Movies like Band of the Hand

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Band of the Hand (1986)
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Band of the Hand (1986)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: An Indian Vietnam veteran trains five street punks in the Everglades to fight vice in Miami.
Style: cult classic, retro, independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, surprise ending, neo noir ...
Audience: boys' night, teens, kids
Plot: gang, survival, gangster, wilderness, revenge, teenager, underground, explosions, drug addiction, law, street punk, vigilantism, rivalry, rehabilitation, illegal drugs, youth, life is a bitch, teenage life, society, drug dealing, down on your luck, juvenile delinquency, uninhibited rivalry, urban ghetto life, kids in trouble ...
Time: 80s
Place: florida, usa, everglades, miami, new jersey
Keyword: gangsters, cuban

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Most similar movies to Band of the Hand

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, rough and suspenseful films with plots about gangster, gang, life is a bitch, society, drug dealing, violence and urban mostly in Drama, Crime and Action genres. Some movies like Band of the Hand: Enemy Territory (1987), Crack House (1989), Hot Boyz (2000), Shottas (2002), State Property (2002). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Enemy Territory (1987)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: An insurance salesman inadvertently gets trapped after dark in an apartment building that is terrorized by a street gang called "The Vampires."
Style: realistic, rough, suspenseful, serious, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: survival, gang, danger, society, life is a bitch, urban ghetto life, ghetto, street gang, urban, murder, violence, racial injustice ...
Time: 80s
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95%
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Crack House (1989)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Rick and Melissa are a pair of young lovers hoping to get out of the slums for good and escape the poverty and crime their families and friends have gotten involved in. All this comes to an end when Rick feels he must rejoin his old gang to avenge ...
Style: grindhouse, crime drama, independent film, hispanic, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gang, blaxploitation, cannon, drug, drug addiction, black, rape victim, poverty, nudity, drug dealing, gang rape, gang violence ...
Time: 80s
Place: los angeles, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
93%
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 ⇓
92%
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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 ⇓
87%
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Shottas (2002)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA, Jamaica
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A raw urban drama about two friends raised on the dangerous streets of Kingston, Jamaica. Biggs and Wayne take on the "Shotta" way of life to survive. As young boys, they begin a life of crime, eventually moving to the US where they begin ...
Style: hood, realistic, serious, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gang violence, gangster, street gang, urban, police chase, criminal heroes, social decay, black, disorder, life is a bitch, crime gone awry, society ...
Place: caribbean, miami, usa, florida, jamaica
⇓ similarity ⇓
87%
State Property (2002)
Genre: Drama, Crime, Action
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Frustrated with being broke, Beans decides that the only way to grasp the American Dream is to take it.
Style: hood, serious, suspenseful, rough, bleak ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: urban ghetto life, gang, urban, gangster, drug dealing, family life, ghetto, ambition, social decay, city life, criminal heroes, juvenile delinquency ...
Time: year 2002
Place: usa, philadelphia, memphis
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
Chains of Gold (1990)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Scott Barnes is an alcoholic turned social worker hellbent on saving a young boy named Tommy from self-destructing when he finds out he has begun selling crack in an organization called YIP, run by Carlos.
Style: serious, realistic, tense, psychotronic
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gang, undercover, die hard, social worker, gangster, drug dealing, buddies, youth, going straight, society, police investigation, life is a bitch ...
Time: year 1991, 90s
Place: miami, usa, florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
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Bullet (1996)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A tough, Jewish ex-con just released from prison crosses a powerful drug dealer and former prison rival in his return to a life of crime.
Style: realistic, rough, hood, disturbing, harsh ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: addiction, drug abuse, life philosophy, ghetto, revenge killing, violence, gangster, character study, life, hip hop, urban, drug dealer ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: usa, new york, brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
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Officer Down (2013)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: When a cop's crooked past comes back to get him, can he do the right thing, or will he succumb to the threats of his dangerous connections?
Style: serious, exciting, realistic, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot: husband wife relationship, police corruption, cop, police detective, manipulation, vigilantism, law enforcement, vengeance, haunted by the past, dishonesty, murder, wrestling ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
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Corrupt (1999)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 69 min.
