Movies like The Salton Sea

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The Salton Sea (2002)
 7.0
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The Salton Sea (2002)
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 own demons, and gets entangled in a web of deceit full of unexpected twists and turns.
Style: neo noir, tense, bleak, suspenseful, rough, grim, mind bending, clever, psychological thriller, sexy ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: drug abuse, drug addiction, death of wife, drug lord, drug, revenge, violence, drug addict, double life, working undercover, undercover, life is a bitch, rivalry, haunted by the past, nothing to lose, murder, gangster, recovery, corrupt cop, identity, vengeance, driver, justice, methamphetamine, death ...
Time: year 2002, 21st century, contemporary
Place: los angeles, california, usa
Keyword: gangsters, dope

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Most similar movies to The Salton Sea

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, rough and suspenseful films with plots about murder, gangster, violence, pistol, blood, shot to death and cigarette smoking mostly in Crime, Drama and Thriller genres. Some movies like The Salton Sea: A Walk Among the Tombstones (2014), Wonderland (2003), Red Rock West (1993), Playing God (1997), Suicide Kings (1997). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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A Walk Among the Tombstones (2014)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Private investigator Matthew Scudder is hired by a drug kingpin to find out who kidnapped and murdered his wife.
Style: suspense, neo noir, psychological, tense, bleak ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: private detective, murder, serial killer, kidnapping, drug dealer, secrets, murder of wife, investigation, violence, faked death, home invasion, hostage ...
Time: year 2014, 2010s, 20th century, year 1991, year 1999 ...
Place: usa, new york, brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.5
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Wonderland (2003)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 104 min.
Story: On the afternoon of July 1, 1981, Los Angeles police responded to a distress call on Wonderland Avenue and discovered a grisly quadruple homicide. The police investigation that followed uncovered two versions of the events leading up to the brutal ...
Style: disturbing, suspenseful, tense, rough, bleak ...
Plot: murder, junkie, heroin, addiction, true crime, police investigation, violence, drug addiction, serial killer, drug, drug addict, crime gone awry ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, y2k, year 2003, year 1981
Place: los angeles, usa, pasadena california, sacramento california
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.0
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Red Rock West (1993)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: When a promised job for Texan Michael fails to materialise in Wyoming, Mike is mistaken by Wayne to be the hitman he hired to kill his unfaithful wife, Suzanne. Mike takes full advantage of the situation, collects the money and runs. During his ...
Style: neo noir, suspenseful, sexy, atmospheric, road movie ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: small town, femme fatale, twists and turns, hitman, unemployment, danger, war injury, murder, greed, brutality, caper, gas station ...
Time: year 1993, 90s
Place: texas, wyoming, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.6
 8K
Playing God (1997)
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 ...
Style: psychological, intense, tense, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: fbi, gangster, drug addiction, murder, betrayal, undercover, haunted by the past, heist, mind game, dishonesty, drug dealing, working undercover ...
Time: 90s, year 1997
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
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Suicide Kings (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Christopher Walken shines in this cult-favorite dark comedy as Charlie, a former mobster who is abducted by five privileged young men (Sean Patrick Flanery, Johnny Galecki, Jay Mohr, Jeremy Sisto, Henry Thomas) desperate to raise a $2 million ransom ...
Style: dark comedy, tense, suspenseful, suspense, neo noir ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: kidnapping, hostage, mafia, manipulation, gangster, twists and turns, mobster, organized crime, mansion, nothing goes right, confined, disorder ...
Time: 90s, year 1997, 20th century, 70s
Place: usa, atlantic city, atlantic city new jersey, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
 7.9
 483K
Mystic River (2003)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 138 min.
Story: A story about friendship and loyalty, guilt and vengeance, and the fateful affect the past has on the present.
Style: psychological, suspense, emotional, twist ending, neo noir ...
Audience: chick flick, adult
Plot: vengeance, police investigation, murder, sexual abuse, murder mystery, investigation, death in the family, child abuse, loss of child, revenge, tragic event, grief ...
Time: year 2003, 2000s, 70s, 20th century, 60s ...
Place: boston, massachusetts, persia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Never Die Alone (2004)
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, addiction, ghetto, redemption, murder, interracial relations, journalism, criminal heroes, rise and fall, dishonesty, life is a bitch ...
Time: year 2004, 2000s
Place: usa, detroit, los angeles, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
 8.1
 347K
Chinatown (1974)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story: Private eye Jake Gittes lives off of the murky moral climate of sunbaked, pre-World War II Southern California. Hired by a beautiful socialite to investigate her husband's extra-marital affair, Gittes is swept into a maelstrom of double ...
Style: neo noir, detective, atmospheric, twist ending, bleak ...
Audience: date night
Plot: private detective, corruption, investigation, femme fatale, rape, police, murder, conspiracy, domestic violence, father daughter incest, incest, investigator ...
