Movies like Life Tastes Good

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Life Tastes Good (1999)
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Life Tastes Good (1999)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Crime - A quirky tale that brings together a murder, poisonous mushrooms and a mysterious woman to reveal the ephemeral beauty of life and the unforgiving nature of death. It is the story of a rogue mobster who finds love in the darkest days of his life. - Sab Shimono, Julia Nickson, Tamlyn Tomita
Style: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, surprise ending, neo noir
Plot: reincarnation, gangsters, murder, graphic violence, love and romance, fall in love, sexual relations, love affair, amateur detective, estrangement, criminal heroes, mysterious character, ghost, family relations, drug addiction, brother sister relationship, widower, corpse, warehouse, affair, partner, yuppie, flashback, deadly, reunion ...
Time: 90s
Place: san francisco, california

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Most similar movies to Life Tastes Good

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, suspenseful and rough films with plots about criminal heroes, gangsters, murder, deadly, dishonesty, rivalry and love and romance mostly in Crime, Drama and Thriller genres. Some movies like Life Tastes Good: Guilty Hearts (2002), Gangster (2007), Witness Protection (1999), Deadfall (1993), The Thief & the Stripper (2000). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Guilty Hearts (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 180 min.
Story: Quiet and unassuming church organist Jenny Moran is depressed with her marriage to working-class Matt and leaves him. Jenny begins an affair with the manipulative and charming Dr. Stephen Carrow, who is also deacon of her church and a married man. ...
Style: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Plot: murder, church, love affair, investigation, fall in love, infidelity, family problems, couples, crumbling marriage, love and romance, dishonesty, estrangement ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, canada
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95%
 2.8
 846
Gangster (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 122 min.
Story: Antonio Moro works for gangster boss Thomas Steel. He lives happily with his girlfriend Tanya who is expecting their child. Antonio's future looks bright, until one evening when he is ordered to kill a person who is close to all of them.
Style: neo noir, realistic, serious, suspenseful, stylized
Plot: gangsters, criminal heroes, family relations, love and romance, assassination, moral dilemma, law enforcement, love affair, siblings relations, twists and turns, criminal, organized crime ...
Time: 21st century
Place: sweden, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
81%
Witness Protection (1999)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Would you be willing to walk away from everyone and everything you've ever known in exchange for your safety? This is the question facing career criminal Bobby "Bats" Batton (Tom Sizemore); on the outs with the mob and facing ...
Style: tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Audience: boys' night
Plot: witness protection program, samurai, organized crime, gang, gangsters, betrayal, ghost, dishonesty, criminal heroes, couple relations, rivalry, murder ...
Time: 90s
Place: usa, seattle, boston
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
 4.0
 4K
Deadfall (1993)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: After he accidentally kills his father, Mike, during a sting, Joe tries to carry out Mike's dying wish by recovering valuables that Mike's twin brother Lou stole from him years earlier. But Uncle Lou is also a confidence artist, and Joe is ...
Style: stylized, suspenseful, serious, realistic, neo noir
Audience: boys' night
Plot: murder, criminal heroes, gangsters, cons and scams, crime gone awry, uncle nephew relationship, greed, last wish, fight scenes, buddies, drugs, manipulation ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
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The Thief & the Stripper (2000)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Jack just lost his P.I. license and his life is on a downward spiral. He decides to steal a cash briefcase from the local gangsters. He hides in a strip joint owned by a local mob legend Jimmie D and pays a stripper to help him escape. The gangsters ...
Style: realistic, serious, rough, tense
Plot: gangsters, criminal heroes, law enforcement, murder, stripper, henchman, deception, sex, female nudity, nude, corvette
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: california
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
Laws of Gravity (1992)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Jimmy and Jon are a couple of Brooklyn guys who somehow never found their way into workaday society; they never found their way into big-time crime, either.
Style: neo noir, tense, serious, realistic, bleak ...
Plot: mafia, low lives, urban ghetto, heist, down on your luck, city life, murder, chaos and mayhem, urban ghetto life, arms dealing, juvenile delinquency, drug dealing ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york, usa, brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
 5.7
 708
Outlaw Country (2012)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A crime thriller/family drama set against the backdrop of southern organized crime and Nashville royalty where music, love, hope and tragedy collide. Created as a pilot for a TV Series which was not taken up, this has now been aired as a TV Movie.
Style: realistic, suspenseful, serious, captivating, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gang, family relations, parents and children, love and romance, society, graphic violence, danger
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, tennessee
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
 6.1
 133
Blood Ties (1986)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story: An innocent American engineer is blackmailed by gangsters into a plot to assassinate his cousin, who is a judge in Sicily fighting the Mafia.
