Movies and TV shows like The Sopranos

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The Sopranos (1999)
 9.2
 565K
The Sopranos (1999)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 55 min.
TV show
Story: The Sopranos is an American television drama created by David Chase. The series revolves around the New Jersey-based Italian-American mobster Tony Soprano and the difficulties he faces as he tries to balance the conflicting requirements of his home life and the criminal organization he heads. Those difficulties are often highlighted through his ongoing professional relationship with psychiatrist Jennifer Melfi. The show features Tony's family members and Mafia associates in prominent roles and story arcs, most notably his wife Carmela and his cousin and protégé Christopher Moltisanti.
Style: serious, dramatic, clever, cynical, captivating, sensual, psychological, rough, erotic, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: organized crime, mafia, gangster, dark humor, family life, criminal heroes, mob boss, parents and children, criminal, dysfunctional family, family relations, introspection, cosa nostra, crime boss, psychiatrist, ambition, italian mafia, profanity, crime family, mobster, mob hit, mob violence, american mafia, racial slur, violence ...
Time: 90s, 2000s, year 1999, 20th century, 21st century, 1990s, contemporary
Place: new jersey, new york, usa, north america, russian

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Most similar movies to The Sopranos

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, dramatic and tense films and TV series with plots about organized crime, gangster, mafia, crime family, criminal, murder and mobster mostly in Crime, Drama and Biography genres. Some movies like The Sopranos: Boardwalk Empire (2010), Goodfellas (1990), The Godfather (1972), Casino (1995), The Godfather Part II (1974). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Boardwalk Empire (2010)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Boardwalk Empire is a period drama focusing on Enoch "Nucky" Thompson (based on the historical Enoch L. Johnson), a political figure who rose to prominence and controlled Atlantic City, New Jersey, during the Prohibition period of the ...
Style: costume drama, serious, period piece, erotic, captivating ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: mafia, smuggling, mob boss, businessman, prohibition, criminal heroes, organized crime, gangster, federal agent, female nudity, corruption, crime boss ...
Time: 1920s, 20th century, 2000s, 2010s, year 2010 ...
Place: new jersey, atlantic city new jersey, cuba, atlantic city, chicago ...
Similarity:
95%
 8.7
 1.4M
Goodfellas (1990)
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, homoerotic, realistic, epic, inspirational ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: organized crime, mafia, gangster, rise and fall, violence, mentor, mobster, drug traffic, cosa nostra, italian mafia, murder, psychopath ...
Time: 50s, 70s, 90s, year 1990, year 1980 ...
Place: brooklyn new york city, new york, florida, italy, usa ...
Similarity:
91%
 9.2
 2.2M
The Godfather (1972)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 175 min.
Story: Spanning the years 1945 to 1955, a chronicle of the fictional Italian-American Corleone crime family. When organized crime family patriarch, Vito Corleone barely survives an attempt on his life, his youngest son, Michael steps in to take care of the ...
Style: serious, captivating, atmospheric, epic, dramatic ...
Audience: boys' night, manly, chick flick, adult
Plot: mafia, organized crime, gangster, revenge, crime family, betrayal, mob boss, wedding, greed, pride and honor, cosa nostra, violence ...
Time: 1950s, 1940s, 20th century, 50s, year 1972 ...
Place: italy, new york, bronx new york city, manhattan new york city, sicily ...
Similarity:
89%
 8.2
 613K
Casino (1995)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA, France
Duration: 178 min.
Story: The life of the gambling paradise – Las Vegas – and its dark mafia underbelly.
Style: realistic, clever, rough, neo noir, stylized ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: organized crime, mafia, casino, rise and fall, gangster, betrayal, money, gambling, greed, criminal heroes, mobster, cosa nostra ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, 90s, 80s, year 1973 ...
Place: las vegas, chicago, missouri, israel, usa ...
Similarity:
91%
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The Godfather Part II (1974)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 202 min.
Story: In the continuing saga of the Corleone crime family, a young Vito Corleone grows up in Sicily and in 1910s New York. In the 1950s, Michael Corleone attempts to expand the family business into Las Vegas, Hollywood and Cuba.
Style: epic, captivating, neo noir, saga, retro ...
Audience: boys' night, manly, adult
Plot: mafia, organized crime, revenge, murder, gangster, cosa nostra, sicilian mafia, literary, immigration, crime boss, assassination, melancholy ...
Time: 1950s, 50s, 1940s, 20th century, 1920s ...
