Movies like The Master Touch
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The Master Touch (1972)
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Original name: Un uomo da rispettare
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Italy, West Germany
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
A master thief, just out of prison, concocts a risky final score that would net him over a million dollars.
Style:
realistic, suspenseful, semi serious
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
heist, car chase, safecracker, suspense, prison, acrobat, master criminal, escape, betrayal, friends, chase, frame up, rivalry, confined, on the run, partners, disorder, crime gone awry, buddies, dishonesty, criminal's revenge, criminal heroes, cons and scams, caper, racism ...
Time:
70s
Place:
hamburg germany, vietnam
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, suspenseful, serious and exciting films with plots about dishonesty, heist, criminal heroes, rivalry, cons and scams, crime gone awry and disorder mostly in Crime, Thriller and Drama genres. Some movies like The Master Touch: Beyond the City Limits (2001), Windfall (2002), Backflash (2001), The Squeeze (1978), Players (2012). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Three women outsmart unsavory men who try to cheat them out of their take in an almost-botched casino heist.
Style:
realistic, semi serious, suspenseful
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
heist, betrayal, unlikely criminals, femme fatale, cons and scams, crime gone awry, partners, casino, vampire, friends, police corruption, supernatural ...
Place:
los angeles
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416
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: Romania, USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Robbers Ace and Scratch are caught in the act of robbing a casino vault and are caught after a long chase by the owner of the casino, who chooses not to send them to jail but instead hires them on as security consultants. The current head of ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, realistic, tense
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boys' night
Plot:
gambling, heist, buddies, dishonesty, hidden identity, partners, crime gone awry, rivalry, betrayal, cons and scams, disorder, heist gone wrong ...
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89%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A woman is released from prison and heads home to help outwit a local mob boss and pull off the scam of a lifetime.
Style:
suspenseful, serious, realistic
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
femme fatale, cons and scams, crime gone awry, on the run, odd couple, suspense, murder, criminal's revenge, partners, rivalry, heist, chase ...
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84%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, West Germany
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A retired safe cracker is recruited by a young conman to return to the "business" for a million dollar heist.
Style:
exciting, serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
heist, safecracker, suspense, disorder, cons and scams, dishonesty, gang, rivalry, crime gone awry, criminal heroes, criminal's revenge, betrayal ...
Time:
70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 163 min.
Story:
Learning of a fortune in gold being secretly shipped to Romania, master thieves Charlie and Riya assemble a crack team to steal it.
Style:
exciting, serious, captivating, tense, sexy ...
Plot:
heist, vengeance, gang, betrayal, partners, cons and scams, rivalry, safecracker, caper, criminal heroes, criminal's revenge, master criminal ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
india, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
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Movies like The Italian Job
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
After a long time of bad luck, the little criminal Tony and his gang successfully rob one of Brink's security transport, taking $30,000. Surprisingly their coup doesn't make the press. Curious Tony checks out their headquarters and finds ...
Style:
suspenseful, realistic, humorous, semi serious
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
heist, crime gone awry, master criminal, dishonesty, gang, cons and scams, criminal's revenge, law enforcement, rivalry, partners, forgery, unlikely criminals ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, 50s, 1930s
Place:
boston, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
After serving 12 years behind bars for armed robbery, tough guy Hank McCain finds himself the pawn of a ruthless mob runt's rebellion against a high level don. When McCain discovers that he's been betrayed and abandoned by his new ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, rough, realistic
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
heist, gangsters, casino, on the run, gang, politics, crime gone awry, prison, rivalry, betrayal, criminal heroes, gambling ...
Time:
60s
Place:
las vegas, san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Style:
suspenseful, realistic, captivating, semi serious
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
heist, criminal heroes, master criminal, dishonesty, gang, disorder, fall in love, money, partners, law enforcement, rivalry, police corruption ...
Place:
new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Aruba, USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Released from prison, an infamous thief and his new crew pull of a brilliant robbery but then become embroiled with a corrupt FBI agent when they discover the money is marked.
Style:
suspenseful, semi serious, realistic
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
heist, car chase, police corruption, prison, criminal heroes, cons and scams, criminal's revenge, partners, law enforcement, special agents, crime gone awry, gang ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
3K
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A group of small time criminals in 1975 attempt to pull off the biggest heist in American history; stealing over $30 million from the Mafia in the smallest state in the union, Rhode Island.
