Movies like Take 2007
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Take (2007)
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
The lives of two strangers - a struggling mother and a gambling addict - meet in tragedy. Years pass, and they must come to terms with themselves, and one another.
Style:
serious, emotional, realistic, psychological, non-linear, extraordinary
Plot:
death row, child in peril, life is a bitch, crime gone awry, addiction, family problems, strange person, gambling, dysfunctional family, society, redemption, clergy, haunted by the past, dishonesty, death in the family, hopes, kidnapping, remorse, mother son relationship, drug use, sex work, drinking, destiny, prison life, confined ...
Time:
contemporary
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Most similar movies to Take
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, suspenseful and tense films with plots about murder, redemption, deadly, life is a bitch, hopes, gun and prison mostly in Drama, Crime and Thriller genres. Some movies like Take: Reservation Road (2007), Shot in the Heart (2001), The Chamber (1996), Steel City (2006), The Betrayed (2008). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Two fathers' lives intersect when one of them is involved in a terrible and sudden hit-and-run car accident that leaves the other's son dead. In response, the two men (Joaquin Phoenix and Mark Ruffalo) react in unexpected ways as a ...
Style:
psychological, intense, suspenseful, bleak, emotional ...
Plot:
redemption, obsession, investigation, revenge, dysfunctional family, losing-it hero, lawyer, character study, family problems, parents and children, cover up, death in the family ...
Time:
year 2007, 21st century
Place:
usa, boston
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
AND YOU'RE TO BLAME! Honey, you give love a bad name. (The story of a man coming to terms with the sins and secrets of his notorious brother and, in the process, exploring the legacy of violence in his own family.)
Style:
disturbing, tense, realistic, suspenseful, talky ...
Plot:
murder, mormon, death row, prison, prison life, dysfunctional family, courtroom drama, tragic hero, parents and children, haunted by the past, false accusation, price of justice ...
Time:
70s
Place:
utah, usa
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93%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Having survived the hatred and bigotry that was his Klansman grandfather's only legacy, young attorney Adam Hall seeks at the last minute to appeal the old man's death sentence for the murder of two small Jewish boys 30 years before. Only ...
Style:
emotional, thought provoking, suspense, realistic, serious ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
courtroom drama, racism, legal, death sentence, courtroom, ku klux klan, murder, prison, anti semitism, haunted by the past, politics, lawyer ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 60s, year 1967, year 1996
Place:
mississippi, usa
Similarity:
93%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
After a tragic accident caused by the truck of the middle-aged Carl Lee where a woman dies with a crushed stern, he is arrested and sent to the county jail. His son PJ, who works washing dishes and cleaning tables in a restaurant, feels lost, ...
Style:
emotional, touching, sincere, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
police, family life, family problems, couples, family relations, dysfunctional family, parents and children, introspection, couple relations, redemption, youth, teenage life ...
Place:
usa, midwest
Similarity:
88%
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Genre: Drama, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Redemption tells the story of Stan "Tookie" Williams, founder of the Crips L.A. street gang. Story follows his fall into gang-banging, his prison term, and his work writing children's novels encouraging peace and anti-violence ...
Style:
realistic, serious, emotional, bleak, crime drama ...
Plot:
redemption, death row, prison, gang, gangster, brutality, justice, adaptation, human spirit, hopes, journalism, life is a bitch ...
Time:
20th century, future, 80s
Place:
california, usa, los angeles
Similarity:
87%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Kidnappers force a young mother (Melissa George) to recover money stolen by her shady husband (Christian Campbell).
Style:
psychological, tense, serious, suspenseful, psychological thriller ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
kidnapping, captivity, criminal, revelation, missing child, trust, family problems, dishonesty, danger, crime gone awry, rivalry, survival ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
72%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Ash Wednesday is set in the Manhattan of the early 1980's and is about a pair of Irish-American brothers who become embroiled in a conflict with the Irish Mob.
Style:
intense, rough, suspenseful, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
organized crime, betrayal, gangster, hitman, vengeance, violence, love triangle, murder, couple relations, haunted by the past, dishonesty, love and romance ...
Time:
80s, year 2002, year 1983, year 1980
Place:
new york, ireland, usa, brooklyn new york city, manhattan new york city ...
Similarity:
71%
259
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A teen commits murder, gets away with it and a year later, he turns himself in, but before doing so, he confesses to the victim's family.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, rough, suspense, crime drama ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gang, going straight, haunted by the past, police investigation, criminal heroes, gangster, redemption, teenage life, society, crime gone awry, drug dealing, hopes ...
Similarity:
69%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Literature professor Jim Bennett leads a secret life as a high-stakes gambler. Always a risk-taker, Bennett bets it all when he borrows from a gangster and offers his own life as collateral. Staying one step ahead, he pits his creditor against the ...
Style:
clever, tense, realistic, cynical, independent film ...
