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The Preacher (2004)
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The Preacher (2004)
Original name: De Dominee
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Different solution new movie ;-) The Preacher tells the story about the rise and fall off a dutch mafiaboss. The movie is based on the story of Klaas Bruinsma.
Style: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, tense, bleak, controversial
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gangster, betrayal, assassination, dishonesty, hitman, murder, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, gunfight, true crime, serial killer, organized crime, mob boss, drug crime, drug dealing, urban, criminal heroes, biopic, prison, money, police, party, female nudity, sex scene, bully, smuggling ...
Time: 80s, 70s, 90s, 20th century
Place: holland, amsterdam
Keyword: gangsters, dutch

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, rough and suspenseful films with plots about murder, gangster, dishonesty, criminal heroes, gang, deadly and organized crime mostly in Drama, Crime and Thriller genres. Some movies like The Preacher: Bonded by Blood (2010), The Man on the Balcony (1993), The Crew (2008), My Kingdom (2001), Angel of Evil (2010). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Bonded by Blood (2010)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story: In 1995, drug suppliers and career criminals Tony Tucker, Patrick Tate and Craig Rolfe were blasted to death by a shot gun whilst waiting in a Range Rover in Rettendon, Essex. The film charts their rise to become the most prolific dealers and feared ...
Style: tense, serious, rough, suspenseful, realistic
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gang, rise and fall, rivalry, partner, gangster, dishonesty, betrayal, criminal heroes, vengeance, drug dealing, ambition, violence ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: england, britain, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
The Man on the Balcony (1993)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Germany
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A serial-killer attacks and murders young girls in the parks of Stockholm. The police have trouble finding any evidence to find the killer. But when a newsstand is robbed in one of the parks while the murderer strikes again, police inspector Martin ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, rough, bleak, realistic
Plot: serial killer, child murder investigation, child murder, law enforcement, dishonesty, murder, vigilante, police, criminal heroes, dead children, sex maniac, dead child ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: stockholm sweden
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
 5.9
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The Crew (2008)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 123 min.
Story: Hoping to raise enough capital to finance a legitimate business and leave behind his life of crime, Liverpool underworld boss Ged Brennan sends his brother Ratter and a crew to pull a daring final heist. But when Ratter kills a drug kingpin during ...
Style: realistic, rough, serious, suspenseful, crime drama
Audience: boys' night
Plot: heist, betrayal, dishonesty, gang, criminal heroes, crime gone awry, gangster, brother brother relationship, lesbian, organized crime, british gangster, mafia ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
 5.9
 667
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: serious, rough, suspenseful, tense, realistic
Plot: rivalry, family relations, betrayal, dishonesty, drug dealing, vengeance, murder, parents and children, prostitute, shakespeare, tragic love, gangster ...
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
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Angel of Evil (2010)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy, France, Romania
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Set in Italy in the 1970s, VALLANZASCA is the true story of the Italian underworld’s most infamous outlaw. A criminal by age 9, Renato Vallanzasca grew up to become the country’s most notorious mobster before the age of 27. Vallanzasca and his ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, realistic, bleak, sincere ...
Plot: criminal, murder, kidnapping, gangster, romancing a criminal, gang, confined, master criminal, prison, controversy, mafia, robbery ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, 80s
Place: italy, europe, milan italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
 8.8
 466K
Narcos (2015)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Colombia
Duration: 49 min.
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Story: The true story of Colombia's infamously violent and powerful drug cartels.
Style: serious, realistic, rough, political, bleak ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: drug cartel, drug dealer, cartel, drug dealing, rise to the top, gangster, drug lord, illegal drugs, cia agent, master criminal, dea, hitman ...
Time: 80s, 2010s, 70s, 90s, 20th century
Place: colombia, latin america, south america, mexico, panama ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Executioner's Song (1982)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story: In this fact-based film, Gary Gilmore, an Indiana man who just finished serving a lengthy stay in prison, tries to start anew by moving to Utah. Before long, Gary begins an ill-advised romance with the troubled Nicole Baker, a teenage single mother. ...
Style: thought provoking, realistic, serious, rough, bleak ...
Plot: murder, death sentence, death row, prison, courtroom drama, price of justice, confined, legal, journalism, going straight, true crime, biopic ...
Time: year 1976
Place: utah, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
 4.6
 139
Paid (2006)
Genre: Crime, Romance, Thriller
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Paid is a film noir in the tradition of the French gangster movie. It is a story about underworld characters that have come to regret the choices they have made and now secretly long for a different and more meaningful life. It is also a love story ...
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, rough, neo noir ...
