Movies like Shade

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Shade (2003)
 6.3
 13K
Shade (2003)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Tiffany, Charlie and Vernon are con artists looking to up the ante from their typical scams. They figure a good way of doing this is taking down Dean "The Dean" Stevens, a well-known cardsharp, in a rigged game. However, they first need enough money to enter a game with Stevens, so they decide to strike a deal with fellow crook Larry Jennings to scam a local gangster -- which turns out to be a bad idea.
Style: surprise ending, clever, tense, intense, realistic, serious, suspenseful, exciting, cult classic, mind blowing ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gambling, betrayal, gangster, organized crime, dishonesty, caper, twists and turns, brutality, criminal heroes, rivalry, ambition, revenge, con men, heist, porn actress, murder, cheating, magic, killer, game, gambler, hustler, interracial, bag of money, bare chested male ...
Time: year 2003, contemporary
Place: usa, los angeles, california, las vegas
Keyword: gangsters, partners

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Most similar movies to Shade

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, suspenseful, serious and surprise ending films with plots about dishonesty, gangster, murder, heist, betrayal, criminal heroes and rivalry mostly in Crime, Thriller and Drama genres. Some movies like Shade: Ocean's Twelve (2004), Ocean's Eleven (2001), Poolhall Junkies (2002), Foolproof (2003), The Thomas Crown Affair (1999). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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 6.5
 412K
Ocean's Twelve (2004)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Danny Ocean reunites with his old flame and the rest of his merry band of thieves in carrying out three huge heists in Rome, Paris and Amsterdam – but a Europol agent is hot on their heels.
Style: entertaining, clever, stylized, exciting, intellectual ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick, date night, boys' night, teens
Plot: heist, robbery, con artists, perfect crime, thief, caper, master thief, planning, con men, art thief, money, criminal's revenge ...
Time: year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
Place: las vegas, rome italy, europe, iran, paris france ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.7
 614K
Ocean's Eleven (2001)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Less than 24 hours into his parole, charismatic thief Danny Ocean is already rolling out his next plan: In one night, Danny's hand-picked crew of specialists will attempt to steal more than $150 million from three Las Vegas casinos. But to ...
Style: clever, witty, exciting, entertaining, suspense ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick, date night, boys' night, teens
Plot: heist, caper, casino, thief, cons and scams, perfect crime, outsmarting, con artists, twists and turns, deception, scheme, organized crime ...
Time: year 2001, 2000s, 21st century
Place: las vegas, iran, atlantic city, usa, los angeles ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A card shark and his unwillingly-enlisted friends need to make a lot of cash quick after losing a sketchy poker match. To do this they decide to pull a heist on a small-time gang who happen to be operating out of the flat next door.
Style: dark comedy, humorous, clever, witty, cynical ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gangster, heist, dark humor, organized crime, twists and turns, crime gone awry, disorder, gang, nothing goes right, debt, violent, friends ...
Time: 20th century, year 1998, 90s
Place: england, united kingdom, london, britain, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Poolhall Junkies (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sport, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A retired pool hustler is forced to pick up the stick again when his brother starts a game he can't finish.
Style: clever, witty, entertaining, stylized, serious ...
Plot: gambling, billiards, con men, con artists, gangster, vengeance, underdog, friendship, life philosophy, money, betrayal, justice ...
Time: year 2002, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 6.4
 11K
Foolproof (2003)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Kevin, Sam and Rob have an unusual hobby: planning foolproof heists, without intending to actually perform them. The game goes wrong when their latest plan is stolen and carried out. Things get even worse when a mysterious man approaches them with ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, realistic, exciting, disturbing ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: heist, master criminal, blackmail, hacking, race against time, betrayal, partner, murder, cons and scams, buddies, dishonesty, unlikely criminals ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada, toronto ontario canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Thomas Crown Affair (1999)
Genre: Crime, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: A very rich and successful playboy amuses himself by stealing artwork, but may have met his match in a seductive detective.
Style: romantic, witty, sexy, suspense, detective ...
Audience: date night
Plot: heist, stolen painting, art theft, museum, psychiatrist, twists and turns, painting, thief, caper, art collector, art, famous painting ...
Time: 20th century, year 1999, 90s
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 4.6
 506
The Box (2007)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A disgraced former LAPD detective leads a home invasion in search of millions in stolen money. The plan goes awry and homicide detectives seeking answers interrogate the only survivors; a thief and a victim.
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, rough, surprise ending ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: murder, criminal heroes, police investigation, mind game, crime gone awry, vengeance, law enforcement, survival, dishonesty, master criminal, rivalry, confined ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 7.2
 24K
House of Games (1987)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A psychiatrist comes to the aid of a compulsive gambler and is led by a smooth-talking grifter into the shadowy but compelling world of stings, scams, and con men.
Style: neo noir, clever, suspenseful, surprise ending, tricky ...
Plot: gambling, twists and turns, psychiatrist, con artists, fraud, betrayal, caper, obsession, mentor, greed, crime gone awry, loneliness ...
