Movies like Smokin' Aces
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Smokin' Aces (2006)
147K
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
When a Las Vegas performer-turned-snitch named Buddy Israel decides to turn state's evidence and testify against the mob, it seems that a whole lot of people would like to make sure he's no longer breathing.
Style:
twist ending, clever, bloody, exciting, humorous, stylized, dark, brutal, surprise ending, neo noir ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gunfight, gangsters, hitman, assassin, violent, twists and turns, sniper, multiple storylines, disguise, killer, violence, group of criminals, violence spree, heist, plot twist, dark humor, torture, organized crime, spy, magic, fbi, mafia, drugs, psychopath, death ...
Time:
50s, 20th century, 2000s, 1950s
Place:
israel, usa, nevada, los angeles, las vegas
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Most similar movies to Smokin' Aces
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, stylized, intense and suspenseful films with plots about gangsters, violence, hitman, murder, blood splatter, gun and gunfight mostly in Crime, Thriller and Action genres. Some movies like Smokin' Aces: Lucky Number Slevin (2006), Thursday (1998), Payback (1999), Goodfellas (1990), Running Scared (2006). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Walter Weed is an unassuming desk jockey at the FBI when the Bureau uncovers a plot to assassinate him. A team of degenerate, psychotic assassins dispatched by mystery man Hal Leuco to win a huge bounty includes a resourceful beauty who has a unique ...
Style:
exciting, humorous, semi serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gangsters, fbi, hitman, assassin, manhunt, rivalry, special agents, bounty hunter, criminal heroes, law enforcement, dark humor, violence ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
chicago illinois
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100%
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, twist ending, confusing ...
Audience:
boys' night, girls' night
Plot:
twists and turns, hitman, revenge, disorder, mistaken identity, suspense, organized crime, mafia, mysterious character, master criminal, deception, vengeance ...
Time:
year 1979, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa, new york, manhattan new york city
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83%
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Casey has given up drug dealing for a suburban idyll in Houston, a job as an architect and a new wife. They are even planning to adopt a child. But Casey's past arrives on the doorstep in the shape of Nick, an old business partner. And all hell ...
Style:
neo noir, sexy, witty, humorous, intense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
hitman, dark humor, drugs, gangsters, crime gone awry, drug dealer, female nudity, cons and scams, drug dealing, adoption, woman rapes man, police investigation ...
Time:
90s
Place:
texas, austin texas, usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
141K
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
With friends like these, who needs enemies? That's the question bad guy Porter is left asking after his wife and partner steal his heist money and leave him for dead -- or so they think. Five months and an endless reservoir of bitterness later, ...
Style:
neo noir, exciting, suspenseful, rough, bloody ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
vengeance, organized crime, revenge, betrayal, gangsters, money, mafia, heist, greed, robbery, prostitute, suspense ...
Time:
future, 20th century, 70s
Place:
usa, chicago illinois, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 145 min.
Story:
The true story of Henry Hill, a half-Irish, half-Sicilian Brooklyn kid who is adopted by neighbourhood gangsters at an early age and climbs the ranks of a Mafia family under the guidance of Jimmy Conway.
Style:
rough, realistic, epic, brutal, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
mafia, organized crime, gangsters, rise and fall, criminal heroes, mentor, drugs, suspense, friends, cosa nostra, drug traffic, gang ...
Time:
70s, 50s, year 1970, 80s, year 1963 ...
Place:
new york, brooklyn new york city, italy, florida, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
After a drug-op gone bad, Joey Gazelle is put in charge of disposing the gun that shot a dirty cop. But things goes wrong for Joey after the neighbor kid stole the gun and used it to shoot his abusive father. Now Joey has to find the kid and the gun ...
Style:
twist ending, bloody, brutal, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
child abuse, gunfight, mafia, twists and turns, police corruption, undercover agent, suspense, violent, racism, police investigation, gangsters, mob boss ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
With a God-inspired moral obligation to act against evil, twin brothers Conner and Murphy set out to rid Boston of criminals. However, rather than working within the system, these Irish Americans decide to take swift retribution into their own hands.
Style:
neo noir, entertaining, stylized, bloody, surprise ending ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
vigilantism, irish, revenge, violent, mafia, suspense, vengeance, fbi, gunfight, twists and turns, gangsters, philosophy ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
boston, massachusetts, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
254K
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Professional assassin Chev Chelios learns his rival has injected him with a poison that will kill him if his heart rate drops.
