Movies like Black Souls

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Black Souls (2014)
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Black Souls (2014)
Original name: Anime nere
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 109 min.
Story: A former narcotics trafficker now living peaceably in the Calabrian hills is drawn back into his family’s drug-trade dynasty by his impetuous teenage son, in this darkly elegant gangster drama.
Style: rough, serious, captivating, emotional, breathtaking, realistic
Plot: italian mafia, drug dealing, mafia, gangster, family relations, family business, haunted by the past, betrayal, parents and children, homecoming, drug dealer, brother brother relationship, criminal, gang, peace, village, stripper, assassination attempt, goat, strip club, brother murders brother, criminal heroes, siblings relations, unfulfillment, violent content ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: italy, milan italy
Keyword: gangsters

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, rough and suspenseful films with plots about gangster, criminal heroes, mafia, murder, gang, family relations and organized crime mostly in Crime, Drama and Thriller genres. Some movies like Black Souls: The Sicilian Girl (2008), Romanzo Criminale (2005), Mafiosa (2006), The Ruthless (2019), Mafioso: The Father The Son (2001). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Sicilian Girl (2008)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Inspired to a true story, on November 5th 1991, Rita Atria a young 17-year-old Sicilian girl, goes to see an anti-Mafia judge Paolo Borsellino to denounce the Mafia system that was responsible for the murder of her father and her brother. It is the ...
Style: tense, rough, suspenseful, serious, emotional ...
Plot: betrayal, murder, village, testimony, danger, family life, mafia, sicilian, whistleblower, family relations, youth, vengeance ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, 80s, year 1985, year 1991
Place: sicily, palermo italy, europe, italy, rome italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Romanzo Criminale (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, France, UK
Duration: 152 min.
Story: The Lebanese has a dream: to conquer the underworld of Rome. To carry out this feat without precedent he puts together a ruthless and highly organized gang. Their progress and changes in leadership take place over 25 years, from the 1970s into the ...
Style: serious, stylized, realistic, captivating, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gangster, gang, police investigation, criminal heroes, partner, law enforcement, leadership, rivalry, ransom, drug dealing, organized crime, inspector ...
Time: 80s, year 2005, 70s, 90s, 60s ...
Place: italy, rome italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.2
 687
Mafiosa (2006)
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, rough, suspenseful, semi serious, captivating ...
Plot: murder, mafia, criminal's revenge, family business, betrayal, drug dealing, gang, family problems, death in the family, gangster, police corruption, family relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.2
 7K
The Ruthless (2019)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Milan, Italy, 1967. Santo Russo, a boy of Calabrian origin, arrives north with his parents and younger brother to find better living conditions. Due to an absurd misunderstanding and his father's contempt, Santo ends up in prison, where he gets ...
Style: realistic, harsh, suspense, serious, tense ...
Plot: drug lord, mafia, mob boss, italian mafia, bank robbery, gunfight, robbery, anti hero, mobster, life philosophy, organized crime, ambition ...
Time: 80s, 90s, 60s, 2000s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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The Godfather: A Novel for Television (1977)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 434 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, saga ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: mafia, crime boss, gang war, mobster, lawyer, melancholy, corrupt politician, police corruption, parent child relationship, rise to power, casino, patriarch ...
Time: 1930s, 1950s, 1920s, 1940s, 20th century
Place: europe, cuba, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Mafioso: The Father The Son (2001)
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, witnessing a crime, criminal heroes, master criminal, rivalry, criminal's revenge, gangster, law enforcement, hitman ...
Time: 21st century
Place: philadelphia
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
 7.0
 51K
Gomorrah (2008)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 137 min.
Story: An inside look at Italy's modern-day crime families, the Camorra in Naples and Caserta. Based on a book by Roberto Saviano. Power, money and blood: these are the "values" that the residents of the Province of Naples and Caserta have ...
Style: disturbing, tense, harsh, realistic, serious ...
Plot: juvenile delinquency, organized crime, gang war, mafia, gangster, camorra, italian mafia, danger, gang, character study, power, debt ...
Time: year 2008, 2000s, 21st century
Place: italy, europe, southern italy, miami, venice ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 5.9
 667
My Kingdom (2001)
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: serious, rough, suspenseful, tense, realistic
Plot: rivalry, family relations, betrayal, dishonesty, drug dealing, vengeance, murder, parents and children, prostitute, shakespeare, tragic love, gangster ...
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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A Quiet Life (2010)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, France, Germany
Duration: 105 min.
Story: The story of a man who murdered thirty-two people, gained power, and then got afraid because too many people wanted to kill him. One August morning, he disappeared. For fifteen years, everyone believed him dead.
Style: tense, serious, rough, psychological, realistic ...
Plot: murderer, father son relationship, gangster, hitman, hidden identity, parents and children, family relations, dishonesty, criminal heroes, haunted by the past, secret past, dark past ...
Time: 21st century
Place: germany, naples italy, europe, frankfurt germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 6.8
 2K
Bella Mafia (1997)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Don Roberto Luciano turns informer for the biggest Mafia trial in history, but his family pays a terrible price.
