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Street Kings 2: Motor City (2011)
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Street Kings 2: Motor City (2011)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Ray Liotta (Goodfellas) delivers an intense, electrifying performance in this explosive follow-up to the gritty urban crime thriller Street Kings. Liotta plays Detroit detective Marty Kingston, the leader of an undercover narcotics team, whose members are being systematically murdered one by one. To solve the brutal killings, Kingston joins forces with a cocky, young homicide detective. But neither of them is prepared for the shocking corruption their investigation will uncover — stunning secrets that will set both men on a violent collision course with betrayal and vengeance.
Style: exciting, tense, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, hood, detective, freeze frame
Audience: boys' night
Plot: murder, police investigation, police corruption, investigation, vigilantism, working undercover, partners against crime, uncover truth, gunfight, corruption, twists and turns, undercover, life is a bitch, law enforcement, partner, dishonesty, loss of partner, cop as target, mission gone awry, profanity, police detective, revenge, violence, apocalypse, police ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: detroit, usa, michigan
Keyword: partners, gangsters

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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 murder, law enforcement, shootout, deadly, police corruption, violence and gangster mostly in Crime, Thriller and Action genres. Some movies like Street Kings 2: Motor City: Freelancers (2012), Triple 9 (2016), Caught in the Crossfire (2010), Sinners and Saints (2010), Dirty (2005). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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
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Triple 9 (2016)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: A gang of criminals and corrupt cops plan the murder of a police officer in order to pull off their biggest heist yet across town.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, tense, stylized, intense ...
Plot: heist, police corruption, murder, bank robbery, dirty cop, corrupt cop, mafia, violence, corruption, betrayal, strip club, gangster ...
Time: year 2015, year 2016, 2010s, 21st century
Place: atlanta georgia, usa, tel aviv israel
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Caught in the Crossfire (2010)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Two detectives investigating a gang-related find themselves targeted by both gang members and crooked cops.
Style: suspenseful, exciting, serious, hood, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: partners against crime, partner, gang, police detective, police investigation, law enforcement, police corruption, friendship, rivalry, danger, mafia, cop ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
Sinners and Saints (2010)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: In lawless storm ravaged New Orleans, eleaguered Detective Sean Riley is trying to cope with the death of his young son and the abandonment of his wife. Facing a probable suspension from the department, Riley is teamed with a young homicide ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, rough, suspense, perverse ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gunfight, police investigation, danger, undercover, partner, dishonesty, serial murder, death of son, revenge, brutality, fight, espionage ...
Time: 21st century
Place: louisiana, new orleans, usa
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Dirty (2005)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Two gangbangers-turned-cops try and cover up a scandal within the LAPD.
Style: realistic, rough, suspenseful, serious, hood ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: police corruption, dirty cop, street gang, drug dealing, internal affairs, guilt, investigation, law enforcement, tough law enforcer, murder, working undercover, cop ...
Time: year 2005
Place: los angeles, latin america, cuba
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68%
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Death Toll (2008)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: New Orleans has the No. 1 per capita murder rating in the nation. A decade earlier the city was dubbed the "Murder Capital of the Country." Drugs and violence controlled the streets, taking a toll on the city's law enforcement, ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, realistic, exciting, captivating ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: murder, undercover, partner, police corruption, fighting crime, police investigation, partners against crime, danger, law enforcement, master criminal, dishonesty, tough guy ...
Place: usa, louisiana, new orleans
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The Mod Squad (1999)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Three minor delinquints (Danes, Ribisi, and Epps) are recruited by a cop (Farina) working undercover to bust a cop/drug ring. When the officer who recruited them is killed, they go above and beyond the call of duty to solve the murder; and bust the ...
Style: suspense, serious, rough, suspenseful, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: chase, police corruption, partner, investigation, working undercover, female warrior, criminal heroes, partners against crime, conspiracy, drug, corruption, prostitution ...
Time: 90s, year 1999, 20th century
Place: california, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
Urban Justice (2007)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Seagal plays a man with a dark and violent past, who seeks revenge for the murder of his son.
Style: suspenseful, rough, exciting, serious, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: revenge, martial arts, gang, investigation, chase, murder, gangster, danger, law enforcement, dishonesty, death in the family, husband wife relationship ...
Place: los angeles
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Snitch'd (2003)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: When the South Side Gang and the Cut Throat Mafia start a drug war at a local high school in Santa Ana, CA, detective McClure goes undercover to investigate the brutal murder of a young Latina student. The gang members are the key suspects but ...
Style: serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful, independent film ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: undercover, gangster, police detective, juvenile delinquency, criminal heroes, gang, police investigation, police corruption, urban ghetto life, working undercover, law enforcement, drug dealing ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
 4.4
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Blood Out (2011)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When big city detectives refuse to further investigate his kid brother's gang related murder, small town Sheriff Michael Spencer drops the badge and goes undercover to find his brother's killer and avenge his death.