Place: cuba, sicily, new york, las vegas, italy ...
Similarity:
92%
The Many Saints of Newark (2021)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Young Anthony Soprano is growing up in one of the most tumultuous eras in Newark, N.J., history, becoming a man just as rival gangsters start to rise up and challenge the all-powerful DiMeo crime family. Caught up in the changing times is the uncle ...
Style: captivating, tense, disturbing, suspense, dramatic ...
Plot: mafia, criminal, gang, gangster, gang war, mobster, bandit, organized crime, criminal underworld, crime boss, mafioso, fight for supremacy ...
Time: 60s, year 1967, 70s, year 1972, year 1971
Place: new york, new jersey, usa
Similarity:
100%
 7.9
 34K
Lilyhammer (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Norway, USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: Frank Tagliano (Steven Van Zandt), is a former member of the New York mob. After testifying in a trial in the United States, Tagliano is relocated to Lillehammer in Norway through the FBI's witness protection program. Frank Tagliano was ...
Style: witty, talky, stylized, humorous, dark comedy ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: mafia, culture clash, dark humor, small town life, lifestyle change, blackmail, starting over, middle aged, business venture, fish out of water, gangster, shooting ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: europe
Similarity:
86%
Kill the Irishman (2011)
Genre: Action, Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Over the summer of 1976, thirty-six bombs detonate in the heart of Cleveland while a turf war raged between Irish mobster Danny Greene and the Italian mafia. Based on a true story, kill the Irishman chronicles Greene's heroic rise from a tough ...
Style: brutal, suspense, talky, intense, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: mafia, organized crime, gangster, mob boss, irish mob, gang war, corruption, hitman, gang, criminal, brutality, tough heroes ...
Time: 70s, year 2011, 60s, 20th century, year 1960 ...
Place: usa, ireland, ohio, new york, brooklyn new york city ...
Similarity:
100%
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The Godfather: A Novel for Television (1977)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
TV show
Story: A seven-hours-plus adaptation of Francis Ford Coppola's "The Godfather" and "The Godfather, Part II" - with new scenes added and some old ones lengthened. Originally broadcast on the NBC television network in November of ...
Style: epic, serious, captivating, rough, bleak ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: mafia, crime boss, gang war, mobster, parent child relationship, police corruption, lawyer, corrupt politician, melancholy, suburbs, criminal, murder ...
Time: 1940s, 1930s, 1920s, 1950s, 20th century ...
Place: italy, cuba, europe, new york
Similarity:
100%
 8.3
 99K
Ray Donovan (2013)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Set in the sprawling mecca of the rich and famous, Ray Donovan does the dirty work for LA's top power players, and makes their problems disappear. His father's unexpected release from prison sets off a chain of events that shakes the ...
Style: serious, tense, captivating, clever, stylized ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: identity crisis, hollywood, violence, family feud, nudity, power relations, cover up, blackmail, trauma, brother sister incest, relatives, family problems ...
Time: future, 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles, california, chicago, south america ...
Similarity:
74%
 9.5
 2.5M
Breaking Bad (2008)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 48 min.
TV show
Story: When Walter White, a New Mexico chemistry teacher, is diagnosed with Stage III cancer and given a prognosis of only two years left to live, he becomes filled with a sense of fearlessness and an unrelenting desire to secure his family's ...
Style: serious, captivating, tense, psychological, rough ...
Audience: teens
Plot: cancer, criminal, peril, drug lord, master criminal, drug dealing, drug, unlikely partners, drug cartel, life turned upside down, meth lab, family problems ...
Time: y2k, year 2008, 2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: new mexico, albuquerque new mexico, south america, usa, north america
Similarity:
86%
 7.7
 9K
Brotherhood (2006)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: A working-class Irish family rules a city built on loyalty and corruption. The Caffee brothers, Tommy, a rising politician desperate for reelection, and Michael, a hardened criminal returning from seven years on the run and eager to reclaim his ...
Style: realistic, atmospheric, suspenseful, serious, erotic ...
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Place: usa, ireland, rhode island
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100%
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: Canada, USA, UK
Duration: 112 min.
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Style: suspenseful, serious, rough, realistic, disgusting ...
Audience: boys' night
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Time: 70s, 80s, 20th century, year 1984, year 2002 ...
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Similarity:
100%
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The Wire (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Told from the points of view of both the Baltimore homicide and narcotics detectives and their targets, the series captures a universe in which the national war on drugs has become a permanent, self-sustaining bureaucracy, and distinctions between ...
