Movies like The Heavy

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The Heavy (2009)
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The Heavy (2009)
Genre: Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Sibling rivalry turned into betrayal between two brothers. One a prime candidate for Prime Minister, the other a henchman for a successful, yet shady businessman. Presented with an opportunity to take revenge against his brother, our anti-hero must come to terms with the truth in a world where you can trust no one and loyalty is rare.
Style: rough, realistic, suspenseful, exciting, serious, suspense, perverse, non-linear
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: gangster, betrayal, sibling rivalry, vengeance, dishonesty, uninhibited rivalry, violence, mafia, gang, family relations, rivalry, siblings relations, violent content, torture, profanity, blood, dead body, killer, revenge, assassin, graphic violence, corpse, crime, assassins, crimes
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: england, london, europe
Keyword: gangsters

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Most similar movies to The Heavy

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, suspenseful and rough films with plots about rivalry, dishonesty, violent content, gangster, vengeance, deadly and murder mostly in Thriller, Crime and Drama genres. Some movies like The Heavy: The Crew (2008), The Devil's Dominoes (2008), The Guvnors (2014), Bonded by Blood (2010), The Counsel (2010). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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
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100%
The Devil's Dominoes (2008)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: On their way to a weekend hunting trip in the Ozarks, four friends get in to a car accident, killing the driver of the other car...
Style: tense, suspense, captivating, psychological, serious ...
Plot: vengeance, gangster, partner, rivalry, dishonesty, murder, danger, car accident, son, friend, revenge, car ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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The Guvnors (2014)
Genre: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story: The Guvnors is a violent thriller set amongst the clans and firms of South East London, bringing two generations together in brutal conflict.
Style: suspense, tense, realistic, serious, captivating ...
Plot: gang, gangster, rivalry, ego clash, criminal's revenge, violent content, youth, hooligan, urban, british gangster, danger, society ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Bonded by Blood (2010)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story: In 1995, drug suppliers and career criminals Tony Tucker, Patrick Tate and Craig Rolfe were blasted to death by a shot gun whilst waiting in a Range Rover in Rettendon, Essex. The film charts their rise to become the most prolific dealers and feared ...
Style: tense, serious, rough, suspenseful, realistic
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gang, rise and fall, rivalry, partner, gangster, dishonesty, betrayal, criminal heroes, vengeance, drug dealing, ambition, violence ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: england, britain, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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The Counsel (2010)
Genre: Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A new lawyer, looking to establish himself, wins a difficult case and deals with the unforeseen consequences that may destroy him.
Style: captivating, realistic, serious, thought provoking, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: lawyer, legal, master criminal, moral dilemma, betrayal, prodigy, hotshot lawyer, twists and turns, innocence lost, gangster, violent content, dishonesty
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe
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26%
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Fate (2008)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 123 min.
Story: Four friends bound by destiny and unbeatable in the dark world. When a casino attack goes wrong as a result of betrayal, fate turns them into enemies. Now, forced to aim the gun at each other's hearts, their unavoidable battle begins.
Style: serious, tense, realistic, suspense, captivating ...
Plot: vengeance, betrayal, heist, rivalry, casino, dishonesty, haunted by the past, destiny, gang, gangster, caper, friends ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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White Snow (2010)
Genre: Thriller
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Director Christophe Blanc delivers a fast-past thriller set to a background of Finland's stunning landscape. High-end car dealership owner Maxime is pursued by Finnish gangsters over unsatisfactory cars his dead partner sold them.
Style: serious, tense, suspenseful, suspense, realistic ...
Plot: gangster, vengeance, danger, life turned upside down, family relations, loss of partner, murder, disorder, family in danger, brother brother relationship, mafia, nudity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: finland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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Moscow Chill (2007)
Genre: Thriller, Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A loner American computer hacker is brought to Russia to commit bank fraud, only to find a family and love in the incomprehensible, violent, and chaotic Moscow underworld.
Style: rough, exciting, suspenseful, serious, realistic
Plot: criminal heroes, love affair, chases and races, on the run, fall in love, gangster, dishonesty, rivalry, computer, violent content, profanity, bank ...
Time: 21st century
Place: russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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Bad Karma (2012)
Genre: Thriller
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Ray Liotta stars as Jack Malloy, a hardcore career criminal until a near-death experience causes him to turn his world around. But when his former partner Drake is released from prison, he tracks Jack down to blackmail him into one last job. Jack is ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, rough, tense, realistic
Audience: boys' night
Plot: criminal, revenge, murder, vengeance, criminal's revenge, going straight, criminal heroes, frame up, husband wife relationship, ex convict, robbery, drug use ...