Style: captivating, serious, political thriller, tense, realistic ...
Plot: mafia, betrayal, incestuous relationship, gangster, italian mafia, filicide, organized crime, rivalry, family life, monastery, revenge, mobster ...
Time: 90s
Place: europe, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 6.6
 9K
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: neo noir, independent film, surprise ending, hood, philosophical ...
Plot: mafia, gangster, organized crime, revenge, labor union, murder, vengeance, mobster, madness, ghetto, world war one, sex crime ...
Time: year 1996, 20th century, 1930s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 9.2
 2.0M
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, epic, dramatic, atmospheric, captivating ...
Audience: boys' night, manly, chick flick, adult
Plot: mafia, organized crime, gangster, greed, revenge, mob boss, crime family, mobster, cosa nostra, wedding, pride and honor, corruption ...
Time: 1950s, 1940s, 20th century, 50s, year 1972 ...
Place: italy, new york, bronx new york city, europe, sicily ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 4.8
 3K
By the Gun (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A rising Boston gangster (Ben Barnes) endangers those around him when he starts to make moves without the knowledge of his boss (Harvey Keitel).
Style: serious, rough, realistic, suspenseful, interesting
Audience: boys' night
Plot: mafia, gangster, violence, gang, criminal heroes, revenge, father son relationship, betrayal, double life, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, crime boss, brother brother relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: boston, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
The Professor (1986)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 171 min.
Story: Vaguely inspired to the real story of boss of the Camorra's bosses Raffaele Cutolo, this is the story of the criminal career of "Il professore" (the professor). He is in prison, and by there he is able to build, step by step, an ...
Style: poliziottesco, realistic, serious, rough, suspenseful
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cosa nostra, mafia, camorra, italian mafia, police, female nudity, nazi, mobster, gulag, criminal, organized crime, murder ...
Time: year 1986, 80s, 20th century
Place: italy, naples italy, new york, napoli italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 5.8
 765
Grand Pardon (1982)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 130 min.
Story: Le clan Bettoun : Raymond (le patriarche), Maurice (le fils), Jacky (le neveu), Roland (le neveu), Albert (le cousin de Raymond), Pépé (l'ami de Raymond), Samy (le garde du corps) sont un clan familial de caïds pieds-Noirs juifs du crime ...
Style: tense, realistic, serious, rough, suspenseful
Plot: uninhibited rivalry, criminal heroes, law enforcement, rivalry, police detective, family relations, family business, family life, interracial relations, gangster, violent content, murder of a nude woman ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 6.8
 2K
Mafia Inc (2019)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 143 min.
Story: The Gamache, tailors from father to son, have been dressing the Mafia family Paternò for three generation. Vincent "Vince" Gamache works on behalf of Frank the godfather with his eldest son Giaco. Vince, reckless and rash, seeks to earn ...
Style: tense, suspense, psychological, suspenseful, contemplative ...
Plot: mafia, cosa nostra, gang war, crime boss, violence, organized crime, mob boss, crime family, family business, gangster, murder, betrayal ...
Time: 2010s, year 1994, 80s, 90s, year 1980 ...
Place: canada, montreal, quebec, rome italy, venezuela
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Confessions of a Police Captain (1971)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Confessions of a Police Captain (Italian: Confessione di un commissario di polizia al procuratore della repubblica, also known as Confessions of a Police Commissioner to the District Attorney) is an Italian crime-drama film about a cop starring ...
Style: poliziottesco, grindhouse, serious, realistic, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: female nudity, police, mafia, police officer, corruption, italian mafia, corrupt, love letter, woman with a gun, organized crime, bureaucracy, psychology ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 6.8
 4K
Chiko (2008)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Germany, Italy
Duration: 92 min.
Story: This is the story of Isa, who grows up in a Hamburg suburb. It might be one of the world's richest cities but every beast has its belly and here, in the very underbelly, Chiko lives in a world where violence, staking and keeping a claim, and ...
Style: serious, tense, captivating, suspense, psychological ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: drug dealer, gang, cocaine, immigrant, friendship, rivalry, ambition, murder, smuggling, betrayal, deception, danger ...
Time: 21st century
Place: hamburg germany, germany, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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Once in the Life (2000)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Once in the life (of drug dealing and organized crime), can anyone get out? During a brief jail stay, two half-brothers, who have rarely seen each other while growing up, connect. One of them, called 20/20 Mike because he can sense people nearby, ...
Style: realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, serious, rough ...
Plot: prison, best friend, heist, friendship, gang, law enforcement, crime gone awry, gangster, siblings relations, addiction, dishonesty, life is a bitch ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 5.4
 316
Marseille (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Alex, the son of a gang boss from Marseilles, joins the French Foreign Legion to avoid a hit put out on him by the Corsican Mafia. Four years later, Alex deserts and returns to Marseilles to get back together with Katia, his former girlfriend. But ...
Style: captivating, psychological, tense, suspense, serious ...
