Movies and TV shows like Widows 2002
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Widows (2002)
292
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 273 min.
TV show
Story:
The widows of three men killed while trying to steal a famous painting, join forces to find their husband's killers and finish off the job of stealing the painting.
Style:
suspenseful, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, stylized
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
murder, investigation, betrayal, vengeance, rivalry, widow, heist, strong female presence, chases and races, crime gone awry, dishonesty, criminal heroes, police, caper, mistress, safe, painting, insurance, warehouse, art gallery, presumed dead, deadly, alarm, crime, adventure ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
boston
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Most similar movies to Widows
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, serious, realistic and rough films and TV series with plots about deadly, dishonesty, rivalry, murder, criminal heroes, law enforcement and gangster mostly in Drama, Crime and Thriller genres. Some movies like Widows: Low Winter Sun (2013), Spanish Judges (2000), This Thing of Ours (2002), Ready 2 Die (2014), Clutch (2011). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story:
Low Winter Sun is an American television drama series developed by Chris Mundy, starring Mark Strong and Lennie James. The series premiered on August 11, 2013, on AMC, with the first season consisting of ten episodes. It is based upon the 2006 ...
Style:
tense, serious, suspenseful, rough, detective ...
Plot:
police detective, murder, vengeance, police corruption, law enforcement, perfect crime, right and wrong, rivalry, dishonesty, dirty cop, crooked cop, corruption ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
detroit, usa
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A con-artist hires two low-lifes to cover him during a deal, ending with three criminals, two dueling pistols, and one night they'll never forget
Style:
realistic, serious, suspenseful, rough, independent film ...
Plot:
mentally challenged, psychopath, criminal heroes, mind game, unlikely criminals, rivalry, dishonesty, betrayal, criminal's revenge, crime gone awry, heist, murder ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
85%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Using the Internet and global satellites, a group of gangsters pull off the biggest bank heist in the Mafia's history.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, rough, realistic, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
mafia, gangster, organized crime, cosa nostra, chases and races, master criminal, crime gone awry, dishonesty, betrayal, criminal heroes, bank, cons and scams ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new jersey, usa, miami
Similarity:
80%
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:
21st century
Place:
california, south america, usa, los angeles
Similarity:
79%
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126
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
TV show
Story:
Tough, street smart, and resourceful pickpocket Kylie is forced to take care of herself after her boyfriend Matt finds himself in deep trouble with a gang of vicious mobsters he owes a huge sum of money to.
Style:
exciting, serious, suspenseful, rough, realistic
Plot:
on the run, life turned upside down, woman in danger, gangster, escapades, betrayal, rivalry, dishonesty, vengeance, pickpocket, strong female presence, profanity ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
78%
746
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 416 min.
TV show
Story:
By the will of her dead uncle who was murdered Sandra Paoli is propelled to the head of a powerful mafia clan. She becomes a respected, but also hated, woman in a world of men, murder and criminality.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, rough, semi serious, captivating ...
Plot:
murder, mafia, criminal's revenge, family business, family problems, gang, drug dealing, betrayal, death in the family, gangster, police corruption, family relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france
Similarity:
77%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A gambler, a Texas ranger and an FBI agent are investigating a series of vigilante murders.
Style:
serious, realistic, exciting, rough, suspenseful
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
texas ranger, poker, injustice, vigilantism, manhunt, rivalry, private detective, tough law enforcer, chases and races, life is a bitch, vengeance, law enforcement ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
texas
Similarity:
77%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Gene Reardon (Hauer) is a twice-divorced police detective who lives with his daughter. When a well-heeled local man is kidnapped, the FBI is called in, which introduces Longsworth (played by Paulina Porizkova). Longsworth happens to have been ...
Style:
exciting, serious, rough, suspenseful, independent film ...
Plot:
private detective, murder, special agent, uncover truth, investigation, who done it, law enforcement, dishonesty, small town, fbi agent, ex husband ex wife relationship, frame up ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
74%
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Genre: Drama, Crime
Country: Italy, UK
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
A powerful dynasty, headed by a charismatic, manipulative father, falls when he decides to hand over his criminal empire to his three corrupt and power-hungry daughters. Kath runs a brothel down by the docks, Tracy owns a soccer team and Jo, a ...
