Movies like Dirty Hands 2014

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Dirty Hands (2014)
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Dirty Hands (2014)
Original name: Manos sucias
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Colombia, USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Towing a submerged torpedo in the wake of their battered fishing boat, a desperate fisherman and a naive kid embark on a journey trafficking millions of dollars worth of cocaine. Shot entirely on location along the Pacific coast of Colombia—in areas that bear the indelible scars of the drug trade—Manos Sucias refuses to glamorize the drug trade but rather seeks to offer a rare glimpse of its devastating effects.
Style: suspense, tense, serious, suspenseful, social, bleak, captivating, realistic
Plot: drug dealing, crime gone awry, family relations, chases and races, escapades, disorder, ocean, murder, drug, teenager, mafia, conflict, blaxploitation, siblings relations, sea, military, beach, railway, cocaine, fisherman, boat, grandmother, loss of son, murder by drowning, race against time ...
Time: year 2014, 21st century, contemporary
Place: colombia, africa
Keyword: colombian, ocean or sea

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, suspenseful and tense films with plots about danger, murder, family relations, deadly, chases and races, disorder and dishonesty mostly in Thriller, Drama and Action genres. Some movies like Dirty Hands: Operation E (2012), Good Chemistry (2008), Sea Fog (2014), White Snow (2010), In the Shadows (2001). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Operation E (2012)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Spain
Duration: 109 min.
Story: A thriller centered on a family taken hostage by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia.
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, captivating, social ...
Plot: survival, kidnapping, jungle, captivity, rescue, escapades, race against time, rebellion, danger, confined, political unrest, baby ...
Time: 21st century
Place: colombia, latin america
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 3.0
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Good Chemistry (2008)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: After picking up an alluring woman,Toby, a gifted chemist slumming as a high school teacher, is kidnapped by her violent boyfriend and ordered to use his skills to create methamphetamine for a group of drug traffickers. When Toby refuses, his ...
Style: serious, realistic, tense, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot: murder, kidnapping, drug dealing, on the run, dishonesty, danger, drug abuse, chemistry, farm, confined, cons and scams, forced into action ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
 6.8
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Sea Fog (2014)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 111 min.
Story: A fishing-boat crew takes on a dangerous commission to smuggle a group of illegal immigrants from China to Korea.
Style: suspense, tense, serious, realistic, bleak ...
Plot: rescue, immigrant, fog, chase, down on your luck, illegal immigrant, society, ship, accidental death, murder, storm, boat ...
Time: year 2014, year 1998, 21st century
Place: south korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
 5.4
 628
White Snow (2010)
Genre: Thriller
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Director Christophe Blanc delivers a fast-past thriller set to a background of Finland's stunning landscape. High-end car dealership owner Maxime is pursued by Finnish gangsters over unsatisfactory cars his dead partner sold them.
Style: serious, tense, suspenseful, suspense, realistic ...
Plot: gangster, vengeance, danger, life turned upside down, family relations, loss of partner, murder, disorder, family in danger, brother brother relationship, mafia, nudity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: finland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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In the Shadows (2001)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: When a stunt man dies in Miami, his uncle, a New York mob boss, sends a hit man to tail the stunt coordinator, whom the boss wants dead. The hit man, Eric O'Bryne, gets close to his mark's daughter, and through her he asks her dad to teach ...
Style: tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film
Audience: boys' night
Plot: hitman, witnessing a crime, undercover, gangster, criminal heroes, rivalry, danger, working undercover, introspection, crime gone awry, dishonesty, assassin ...
Place: usa, cuba, miami, new york, florida
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Greetings to the Devil (2011)
Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Colombia, Mexico, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A former guerrilla is reluctantly drawn into the vengeance scheme of one of his victims.
Style: exciting, serious, tense, captivating, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: vengeance, rivalry, danger, race against time, forced into action, murder, conflict, violent content, tough heroes, chases and races, heroes, kidnapping ...
Time: 21st century
Place: latin america, colombia
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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In Turmoil (2011)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Dans la région de Marseille, un patron prépare à l’insu de ses ouvriers la délocalisation de son usine, couplée d’un détournement de 2 millions d’euros. Franck, l’un de ses salariés l’apprend et, sans en parler à sa femme Hélène, ...
Style: tense, suspenseful, realistic, captivating, suspense ...
Plot: working class, crime gone awry, society, social decay, workplace, injustice, factory, factory worker, rivalry, danger, friendship, couples ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, south of france
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
 5.5
 2K
600 Miles (2015)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Arnulfo Rubio smuggles weapons from Arizona to Mexico for a drug cartel, but he is being investigated by agent Harris. When agent Harris blows his covers, he and Arnulfo end up in a journey where he will be the hostage of this young criminal.
Style: tense, serious, road movie, suspense, captivating ...
