Movies like Postman Blues

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Postman Blues (1997)
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Postman Blues (1997)
Original name: ポストマン・ブルース
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Sawaki is a postman who's not quite thrilled about his boring way of life. But his life is about to change when he delivers mail to his old schoolmate Noguchi, who's now a member of the Yakuza, the Japanese Mafia, and just finished cutting his little finger off...
Style: heroic, black comedy, dark comedy, action thriller, exciting, humorous, realistic, semi serious
Plot: yakuza, police officer, postman, heroic bloodshed, love and romance, fall in love, chase, chases and races, danger, mistaken identity, disorder, workplace, dishonesty, unfulfillment, workplace situations, dull life, gangster, police, hitman, death, murder, criminal, hospital, bicycle, police station ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: japan, asia
Keyword: gangsters

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, humorous, semi serious and exciting films with plots about gangster, disorder, rivalry, danger, criminal heroes, dishonesty and police mostly in Action, Crime and Comedy genres. Some movies like Postman Blues: Monday (2000), Drive (2002), Chasuke's Journey (2015), Killer (1997), Yakuza: Like a Dragon (2007). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Monday (2000)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A simple funeral turns a man's world upside down.
Style: captivating, atmospheric, humorous, black comedy, dark comedy ...
Plot: yakuza, gangster, life turned upside down, danger, disorder, dark humor, memory loss, chases and races, gang, coincidence, chase, asian ...
Time: 90s
Place: japan, asia
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100%
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Drive (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Kenichi Asakura is an uptight, hyper-square salesman. One day, three bank robbers commandeer his van. They are in hot pursuit of their fellow robber who has snatched the money. Unfortunately for the bank robbers, Asakura never drives over 40 km/h ...
Style: exciting, captivating
Plot: chase, caper, burglar, thief, robbery, heist gone wrong, bandit, money, stolen money, heist, car chase, bank robbery ...
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36%
Chasuke's Journey (2015)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Things are hectic in heaven. Dozens of scribes sit before a long scroll incessantly scribbling away. They are composing the biographies of earth-dwellers. What is invented by the men in heaven is lived out below. And their employer, God, is ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, captivating, light, romantic ...
Plot: fall in love, impossible love, fish out of water, supernatural, love and romance, supernatural romance, misfit, disorder, religion, heaven, love story, angel ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, asia
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33%
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Killer (1997)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: Poland
Duration: 104 min.
Story: An innocent cab driver is mistaken for a contract killer and imprisoned. Soon, he is sprung by a mob boss who needs "Killer" for a few more jobs.
Style: dark comedy, exciting, realistic, semi serious, suspenseful ...
Plot: hitman, mistaken identity, serial killer, mafia, renaissance, contract killer, danger, dishonesty, unlikely criminals, disorder, taxi, polish ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: poland, eastern europe, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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Yakuza: Like a Dragon (2007)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Japan, South Korea
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Former Yakuza underling Kiryu Kazuma, who has recently been released from prison after a lengthy incarceration, and is trying to piece his life together and distance himself from his Yakuza past. Unfortunately Kiryu's problems slowly escalate ...
Style: exciting, captivating, suspense, tense, heroic ...
Plot: yakuza, gang, gangster, danger, vengeance, bank, rivalry, hitman, heist, triad, japanese mafia, heroic bloodshed ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, tokyo, asia
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31%
The Matsugane Potshot Affair (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 112 min.
Story: When a gold ingot and a severed human head are discovered in a small provincial town, the rush to solve the curious case wavers between tragic and darkly humorous.
Style: humorous, semi serious, captivating, offbeat, realistic
Plot: nothing goes right, police investigation, police detective, law enforcement, silly humor, gangster, disorder, social relations, small town, dark humor, satire, nudity ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: japan, asia
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30%
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Fool N Final (2007)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 144 min.
Story: A bunch of misfits and gangsters embarks on a journey to find a lost and stolen diamond.
Style: exciting, semi serious, realistic, suspenseful, humorous
Plot: gang, disorder, danger, rivalry, criminal heroes, dishonesty, cons and scams, chases and races, goofy hero, gangster, diamond theft, bookies ...
Time: 21st century
Place: asia
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30%
Detective Doberman (1977)
Genre: Action, Crime
Country: Japan
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The burned remains of a young woman discovered in Shinjuku, Tokyo. The police comes to the conclusion that its the work of a pyromaniacal serial murderer. The murder victim is identified as Mayumi Tamaki, a native of Ishigaki, Okinawa. As the ...
Style: crime drama, humorous, semi serious, realistic, offbeat ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: yakuza, martial arts, tough guy, cop, murder, gangster, rescue, urban, danger, fish out of water, disorder, rivalry ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: asia, japan, tokyo
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30%
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Outrage Coda (2017)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Ôtomo gets involved with new Yakuza battles after he comes back the Yakuza society.
