Movies like The Quickie

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The Quickie (2001)
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The Quickie (2001)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK, France, Germany
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A crime soap opera about a Russian mobster retiring from "the business" on New Year's Eve, only to discover he has been targeted for death by a rival mobster.
Style: serious, tense, captivating, suspense, realistic
Plot: russian mafia, starting over, gangster, family life, couples, dishonesty, road not taken, hitman, russian roulette, gambling, prostitute, female nudity, blonde, call girl, lust, misogynist, erotic dance, trophy wife, nudity, family relations, parents and children, single parent, siblings relations, unfulfillment, couple relations ...
Time: contemporary
Place: california, usa, malibu california
Keyword: gangsters, russian

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, suspenseful and tense films with plots about family relations, gangster, dishonesty, murder, parents and children, female nudity and siblings relations mostly in Drama, Crime and Thriller genres. Some movies like The Quickie: Solo (2006), Tycoon (2002), Five Thirteen (2013), A Quiet Life (2010), Once Fallen (2010). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Solo (2006)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Jack Barrett is the type of guy no one calls Jack. He works for a group of businessmen known as "The Gentlemen" who operate within the fertile realm of the Sydney Underworld. Standover tactics, prostitution, illegal gambling, creative ...
Style: serious, captivating, tense, suspense, psychological ...
Plot: gangster, hitman, danger, rivalry, going straight, against the odds, dishonesty, assassin, murder, conspiracy, escapades, police corruption ...
Time: 21st century
Place: australia
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100%
 6.7
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Tycoon (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Russia, France, Germany
Duration: 123 min.
Story: During the Gorbachev years, Platon Makovski and his four buddies are university students who jump on the private capitalism movement. Fast-forward 20 years, Platon finds himself the richest man in Russia, having sacrificed his friends to get to the ...
Style: serious, cynical, suspenseful, realistic, political thriller ...
Plot: rise to the top, fighting the system, society, politics, betrayal, rise and fall, blind ambition, state affairs, life is a bitch, campaign, political corruption, student life ...
Place: russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 4.3
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Five Thirteen (2013)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: In this tension-packed thriller, brothers Mike and Tre set out in search of better lives, trying to leave their demons behind for good. After being released from prison for a crime he didn't commit, Mike's only care in the world is to ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, realistic, tense, independent film
Audience: boys' night
Plot: starting over, going straight, hopes, family relations, parents and children, released from prison, father daughter relationship, false accusation, life is a bitch, brother brother relationship, violent content, siblings relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
 6.8
 3K
A Quiet Life (2010)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, France, Germany
Duration: 105 min.
Story: The story of a man who murdered thirty-two people, gained power, and then got afraid because too many people wanted to kill him. One August morning, he disappeared. For fifteen years, everyone believed him dead.
Style: tense, serious, rough, psychological, realistic ...
Plot: murderer, father son relationship, gangster, hitman, hidden identity, parents and children, family relations, dishonesty, criminal heroes, haunted by the past, secret past, dark past ...
Time: 21st century
Place: germany, naples italy, europe, frankfurt germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Anna: the Pleasure, the Torment (1973)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A beautiful but poor young girl finds all the money and material goods she never had when she becomes the girlfriend of a crime boss, but soon learns that there is a price to be paid for that kind of life.
Style: action thriller, sexy, grindhouse, serious, realistic ...
Plot: gynecological exam, prostitution, rough sex, gangster, prostitute, exploitation, erotica, woman in jeopardy, sexual pleasure, smuggling, female nudity, rape ...
Time: 70s
Place: italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Once Fallen (2010)
Genre: Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: When Chance (Brian Presley) returns home after five years in jail, he is determined to escape his past, start a new life and make peace with his father, (Ed Harris, Golden Globe® winner), who is the head of the Aryan Brotherhood prison gang and ...
Style: captivating, tense, serious, psychological, fast ...
Plot: starting over, fall in love, family life, family relations, hopes, estrangement, gangster, interracial relations, aryan brotherhood, prison, nypd, interracial love ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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My Kingdom (2001)
Genre: Drama, Crime
Country: Italy, UK
Duration: 117 min.
Story: A powerful dynasty, headed by a charismatic, manipulative father, falls when he decides to hand over his criminal empire to his three corrupt and power-hungry daughters. Kath runs a brothel down by the docks, Tracy owns a soccer team and Jo, a ...
Style: serious, rough, suspenseful, tense, realistic
Plot: rivalry, family relations, betrayal, dishonesty, drug dealing, vengeance, murder, parents and children, prostitute, shakespeare, tragic love, gangster ...
