Movies like Mickey One

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Mickey One (1965)
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Mickey One (1965)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A former comic is on the run from the mob.
Style: neo noir, independent film, surreal, detective, psychological, atmospheric, offbeat, serious, realistic, stylized ...
Plot: jazz, nightclub, on the run, loneliness, debt, paranoia, mobster, music and dance, gangster, stand up comedian, chases and races, artists and showbiz, mafia, cabaret, male female relationship, drunkenness, payback, witness, brawl, junkyard, audition, talent agent, strip club, male objectification, pursuit ...
Time: 60s, 20th century, 1960s
Place: chicago, detroit, usa
Keyword: gangsters, alias, jazz score

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Most similar movies to Mickey One

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, neo noir and suspenseful films with plots about gangster, murder, mafia, organized crime, dishonesty, violent content and gang mostly in Crime, Drama and Thriller genres. Some movies like Mickey One: The Cotton Club (1984), Bugsy (1991), This Thing of Ours (2002), Mobsters (1991), Place Vendome (1998). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Cotton Club (1984)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story: The story of the people that frequented Harlem's famous nightclubs, 'The Cotton Club', and those that ran it.
Style: intense, captivating, realistic, atmospheric, visually stunning ...
Plot: jazz, mafia, gangster, music, nightclub, prohibition, love triangle, ambition, rivalry, love and romance, flapper, mob boss ...
Time: 1920s, 1930s, 20th century, year 1929
Place: new york, usa, harlem, new york city, grand central station manhattan new york city, manhattan new york city ...
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95%
The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story: A proud strip club owner is forced to come to terms with himself as a man, when his gambling addiction gets him in hot water with the mob, who offer him only one alternative.
Style: neo noir, noir, art house, independent film, atmospheric ...
Audience: manly
Plot: nightclub, gambling, murder, mafia, gambling debt, great ending, female nudity, hitman, strip club, crime gone awry, gangster, mobster ...
Time: year 1976, 70s, 20th century
Place: california, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
 6.8
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Bugsy (1991)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 136 min.
Story: New York gangster Ben 'Bugsy' Siegel takes a brief business trip to Los Angeles. A sharp-dressing womanizer with a foul temper, Siegel doesn't hesitate to kill or maim anyone crossing him. In L.A. the life, the movies, and most of all ...
Style: realistic, intense, stylized, suspense, talky ...
Plot: casino, gambling, mafia, gangster, biopic, organized crime, mobster, hollywood, ambition, rise and fall, bohemian life, love affair ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1991, year 1945
Place: las vegas, los angeles, usa, new york, california ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
This Thing of Ours (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Using the Internet and global satellites, a group of gangsters pull off the biggest bank heist in the Mafia's history.
Style: serious, rough, suspenseful, realistic, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: mafia, gangster, organized crime, master criminal, chases and races, cosa nostra, partner, criminal heroes, dishonesty, betrayal, crime gone awry, bank ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new jersey, usa, miami
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
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Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead (1995)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: A mafia film in Tarantino style with a star-studded cast. Jimmy’s “The Saint” gangster career has finally ended. Yet now he finds him self doing favors for a wise godfather known as “The Man with the Plan.”
Style: neo noir, atmospheric, psychological, tense, realistic ...
Plot: one last job, mafia, crime gone awry, gangster, organized crime, hitman, redemption, gunfight, disorder, hopes, caper, revenge ...
Time: year 1995, 90s
Place: usa, colorado, denver colorado
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
 5.9
 10K
Mobsters (1991)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: The story of a group of friends in turn of the century New York, from their early days as street hoods to their rise in the world of organized crime...
Style: talky, suspense, intense, suspenseful, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: mobster, gangster, organized crime, friendship, betrayal, greed, murder, criminal heroes, blind ambition, dishonesty, gang, mob boss ...
Time: 1920s, year 1991, 1910s, 1930s, year 1917
Place: new york, israel, usa, coney island brooklyn new york city, brooklyn new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
Place Vendome (1998)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 117 min.
Story: The story of a woman that remained distracted for a long time from her life, from the passions that made her feel alive. The importance of true love is compared with the material value of diamonds. Only one truly lasts forever. She's got to ...
Style: neo noir, realistic, psychological, serious, stylized ...
Plot: women, flashback, drunkenness, betrayal, dishonesty, haunted by the past, alcohol abuse, cons and scams, diamond, female protagonist, widow, suicide ...
Time: year 1998, 90s
Place: france, paris france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 6.7
 11K
Performance (1970)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Young gangster Chas Devlin seeks refuge from the mob in a basement belonging to a reclusive, fading rock star Turner.
Style: psychedelic, surreal, atmospheric, stylized, sexy ...
Plot: gangster, rock star, organized crime, surrealism, violence, rock and roll, sex, music, rock, basement, murder, on the run ...
Time: 20th century, year 1970, 60s
Place: london, england, europe, paris france, berlin germany ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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Gunshy (1998)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: When the New York journalist Jake Bridges catches his girlfriend with another guy, he goes to Atlantic City to drink himself to oblivion. He is saved from a bar brawl by a small-time mobster Frankie, and Jake falls in love with Frankie's ...