Style: exciting, captivating, tense, suspense, disturbing ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: yakuza, gangster, organized crime, survival, danger, violence, mafia, gunfight, murder, hitman, brutality, gang ...
Time: 2010s
Place: japan, jeju island
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28%
Why Don't You Play in Hell? (2013)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 129 min.
Story: In Japan, gonzo filmmakers hatch a three-pronged plan to save an actress's career, end a yakuza war and make a hit movie.
Style: humorous, rough, exciting, semi serious, realistic ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: yakuza, gang, gang war, parents and children, female killer, chaos, rivalry, love and romance, vengeance, danger, criminal heroes, uninhibited rivalry ...
Time: year 2013, 21st century
Place: japan, tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Beyond Outrage (2012)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 110 min.
Story: As the police launch a full-scale crackdown on organized crime, it ignites a national yakuza struggle between the Sanno of the East and Hanabishi of the West. What started as an internal strife in Outrage has now become a nationwide war in Outrage ...
Style: tense, realistic, serious, rough, noir ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: yakuza, gangster, criminal heroes, law enforcement, rivalry, gang, danger, elimination, japanese mafia, power struggle, police, organized crime ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Expect the Unexpected (1998)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 87 min.
Story: In this "cops and robbers" film, a raid on a jewelry store staged by a band of amateur hold-up artists goes horribly wrong, leading to a shoot-out. The elite Organized Crime Bureau team, headed by Captain Ching King Gen, is poised to go ...
Style: heroic, serious, realistic, exciting, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: heroic bloodshed, gunfight, organized crime, store, heist, wooing, crime gone awry, law enforcement, criminal heroes, rivalry, disorder, gangster ...
Time: 90s
Place: hong kong, asia
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26%
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Hoods (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Angelo, together with a group of five other people, is ordered by his father, an Italian mobster, to kill the son of an enemy of his, who has destroyed one of his buildings with a bomb. The problems grow bigger when they discover that the person ...
Style: dark comedy, independent film, realistic, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: mobster, child in peril, gangster, criminal heroes, introspection, uninhibited rivalry, rivalry, danger, dishonesty, criminal's revenge, buddies, disorder ...
Time: year 1998, 90s
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Adrenaline Drive (1999)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 112 min.
Story: A gas leak explosion at a yakuza hideout provides a shy nurse and a rental car clerk with the opportunity to take a briefcase full of money. A cross-country chase ensues.
Style: dark comedy, road movie, semi serious, realistic, humorous ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: yakuza, on the run, hospital, stolen money, partner, gangster, fall in love, fugitives, odd couple, chases and races, nothing goes right, love and romance ...
Time: 90s
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Dead or Alive 2 (2000)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Two contract killers cross paths in the middle of the same job and realize they are childhood friends. Together they take a break from killing and visit the small island they once called home. After reflecting on their past lives they decided to ...
Style: captivating, serious, realistic, rough, dark comedy ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: hitman, friendship, friends, buddies, drug dealing, criminal heroes, danger, gangster, orphan, shooting, yakuza, triad ...
Time: 90s
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Rain Fall (2009)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: A hit man looks to protect the daughter of one of his victims against CIA assassins.
Style: realistic, serious, exciting, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: police officer, hitman, law enforcement, rivalry, dishonesty, danger, chases and races, tough heroes, chase, police, conspiracy, deception ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, new york, asia, usa, tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
The Woman Sharper (1963)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Handsome young Katsuta tries to follow the yakuza code, but even his boss doesn't believe in it. Diamond Fuyu is less ethical, and allows the idiotic Tetsu to trick a schoolgirl he fancies, Hanako, into a type of bonded prostitution. Because of ...
Style: serious, realistic, offbeat, stylized, suspenseful
Plot: yakuza, gambling, casino, organized crime, gangster, violent content, rivalry, dishonesty, femme fatale, gang, danger, uninhibited rivalry ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: asia, japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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Payoff (2003)
Genre: Action, Crime, Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Two very different cops are forced to work together...
Style: semi serious, humorous, suspenseful, action comedy, fast ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: buddy cop, buddies, chase, murder, police investigation, partners against crime, law enforcement, danger, reluctant partners, police corruption, gangster, misfit partners ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, marseille
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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Naayak (2013)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 153 min.
Story: A young man and his lookalike team up to fight injustice and settle their personal scores with the evildoers.
Style: semi serious, exciting, suspenseful, rough, realistic
Plot: gangster, mistaken identity, heroes, rivalry, political corruption, dishonesty, love and romance, fall in love, disorder, revenge, cult leader, violent content ...
Time: 21st century
Place: asia, india
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25%
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Wasabi (2001)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Japan
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Hubert is a French policeman with very sharp methods. After being forced to take 2 months off by his boss, who doesn't share his view on working methods, he goes back to Japan, where he used to work 19 years ago, to settle the probate of his ...
