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The Big Swindle (2004)

6.6

715

Original name: 범죄의 재구성

Genre: Action, Crime

Country: South Korea

Duration: 116 min.

Story: After being convicted for fraud, one month has passed since CHOI Chang-Hyuk's release from jail. But this time around he's got and elaborate plan cooked up. It's the biggest bank heist in history that'll make any thief have a wet dream. The best five thieves come together to form a team.

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Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller

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Fugitives (2011)

Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller

Chile

60 min.

8.2

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, suspenseful, serious and exciting films with plots about crimes, crime, rivalry, criminal heroes, dishonesty, heist and crime gone awry mostly in Crime, Action and Thriller genres. Some movies like The Big Swindle: The Thieves (2012), Puzzle (2006), New World (2013), Infernal Affairs 2 (2003), The Hard Easy (2006). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.

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The Thieves (2012)

6.8

Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller

Country: South Korea

Duration: 135 min.

Story: A gang of South Korean thieves team up with a Hong Kong crew to steal a diamond necklace from a heavily-guarded casino safe in Macau. As the cops close in, old betrayals — and misunderstandings — resurface.

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Puzzle (2006)

6.4

255

Genre: Crime, Thriller

Country: South Korea

Duration: 91 min.

Story: Five strangers, each with his own special talents, are recruited by the mysterious 'X'. They do not know why they are brought together, but nonetheless agree to a series of potentially lucrative schemes. A planned bank robbery goes awry ...

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New World (2013)

7.6

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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller

Country: South Korea

Duration: 134 min.

Story: An undercover cop has his loyalties tested when the boss of the corporate gang he's spent years infiltrating dies.

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Infernal Affairs 2 (2003)

7.4

15K

Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller

Country: Hong Kong, China, Singapore

Duration: 119 min.

Story: In this prequel to Mou gaan dou (2002), Chan Wing Yan has just become an undercover cop in the triads while Lau Kin Ming joins the police force. Both the triads and the police find an enemy in a rival crime boss.

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The Hard Easy (2006)

5.9

693

Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller

Country: USA

Duration: 105 min.

Story: Two separate teams of jewel thieves, one low-rent and one upscale, both desperate, converge on the same score at the exact same time, and a simple job turns out very complicated and very bloody.

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User: 66%

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The Unjust (2010)

6.7

Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller

Country: South Korea

Duration: 119 min.

Story: A series of murders holds the nation in its sway and the longer the police fail to catch the murderer, the more the public begins to panic. Choi, a highly successful investigator whose methods have always held him back from promotion, senses that ...

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Steal (2002)

5.5

Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller

Country: France, UK, Canada

Duration: 83 min.

Story: An entrepreneurial criminal, Slim (Dorff) is as smart as they come. Cocky and confident, he assembles a team of risk-taking rush-seekers to pull off a series of five bank heists, each time using a different extreme sport to make the getaway. ...

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Setup (2011)

4.4

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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama

Country: USA

Duration: 85 min.

Story: A group of friends plan out a detailed heist that turns deadly when one betrays the other by taking off with the goods. Taking matters into his own hands, Sonny seeks out his revenge teaming up with the most dangerous mob boss in town to get back ...

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Welcome to the Punch (2013)

6.1

30K

Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller

Country: UK, USA

Duration: 99 min.

Story: When notorious criminal Jacob Sternwood is forced to return to London, it gives detective Max Lewinsky one last chance to take down the man he's always been after.

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The Five (1995)

6.9

Genre: Action, Drama, Crime

Country: Japan

Duration: 109 min.

Story: Five men plot to steal a large sum of money from the local yakuza, but everything does not go as planned and the men find themselves hunted down by contract killers

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Breaking News (2004)

6.7

Genre: Action, Crime, Drama

Country: Hong Kong

Duration: 90 min.

Story: When an ambulatory TV news unit live broadcasts the embarrassing defeat of a police battalion by five bank robbers in a ballistic showdown, the credibility of the police force drops to a nadir. While on a separate investigation in a run-down ...

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Cash (2007)

3.4

Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller

Country: India

Duration: 137 min.

Story: 'Cash' is a high octane heist thriller set in Cape Town, South Africa.The film revolves around an ace con artist,(Ajay Devgan) who hires a set of top notch robbers (Esha Deol, Zayed Khan, Dia Mirza and Riteish Deshmukh) to steal a set of ...

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User: 42%

A Bittersweet Life (2005)

7.6

30K

Genre: Action, Crime, Drama

Country: South Korea

Duration: 120 min.

Story: Kim Sun-woo is an enforcer and manager for a hotel owned by a cold, calculative crime boss, Kang who assigns Sun-Woo to a simple errand while he is away on a business trip; to shadow his young mistress, Heesoo, for fear that she may be cheating on ...

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Widows (2002)

5.6

212

Genre: Crime, Drama

Country: USA

Duration: 273 min.

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.

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System: 46%

User: 54%

3000 Miles to Graceland (2001)

5.9

41K

Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller

Country: USA

Duration: 125 min.

Story: It was an ingenious enough plan: rob the Riviera Casino's count room during an Elvis impersonator convention. But Thomas Murphy decided to keep all the money for himself and shot all his partners, including recently-freed ex-con Michael Zane. ...

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City on Fire (1987)

7.1

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 ...

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Dhoom 2 (2006)

6.4

20K

Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller

Country: India

Duration: 152 min.

Story: In the second installment of the Dhoom series, Jai and Ali are back as the buddy cops on their toughest job so far. "Mr.A" is an international thief who has planned to steal a priceless artifact in Mumbai and the police have got to nab ...

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The Rise (2012)

6.5

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller

Country: UK

Duration: 108 min.

Story: A young man recently released from prison recruits his three best friends to rob the local drug kingpin who is responsible for his incarceration.

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Ready 2 Die (2014)

4.7

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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.

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Styx (2001)

4.4

433

Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller

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Duration: 89 min.

Story: Nelson puts his criminal ways behind him, having spent years as a first-rate safecracker. This resolution lasts until his brother finds himself owing money to organised crime and Nelson needs to do one last big job, with a few other professionals.

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Kill Me Three Times (2014)

5.9

17K

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Story: While on a seemingly routine job, a jaded hit man discovers that he's not the only one with his target in the crosshairs.

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The Italian Job (2003)

7.0

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Like a Dragon (2007)

6.3

Genre: Action, Crime, Drama

Country: Japan, South Korea

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Easy Money II: Hard to Kill (2012)

6.2

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Firestorm (2013)

6.2

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Motorway (2012)

5.9

Genre: Action, Crime, Drama

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Fugitives (2011)

8.2

924

Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller

Country: Chile

Duration: 60 min.

Story: Four men become fugitives after a failed drug deal, running from north to south of Chile.

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Son of a Gun (2014)

6.5

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Story: Locked up for a minor crime, 19 year old JR quickly learns the harsh realities of prison life. Protection, if you can get it, is paramount. JR soon finds himself under the watchful eye of Australia's most notorious criminal, Brendan Lynch, but ...

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6.8

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