Time: year 1987, 20th century, 80s
Place: seattle, usa, washington state
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Ocean's Thirteen (2007)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: Danny Ocean's team of criminals are back and composing a plan more personal than ever. When ruthless casino owner Willy Bank doublecrosses Reuben Tishkoff, causing a heart attack, Danny Ocean vows that he and his team will do anything to bring ...
Style: clever, entertaining, exciting, suspense, witty ...
Audience: girls' night, manly, date night, teens, boys' night
Plot: heist, casino, thief, revenge, robbery, perfect crime, caper, mentor, conspiracy, vengeance, con artists, greed ...
Time: year 2007, 2000s, 21st century
Place: las vegas, iran, usa, north america, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 5.6
 66K
Runner Runner (2013)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: When a poor college student who cracks an online poker game goes bust, he arranges a face-to-face with the man he thinks cheated him, a sly offshore entrepreneur.
Style: suspenseful, clever, suspense, tense, stylized ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: gambling, poker, cons and scams, manipulation, corruption, chase, conspiracy, casino, temptation, twists and turns, dirty cop, power relations ...
Time: year 2013, 2010s, 21st century
Place: costa rica, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
 5.2
 3K
Columbus Day (2008)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A thief tries to fix the damage done during the biggest heist of his career.
Style: exciting, serious, suspenseful, suspense, realistic
Audience: boys' night
Plot: chase, friendship, criminal heroes, heist, disorder, gangster, murder, black, police officer, friends, race against time, dishonesty ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles, california, florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
3000 Miles to Graceland (2001)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story: It was an ingenious enough plan: rob the Riviera Casino's count room during an Elvis impersonator convention. But Thomas Murphy decided to keep all the money for himself and shot all his partners, including recently-freed ex-con Michael Zane. ...
Style: exciting, semi serious, witty, action comedy, dark comedy ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: robbery, betrayal, heist, casino, cons and scams, criminal heroes, crime gone awry, chase, gang, dishonesty, twists and turns, gunfight ...
Time: year 2001, 21st century
Place: las vegas, idaho, seattle, nevada, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
 6.1
 86K
Snake Eyes (1998)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: All bets are off when corrupt homicide cop Rick Santoro witnesses a murder during a boxing match. It's up to him and lifelong friend and naval intelligence agent Kevin Dunne to uncover the conspiracy behind the killing. At every turn, Santoro ...
Style: suspenseful, tense, exciting, neo noir, intense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: boxing, assassination, conspiracy, investigation, dishonesty, twists and turns, mentor, brutality, political activism, law enforcement, assassin, conspiracy theory ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: usa, new jersey, atlantic city, atlantic city new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
The Wild Card (2004)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A young, beautiful wife cheating on her rich, older husband amidst the neon lights of Las Vegas. Four men hired to do a job, but there is a traitor in their midst. Adultery, betrayal, kidnapping and murder lead to the ultimate double cross and no ...
Style: serious, tense, suspenseful, rough, realistic
Audience: boys' night
Plot: hostage, gangster, tough heroes, dishonesty, law enforcement, betrayal, confined, danger, woman in danger, gambling, disorder, crumbling marriage ...
Time: 21st century
Place: las vegas, nevada
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 6.4
 11K
Criminal (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Needing a new partner capable of intricate cons, Richard Gaddis, recruits Rodrigo, a crook with a perfect poker face. The two plan a big-time scam: selling a fake Silver Certificate to currency collector William Hannigan. Rodrigo distrusts his new ...
Style: suspenseful, tricky, psychological, talky, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: con artists, twists and turns, forgery, manipulation, heist, plot twist, justice, con men, caper, crime gone awry, partner, dishonesty ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Killing Them Softly (2012)
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, suspenseful, intense, tense, bleak ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, adult
Plot: robbery, gambling, gangster, organized crime, hitman, brutality, assassin, mafia, violence, murder, crime gone awry, gang ...
Time: year 2012, 2010s, year 2008, 2000s, 21st century
Place: new orleans, louisiana, usa, orlando florida, florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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 ⇓
22%
 5.9
 8K
Empire (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A big time drug dealer Victor Rosa is looking to get out of the game and sees his chance with a big deal with a new friend who happens to be a Wall St. stockbroker. Thinking this will be his chance to go out on top Victor soon finds out that he has ...
Style: intense, stylized, melancholic, suspense, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: betrayal, organized crime, gangster, greed, twists and turns, drug dealing, wall street, ghetto, criminal heroes, going straight, cons and scams, mafia ...
Time: year 2002
Place: usa, new york, miami, bronx new york city, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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The Underneath (1995)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Michael Chambers has come home to Austin, Texas. To the mother who's starting a new life and the brother driven by old jealousies. To the places he remembers and the memories he can't forget. And to Rachel, the woman he married and then ...
Style: neo noir, erotic, stylized, suspenseful, twisted ...
Plot: heist, betrayal, gambling, casino, hospital, love triangle, trucker, killer, making love, club, sex scene, addiction ...
