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Mob War (1989)
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Mob War (1989)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: When the New York City police disrupt a big cocaine deal, the TV news reporters find John Falcone, a local mobster, nearby. They ask some tough questions, and Falcone decides he needs a public relations man to help burnish his image. He hires Todd Barrett, and he keeps Barrett in line with generous helpings of cocaine. Meanwhile, Falcone's unorthodox, violent, and sadistic methods get him cross-wise with Don Ricci, the boss. A mob war may break out. When Todd's wife is endangered, can the flack attack back at the racketeers?
Style: crime drama, independent film, rough, serious, realistic, surprise ending, neo noir
Audience: boys' night
Plot: mafia, crime wave, gang, murder, master criminal, profanity, journalism, rivalry, society, law enforcement, urban, fighting crime, city life, drug abuse, dishonesty, going straight, criminal's revenge, criminal heroes, couple relations, gangster, violent content, christmas, boxing, cocaine, gunfight ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: new york
Keyword: gangsters

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Most similar movies to Mob War

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, rough and suspenseful films with plots about gangster, law enforcement, dishonesty, rivalry, criminal heroes, gang and deadly mostly in Drama, Crime and Action genres. Some movies like Mob War: Winner Takes All (1998), Illtown (1996), Consignment (2007), Dillinger and Capone (1995), Two Coyotes (2001). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Winner Takes All (1998)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Two rapper childhood friends turn to the quick and easy life of crime to support their needy parents. But after a foiled robbery, one of them is jailed while the other flees, changes his name, joins the military, and grows up to become a narcotics ...
Style: independent film, realistic, serious, bleak, rough
Audience: boys' night
Plot: assassination, police investigation, drug dealing, society, criminal's revenge, life is a bitch, friendship, rise and fall, rivalry, criminal heroes, dishonesty, law enforcement ...
Time: 90s
Place: florida, kentucky
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Illtown (1996)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Dante and his girlfrend Micky run a very profitable drug operation in a seaside town, aided and abetted by a host of teens who sell the smack at discos around town, as well as by Lucas, a corrupt cop who's on the take. Their downfall comes when ...
Style: independent film, serious, realistic, surreal, gloomy ...
Plot: deaf, profanity, religions or cults, urban ghetto, tough heroes, vengeance, criminal's revenge, dishonesty, social misfits, gays and lesbians, law enforcement, going straight ...
Time: year 1996, 20th century, 1920s
Place: miami, florida, new jersey
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100%
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Consignment (2007)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Consignment is the authentic and brutal story of an East Coast drug dealer forced to flee to California only to realize state lines don't erase past sins.
Style: suspenseful, rough, realistic, serious, independent film
Audience: boys' night
Plot: drug dealing, gangster, on the run, going straight, police investigation, starting over, gang, hitman, criminal's revenge, rivalry, buddies, law enforcement ...
Place: california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Dillinger and Capone (1995)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: In 1934, J. Edgar Hoover and the boys made headlines for mowing down John Dillinger in a hail of bullets outside Chicago's Biograph theater. But in fact, according to this Jon Purdy gangster thriller, the Feds iced Dillinger's brother. ...
Style: realistic, rough, exciting, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot: gangster, master criminal, fighting crime, missing person, kidnapping, law enforcement, manhunt, crime gone awry, obsessive quest, rivalry, folk hero, criminal heroes ...
Time: 1930s, 1940s, 20th century, year 1935, year 1940
Place: chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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Two Coyotes (2001)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: A drug runner takes over a lucrative drug business only to find his new found empire crumble when a deal goes bad.
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, rough, crime drama ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: hitman, betrayal, rivalry, criminal's revenge, gangster, drug dealing, life is a bitch, crime gone awry, addiction, criminal heroes, going straight, law enforcement ...
Time: 90s
Place: mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
El padrino: The Latin Godfather (2004)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story: In the streets of East Los Angeles, Manny is a formidable drug dealer. Impressed by his extravagant lifestyle and prowess, his young son, Kilo, yearns to follow in his footsteps. Kilo resolves to learn how to prosper in the drug world, and his new ...
Style: rough, realistic, serious, suspenseful, exciting
Audience: boys' night
Plot: crime boss, gangster, prison gang, prison, criminal heroes, juvenile delinquency, prison life, life is a bitch, gang, dishonesty, drug dealing, urban ghetto ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles, california, usa, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Rage and Honor (1992)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Witnessing a drug deal involving local gang members and cops, an Australian police officer feels he can no longer be just an observer. He joins forces with a local teacher who just happens to be a karate expert and together they try to take back the ...
