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Fate (2008)
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Original name: 숙명
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
Four friends bound by destiny and unbeatable in the dark world. When a casino attack goes wrong as a result of betrayal, fate turns them into enemies. Now, forced to aim the gun at each other's hearts, their unavoidable battle begins.
Style:
tense, serious, realistic, captivating, suspense, exciting, rough, suspenseful
Plot:
destiny, vengeance, betrayal, heist, rivalry, casino, dishonesty, gang, haunted by the past, gangster, caper, friends, battles, crime gone awry, wooing, criminal heroes, revenge, violence, friend, one last job, released from prison, crime, crimes, release from prison
Time:
21st century, contemporary
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, serious, realistic and rough films with plots about rivalry, gangster, dishonesty, criminal heroes, heist, vengeance and betrayal mostly in Crime, Action and Drama genres. Some movies like Fate: The Divine Move (2014), Cash (2007), The Rise (2012), Ten Dead Men (2008), Stealing Summers (2011). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Professional baduk (go) player Tae-seok loses a high-stakes game to infamous underground gambler Sal-soo, and ends up framed for the murder of his own brother and locked up in prison. He vows revenge and trains ferociously. After serving his ...
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Audience:
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Plot:
gangster, vengeance, murder, rivalry, dishonesty, gambling, prison, casino, violence, asian, monster, revenge ...
Time:
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Place:
asia, korea
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95%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
'Cash' is a high octane heist thriller set in Cape Town, South Africa.The film revolves around an ace con artist,(Ajay Devgan) who hires a set of top notch robbers (Esha Deol, Zayed Khan, Dia Mirza and Riteish Deshmukh) to steal a set of ...
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Plot:
rivalry, cons and scams, betrayal, dishonesty, caper, escapades, gang, deception, danger, battles, disorder, crime gone awry ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
india, africa, south africa, asia
Similarity:
87%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A young man recently released from prison recruits his three best friends to rob the local drug kingpin who is responsible for his incarceration.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, serious, realistic, bleak
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
revenge, renewed love, crime gone awry, criminal heroes, law enforcement, betrayal, dishonesty, friends, one more chance, frame up, cons and scams, twists and turns ...
Time:
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Place:
northern england, yorkshire, england
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83%
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
You can’t outrun your past. That is the extremely painful lesson that Ryan (Brendan Carr)is learning right now, as spectres of his past life of crime have returned to haunt him, destroying the only person he holds dear, and nearly killing him in ...
Style:
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Plot:
martial arts, vengeance, gangster, danger, betrayal, rivalry, murder, haunted by the past, starting over, chase, gory, heroes ...
Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Argentina, USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
Three American expats living in Buenos Aires decide to steal a large sum of money so they don't have to return home. But what starts as a game soon turns violent and they find themselves on the verge of consequences none of them expected.
Style:
tense, realistic, suspense, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
betrayal, dishonesty, heist, caper, money, love, rivalry, danger, friendship, freedom, violence, murder ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
argentina, buenos aires argentina, latin america
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80%
Genre: Action, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
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Style:
tense, exciting, suspense, captivating, disgusting ...
Plot:
gang, gangster, rivalry, drug dealing, vengeance, prison, drug lord, released from prison, comeback, murder, law enforcement, tough heroes ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, san francisco
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76%
112
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A female rookie armored truck guard is caught between her co-workers' plot to rob their own truck and greedy gangsters desperate to grab the cash.
Style:
exciting, suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense ...
Plot:
heist, gangster, betrayal, mafia, money, woman in danger, bandit, vengeance, chase, revenge, female protagonist, rivalry ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada
Similarity:
76%
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: India, Russia
Duration: 163 min.
Story:
Learning of a fortune in gold being secretly shipped to Romania, master thieves Charlie and Riya assemble a crack team to steal it.
Style:
sexy, exciting, serious, tense, captivating ...
Plot:
vengeance, gang, betrayal, partner, cons and scams, rivalry, safecracker, caper, heist, chases and races, master criminal, dishonesty ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
india, asia
Similarity:
76%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
A recently released prisoner reunites his criminal colleagues to pull off one last heist.
Style:
serious, exciting, humorous, rough, realistic ...
Plot:
heist gone wrong, gang, betrayal, retiring, crime gone awry, dishonesty, criminal heroes, friends, robbery, career criminal, one last job, released from prison ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada, montreal, quebec
Similarity:
75%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 155 min.
Story:
Gu, a famous gangster, has just escaped from jail. All french police is after him. Before leaving the country with Manouche, the woman he loves, Gu needs a final job to get some money. The job works, but a police's scheming makes Gu appear as a ...
Style:
sexy, realistic, rough, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot:
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Time:
21st century
Place:
france, paris france, marseille
Similarity:
74%
352
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
When Danny and his gang attempt to rob the warehouse of a mob boss, they find themselves on the run. Danny goes back to his hometown to find his mother has recently died leaving him the farm on the condition that he must open the dairy and run it ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Similarity:
74%
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Set in Hong Kong and Vancouver, the story follows Mac Ramsey and Li Ann Tsei, lovers and professional thieves who are separated while fleeing the powerful Hong Kong underworld crime lord who raised and trained them. After being imprisoned in Hong ...
