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Playing God (1997)
8K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Stripped of his medical license after performing an operation while high on amphetamines, famed LA surgeon Dr Eugene Sands abandons his former life only to find himself crossing paths with Raymond Blossom, an infamous counterfeiter. Employed as a "gun-shot doctor" when Raymond's associates cannot risk visiting a hospital, Eugene is lured deep into the criminal world and becomes entangled with his boss's girlfriend.
Style:
psychological, intense, tense, serious, suspenseful, rough, realistic, erotic, neo noir, scary ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
fbi, gangster, undercover, drug addiction, betrayal, murder, haunted by the past, heist, mind game, dishonesty, love triangle, drug dealing, working undercover, drug addict, drug abuse, violence, corruption, fbi agent, masked man, spy, erotica, medicine, surgeon, fbi investigation, meme ...
Time:
90s, year 1997
Place:
los angeles
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Most similar movies to Playing God
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, realistic, serious and rough films with plots about murder, betrayal, deadly, gangster, female nudity, dishonesty and violence mostly in Crime, Drama and Thriller genres. Some movies like Playing God: The Immortals (1995), Never Die Alone (2004), Killing Zoe (1993), The Departed (2006), Kiss or Kill (1997). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 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, suspenseful, rough, erotic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
reluctant partners, heist, gangster, dishonesty, crime gone awry, disorder, mind game, criminal heroes, rivalry, odd couple, cons and scams, twists and turns ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A drug kingpin's return home touches off a turf war.
Style:
hood, tense, serious, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gangster, manhunt, ghetto, addiction, redemption, murder, interracial relations, rise and fall, criminal heroes, journalism, society, drug dealing ...
Time:
year 2004, 2000s
Place:
detroit, usa, los angeles, new york
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Zed (Eric Stoltz) is an American vault-cracker who travels to Paris to meet up with his old friend Eric (Jean-Hugues Anglade). Eric and his gang have planned to raid the only bank in the city which is open on Bastille day. After offering his ...
Style:
cult classic, brutal, neo noir, controversial, crime thriller ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
robbery, safecracker, bank robber, bank robbery, bank, masked man, drug abuse, caper, drug, sex, murder, prostitute ...
Time:
year 1993, 20th century, 90s
Place:
paris france, france, europe
Similarity:
100%
1.5M
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Hong Kong
Duration: 151 min.
Story:
To take down South Boston's Irish Mafia, the police send in one of their own to infiltrate the underworld, not realizing the syndicate has done likewise. While an undercover cop curries favor with the mob kingpin, a career criminal rises ...
Style:
twist ending, suspense, surprise ending, clever, tense ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
mafia, police, undercover cop, twists and turns, mole, organized crime, working undercover, mobster, espionage, plot twist, undercover, irish mob ...
Time:
year 2006, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
boston, massachusetts, america, persia, usa ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Two lovers, Nikki and Al, have a scam in which Nikki allows herself to be picked up by older men, drugs them, and, with Al's help, robs them. After accidentally killing one of her victims with an overdose, Nikki and Al are on the run.
Style:
neo noir, realistic, serious, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot:
lovers on the run, murder, desert, young couple, outlaw, sex crime, hotel room, scam, on the road, hotel, nuclear testing, road trip ...
Time:
year 1997, 90s
Place:
australia, south australia
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
John Netherwood and his wife Leann are fugitives who are both wanted for murder. They have a young daughter named Janie and they want her back.
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, bad ending, intense, serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
adoption, children, custody, haunted by the past, parents and children, wanted, family relations, criminal heroes, rivalry, obsession, little girl, criminal ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Small-time criminal Watty Watts attempts to rob a convenience store with his drug-addict buddy, Billy Mack Black. The robbery, however, leads to murder, and soon Watty leaves Billy behind and goes on the run with his beloved girlfriend, Starlene. ...
Style:
road movie, fast, exciting, realistic, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
lovers on the run, chase, young couple, white trash, crime gone awry, on the run, young lovers, fugitives, brutality, road trip, violence, marriage proposal ...