Style: exciting, serious, suspense, independent film, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, female fighter, good versus evil, female fight, woman with a gun, righting the wronged, fighting crime, chases and races, on the run, witnessing a crime, gang, drug dealing ...
Time: 90s
Place: australia
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28%
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Madso's War (2010)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A power vacuum develops when the top mob boss flees a federal indictment.
Style: exciting, realistic, serious, suspenseful, erotic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gangster, rivalry, uninhibited rivalry, criminal heroes, betrayal, murder, violence, mafia, gunfight, bandit, gang, mob boss ...
Time: 21st century
Place: boston, usa, massachusetts
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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Hot Boyz (2000)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Injustice begets a criminal. Kool is an artist without prospects, a black belt in karate, and in love with LaShawna, poised and college bound. One night she witnesses a stabbing and discovers the victim is a cop as he dies in her arms. She's ...
Style: hood, realistic, suspenseful, serious, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gangster, gang, urban, frame up, racism, life is a bitch, police investigation, murder, social decay, police corruption, false accusation, law enforcement ...
Time: 90s
Place: usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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Detour (1998)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: When Danny and his gang attempt to rob the warehouse of a mob boss, they find themselves on the run. Danny goes back to his hometown to find his mother has recently died leaving him the farm on the condition that he must open the dairy and run it ...
Style: independent film, realistic, serious, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot: on the run, warehouse, mob boss, gangster, gang, crime gone awry, criminal heroes, rivalry, dishonesty, going straight, law enforcement, betrayal ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Mafioso: The Father The Son (2001)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: When the head of a mafia clan is perceived to be weakening, his family suffers a series of attacks. It is up to his son, Frankie, to figure out who’s behind the plot before they are all wiped out.
Style: rough, serious, suspenseful, realistic, suspense
Plot: gang, working undercover, family business, betrayal, witnessing a crime, criminal heroes, master criminal, rivalry, criminal's revenge, gangster, law enforcement, hitman ...
Time: 21st century
Place: philadelphia
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
The Death Collector (1976)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A kid from the neighborhood goes to work for the Mafia as a collector.
Style: suspense, grindhouse, crime drama, independent film, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: mafia, organized crime, exploitation, mobster, twin towers, serial killer, italian mafia, crime wave, gangster, hitman, kids in trouble, disorder ...
Time: 70s
Place: new jersey, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Revenge of the Green Dragons (2014)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Hong Kong, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A true immigrant story set against the vibrant backdrop of Flushing, N.Y. in the 1980s and 1990s.
Style: realistic, suspenseful, rough, serious, action adventure ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: chinese mafia, gangster, gang, police investigation, life is a bitch, tragic love, medieval, law enforcement, siblings relations, drug, triad, mafia ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
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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: independent film, realistic, serious, rough, suspenseful
Plot: gangster, mafia, profanity, conspiracy, sexual content, violent content, hitman, tough heroes, dishonesty, friendship, law enforcement, love and romance ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Back in the Day (2005)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A young man slides back into a life of crime after reuniting with a shady acquaintance from his past.
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Plot: murder, gang, racism, crime gone awry, fall in love, introspection, dishonesty, vengeance, criminal heroes, starting over, police corruption, moral dilemma ...
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Sinatra Club (2010)
Genre: Action, Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Brutal and celebrated Mafia gangster John Gotti (Danny Nucci) schemes, shoves and murders his way to the top of that world in this gritty biography told from the perspective of Salvatore Polisi (Jason Gedrick), who owns the Sinatra Club, where ...
Style: tense, serious, rough, suspenseful, realistic
Audience: boys' night
Plot: mafia, organized crime, gangster, gang, gang leader, rise to the top, dishonesty, criminal heroes, heist, mobster, tough guy, crime boss ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: new york, usa, brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Chicago Overcoat (2009)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: The fates of an aging hitman and a washed up detective become entwined when one last job leads to one last chance to settle an old score.
Style: serious, suspenseful, rough, realistic, independent film ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gangster, hitman, rivalry, aging, elderly, dishonesty, law enforcement, criminal heroes, one last chance, mafia, investigation, revenge ...
Time: 21st century
Place: chicago, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
The Last of the Finest (1990)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: An elite group of vice cops are fired from the L.A.P.D. for being over-zealous in their war against drugs. It is immediately apparent that some of their superiors are involved in the drug ring. Banded together, four of the banned cops (which quickly ...