Style:
suspense, exciting, stylized, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
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Time:
90s
Place:
canada, asia, hong kong
Similarity:
73%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
Hoping to raise enough capital to finance a legitimate business and leave behind his life of crime, Liverpool underworld boss Ged Brennan sends his brother Ratter and a crew to pull a daring final heist. But when Ratter kills a drug kingpin during ...
Style:
realistic, rough, serious, suspenseful, crime drama
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
73%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
A Korean remake of the John Woo Classic. One brother is a criminal. One brother is a cop. Both will fight to the death.
Style:
exciting, realistic, suspenseful, serious, neo noir ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gangster, heroic bloodshed, crime boss, organized crime, arms dealer, criminal underworld, betrayal, family problems, family relations, siblings relations, vengeance, dishonesty ...
Time:
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Place:
korea, south korea, asia, north korea, thailand
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71%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Sang-woo receives painful surgery when he is ten, and murders another kid from trauma. After he receives hypnosis treatment, he disappears with his family. After 25 years, a successful doctor meets his old friend one day, and everything changes.
Style:
suspense, tense, psychological, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
south korea, asia, korea
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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260
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
forgery, burglary, prodigy, dishonesty, missing person, disorder, gangster, chase, heist, art collector, amateur detective, rivalry ...
Time:
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Similarity:
68%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
In the mean streets of London's East End, a former Serbian commando and a fourteen-year old boy plot revenge against a powerful crime lord and his ruthless lieutenants. As our heroes prepare to take on their enemies, the boy is mentored in the ...
Style:
exciting, serious, captivating, tense, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
hitman, vengeance, assassin, coming of age, haunted by the past, teaching the ways of the world, gangster, master criminal, urban, black, mafia, revenge plot ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
london, england
Similarity:
65%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A man becomes a cop in order to take down the police superintendent who may have killed his father, and that of a vengeful Triad boss.
Style:
exciting, suspense, captivating, tense, crime drama ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
spy, gangster, danger, rivalry, dishonesty, police corruption, snitch, undercover, law enforcement, police, police shootout, revenge ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
hong kong, asia
Similarity:
65%
293
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
When a group of friends decide to pull a bank heist to get out from underneath their money troubles. They quickly discover that things can unravel in a hurry! A compromised LAPD Detective (Corey Haim) on the take with a crime syndicate figure want ...
Style:
tense, serious, suspenseful, captivating, exciting ...
Plot:
crime gone awry, disorder, urban ghetto, law enforcement, police corruption, gangster, friendship, danger, rivalry, criminal heroes, dishonesty, heist ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
65%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Japan, South Korea
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Former Yakuza underling Kiryu Kazuma, who has recently been released from prison after a lengthy incarceration, and is trying to piece his life together and distance himself from his Yakuza past. Unfortunately Kiryu's problems slowly escalate ...
Style:
exciting, suspense, tense, captivating, crime drama ...
Plot:
yakuza, gang, gangster, danger, vengeance, hitman, bank, rivalry, japanese mafia, triad, heroic bloodshed, video game ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan, tokyo, asia
Similarity:
65%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Mexico, Spain, Argentina
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
La historia comienza con un robo que se realiza en la Ciudad de México. La banda formada por Carlos, Leonardo, Mónica y Leserio habían pactado viajar a Argentina para lavar el dinero. Al llegar a Buenos Aires se encuentran en una guerra de mafias ...
Style:
serious, realistic, exciting, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot:
bank robbery, crime gone awry, dishonesty, disorder, criminal heroes, violence, violent content, caper, mobster, shootout, gangster, ambush ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
argentina, latin america, buenos aires argentina, mexico
Similarity:
64%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
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Style:
exciting, serious, suspenseful, rough, realistic
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Germany
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
21st century
Similarity:
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
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Style:
captivating, tense, exciting, suspense, suspenseful ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
england
Similarity:
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
After a violent bank robbery, the trio of hoods make their way across East L.A. carrying a blood-soaked bag of money. When word gets out, they must fend off gangs and crooked cops alike as they strive to keep the loot and stay alive.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, rough, exciting, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
profanity, gang, chase, murder, dishonesty, heist, gangster, disorder, crime gone awry, on the run, criminal heroes, law enforcement ...
Time:
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Place:
california, south america, usa, los angeles
Similarity:
63%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
The past catches up with a ruthlessly ambitious boxing promoter.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, realistic, neo noir, serious ...
Plot:
boxing, gang, athlete's life, vengeance, dishonesty, rivalry, down on your luck, gangster, boxer, promoter, male pubic hair, male nudity ...
Time:
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Place:
london, europe, england
Similarity:
63%
186
Genre: Action, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Ex-FBI agent Cooper O'Neil thinks the dangerous times in his life are in the past; that is, until his former partner shows up dead at his marina home. O'Neil's old partner had a coveted thumb drive in his possession when he died, and ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, rough, tense, independent film ...
Plot:
rescue, special agent, danger, intrigue, law enforcement, chases and races, dishonesty, vengeance, mafia, kidnapping, revenge, violent content ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
63%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: South Africa
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
When Chili Ncgobo, an honest but ambitious undercover cop, is cheated out of a major reward by his corrupt superiors, he infiltrates a cash-in-transit heist gang, and instead of busting them, he decides to participate in a one off score. He must ...
Style:
exciting, realistic, serious, suspenseful, rough
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
africa
Similarity:
63%
Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Colombia, Mexico, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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63%
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