Plot: border, on the run, escapades, on the road, government agency, arms dealing, criminal, gang, desert, reluctant partners, captive, outlaw ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, mexico, arizona, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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The Devil's in the Details (2013)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: 7 minutes from now in Nogales, Arizona, Thomas Conrad's life will forever change when he gets caught up in a Mexican cartels poetic game of drug mule chess.
Style: captivating, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: drug dealing, danger, rivalry, chases and races, strong violent content, drug cartel, race against time
Time: 21st century
Place: arizona, usa, sonora, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
 5.0
 1K
Below Utopia (1997)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Daniel returns to his family's mansion for the holidays along with his girlfriend Susanne. His family's seemingly-utopian existence is overshadowed by not only the death of Daniel's brother, but also by Daniel's failure to live ...
Style: psychological, serious, suspenseful, realistic, rough ...
Plot: murder, crime gone awry, family gatherings, heist, confined, danger, gunfight, sex scene, woman with a gun, making love, mansion, sensuality ...
Time: 90s
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 6.1
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The Living (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: After an alcohol induced blacked-out night of drinking, Teddy discovers he has severely beaten his wife, Molly. As he attempts to redeem himself to her she must decide whether or not she will take him back as her mother, Angela, continuously ...
Style: suspenseful, bleak, serious, suspense, crime drama ...
Plot: hitman, danger, crime gone awry, siblings relations, disorder, mental illness, brutality, revenge, life is a bitch, abusive relationship, domestic violence, violent content ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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Heat Wave (2009)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story: When a sudden, unexplained rise in local temperatures threatens to turn Los Angeles County into a parched, lifeless desert, one scientist must put her theories to the test in a desperate effort to prevent the catastrophe.
Style: captivating, tense, psychological, suspense, independent film ...
Plot: disaster, natural disaster, save the day, danger, forces of nature, escapades, scientist, catastrophe, apocalypse, heat wave, heroes, chases and races ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, california, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
California Scheming (2014)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A teen seductress pulls three other privileged Malibu kids into her devious scheme, and unforeseen consequences force the group to face their own fears and mortality.
Style: serious, tense, realistic, suspenseful, teen ...
Audience: teens
Plot: sexual content, best friend, dishonesty, dangerous attraction, danger, disorder, teenage life, boy girl relationship, teenager, profanity, manipulation, moral dilemma ...
Time: 21st century
Place: california, usa, malibu california
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
 5.4
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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
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Wasted on the Young (2010)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 97 min.
Story: When a high school party goes dangerously off the rails, one teenager finds that revenge is just a computer click away.
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Audience: teens
Plot: vengeance, youth, teenage life, rivalry, teenage love, social relations, family relations, murder, social network, danger, coming of age, bullying ...
Time: y2k, year 2010, 21st century
Place: australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Final Recourse (2013)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A wealthy high powered woman suffers a horrible tragedy after which she descends into substance abuse,turning her back on her family. She later discovers that someone close to her may be behind her subsequent abduction and kidnapping.
Style: suspenseful, serious, realistic, tense, suspense ...
Plot: twists and turns, addiction, life turned upside down, home invasion, faked death, car accident, husband wife relationship, abduction, kidnapping, life is a bitch, crime gone awry, confined ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Free Ride (2013)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A single mom in the 1970s raises her two daughters and becomes involved in illegal drug trade to make a better life.
Style: serious, realistic, suspense, captivating, retro ...
Plot: drug dealing, rise and fall, dealer, crime gone awry, unlikely criminals, parents and children, hopes, family relations, danger, single parent, protecting from truth, starting over ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: florida, usa, ohio
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
The Trespasser (2001)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Brazil
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Estevão , Ivan e Gilberto são companheiros desde os tempos de faculdade e sócios de uma construtora de sucesso há mais de 15 anos. O relacionamento entre eles sempre foi muito bom, até que um desentendimento na condução dos negócios faz com ...
Style: tense, serious, suspenseful, captivating, realistic ...
Plot: hitman, murder, crime gone awry, cons and scams, social differences, betrayal, dishonesty, society, partner, blackmail, friends, workplace intrigue ...
Time: 21st century
Place: brazil, latin america, sao paulo brazil
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Storm War (2011)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A series of freak weather occurrences around Washington D.C. reunites two estranged brothers who are the sons of a once prestigious climate scientist. One of them suspects their father is behind it and upon further investigation, they discover that ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, humorous, tense, captivating ...
Plot: disaster, chaos, chaos and mayhem, danger, save the day, escapades, disorder, family relations, forces of nature, siblings relations, parents and children, heroes ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
A Little Trip to Heaven (2005)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Iceland, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Insurance investigator Abraham Holt travels to a tiny town in rural Minnesota to look into a particularly unusual insurance claim stemming from a horrific car accident. As Holt examines the scene of the wreck, it all seems a bit too perfect. And ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, suspense, neo noir, realistic ...