Time: 90s
Place: usa, texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Wrong Turn at Tahoe (2009)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A debt collector for the mob (Academy Award(R)-winner Cuba Gooding, Jr.) finds his fate taking a series of treacherous turns after his powerful boss and mentor (Miguel Ferrer) is caught in a dangerous double cross with the most dangerous drug dealer ...
Style: realistic, suspenseful, rough, serious, exciting
Audience: boys' night
Plot: revenge, drug dealing, gangster, gunfight, tough heroes, rivalry, criminal heroes, chases and races, violence spree, vengeance, gang, hitman ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, cuba
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Lucky Number Slevin (2006)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, UK, Canada
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Slevin is mistakenly put in the middle of a personal war between the city’s biggest criminal bosses. Under constant watch, Slevin must try not to get killed by an infamous assassin and come up with an idea of how to get out of his current dilemma. ...
Style: surprise ending, clever, neo noir, suspense, twisted ...
Audience: boys' night, girls' night
Plot: twists and turns, hitman, revenge, assassin, mistaken identity, organized crime, disorder, justice, mafia, vengeance, secrets, mysterious character ...
Time: year 2006, 2000s, year 1979, 21st century
Place: usa, new york, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
King of New York (1990)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A former drug lord returns from prison determined to wipe out all his competition and distribute the profits of his operations to New York's poor and lower classes in this stylish and ultra violent modern twist on Robin Hood.
Style: neo noir, atmospheric, hood, intense, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gang, organized crime, drug lord, mob boss, gangster, murder, chase, violence, african american gangster, cocaine, drug, urban ...
Time: year 1990, 20th century, 80s, 90s
Place: new york, italy, usa, bronx new york city, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Black Moon Rising (1986)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: An FBI free-lancer stashes a stolen Las Vegas-crime tape in a high-tech car stolen by someone else.
Style: exciting, serious, rough, suspenseful, cult classic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: car chase, chase, fbi, revenge, law enforcement, vengeance, brutality, twists and turns, murder, on the run, crime gone awry, rivalry ...
Time: 80s
Place: las vegas, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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 5.5
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Men of Respect (1990)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: In this modern day version of Shakespeare's Macbeth, a hitman heeds a spiritualist's prophesies that he will rise to the head of his family. He starts his ascension by clandestinely executing the heads of the family and casting the blame ...
Style: realistic, serious, exciting, suspense, independent film ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: mafia, hitman, shakespeare, mob boss, dishonesty, ambition, rivalry, murder, tough heroes, gangster, macbeth, fortune teller ...
Time: 80s
Place: usa, new york, bronx new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
City of Industry (1997)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A retired thief swears revenge on the lunatic who murdered his brother and partner, while going on the run with the loot they stole.
Style: neo noir, suspenseful, perverse, hood, independent film ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: heist, betrayal, gangster, gang, robbery, murder, violence, money, kidnapping, brother, ghetto, criminal ...
Time: year 1997, 90s, 20th century
Place: los angeles, california, usa, florida, palm springs california
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 8.3
 1.1M
Reservoir Dogs (1992)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A botched robbery indicates a police informant, and the pressure mounts in the aftermath at a warehouse. Crime begets violence as the survivors -- veteran Mr. White, newcomer Mr. Orange, psychopathic parolee Mr. Blonde, bickering weasel Mr. Pink and ...
Style: dark comedy, suspense, non-linear, stylized, neo noir ...
Audience: boys' night, manly
Plot: heist, crime gone awry, robbery, gangster, gang, undercover cop, psychopath, dark hero, perfect crime, organized crime, violent, caper ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1992
Place: los angeles, usa, california, bolivia
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 6.8
 2K
Running Time (1997)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min.
Story: Running Time was filmed in black and white, in real time, and seemingly takes place in one continuous, fluid shot. It's a little like Hitchcock's "Rope," but it's on location! Carl, an ex-con who sets out to rob the prison ...
Style: black and white, neo noir, hood, cult classic, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: heist, safecracker, gang, cop, gangster, ghetto, politics, partner, disorder, cons and scams, prison, master criminal ...
Time: year 1997, 90s
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 6.2
 129K
Parker (2013)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: A thief with a unique code of professional ethics is double-crossed by his crew and left for dead. Assuming a new disguise and forming an unlikely alliance with a woman on the inside, he looks to hijack the score of the crew's latest heist.
Style: serious, exciting, rough, realistic, neo noir ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: heist, robbery, thief, tough heroes, fight scenes, betrayal, mafia, revenge, assassin, romancing a criminal, car chase, happy ending ...
Time: year 2013, 2010s, 21st century
Place: florida, miami, usa, ohio, new orleans ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 5.6
 60K
Wild Card (2015)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: When a Las Vegas bodyguard with lethal skills and a gambling problem gets in trouble with the mob, he has one last play… and it's all or nothing.
Style: suspenseful, brutal, stylized, intense, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gangster, greed, revenge, brutality, tough heroes, betrayal, martial arts, redemption, gambling, dishonesty, mafia, criminal ...
Time: 21st century
Place: las vegas, usa, nevada
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 6.9
 29K
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 ⇓
20%
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