Movies like Le Samurai
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Le Samurai (1967)
65K
Original name: Le Samouraï
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Hitman Jef Costello is a perfectionist who always carefully plans his murders and who never gets caught.
Style:
neo noir, detective, sexy, suspenseful, suspense, clever, visual, meditative, witty, philosophical ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
loner, hitman, assassination, chase, professional killer, lone wolves, surveillance, gangster, police investigation, murder, assassin, betrayal, police inspector, very little dialogue, police interrogation, killer, organized crime, character study, nightclub, alibi, criminal as protagonist, nightclub singer, pet bird, silent man, police operation ...
Time:
20th century, year 1967, 60s, 1960s
Place:
paris france, france, europe
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Most similar movies to Le Samurai
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, neo noir and suspenseful films with plots about murder, gangster, criminal, gun, violence, shot to death and hitman mostly in Crime, Drama and Thriller genres. Some movies like Le Samurai: The Red Circle (1970), The Day of the Jackal (1973), The American Friend (1977), Second Breath (1966), Point Blank (1967). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
Master thief Corey is fresh out of prison. But instead of toeing the line of law-abiding freedom, he finds his steps leading back to the shadowy world of crime, crossing those of a notorious escapee and alcoholic ex-cop. As the unlikely trio plots a ...
Style:
neo noir, noir, tense, stylized, suspense ...
Plot:
heist, gangster, robbery, nightclub, caper, organized crime, alcoholic, corruption, mafia, great ending, thief, existentialism ...
Time:
year 1970, 60s, 20th century, 70s
Place:
paris france, europe, marseille, france
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, France
Duration: 143 min.
Story:
An international assassin known as ‘The Jackal’ is employed by disgruntled French generals to kill President Charles de Gaulle, with a dedicated gendarme on the assassin's trail.
Style:
political thriller, suspenseful, political, exciting, intense ...
Plot:
conspiracy, hitman, terrorism, assassin, police investigation, spy thriller, politics, assassination plot, serial killer, assassination attempt, espionage, french president ...
Time:
year 1963, 20th century, 60s, year 1973, 70s
Place:
paris france, france, algeria, europe, big ben london ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: West Germany, France
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
Tom Ripley, who deals in forged art, suggests a picture framer he knows would make a good hit man.
Style:
neo noir, suspenseful, talky, atmospheric, bleak ...
Plot:
hitman, gangster, friendship, assassination, betrayal, art, character study, terminal illness, forgery, good versus evil, loneliness, police investigation ...
Time:
20th century, year 1977, 70s, year 1976
Place:
hamburg germany, paris france, germany, new york, west germany ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France, Germany, USA, Japan
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
An African-American Mafia hit man who models himself after the samurai of old finds himself targeted for death by the mob.
Style:
cult classic, art house, philosophical, stylized, atmospheric ...
Plot:
loneliness, loner, african american, mafia, hitman, samurai, hip hop, honor, friendship, martial arts, assassin, professional killer ...
Time:
90s, year 1999, future, 20th century
Place:
new york, usa, new jersey, brooklyn new york city, japan ...
Similarity:
82%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
With his customary restraint and ruthless attention to detail, director Jean-Pierre Melville follows the parallel tracks of French underworld criminal Gu (the inimitable Lino Ventura), escaped from prison and roped into one last robbery, and the ...
Style:
neo noir, crime drama, noir, black and white, serious ...
Audience:
manly
Plot:
police officer killed, betrayal, heist, robbery, forced confession, criminal, fugitive, jazz, caper, shootout, loss of brother, brother sister relationship ...
Time:
year 1966, 60s
Place:
paris france, france, marseille, europe, south of france
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
After being double-crossed and left for dead, a mysterious man named Walker single-mindedly tries to retrieve the rather inconsequential sum of money that was stolen from him.
Style:
neo noir, surreal, ambiguous ending, noir, tense ...
Audience:
boys' night, manly
Plot:
organized crime, revenge, vengeance, betrayal, gangster, flashback, left for dead, anti hero, hitman, murder, robbery, money ...
Time:
20th century, future, year 1967, 60s
Place:
usa, san francisco, california, los angeles
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Mike Sullivan works as a hit man for crime boss John Rooney. Sullivan views Rooney as a father figure, however after his son is witness to a killing, Mike Sullivan finds himself on the run in attempt to save the life of his son and at the same time ...
Style:
harsh, atmospheric, suspense, visually stunning, period piece ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
mafia, vengeance, hitman, revenge, criminal's revenge, gangster, violence, road trip, murder, coming of age, on the road, on the run ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century, 2000s, year 1931, year 2002
Place:
illinois, chicago, persia, michigan, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A stone-faced Jean-Paul Belmondo stars as enigmatic gangster Silien, who may or may not be responsible for squealing on Faugel (Serge Reggiani), just released from the slammer and already involved in what should have been a simple heist. By the end ...
Style:
neo noir, suspenseful, bleak, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
gangster, betrayal, frame up, cons and scams, vengeance, friendship, criminal heroes, crime gone awry, criminal's revenge, tough heroes, spy, renaissance ...