Style:
tense, rough, suspenseful, serious, realistic
Plot:
rivalry, dishonesty, vengeance, betrayal, drug dealing, family relations, murder, parents and children, prostitute, shakespeare, tragic love, gangster ...
Place:
europe, england
Similarity:
74%
167
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Ozzie Decker is an art dealer and a thief. He steals paintings for customers. Frank reluctantly begins to work with Ozzie because Frank's brother owes a lot of money to the mob. On his first art heist, Frank works directly with long-time ...
Style:
action thriller, independent film, serious, realistic, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
art theft, forgery, betrayal, heist, gangster, going straight, downfall, rescue, dishonesty, criminal heroes, prodigy, stolen painting ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new york
Similarity:
72%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 120 min.
TV show
Story:
The series tells the life of Hizir Cakirbeyli. It has entered the realm of the mafia at a young age.
Style:
suspenseful, realistic, rough, serious, tense
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gangster, tough heroes, criminal heroes, murder, society, uninhibited rivalry, blood, police investigation, leadership, betrayal, gang, violence ...
Time:
1920s
Place:
usa
Similarity:
69%
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:
69%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
The Hat Squad is a crime drama television series that ran for only one season on CBS, during the 1992–1993 season. 13 episodes were made, but only 11 of them aired.
Style:
suspenseful, realistic, rough, serious, crime drama ...
Plot:
adoption, police investigation, police, family relations, partners against crime, vengeance, sibling relationship, chases and races, orphan, brother brother relationship, family drama, fighting crime ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
usa
Similarity:
68%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
Frank Agnew is a police detective who kills for revenge and naively believes he's engineered the perfect crime.
Style:
tense, rough, serious, suspenseful, realistic ...
Plot:
law enforcement, police investigation, murder, perfect crime, dishonesty, vengeance, rivalry, dirty cop, crooked cop, male pubic hair, male nudity, politics ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england
Similarity:
66%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
Female detective Hannah Maes leads a police squad, specialized in sexual offenses. A smaller, but important part of the story is about the private quest of Hannah. She investigates a past robbery at her home and the subsequent brutal rape of her ...
Style:
tense, realistic, captivating, suspense, psychological ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
sex crime, police investigation, police, law enforcement, murder, robbery, fighting crime, rivalry, danger, european, violent content, strong female presence ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
belgium, europe, ghent
Similarity:
66%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A group of thieves attempt to rob an art gallery, but when plans backfire and one of the men winds up dead, the group head down south, running afoul of the law. Along the way, they meet up with a seductive con artist with ideas of her own.
Style:
neo noir, hood, cult classic, independent film, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
heist, art theft, murder, forgery, urban, highway, on the road, cons and scams, criminal heroes, dishonesty, misfit partners, law enforcement ...
Time:
year 1998, 90s
Place:
boston, usa
Similarity:
66%
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, Cuba
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
After languishing in a Barcelona prison for nearly a decade, a busted bank robber attempts to find the girl who made off with the cash in this suspenseful tale of revenge and betrayal starring Adriana Gil and Eduard Fernández. Ex-con Martin Losada ...
Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, neo noir ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gangster, criminal heroes, on the run, rivalry, vengeance, chase, dishonesty, criminal's revenge, obsessive quest, investigation, betrayal, political corruption ...
Time:
50s
Place:
cuba, spain, europe, latin america
Similarity:
64%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, West Germany
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A retired safe cracker is recruited by a young conman to return to the "business" for a million dollar heist.
Style:
suspense, independent film, exciting, realistic, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
safecracker, heist, crime wave, swing, disorder, cons and scams, intrigue, buddies, rivalry, gang, master and servant, law enforcement ...
Time:
year 1978, 70s
Similarity:
64%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Robbery Homicide Division was an American police procedural television series on CBS, created by Barry Schindel with executive producer Michael Mann. Schindel has been nominated for three Emmy Awards.
Style:
tense, rough, suspenseful, serious, exciting ...
Plot:
police detective, police investigation, fighting crime, law enforcement, murder, workplace, society, workplace situations, partner, police station, nypd, cop ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
los angeles, california, usa
Similarity:
63%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Russia
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
Viktor Rastorguev, a police colonel, moved to St. Petersburg with his entire family. In Moscow, he crossed paths with a certain official and was forced to leave. He would no longer have been allowed to serve peacefully in Moscow. In St. Petersburg, ...
