Movies like The Outfit 1973

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The Outfit (1973)
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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, serious, realistic, exciting, suspense, retro, grindhouse, hood, cult classic, crime thriller ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: revenge, mafia, prison, murder, hitman, bank robbery, brother brother relationship, danger, organized crime, rivalry, crime gone awry, chase, heist, gangster, killer, ghetto, gang, caper, criminal, paranoid, fate, cop, bookies, torture, bomb ...
Time: future, 70s, 20th century
Place: st. louis missouri
Keyword: gangsters, american, oldies, stable

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, suspenseful and neo noir films with plots about murder, gangster, rivalry, criminal heroes, revenge, dishonesty and violence mostly in Crime, Drama and Thriller genres. Some movies like The Outfit: Charley Varrick (1973), Hickey & Boggs (1972), Killing Them Softly (2012), City of Industry (1997), Body Count (1998). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Charley Varrick (1973)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Charley Varrick robs a bank in a small town with his friends. Instead of obtaining a small amount of money they discover they stole a very large amount of money belonging to the mob. Charley must now come up with a plan to not only evade the police ...
Style: neo noir, cynical, clever, suspenseful, crime thriller ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: chase, heist, organized crime, bank robbery, robbery, caper, car chase, crime gone awry, gangster, driver, airplane, bank robber ...
Time: 70s, year 1973, 20th century
Place: new mexico, usa, albuquerque new mexico
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100%
Hickey & Boggs (1972)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Two veteran private eyes trigger a criminal reign of terror with their search for a missing girl.
Style: neo noir, detective, realistic, serious, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: private detective, murder, private investigator, investigation, blaxploitation, rescue, kidnapping, money, revenge, chase, vietnam veteran, suitcase of money ...
Time: year 1972, 70s
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Killing Them Softly (2012)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Jackie Cogan is an enforcer hired to restore order after three dumb guys rob a Mob protected card game, causing the local criminal economy to collapse.
Style: neo noir, suspenseful, intense, tense, bleak ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, adult
Plot: robbery, gambling, gangster, organized crime, hitman, brutality, assassin, mafia, violence, murder, crime gone awry, gang ...
Time: year 2012, 2010s, year 2008, 2000s, 21st century
Place: new orleans, louisiana, usa, orlando florida, florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
City of Industry (1997)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A retired thief swears revenge on the lunatic who murdered his brother and partner, while going on the run with the loot they stole.
Style: neo noir, suspenseful, perverse, hood, independent film ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: heist, betrayal, gangster, gang, robbery, murder, violence, money, kidnapping, brother, ghetto, criminal ...
Time: year 1997, 90s, 20th century
Place: los angeles, california, usa, florida, palm springs california
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Body Count (1998)
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, hood, cult classic, independent film, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: art theft, heist, murder, urban, highway, on the road, police detective, friends, disorder, on the run, crime gone awry, dishonesty ...
Time: year 1998, 90s
Place: boston, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Eddie's friends are numerous, but the term friends is suspect. As a small time hood Eddie is about to go back to jail. In order to escape this fate he deals information on stolen guns to the feds. Simultaneously he is supplying arms to his bank ...
Style: neo noir, cynical, noir, retro, crime thriller ...
Audience: manly
Plot: gangster, criminal, betrayal, bartender, heist, hustler, robbery, mafia, organized crime, gang, city, politics ...
Time: year 1973, 70s, 20th century
Place: boston, massachusetts, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Point Blank (1967)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: After being double-crossed and left for dead, a mysterious man named Walker single-mindedly tries to retrieve the rather inconsequential sum of money that was stolen from him.
Style: neo noir, surreal, tense, brutal, rough ...
Audience: boys' night, manly
Plot: organized crime, revenge, vengeance, gangster, betrayal, left for dead, anti hero, hitman, flashback, left to die, mafia, money ...
Time: 20th century, future, year 1967, 60s
Place: usa, san francisco, los angeles, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
 7.1
 145K
Payback (1999)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: With friends like these, who needs enemies? That's the question bad guy Porter is left asking after his wife and partner steal his heist money and leave him for dead -- or so they think. Five months and an endless reservoir of bitterness later, ...
Style: neo noir, suspense, black comedy, exciting, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: vengeance, money, organized crime, revenge, betrayal, anti hero, mafia, heist, greed, robbery, prostitute, violence ...
Time: future, 70s, 20th century
Place: chicago, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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Quarry (2016)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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Story: The story of Mac Conway, a Marine who returns home to Memphis from Vietnam in 1972 and finds himself shunned by those he loves and demonized by the public. As he struggles to cope with his experiences at war, Conway is drawn into a network of ...
