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The Poppy Is Also a Flower (1966)
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The Poppy Is Also a Flower (1966)
Original name: Poppies Are Also Flowers
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: France, Austria, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: In an attempt to stem the heroin trade from Iran, a group of narcotics agents working for the UN inject a radioactive compound into a seized shipment of opium, in the hopes that it will lead them to the main heroin distributor in Europe. Along the way, they encounter a mysterious woman doing her own investigating of the smuggling operation.
Style: independent film, poliziottesco
Plot: spy, opium, drug addict, police officer, train, violence, yacht, smuggling, smuggler, heroin, un, drug smuggling, radioactivity, secret agent, drug, narcotics, wrestler, gangster, champagne, geiger counter, brandy, drugs, secret agents
Time: year 1966
Place: italy, iran, naples italy, monte carlo, geneva switzerland, tehran iran
Keyword: gangsters, international

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, poliziottesco, serious and realistic films with plots about drug, gangster, murder, spy, police, police officer and violence mostly in Crime, Drama and Action genres. Some movies like The Poppy Is Also a Flower: Sol Madrid (1968), The Swiss Conspiracy (1976), Red Dragon (1965), French Intrigue (1970), Permanent (2014). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Sol Madrid (1968)
Genre: Action, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Government agent Sol Madrid travels to Mexico with hooker Stacey to bring mobster Villanova and drug kingpin Dietrich to justice.
Plot: spy, secret mission, drug, narcotics, agent, heroin, smuggling, u.s. mexico border, yacht, mob boss, theft, drug smuggler ...
Place: mexico, acapulco mexico, san diego california
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
The Swiss Conspiracy (1976)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA, West Germany
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Filmed on location in Zurich, Switzerland, The Swiss Conspiracy is concerned with a Swiss bank that discovers some of its clients are becoming the victim of a brilliant blackmailer. The bank's president (Ray Milland) contacts David Christopher ...
Style: independent film
Plot: spy, bank, swing, bmw, steam train, helicopter, train, assassination, tax evasion, blackmail, hitman, mountain ...
Time: year 1976, 70s
Place: zurich switzerland, switzerland, swiss alps
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
 5.5
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Red Dragon (1965)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: West Germany, Italy
Duration: 89 min.
Story: An FBI agent (Stewart Granger) goes to Hong Kong to short-circuit a smuggler of electrical parts to the communists.
Style: eurospy
Plot: spy, cold war, espionage, agent, car chase, machine gun, boat, fbi agent, secret agent, customs, infiltration, assassination attempt ...
Time: 60s
Place: hong kong
⇓ similarity ⇓
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French Intrigue (1970)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: France, Italy, West Germany, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Serge Morgan is a killer working for the American Mafia. After performing a contract in New York for his employers, he takes the plane back to Paris and, during the flight, he gets to know Jane, the rich daughter of an ambassador. Once in Orly ...
Style: poliziottesco, neo noir
Plot: drug use, marijuana, stoner, smuggling, female nudity, smuggler, drug smuggling, police officer, investigation, criminal, shooting, drug ...
Place: paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
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Permanent (2014)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Six unrelated people must push through their past and the mob underworld to discover what has controlled each of them all these years. Sex, Drugs, Guns and God have created a series of events which will leave each of them changed forever.
Style: independent film
Plot: murderer, police officer, redemption, sex scene, drug addict, money, murder, fire, priest, police, corpse, death ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Manhunter (1976)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Greek Spies are trying to give bad image about turkey, Metin a young police man who decides to go rogue and achieve justice after the murder of his partner and his family on the hands of Greek spices.
Style: poliziottesco
Plot: martial arts, revenge, murder, mafia, violence, drug, murder of family, gunfight, murder of a family, police officer, sliced in two
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
To Commit a Murder (1967)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, West Germany, Italy
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A writer gets wrapped up in espionage.
Style: exciting, realistic, serious, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot: spy, espionage, cold war, kidnapping, scientist, violent content, undercover, rescue, state affairs, chases and races, danger, dishonesty ...
Time: year 1967, 20th century, 60s
Place: china
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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Narco Sub (2021)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A man will become a criminal to save his family. Director: Shawn Welling Writer: Derek H. Potts Stars: Tom Vera, Tom Sizemore, Lee Majors |
Style: tense, suspenseful, exciting, suspense, disturbing
Plot: drug cartel, dea, criminal, cartel, criminal heroes, drug dealer, cia agent, sex trafficking, armed forces, kidnapping, drug, cia ...
