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Unit 7 (2012)
 6.5
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Unit 7 (2012)
Original name: Grupo 7
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Angel, a young intelligent and kind, aims to be a police inspector. Rafael instead is an expeditious, forceful and arrogant policeman. Meanwhile, Miguel and Mateo are part of Group 7, a group of rogue cops ready to do anything to achieve their goals.
Style: tense, rough, serious, suspenseful, social, realistic, stylized
Plot: fighting crime, law enforcement, bad cop, police brutality, fall in love, mafia, police officer, political intrigue, spanish history, european, cop, biopic, drug dealer, urban, strong violent content, prostitute, drug addict, violence, brothel, corrupt cop, tough law enforcer, intrigue, bar, darts, earring ...
Time: 80s, 21st century, contemporary
Place: andalusia, spain, europe

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, suspenseful and rough films with plots about law enforcement, police, rivalry, gangster, cop, police officer and fighting crime mostly in Thriller, Action and Drama genres. Some movies like Unit 7: Three Steps Above Heaven (2010), Dossier K. (2009), The Loner (1987), Go Fast (2008), 36th Precinct (2004). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Three Steps Above Heaven (2010)
Genre: Action, Drama, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Story of two young people who belong to different worlds. It is the chronicle of a love improbable, almost impossible but inevitable dragging in a frantic journey they discover the first great love. Babi (Maria Valverde) is a girl from upper-middle ...
Style: emotional, touching, romantic, serious, sexy ...
Audience: teens, date night, girls' night, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: love, teenage love, opposites attract, young love, fall in love, forbidden love, love and romance, friendship, couple relations, young lovers, youth, first love ...
Time: 21st century
Place: spain, iberian peninsula, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
 6.7
 3K
Dossier K. (2009)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Belgium, Netherlands
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Vincke and Verstuyft are detectives of the Antwerp police department. This time they have to deal with the Albanian mob and some problems in their own police division.
Style: tense, serious, psychological, detective, captivating ...
Plot: mafia, vengeance, fighting crime, police detective, rivalry, danger, law enforcement, murder, gangster, mob boss, violent content, partner ...
Time: 21st century
Place: belgium, antwerp, albania, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
 5.8
 2K
The Loner (1987)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A cop is looking for the killer of his friend.
Style: rough, exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: vengeance, loss of partner, fighting crime, police detective, law enforcement, police chase, revenge, guy, boy, police officer, bad guy, violent content ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: france, paris france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
In the Line of Duty: The F.B.I. Murders (1988)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: It is 1985, and a small, tranquil Florida town is being rocked by a wave of vicious serial murders and bank robberies. Particularly sickening to the authorities is the gratuitous use of violence by two “Rambo” like killers who dress themselves ...
Style: tense, rough, suspenseful, realistic, serious
Plot: police, cop, epic battle, criminal, police detective, law enforcement, police investigation, investigation, on the run, rivalry, chases and races, fighting crime ...
Time: 80s, year 1985, year 1986
Place: florida, usa, miami
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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 5.8
 2K
Go Fast (2008)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Marek, a crime squad officer, sets out to avenge the death of his partner and best friend, who was killed by drug traffickers. He asks for a posting to a new undercover unit created to infiltrate a drug gang that imports hashish from Morocco using ...
Style: serious, rough, suspenseful, tense, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: vengeance, law enforcement, drug dealing, rivalry, gang, working undercover, marijuana, loss of partner, car chase, undercover, police procedural, police ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
 7.1
 18K
36th Precinct (2004)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 111 min.
Story: The Film takes place in Paris, where two cops are competing for the vacant seat of chief of police while in the middle of a search for a gang of violent thieves. The movie is directed by Olivier Marchal, a former police officer who spent 12 years ...
Style: rough, tense, realistic, suspenseful, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night, manly
Plot: vengeance, rivalry, organized crime, police corruption, investigation, violence, dirty cop, twists and turns, police investigation, police, nudity, workplace intrigue ...