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Everybody Has a Plan (2012)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Argentina, Spain, Germany, USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Following the death of his identical twin brother Pedro, Agustín sets out to begin his life anew by assuming Pedro’s identity and returning to the mysterious Tigre Delta region where the brothers had spent their childhood. Soon after his ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense ...
Plot: hidden identity, starting over, twin brother, danger, homecoming, haunted by the past, dishonesty, family relations, siblings, identical twins, death, brother brother relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: argentina, buenos aires argentina
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Amsterdam (2009)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A rich American couple, a family of Dutch criminals, a French gay couple, a working class family from Germany and an illegal Moroccan youth and his kid brother, are all in Amsterdam, each with their own story. Different reasons make their paths ...
Style: serious, realistic, sincere, disturbing, contemplative
Plot: police, money, lifestyle, family life, family relations, love, ambition, immigrant, friendship, couple relations, couples, working class ...
Time: 21st century
Place: amsterdam, holland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 7.6
 6K
The Thief (1997)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Russia, France
Duration: 96 min.
Story: In 1946, a soldier fathers a child then dies before its birth. Jump to 1952: on a train, the child and his mother meet a handsome soldier who makes a play for her. She accepts. Posing as a married family, the soldier finds them a rooming house where ...
Style: bleak, realistic, sincere, serious, gloomy ...
Plot: coming of age, orphanage, betrayal, death, soldier, family relations, cons and scams, parents and children, hospital, drinking, communism, revolution ...
Time: 50s, post world war two, year 1997, 20th century, 1940s ...
Place: russia, soviet union, siberia, black sea
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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 719
Outlaw Country (2012)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A crime thriller/family drama set against the backdrop of southern organized crime and Nashville royalty where music, love, hope and tragedy collide. Created as a pilot for a TV Series which was not taken up, this has now been aired as a TV Movie.
Style: realistic, suspenseful, serious, captivating, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: family relations, gang, parents and children, love and romance, danger, society, violent content
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, tennessee
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 5.9
 166
State of Mind (2003)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 145 min.
Story: Reeling from the discovery of her husband's adultery, Grace moves back to her family home with her son. Amidst all this emotional turmoil, forensic psychologist Grace is asked by police to determine the guilt or innocence a man who killed his ...
Style: psychological, serious, suspenseful, rough, realistic ...
Plot: murder, infidelity, investigation, false accusation, family problems, couples, law enforcement, dishonesty, legal, memory loss, single parent, who done it ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Little Odessa (1994)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: The film follows the personal relationship between a father and his two sons, one of whom is a hit-man for the Russian mafia in Brooklyn.
Style: bleak, disturbing, neo noir, erotic, cult classic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: hitman, assassin, immigrant, winter, redemption, gangster, russian mafia, snow, killer, gang, coming of age, organized crime ...
Time: year 1994, 90s
Place: new york, israel, usa, brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 5.8
 5K
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 ⇓
36%
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 ⇓
36%
After the Fall (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Bill Scanlin loses his job and embarks on a life of crime. As Bill stays ahead of the law, he discovers that sometimes the only thing worse than getting caught is getting away with it.
Style: psychological, tense, realistic, serious, captivating ...
Plot: downfall, protecting from truth, destructive relationship, unfulfillment, danger, family relations, rivalry, society, murder, crisis, uncontrollable, unlikely criminals ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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 ⇓
36%
 7.0
 4K
Sisters (2001)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 83 min.
Story: A movie about two sisters - thirteen year old Sveta, poor and abandoned by her father, who longs to go off and be a sniper in the army, and spoilt eight-year old Dina, doted on by her gangster father...
Style: serious, realistic, touching, captivating
Plot: gangster, ambush, russian mafia, family relations, sister, love, protector, problem child, danger, society, father, life is a bitch ...
Time: 21st century
Place: russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Grand Pardon (1982)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 130 min.
Story: Le clan Bettoun : Raymond (le patriarche), Maurice (le fils), Jacky (le neveu), Roland (le neveu), Albert (le cousin de Raymond), Pépé (l'ami de Raymond), Samy (le garde du corps) sont un clan familial de caïds pieds-Noirs juifs du crime ...
Style: tense, realistic, serious, rough, suspenseful
Plot: uninhibited rivalry, criminal heroes, law enforcement, rivalry, police detective, family relations, family business, family life, interracial relations, gangster, violent content, murder of a nude woman ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: france
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36%
Mafioso: The Father The Son (2001)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: When the head of a mafia clan is perceived to be weakening, his family suffers a series of attacks. It is up to his son, Frankie, to figure out who’s behind the plot before they are all wiped out.