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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Killer's Carnival (1966)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, France, Austria
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A lady killer tracked by the police, takes refuge at a psychiatrist's home, and the doctor tells him three stories, to convince him that crime does not pay
Style: anthology
Plot: spy, serial killer, drug, murder, agent, smuggling, assassination, evil man
Place: brazil, rome italy, vienna
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
The File of the Golden Goose (1969)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 109 min.
Story: U.S. Secret Service agent Peter Novak goes undercover with Scotland Yard officer Thompson to halt a murderous gang of counterfeiters known as the Golden Goose. Although Peter is unsure about John's loyalties, the two infiltrate the gang and win ...
Style: independent film, serious, realistic, exciting, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: spy, undercover, gang, undercover cop, sauna, forgery, danger, dishonesty, amateur detective, law enforcement, rivalry, criminal heroes ...
Time: year 1969, 60s
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⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
The Snitch Cartel (2011)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Colombia, USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: The real life story of Andres Lopez Lopez aka "Frecita" during his years involved with the Colombian Cartel aka "Cartel Norte del Valle"
Style: serious, rough, suspenseful, stylized, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: colombian drug cartel, gangster, gang, drug, violence, organized crime, rise to the top, drug dealing, ambition, drug cartel, criminal heroes, money ...
Place: colombia, latin america, florida, miami, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
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French Connection II (1975)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: "Popeye" Doyle travels to Marsailles to find Alain Charnier, the drug smuggler that eluded him in New York.
Style: neo noir, detective, crime drama, fast, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: drug addiction, heroin, organized crime, cop, spy, mafia, car, police, tough cop, gangster, buddy cop, bad guy ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: france, marseille, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Gang War in Naples (1972)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: The fast career of a young Neapolitan among contraband, gambling dens, bribes and illegality. He will upgrade its rank till the maximum level of the "Family".
Style: poliziottesco
Plot: mafia, smuggling, gambling, gang, bribery, mobster, camorra, extortion, young
Place: italy, napoli italy, naples italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Kill! Kill! Kill! Kill! (1971)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Italy, West Germany, Spain
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Interpol investigates the freelance killings of drug and porn peddlers.
Style: weird
Plot: murder, heroin, surrealism, revenge, female nudity, nudity, drug, exploitation, french giallo
Time: year 1971
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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The Baker (2022)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A quiet, stoic man, lives a monk-like existence in self-imposed exile. When his estranged son is killed in a drug deal gone bad, he is left to look after a granddaughter he never knew existed, and he is forced back into a life he tried to put behind ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, captivating, exciting, tense
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⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Istanbul Express (1968)
Genre: Adventure, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: An art dealer on a special mission is pulled into dangerous intrigue while railway detective Cheval tries to help and pursues criminals on the Istanbul Express.
Plot: train, inspector, intrigue, spy thriller, auction, railway, secret agent
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Dead Aim (1987)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
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Style: neo noir, independent film, suspense
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⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
The Operative (2019)
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Country: France, Israel, Germany, USA, UK
Duration: 116 min.
Story: A young Western woman is recruited by the Mossad to go undercover in Tehran where she becomes entangled in a complex triangle with her handler and her subject.
Style: exciting, psychological, suspense, powerful
Plot: mossad, spy, female spy, molestation, female secret agent, female nudity, secret agent, twists and turns, deception, disguise, couple relations, secret service ...
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A Complex Plot About Women, Alleys and Crimes (1985)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, Netherlands Antilles
Duration: 115 min.
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Style: grindhouse, poliziottesco
Plot: mafia, cannon, investigation, drag queen, prostitution, female protagonist, heroin, revenge, love triangle, mother, murder, dead children ...
Time: year 1985
Place: napoli italy, naples italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Free Hand for a Tough Cop (1976)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Free Hand for a Tough Cop (Italian: Il trucido e lo sbirro, also known as Tough Cop) is an Italian poliziottesco-action film directed in 1976 by Umberto Lenzi. In this movie Tomas Milian plays for the first time Sergio Marazzi aka "Er ...
