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Dirty Hands (2014)
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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, colombian drug cartel, siblings relations, sea, military, beach, railway, cocaine, fisherman, boat, grandmother, loss of son, murder by drowning ...
Time:
year 2014, 21st century, contemporary
Place:
colombia, africa
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Most similar movies to Dirty Hands
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, crime gone awry and disorder mostly in Thriller, Drama and Action genres. Some movies like Dirty Hands: Operation E (2012), Greetings to the Devil (2011), Good Chemistry (2008), Sea Fog (2014), White as Snow (2010). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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:
realistic, serious, suspenseful, captivating, suspense ...
Plot:
jungle, captivity, race against time, escapades, rescue, confined, danger, rebellion, political unrest, baby, human spirit, conflict ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
colombia, latin america
Similarity:
95%
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, danger, rivalry, forced into action, race against time, colombian drug cartel, murder, conflict, violent content, tough heroes, chases and races, kidnapping ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
latin america, colombia
Similarity:
56%
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, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot:
murder, chemistry, kidnapping, on the run, drug dealing, danger, dishonesty, drug abuse, violent content, farm, confined, cons and scams ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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52%
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:
sexy, suspense, tense, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
illegal immigrant, fog, rescue, immigrant, chase, down on your luck, society, ship, accidental death, murder, storm, boat ...
Time:
year 2014, year 1998, 21st century
Place:
south korea
Similarity:
47%
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:
tense, serious, suspenseful, suspense, realistic ...
Plot:
gangster, danger, vengeance, life turned upside down, family relations, loss of partner, murder, disorder, family in danger, brother brother relationship, skinny dipping, mafia ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
finland, europe
Similarity:
44%
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, undercover, witnessing a crime, gangster, introspection, working undercover, rivalry, criminal heroes, crime gone awry, dishonesty, danger, assassin ...
Place:
usa, cuba, florida, new york, miami
Similarity:
44%
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:
crime gone awry, working class, social decay, society, workplace, injustice, factory worker, factory, danger, rivalry, friendship, friends ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, south of france
Similarity:
41%
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, captivating, suspense ...
Plot:
border, desert, on the run, escapades, on the road, government agency, arms dealing, criminal, gang, reluctant partners, captive, trafficking ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
mexico, latin america, arizona, usa
Similarity:
41%
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:
tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
drug dealing, danger, rivalry, chases and races, strong violent content, drug cartel, race against time
Time:
21st century
Place:
south america, sonora, arizona, usa, mexico
Similarity:
39%
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, danger, save the day, forces of nature, escapades, scientist, catastrophe, apocalypse, chases and races, heroes, heat wave ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, california, los angeles
Similarity:
37%
363
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, tense, psychological, suspense, serious ...
Plot:
gang, danger, family relations, parents and children, mafia, murder, father son relationship, lawyer, reprisal, rivalry, black, violent content ...
Time:
year 2014, 21st century
Place:
marseille, france
Similarity:
37%
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, profanity, teenager, manipulation, moral dilemma ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
california, usa, malibu california
Similarity:
36%
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:
serious, psychological, suspenseful, realistic, rough ...
Plot:
murder, crime gone awry, family gatherings, heist, danger, confined, sex scene, making love, gunfight, sensuality, mansion, woman with a gun ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
36%
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, life turned upside down, addiction, home invasion, car accident, faked death, husband wife relationship, abduction, kidnapping, alcohol abuse, life is a bitch, crime gone awry ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
34%
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, siblings relations, crime gone awry, danger, disorder, revenge, brutality, mental illness, life is a bitch, abusive relationship, domestic violence, marital abuse ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
33%
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, captivating, suspense ...
Plot:
small town, manhunt, chase, escape, on the run, violent content, woods, parents and children, murder, revenge, brother brother relationship, police ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
33%
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, partner, murder, crime gone awry, social differences, cons and scams, dishonesty, society, betrayal, blackmail, friends, workplace intrigue ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
south america, brazil, latin america, sao paulo brazil
Similarity:
32%
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:
realistic, serious, captivating, suspense, retro ...