Time: 20th century, 1930s, year 1974, year 1937
Place: los angeles, california, usa, eastern europe, america ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 6.4
 21K
Killing Zoe (1993)
Genre: Crime, 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: brutal, cult classic, neo noir, indie film, crime thriller ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: robbery, heist, safecracker, bank, caper, bank robber, drug, murder, kidnapping, drug abuse, friendship, crime gone awry ...
Time: year 1993, 90s, 20th century
Place: paris france, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.7
 470K
Training Day (2001)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: On his first day on the job as a narcotics officer, a rookie cop works with a rogue detective who isn't what he appears.
Style: neo noir, realistic, tense, harsh, suspense ...
Audience: manly, boys' night, adult
Plot: police corruption, gang, corrupt cop, ghetto, gunfight, drug dealer, police, african american, rookie, mentor, dirty cop, drug ...
Time: year 2001, 2000s, 21st century
Place: los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 6.4
 112K
Faster (2010)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Driver (Dwayne Johnson) has spent the last 10 years in prison planning revenge for the murder of his brother. Now that Driver is free to carry out his deadly plan only two men stand in his way- Billy Bob Thornton plays a veteran cop and Oliver ...
Style: stylized, brutal, intense, talky, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night, manly, girls' night, adult
Plot: vengeance, lone hero, vigilante, corruption, hotshot, justice, ex convict, revenge, vigilantism, brutality, gangster, gratuitous violence ...
Time: year 2010, 2010s, 21st century
Place: iran, usa, nevada
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A petty thief posing as an actor is brought to Los Angeles for an unlikely audition and finds himself in the middle of a murder investigation along with his high school dream girl and a detective who's been training him for his upcoming role...
Style: neo noir, funny, black comedy, dark comedy, detective ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: private detective, investigation, murder, actor, dark humor, buddy, thief, gay, murder mystery, kidnapping, cheerleader, buddy cop ...
Time: year 2005, 2000s, 21st century
Place: venice beach california, los angeles, california, denver colorado, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.9
 231K
Carlito's Way (1993)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 144 min.
Story: A Puerto-Rican ex-con, just released from prison, pledges to stay away from drugs and violence despite the pressure around him and lead on to a better life outside of NYC.
Style: neo noir, suspense, suspenseful, tense, melancholic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: organized crime, gangster, mafia, nightclub, tragic hero, drug dealing, mobster, drug, gunfight, violence, prison, drug lord ...
Time: 90s, 70s, 20th century, year 1993, year 1975
Place: new york, usa, grand central station manhattan new york city, harlem, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
 6.6
 39K
New Jack City (1991)
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: organized crime, gang war, ghetto, gangster, drug, hip hop, mafia, gang, chase, betrayal, urban, addiction ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, 90s
Place: harlem, new york, usa, america, turkey ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
 6.6
 24K
Dark Blue (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Germany
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Set during the Rodney King riots, a robbery homicide investigation triggers a series of events that will cause a corrupt LAPD officer to question his tactics.
Style: neo noir, tense, detective, harsh, intense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: police corruption, police investigation, police brutality, cop, police, corruption, investigation, police officer, rookie, robbery, partner, fighting the system ...
Time: 20th century, y2k, 90s, year 1992
Place: los angeles, california, usa, southern california
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
 6.7
 41K
Spun (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Over the course of three days Ross, a college dropout addicted to crystal-meth, encounters a variety of oddball folks - including a stripper named Nikki and her boyfriend, the local meth producer, The Cook - but all he really wants to do is hook up ...
Style: psychedelic, disturbing, surreal, psychological, stylized ...
Audience: adult
Plot: drug abuse, drug addict, drug addiction, addiction, junkie, masturbation, drug, drug trip, drug use, strong sexual content, methamphetamine, crazy ...
Time: year 2002, y2k, 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa, las vegas
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
The Long Good Friday (1980)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 114 min.
Story: In the late 1970s, Cockney crime boss Harold Shand, a gangster trying to become a legitimate property mogul, has big plans to get the American Mafia to bankroll his transformation of a derelict area of London into the possible venue for a future ...
Style: neo noir, atmospheric, tense, harsh, serious ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: ira, gangster, organized crime, mafia, car bomb, danger, crime boss, revenge, rivalry, great ending, underworld, murder ...
Time: 70s, year 1980, 80s, 20th century
Place: england, london, ireland, britain, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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Se7en (1995)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story: Two homicide detectives are on a desperate hunt for a serial killer whose crimes are based on the "seven deadly sins" in this dark and haunting film that takes viewers from the tortured remains of one victim to the next. The seasoned Det. ...
Style: detective, surprise ending, suspenseful, disturbing, neo noir ...
Audience: chick flick, adult
Plot: serial killer, investigation, twists and turns, psychopath, police, psychology, mind game, murder, insanity, police investigation, macabre, maniac ...