Time: 21st century
Place: australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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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 ⇓
24%
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Chameleon (1995)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: An undercover agent (Anthony LaPaglia) uses his rare personality disorder in pursuing the drug-cartel leader responsible for the deaths of his wife and kids.
Style: independent film, exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: undercover, secret agent, special agent, violent content, drug dealing, criminal heroes, good versus evil, law enforcement, dishonesty, partners against crime, government agency, dealing with death ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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BlackMale (2000)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The Plot is actually pretty crafty and full of (surprisingly) unsuspecting twists. The special effects are actually quite realistic which is surprising for such a low budget movie. Bokeeem Woodbine plays his role with a serious emotion that only ...
Style: realistic, suspenseful, serious, suspense, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: heist, siblings relations, disorder, crime gone awry, dishonesty, cons and scams, blackmail, home invasion, voyeurism, lesbian, female nudity, sex ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
The Devil's in the Details (2013)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: 7 minutes from now in Nogales, Arizona, Thomas Conrad's life will forever change when he gets caught up in a Mexican cartels poetic game of drug mule chess.
Style: captivating, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: drug dealing, danger, rivalry, chases and races, strong violent content, drug cartel, race against time
Time: 21st century
Place: arizona, usa, sonora, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Dog Eat Dog (2008)
Genre: Thriller
Country: Colombia
Duration: 106 min.
Story: In the crime world of Colombia, there is an unwritten code. When Víctor and Eusebio, two hoods who bungle a shake-down job, break that code, they unwittingly sign their own death sentence.
Style: rough, realistic, serious, suspenseful, hood ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: curse, torture, black magic, vengeance, twins, rivalry, supernatural ability, nightmare, violence, gangster, burial, killing an animal ...
Time: 21st century
Place: colombia
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The Contract (1999)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Anna has a bad week. Her boss is a pain to her, as is the grocery store clerk. Her friend was bad to her, her husband couldn't take his eyes off a waitress, and her babysitter annoyed her. One night at the local pub, she tells a man about her ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, suspense, rough, independent film ...
Plot: murder, vengeance, danger, mysterious character, contract killing, brutality, violence, fight, contract killer, violent content, nudity, profanity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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23%
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Telling Lies (2008)
Genre: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 81 min.
Story: The morning after the night before, a rapid spiral of disastrous telephone calls chart the certain ruin of young Phil's day as he attempts to fib his way out of one scrape after another. Told entirely in animated captions.
Style: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, mind bending ...
Plot: murder, couples, rivalry, hidden identity, law enforcement, who done it, investigation, life turned upside down, twists and turns, profanity, violent content, legal ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england
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Assassins' Code (2011)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A corporate assassination forces opportunistic double agents from three nations to fight to retrieve a high-tech computer disk containing schematics for a deadly weapon.
Style: exciting, serious, suspenseful, tense, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: espionage, working undercover, hitman, rivalry, undercover, danger, dishonesty, vengeance, woman with a gun, spy, haunted by the past, uninhibited rivalry ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Ten Dead Men (2008)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: You can’t outrun your past. That is the extremely painful lesson that Ryan (Brendan Carr)is learning right now, as spectres of his past life of crime have returned to haunt him, destroying the only person he holds dear, and nearly killing him in ...
Style: exciting, serious, captivating, tense, suspense ...
Plot: martial arts, vengeance, gangster, danger, betrayal, rivalry, murder, haunted by the past, starting over, chase, gory, prodigy ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Ten 'til Noon (2006)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Between 11:50 and 12:00 noon, a crime is commited. In the same ten minute period, we follow the lives of the ten people, all connected to this crime. As we see each person's point of view, we are propelled closer and closer to the truth of what ...
Style: realistic, tense, rough, suspenseful, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: hitman, crime gone awry, vengeance, couples, disorder, betrayal, dishonesty, danger, rivalry, twists and turns, husband wife relationship, nudity ...
Time: year 2006, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Slipping Into Darkness (1988)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Three spoiled college girls are held responsible for a handicapped boys death.
Style: realistic, serious, rough, suspenseful, bleak ...
Plot: nudity, train, murder, violent content, college, mistaken identity, family life, mental illness, school, false accusation, family relations, disorder ...
Time: 80s
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Vendetta (2013)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Special ops interrogation officer Jimmy Vickers (Danny Dyer) tracks down a gang who slaughtered his parents while at the same time avoiding being tracked down by his old unit and the cops. With police closing in and his old unit on his trail, he has ...