Style: serious, captivating, tense, realistic, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: teaching the ways of the world, vietnam veteran, assassination, working undercover, corruption, homecoming, haunted by the past, money, murder, blackmail, sex scene, adaptation ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, year 1972
Place: usa, mississippi, memphis
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.0
 7K
Shining Moon (1975)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: Mike Locken is one of the principle members of a group of freelance spies. A significant portion of their work is for the C.I.A. and while on a case for them one of his friends turns on him and shoots him in the elbow and knee. His assignment, to ...
Style: realistic, serious, rough, suspenseful, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: spy, betrayal, assassination, espionage, chase, danger, car crash, sword fight, tough guy, fight, kung fu, one last job ...
Time: 20th century, year 1975, 70s
Place: usa, san francisco, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 4.1
 853
Ready 2 Die (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: After a violent bank robbery, the trio of hoods make their way across East L.A. carrying a blood-soaked bag of money. When word gets out, they must fend off gangs and crooked cops alike as they strive to keep the loot and stay alive.
Style: serious, suspenseful, rough, exciting, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gang, chase, murder, dishonesty, heist, profanity, gangster, disorder, on the run, crime gone awry, criminal's revenge, criminal heroes ...
Time: 21st century
Place: california, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Payback: Straight Up (2006)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: With friends like these, who needs enemies? That's the question bad guy Porter is left asking after his wife and partner steal his heist money and leave him for dead -- or so they think. Five months and an endless reservoir of bitterness later, ...
Style: neo noir, ambiguous ending, realistic, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: revenge, betrayal, vengeance, criminal, prostitute, tough heroes, organized crime, criminal's revenge, crime boss, corrupt cop, husband wife relationship, gangster ...
Time: 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 6.4
 728
Framed (1975)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Director Phil Karlson harks back to the no-nonsense, no-thrills directness of his 1950s "B" pictures in Framed. Joe Don Baker plays Ron, a high-rolling gambler that always seems to loose his big scores. Framed by the film's villains ...
Style: neo noir, grindhouse, exciting, tense, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: prison, false accusation, political corruption, frame up, police corruption, dirty cop, explosions, nightclub, vengeance, violence, wrongful imprisonment, murder ...
Time: year 1975, 50s
Place: tennessee
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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 ⇓
22%
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Circus (2000)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Bruno, a sadistic criminal, wants clever con man Leo out of the way. Leo and his equally clever wife, Lily, are up to something. So too is Julius: he hires Leo to kill Gloria, Julius's wife. Leo does it, but then Julius shows up with the murder ...
Style: stylized, neo noir, suspense, suspenseful, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: betrayal, gangster, murder, twists and turns, rivalry, crime gone awry, heist, interracial relations, contract killer, circus, foot pursuit, room service ...
Time: 90s
Place: brighton, england, europe, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 5.5
 1K
Caught Up (1998)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Daryl gets out of jail after 5 years. His mother has died, his girlfriend is married, and he can't find a job. His new girlfriend Vanessa, whom he meets when a gunman opens fire on them, gets him a job as a car driver. Hitmen are still after ...
Style: hood, realistic, rough, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: murder, betrayal, urban, chase, vengeance, criminal's revenge, law enforcement, life is a bitch, criminal heroes, rivalry, femme fatale, crime gone awry ...
Time: year 1998, 90s
Place: california, usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 4.4
 22K
Setup (2011)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A group of friends plan out a detailed heist that turns deadly when one betrays the other by taking off with the goods. Taking matters into his own hands, Sonny seeks out his revenge teaming up with the most dangerous mob boss in town to get back ...
Style: realistic, exciting, serious, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: danger, chases and races, crime gone awry, dishonesty, heist, gangster, partner, prisoner, criminal, disorder, revenge, bank robber ...
Time: 21st century
Place: detroit, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 5.9
 20K
Kiss of Death (1995)
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, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gangster, murder, organized crime, prison, vengeance, undercover agent, mafia, violence, psychopath, revenge, law enforcement, master criminal ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead (1995)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: A mafia film in Tarantino style with a star-studded cast. Jimmy’s “The Saint” gangster career has finally ended. Yet now he finds him self doing favors for a wise godfather known as “The Man with the Plan.”
Style: neo noir, atmospheric, psychological, tense, realistic ...
Plot: one last job, mafia, crime gone awry, gangster, organized crime, hitman, redemption, gunfight, disorder, hopes, caper, revenge ...
Time: year 1995, 90s
Place: usa, colorado, denver colorado
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 5.5
 948
Men of Respect (1990)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: In this modern day version of Shakespeare's Macbeth, a hitman heeds a spiritualist's prophesies that he will rise to the head of his family. He starts his ascension by clandestinely executing the heads of the family and casting the blame ...