Time:
20th century, year 1963, year 1962, 60s
Place:
europe, france, paris france
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
A hired killer from Cleveland has a job to do on a second-string mob boss in New York. But a special girl from his past, and a fat gun dealer with pet rats, each gets in his way.
Style:
neo noir, noir, christmas horror, crime drama, grindhouse ...
Plot:
hitman, christmas, killer, organized crime, professional killer, loner, big city, assassin, loneliness, dating, holiday horror, unrequited love ...
Time:
year 1961, 60s
Place:
new york, usa, harlem, greenwich village manhattan new york city, grand central station manhattan new york city ...
Similarity:
100%
106K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Dispatched to a small Italian town to await further orders, assassin Jack embarks on a double life that may be more relaxing than is good for him.
Style:
suspense, sexy, ambiguous ending, atmospheric, tense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
hitman, loner, one last job, nudity, sex, undercover, anti hero, betrayal, skinny dipping, small town, assassination, moral dilemma ...
Time:
year 2010, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
italy, rome italy, europe, california, canada
Similarity:
100%
12K
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Commissaire Edouard Coleman is a Paris police chief whose life investigating violent crimes has left him despondent. After beginning an affair with a beautiful but cold woman named Cathy, he befriends her boyfriend, Simon, a local nightclub owner. ...
Style:
neo noir, suspense, visually appealing, hood, cynical ...
Plot:
french police, gang, police inspector, gangster, train robbery, bank, corruption, robbery, criminal, driver, police, double life ...
Time:
year 1972, 70s, 20th century
Place:
france, paris france, europe
Similarity:
100%
48K
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
Frank is an expert professional safecracker, specialized in high-profile diamond heists. He plans to use his ill-gotten income to retire from crime and build a nice life for himself complete with a home, wife and kids. To accelerate the process, he ...
Style:
neo noir, noir, retro, cult classic, perverse ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
safecracker, bank robbery, robbery, mafia, organized crime, character study, heist, criminal, bank robber, great ending, violence, betrayal ...
Time:
80s, year 1981, 20th century, 70s
Place:
chicago, usa, illinois, los angeles, new jersey
Similarity:
100%
756K
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A Hollywood stunt performer who moonlights as a wheelman for criminals discovers that a contract has been put on him after a heist gone wrong.
Style:
neo noir, atmospheric, tense, serious, ambiguous ending ...
Audience:
boys' night, date night, adult
Plot:
car chase, revenge, mechanic, loner, heist, danger, lone wolves, organized crime, tough heroes, robbery, chases and races, neighbor ...
Time:
2010s, year 2011, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, california, iran, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Thailand, France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A hitman named Tul is shot in the head during an assignment. When he wakes up from a two month coma Tul discovers that he literally sees everything upside down.
Style:
sexy, neo noir, tense, serious, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
hitman, passionate sex, vengeance, danger, disorder, dishonesty, secret movement, frame up, sex, assassination, professional killer, killer ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
thailand, asia
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
The film story depicts Emile Buisson, following the death of his wife and child, escaping from a psychiatric institution in 1947 and returning to Paris. Buisson, who three years later would become France's public enemy number one, begins a ...
Style:
period piece, serious, rough, suspenseful, neo noir ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
police detective, serial killer, murder, gangster, robbery, prison, investigation, police investigation, law enforcement, police corruption, psychopath, police station ...
Time:
1940s, 1950s, year 1947, 50s
Place:
paris france, france, europe
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Jacques Darnay has served 8 years for robbing a jeweller. Now he is out of prison and looking for his loot worth 6 million francs.
Style:
neo noir, serious, realistic, tense, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gangster, ex convict, female pubic hair, diamond, murder, crime and punishment, coldhearted, vengeance, criminal's revenge, law enforcement, chases and races, on the run ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
After serving together in the French Foreign Legion, a mercenary and a doctor leave the service and go their separate ways. Later, they are reunited and become involved with a caper involving millions in a high-security safe. The two men become ...
Style:
retro, manga, serious, realistic, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
robbery, female nudity, chess, trapped, submissive woman, airport, homoeroticism, safecracker, male friendship, nude girl, heist, manipulation ...
Time:
60s
Place:
algeria, france, europe, congo, marseille ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Jackie Cogan is an enforcer hired to restore order after three dumb guys rob a Mob protected card game, causing the local criminal economy to collapse.
Style:
neo noir, brutal, suspenseful, intense, tense ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, adult
Plot:
robbery, violence, mafia, organized crime, gangster, hitman, poker, brutality, crime gone awry, assassin, murder, sex ...
Time:
year 2012, 2010s, year 2008, 2000s, 70s ...
Place:
louisiana, usa, florida, orlando florida, new orleans
Similarity:
100%
Movie in collections
464K
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Cab driver Max picks up a man who offers him $600 to drive him around. But the promise of easy money sours when Max realizes his fare is an assassin.
Style:
neo noir, clever, tense, atmospheric, suspense ...