Style: rough, serious, suspenseful, realistic, suspense
Plot: gang, working undercover, family business, betrayal, witnessing a crime, criminal heroes, master criminal, rivalry, criminal's revenge, gangster, law enforcement, hitman ...
Time: 21st century
Place: philadelphia
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36%
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Steel City (2006)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: After a tragic accident caused by the truck of the middle-aged Carl Lee where a woman dies with a crushed stern, he is arrested and sent to the county jail. His son PJ, who works washing dishes and cleaning tables in a restaurant, feels lost, ...
Style: emotional, touching, sincere, psychological, realistic ...
Plot: police, family life, family relations, family problems, couples, parents and children, dysfunctional family, couple relations, introspection, youth, redemption, siblings relations ...
Place: usa, midwest
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 6.1
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Wisegal (2008)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A drama centered around Patty Montanari, the widowed mother of two who went to work for her lover Frank Russo, a captain in a Brooklyn crime family.
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating ...
Plot: criminal heroes, fall in love, dishonesty, crime family, gangster, parents and children, unlikely criminals, love affair, mind game, organized crime, italian mafia, mafia ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Domestic Life (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Juliette was simply not sure about coming to live in this residential suburb of the greater Paris metropolitan area. All the women here are in their forties, have children to raise, houses to keep and husbands who return home late at night.Today she ...
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, suspense, captivating ...
Plot: suburbs, murder, family life, relationship vs career, couple relations, couples, social relations, friends, family relations, parents and children, suburban life, strong female presence ...
Time: 21st century
Place: paris france, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Tommy (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Sri Lanka
Duration: 92 min.
Story: After a year abroad Estelle returns home to collect her husband's share of the loot from a major robbery.
Style: tense, serious, captivating, psychological, suspense ...
Plot: family relations, siblings relations, parents and children, couples, danger, rivalry, nordic, violent content, strong female presence, criminal heroes, heist
Time: 21st century
Place: stockholm sweden
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35%
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Open Window (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: The engagment between a struggling photographer and an assistant professor is marred by an act of violence.
Style: psychological, serious, realistic, sincere, independent film
Plot: dysfunctional family, rape, introspection, couples, family problems, crumbling marriage, couple relations, dishonesty, haunted by the past, female nudity, family in crisis, vegetarian ...
Place: los angeles, usa
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35%
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Red Letters (2000)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A college professor reluctantly hides an escaped female convict who tries to get him to help prove her innocent of a murder.
Style: realistic, rough, suspenseful, serious, tense ...
Plot: college, prison, law enforcement, dishonesty, obsession, destructive relationship, amateur detective, murder, escaped prisoner, nudity, life is a bitch, chases and races ...
Time: 90s
Place: california, usa, mojave desert
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35%
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The Hillz (2004)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A promising college athlete takes a turn for the worse when he hooks up with old highschool friends during his summer break.
Style: serious, surreal, realistic, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot: white trash, drug dealing, student athlete, prostitute, juvenile delinquency, friendship, baseball, teen drinking, high school friends, lifestyle, youth, gang ...
Place: california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
A Quiet Little Marriage (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A Quiet Little Marriage is the love story of Dax and Olive, who manage to find harmony even as they juggle family, romance and intimacy, but that all changes the night she asks him for a baby. Writer/director Mo Perkins’ intense and profound, raw ...
Style: emotional, realistic, psychological, captivating, sincere ...
Plot: pregnancy, family problems, couple relations, family relations, parents and children, unfulfillment, dishonesty, love, rivalry, sexual relations, crumbling marriage, couples ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Som and Bank: Bangkok for Sale (2001)
Genre: Drama, Crime
Country: Thailand
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Mak, a street urchin in Bangkok, dreams of being a tough gangster. He earns some money as a drugs runner. One day he meets a young prostitute, who turns out to live nearby and they fall in love. After he has delivered a large batch of drugs to a ...
Style: realistic, serious, suspense, captivating
Plot: gangster, fall in love, love affair, drug dealing, love and romance, siblings relations, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, drug, police, extreme, prostitute, drug deal ...
Place: thailand, bangkok thailand
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
The Two Mr. Kissels (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Drama based on a true story. Rich, high-flying brothers Robert and Andrew Kissel seemingly have everything: beautiful wives who love them, great jobs and huge houses. But beneath the surface lie resentments and secrets that will eventually be their ...
Style: serious, realistic, tense, suspenseful
Plot: dishonesty, couple relations, family relations, couples, infidelity, murder, serial killer, blonde, voyeur, voyeurism, golddigger, cons and scams ...
Time: 21st century
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35%
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