Style: clever, tense, detective, cynical, dramatic ...
Plot: corruption, organized crime, police detective, working undercover, urban ghetto life, gang, drug dealing, police, fighting crime, police investigation, urban decay, shooting ...
Time: 2000s, future, year 2002, 20th century, 1950s ...
Place: baltimore, maryland, usa
Similarity:
79%
 7.7
 354K
Donnie Brasco (1997)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story: An FBI undercover agent infilitrates the mob and finds himself identifying more with the mafia life at the expense of his regular one.
Style: neo noir, clever, suspense, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: mafia, undercover, organized crime, mobster, mentor, fbi, working undercover, italian mafia, fbi agent, undercover agent, law enforcement, friends ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, year 1997, 90s, year 1978
Place: new york, new jersey, miami, florida, usa ...
Similarity:
82%
 8.1
 58K
Power (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: James “Ghost” St. Patrick has it all: a beautiful wife, a gorgeous Manhattan penthouse, and the hottest, up-and-coming new nightclub in New York. His club, Truth, caters to the elite: the famous and infamous boldface names that run the city that ...
Style: serious, realistic, tense, captivating, erotic ...
Plot: nightclub, drug dealing, nightlife, nightclub owner, drug lord, ambition, organized crime, money laundering, double life, politics, businessman, criminal ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: new york, usa
Similarity:
82%
 7.5
 286K
Blow (2001)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: A boy named George Jung grows up in a struggling family in the 1950's. His mother nags at her husband as he is trying to make a living for the family. It is finally revealed that George's father cannot make a living and the family goes ...
Style: touching, depressing, emotional, dramatic, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: drug addiction, drug lord, drug dealing, drug abuse, drug, drug traffic, drug cartel, rise and fall, drug use, friendship, addiction, gangster ...
Time: year 2001, 70s, 80s, 20th century, near future ...
Place: latin america, california, south america, usa, colombia ...
Similarity:
100%
 7.9
 246K
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: 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:
88%
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 7.9
 115K
Tulsa King (2022)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 40 min.
TV show
Story: Just after he is released from prison after 25 years, New York mafia capo Dwight “The General” Manfredi is unceremoniously exiled by his boss to set up shop in Tulsa, Okla. Realizing that his mob family may not have his best interests in mind, ...
Style: harsh, dramatic, crime drama, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot: mafia, organized crime, mobster, crime family, fish out of water, criminal, team, boss, prison, city, empire, gangster ...
Place: midwest, oklahoma city, oklahoma
Similarity:
100%
The Black Donnellys (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Meet the Donnelly brothers: Tommy, Jimmy, Kevin and Sean. There is nothing these four Irish brothers wouldn't do to protect each other, and for them that means lying, cheating, stealing and, occasionally, calling the cops. Narrated by wannabe ...
Style: captivating, realistic, suspenseful, serious, erotic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: mafia, organized crime, making love, murder, mob boss, vengeance, blind ambition, family business, criminal heroes, rivalry, gang, dishonesty ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, ireland, usa
Similarity:
100%
 8.0
 6K
Underbelly (2008)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, History, Mystery
Country: Australia
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Underbelly is an Australian television true crime-drama series which broadcasts on the Nine Network. Each series is based on real-life events.
Style: captivating, serious, realistic, rough, erotic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gang war, organized crime, mafia, power struggle, mob boss, violence spree, gang, gangster, family relations, disorder, trial, lawyer ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, 70s, 1910s, 80s ...
Place: australia, oceania
Similarity:
100%
 8.1
 19K
Boss (2011)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Boss is an American political drama television serial created by Farhad Safinia. The series stars Kelsey Grammer as Tom Kane, the mayor of Chicago, who has recently been diagnosed with dementia with Lewy bodies, a degenerative neurological disorder.
Style: political, clever, cynical, erotic, realistic ...
Audience: adult
Plot: politics, mayor, boss, political intrigue, career, mental illness, dishonesty, power struggle, ambitious, corruption, ambition, boss and employee ...
Time: 21st century
Place: chicago, illinois, usa
Similarity:
100%
 8.7
 754K
Peaky Blinders (2013)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: A gangster family epic set in 1919 Birmingham, England and centered on a gang who sew razor blades in the peaks of their caps, and their fierce boss Tommy Shelby, who means to move up in the world.
Style: serious, atmospheric, tense, captivating, stylized ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: organized crime, gang, mafia, gang war, gangster, determination, cruelty, crime boss, power struggle, mob boss, rivalry, shooting ...