Time:
year 1994, 90s
Place:
texas, mexico, austin texas, seattle, usa ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A dumb as rocks security guard in a Texas border town gets involved in a planned bank heist thanks to the charms of two different femmes fatales.
Style:
independent film, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
unfaithful wife, male nudity, bank robbery, insomnia, heist, adultery, desert, sex scene, security guard, dysfunctional marriage, love triangle, bank ...
Time:
90s
Place:
texas, usa, latin america, mexico
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
After the murder of his beloved wife, a man in search of redemption is set adrift in a world where nothing is as it seems. On his journey, he befriends slacker Jimmy "The Finn", becomes involved in rescuing his neighbor Colette from her ...
Style:
neo noir, sexy, suspenseful, rough, grim ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
death of wife, drug abuse, drug addiction, drug lord, drug, murder, revenge, drug addict, corrupt cop, double life, working undercover, undercover ...
Time:
year 2002, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, california, usa
Similarity:
75%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Impulse is a 1990 thriller film about a female police officer who works undercover as a prostitute on the streets of Los Angeles
Style:
neo noir, erotic, serious, psychological, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
vice squad, prostitution, drug dealer, drug abuse, gangster, district attorney, investigation, money, police, policewoman, female police officer, killer ...
Time:
80s, 90s
Place:
los angeles, california, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Keen young Raymold Avila joins the Internal Affairs Department of the Los Angeles police. He and partner Amy Wallace are soon looking closely at the activities of cop Dennis Peck whose financial holdings start to suggest something shady. Indeed Peck ...
Style:
neo noir, clever, detective, erotic, suspenseful ...
Plot:
police corruption, internal affairs, corrupt cop, investigation, corruption, police officer, police investigation, abusive husband, sociopath, betrayal, murder, obsession ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, 90s, 70s
Place:
los angeles, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
When Petula and Dorothy cover up the accidental murder of one jerk boyfriend, they hatch a hilarious scheme to collect a huge ransom.
Style:
dark comedy, stylized, tense, cynical, suspenseful ...
Plot:
violence against women, murder, dark humor, obsession, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, women, power relations, life is a bitch, dishonesty, lesbian, female friendship, dog ...
Time:
90s
Place:
scotland, europe, england
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Sharon Stone plays a street-wise, middle-aged moll standing up against the mobs, all of which is complicated by a 6 year old urchin with a will of his own who she reluctantly takes under her wing after his family has been gunned down.
Style:
suspense, serious, suspenseful, touching, erotic ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
asthma, murder, gangster, mafia, runaway, justice, down on your luck, woman in danger, introspection, twists and turns, orphan, prison ...
Time:
year 1999, 20th century, 90s, 80s
Place:
new york, usa
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:
100%
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:
100%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A small southwestern town sheriff finds a body in the desert with a suitcase and $500,000. He impersonates the man and stumbles into an FBI investigation.
Style:
neo noir, suspense, harsh, stylized, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
who done it, murder, undercover, desert, fbi, mistaken identity, working undercover, hidden identity, money, death, existentialism, corruption ...
Time:
year 1992, 90s
Place:
new mexico, new jersey
Similarity:
100%
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%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A gangster, Nino, is in the Cash Money Brothers, making a million dollars every week selling crack. A cop, Scotty, discovers that the only way to infiltrate the gang is to become a dealer himself.
Style:
hood, stylized, suspense, intense, harsh ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gangster, gang, gang war, organized crime, ghetto, blaxploitation, mafia, drug, hip hop, chase, urban, drug lord ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, 90s, year 1986
Place:
harlem, new york, usa, america, manhattan new york city ...
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Two master thieves go at odds with one another as one sets the other up for a crime. The first, a suave pro who does his job and then hides in his own privacy, listening to old jazz records and caring for his ailing dog, Wally. The other is a local ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, suspenseful, humorous, independent film
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
master thief, blaxploitation, killer, heist, golf, partner, gangster, working undercover, dark humor, criminal heroes, law enforcement, dishonesty ...