Style: poliziottesco, psychotronic
Plot: police, police officer, kidnapping, ransom, strength, drug, corrupt cop, revenge, pistol, machine gun, blood, gangster ...
Place: rome italy, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Palermo-Milano Solo Andata (1995)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min.
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Style: poliziottesco
Plot: italian mafia, entrapment, drug, gun fu, shootout, violence, mafia, betrayal, chase, murder, prostitute, revenge ...
Place: italy, milan italy, palermo italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
The French Connection (1971)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Tough narcotics detective 'Popeye' Doyle is in hot pursuit of a suave French drug dealer who may be the key to a huge heroin-smuggling operation.
Style: detective, neo noir, atmospheric, tense, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: heroin, gangster, drug dealer, organized crime, car chase, investigation, chase, smuggling, drug lord, drug smuggling, police, drug ...
Time: 70s, year 1971, 20th century
Place: new york, new jersey, israel, brooklyn new york city, washington d.c. ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
The Seven-Ups (1973)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A tough detective who is part of an elite New York City unit is trying to find out who killed his partner, but uncovers a plot to kidnap mobsters for money.
Style: detective, action thriller, grim, crime drama, neo noir ...
Audience: boys' night
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Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city, bronx new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Close Call (2004)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: In Los Angeles, the young Jenny has a nice childhood with her Korean parents Joanne and David Kim. However, after the divorce of her parents, the judge gives her custody to her selfish mother that neglects Jenny while the disappointed David returns ...
Style: independent film
Plot: drug, calling for help, family relations, sex, self mutilation, friend, lawyer, father daughter relationship, female protagonist, police, drug use, teenage girl ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Cold Sweat (1970)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Italy, Belgium
Duration: 94 min.
Story: During the Korean War, Joe Moran, is convicted for striking a colonel. Imprisoned in Germany he encounters his former company commander Captain Ross, jailed for black marketeering. Together with Ross' cohorts Joe agrees to escape with them, but ...
Style: grindhouse, exciting, realistic, serious, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
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Time: 60s
Place: france, europe, south of france, cote d'azur, mediterranean sea ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Silent Action (1975)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A small yet strange series of deaths of people working for the Ministry of Defense and the military hits Italy. Since all of the deaths seem to be accidental or suicides, no alarm bells start to ring anywhere. That's a problem, because the ...
Style: poliziottesco
Plot: police officer, police, state terrorism, older man younger woman sex, police protection, criminal underworld, prostitute, impostor, years of lead, conspiracy, assassin, military coup ...
Time: 70s
Place: italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Jane Doe: Yes, I Remember It Well (2006)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Jane Doe must solve the kidnapping of a famous mentalist who possesses the names of secret foreign agents.
Style: realistic, suspenseful, serious, suspense
Plot: blackmail, spy, secret agent, top secret, female detective, national security, state affairs, husband wife relationship, who done it, family relations, undercover, hidden identity ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 6.1
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Hit! (1973)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story: A federal agent whose daughter dies of a heroin overdose is determined to destroy the drug ring that supplied her. He recruits various people whose lives have been torn apart by the drug trade and trains them. Then they all leave for France to track ...
Style: action thriller, serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: blaxploitation, murder, exploitation, black, revenge, daughter, drug dealing, vigilantism, investigation, police detective, bare breasts, special agent ...
Time: 70s
Place: france, europe, marseille, british columbia, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
 3.9
 491
Silk (1986)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA, Philippines
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Silk, the toughest cop in Honolulu, busts small time smugglers only to reveal a larger syndicate smuggling Asian mobsters into the States by buying the identities of Hawaiian citizens.
Style: grindhouse, independent film
Plot: female fighter, woman with a gun, exploitation, female fight, female police officer, shootout, intimidation, drug, mobster, corrupt cop, female nudity, gym ...
Time: year 1986, 80s
Place: hawaii, honolulu hawaii
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
 7.8
 18K
Just 6.5 (2019)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Iran
Duration: 131 min.
Story: The story of the six-and-a-half story narrative search for the anti-drug police is to find the great glass dealer in the capital.
Style: tense, brutal, suspense, suspenseful, intense ...
Plot: iranian, drug overdose, prison, drug, drug addict, lawyer, police station, death sentence, police, rape, death, brutality ...
Time: 21st century
Place: tehran iran, iran, persia, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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