Movies like Mr. Ricco

If you like "Mr. Ricco" you are looking for political and cult film movies about / with lawyer, blaxploitation, attorney and lieutenant themes of Crime, Drama and Thriller genre shot in USA.

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Mr. Ricco (1975)

5.8

603

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller

Country: USA

Duration: 98 min.

Story: Accused murderer Frankie Steele walks free, thanks to the efforts of San Francisco defense lawyer Joe Ricco. Then a pair of cop killings strikes the city. All signs point to the newly released Steele as the perpetrator. Has Ricco sprung a killer? Dean Martin keeps his affable ease but abandons his hipster Matt Helm-series swagger to portray Ricco in his final leading-role film, a whodunit mystery set in the city that also was the gritty center of action for the era’s Bullitt and Dirty Harry. Convinced that Steele isn’t behind the murders, Ricco launches an inquiry and runs up against a police lieutenant assigned to birddog him, evidence planted by a racist cop and several assassination attempts on Ricco himself. As the mystery deepens, so does the danger. And behind it all is someone the attorney never suspected. The pre-Laverne & Shirley Cindy Williams plays Ricco’s office assistant.

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Most similar movies to Mr. Ricco

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, political and tense films with plots about lawyer, murder, courtroom, revenge, legal, courtroom drama and attorney mostly in Drama, Crime and Thriller genres. Some movies like Mr. Ricco: The Insult (2017), Death Benefit (1996), Anatomy of a Psycho (1961), Gramps (1995), The Black Gestapo (1975). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.

The Insult (2017)

7.6

17K

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller

Country: France, Cyprus, Belgium, Lebanon, USA

Duration: 113 min.

Story: After an emotional exchange between a Lebanese Christian and a Palestinian refugee escalates, the men end up in a court case that gets national attention.

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Death Benefit (1996)

5.9

168

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller

Country: USA

Duration: 89 min.

Story: Steven Keeney is a big corporate lawyer who decides to take on a small-time murder case to discover the true circumstances behind the death of a young girl. Virginia McGinnis is the one suspected of pushing the women off the cliff to collect on a ...

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89%

Anatomy of a Psycho (1961)

4.1

568

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller

Country: USA

Duration: 75 min.

Story: The crazed brother of a condemned killer sent to the gas chamber swears vengeance on those he holds responsible for his brother's execution.

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Gramps (1995)

5.4

156

Genre: Thriller

Country: USA

Duration: 90 min.

Story: After a long search, lawyer Clarke MacGruder finally locates his long lost father Jack. At first, everything seems fine with his new extended family, until the two set off on a hunting trip, where Jack starts showing a rather violent streak to his ...

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The Black Gestapo (1975)

4.7

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller

Country: USA

Duration: 90 min.

Story: General Ahmed has started an inner-city People's Army to try and relieve the misery of the citizens of Watts. When the locals are put under increasing pressure by Mafia thugs, Ahmed's second-in-command Colonel Kojah asks for permission to ...

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Cool Breeze (1972)

5.5

382

Genre: Crime, Drama

Country: USA

Duration: 101 min.

Story: A paroled crook masterminds a $3 million jewelry theft to fund a bank for businessmen.

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72%

Book of Numbers (1973)

7.1

Genre: Crime, Drama

Country: USA

Duration: 81 min.

Story: Two waiters in Depression-era Arkansas get involved in the numbers racket.

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72%

Willie Dynamite (1974)

6.4

Genre: Crime, Drama

Country: USA

Duration: 102 min.

Story: Willie Dynamite is a pimp who operates in New York City. Willie was a big success as a pimp, but now, just as fast as he rose to the top, he has hit bottom. A former prostitute who has become a social worker tries to get Willie to clean up his life ...

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The Babysitter (1969)

5.7

501

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller

Country: USA

Duration: 75 min.

Story: A middle-aged husband falls for his childrens' teenaged babysitter.

⇓ similarity ⇓

69%

The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald (1977)

6.7

142

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller

Country: USA

Duration: 210 min.

Story: The bizarre story behind the man accused of assassinating John F. Kennedy and what might have happened had he been brought to trial.

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68%

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Runaway Jury (2003)

7.1

100K

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller

Country: USA

Duration: 127 min.

Story: A juror on the inside and a woman on the outside manipulate a court trial involving a major gun manufacturer.

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Assata aka Joanne Chesimard (2008)

6.0

Genre: Drama

Country: USA

Duration: 96 min.

Story: Through dramatic re-creation, archival newsreel footage and revealing interviews, director Fred Baker's docudrama explores the controversial murder case centered on Black Panther activist and political exile Assata Shakur. In 1977, Shakur was ...

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Hit Man (1972)

5.7

Genre: Crime, Drama

Country: USA

Duration: 90 min.

Story: Bernie Casey portrays Tyrone and Pamela Grier plays a sultry skin-flick star in this first Americanized remake of the iconic Michael Caine action film Get Carter. From Watts to the West Side, from porno parlors to a high-rise, from motel dives to a ...