Style: realistic, serious, rough, suspenseful
Plot: italian mafia, gangsters, murder, kidnapping, rescue, graphic violence, nude, hitman, mafia, drugs, danger, deadly
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: sicily, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
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A Brooklyn State of Mind (1998)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Al Stanco has lived all of his life in Brooklyn and does some work for the local crime lord, Danny Parente. New to the neighbourhood is Gabriela, a filmmaker shooting a documentary on the real Brooklyn. Al and Gabriela become friendly but the ...
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, rough
Plot: gangsters, mafia, sexual content, graphic violence, conspiracy, tough heroes, hitman, love and romance, law enforcement, vengeance, criminal heroes, going straight ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
Perry Mason: The Case of the Glass Coffin (1991)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: David Katz is a world famous magician and he comes to Denver with his group to perform for a charity gala for disabled children. Also there is Perry and Della as all three are supporters of the charity. Kate Ford, an assistant with an arrogant ...
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, rough
Plot: lawyer, courtroom, power relations, against the odds, experiment gone awry, false accusation, courtroom drama, dishonesty, legal, investigation, amateur detective, dedicated lawyer ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
 4.8
 632
Weapons (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Weapons presents a series of brutal, seemingly random youth-related killings over the course of a weekend in a typical small town in America, and tragically reveals how they are all interrelated.
Style: serious, rough, disturbing, suspenseful, realistic ...
Plot: vengeance, juvenile delinquency, society, criminal heroes, youth, working class, life is a bitch, small town, homecoming, murder, gangsters, teenage pregnancy ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
 4.3
 228
Silver Man (2003)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A street performer fights a pathological man for his girlfriend's love.
Style: realistic, serious, rough, suspenseful
Plot: fall in love, dangerous attraction, hotshot hero, criminal's revenge, hitman, couples, rivalry, love and romance, dishonesty, gangsters, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, criminal heroes ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
 5.2
 629
Red Letters (2000)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A college professor reluctantly hides an escaped female convict who tries to get him to help prove her innocent of a murder.
Style: realistic, suspenseful, rough, tense, serious ...
Plot: college, prison, law enforcement, dishonesty, destructive relationship, amateur detective, obsession, murder, escaped prisoner, righting the wronged, life is a bitch, nude ...
Time: 90s
Place: california, usa, mojave desert
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Shadows & Lies (2010)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The story of William Vincent as he recounts the eccentric and curious path that has brought him, at mortal risk, to New York City, after four years in exile, to rescue a woman he scarcely knows, Ann, from the vague crime syndicate that first brought ...
Style: tense, rough, serious, realistic, neo noir ...
Audience: date night
Plot: love and romance, fall in love, criminal heroes, dishonesty, lovers on the run, rescue, woman in danger, criminal, gangsters, rivalry, eavesdropping, fake identity ...
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Blood Vows: The Story of a Mafia Wife (1987)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A fashion designer marries a lawyer only to discover that his father is an imfamous mafia don.
Style: realistic, serious, touching
Plot: family relations, gangsters, couples, legal action, dishonesty, rescue, special agents, drug dealing, love and romance, defamation, love affair, fall in love ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
 5.9
 1K
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, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot: infidelity, erotica, reporter, bandit, journalist, writer's life, journalism, gangsters, dishonesty, unlikely criminals, love and romance, love triangle ...
Time: 90s
Place: usa, new york, atlantic city new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
 6.0
 658
My Kingdom (2001)
Genre: Drama, Crime
Country: Italy, UK
Duration: 117 min.
Story: A powerful dynasty, headed by a charismatic, manipulative father, falls when he decides to hand over his criminal empire to his three corrupt and power-hungry daughters. Kath runs a brothel down by the docks, Tracy owns a soccer team and Jo, a ...
Style: rough, suspenseful, serious, tense, realistic
Plot: rivalry, family relations, vengeance, dishonesty, betrayal, drug dealing, gangsters, parents and children, murder, prostitute, tragic love, aging ...
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Kings of South Beach (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: This fact-based crime thriller details the downfall of Miami's hottest nightclub. Chris Troiano owns the trendiest nightclub in all of South Beach; a place where the line always winds down the block and only the most beautiful people make it ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, rough, realistic
Plot: gangsters, lifestyle, downfall, bankruptcy, nightlife, nightclub, criminal heroes, addiction, false identity, abuse, right hand man, drug trade ...
Time: 90s
Place: miami, florida, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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 5.4
 2K
Body Count (1998)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A group of thieves attempt to rob an art gallery, but when plans backfire and one of the men winds up dead, the group head down south, running afoul of the law. Along the way, they meet up with a seductive con artist with ideas of her own.
Style: neo noir, realistic, serious, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: heist, art theft, murder, gangsters, on the road, cons and scams, on the run, partners, law enforcement, dishonesty, rivalry, misfit partners ...