Plot: hitman, criminal heroes, gangster, dishonesty, prostitute, hotel, female nudity, pistol, sex scene, shot in the head
Time: 21st century
Place: holland, amsterdam
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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Gotti (1996)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: John Gotti, the head of a small New York mafia crew breaks a few of the old family rules. He rises to become the head of the Gambino family and the most well-known mafia boss in America. Life is good, but suspicion creeps in, and greed, ...
Style: serious, realistic, rough
Plot: italian mafia, mafia, crime boss, gangster, mobster, gangsta, organized crime, biopic, american mafia, mob boss, entrepreneur, criminal ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Boss of Bosses (2001)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: The story of the rise and fall of the powerful New York City organized crime boss, Paul Castellano.
Style: serious, tense, rough, suspenseful, realistic
Audience: boys' night
Plot: mafia, hitman, rise and fall, murder, undercover, going straight, master criminal, rivalry, downfall, police corruption, gangster, organized crime ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, year 1985, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
 4.8
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Gotti (2018)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: John Gotti rises to the top of the New York underworld to become the boss of the Gambino crime family. His life takes a tumultuous turn as he faces tragedy, multiple trials and a prison sentence.
Style: serious, rough, suspenseful, realistic, disgusting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cosa nostra, gangster, godfather, profanity, federal bureau of investigation, father son relationship, mafia, brutality, organized crime, mobster, parents and children, family relations ...
Time: 70s, 80s, 20th century, year 1997, year 2002 ...
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Monument Ave. (1998)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Bobby O'Grady a low level member of a Boston Irish gang run by Jackie O'Hara. Jackie demands absolute, total loyalty to him. When Jackie kills one of Bobby's buddies, Teddy, Bobby and others have to keep it an absolute secret, even ...
Style: atmospheric, suspenseful, tense, serious, independent film ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gangster, murder, police investigation, investigation, police corruption, drug dealing, criminal heroes, witnessing a crime, dishonesty, juvenile delinquency, gang, life is a bitch ...
Time: year 1998, 90s
Place: boston, ireland, massachusetts, connecticut, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
 6.3
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The Fighter (1983)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Jacques Darnay has served 8 years for robbing a jeweller. Now he is out of prison and looking for his loot worth 6 million francs.
Style: neo noir, tense, exciting, realistic, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gangster, murder, ex convict, female pubic hair, diamond, dishonesty, law enforcement, criminal heroes, vengeance, chase, criminal's revenge, on the run ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
 6.0
 804
Max & Jeremie (1992)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Even among bombers and murderers, there is a social ladder, a hierarchy to climb. Jeremie is a mere bomber who blows up people and places for mobsters in Paris. He may not look it, scruffy lad that he is, but he is a sensitive fellow, and he feels ...
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough, stylized
Plot: killer, gangster, violent content, danger, criminal heroes, retiring, hitman, swimming pool, police brutality, immaturity, police, murder ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: paris france, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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 882
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 ⇓
42%
 6.2
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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 ⇓
40%
Johnny Handsome (1989)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A career criminal who has been deformed since birth is given a new face by a kindly doctor and paroled from prison. It appears that he has gone straight, but he is really planning his revenge on the man who killed his mentor and sent him to prison.
Style: intense, harsh, suspense, neo noir, serious ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: prison, plastic surgery, murder, betrayal, vengeance, gangster, robbery, rehabilitation, revenge, police, girlfriend, doctor ...
Time: year 1989, 80s
Place: new orleans, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
The Bankers of God: The Calvi Affair (2002)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 125 min.
Story: A reconstruction of the bankruptcy of the Banco Ambrosiano bank and its liaisons with the Vatican and the Masonry through its president Roberto Calvi, notoriously found dead under the Blackfriars Bridge in London in June 1982.
Style: captivating, realistic, serious, suspenseful, bleak ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: conspiracy, fighting the system, political corruption, politics, mafia, bank, uncover truth, gangster, manipulation, clergy, legal, society ...
Time: 80s, 70s, 20th century
Place: italy, palermo italy, london, new york, switzerland ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Gang War in Milan (1973)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A Milan pimp faces off against a ruthless and greedy French gangster whom wants to unite organized crime in Italy.
Style: poliziottesco, realistic, serious, suspenseful, rough
Plot: police, murder, gangster, gang war, strong violent content, nudity, urban, dishonesty, criminal heroes, rivalry, betrayal, criminal's revenge ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 7.0
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Leak 2000 (2000)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Based on a book about an infamous real scandal in the Dutch crime scene, the film aims at exposing the horrors caused by corruption on both sides of the law. A rookie policeman is coerced into obtaining secret information from a childhood friend ...