Story: After decades of terror, two deadly street gangs reach a delicate truce and young MJ (Silkk the Shocker) sees a way out of the hood once and for all. Only Corrupt (Ice-T) stands in MJ's way, resulting into a violent and brutal roller coaster ...
Style: hood, independent film, realistic, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: ghetto, gang, urban, hip hop, discrimination, underworld, hip hop culture, urban setting, gangster, urban ghetto, life is a bitch, social misfits ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york, usa, bronx new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
The Wrecking Crew (2000)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: A high-level government hit squad is sent into the streets in order to complete a deadly mission.
Style: realistic, suspenseful, rough, serious, stylized ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gang, rival gang, working undercover, undercover, life is a bitch, urban ghetto life, partners against crime, danger, rivalry, partner, hip hop, gang war ...
Time: 90s
Place: usa, detroit
⇓ similarity ⇓
81%
Northville Cemetery Massacre (1976)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: The bikers are the heroes and the lawmen are the villains in this vintage action drama. The Spirits are a motorcycle club who ride the highways and country roads of Michigan; while they look rough, wear beat-up denim and favor Harley Davidsons, the ...
Style: grindhouse, hood, independent film, exciting, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: biker, motorcycle, bike, gang, small town, serial killer, 666, stoner, occult, shootout, ghetto, gangster ...
Time: 70s
Place: usa, detroit
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
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Monga (2010)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 140 min.
Story: Set in the 1980s, “Monga” centers on five boys (Mosquito, Monk, Dragon, White Monkey and A-Lan) who join the "Gang of Princes" who are tired of being pushed around. As the "Gang of Princes" rise in stature, they come into ...
Style: realistic, tense, serious, exciting, captivating ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: juvenile delinquency, friendship, friends, society, urban ghetto life, youth, power relations, teenage life, heroic bloodshed, organized crime, rivalry, danger ...
Time: 21st century
Place: taiwan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
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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
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
Eye of the Tiger (1986)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Buck (Gary Busey) is a Vietnam vet, recently released from prison. He returns home to discover the town being terrorized by a vicious motorcycle gang. When the bikers murder his wife and traumatize his daughter, Buck and his friends arm themselves ...
Style: cult classic, independent film, realistic, serious, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: biker, revenge, vietnam veteran, motorcycle gang, motorcycle, home invasion, hospital, intimidation, vietnam war, murder, small town, gunfight ...
Time: 80s
Place: vietnam, miami, florida, asia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
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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 ⇓
77%
The Snitch Cartel (2011)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Colombia, USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: The real life story of Andres Lopez Lopez aka "Frecita" during his years involved with the Colombian Cartel aka "Cartel Norte del Valle"
Style: serious, rough, suspenseful, stylized, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: colombian drug cartel, gangster, gang, drug, violence, organized crime, rise to the top, drug dealing, ambition, drug cartel, criminal heroes, money ...
Place: colombia, latin america, florida, miami, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
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Deuces Wild (2002)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: 1950s New York City. A bad and bloody gang war is about to erupt on the dysfunctional streets of Brooklyn. The Deuces at war with the vicious Vipers. Scott Kalvert directs this tale of lust, drugs, mayhem and madness during one hot summer on the ...
Style: intense, harsh, realistic, suspense, epic ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: drug addiction, gangster, friends, rivalry, uninhibited rivalry, society, youth, greed, revenge, violence, street gang, gang ...
Time: year 2002, y2k, 50s, 20th century, 1950s
Place: usa, new york, brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
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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 ⇓
75%
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Paid in Full (2002)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Ace is an impressionable young man working for a dry cleaning business. His friend, drug dealer Mitch goes to prison. In an unrelated incident, he finds some cocaine in a pants pocket. Soon, Ace finds himself dealing cocaine for Lulu. Via lucky ...
Style: hood, tense, rough, realistic, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: urban ghetto life, rapper, organized crime, ghetto, urban, drug dealing, drug, gangster, drug lord, black, rise and fall, street life ...