Style:
realistic, exciting, captivating, tense, suspense ...
Plot:
crime investigation, betrayal, fight scenes, law enforcement, uncover truth, danger, life is a bitch, life philosophy, murder, twists and turns, investigation, forensics ...
Similarity:
63%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
In this darkly karmic vision of Arizona, a man who breathes nothing but ill will begins a noxious domino effect as quickly as an uncontrollable virus kills. As he exits Arizona State Penn after twenty-one long years, Wilson has only one thing on the ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, suspense, captivating, realistic
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
prison, vengeance, frame up, cons and scams, criminal's revenge, going straight, false accusation, brutality, life is a bitch, hooligan, escape, disorder ...
Place:
arizona, usa
Similarity:
62%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A gang of career criminals plots the robbery of an armored car company's headquarters. Although the robbery itself goes off as planned, it's not long before the gang members are fighting among themselves over everybody's share of the ...
Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough
Plot:
heist, armored car, armored car robbery, voice over narration, prison sentence, caper, jail, parole, street crime, master criminal, gangster, escape ...
Time:
1950s, year 1961, 50s
Place:
boston
Similarity:
60%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Set in the early 1960's in New York City's Public Morals Division, where cops walk the line between morality and criminality as the temptations that come from dealing with all kinds of vice can get the better of them.
Style:
rough, serious, tense, suspenseful, detective ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
temptation, moral dilemma, partner, law enforcement, partners against crime, gangster, post war, nypd, investigation, mafia, crime family, courtroom drama ...
Time:
20th century, 60s
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
60%
Genre: Thriller, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 169 min.
TV show
Story:
Three generations of Dallas police officers join together to track down the deadliest serial killer ever to terrorize Texas.
Style:
detective, serious, realistic, psychological, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
serial killer, nypd, murder, kidnapping, hostage, danger, law enforcement, confined, crime gone awry, chases and races, police investigation, riddles and clues ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
texas
Similarity:
60%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
When the head of a mafia clan is perceived to be weakening, his family suffers a series of attacks. It is up to his son, Frankie, to figure out who’s behind the plot before they are all wiped out.
Style:
rough, serious, suspenseful, realistic, suspense
Plot:
gang, working undercover, family business, betrayal, criminal heroes, witnessing a crime, criminal's revenge, law enforcement, gangster, master criminal, rivalry, hitman ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
philadelphia
Similarity:
60%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
An honest cop enters the dark world of murder and corruption.
Style:
suspenseful, serious, realistic, independent film
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
undercover, murder, investigation, hidden identity, law enforcement, working undercover, fighting crime, master criminal, dishonesty, tough law enforcer, vengeance, rivalry ...
Similarity:
59%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
After he accidentally kills his father, Mike, during a sting, Joe tries to carry out Mike's dying wish by recovering valuables that Mike's twin brother Lou stole from him years earlier. But Uncle Lou is also a confidence artist, and Joe is ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, realistic, neo noir, independent film ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
cons and scams, murder, gangster, criminal heroes, criminal's revenge, crime gone awry, uncle nephew relationship, greed, danger, last wish, fight scenes, buddies ...
Time:
90s, year 1993
Similarity:
59%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Would you be willing to walk away from everyone and everything you've ever known in exchange for your safety? This is the question facing career criminal Bobby "Bats" Batton (Tom Sizemore); on the outs with the mob and facing ...
Style:
crime drama, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
witness protection program, organized crime, gang, betrayal, gangster, couple relations, criminal heroes, rivalry, ghost, dishonesty, murder, witnessing a crime ...
Time:
90s
Place:
seattle, usa, boston
Similarity:
59%
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 ...
Style:
exciting, suspenseful, rough, serious, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gangster, vengeance, murder, rivalry, dishonesty, gambling, prison, casino, violence, asian, monster, revenge ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
asia, korea
Similarity:
58%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Police Chief Jesse Stone, who was suspended by the Paradise, Mass. Town Council, begins moonlighting for his friend, State Homicide Commander Healy, by investigating a series of murders in Boston, leaving Rose and Suitcase to handle a crime spree in ...
Style:
serious, rough, suspenseful, realistic, tense
Plot:
murder, jesse stone, investigation, law enforcement, police investigation, small town, murder investigation, serial killer, die hard, secret service, cop, chief of police ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, boston, new england
Similarity:
58%
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