Time: year 2004, 21st century
Place: france, paris france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
 6.9
 4K
Prison 77 (2022)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Modelo Prison. Barcelona, 1977. Manuel, a young accountant, imprisoned and awaiting trial for embezzlement, faces a sentence of 6 to 8 years, a disproportionate punishment for the crime committed. Together with his cellmate Pino, he joins forces ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, exciting, tense, realistic ...
Plot: conflict, bureaucracy, prison, male nudity, prison sentence, guilty verdict, framed for a crime, money problems, accusation, jail, nazi, gulag ...
Time: 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
 6.4
 3K
The Outsider (1983)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 103 min.
Story: In another typical Jean-Paul Belmondo vehicle, the French action hero plays a policeman prone to advancing the cause of justice by any means necessary. On his agenda is a powerful drug cartel working out of Paris and Marseilles, with a drug lord ...
Style: serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful, hood ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: car chase, gangster, police officer, revenge, fighting crime, drug abuse, injustice, hotshot hero, lone wolves, chases and races, cop, gang ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, year 1980
Place: france, paris france, europe, marseille, provence
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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Aan: Men at Work (2004)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 149 min.
Story: Crime is at its highest peak in Mumbai with it split in three ways. Walia has one-third, Manik Rao has one-third and Roshni has a third of the Mumbai territory. The crime rate rises with more smuggling, trading and illegal activities soaring.
Style: serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful
Plot: police corruption, gangster, fighting crime, law enforcement, dishonesty, master criminal, tough law enforcer, rivalry, society, love interest, police, fighting the system ...
Time: 21st century
Place: asia, india
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
 5.3
 822
The Gladiator (1986)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A road warrior vigilante avenges his brother's death at the hands of a crazy motorist by using his souped-up pickup to apprehend drunken drivers and others who abuse their driving privileges.
Style: serious, realistic, tense, exciting, suspenseful ...
Plot: vigilante, car chase, killer, auto mechanic, terror, gladiator, superhero, car, vengeance, revenge, duel, violent content ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
 5.8
 980
Newsmakers (2009)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Russia, Sweden
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A gang of crooks robbing cash collectors, run into a police surveillance team and the inadequate police response results in a gunfight. A TV crew on assignment in the area happens to capture this humiliation on camera, and this example of police ...
Style: exciting, serious, rough, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: manipulation, dishonesty, gang, law enforcement, media, rivalry, journalism, criminal heroes, cop, dystopia, police officer, tough law enforcer ...
Time: 21st century
Place: russia, moscow russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
 7.3
 10K
If You Knew Me (2015)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 168 min.
Story: Sathyadev, who is on a career break, is forced to put on his cop shoes ones again to save Thenmozhi, a young woman who is the target of a criminal organ harvesting group, led by a ghost from his past.
Style: exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, thrilling ...
Plot: police, vengeance, police investigation, rivalry, fighting crime, self discovery, law enforcement, uninhibited rivalry, murder, danger, genius, villain ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
 5.1
 918
Scar City (1998)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A young cop gets thrown in with a special police squad who are acting as assassins against hoods and who don't care who gets in the way.
Style: serious, rough, suspenseful, suspense, erotic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: danger, law enforcement, police investigation, partner, undercover, cop, murder, partners against crime, criminal's revenge, fighting crime, police corruption, villain ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Third World Cop (1999)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Jamaica
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Loose cannon cop Capone returns to his home town of Kingston to join a group of officers fighting organised crime in the area. On his first day he uncovers gun smuggling operation that may be connected with lead criminal Oney. However his old crew, ...
Style: crime drama, independent film, serious, realistic, rough ...
Plot: reggae, black, jamaican, cop, friendship, drug dealer, friends, police detective, right hand man, fish out of water, rivalry, buddies ...