Style:
intense, exciting, humorous, entertaining, stylized ...
Audience:
manly, boys' night
Plot:
vengeance, revenge, dark humor, tough heroes, hitman, drugs, one man army, gunfight, lone hero, car chase, assassin, cell phone ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, usa, north america
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: UK
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:
humorous, witty, clever, cynical, entertaining ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
heist, dark humor, crime gone awry, disorder, organized crime, twists and turns, nothing goes right, violent, drugs, gambling, friends, rivalry ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
england, united kingdom, london, canada, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
119K
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: France, UK, USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
The Manzoni family, a notorious mafia clan, is relocated to Normandy, France under the witness protection program, where fitting in soon becomes challenging as their old habits die hard.
Style:
funny, stylized, cynical, humorous, sexy ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
mafia, gangsters, dark humor, parents and children, witness protection, violence, german shepherd, organized crime, runaway, family bonds, fish out of water, notoriety ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, paris france, brooklyn new york city, normandy
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Films like Heat
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, brutal, tense, intense ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
gangsters, robbery, gambling, mafia, organized crime, hitman, heist, murder, brutality, crime gone awry, gang, violence ...
Time:
2000s, year 2008, 70s, 21st century
Place:
new orleans, louisiana, usa, florida, orlando florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
On New Year's Eve, inside a police station that's about to be closed for good, officer Jake Roenick must cobble together a force made up cops and criminals to save themselves from a mob looking to kill mobster Marion Bishop.
Style:
exciting, rough, suspenseful, serious, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
police corruption, gunfight, suspense, siege, police station, survival, criminal's revenge, violence, police, master criminal, unlikely partners, undercover cop ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, detroit, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
571K
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Dave Lizewski is an unnoticed high school student and comic book fan who one day decides to become a super-hero, even though he has no powers, training or meaningful reason to do so.
Style:
stylized, funny, entertaining, brutal, semi serious ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, boys' night, date night
Plot:
superhero, heroes, young heroes, double life, lifestyle, youth, vigilante, friends, courage, misfit, killings, vigilantism ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
42K
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, tense, realistic, cynical, suspenseful ...
Audience:
manly, boys' night
Plot:
police corruption, drug addiction, drugs, police, investigation, murder, suspense, police investigation, police officer, addiction, twists and turns, dark humor ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
detroit, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
412K
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:
tense, clever, neo noir, intense, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
hitman, twists and turns, taxi, taxi driver, hostage, killings, assassin, merciless, victim, sociopath, murder witness, suspense ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, France
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
When his brother-in-law runs afoul of a drug lord, family man Chris Farraday turns to a skill he abandoned long ago – smuggling – to repay the debt. But the job goes wrong, and Farraday finds himself wanted by cops, crooks and killers alike.
Style:
realistic, exciting, clever, suspenseful, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
smuggling, gunfight, robbery, criminal heroes, drug lord, dishonesty, conspiracy, drugs, gangsters, caper, rivalry, mafia ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new orleans, boston, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
65K
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
In "Sabotage", Arnold Schwarzenegger leads an elite DEA task force that takes on the world's deadliest drug cartels. When the team successfully executes a high-stakes raid on a cartel safe house, they think their work is done - until, ...
Style:
exciting, stylized, intense, brutal, tense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
police investigation, drug cartel, vengeance, crime scene, suspense, revenge, death of friend, dishonesty, tough law enforcer, heist, violent, investigation ...
Time:
year 2014, 21st century
Place:
mexico, california, atlanta, georgia, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
When Vetter's wife is killed in a botched hit organized by Diablo, he seeks revenge against those responsible. But in the process, Vetter and Hicks have to fight their way up the chain to get to Diablo but it's easier said than done when ...
Style:
harsh, emotional, serious, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
vengeance, gang, gangsters, lone hero, justice, drug cartel, vigilantism, violence, corruption, brutality, suspense, gunfight ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
mexico, los angeles, usa, latin america, california ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Two criminal drifters without sympathy get more than they bargained for after kidnapping and holding for ransom the surrogate mother of a powerful and shady man.