Audience:
date night, manly, boys' night
Plot:
hitman, hostage, taxi, taxi driver, contract killer, sociopath, twists and turns, assassin, nihilism, merciless, professional killer, death ...
Time:
year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, california, south america, southern california, persia ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Set in 1929, a political boss and his advisor have a parting of the ways when they both fall for the same woman.
Style:
neo noir, atmospheric, tense, stylized, cynical ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
organized crime, betrayal, mafia, corruption, gangster, shootout, irish mob, loyalty, love triangle, blackmail, mobster, prohibition era ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 1930s, year 1990, 1920s
Place:
usa, new orleans, new york
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, Romance, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A small-time con man on the run from the gangster husband of his girlfriend hides out in a strange, brooding mansion run by two mysterious women. There he finds himself trapped in deception between the two women. Shot on location in the French ...
Style:
neo noir, manga, psychological, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
widow, hidden room, cat, femme fatale, jealousy, american abroad, pharmacy, investigation, private investigation, train, limousine, black cat ...
Time:
20th century, 60s
Place:
france, french riviera, paris france, cote d'azur, monte carlo ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Held in an L.A. interrogation room, Verbal Kint attempts to convince the feds that a mythic crime lord, Keyser Soze, not only exists, but was also responsible for drawing him and his four partners into a multi-million dollar heist that ended with an ...
Style:
neo noir, surprise ending, twist ending, clever, confusing ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
twists and turns, plot twist, heist, master criminal, whodunit, manipulation, organized crime, murder mystery, criminal, bank robber, killer, dialogue ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, 90s, year 1995, year 1981
Place:
los angeles, new york, hungary, turkey, north america ...
Similarity:
100%
Movie in collections
246K
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:
suspense, neo noir, tense, suspenseful, clever ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gangster, organized crime, mafia, nightclub, tragic hero, drug dealing, voyeurism, violence, drug, gunfight, drug lord, prison ...
Time:
90s, 70s, 20th century, year 1975, year 1993
Place:
new york, usa, grand central station manhattan new york city, south america, harlem ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Following the death of his mother, J finds himself living with his estranged family, under the watchful eye of his doting grandmother, Smurf, mother to the Cody boys. J quickly comes to believe that he is a player in this world. But, as he soon ...
Style:
tense, disturbing, bleak, visually appealing, neo noir ...
Plot:
violence, organized crime, gangster, mafia, bad mother, investigation, justice, complex characters, vengeance, character study, drug dealer, law enforcement ...
Time:
year 2010, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
australia, peru, melbourne, oceania, new zealand
Similarity:
100%
113K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
The owner of a seedy small-town Texas bar discovers that one of his employees is having an affair with his wife. A chaotic chain of misunderstandings, lies and mischief ensues after he devises a plot to have them murdered.
Style:
neo noir, cult classic, psychological, tense, independent film ...
Audience:
date night, manly
Plot:
private detective, murder mystery, twists and turns, murder, crime gone awry, extramarital affair, adultery, hired killer, investigation, betrayal, visceral, moral ambiguity ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1984
Place:
texas, austin texas, midwest, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A young ex-con trying to go straight gets caught up in another criminal scheme.
Style:
neo noir, retro, noir, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
heist, jazz, bare chested male, homosexual subtext, robbery, woman with a gun, music and dance, explosions, family relations, siblings relations, false arrest, hopes ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
california, san francisco, usa
Similarity:
100%
169K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Bob Saginowski finds himself at the center of a robbery gone awry and entwined in an investigation that digs deep into the neighborhood's past where friends, families, and foes all work together to make a living - no matter the cost.
Style:
serious, cerebral, tense, realistic, suspense ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, boys' night
Plot:
robbery, twists and turns, fall in love, criminal's revenge, catholic, danger, criminal heroes, criminal, organized crime, crime boss, hitman, church ...
Time:
year 2014, 2010s, 90s, 21st century
Place:
boston, new york, brooklyn new york city, massachusetts, usa
Similarity:
100%
1.0M
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
A mentally unstable Vietnam War veteran works as a night-time taxi driver in New York City where the perceived decadence and sleaze feeds his urge for violent action, attempting to save a preadolescent prostitute in the process.
Style:
psychological, neo noir, bleak, atmospheric, cult classic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
loner, vigilante, character study, alienation, vigilantism, violence, obsession, loneliness, psychology, lone wolves, taxi, social decay ...
Time:
70s, year 1976, 20th century, year 1975
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, usa, america, harlem ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Leon, the top hit man in New York, has earned a rep as an effective "cleaner". But when his next-door neighbors are wiped out by a loose-cannon DEA agent, he becomes the unwilling custodian of 12-year-old Mathilda. Before long, ...
Style:
neo noir, touching, rough, suspenseful, retro ...
Audience:
teens, date night, adult
Plot:
hitman, mentor, revenge, friendship, murder, loneliness, organized crime, redemption, sniper, loner, life philosophy, dark hero ...
Time:
20th century, year 1994, 90s
Place:
new york, usa, france, paris france, manhattan new york city ...
Similarity:
100%
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