinquency, drug dealing, life is a bitch, city life ...
Time: year 1992, 90s
Place: new york, usa, brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
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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
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72%
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Innocent (2011)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Bill Pullman (Independence Day, Torchwood) stars as Rusty Sabich, a judge charged with the murder of his wife, a situation that comes 20 years after he was cleared in the death of his mistress. During this latest trial, a secret affair from ...
Style: tense, captivating, disturbing, psychological, suspenseful ...
Plot: lawyer, legal, murder, courtroom drama, dishonesty, legal investigation, father son relationship, uncover truth, law, couple relations, judge, courtroom ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
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 ⇓
64%
A Killing Affair (1985)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Peter Weller (Robocop) stars as Baton Morris, a drifter suspected of murder, in this crime drama. A widow (Kathy Baker) living in West Virginia takes in the man (Weller) whom she believes murdered her husband. As she spends more time with him, she ...
Style: independent film, suspense, neo noir, psychological, realistic ...
Plot: mountain, collision, widow, murder, drifter, small town, underdog, intrigue, danger, vengeance, rivalry, fall in love ...
Time: year 1986, 80s
Place: west virginia, virginia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
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Spanish Judges (2000)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A con-artist hires two low-lifes to cover him during a deal, ending with three criminals, two dueling pistols, and one night they'll never forget
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, rough, independent film ...
Plot: psychopath, criminal heroes, mind game, unlikely criminals, betrayal, dishonesty, rivalry, crime gone awry, criminal's revenge, heist, mentally challenged, murder ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
The Killer Inside Me (1976)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A sheriff struggles to hide his violent murderous acts.
Style: neo noir, serious, psychological, realistic, tense ...
Plot: serial killer, killer, small town, psychopath, profanity, violent content, small town life, law enforcement, unlikely criminals, danger, dishonesty, social relations ...
Time: year 1976, 70s, 20th century
Place: montana, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
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Shiner (2000)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story: The past catches up with a ruthlessly ambitious boxing promoter.
Style: tense, suspenseful, realistic, rough, neo noir ...
Plot: boxing, gang, ambition, vengeance, athlete's life, rivalry, dishonesty, down on your luck, gangster, boxer, promoter, father son relationship ...
Time: 90s
Place: europe, england, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
 5.9
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Gunshy (1998)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: When the New York journalist Jake Bridges catches his girlfriend with another guy, he goes to Atlantic City to drink himself to oblivion. He is saved from a bar brawl by a small-time mobster Frankie, and Jake falls in love with Frankie's ...
Style: neo noir, tense, realistic, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot: infidelity, reporter, erotica, mobster, journalist, writer's life, unlikely criminals, love and romance, dishonesty, journalism, fall in love, twists and turns ...
Time: 90s
Place: atlantic city, new york, usa, atlantic city new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
 4.0
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Deadfall (1993)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: After he accidentally kills his father, Mike, during a sting, Joe tries to carry out Mike's dying wish by recovering valuables that Mike's twin brother Lou stole from him years earlier. But Uncle Lou is also a confidence artist, and Joe is ...
Style: stylized, suspenseful, realistic, serious, neo noir ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: murder, gangster, criminal heroes, cons and scams, crime gone awry, uncle nephew relationship, greed, danger, fight scenes, tribe, buddies, drug ...
Time: 90s, year 1993
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
 5.7
 656
Cement (2000)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: What's the bond between partners, between brothers, and between spouses? In L.A., Bill Holt handcuffs Sean Rickhart inside a rebar frame for a freeway pillar at a construction site; Bill's going to bury Sean in quick-drying cement. Guided ...
Style: neo noir, serious, rough, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: police corruption, gangster, criminal's revenge, life is a bitch, rivalry, criminal heroes, law enforcement, dishonesty, police investigation, drug dealing, addiction, showbiz ...
Time: 90s
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
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Freelancers (2012)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: The son of a slain NYPD officer joins the force, where he falls in with his father's former partner and a team of rogue cops. His new boss, Sarcone, will see if he has what it takes to be rogue through many trials and tribulations of loyalty, ...
Style: tense, serious, rough, suspenseful, crime drama ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: partners against crime, revenge, nypd, uncover truth, law enforcement, vigilantism, teaching the ways of the world, partner, betrayal, dishonesty, life is a bitch, police corruption ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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Body Count (1998)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A group of thieves attempt to rob an art gallery, but when plans backfire and one of the men winds up dead, the group head down south, running afoul of the law. Along the way, they meet up with a seductive con artist with ideas of her own.
Style: neo noir, hood, cult classic, independent film, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: art theft, heist, murder, urban, highway, on the road, police detective, friends, disorder, on the run, crime gone awry, dishonesty ...
Time: year 1998, 90s
Place: boston, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
The Wizard of Lies (2017)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story: A look behind the scenes at Bernie Madoff's massive Ponzi scheme, how it was perpetrated on the public and the trail of destruction it left in its wake, both for the victims and Madoff's family.
Style: realistic, captivating, political, tense, serious ...
Plot: fraud, wall street, scam, financier, finance, money, business, investor, stock exchange, success, corporate world, businessman ...
Time: year 2017
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
The Godfather Part II (1974)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 202 min.
Story: In the continuing saga of the Corleone crime family, a young Vito Corleone grows up in Sicily and in 1910s New York. In the 1950s, Michael Corleone attempts to expand the family business into Las Vegas, Hollywood and Cuba.