Plot:
gambling, addiction, gambling addiction, gambling debt, gambler, writers, gangster, human nature, moral dilemma, character study, police investigation, family relations ...
Time:
year 2014, 21st century
Place:
las vegas, los angeles, california, usa, nevada ...
Similarity:
69%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A psychological thriller that takes you through the mind of convicted killer, Michael Raine, and his experiences on death row. Was he guilty of killing his girlfriend or was he a victim of a conspiracy to frame him for a crime he didn't commit? ...
Style:
independent film, tense, realistic, serious, psychological ...
Plot:
death row, execution, murder, injustice, heroes, protagonist as suspect, dishonesty, amateur detective, life is a bitch, manhunt, state affairs, confined ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
tennessee
Similarity:
66%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Man (played by: Billy Bob Thornton) is still in shock many years after a devistating accident takes the life of his only son and perminantly injures his wife. After all of these years the man finaly comes home to his still married wife (Played by: ...
Style:
serious, realistic, psychological, emotional, gloomy
Plot:
life is a bitch, haunted by the past, starting over, homecoming, death in the family, dysfunctional family, family in crisis, addiction, grief, missing child, american south, white trash ...
Time:
year 2004
Similarity:
65%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A drama based on an ancient Chinese proverb that breaks life down into four emotional cornerstones: happiness, pleasure, sorrow and love. A businessman bets his life on a horse race; a gangster sees the future; a pop star (Gellar) falls prey to a ...
Style:
emotional, touching, non-linear, stylized, intense ...
Plot:
true love, love, supernatural ability, doctors and patients, dishonesty, hitman, power relations, philosophy, justice, dark hero, thief, violence ...
Time:
year 2007, future, 21st century
Similarity:
64%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Upon taking a new job, young lawyer Rick Hayes is assigned to the clemency case of Cindy Liggett, a woman convicted of first degree murder and sentenced to death. As Hayes investigates the background for her case, the two begin to form a deep ...
Style:
emotional, talky, intense, tense, serious ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
death penalty, prison, death row, lethal injection, lawyer, dedicated lawyer, death sentence, justice, love story, courtroom drama, prison life, life is a bitch ...
Time:
90s
Place:
india, taj mahal, california, australia, texas ...
Similarity:
63%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
In this offbeat thriller, Ann is a young woman trying to put her life back together after she lost her child in a car wreck. Formerly a single mother, Ann has recently started dating a man named Tom, and one day Tom asks Ann for a favor -- would she ...
Style:
tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Plot:
psychopath, kidnapping, marriage proposal, hostage, surrogate mother, family relations, couples, family problems, single parent, dealing with death, confined, missing person ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
59%
7K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, USA, Mexico, Belgium
Duration: 144 min.
Story:
An alcoholic becomes involved in a fellow A.A. member's plan to kidnap her young son from the boy's wealthy grandfather.
Style:
psychological, suspense, stylized, dark comedy, neo noir ...
Plot:
insanity, missing child, mental illness, child in peril, character study, life is a bitch, twists and turns, crime gone awry, anger, pursuit, friendship, addiction ...
Time:
year 2008
Place:
france, england, europe, mexico, tijuana mexico ...
Similarity:
59%
253K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
This is the story of three gentle persons: Paul Rivers an ailing mathematician lovelessly married to an English émigré, Christina Peck, an upper-middle-class suburban housewife, happily married and mother of two little girls, and Jack Jordan, an ...
Style:
mind bending, clever, gloomy, psychological, bleak ...
Plot:
guilt, tragedy, drug addiction, drug addict, life is a bitch, multiple storylines, grief, redemption, drug, loneliness, drug abuse, loss ...
Time:
year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa, new mexico, persia
Similarity:
54%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 173 min.
Story:
A corporate lawyer's interest in a decade-old murder case is piqued by a new confession that could clear the convicted killer, who sits on death row.
Style:
bleak, serious, tense, psychological, suspenseful ...
Plot:
legal, frame up, false accusation, investigation, lovers reunited, testimony, uncover truth, police investigation, rebellion, power relations, state affairs, murder ...
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Drama, Thriller, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Forced to work under slave-like conditions in a "prison for profit" program, the inmates of a mostly-African-American female prison, Whitehead Correctional, try to take over the institution. At the core of the story is Frances, who finds ...
Style:
disturbing, rough, tense, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot:
prison, prison life, friendship, injustice, social decay, juvenile delinquency, hopes, racism, misfit, legal, rivalry, criminal heroes ...
Time:
year 2002
Similarity:
52%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, Luxembourg, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Two brothers, both with troubled paths, find themselves in the middle of one last bank job.
