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The Heroin Busters (1977)
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The Heroin Busters (1977)
Original name: La via della droga
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Drug use in the city of Rome is at an all-time high. Children score from dealers in front of their schools, mules waltz straight through airport security, and Interpol's main man, Mike Hamilton (David Hemmings), is at his wits' end. Fed up to the back teeth with the local police force's incompetence, his only hope is to rely on one of his own men, Fabio (Fabio Testi), an officer so deep undercover that no-one but Hamilton knows who he really is. Even as Fabio gains the trust of cartel leader Gianni (John Loffredo), however, the dealers are edging ever closer to the truth, and when his cover is blown, the hunter becomes the hunted as Fabio finds himself alone in a desperate fight to survive.
Style: poliziottesco, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, fast, neo noir, psychotronic, cult film
Audience: boys' night
Plot: police, police officer, undercover police officer, spy, undercover agent, heroin, shootout, drug, cop, undercover, interpol, drug addict, drug dealer, motorcycle chase, chase, chases and races, drug dealing, law enforcement, fighting crime, partner, police investigation, ego clash, criminal heroes, partners against crime, reluctant partners ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: italy, rome italy, europe, hong kong
Keyword: partners

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, suspenseful, serious and rough films with plots about police officer, shootout, gangster, police, murder, law enforcement and gunfight mostly in Action, Crime and Thriller genres. Some movies like The Heroin Busters: Puppet on a Chain (1970), The Big Racket (1976), The Tough Ones (1976), Contraband (1980), Street Law (1974). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Puppet on a Chain (1970)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: UK, Netherlands
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Special agent Taube is on the case of a deadly heroin smuggling operation. This one is notable for an amazing power boat chase through the canals and waterways of Amsterdam
Style: independent film, fast, exciting, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: interpol, spy, murder, 007, woman with a gun, secret agent, undercover, prostitute, dishonesty, law enforcement, chase, danger ...
Time: 70s
Place: holland, europe, los angeles, netherlands, amsterdam
⇓ similarity ⇓
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The Big Racket (1976)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Nico Palmieri is a police inspector who battles against hoodlums terrorising a sleepy Italian village, extorting cash from the locals.
Style: poliziottesco, cult classic, grindhouse
Plot: rape, police, police officer, revenge, organized crime, shootout, suicide, fight, gunfight, machine gun, violent, dirty harry ...
Place: italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
The Tough Ones (1976)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A tough, violent cop who doesn't mind bending the law goes after a machine-gun-carrying, hunchbacked psychotic killer.
Style: poliziottesco, cult classic, serious, realistic, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: police, car chase, chase, psychopath, gang rape, rape, violent content, law enforcement, serial killer, vigilantism, danger, fighting crime ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: italy, rome italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Contraband (1980)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Cigarette smugglers in Naples run into problems with cocaine operations being set up by a rival smuggler. Full of violence, including a women's face being burned off with a blow torch and a graphic rape scene.
Style: poliziottesco, realistic, suspenseful, serious, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: rape, rape and revenge, mafia, gangster, chase, law enforcement, gang, rivalry, drug dealing, tough heroes, couple relations, life is a bitch ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: italy, europe, napoli italy, naples italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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Street Law (1974)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Carlo Antonelli, an engineer from Genoa, gets mugged and decides to take justice into his own hands. At first the muggers seem to get the upper hand, but then he's helped by Tommy, a young robber who takes his side.
Style: poliziottesco, cult classic, action thriller, grindhouse, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: revenge, police, police officer, female nudity, car chase, vigilante, organized crime, lawyer, rebellion, corruption, nudity, violent content ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Long Arm of the Law: Part 2 (1987)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 88 min.
Story: This sequel to the critically-acclaimed box-office winner Long Arm of the Law maintains the same stark realism of the original. In Saga Two, the Royal Hong Kong Police put into operation a new plan to counteract the problem of increasing violent ...
Style: heroic, crime drama, fast, exciting, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: heroic bloodshed, triad, hostage, gangster, betrayal, chase, hitman, social misfits, danger, confined, drug dealing, heroes ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: hong kong
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Violent Naples (1976)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Inspector Betti (Maurizio Merli) is transferred to Naples and immediately after his arrival receives a warm welcome from The Commandante (Barry Sullivan), the city's crime lord. Betti then goes on a personal mission against corruption and ...
Style: poliziottesco, cult classic, realistic, serious, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: police, police officer, camorra, organized crime, car theft, italian mafia, mafia, police interrogation, undercover cop, gangster, strong violent content, urban ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: italy, europe, naples italy, napoli italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Blood in the Streets (1973)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy, France, West Germany
Duration: 111 min.