Style: realistic, suspenseful, rough, serious, hood ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gang, murder, vengeance, police investigation, working undercover, gangster, hitman, law enforcement, tough law enforcer, undercover, vigilante, brother brother relationship ...
Time: year 2011, 21st century
Place: usa, louisiana, baltimore
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
Brooklyn's Finest (2009)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story: Enforcing the law within the notoriously rough Brownsville section of the city and especially within the Van Dyke housing projects is the NYPD's sixty-fifth precinct. Three police officers struggle with the sometimes fine line between right and ...
Style: tense, realistic, suspense, neo noir, hood ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: corrupt cop, police corruption, police, corruption, organized crime, rookie, nypd, dirty cop, betrayal, swat team, robbery, murder ...
Time: year 2010, year 2009, 21st century
Place: new york, brooklyn new york city, usa
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Narc (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany, Canada, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: An undercover narc dies, the investigation stalls, so the Detroit P.D. brings back Nick Tellis, fired 18-months ago when a stray bullet hits a pregnant woman. Tellis teams with Henry Oak, a friend of the dead narc and an aggressive cop constantly ...
Style: bleak, suspense, tense, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: police investigation, police corruption, investigation, drug addiction, police, murder, drug, police brutality, addiction, drug addict, drug overdose, dark humor ...
Time: 2000s, year 2002, 21st century
Place: detroit, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
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Hero Wanted (2008)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Liam Case is a garbage man whose life hasn't quite turned out the way he expected it would. In order to impress the girl of his dreams, Liam plans an elaborate heist that will culminate with him jumping in to save the day at the last minute. ...
Style: serious, rough, realistic, suspenseful, non-linear
Audience: boys' night
Plot: murder, life is a bitch, twists and turns, robbery, rivalry, gang, bank robbery, framed for murder, revenge, bank teller, hospital, surrogate father ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century
Place: usa, cuba
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One Good Cop (1991)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: When his loyal longtime partner, a widower, is killed in the line of duty and leaves behind three young children, Artie Lewis (Michael Keaton), a dedicated New York City cop and his wife, Rita (Rene Russo), decide to take the kids in. But the lives ...
Style: exciting, emotional, intense, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot: father daughter relationship, orphan, drug dealer, partner, murder, law enforcement, family relations, cop, drug dealing, fighting crime, working undercover, police corruption ...
Time: year 1991, 90s
Place: new york, usa
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Bullet to the Head (2012)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, India, Switzerland
Duration: 92 min.
Story: After watching their respective partners die, a cop and a hitman form an alliance in order to bring down their common enemy.
Style: exciting, intense, brutal, serious, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: hitman, revenge, corruption, assassin, organized crime, tough law enforcer, conspiracy, betrayal, murder, police corruption, brutality, tough guy ...
Time: year 2012, future, 21st century
Place: new orleans, louisiana, usa
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Officer Down (2005)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A policewoman unwittingly puts her family in danger when she uncovers corruption in her department.
Style: serious, exciting, rough, suspenseful, independent film ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: vigilantism, vigilante, uncover truth, fighting the system, police detective, rivalry, danger, vengeance, law enforcement, police corruption, society, life is a bitch ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa, california
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58%
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Shaft (2000)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: New York police detective John Shaft arrests Walter Wade Jr. for a racially motivated slaying. But the only eyewitness disappears, and Wade jumps bail for Switzerland. Two years later Wade returns to face trial, confident his money and influence ...
Style: stylized, suspense, intense, hood, realistic ...
Audience: manly, boys' night, adult
Plot: murder, blaxploitation, racism, police officer, gunfight, corruption, police investigation, police corruption, drug lord, urban, tough law enforcer, violence ...
Time: year 2000, y2k, 90s, 20th century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city, switzerland
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
Streets of Blood (2009)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A police officer's partner has died during Hurricane Katrina, but he later discovers that his partner may have been murdered. An investigation follows, taking the officer and his new partner into the depths of the criminal underworld.
Style: serious, realistic, bleak, rough, hood ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: ghetto, murder, investigation, police detective, undercover, law enforcement, chaos and mayhem, gunfight, cop, urban, gangster, police ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new orleans
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The Corruptor (1999)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Danny is a young cop partnered with Nick, a seasoned but ethically tainted veteran. As the two try to stop a gang war in Chinatown, Danny relies on Nick but grows increasingly uncomfortable with the way Nick gets things done.
Style: stylized, realistic, suspenseful, serious, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: chase, gangster, police investigation, triad, murder, police corruption, buddy cop, organized crime, law enforcement, police, gunfight, danger ...
Time: year 1999, 90s
Place: new york, usa
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The Shepherd: Border Patrol (2008)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A Texas cop battles ex-navy seals who are trying to traffic drugs from Mexico into the USA.