Style:
suspenseful, tense, realistic, serious, ambiguous ending ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
robbery, sibling relationship, crime gone awry, going straight, disorder, haunted by the past, hopes, criminal heroes, heist, brother brother relationship, bank robber, death of brother ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, louisiana, new orleans
Similarity:
52%
337
Genre: Drama, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Peter, a frustrated suburban teenager, prefers to hang out by the railroad tracks with his friends and get rid of boredom. When the young men throw the switch one day just for fun, a catastrophe of unimaginable proportions occurs. A train derails ...
Style:
realistic, serious, psychological, suspense, bleak
Plot:
prison, train, going straight, teenage life, redemption, confined, kids in trouble, hopes, youth, false accusation, society, prison life ...
Place:
new jersey, usa
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Two childhood friends from South Boston turn to crime as a way to get by, ultimately causing a strain in their personal lives and their friendship.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, realistic, captivating, rough ...
Plot:
friendship, infidelity, heist, family problems, downfall, buddies, haunted by the past, legal, criminal heroes, danger, snow, drug addiction ...
Time:
20th century, year 2008, 21st century
Place:
usa, boston, massachusetts
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Stripped of his medical license after performing an operation while high on amphetamines, famed LA surgeon Dr Eugene Sands abandons his former life only to find himself crossing paths with Raymond Blossom, an infamous counterfeiter. Employed as a ...
Style:
psychological, intense, tense, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
fbi, gangster, undercover, drug addiction, betrayal, murder, haunted by the past, heist, mind game, dishonesty, drug dealing, working undercover ...
Time:
90s, year 1997
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Denmark, USA, UK
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
While fighting for a woman who sits on death row, a lawyer happens upon new information which brings into question the motives of a man associated with her client
Style:
suspenseful, psychological, sincere, suspense, serious ...
Plot:
uncover truth, dedicated lawyer, death sentence, prison life, redemption, confined, life is a bitch, legal, dishonesty, death row, letter, execution ...
Place:
oklahoma city, texas
Similarity:
46%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Jimmy Kilmartin is an ex-con living in Astoria in the New York City borough of Queens, trying to stay clean and raising a family with his wife Bev. But when his cousin Ronnie causes him to take a fall for driving an illegal transport of stolen cars, ...
Style:
neo noir, suspense, surreal, intense, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
murder, organized crime, prison, violence, undercover agent, vengeance, revenge, mafia, death of wife, gangster, partners against crime, master criminal ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Four friends discover and accidentally kill a burglar -- who may not be alone -- in the kitchen during their weekly poker night.
Style:
suspense, psychological, tense, captivating, realistic ...
Plot:
gambling, poker, disposing of a dead body, chase, buddies, vengeance, betrayal, rivalry, manslaughter, card playing, danger, casino ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Argentina, Spain, France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Bear has never gotten over the separation from his wife and daughter after having been convicted for armed robbery and homicide and sent to prison. Now he is out, to finally get his cut of the money and reunite with his family, or at least avenge ...
Style:
captivating, serious, realistic, emotional, touching ...
Plot:
heist, going straight, haunted by the past, parents and children, estrangement, redemption, criminal heroes, criminal's revenge, society, prison, home invasion, urban ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
argentina, latin america, south america
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
An examination of the malevolent London underworld with it's despicable criminal underground. Ray (Mick Rossi) just finished an eight year prison sentence after getting set up. Now he is back on the streets to settle the score.
Style:
tense, serious, rough, suspenseful, realistic ...
Plot:
murder, criminal underworld, prison, criminal, gangster, crime gone awry, dishonesty, released from prison, corrupt cop, police detective, police investigation, betrayal ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
london, europe, england, los angeles, britain
Similarity:
39%
754
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
When someone is murdered on New Year's Eve, the prime suspect is Valerie Maas, a church-going home-maker whose life unravels when she discovers that her husband of many years has been leading a double life. Her strength of character and faith ...
Style:
serious, psychological, tense, suspense, realistic ...
Plot:
gay, closeted homosexual, murder, church, infidelity, investigation, couples, family problems, dishonesty, law enforcement, crumbling marriage, addiction ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
atlanta georgia
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Deals with 90 minutes in a kidnapped hostage's life, and the frustration his family, a special ops team, and a man in charge of delivering the ransom money all feel as they rush to save him.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, stylized, exciting, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
kidnapping, crime gone awry, missing person, terrorism, danger, race against time, rivalry, chase, destiny, car chase, missing child, father son relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
colombia, new york, usa
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
In poor health and dead broke, Grace has a plan to provide a future for her young daughter. With the help of her sister Mercy, she robs her former employer. But an alarm goes off during the robbery and they escape into a nearby church. They hold the ...
Style:
touching, serious, uplifting, emotional, contemplative ...
Plot:
hostage, church, unlikely criminals, self discovery, crime gone awry, clergy, hopes, society, criminal heroes, confined, on the run, redemption ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
los angeles, california, usa
Similarity:
37%
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