Time: 90s, year 1995, 20th century
Place: los angeles, america, iran, persia, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 6.0
 34K
Above the Law (1988)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Seagal is Nico Toscani, an Italian immigrant, American patriot, ex-CIA agent, aikido specialist, and unorthodox Chicago policeman. He is as committed to his job as he is to his personalized brand of justice: expert and thorough bone-crushing.
Style: suspense, exciting, realistic, serious, rough ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: martial arts, conspiracy, aikido, corruption, brutality, vengeance, drug dealing, cia, police, kung fu, police officer, vietnam war ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, 70s
Place: chicago, vietnam, usa, las vegas, illinois ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
 7.1
 14K
One False Move (1991)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Following a series of drug deals and murders, three criminals -- Fantasia, Ray Malcolm and Pluto -- travel from Los Angeles to Houston, finally arriving in a small Arkansas town to go into hiding. Two detectives from the LAPD, who are already on the ...
Style: neo noir, suspense, tense, suspenseful, independent film ...
Audience: boys' night, date night
Plot: small town, police investigation, heist, gangster, gunfight, justice, corruption, criminal heroes, law enforcement, criminal, siblings relations, dishonesty ...
Time: 90s, year 1992
Place: los angeles, texas, arkansas, california, louisiana ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
 4.3
 1K
Played (2006)
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, suspenseful, rough, realistic ...
Plot: murder, prison, criminal underworld, criminal heroes, criminal, gangster, crime gone awry, dishonesty, released from prison, corrupt cop, police detective, police investigation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: london, england, europe, los angeles, britain
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
I'll Sleep When I'm Dead (2003)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Will Graham, a former London crime boss who has left his former life to live as a recluse in the forest. Haunted by the blood of those he has murdered, Will wishes never to return. But when his brother commits suicide, following a sexual assault at ...
Style: neo noir, atmospheric, tense, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: murder, male nudity, anal rape, male rape, violence, suicide, justice, revenge, character study, moral ambiguity, life is a bitch, sexual assault ...
Time: year 2003, 21st century
Place: england, london, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: Terrence McDonagh, a New Orleans Police sergeant, who starts out as a good cop, receiving a medal and a promotion to lieutenant for heroism during Hurricane Katrina. During his heroic act, McDonagh injures his back and later becomes addicted to ...
Style: surreal, stylized, neo noir, dark comedy, disturbing ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: police corruption, drug lord, organized crime, drug abuse, corruption, drug, redemption, police, police brutality, brutality, hallucination, gangster ...
Time: year 2009, 20th century, 21st century
Place: new orleans, louisiana, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
 6.7
 222K
Gangster Squad (2013)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Los Angeles, 1949. Ruthless, Brooklyn-born mob king Mickey Cohen runs the show in this town, reaping the ill-gotten gains from the drugs, the guns, the prostitutes and — if he has his way — every wire bet placed west of Chicago. And he does it ...
Style: rough, exciting, stylized, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night, chick flick, manly, teens
Plot: mob boss, organized crime, mafia, gangster, partners against crime, law enforcement, corruption, revenge, police brutality, squad, power struggle, love triangle ...
Time: 1940s, year 2013, 2010s, 20th century, year 1949 ...
Place: los angeles, california, israel, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
To Live and Die in L.A. (1985)
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, tense, suspenseful, cult classic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: car chase, revenge, investigation, murder, vengeance, police investigation, law enforcement, cop, male pubic hair, chase, hitman, organized crime ...
Time: 80s, year 1985, 20th century
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 6.2
 6K
McQ (1974)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Police Lieutenant Lon McQ investigates the killing of his best friend and uncovers corrupt elements of the police department dealing in confiscated drugs.
Style: serious, suspense, exciting, captivating, detective ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: car chase, murder, police detective, police corruption, fighting crime, uncover truth, law enforcement, rivalry, investigation, twists and turns, urban, criminal ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: seattle, usa, washington state
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
 8.5
 1.4M
The Departed (2006)
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, organized crime, mole, mobster, undercover cop, twists and turns, undercover, gunfight, corruption, working undercover, gangster ...
Time: 2000s, year 2006, 21st century
Place: boston, america, persia, massachusetts, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Tequila Sunrise (1988)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: In a seaside California town, best friends Mac and Nick are on opposite sides of the law. Mac is a former drug dealer trying to clean up his act, while Nick is a high-profile detective trying to take down a Mexican drug lord named Carlos. Soon ...
Style: exciting, suspense, serious, realistic, atmospheric ...
Plot: organized crime, betrayal, surveillance, love triangle, drug dealer, drug lord, corruption, friendship, crime boss, drug, love, best friend ...
Time: 80s
Place: los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Internal Affairs (1990)
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: suspense, neo noir, suspenseful, intense, atmospheric ...
Plot: police corruption, internal affairs, corrupt cop, police investigation, corruption, manipulation, psychopath, police, abusive husband, rivalry, law enforcement, dishonesty ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, 90s
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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