Style: exciting, realistic, suspenseful, rough, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: vengeance, vigilante, police, vendetta, murder, vigilantism, revenge, rivalry, gang, violence spree, wartime, violent ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, london
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21%
Charlie Valentine (2009)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: The film chronicles the exploits of the title character, Charlie, played by Raymond J. Barry (Training Day) a career criminal intent on scoring one last big pay day. When his "perfect crime" goes bad, Charlie flees to Los Angeles to hide ...
Style: serious, rough, realistic, suspenseful, independent film
Audience: boys' night
Plot: dishonesty, criminal heroes, heist, family relations, strong violent content, betrayal, crime gone awry, parents and children, disorder, violence, mafia, robbery ...
Time: 21st century
Place: california, usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Born to Be King (2000)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Triad member Chicken is designated by Taiwan's San Luen Gang to marry Nanako, the daughter of the fifth generation leader of the Yamada Gang in Japan. Later, the leader of the triad group gets murdered. Actually, all the San Luen Gang members ...
Style: exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gangster, criminal heroes, gang, criminal's revenge, master criminal, rivalry, vengeance, triad, mafia, yakuza, partner, violent content ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: japan, taiwan, china, hong kong
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Crash and Burn (2008)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: When undercover FBI agent Kevin Hawkins (Erik Palladino, E.R.) agrees to infiltrate the ruthless underground world of choppers, he is quickly thrown into a world of fast cars and high stakes. Pitted between a ruthless crime boss (Michael Madsen, ...
Style: serious, exciting, rough, suspenseful, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: gangster, secret agent, gang, law enforcement, undercover, secret identity, danger, dishonesty, friends, undercover agent, speed, automobile ...
Time: 21st century
Place: california, usa, los angeles
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21%
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The Confidant (2010)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The feature weaves an intricate tale about childhood best-friends that have an unusually strong bond and a more intriguing secret. Both young men are on the right path to promising futures, a first round NFL draft pick, and a talented art major on a ...
Style: neo noir, serious, suspenseful, bleak, captivating ...
Plot: gambling, best friend, betrayal, intrigue, rivalry, vengeance, murder, ambition, dishonesty, obsession, interracial, manipulation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Exit Speed (2008)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: On Christmas Eve, ten strangers board a bus traveling across Texas. Far out in the wilds they collide with a meth-addicted biker
Style: scary, serious, suspenseful, suspense, psychological ...
Plot: gang, murder, psychopath, survival, rivalry, danger, vengeance, escapades, chase, bus, die hard, biker ...
Time: 21st century
Place: texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Sicarivs: The Night and the Silence (2015)
Genre: Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A hit man receives the assignment to kill a woman. But what seems as another job complicates when he is about to execute her, but does not. He will have to go after those who gave him the contract, for, in his profession, those who do not comply ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, realistic, tense, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: danger, on the run, woman in danger, murder, murder of a nude woman, gang, hitman, male nudity, violent content, chases and races, nudity, dead body ...
Time: 21st century
Place: spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Reykjavik-Rotterdam (2008)
Genre: Thriller
Country: Iceland, Germany, Netherlands
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A former sailor who has served prison sentences for alcohol smuggling fights to keep his family afloat. He is offered pay for a last tour of cargo between Reykjavik and Rotterdam. He agrees, in the hope to get out of debt, but unexpected events ...
Style: suspense, realistic, captivating, tense, neo noir ...
Plot: delivery, down on your luck, smuggling, danger, rivalry, security guard, financial problem, escapades, mafia, ex convict, sailor, violent content ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, iceland, rotterdam netherlands, holland
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
City of Industry (1997)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A retired thief swears revenge on the lunatic who murdered his brother and partner, while going on the run with the loot they stole.
Style: neo noir, suspenseful, perverse, hood, independent film ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: heist, betrayal, gangster, gang, robbery, murder, violence, money, kidnapping, brother, ghetto, criminal ...
Time: year 1997, 90s, 20th century
Place: los angeles, california, usa, florida, palm springs california
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Pimp (2010)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A week in the life of Woody; a Soho pimp, as seen through the eyes of concealed documentary cameras: A week which spirals brutally out of control.
Style: serious, suspenseful, tense, suspense, captivating ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: pimp, gangster, danger, prostitute, nothing goes right, disorder, found footage, fetish, sexuality, nudity, violent content, profanity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, britain, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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