Style: rough, suspenseful, realistic, serious, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, border patrol, corrupt cop, police investigation, partners against crime, drug dealing, danger, confined, tough law enforcer, master criminal, police corruption, gunfight ...
Place: new mexico, new orleans, usa, latin america, mexico
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Born to Raise Hell (2010)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A hard core Interpol Agent is assigned to an Eastern European task force to target gun trafficking and dope running throughout the Balkans. While investigating a Russian gun dealer, his team is caught in a bloody street war between a Gypsy gang and ...
Style: serious, rough, suspense, tense, hood ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gang, gangster, loss of partner, law enforcement, chases and races, danger, revenge, brutality, martial arts, violence, murder, ghetto ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, bucharest, eastern europe
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57%
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The Veteran (2011)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Soldier Robert Miller returns home from Afghanistan unable to fit back into society. Living on a violent council estate and finding work in undercover surveillance, he becomes obsessed with taking down a group of local gangsters who are ...
Style: serious, exciting, tense, realistic, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: terrorism, undercover, ex soldier, ex military, gang, conspiracy, gang war, life is a bitch, uncover truth, society, drug dealing, violence spree ...
Time: year 2011, 21st century
Place: afghanistan, london, europe, england
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57%
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Flashfire (1994)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Police detective Jack Flinder is already in trouble with the rest of his force for imprisoning a corrupt partner, but now he has a new problem to deal with. Another officer has been murdered in a hotel room, where he was with a prostitute named ...
Style: independent film, detective, realistic, serious, exciting ...
Plot: prostitute, murder, police corruption, arson, cop, police, corruption, escape, hostage, conspiracy, tough law enforcer, amateur detective ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
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Officer Down (2013)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: When a cop's crooked past comes back to get him, can he do the right thing, or will he succumb to the threats of his dangerous connections?
Style: serious, exciting, realistic, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot: husband wife relationship, police corruption, cop, police detective, manipulation, vigilantism, law enforcement, vengeance, haunted by the past, dishonesty, murder, wrestling ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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56%
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Hot Boyz (2000)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Injustice begets a criminal. Kool is an artist without prospects, a black belt in karate, and in love with LaShawna, poised and college bound. One night she witnesses a stabbing and discovers the victim is a cop as he dies in her arms. She's ...
Style: hood, realistic, suspenseful, serious, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gangster, gang, urban, frame up, racism, life is a bitch, police investigation, murder, social decay, police corruption, false accusation, law enforcement ...
Time: 90s
Place: usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
 5.6
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Exit Wounds (2001)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Maverick cop Orin Boyd always brings down the domestic terrorists he tracks, but he ruffles feathers with his unorthodox techniques -- and soon finds himself reassigned to the toughest district in Detroit. When he discovers a group of detectives ...
Style: stylized, suspense, black comedy, detective, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: police corruption, chase, police, aikido, martial arts, kidnapping, police investigation, corrupt cop, conspiracy, secret service, justice, drug dealing ...
Time: year 2001, 2000s
Place: detroit, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
Welcome to the Punch (2013)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: UK, USA, Canada, India
Duration: 99 min.
Story: When notorious criminal Jacob Sternwood is forced to return to London, it gives detective Max Lewinsky one last chance to take down the man he's always been after.
Style: tense, exciting, stylized, suspense, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: master criminal, organized crime, investigation, police corruption, anti hero, criminal, moral ambiguity, justice, betrayal, police detective, law enforcement, twists and turns ...
Time: 21st century
Place: london, england, iceland
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
Family of Cops III: Under Suspicion (1999)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Police Inspector Paul Fein (Bronson) copes with family troubles while also dealing with the possibility of advancement to police chief. Meanwhile, his son (Joe Penny)) is investigating the murder of a banker.
Style: fast, realistic, serious, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cop, buddy cop, murder, trauma, guy, bad guy, nypd, gunfight, hitman, police, mafia, corruption ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
The River Murders (2011)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: The sins of the past are not forgotten in this chilling suspense thriller. When the first body was discovered, it seemed a coincidence. But now homicide detective Jack Verdon has cause to worry: the victims of a series of brutal sex murders are all ...
Style: tense, serious, suspenseful, rough, neo noir ...
Plot: serial killer, cop as target, murder, uncover truth, woman in danger, police investigation, dishonesty, life is a bitch, law enforcement, false accusation, crime investigation, killing ...
Time: 21st century
Place: seattle, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
 7.0
 14K
Deep Cover (1992)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: The black policeman Russell Stevens applies for a special anti-drug squad which targets the highest boss of cocaine delivery to LA: the Colombian foreign minister's nephew. Russell works his way up from the bottom undercover, until he reaches ...
Style: neo noir, suspenseful, tense, suspense, hood ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: police investigation, gangster, brutality, drug, murder, drug addiction, undercover, racial slur, undercover cop, black, urban, betrayal ...
Time: year 1992, 90s, 70s, year 1972
Place: los angeles, ohio, cleveland ohio
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
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