Style: neo noir, tense, realistic, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot: infidelity, reporter, erotica, mobster, journalist, writer's life, unlikely criminals, love and romance, dishonesty, journalism, fall in love, twists and turns ...
Time: 90s
Place: atlantic city, new york, usa, atlantic city new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
The Man Who Wasn't There (2001)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 116 min.
Story: A tale of passion, crime and punishment set in the summer of 1949. Ed Crane, a barber in a small California town, is dissatisfied with his life, but his wife Doris' infidelity presents him with a chance to change it.
Style: neo noir, black and white, atmospheric, psychological, surreal ...
Plot: murder, misfit, twists and turns, blackmail, infidelity, trial, eccentricity, deception, false accusation, life is a bitch, self discovery, couples ...
Time: 1940s, year 2001, y2k, 2000s, 20th century
Place: california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Second Breath (1966)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 150 min.
Story: With his customary restraint and ruthless attention to detail, director Jean-Pierre Melville follows the parallel tracks of French underworld criminal Gu (the inimitable Lino Ventura), escaped from prison and roped into one last robbery, and the ...
Style: neo noir, black and white, noir, crime drama, exciting ...
Audience: manly
Plot: robbery, criminal, caper, fugitive, jazz, post war, dream, escape, manipulation, organized crime, mafia, planning ...
Time: year 1966, 60s
Place: france, paris france, europe, south of france, marseille
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Once a Thief (1965)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A young ex-con trying to go straight gets caught up in another criminal scheme.
Style: neo noir, retro, noir, realistic, serious ...
Plot: heist, jazz, robbery, woman with a gun, music and dance, explosions, family relations, bare chested male, homosexual subtext, siblings relations, false arrest, gang ...
Time: 20th century, 60s
Place: california, san francisco, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Japanese Summer: Double Suicide (1967)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A sex-obsessed young woman, a suicidal young man she meets on the street, a gun-crazy wannabe gangster—these are just three of the irrational, oddball anarchists trapped in an underground hideaway in Oshima’s devilish, absurdist portrait of what ...
Style: political, psychological, serious, realistic, surreal ...
Plot: anarchist, anarchism, suicide, killing spree, death, murder, sexuality, yakuza, held captive, captive, anarchy, murderer ...
Time: 20th century, 60s
Place: japan, tokyo, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Brooklyn Rules (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Brooklyn, 1985. With the mob world as a backdrop, three life-long friends struggle with questions of love, loss and loyalty.
Style: realistic, captivating, psychological, atmospheric, serious ...
Plot: gangster, friendship, friends, mafia, love affair, coming of age, youth, murder, revenge, city life, rivalry, danger ...
Time: 80s, year 2007, 20th century, 70s
Place: brooklyn new york city, new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Eddie's friends are numerous, but the term friends is suspect. As a small time hood Eddie is about to go back to jail. In order to escape this fate he deals information on stolen guns to the feds. Simultaneously he is supplying arms to his bank ...
Style: neo noir, cynical, noir, retro, crime thriller ...
Audience: manly
Plot: gangster, criminal, betrayal, bartender, heist, hustler, robbery, mafia, organized crime, gang, city, politics ...
Time: year 1973, 70s, 20th century
Place: boston, massachusetts, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
 5.5
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Hotel Noir (2012)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Los Angeles, 1958: a detective holes up in a downtown hotel awaiting killers to come get him. During the course of one night he will meet various occupants of the hotel and the truth of how he came to be in his present situation will be revealed.
Style: neo noir, realistic, atmospheric, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot: haunted by the past, private detective, hitman, femme fatale, danger, sex scene, seduction, uncover truth, hotel, hotel guest, killer, power relations ...
Time: 20th century, 1950s, 50s
Place: usa, los angeles, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
 7.3
 159K
Rounders (1998)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story: A young man is a reformed gambler who must return to playing big stakes poker to help a friend pay off loan sharks.
Style: neo noir, clever, suspense, psychological, serious ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: gambling, poker, addiction, friendship, law student, debt, mafia, gambling debt, poker player, prison, underdog, ex convict ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york, atlantic city, usa, atlantic city new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Mikey and Nicky (1976)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: In Philadelphia, a small-time bookie who stole mob money is in hiding and he begs a childhood friend to help him evade the hit-man who's on his trail.
Style: neo noir, crime drama, independent film, talky, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: friendship, hitman, on the run, gangster, mafia, organized crime, urban, inspiration, stoner, memory, cat and mouse, big city ...
Time: year 1976, 70s
Place: philadelphia, new york, pennsylvania
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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True Confessions (1981)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A cop clashes with his priest brother while investigating the brutal murder of a young prostitute
Style: neo noir, detective, intelligent, talky, suspenseful ...
Plot: murder, catholic priest, cop, priest, politics, serial killer, redemption, clergy, political corruption, police corruption, desert, catholic ...