Time: 90s
Place: jamaica, africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 6.7
 222K
Gangster Squad (2013)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Los Angeles, 1949. Ruthless, Brooklyn-born mob king Mickey Cohen runs the show in this town, reaping the ill-gotten gains from the drugs, the guns, the prostitutes and — if he has his way — every wire bet placed west of Chicago. And he does it ...
Style: rough, exciting, stylized, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night, chick flick, manly, teens
Plot: mob boss, organized crime, mafia, gangster, partners against crime, law enforcement, corruption, revenge, police brutality, squad, power struggle, love triangle ...
Time: 1940s, year 2013, 2010s, 20th century, year 1949 ...
Place: los angeles, california, israel, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 6.2
 3K
Hyena (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Good policing doesn't necessarily mean doing everything by the book. But as the business of crime in London turns to favour the Albanians and Turks, how does a "good" policeman survive?
Style: serious, realistic, tense, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: police corruption, gangster, murder, drug dealing, danger, police investigation, law enforcement, dishonesty, gang, drug, human trafficking, corruption ...
Time: 21st century
Place: london, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 5.4
 1K
Shooters (2002)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Netherlands, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Gilly comes out of prison after serving a six year stretch and decides that he will now turn his life around and go straight. But when he returns to his South London home and visits his old colleague J, in hope of obtaining his share of the proceeds ...
Style: rough, tense, serious, suspenseful, realistic
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cons and scams, going straight, gangster, criminal heroes, drug dealing, life is a bitch, law enforcement, addiction, criminal's revenge, dishonesty, drug abuse, rivalry ...
Place: england, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
The New Centurions (1972)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: An idealistic rookie cop joins the LAPD to make ends meet while finishing law school, and is indoctrinated by a seasoned veteran. As time goes on, he loses his ambitions and family as police work becomes his entire life.
Style: neo noir, crime drama, realistic, serious, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: police, urban, police officer, suicide, car chase, peplum, alcoholic, cop, interracial, rookie, lapd, police station ...
Time: year 1972, 70s
Place: los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Absolute Deception (2013)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Australia, Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A widowed reporter recruits the help of a federal agent to investigate her late husband's secrets, but the two become the target of unknown attackers. When FBI Agent John Nelson’s key informant, Miles, is abducted and shot, all that’s left ...
Style: psychological, suspenseful, rough, serious, realistic ...
Plot: murder, uncover truth, manhunt, undercover, investigation, special agent, danger, chases and races, law enforcement, dishonesty, couple relations, journalism ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, australia, hong kong, cuba
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 8.0
 110K
Elite Squad (2007)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Brazil, USA, Argentina
Duration: 115 min.
Story: In 1997, before the visit of the pope to Rio de Janeiro, Captain Nascimento from BOPE (Special Police Operations Battalion) is assigned to eliminate the risks of the drug dealers in a dangerous slum nearby where the pope intends to be lodged.
Style: disturbing, bleak, serious, intense, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: police corruption, police brutality, drug traffic, slum, drug lord, favela, squad, law enforcement, torture, poverty, police, organized crime ...
Time: year 2007, 2000s, 90s, 20th century, year 1997 ...
Place: brazil, rio de janeiro, latin america, south america
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 5.8
 2K
Colt 45 (2014)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 85 min.
Story: The young police man Vincent is the best in his class, and denies to be recruited to the special forces. But when the corrupt Milo manages to get a grip on him, his life is turned into a living nightmare.
Style: tense, exciting, rough, suspenseful, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: swat, murder, survival, law enforcement, police corruption, danger, violence spree, organized crime, mafia, cop, armory, dead father ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 6.4
 2K
Monster (2014)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Bok-Soon (Kim Go-eun-I) runs a street stall while taking care of her younger sister. Bok-Soon may not be the brightest girl but what she lacks in intelligence, she makes up for in uncontrollable rage. She’s infamously known as the “psycho ...
Style: serious, rough, suspenseful, exciting, psychological ...