Style: exciting, tense, suspenseful, rough, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: drug dealing, false accusation, police detective, police corruption, investigation, law enforcement, dishonesty, danger, betrayal, rivalry, corrupt law enforcer, drug cartel ...
Place: amsterdam, europe, holland
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Rise of the Footsoldier (2007)
Genre: Action, Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Rise of the Footsoldier follows the inexorable rise of Carlton Leach from one of the most feared generals of the football terraces to becoming a member of a notorious gang of criminals who rampaged their way through London and Essex in the late ...
Style: serious, captivating, realistic, tense, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gang, hooligan, drug abuse, murder, criminal, betrayal, police investigation, partners in crime, criminal heroes, rivalry, vicious, dishonor among criminals ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, 90s
Place: england, united kingdom, britain, europe, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 5.8
 9K
Bad Country (2014)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: When Baton Rouge police detective Bud Carter busts contract killer Jesse Weiland, he convinces Jesse to become an informant and rat out the South's most powerful crime ring.
Style: rough, exciting, suspenseful, realistic, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: hitman, murder, investigation, police, police investigation, law enforcement, rivalry, danger, snitch, informant, swamp, deep south ...
Time: 80s, year 1983, 21st century
Place: southern usa, usa, louisiana
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 5.5
 436
Lepke (1975)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Israel, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Tony Curtis stars as the feared leader of "Murder Incorporated" in this underworld drama based on the life of Louis "Lepke" Buchalter. Lepke began his criminal career as a petty thief in his teens; a stretch in prison taught him ...
Style: captivating, rough, suspenseful, atmospheric, serious ...
Plot: gangster, true crime, hitman, jewish mob, murder, electric chair, criminal's revenge, drug dealing, witnessing a crime, assassination, legal, legal investigation ...
Time: 1930s, year 1975, 20th century
Place: israel, new york, holland, brooklyn new york city, shanghai
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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The Outfit (1973)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A two-bit criminal takes on the Mafia to avenge his brother's death. Earl Macklin is a small time criminal who is released from prison after an unsuccessful bank robbery only to discover that a pair of gunmen killed his brother.
Style: neo noir, realistic, serious, exciting, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: revenge, mafia, prison, murder, hitman, bank robbery, brother brother relationship, danger, organized crime, rivalry, crime gone awry, chase ...
Time: future, 70s, 20th century
Place: st. louis missouri
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Children of Wax (2007)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Bulgaria
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Set against the backdrop of a violent gang war, the police commissioner must find who is killing young children before the next innocent victim dies.
Style: serious, rough, realistic, suspenseful
Plot: drug dealing, gang, racism, dishonesty, unlikely partners, urban ghetto life, serial killer, gang violence, immigrant, society, city life, urban ...
Place: europe, berlin germany, germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 5.7
 3K
Capone (1975)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: The story of the rise and fall of the infamous Chicago gangster Al Capone and the control he exhibited over the city during the prohibition years.
Style: realistic, suspenseful, rough, serious, psychotronic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gangster, murder, rise and fall, police investigation, mafia, prohibition, brutality, gunfight, jail, female nudity, criminal heroes, gang ...
Time: 1920s, year 1975, 1930s
Place: chicago, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
The Grim Sleeper (2014)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Journalist Christine Pelisek helps law enforcement investigate the alleged serial killer known as the Grim Sleeper.
Style: serious, suspenseful, realistic, captivating, tense ...
Plot: serial killer, police investigation, danger, journalism, murder, riddles and clues, stalking, law enforcement, biopic, partners against crime, twins, murderous pair ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 5.9
 8K
Empire (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A big time drug dealer Victor Rosa is looking to get out of the game and sees his chance with a big deal with a new friend who happens to be a Wall St. stockbroker. Thinking this will be his chance to go out on top Victor soon finds out that he has ...
Style: intense, stylized, melancholic, suspense, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: betrayal, organized crime, gangster, greed, twists and turns, drug dealing, wall street, ghetto, criminal heroes, going straight, cons and scams, mafia ...
Time: year 2002
Place: usa, new york, miami, bronx new york city, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Manuscripts Don't Burn (2013)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Iran
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Khosrow and Morteza set out on a mission to kill someone. The assassination ought to be arranged as a suicide. At the last minute however, they are obliged to change their initial plans…
Style: realistic, suspenseful, rough, serious, tense ...
Plot: assassination, politics, political corruption, political conspiracy, kidnapping, moral dilemma, murder, conspiracy, state affairs, mission gone awry, emotionless, dishonesty ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, 90s
Place: iran, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 6.1
 100
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%
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