Story: An Italian prison official's wife is kidnapped, and the kidnappers demand that a notorious prisoner be released in order for the man to get his wife back. He gets the man released - but then kidnaps him himself, in order to ensure that the ...
Style: poliziottesco, cult classic, action thriller, retro, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: police, prison, police officer, female nudity, assassination, revenge, vigilante, woman with a gun, blackmail, conspiracy, danger, heroes ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: italy, rome italy, europe, alps, paris france ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Family of Cops III: Under Suspicion (1999)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Police Inspector Paul Fein (Bronson) copes with family troubles while also dealing with the possibility of advancement to police chief. Meanwhile, his son (Joe Penny)) is investigating the murder of a banker.
Style: fast, realistic, serious, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cop, buddy cop, murder, trauma, guy, bad guy, nypd, gunfight, hitman, police, mafia, corruption ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Live Like a Cop, Die Like a Man (1976)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Fred and Tony are members of an elite 'special squad' of police in Rome, Italy who are licensed-to-kill, undercover cops and who love to live dangerously.
Style: poliziottesco, cult classic, perverse, psychotronic
Plot: police, buddy cop, police brutality, cop, spy, undercover agent, undercover police officer, mafia, violence, rape, corrupt cop, prostitute ...
Place: italy, rome italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Death Toll (2008)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: New Orleans has the No. 1 per capita murder rating in the nation. A decade earlier the city was dubbed the "Murder Capital of the Country." Drugs and violence controlled the streets, taking a toll on the city's law enforcement, ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, realistic, exciting, captivating ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: murder, undercover, partner, police corruption, fighting crime, police investigation, partners against crime, danger, law enforcement, master criminal, dishonesty, tough guy ...
Place: usa, louisiana, new orleans
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Syndicate Sadists (1975)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A biker's brother is killed while investigating the kidnapping of a young boy, the byproduct of a war between two crime families. The biker vows to get revenge by finding the kidnapped boy and destroying the two families.
Style: poliziottesco, fast, serious, realistic, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: kidnapping, motorcycle, police officer, revenge, vigilante, police, crime family, gangster, violent content, tough heroes, vigilantism, criminal heroes ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Johan Falk: GSI - Gruppen för särskilda insatser (2009)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Germany
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Johan works in tandem with the GSI organized crime unit to bring in a cadre of armored car robbers
Style: serious, suspenseful, rough, exciting, realistic
Plot: gangster, robbery, danger, law enforcement, fighting crime, police corruption, lifesaver, dishonesty, tough law enforcer, partner, nordic, spy ...
Time: 21st century
Place: eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
The Cynic, the Rat and the Fist (1977)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min.
Story: This is probably the best example of a 70's Italian crime movie, though not the "best" movie of the genre (does that make sense?). It has, besides Saxon, an entirely Italian cast but most of them are pretty recognizable regulars in ...
Style: poliziottesco, cult classic, realistic, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot: police officer, police, organized crime, mafia, gangster, strong violent content, tough heroes, car chase, chase, rebellion, heroes, chases and races ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: italy, europe, rome italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
The Italian Connection (1972)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Italy, West Germany
Duration: 95 min.
Story: When a shipment of heroin disappears between Italy and New York, a small-time pimp in Milan is framed for the theft. Two professional hitmen are dispatched from New York to find him, but the real thieves want to get rid of him before the New York ...
Style: poliziottesco, grindhouse, erotic, cult classic, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: mafia, organized crime, hitman, police, police officer, manhunt, revenge, female nudity, mobster, drug, explosions, italian mafia ...
Time: year 1972, 20th century, 70s
Place: italy, europe, new york, milan italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Eye in the Sky (2007)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The head of an elite Hong Kong surveillance unit (Simon Yam) keeps one eye on his rookie apprentice (Kate Tsui) and the other on a notorious criminal (Tony Leung Ka Fai) he suspects of masterminding a recent jewel heist in this tense thriller from ...
Style: tense, exciting, serious, captivating, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: master criminal, undercover, fighting crime, police investigation, law enforcement, police detective, heist, rivalry, working undercover, agent, murder, found footage ...
Time: 21st century
Place: hong kong, china, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
The Organization (1971)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: After a group of young revolutionaries break into a company's corporate headquarters and steal $5,000,000 worth of heroin to keep it off the street, they call on San Francisco Police Lieutenant Virgil Tibbs for assistance.
Style: neo noir, fast, realistic, serious, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: vigilante, blaxploitation, vigilantism, african, urban, business, police officer, gangster, heist, murder, partner, tough heroes ...