Plot:
rise and fall, criminal heroes, drug dealing, dealer, parents and children, single parent, unlikely criminals, danger, hopes, crime gone awry, family relations, protecting from truth ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
florida, usa, ohio
Similarity:
32%
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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, couple relations, family relations, insurance investigator, car accident, snow, cemetery, fraud, burned alive ...
Similarity:
32%
93
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, realistic, serious, captivating, tense ...
Plot:
conspiracy, false accusation, uncover truth, on the run, frame up, betrayal, dishonesty, law enforcement, life turned upside down, murder, danger, woman with a gun ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Victor Sandeman is a senior partner with Brunel Global Securities. He is experiencing major financial problems, ones that can be solved if the planned $100 million merger of the company takes place. However, the company's owner, Raymond Brunel, ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, realistic, captivating, exciting
Plot:
murder, crime gone awry, disorder, dishonesty, workplace intrigue, cop witness relations, danger, workplace, manipulation, woman in danger, witnessing a crime, wrong place wrong time ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa, seattle
Similarity:
32%
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, tense, captivating, humorous ...
Plot:
disaster, storm, chaos, chaos and mayhem, escapades, danger, save the day, family relations, disorder, siblings relations, parents and children, forces of nature ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, washington d.c.
Similarity:
32%
338
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, captivating, tense, psychological, independent film ...
Plot:
murder, estate, tragic love, destiny, countryside, family farm, inheritance, danger, sex with sister, sex crime, farm, friendship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
pennsylvania, usa
Similarity:
32%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Poland, Russia, Netherlands, Slovakia
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Two brothers are trying to find out the truth from years ago. The whole town is against them.
Style:
tense, serious, disturbing, suspense, captivating ...
Plot:
holocaust, homecoming, life is a bitch, world war two, dishonesty, uncover truth, under the surface, supernatural, village life, european, consciousness, european history ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
poland, eastern europe
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Argentina, USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
Three American expats living in Buenos Aires decide to steal a large sum of money so they don't have to return home. But what starts as a game soon turns violent and they find themselves on the verge of consequences none of them expected.
Style:
tense, realistic, suspense, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
betrayal, dishonesty, heist, caper, money, love, rivalry, danger, friendship, freedom, violence, murder ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
argentina, buenos aires argentina, latin america
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Deals with 90 minutes in a kidnapped hostage's life, and the frustration his family, a special ops team, and a man in charge of delivering the ransom money all feel as they rush to save him.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, stylized, exciting, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
kidnapping, crime gone awry, missing person, terrorism, danger, race against time, rivalry, chase, destiny, car chase, missing child, father son relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
colombia, new york, usa
Similarity:
31%
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, psychological, captivating, suspense ...
Plot:
on the road, crime gone awry, youth, coming of age, profanity, on the run, running from police, thief, rivalry, murder, danger, chase ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Military-trained hitman, Jacob Tate (Kent Faulcon), has been sent by his handler (Eric Roberts) to a small Southern town with orders to eliminate a beautiful English teacher, Diane Shaw (Denise Boutte). When Diane mistakes Jacob for her long-lost ...
Style:
exciting, captivating, tense, suspense, rough ...
Plot:
hitman, teacher, family relations, danger, dishonesty, family life, power relations, deception, forbidden love, secret, murder, mission of murder ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
30%
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.
Style:
suspenseful, serious, tense, captivating, independent film ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
vengeance, teenage life, youth, teenage love, social relations, rivalry, family relations, murder, social network, danger, blood, coming of age ...
Time:
year 2010, y2k, 21st century
Place:
australia
Similarity:
29%
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, family relations, danger, friendship, murder, childhood friend, funeral, cafe ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
paris france
Similarity:
28%
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