Time:
80s, 90s
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
828
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
After a grizzly-bear poacher named Hanaghan kills her fiance and fellow Fish & Wildlife Deptartment officer, Julie Clayton sets out to track the killer down and discover why the FBI is keeping its case secret from her. She is joined in her ...
Style:
cliffhanger, independent film, realistic, serious, tense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
revenge, poaching, psychiatrist, serial killer, rehabilitation, vengeance, wilderness, woods, danger, law enforcement, dishonesty, rivalry ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min.
Story:
Two show-business women leave Los Angeles for Las Vegas, but phoney state troopers abduct them in the desert and they are taken to a laboratory/prison. Here, males come to experience sexual fantasies, which it is the job of the two girls and other ...
Style:
sexy, erotic, rough, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot:
sex, erotica, women in prison, women's prison, corruption, murder, drug, nudity, skinny dipping, female nudity, kidnapping, heat wave ...
Similarity:
100%
458
Genre: Drama, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
On the run from a drug deal gone wrong, a beautiful young woman escapes across the border only to find herself trapped in a dangerous web of intrigue and deceit in old Mexico.
Style:
independent film, realistic, serious, tense, suspenseful
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
true love, desert, hitman, drug dealing, professional killer, love triangle, friends, disorder, couples, chase, on the run, love and romance ...
Time:
90s
Place:
latin america, mexico
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A journalist with solid mob connections falls for a stripper with a dark past.
Style:
realistic, serious, suspenseful, bleak, independent film
Plot:
mafia, crime family, book, writers, bookstore, prostitute, stripper, fall in love, love affair, couples, betrayal, journalism ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
When a high school senior is dumped by her boyfriend, her grades fall drastically...to avoid failing, she begins seducing her male teachers. Thus begins her downward spiral into drug addiction and prostitution, and ultimately assassinations for a ...
Style:
cult classic, grindhouse, erotic, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
erotica, exploitation, prostitution, prostitute, murder, teenager, teenage girl, female protagonist, female nudity, sex in car, attempted rape, teacher student sex ...
Time:
70s
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A jewel thief moves towards a reunion of revenge with his lover, who pushed him out of their speeding getaway car.
Style:
neo noir, cynical, tense, captivating, serious ...
Plot:
lovers on the run, robbery, interracial, hitchhiker, chase, on the run, love and romance, rivalry, criminal's revenge, chases and races, betrayal, crime gone awry ...
Time:
year 1997, 90s
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
The story of the rise and fall of the powerful New York City organized crime boss, Paul Castellano.
Style:
serious, tense, rough, suspenseful, realistic
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
mafia, hitman, rise and fall, murder, criminal heroes, undercover, rivalry, master criminal, going straight, downfall, police corruption, gangster ...
Time:
20th century, year 1985, 80s, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, florida
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A former drug-dealer photojournalist (Michael Paré) returns to Los Angeles and helps friends terrorized by his ex-partner (Dennis Hopper).
Style:
erotic, neo noir, independent film, realistic, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
motorcycle, female nudity, skinny dipping, beach, hitman, photojournalism, drug overdose, stolen money, rivalry, dishonesty, criminal heroes, on the run ...
Time:
90s
Place:
los angeles, usa, california
Similarity:
22%
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, revenge, gangster, gang, robbery, murder, kidnapping, existentialism, money, chase, violence ...
Time:
year 1997, 90s, 20th century
Place:
los angeles, california, usa, florida, palm springs california
Similarity:
21%
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, rough, suspenseful, realistic ...
Plot:
murder, criminal underworld, prison, criminal, gangster, crime gone awry, dishonesty, released from prison, corrupt cop, police detective, police investigation, betrayal ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
london, europe, england, los angeles, britain
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Dan Saxon is an undercover cop who infiltrates a biker gang to nail the scum behind a drug-smuggling operation. In order to maintain the trust of the gang's leader, he must commit ever more dangerous and heinous crimes. Just how far ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, exciting, realistic, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
biker gang, biker, undercover, gang, working undercover, undercover cop, sex on first date, female nudity, murder, dishonesty, police investigation, drug dealing ...
Time:
year 1993, 90s
Place:
phoenix arizona, arizona
Similarity:
19%
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