Time: 1920s, 20th century, ancient times, 1910s, victorian era
Place: england, britain, ireland, birmingham alabama, europe ...
Similarity:
68%
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 8.3
 1.0M
Scarface (1983)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 170 min.
Story: After getting a green card in exchange for assassinating a Cuban government official, Tony Montana stakes a claim on the drug trade in Miami. Viciously murdering anyone who stands in his way, Tony eventually becomes the biggest drug lord in the ...
Style: exciting, serious, cult classic, breathtaking, rough ...
Audience: date night, boys' night, manly, adult
Plot: gangster, mafia, organized crime, drug lord, gunfight, mob boss, drug cartel, drug dealing, cocaine, drug abuse, violence, badass ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1983, year 1980
Place: miami, miami beach, bolivia, cuba, florida ...
Similarity:
65%
 7.6
 14K
Magic City (2012)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Set in 1959 Miami, Florida shortly after the Cuban Revolution, Magic City tells the story of Ike Evans, the owner of Miami's most glamorous hotel, the Miramar Playa. Evans is forced to make an ill-fated deal with Miami mob boss Ben Diamond to ...
Style: sexy, erotic, atmospheric, tense, stylized ...
Plot: hotshot, organized crime, businessman, mafia, intrigue, hotel, gangster, mob boss, cheating wife, lifestyle, power struggle, cover up ...
Time: 20th century, 60s, 50s, year 1959, 1950s
Place: miami, usa, miami beach
Similarity:
100%
Better Call Saul (2015)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: Six years before Saul Goodman meets Walter White. We meet him when the man who will become Saul Goodman is known as Jimmy McGill, a small-time lawyer searching for his destiny, and, more immediately, hustling to make ends meet. Working alongside, ...
Style: witty, stylized, captivating, realistic, tense ...
Plot: lawyer, workplace situations, family relations, hotshot lawyer, legal, criminal lawyer, dark humor, dishonesty, moral dilemma, money, organized crime, lawyer client relationship ...
Time: 2010s, 2000s, year 2002, 21st century
Place: new mexico, usa, albuquerque new mexico, syria, north america
Similarity:
72%
Outrageous Fortune (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: Outrageous Fortune is a New Zealand comedy-drama television series, which ran from 12 July 2005 to 9 November 2010 on TV3. The series followed the lives of the career criminal West family after the matriarch, Cheryl, decided the family should go ...
Style: sexy, realistic, semi serious, humorous, witty ...
Plot: lawyer, dysfunctional family, criminal, family life, going straight, convict, criminal heroes, right and wrong, doubts and hesitations, manipulation, porn, house arrest ...
Time: 80s, 21st century
Place: new zealand, oceania
Similarity:
100%
 6.6
 10K
The Funeral (1996)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: The story concerns the funeral of one of three brothers in a family of gangsters that lived in New York in 1930s. Details of the past of the brothers and their families are shown through a series of flashbacks.
Style: surprise ending, neo noir, independent film, hood, philosophical ...
Plot: murder, mafia, corpse, gangster, revenge, tragedy, grief, death of brother, suicide, brother brother relationship, organized crime, great depression ...
Time: year 1996, 20th century, 1930s
Place: new york, usa, london
Similarity:
100%
 8.5
 352K
Sons of Anarchy (2008)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: An adrenalized drama with darkly comedic undertones that explores a notorious outlaw motorcycle club’s (MC) desire to protect its livelihood while ensuring that their simple, sheltered town of Charming, California remains exactly that, charming. ...
Style: serious, exciting, sexy, tense, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: biker, motorcycle gang, motorcycle, prison, organized crime, gang, group of criminals, power struggle, friends, young man, arms dealing, police corruption ...
Time: 2010s, y2k, 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, california, northern california
Similarity:
73%
 8.2
 54K
Animal Kingdom (2016)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: The series centers on 17-year-old Joshua "J" Cody, who moves in with his freewheeling relatives in their Southern California beach town after his mother dies of a heroin overdose. Headed by boot-tough matriarch Janine "Smurf" ...
Style: tense, captivating, exciting, sexy, erotic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: crime family, criminal, danger, escapades, heist, family conflict, gay brother, twists and turns, dysfunctional family, brother brother relationship, friendship, closeted homosexual ...
Time: 2010s, 2020s, 21st century
Place: usa, california, southern california, new zealand
Similarity:
63%