Time: 80s, year 2002, 20th century, year 1986
Place: harlem, new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
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Northwest (2013)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Nordvest is a gangsterfilm set in the suburbs of Copenhagen. Casper (18), the oldest of 3 siblings, survives life on the streets by committing burglaries for the neighbourhood boss, Jamal. When Casper gets an offer to work for Jamal’s rival ...
Style: realistic, suspenseful, serious, tense, bleak ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: urban ghetto life, gang, gangster, juvenile delinquency, life is a bitch, friendship, family problems, vengeance, criminal heroes, criminal's revenge, burglary, brother sister relationship ...
Time: year 2013, 21st century
Place: denmark, copenhagen
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
New Jersey Drive (1995)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: New Jersey Drive is a 1995 film about black youths in Newark, New Jersey, the unofficial "car theft capital of the world". Their favorite pastime is that of everybody in their neighborhood: stealing cars and joyriding. The trouble starts ...
Style: realistic, hood, melancholic, brutal, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gang, brutality, police, police investigation, urban, vengeance, hip hop, ghetto, murder, lone hero, black, teenage life ...
Time: 90s
Place: new jersey, new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
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Gang Tapes (2001)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: When a brutal carjacking yields a videocamera, a teenage boy decides to document his life and the lives of his fellow gangbangers.
Style: serious, rough, hood, suspense, tense ...
Plot: gang, found footage, ghetto, urban, social decay, tough heroes, life is a bitch, juvenile delinquency, drug dealing, teenage life, kids in trouble, going straight ...
Place: los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
 5.8
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Death Wish 3 (1985)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Paul Kersey returns to New York to visit his friend Charley, who lives in one of the worst parts of New York City. But when Paul arrives at Charley's apartment, he finds Charley dying after a vicious beating by a gang led by Manny Fraker, and ...
Style: grindhouse, cult classic, neo noir, hood, perverse ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: violence, vigilante, revenge, vigilantism, gang, gangster, shootout, woman in jeopardy, gang rape, rape victim, sniper, cannon ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: new york, los angeles, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
 7.3
 64
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 ⇓
73%
 5.0
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Wild Youth (1960)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min.
Story: A teenage escapee from a correctional facility falls in with a drug dealer operating near the Mexican border.
Style: grindhouse, sexy, exciting, realistic, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: juvenile delinquent, drug, escape, stoner, gangster, farm, kids in trouble, disorder, mischievous children, society, criminal heroes, on the run ...
Time: year 1960, 50s
Place: new mexico, mexico, canada, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
Kinjite: Forbidden Subjects (1989)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A Tokyo businessman (Hiroshi Hada), transferred to L.A, molests a teenage girl on a train. It turns out that the girl is the daughter of a vice cop. But in one of those plot twists that can only occur in the movies, the cop is assigned to find the ...
Style: grindhouse, action adventure, crime drama, cult classic, independent film ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: yakuza, child rape, cannon, sex crime, violent, machine gun, drug dealing, prostitute, kidnapping, rape and revenge, revenge, teenage girl ...
Time: year 1989, 80s
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
My Crazy Life (1993)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Mousie and Sad Girl are childhood best friends in a contemporary Los Angeles poor Hispanic neighborhood. But when Sad Girl becomes pregnant by Mousie's boyfriend, a drug dealer named Ernesto, the two become bitter enemies. While their dispute ...
Style: realistic, talky, serious, hood, cult classic ...
Plot: coming of age, friendship, chicano, juvenile delinquency, gang member, teenager, unlikely friendships, drug dealing, urban ghetto, urban, youth, urban ghetto life ...
Time: year 1993, 90s
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
Marked for Death (1990)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Just retired from the Drug Enforcement Agency, John Hatcher returns to his hometown and quickly discovers that drugs have infiltrated his old neighborhood. Determined to drive the dealers out, Hatcher crosses paths with a ferocious Jamaican drug ...
Style: suspense, exciting, serious, suspenseful, neo noir ...
Audience: boys' night, manly
Plot: martial arts, vigilante, gangster, murder, violence, good versus evil, revenge, voodoo, jamaican, drug lord, car chase, sword fight ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, 90s
Place: jamaica, usa, chicago, colombia, caribbean ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
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