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Truth or Consequences, N.M. (1997)
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Truth or Consequences, N.M. (1997)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Raymond Lembecke (Vincent Gallo) is a con just out of prison after serving time for selling drugs for his mob boss Tony Vago (Rod Steiger). (Lembecke was innocent and took the rap for Vago.) Lembecke thinks Vago owes him big time so, when his former boss gets him a measly job in a warehouse, he decides on revenge and plans to steal a million dollars worth of drugs from him.
Style: talky, intense, serious, suspenseful, exciting, rough, road movie, neo noir, psychological, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: robbery, gangster, on the road, crime gone awry, hitman, on the run, prison, hostage, organized crime, police corruption, chase, ex convict, partner, police investigation, unlikely criminals, law enforcement, dishonesty, criminal heroes, gang, criminal, violence, drug, maniac, racism, home invasion ...
Time: year 1997, 90s
Place: new mexico, las vegas, usa, mexico
Keyword: gangsters, partners, operation

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Love and a .45 (1994)
Genre: Crime, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Small-time criminal Watty Watts attempts to rob a convenience store with his drug-addict buddy, Billy Mack Black. The robbery, however, leads to murder, and soon Watty leaves Billy behind and goes on the run with his beloved girlfriend, Starlene. ...
Style: road movie, fast, exciting, serious, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: lovers on the run, chase, on the run, crime gone awry, fugitives, violence, caper, outlaw, killer, musician, love, white trash ...
Time: year 1994, 90s
Place: texas, mexico, austin texas, seattle, usa ...
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Top of the World (1997)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: In Las Vegas for a quicky divorce, a just-paroled ex-cop and his wife wander into the Top of the World Casino, run by the shady Charles Atlas. They win big, right as the casino is being robbed. The police believe their big win was a staged ...
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, tense, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gambling, casino, false accusation, criminal heroes, police investigation, crime gone awry, tough law enforcer, law enforcement, chases and races, dishonesty, partner, die hard ...
Time: 90s
Place: las vegas, nevada, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
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The Five (1995)
Genre: Action, Drama, Crime
Country: Japan
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Five men plot to steal a large sum of money from the local yakuza, but everything does not go as planned and the men find themselves hunted down by contract killers
Style: neo noir, serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: hitman, yakuza, organized crime, triad, big city, violence, gangster, murder, gang, robbery, debt, partner ...
Time: 90s
Place: japan, asia
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The Piano Player (2002)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller, Crime
Country: UK, Germany, Spain
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A tale about the relationship between a businessman who launders money for a Mafia figure and his gangster bodyguard.
Style: serious, suspenseful, rough, realistic, bleak ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: piano, master criminal, danger, criminal heroes, confined, mission of murder, chase, undercover, manhunt, law enforcement, hidden identity, frame up ...
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Boiling Point (1993)
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: suspense, exciting, neo noir, suspenseful, tense ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: undercover cop, murder, organized crime, prison, redemption, revenge, vengeance, investigation, undercover, tough heroes, working undercover, master criminal ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: california, los angeles, usa
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Country: France
Duration: 103 min.
Story: The charismatic criminal Dobermann, who got his first gun when he was christened, leads a gang of brutal robbers. After a complex and brutal bank robbery, they are being hunted by the Paris police. The hunt is led by the sadistic cop Christini, who ...
Style: cult classic, brutal, stylized, neo noir, hood ...
Audience: boys' night
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Time: 90s
Place: france, paris france, europe
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Heaven's Burning (1997)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 99 min.
Story: In Sydney, the newly married Midori is honeymooning with her husband, Yukio. She does not love him and fakes her own kidnapping to escape the marriage. Her lover is supposed to meet her, but fails to appear. She goes to a bank to get some cash, only ...
Style: neo noir, cult classic, road movie, detective, semi serious ...
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Time: 90s
Place: australia, sydney australia
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Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Three converging story lines involving bootleggers, a serial killer and drug dealers are followed. A former drug dealer tries to go straight, but comes across a stash of stolen drugs. Meanwhile, a middle-aged suburban housewife hides a sadistic and ...
Style: suspense, serious, suspenseful, realistic
Audience: boys' night
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Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
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Duration: 88 min.
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Duration: 105 min.
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Duration: 103 min.
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Italy, USA
Duration: 104 min.
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Style: serious, rough, suspenseful, exciting, realistic ...
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Zero Tolerance (1994)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: After surviving a sneak attack on himself and fellow agents Jimmy and Gene as they were transporting drug kingpin Raymond Manta out of a Mexican jail, FBI agent Jeff Douglas becomes an uwitting pawn of the White Hand drug cartel. Mistakenly told ...
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Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 94 min.
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22%
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Detour (1998)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
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El padrino: The Latin Godfather (2004)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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One False Move (1991)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Following a series of drug deals and murders, three criminals -- Fantasia, Ray Malcolm and Pluto -- travel from Los Angeles to Houston, finally arriving in a small Arkansas town to go into hiding. Two detectives from the LAPD, who are already on the ...
Style: neo noir, suspense, tense, suspenseful, independent film ...
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Time: 90s, year 1992
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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