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62%

Last Time Forever (2006)

7.0

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller

Country: USA

Story: A small-time divorce lawyer gets involved with an alluring married woman, and together they draw her rich husband into a blackmail scheme.

⇓ similarity ⇓

60%

Vietnam Texas (1990)

4.5

148

Genre: Action, Crime, Drama

Country: USA

Duration: 92 min.

Story: A priest (Robert Ginty) learns that he fathered a child during his tour of duty in Vietnam and that the mother and child has relocated to Houston, Texas in the Little Saigon quarters. Searching for them, he also finds massive prejudice against the ...

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60%

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Rebel (1973)

4.1

819

Genre: Drama, Thriller

Country: USA

Duration: 80 min.

Story: In New York in the late 60s, a politically motivated group of students plans bombings of company offices who do business with dictators in Middle American countries. But when they contact a known terrorist and bombing specialist, the FBI gets on ...

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58%

Murder on the Border (2005)

5.4

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller

Country: USA

Duration: 97 min.

Story: Soon after he's assigned to defend an officer who shot a young Hispanic boy crossing the U.S.-Mexican border, attorney Eduardo Martinez learns that his own family is planning to enter the country illegally. But when his client offers to help ...

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57%

A Meeting of the Minds (2016)

8.1

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller

Country: USA

Duration: 106 min.

Story: A young corporate lawyer becomes fast friends with a maintenance man who works in his building after the maintenance man comes to him for help with a seemingly innocuous criminal matter. The lawyer's life then spirals out of control when he ...

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Sin by Murder (2004)

4.9

Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Country: USA

Duration: 88 min.

Story: On the night of their tenth anniversary, corporate lawyer Michael Barnes' wife is brutally murdered. Labelled the prime suspect by Detectives Jack Burns and Amy Cobb, Barnes must try to clear his name before it's too late... Along the way, ...

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Roman J. Israel, Esq. (2017)

6.5

40K

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller

Country: Canada, United Arab Emirates, USA

Duration: 122 min.

Story: Hard-nosed liberal lawyer Roman J. Israel has been fighting the good fight forever while others take the credit. When his partner – the firm’s frontman – has a heart attack, Israel suddenly takes on that role. He soon discovers some unsettling ...

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The Klansman (1974)

5.2

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller

Country: USA

Duration: 112 min.

Story: A small southern town has just been rocked by a tragedy: a young woman has been violently raped. The white town fathers immediately declare that the attacker had to be black, and place the blame on Garth, a young black man. Assuming that the men in ...

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49%

We the People (1994)

5.0

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller

Country: USA

Duration: 90 min.

Story: Alan and his pregnant wife, Amy, plan to spend a quiet weekend at their isolated vacation home in the woods. They are joined by two other couples, Bill and Sheri and then Charles and Liz. Suddenly they're confronted by two gun-toting killers, ...

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The Rainmaker (1997)

7.2

78K

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller

Country: USA, Germany

Duration: 135 min.

Story: When Rudy Baylor, a young attorney with no clients, goes to work for a seedy ambulance chaser, he wants to help the parents of a terminally ill boy in their suit against an insurance company. But to take on corporate America, Rudy and a scrappy ...

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In Justice (2006)

7.5

578

Genre: Crime, Drama

Country: USA

Duration: 60 min.

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Story: In Justice is an American television police procedural created by Michelle King and Robert King. The series began airing on Sunday, January 1, 2006 on ABC as a midseason replacement and assumed its regular night and time on Friday, January 6, 2006 ...

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The Pick-Up (1968)

6.7

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller

Country: USA

Duration: 92 min.

Story: Two mob money couriers, Frankie and Tony, have their latest package of $1 million stolen by two con women, Dana and Marcia, in which the men must find the women to recover the money before they become marked men.

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A Time to Kill (1996)

7.5

166K

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller

Country: USA

Duration: 149 min.

Story: A young lawyer defends a black man accused of murdering two men who raped his 10-year-old daughter, sparking a rebirth of the KKK.

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46%

Sweet Savior (1971)

4.3

223

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller

Country: USA

Duration: 92 min.

Story: Sandra Barlow is a 70's girl looking for kicks in the form of sex and drugs. One day, she decides to have an orgy drug party and invite some "freaks" led by Moon to entertain her and her rich friends. Moon has other things in mind as ...

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Nothing But the Truth (2008)

7.2

39K

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller

Country: USA

Duration: 108 min.

Story: When reporter Rachel Armstrong writes a story that reveals the identity of a covert CIA operative, the government demands that Rachel reveal her source. She defies the special prosecutor and is thrown in jail. Meanwhile, her attorney, Albert ...

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Lipstick (1976)

5.5

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller

Country: USA

Duration: 89 min.

Story: An aspiring avant-garde composer rapes a fashion model. When she takes him to court, she's slut-shamed by the defense and the man is exonerated. But justice will be served.