Plot: twists and turns, fake identity, murder, investigation, family relations, couple relations, insurance investigator, car accident, snow, cemetery, fraud, burned alive ...
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Deep Dark Canyon (2013)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Bloom Towne is a small-town sheriff under the thumb of the well-established, deeply influential Mayor Dick Cavanaugh's family. When Bloom's two teenage sons, Nate and Skylar accidentally shoot and kill Dick during a deer-hunt, Bloom's ...
Style: exciting, suspenseful, tense, suspense, captivating ...
Plot: small town, manhunt, chase, on the run, violent content, woods, parents and children, murder, revenge, brother brother relationship, police, escape ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Nexus (2010)
Genre: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Holly is a struggling singer whose life is torn apart when she loses custody of her daughter, Chloe. When she travels to her soon to be ex-husbands estate in the country, for a weekend visit with Chloe, she is shocked to discover that he is missing. ...
Style: neo noir, serious, realistic, captivating, tense ...
Plot: conspiracy, false accusation, uncover truth, on the run, frame up, dishonesty, betrayal, law enforcement, life turned upside down, murder, danger, woman with a gun ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 4.2
 765
Clean Break (2008)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A dramatic thriller about a couple who own an advertising agency. The husband apparently commits suicide, but the police and the insurance company decide to investigate his death.
Style: tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, suspenseful ...
Plot: murder, obsession, twists and turns, danger, investigation, betrayal, infidelity, stalking, love, crumbling marriage, corrupt officer, woman in danger ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Fatal Call (2012)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Leaving his small-town roots to start a new life, Mitch meets the beautiful and seductive Amy at a happy hour and begins a tantalizing romance. Before long, Mitch learns that nothing is as it appears and, unable to trust anyone, finds himself on a ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, tense, suspense, captivating ...
Plot: femme fatale, murder, false accusation, danger, life turned upside down, protagonist as suspect, on the run, dishonesty, disorder, power relations, chases and races, heroes ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Windcroft (2007)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: On a remote farm in the sweeping hills of Pennsylvania, three lives are torn apart by love, abandonment, deception and murder.
Style: suspense, tense, captivating, psychological, independent film ...
Plot: murder, estate, tragic love, destiny, countryside, family farm, inheritance, danger, sex crime, farm, gory, friendship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, pennsylvania
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32%
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Fatal Secrets (2009)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: "BALANCING THE BOOKS" is a character-driven suspense drama about an attractive woman who enlists the help of her two best friends to confront a traumatic experience she can no longer deny. Julia, divorced and successfully self-employed, ...
Style: psychological, tense, suspense, captivating, independent film ...
Plot: danger, dishonesty, rivalry, secret, couple relations, uncover truth, maniac, murder, best friend, violent content, profanity, family problems ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
 6.3
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Eat Your Bones (2014)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 94 min.
Story: 18 year old Jason Dorkel belongs to a community of gypsies. He is about to celebrate his baptism when his half-brother Fred returns after fifteen years in prison. Together, with their last brother, the violent, hot-headed Michael and their Christian ...
Style: tense, realistic, captivating, psychological, suspense ...
Plot: on the road, crime gone awry, coming of age, youth, profanity, running from police, on the run, thief, rivalry, chase, friendship, murder ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
A Sight for Sore Eyes (2003)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 137 min.
Story: When she was seven, Elise Gardet witnessed her mother’s brutal murder. Ever since, she has tried to forget this unsolved crime. Now she’s 18 and beautiful, but her bourgeois family and her stepmother’s anxiety are suffocating her.
Style: serious, suspenseful, tense, suspense, realistic
Plot: dangerous attraction, obsession, woman in danger, family relations, couples, parents and children, murder, sociopath, store, danger, ambulance, suffocated to death ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Close Enemies (2018)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Driss and Manuel both grew up on the same council estate. An estate where the sense of belonging to your patch is much stronger than the sense of belonging to a country, a nation or a culture... Manuel has assimilated this belonging, and he has even ...
Style: captivating, suspenseful, tense, suspense, crime drama
Plot: police, father daughter relationship, death, drug, brother brother relationship, friendship, danger, family relations, murder, cafe, blood, photograph ...
Time: 21st century
Place: paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Blood and Ties (2013)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Da-eun lives a happy life with her single father, a man who sacrificed everything in his life for her. She loved her father very dearly. However, their relationship is about to take an unexpected turn. Da-eun becomes suspicious that her father might ...
Style: tense, psychological, serious, realistic, captivating ...
Plot: kidnapping, murder, uncover truth, investigation, moral dilemma, danger, hidden identity, woman in danger, parents and children, single parent, reporter, life is a bitch ...
Time: 21st century
Place: south korea, korea, east asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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