Time: year 1971, 70s
Place: usa, san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
French Connection II (1975)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: "Popeye" Doyle travels to Marsailles to find Alain Charnier, the drug smuggler that eluded him in New York.
Style: neo noir, detective, crime drama, fast, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: drug addiction, heroin, organized crime, cop, spy, mafia, car, police, tough cop, gangster, buddy cop, bad guy ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: france, marseille, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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Firestorm (2013)
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Duration: 118 min.
Story: A crew of seasoned criminals led by the notorious Nam, armed with high-powered weapons, pulls off another smooth and violent armored car heist in broad daylight in a crowded street. Whoever tries to get in their way, they will show no mercy. This ...
Style: exciting, serious, suspenseful, rough, hood ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
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⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Invisible Target (2007)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 129 min.
Story: Three cops team up to bring down a criminal gang of seven, who have their own hidden agenda.
Style: serious, suspenseful, rough, realistic, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
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Time: 2000s, 21st century
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Big Bullet (1996)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Hotheaded cop Bill Zhu (Lau Ching-wan) gets relegated to the Emergency Unit after a dustup with his inept boss. When the mob kills Zhu's pal and ex-colleague (Francis Ng) during a turf-war hit, he rounds up his motley department cohorts and ...
Style: heroic, crime drama, bloody, neo noir, fast ...
Audience: boys' night
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Time: 90s, 20th century
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Century of the Dragon (1999)
Genre: Action, Crime
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Rookie policeman Shing (Louis Koo) grapples with right and wrong in this action-packed story about Hong Kong gangsters. Assigned to go undercover, Shing is so successful in playing the part of a gang member that he becomes right-hand man to gang ...
Style: heroic, crime drama, exciting, realistic, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
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Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: hong kong
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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City on Fire (1987)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Ko Chow is an undercover cop who is under pressure from all sides. His boss, Inspector Lau, wants him to infiltrate a gang of ruthless jewel thieves; in order to do this he must obtain some handguns; his girlfriend wants him to commit to marriage or ...
Style: neo noir, cult classic, action thriller, crime drama, bloody ...
Audience: boys' night
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Time: 80s, 20th century
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Sinners and Saints (2010)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: In lawless storm ravaged New Orleans, eleaguered Detective Sean Riley is trying to cope with the death of his young son and the abandonment of his wife. Facing a probable suspension from the department, Riley is teamed with a young homicide ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, rough, suspense, perverse ...
Audience: boys' night
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Time: 21st century
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⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
 6.9
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The Boss (1973)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 109 min.
Story: A bomb attack in a cinema in Palermo kills all the fellows of Attardi's clan a part from Cocchi. He immediately understands that the author of the bomb attack is Daniello from Don Corrasco's clan. Cocchi is determined to revenge. His ...
Style: grindhouse, poliziottesco, perverse, cult classic, action thriller ...
Plot: mafia, exploitation, police, italian mafia, organized crime, police officer, explosions, mobster, martial arts, gangster, hitman, kidnapping ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: italy, sicily, europe, palermo italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Walker, Texas Ranger: Trial by Fire (2005)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Walker investigates a murder connected with a missing government weapon. In addition, he tries to track down a teen on the run from a crime syndicate.
Style: serious, suspenseful, exciting, realistic, cult classic ...
Audience: boys' night
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Time: 21st century
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⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Shaft's Big Score! (1972)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: John Shaft is back as the lady-loved black detective cop on the search for the murderer of a client.
Style: epic, neo noir, hood, grim, fast ...
Audience: boys' night
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Time: year 1972, 70s, 20th century
Place: new york, harlem, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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Cop Target (1990)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Farley Wood is hired to escort a rich widow of a DEA agent and her kid to the tropical island of San Cristobal. The widow needs protection from a gang of international terrorists and her escort soon suspects that the deceased husband was involved in ...
Style: independent film, poliziottesco
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⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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Tiger Cage (1988)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Something fishy is going on in the anti-Drug Trafficking Unit of the HK Police, and only a few honest cops know that the corruption goes all the way to the top. However, they must prove their case quickly, and by unconventional means, after they are ...
Style: bloody, cult classic, heroic, fast, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, heroic bloodshed, kung fu, police officer, fight club, police, gangster, betrayal, police corruption, frame up, partner, police detective ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: hong kong
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Against the Law (1997)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A trigger-happy outlaw goes on the run and a burned out, disillusioned cop gives chase. They end up head-to-head in a Los Angeles shoot out.
Style: independent film, realistic, serious, suspenseful
Audience: boys' night
Plot: serial killer, cop killer, police officer, tough cop, beach, reporter, duel, showdown, cop, journalism, chases and races, partners against crime ...
Time: 90s
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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