Style: epic, captivating, suspense, serious, visual ...
Audience: boys' night, manly, adult
Plot: mafia, organized crime, cosa nostra, revenge, mobster, ambition, melancholy, mob boss, corruption, corrupt politician, gangster, murder ...
Time: 50s, 20th century, 1950s, 1940s, year 1974 ...
Place: cuba, new york, las vegas, italy, sicily ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Place Vendome (1998)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 117 min.
Story: The story of a woman that remained distracted for a long time from her life, from the passions that made her feel alive. The importance of true love is compared with the material value of diamonds. Only one truly lasts forever. She's got to ...
Style: neo noir, realistic, psychological, serious, stylized ...
Plot: women, flashback, drunkenness, betrayal, dishonesty, haunted by the past, alcohol abuse, cons and scams, diamond, female protagonist, widow, suicide ...
Time: year 1998, 90s
Place: france, paris france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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Hit Man (1972)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Bernie Casey portrays Tyrone and Pamela Grier plays a sultry skin-flick star in this first Americanized remake of the iconic Michael Caine action film Get Carter. From Watts to the West Side, from porno parlors to a high-rise, from motel dives to a ...
Style: neo noir, grindhouse, psychotronic, realistic, serious ...
Plot: blaxploitation, lawyer, martial arts, revenge, exploitation, black, tough heroes, hitman, rivalry, criminal's revenge, vengeance, lone wolves ...
Time: year 1972, 20th century, 70s
Place: los angeles, usa
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47%
The Ministers (2009)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A NYPD detective attempts to avenge the death of her father, but unwittingly becomes involved with one of his killers.
Style: tense, serious, captivating, suspense, psychological ...
Plot: vengeance, danger, rivalry, profanity, law enforcement, unlikely couple, murder, brainwashing, religious fanaticism, strong violent content, violent content, chases and races ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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Bella Mafia (1997)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Don Roberto Luciano turns informer for the biggest Mafia trial in history, but his family pays a terrible price.
Style: captivating, serious, political thriller, tense, realistic ...
Plot: mafia, betrayal, incestuous relationship, gangster, italian mafia, filicide, organized crime, rivalry, family life, monastery, revenge, mobster ...
Time: 90s
Place: europe, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
A Thousand Acres (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A THOUSAND ACRES is a drama about an American family who meets with tragedy on their land. It is the story of a father, his daughters, and their husbands, and their passion to subdue the history of their land and its stories.
Style: psychological, touching, talky, realistic, serious ...
Plot: farm, child molester, dysfunctional family, shakespeare, incest rape, incest, women, tragedy, domineering father, jealousy, betrayal, sex crime ...
Time: 90s, year 1997
Place: iowa, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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The Butcher's Son (2009)
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, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: rivalry, uncover truth, hitman, haunted by the past, betrayal, vigilantism, political corruption, vengeance, heroes, danger, dishonesty, life is a bitch ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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Even Money (2006)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Gambling addiction bring the stories of three otherwise unconnected people together as it destroys each of their lives.
Style: realistic, serious, disturbing, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot: gambling, addiction, obsession, bookies, destructive relationship, couple relations, moral dilemma, cons and scams, life is a bitch, buddies, criminal's revenge, rivalry ...
Time: year 2006
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
The Postman Always Rings Twice (1981)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: West Germany, USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: This remake of the 1946 movie of the same name accounts an affair between a seedy drifter and a seductive wife of a roadside cafe owner. This begins a chain of events that culminates in murder. Based on a novel by James M. Cain.
Style: neo noir, sexy, erotic, suspense, atmospheric ...
Plot: adultery, obsession, sex, infidelity, femme fatale, unfaithful wife, murder, love affair, sexual content, female orgasm, drifter, relationships ...
Time: 20th century, 1930s, year 1981
Place: california, usa, los angeles, san diego california
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Tazza: The Hidden Card (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 147 min.
Story: Dae-gil has been skilled with his hands and has shown a strong desire for winning ever since he was a child. He will succeed his uncle and jump into the world of Tazza, risking his life in competition.
Style: semi serious, suspenseful, realistic, twisted
Plot: gambling, criminal heroes, betrayal, rivalry, twists and turns, cons and scams, ambition, vengeance, criminal's revenge, on the run, dishonesty, revenge ...
Time: 21st century
Place: korea, busan, seoul
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
 4.4
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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 ⇓
40%
 8.2
 560K
Casino (1995)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA, France
Duration: 178 min.
Story: The life of the gambling paradise – Las Vegas – and its dark mafia underbelly.
Style: realistic, clever, rough, suspense, neo noir ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: organized crime, mafia, casino, rise and fall, gangster, gambling, money, greed, mobster, betrayal, cosa nostra, criminal heroes ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, year 1995, 80s, 90s ...
Place: las vegas, chicago, missouri, israel, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
 7.1
 55K
Hard Eight (1996)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A stranger mentors a young Reno gambler who weds a hooker and befriends a vulgar casino regular.
Style: neo noir, cult classic, noir, independent film, clever ...
Plot: gambling, blackmail, redemption, casino, prostitute, hotel, kindness, mentor protege relationship, dark past, motel, secret, father figure ...
Time: 90s, year 1996, 20th century
Place: las vegas, atlantic city, nevada, usa, atlantic city new jersey ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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