Plot: gang, danger, family relations, parents and children, murder, mafia, father son relationship, lawyer, reprisal, rivalry, black, violent content ...
Time: year 2014, 21st century
Place: marseille, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
The Valachi Papers (1972)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 110 min.
Story: When Joe Valachi (Charles Bronson) has a price put on his head by Don Vito Genovese (Lino Ventura), he must take desperate steps to protect himself while in prison. An unsuccessful attempt to slit his throat puts him over the edge to break the ...
Style: tense, serious, realistic, bleak, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: prison, italian mafia, mafia, cosa nostra, mobster, hitman, organized crime, criminal, bad guy, spy, gangster, murder ...
Time: 1940s, year 1972, 1920s, 1930s, 1950s ...
Place: europe, italy, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 5.6
 98
Gangsterland (2010)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Ronald, an eight year-old biracial boy, sees his life turning upside down after witnessing the brutal murder of his mother by his father. Often moved from one foster home to the next, Ronald is recruited by a street gang where he dwells in a life of ...
Style: realistic, serious, captivating, psychological, tense ...
Plot: gangster, gang, going straight, parents and children, society, life is a bitch, family relations, death of mother, revenge, held captive, children, hopes ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada, montreal
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
This Thing of Ours (2002)
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, rough, suspenseful, realistic, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: mafia, gangster, organized crime, master criminal, chases and races, cosa nostra, partner, criminal heroes, dishonesty, betrayal, crime gone awry, bank ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new jersey, usa, miami
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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 7.8
 102K
A Prophet (2009)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 155 min.
Story: Sentenced to six years in prison, Malik El Djebena (Tahar Rahim) is alone in the world and can neither read nor write. On his arrival at the prison, he seems younger and more brittle than the others detained there. At once he falls under the sway of ...
Style: harsh, tense, bleak, rough, atmospheric ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: prison, mafia, gangster, prison life, cruelty, organized crime, coming of age, prison gang, racial slur, jail, guilt, respect ...
Time: year 2009, 2000s, year 2010, 90s, 21st century
Place: france, europe, paris france, marseille
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 6.2
 983
Rivals (2008)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 106 min.
Story: The story of two rival brothers, one a pimp and the other a cop, and how the former manages to be the family favourite.
Style: serious, tense, realistic, emotional, rough ...
Plot: starting over, family relations, prison, family problems, hopes, law enforcement, siblings relations, haunted by the past, family in crisis, criminal heroes, going straight, violent content ...
Time: 80s, year 2008, 70s, 20th century
Place: lyon, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
 5.7
 719
Outlaw Country (2012)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A crime thriller/family drama set against the backdrop of southern organized crime and Nashville royalty where music, love, hope and tragedy collide. Created as a pilot for a TV Series which was not taken up, this has now been aired as a TV Movie.
Style: realistic, suspenseful, serious, captivating, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: family relations, gang, parents and children, love and romance, danger, society, violent content
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, tennessee
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
 7.7
 4K
Spotless (2015)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK, France
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Set in London, SPOTLESS is the story of a troubled crime scene cleaner, Jean, whose tidy life is turned upside down when his outlaw brother Martin crash lands into his world, entangling them in the deadly dynamics of organized crime.
Style: tense, serious, rough, realistic, suspenseful
Audience: boys' night
Plot: disorder, haunted by the past, family problems, violent content, gangster, brother brother relationship, murder, crime boss, graphic violence, courtroom drama, mental health, mafia ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, london, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
Battles Without Honor and Humanity (1973)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 99 min.
Story: In the teeming black markets of postwar Japan, Shozo Hirono and his buddies find themselves in a new war between factious and ambitious yakuza...
Style: grindhouse, captivating, exciting, realistic, serious ...
Plot: yakuza, organized crime, betrayal, mafia, gang, female nudity, samurai, mafioso, battles, tough guy, humanity, japanese mafia ...
Time: post world war two, 1940s, 20th century
Place: hiroshima japan, japan, tokyo, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
Siberian Education (2013)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 110 min.
Story: The story of a gang of children growing up in a community of banished criminals, in a forgotten corner of the former Soviet Union. This community rejects the world outside. The only law it obeys… is its own. Against this backdrop two best friends, ...
Style: serious, realistic, rough, suspense, gloomy ...
Plot: friendship, uninhibited rivalry, rivalry, teenage life, social misfits, crime and punishment, society, social relations, isolation, parents and children, misfit, mafia ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, 21st century
Place: russia, siberia
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
 6.1
 189
The Repentant (2012)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Algeria, France
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Algeria region of the high flatlands. As Islamist groups continue to spread terror, Rashid, a young Jihadist, leaves the mountains to return to his village. In keeping with the law « of pardon and national harmony », he has to surrender to the ...
Style: serious, captivating, thought provoking, realistic
Plot: haunted by the past, terrorism, starting over, homecoming, society, hopes, parents and children, social relations, family relations, tragic past, village, loss of daughter ...
Time: 90s
Place: algeria, africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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