Style: funny, realistic, semi serious, exciting, action packed ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: yakuza, father daughter relationship, justice, police brutality, lone hero, investigation, japanese mafia, police detective, youth, tough guy, culture clash, inheritance ...
Time: year 2001, 21st century
Place: japan, tokyo, france, paris france, asia ...
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Kick (2014)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 146 min.
Story: An adrenaline junkie walks away from a whirlwind romance and embraces a new life as a thief, though he soon finds himself pursued by veteran police officer and engaged in a turf war with a local gangster.
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, fast, action thriller
Plot: hidden identity, fall in love, daredevil, disorder, dishonesty, twists and turns, thief, chase, superhero, martial arts, love and romance, world spanning ...
Time: 21st century
Place: asia, india
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24%
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Run, Run, Joe! (1974)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: Italy, France, Spain, West Germany
Duration: 120 min.
Story: When a don who they were suppose to protect ends up dead, his bodyguard and bodyguard's friend must go under cover to escape the wrath of mob.
Style: realistic, semi serious, exciting, humorous, poliziottesco
Plot: chase, gangster, chases and races, escapades, rescue, danger, organized crime, sea, motorboat
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Stealing Rembrandt (2002)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: Denmark, UK
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Two bumbling scrap metal thieves - father and son - steal the wrong painting during a museum heist. The painting turns out to be the only original Rembrandt painting in Denmark, and all hell breaks loose. What do you do when you've got ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, suspenseful, realistic, black comedy ...
Plot: museum, painting, heist, on the run, nothing goes right, crime gone awry, dishonesty, unlikely criminals, disorder, art theft, chases and races, small time ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: europe, denmark
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Hera Pheri (2000)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 156 min.
Story: Three unemployed men find the answer to all their money problems when they receive a call from a kidnapper. However, things do not go as planned.
Style: humorous, semi serious, realistic, funny, entertaining ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: kidnapping, rescue, rivalry, unemployment, mistaken identity, nothing goes right, love and romance, fall in love, gangster, couple relations, buddies, telephone call ...
Time: y2k, 90s
Place: middle east, india, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Jilla (2014)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 185 min.
Story: A cop decides to take on his godfather, who raised him from childhood, and make him realize the error of his ways.
Style: exciting, captivating, tense, psychological, semi serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: adopted son, gangster, police, rivalry, parents and children, dishonesty, law enforcement, escapades, danger, fighting crime, murder, godfather ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india, asia
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24%
I'm the Expert, You're the Novice (1994)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 175 min.
Story: A Bombay police officer seeks revenge when his brother is killed by a powerful underworld figure. Things get complicated when a matinee movie idol begins to tag along the policeman so he can research a movie role.
Style: exciting, realistic, semi serious, humorous, remake of american film
Plot: police, cop, murder, faked death, odd couple, partner, disorder, honest law enforcer, fish out of water, law enforcement, unlikely partners, rivalry ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: india
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Party 7 (2000)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Seven characters, introduced at the start of the film, get thrown together into the same hotel room: a thief who's stolen a suitcase of money from the mob, his ex-girlfriend, her obsessive boyfriend, the mob soldier sent to retrieve the ...
Style: semi serious, stylized, humorous, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot: thief, chase, love and romance, criminal's revenge, dishonesty, betrayal, hitman, mistaken identity, sexual content, gangster, mentally unstable, gang ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: new mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Rascals (2011)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 128 min.
Story: Rascals movie is a comedy about the joys of conning where Sanjay Dutt and Ajay Devgn play two cool competing conmen trying to out-scheme each other in consistently amusing and surprising setups. But when both fall for the same girl, the competition ...
Style: realistic, not serious, humorous, slapstick
Plot: gangster, disorder, friends, dishonesty, danger, rivalry, criminal heroes, buddies, cons and scams, love and romance, love triangle, woman in danger ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Wild Target (1993)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Crime, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Into the solitary life of middle-aged hitman, Victor Meynard, come two people: Antoine, a youth who becomes Victor's apprentice, and Renée, a bold thief Victor's been hired to kill because she cheated a mobster. When circumstances prevent ...
Style: sex comedy, semi serious, realistic, offbeat, humorous ...
Plot: love and romance, male nudity, sexual content, gangster, criminal heroes, rivalry, dishonesty, forgery, danger, destiny, fight for supremacy, chaos and mayhem ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Brannigan (1975)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Jim Brannigan is sent to London to bring back an American mobster who is being held for extradition but when he arrives he has been kidnapped which was set up by his lawyer. Brannigan in his American Irish way brings American law to the people of ...
Style: detective, black comedy, realistic, semi serious, rough ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: culture clash, car chase, chase, gangster, violence, assassin, gunfight, buddy cop, police investigation, fish out of water, police, revenge ...
Time: 70s, year 1975, 20th century
Place: chicago, england, london, scotland, scotland yard ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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