Time: 90s
Place: boston, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
 4.9
 591
Spanish Judges (2000)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A con-artist hires two low-lifes to cover him during a deal, ending with three criminals, two dueling pistols, and one night they'll never forget
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, rough, neo noir
Plot: psychopath, mind game, criminal heroes, unlikely criminals, crime gone awry, rivalry, dishonesty, betrayal, criminal's revenge, mentally challenged, heist, murder ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
 5.4
 834
Born Killers (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: iggy Banks tells the story of two charming and brilliant brothers who finance their lifestyle by robbing and murdering pretty much anyone foolish enough to get in the car with them. They learn the business from their sociopath father (Tom Sizemore) ...
Style: psychological, disturbing, rough, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, psychopath, criminal heroes, introspection, parents and children, father son relationship, violence, brother brother relationship, tarot card, strangulation, truck driver ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
 5.7
 644
Cement (2000)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: What's the bond between partners, between brothers, and between spouses? In L.A., Bill Holt handcuffs Sean Rickhart inside a rebar frame for a freeway pillar at a construction site; Bill's going to bury Sean in quick-drying cement. Guided ...
Style: neo noir, serious, rough, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: police corruption, gangsters, criminal's revenge, police investigation, dishonesty, rivalry, law enforcement, life is a bitch, criminal heroes, drug dealing, showbiz, drug abuse ...
Time: 90s
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
 5.5
 118
Brass (1985)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: The Chief of Detectives of the New York Police Department, is a tough cop who has worked his way up the ladder from being on a beat.
Style: realistic, serious, rough, suspenseful
Audience: boys' night
Plot: kidnapping, murder, police detective, police investigation, partners, partners against crime, society, golden years, dishonesty, law enforcement, amateur detective, fighting crime ...
Time: 80s
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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 5.6
 7K
Fragments (2008)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A psychotic man opens fire in a diner, murdering numerous people before killing himself. The survivors struggle in different ways following this horrendous event: a doctor doubts his own instincts and elects to use an experimental medical procedure ...
Style: serious, realistic, disturbing, suspenseful, contemplative
Plot: post traumatic stress, group of strangers, haunted by the past, murder, destiny, mentally unstable, hitman, family relations, survival, doctor, death of loved one, teenage girl ...
Time: 21st century
Place: california, usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Man from Reno (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: A stranger in the increasingly strange city of San Francisco, Japanese crime novelist Aki is unsure of precisely what role she has to play in a real-life murder mystery involving ambiguous MacGuffins and amorphous identities. Unfolding in lonely ...
Style: neo noir, serious, suspenseful, captivating, tense ...
Plot: amateur detective, mysterious character, investigation, law enforcement, extramarital affair, love affair, small town, writer's life, suspense, missing person, undercover, writers ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, san francisco, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
 5.7
 728
Grand Pardon (1982)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 130 min.
Story: Le clan Bettoun : Raymond (le patriarche), Maurice (le fils), Jacky (le neveu), Roland (le neveu), Albert (le cousin de Raymond), Pépé (l'ami de Raymond), Samy (le garde du corps) sont un clan familial de caïds pieds-Noirs juifs du crime ...
Style: serious, realistic, tense, suspenseful, rough
Plot: gangsters, rivalry, criminal heroes, law enforcement, uninhibited rivalry, interracial relations, family business, family life, police detective, family relations, graphic violence, mafia ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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, suspenseful, emotional, realistic ...
Plot: gangsters, on the run, criminal's revenge, fall in love, love and romance, youth, vengeance, crime gone awry, rivalry, juvenile delinquency, disorder, gang member ...
Time: 50s, 20th century
Place: new york, brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
 7.2
 576
The Wolves (1971)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 131 min.
Story: After going to prison for killing the boss of the Kanno gang, Seji Iwahashi (Tatsuya Nakadai) gets released early -- only to find that his former gang has merged with the Kannos. But with bitter resentments lingering on both sides, how long will it ...
Style: serious, realistic, atmospheric, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot: yakuza, gangsters, samurai, gang, graphic violence, conspiracy, tough heroes, rivalry, criminal heroes, heroes, society, dishonesty ...
Time: 1920s, 20th century
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Cop on a Mission (2001)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Mike, a cop who is becoming increasingly frustrated with his tiresome job with little benefits, whilst the criminals live a life of luxury. He is offered a undercover job to infiltrate a Triad gang led by Boss Tin. Mike slowly becomes engrossed in ...
Style: serious, realistic, exciting, suspenseful, rough
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gambling, undercover, police investigation, law enforcement, disorder, partners against crime, dishonesty, partners, gangsters, gang, heist, love and romance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: hong kong
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 5.7
 1K
Hit Man (1972)
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 ...
Style: psychotronic, serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful
Plot: blaxploitation, revenge, lawyer, exploitation, martial arts, criminal's revenge, gangsters, lone wolves, criminal heroes, rivalry, vengeance, murder ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%