Style:
exciting
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
heist, mafia, criminal heroes, robbery, murder, fight, planning, partners, buddies, con artists, twists and turns, dishonesty ...
Time:
70s
Place:
rhode island
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Johnnie Cooper served time for an armed robbery that also his father and brother participated in. When he's released from jail he's determined to live a normal life and gets work at a gas station. But soon his brother pays a visit.
Style:
tense, realistic, serious, suspenseful, rough
Plot:
hitman, gas station, warden, family relations, disorder, store, family life, siblings relations, cons and scams, heist, car chase, prison ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
latin america, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, Spain, West Germany
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Professor James Anders is a seemingly mild-mannered teacher, an American working in Rio De Janeiro. Anders, bored with years of teaching, decides to put together a team to pull off a diamond heist during the Rio Carnival. Four international experts ...
Style:
realistic, serious, cynical, stylized, clever ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
heist, criminal, gangsters, bank robbery, professor, chase, gang, safecracker, storage unit, diamond theft, burglary, diamonds ...
Time:
60s
Place:
brazil, las vegas, new york, rio de janeiro, italy ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
'Cash' is a high octane heist thriller set in Cape Town, South Africa.The film revolves around an ace con artist,(Ajay Devgan) who hires a set of top notch robbers (Esha Deol, Zayed Khan, Dia Mirza and Riteish Deshmukh) to steal a set of ...
Style:
exciting, captivating, tense, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
heist, rivalry, cons and scams, dishonesty, forgery, betrayal, caper, gang, escapades, suspense, deception, crime gone awry ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
india, africa, asia, south africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Two lovers, Mary and Larry, in their Dodge Charger are chased by the police after robbing a grocery store.
Style:
road movie, exciting, suspenseful, captivating, tense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
chase, car chase, on the run, robbery, mechanic, car, exploitation, partners, store, buddies, race against time, law enforcement ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
southern california, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
Genre: Action, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Their plan was simple...Get the Cash. As Rupert, an ex-con, tries to go straight, his younger brother James pursues a life of delinquency. Days after being released from jail, James is gunned down and lies waiting in a hospital for a liver ...
Style:
realistic, suspenseful, rough, serious, neo noir
Plot:
heist, gang, new year's eve, dishonesty, friends, criminal heroes, law enforcement, confined, unlikely criminals, partners, crime gone awry, best friends ...
Time:
90s
Place:
los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: South Korea, Hong Kong
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
A gang of South Korean thieves team up with a Hong Kong crew to steal a diamond necklace from a heavily-guarded casino safe in Macau. As the cops close in, old betrayals — and misunderstandings — resurface.
Style:
suspenseful, humorous, exciting, semi serious, noir ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
heist, safecracker, master thief, criminal gang, criminal heroes, dishonesty, art theft, gem, gold, master criminal, secret agenda, perfect crime ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
korea, hong kong, macau, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
In Athens a collection of emeralds is successfully stolen by a team of robbers, led by safe-cracker Azad. Things go smoothly until they miss the ship by which they planned their escape; a police chief pursues Azad while he waits for the next ship to ...
Style:
suspenseful, realistic, serious, cynical, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
car chase, chase, partners, police investigation, police corruption, dishonesty, criminal heroes, investigation, criminal, suspense, robbery, car ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
greece, athens greece, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: France, UK, Canada
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
An entrepreneurial criminal, Slim (Dorff) is as smart as they come. Cocky and confident, he assembles a team of risk-taking rush-seekers to pull off a series of five bank heists, each time using a different extreme sport to make the getaway. ...
Style:
realistic, suspenseful, serious, stylized, exciting
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
heist, parachuting, car chase, chase, bank, police investigation, partners, dishonesty, law enforcement, betrayal, femme fatale, criminal's revenge ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
In this darkly karmic vision of Arizona, a man who breathes nothing but ill will begins a noxious domino effect as quickly as an uncontrollable virus kills. As he exits Arizona State Penn after twenty-one long years, Wilson has only one thing on the ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, captivating, realistic
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
prison, frame up, cons and scams, vengeance, criminal's revenge, going straight, false accusation, suspense, brutality, life is a bitch, bully, escape ...
Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
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 ⇓
68%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A young man recently released from prison recruits his three best friends to rob the local drug kingpin who is responsible for his incarceration.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, serious, realistic, bleak
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
revenge, crime gone awry, criminal heroes, dishonesty, betrayal, law enforcement, friends, renewed love, one more chance, cons and scams, frame up, twists and turns ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
northern england, yorkshire, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
The story of notorious Australian bank robber Brendan Abbott, who according to the myth, sent postcards to authorities hot on his trail while on the run across the country.
Style:
captivating, tense, psychological, semi serious, realistic
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
bank robber, on the run, heist, chase, rivalry, law enforcement, dishonesty, investigation, gangsters, suspense, escapades, massage ...
Place:
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68%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Alex masterminds an ambitious plan to steal millions of untraceable cash that is stacked in the underground vaults of The London Exchange Bank, waiting for its last journey, Incineration. Lucky, Matty, Terry, Chubby, Norman and Jay make up his ...
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tense, captivating, psychological, exciting, semi serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
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Time:
21st century
Place:
germany, london, england, europe, monaco
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
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Genre: Action, Drama, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Estranged twin brothers - one a con man, the other an Episcopal deacon - accidentally switch places... and find God in the process.
Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful, christian film
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
twins, christianity, christian, redemption, crime gone awry, heist, dishonesty, cons and scams, betrayal, disorder, estrangement, priest ...
Time:
90s
Place:
usa, rome italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Insurance investigator Maindrian Pace and his team lead double-lives as unstoppable car thieves. When a South American drug lord pays Pace to steal 48 cars for him, all but one, a 1973 Ford Mustang, are in the bag. As Pace prepares to rip-off the ...
Style:
road movie, exciting, suspenseful, intense, sexy ...
Audience:
manly, boys' night, girls' night
Plot:
car chase, chase, car, heist, car thief, police, police investigation, race against time, suspense, master criminal, partners, rivalry ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
los angeles, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Two separate teams of jewel thieves, one low-rent and one upscale, both desperate, converge on the same score at the exact same time, and a simple job turns out very complicated and very bloody.
Style:
exciting, serious, rough, suspenseful, realistic
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gangsters, unlikely criminals, gang, criminal's revenge, heist, crime gone awry, master criminal, criminal heroes, stock broker, gambling, compulsive gambler, ex wife ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, France, Italy, UK, Germany
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Charlie Croker pulled off the crime of a lifetime. The one thing that he didn't plan on was being double-crossed. Along with a drop-dead gorgeous safecracker, Croker and his team take off to re-steal the loot and end up in a pulse-pounding, ...
Style:
clever, exciting, funny, entertaining, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens, date night, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
heist, robbery, car chase, bank robbery, revenge, mentor, perfect crime, caper, suspense, gold, chase, vengeance ...
Time:
90s, 21st century
Place:
italy, los angeles, venice, philadelphia, san francisco ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
An American ex-con with Mexican underworld ties ensnares a pair of young misfits into a dangerous heist in Mexico. Inspired by true events.
Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful, tense, exciting
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
heist, gang, cons and scams, buddies, chase, crime gone awry, dishonesty, desert, ex convict, graphic violence, friends, disorder ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
mexico, new mexico, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Using the Internet and global satellites, a group of gangsters pull off the biggest bank heist in the Mafia's history.
Style:
serious, rough, suspenseful, realistic, exciting
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gangsters, heist, mafia, organized crime, master criminal, cosa nostra, betrayal, criminal heroes, partners, crime gone awry, dishonesty, cons and scams ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new jersey, usa, miami
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
"Chop Chop" Frankie Carbone has made a career out of stealing cars for the mob in Chicago. An attempted assassination by a mob boss goes badly and Frankie retaliates, only to wind up in the hands of the Feds. Frankie agrees to testify ...
Style:
realistic, suspenseful, serious, touching, exciting
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
hitman, gangsters, hidden identity, dishonesty, criminal's revenge, rivalry, social decay, betrayal, criminal heroes, assassination attempt, crime gone awry, master criminal ...
Place:
usa, chicago illinois, arkansas
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
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