Style:
intense, neo noir, cynical, rough, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gangsters, kidnapping, gunfight, twists and turns, crime gone awry, ransom, suspense, pregnancy, car chase, rags to riches, confined, disorder ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 2000s
Place:
mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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, suspenseful, humorous, sexy ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
betrayal, heist, robbery, twists and turns, cons and scams, casino, kidnapping, chase, disguise, court, crime gone awry, criminal heroes ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
las vegas, idaho, nevada, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A Cherry Pontiac Lemans Convertible...Two Days...Two-Hundred & Fifty Grand. When your lemon lot hits the skids you glom the gig no matter what the smell. For Bob and Sid, two slicked-back burnouts, bum luck runs in spades. With a goose-egg ...
Style:
neo noir, visually appealing, unusual plot structure, melancholic, intense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
car, gangsters, dark humor, dystopic future, crime gone awry, computer game, existentialism, life philosophy, brutality, clones, mentor, multiple storylines ...
Time:
90s
Place:
latin america, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Boomer (Wiper) is a rookie cop based in the urban hellhole that is downtown Chicago. After his involvement in a drug bust operation which results in the death of Carlos (Carmen Argenziano), his mentor and father figure, Boomer becomes disillusioned ...
Style:
suspenseful, tense, exciting, captivating, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gangsters, undercover, on the run, mistaken identity, hitman, manhunt, witnessing a crime, race against time, law enforcement, special agents, rivalry, memory loss ...
Time:
90s
Place:
chicago illinois, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
In a sleepy bedroom community of LA's San Fernando Valley, the murder of a professional athlete by two hit men sets into motion a chain of events that puts the mundane lives of a dozen residents on a collision course. This clever tale tells the ...
Style:
erotic, witty, twist ending, intense, semi serious ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
gangsters, murder, hostage, police investigation, hitman, home invasion, nude, art dealer, insurance fraud, suspense, multiple storylines, destiny ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
When a seemingly straight-forward drug deal goes awry, XXXX has to break his die-hard rules and turn up the heat, not only to outwit the old regime and come out on top, but to save his own skin...
Style:
neo noir, surprise ending, intense, clever, twist ending ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gangsters, twists and turns, betrayal, murder, drugs, heist, drug lord, drug addiction, violence, organized crime, mafia, criminal heroes ...
Time:
60s, 90s, 70s, 20th century
Place:
england, london, amsterdam, zurich switzerland, netherlands ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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:
exciting, rough, tense, stylized, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens, chick flick
Plot:
gangsters, mafia, mob boss, organized crime, police detective, partners against crime, law enforcement, corruption, revenge, police brutality, power struggle, partners ...
Time:
1940s, 1930s, 20th century, year 1949, 50s
Place:
los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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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, tense, suspenseful, disturbing, stylized ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
car chase, revenge, suspense, investigation, murder, vengeance, police investigation, law enforcement, chase, hitman, gangsters, organized crime ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
109K
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, girls' night, manly
Plot:
corruption, lone hero, twists and turns, justice, vengeance, hotshot, car, revenge, vigilantism, vigilante, brutality, ex convict ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, nevada
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Red is an aging scam-artist who's just been released from prison together with Ronnie, a young and not-so-bright hoodlum who is easily manipulated. Their new business is to organize fake-money sales and then kill the buyer to take his money; ...
Style:
exciting, neo noir, suspenseful, tense, intense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
undercover cop, murder, suspense, organized crime, prison, redemption, revenge, vengeance, investigation, undercover, working undercover, master criminal ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
california, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Just retired from the Drug Enforcement Agency, John Hatcher returns to his hometown and quickly discovers that drugs have infiltrated his old neighborhood. Determined to drive the dealers out, Hatcher crosses paths with a ferocious Jamaican drug ...
Style:
serious, exciting, suspenseful, realistic, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
martial arts, gangsters, vengeance, murder, drug lord, vigilante, suspense, brutality, police officer, aikido, violence, drug dealing ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, 90s
Place:
usa, chicago illinois, latin america, colombia, west indies ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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:
intense, tense, realistic, dark, depressing ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
corrupt cop, police corruption, corruption, police, guilt, organized crime, gangsters, suspense, betrayal, murder, dirty cop, police brutality ...
Time:
70s, 21st century
Place:
new york, brooklyn new york city, los angeles, new jersey, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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