Style: independent film, serious, realistic, exciting, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: drug, die hard, car chase, police, cop, drug dealer, police shootout, conspiracy, police corruption, illegal drugs, partner, rebellion ...
Time: 80s
Place: los angeles, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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L.A.P.D.: To Protect and to Serve (2001)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Action
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: LA's finest have crossed the line between Cop and Criminal...
Style: suspenseful, rough, serious, realistic, fast
Audience: boys' night
Plot: police corruption, undercover, gang, fighting crime, heist, dishonesty, master criminal, tough law enforcer, police investigation, partners against crime, law enforcement, working undercover ...
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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
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Snitch'd (2003)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: When the South Side Gang and the Cut Throat Mafia start a drug war at a local high school in Santa Ana, CA, detective McClure goes undercover to investigate the brutal murder of a young Latina student. The gang members are the key suspects but ...
Style: serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful, independent film ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: undercover, gangster, police detective, juvenile delinquency, criminal heroes, gang, police investigation, police corruption, urban ghetto life, working undercover, law enforcement, drug dealing ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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23%
The Underground (1997)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A cop must stop the killings of rap stars. But, he gets in too deep after his partner is killed.
Style: crime drama, serious, realistic, exciting, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: black, buddy cop, die hard, cop, murder, chases and races, hotshot hero, hip hop, vengeance, urban ghetto life, investigation, chase ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Blue Hill Avenue (2001)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story: A child of a middle class home with solid moral values is lured into a world of crime and corruption.
Style: hood, bleak, realistic, rough, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gang, urban, friends, drug dealing, black, fighting crime, juvenile delinquency, police investigation, betrayal, urban ghetto life, criminal heroes, going straight ...
Place: usa, boston
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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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, gangster, criminal's revenge, life is a bitch, rivalry, criminal heroes, law enforcement, dishonesty, police investigation, drug dealing, addiction, showbiz ...
Time: 90s
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Ready 2 Die (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
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.
Style: serious, suspenseful, rough, exciting, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gang, chase, murder, dishonesty, heist, profanity, gangster, disorder, on the run, crime gone awry, criminal's revenge, criminal heroes ...
Time: 21st century
Place: california, los angeles, usa
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True Blood (1989)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Ray Trueblood, member of a street gang, is framed by an enemy of a rival gang, Billy "Spider" Masters. Ray is accused of killing a cop and he has to escape leaving behind his little brother, Donny. Ten years later Ray returns to his ...
Style: realistic, rough, suspenseful, serious, independent film ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gang, frame up, vengeance, criminal's revenge, dishonesty, criminal heroes, family relations, siblings relations, brother brother relationship, false accusation, woman with a gun, violent content ...
Time: 80s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 4.7
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The Tracker (2001)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Spears, a private detective working in L.A. receives word from an old friend that the friend's sister (and Spears' ex-girlfriend), Kim, has been kidnapped by a criminal gang. At first, Spears doesn't want to get involved, especially ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, realistic, tense, disturbing ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, tough heroes, kung fu, hand to hand combat, gunfight, russian mafia, gangster, gang, danger, law enforcement, rivalry, private detective ...
Time: 90s
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 4.3
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Rockaway (2007)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story: Trane is a decorated war hero just shipped home to the States from Afghanistan after the brutal murder of his wife and child back in Rockaway, Queens. Upon his return, Trane encounters his old friend Dave, who describes the new forces of crime and ...
Style: suspenseful, realistic, rough, tense, serious ...
Plot: vigilantism, soldier, vengeance, police corruption, downfall, gangster, criminal heroes, life is a bitch, gang, police investigation, criminal's revenge, murder ...
Time: 21st century
Place: afghanistan, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Rich and Famous (1987)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 104 min.
Story: To pay off his debt as a gambler, a man drags his sister and step-brother into a life of crime and a violent war between rival gang lords.
Style: cult classic, crime drama, exciting, realistic, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: heroic bloodshed, triad, wedding, gangster, betrayal, gang, urban, godparent, gambling, siblings relations, gory, rich and poor ...
Time: 80s
Place: hong kong, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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Breaking Point (2009)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: "Breaking Point" is a dramatic tale of corruption and self-realization, in which one man has to overcome a deep seeded conspiracy and his own lingering past in order to gain the redemption he desires.
Style: suspenseful, rough, serious, realistic, hood ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: murder, conspiracy, uncover truth, dishonesty, law enforcement, partner, legal, redemption, legal investigation, unlikely partners, strong violent content, gang leader ...
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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