Time: 1940s, year 1981, 20th century, 1950s
Place: los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Public Morals (2015)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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Story: Set in the early 1960's in New York City's Public Morals Division, where cops walk the line between morality and criminality as the temptations that come from dealing with all kinds of vice can get the better of them.
Style: serious, suspenseful, tense, rough, detective ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: police, moral dilemma, temptation, partner, law enforcement, partners against crime, gangster, investigation, mafia, nypd, post war, courtroom drama ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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The Funeral (1996)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: The story concerns the funeral of one of three brothers in a family of gangsters that lived in New York in 1930s. Details of the past of the brothers and their families are shown through a series of flashbacks.
Style: neo noir, independent film, surprise ending, hood, philosophical ...
Plot: mafia, gangster, organized crime, revenge, labor union, murder, vengeance, mobster, madness, ghetto, world war one, sex crime ...
Time: year 1996, 20th century, 1930s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
A New York Heartbeat (2013)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Spider, a young gang leader, gets in over his head when he robs a notorious gangster. On the run, he's taken in by a sheltered young woman and her reclusive uncle, a legendary mobster gunned down by the same gangster now pursuing Spider.
Style: serious, rough, emotional, suspenseful, independent film ...
Plot: gangster, fall in love, on the run, criminal's revenge, danger, youth, rivalry, juvenile delinquency, vengeance, love and romance, crime gone awry, chases and races ...
Time: 20th century, 50s, 1950s
Place: new york, brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
The Ministers (2009)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A NYPD detective attempts to avenge the death of her father, but unwittingly becomes involved with one of his killers.
Style: tense, serious, captivating, suspense, psychological ...
Plot: vengeance, danger, rivalry, profanity, law enforcement, unlikely couple, murder, brainwashing, religious fanaticism, strong violent content, violent content, chases and races ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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God's Pocket (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A boozy lowlife tries to bury the truth about his crazy stepson's suspicious death, but a nosy newspaper columnist and the young man's mother complicate matters.
Style: tense, psychological, captivating, rough, neo noir ...
Plot: working class, urban ghetto life, uncover truth, investigation, life turned upside down, down on your luck, society, life is a bitch, suspicion, death, neighborhood, irish mob ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, 21st century
Place: philadelphia, pennsylvania, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 6.3
 3K
Dollars (1971)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story: A bank security expert plots with a call girl to rob the safety deposit boxes of three very different criminals from a high-tech bank in Hamburg.
Style: semi serious, realistic, cynical, humorous, clever ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: lovers on the run, robbery, caper, minimal dialogue, bank, heist, partner, hostage, disorder, chase, law enforcement, on the run ...
Time: year 1971, 20th century, 70s
Place: germany, europe, hamburg germany, copenhagen, san diego california
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
The Onion Field (1979)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story: Greg Powell, a disturbed ex-con, recruits Jimmy Youngblood (Smith) a petty thief, as partner in crime. Powell panics when they two of are pulled over by two cops for tail lights. Powell decides to kidnap the cops and Smith goes along with his crazy ...
Style: neo noir, atmospheric, psychological, realistic, serious ...
Plot: courtroom drama, murder, police investigation, true crime, legal, moral ambiguity, manipulation, brutality, courtroom, trial, law enforcer killer, haunted by the past ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, year 1979, 60s, year 1963
Place: los angeles, california, usa, las vegas
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
The Killer Inside Me (1976)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A sheriff struggles to hide his violent murderous acts.
Style: neo noir, serious, psychological, realistic, tense ...
Plot: serial killer, killer, small town, psychopath, profanity, violent content, small town life, law enforcement, unlikely criminals, danger, dishonesty, social relations ...
Time: year 1976, 70s, 20th century
Place: montana, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 7.1
 6K
The Gambler (1974)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: New York City English professor Axel Freed outwardly seems like an upstanding citizen. But privately Freed is in the clutches of a severe gambling addiction that threatens to destroy him.
Style: suspense, intense, tense, clever, realistic ...
Plot: addiction, gambling addiction, college, character study, debt, gambling debt, casino, bookies, gambling, hopes, gangster, bet ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: new york, usa, las vegas, harvard university
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 6.0
 988
Poodle Springs (1998)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Private eye Philip Marlowe and his bride move to a desert town, where he uncovers a land scheme.
Style: neo noir, detective, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Plot: private detective, murder, private investigator, prostitute, gambler, small town, casino, father in law son in law relationship, businessman, pimp, dysfunctional marriage, love ...
Time: 60s, 20th century, year 1963
Place: california, nevada, usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Blast of Silence (1961)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story: A hired killer from Cleveland has a job to do on a second-string mob boss in New York. But a special girl from his past, and a fat gun dealer with pet rats, each gets in his way.
Style: neo noir, noir, christmas horror, crime drama, christmas classics ...
Plot: hitman, christmas, killer, organized crime, loner, big city, loneliness, assassin, politics, criminal, bad father, professional ...
Time: year 1961, 60s
Place: new york, usa, harlem, grand central station manhattan new york city, greenwich village manhattan new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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