Plot: serial killer, vengeance, police investigation, psychopath, rivalry, murder, asian prostitute, gangster, assassination, criminal heroes, law enforcement, contests and competitions ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
 5.9
 754
Ambushed (1998)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Jim Natter, the leader of a violent Kuk Klux Klan lodge, is shot dead. His teenage son Eric Natter is found nearby, and taken into police custody for his protection pending the investigation. While four cops drive him to a safe-house, they are ...
Style: suspense, independent film, realistic, serious, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: racism, youth, nypd, xenophobia, police, ku klux klan, white supremacy, special agent, partner, chases and races, dishonesty, legal investigation ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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 3.6
 113
Top Cop (1990)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A city finds it is in the grips of a ruthless drug kingpin with little hope of any respite. A cop with an unorthodox style loses his partner after he is murdered by the drug lord's henchmen. Tired of the corruption and strife the criminals ...
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, detective, independent film
Plot: cop, courtroom drama, hitman, rivalry, fighting crime, drug dealing, law enforcement, job, drug, killer, murderer, drug dealer ...
Time: 80s
Place: arkansas
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
 5.1
 1K
Diamond 13 (2009)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium, Luxembourg
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A cop goes up against his lifelong friend, who has become one of the city's biggest drug traffickers.
Style: serious, rough, realistic, exciting, suspenseful
Audience: boys' night
Plot: dishonesty, drug dealing, law enforcement, buddies, tough law enforcer, partner, cop, friends, police corruption, violent content, profanity, prostitute ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, paris france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
 6.4
 4K
Aurangzeb (2013)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 137 min.
Story: Gurgaon is the most modern boom-town of "India Shining", the new frontier to be conquered by those who understand real estate. This city rose from a small town to a boom town satellite city in just fifteen years. However, the law and order ...
Style: serious, rough, exciting, captivating, offbeat ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: undercover, gangster, police investigation, working undercover, fighting crime, law enforcement, organized crime, presumed dead, undercover police officer, erotica, mafia, undercover agent ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Brooklyn's Finest (2009)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story: Enforcing the law within the notoriously rough Brownsville section of the city and especially within the Van Dyke housing projects is the NYPD's sixty-fifth precinct. Three police officers struggle with the sometimes fine line between right and ...
Style: tense, realistic, suspense, neo noir, hood ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: corrupt cop, police corruption, police, corruption, organized crime, rookie, nypd, dirty cop, betrayal, swat team, robbery, murder ...
Time: year 2010, year 2009, 21st century
Place: new york, brooklyn new york city, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
The Son of No One (2011)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A rookie cop is assigned to the 118 Precinct in the same district where he grew up. The Precinct Captain starts receiving letters about two unsolved murders that happened many years ago in the housing projects when the rookie cop was just a kid. ...
Style: serious, tense, bleak, realistic, rough ...
Plot: police detective, police corruption, haunted by the past, law enforcement, murder, mental institution, husband wife relationship, police, nypd, police officer, sex crime, worship ...
Time: 80s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Moonshine Highway (1996)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: The plans of a moonshine runner trying to make a better life by becoming a stock car racer go awry when the local sheriff is determined to kill the driver over an affair with his wife.
Style: exciting, realistic, serious, rough, suspenseful
Audience: boys' night
Plot: tough heroes, profanity, estrangement, heist, police corruption, love affair, working undercover, rivalry, heroes, society, couple relations, introspection ...
Time: 50s, 20th century, 1950s
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Easy Money III: Life Deluxe (2013)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 127 min.
Story: JW now lives in exile and is more than ever determined to find out what happened to his missing sister Camilla. Every trace leads him to the world of organized crime in Stockholm. Jorge is about to do his last score - the largest robbery in Swedish ...
Style: serious, tense, realistic, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: mafia, murder, revenge, gang, working undercover, danger, missing person, criminal heroes, nordic, drug, mob boss, crime boss ...
Time: 21st century
Place: eastern europe, scandinavia, stockholm sweden
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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