Style: realistic, serious, exciting, suspense, independent film ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: mafia, hitman, shakespeare, mob boss, dishonesty, ambition, rivalry, murder, tough heroes, gangster, macbeth, fortune teller ...
Time: 80s
Place: usa, new york, bronx new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 7.5
 413K
The Town (2010)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Doug MacRay is a longtime thief, who, smarter than the rest of his crew, is looking for his chance to exit the game. When a bank job leads to the group kidnapping an attractive branch manager, he takes on the role of monitoring her – but their ...
Style: suspense, captivating, serious, crime thriller, clever ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: bank robbery, heist, robbery, gunfight, thief, romancing a criminal, group of criminals, gang, organized crime, gangster, love affair, perfect crime ...
Time: year 2010, 2010s, 21st century
Place: boston, usa, florida, massachusetts
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Walking the Edge (1985)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A Los Angeles taxi driver helps a distraught young woman on the run from gangsters after they murder her husband and young son.
Style: hood, neo noir, independent film, realistic, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gangster, auto mechanic, taxi, woman with a gun, teenager, gang, driver, big city, ghetto, taxi driver, vengeance, tough law enforcer ...
Time: 80s
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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 ⇓
18%
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Carlito's Way (1993)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 144 min.
Story: A Puerto-Rican ex-con, just released from prison, pledges to stay away from drugs and violence despite the pressure around him and lead on to a better life outside of NYC.
Style: neo noir, suspense, suspenseful, tense, melancholic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: organized crime, gangster, mafia, nightclub, tragic hero, drug dealing, mobster, drug, gunfight, violence, prison, drug lord ...
Time: 90s, 70s, 20th century, year 1993, year 1975
Place: new york, usa, grand central station manhattan new york city, harlem, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
 7.0
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The Drop (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Bob Saginowski finds himself at the center of a robbery gone awry and entwined in an investigation that digs deep into the neighborhood's past where friends, families, and foes all work together to make a living - no matter the cost.
Style: serious, realistic, tense, suspense, cerebral ...
Audience: girls' night, teens, boys' night
Plot: twists and turns, robbery, fall in love, organized crime, danger, criminal heroes, crime boss, catholic, gangster, mafia, church, criminal's revenge ...
Time: year 2014, 90s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: new york, boston, brooklyn new york city, massachusetts, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
 6.9
 7K
Walking Tall (1973)
Genre: Action, Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Buford Pusser's a wrestler, whose wife wants him to settle down, so they go to his home town in Tennessee, where he plans to get into business with his father. But he is shocked to discover all sorts of graft and corruption going on. And when ...
Style: tense, realistic, suspenseful, rough, serious ...
Audience: boys' night, manly
Plot: revenge, vigilantism, vigilante, redneck, small town, danger, sheriff, police corruption, corruption, fighting crime, criminal syndicate, law enforcement ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, 60s
Place: tennessee, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
Underworld U.S.A. (1961)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A bitter young man sets out to get back at the gangsters who murdered his father.
Style: realistic, suspenseful, rough, serious, neo noir ...
Audience: boys' night, manly
Plot: gangster, testimony, prison, vengeance, manhunt, dishonesty, haunted by the past, law enforcement, witnessing a crime, parents and children, drug addiction, revenge ...
Time: 60s, year 1961
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
We Own the Night (2007)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: A New York nightclub manager tries to save his brother and father from Russian mafia hitmen.
Style: suspense, harsh, stylized, captivating, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: organized crime, mafia, gangster, police, nightclub, gang, cop, brothers, hitman, multiple storylines, law enforcement, heroin ...
Time: year 2007, 20th century, year 1988, 80s
Place: new york, brooklyn new york city, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
Road to Perdition (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Mike Sullivan works as a hit man for crime boss John Rooney. Sullivan views Rooney as a father figure, however after his son is witness to a killing, Mike Sullivan finds himself on the run in attempt to save the life of his son and at the same time ...
Style: harsh, atmospheric, visually stunning, bleak, tense ...
Audience: date night
Plot: mafia, vengeance, organized crime, hitman, criminal's revenge, violence, revenge, road trip, murder, on the road, on the run, assassin ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century, 2000s, year 1931, year 2002
Place: illinois, chicago, usa, persia, michigan
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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Badge 373 (1973)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: When his partner is killed, tough Irish detective Eddie Ryan (Robert Duvall) vows to avenge the death, whatever the cost. As he begins unraveling clues, his behavior becomes so outrageous that he's obliged to turn in his badge, but the ...
Style: grim, exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: urban, car chase, sociopath, police officer, gangster, profanity, violent content, police detective, tough heroes, drug dealing, tough law enforcer, rivalry ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: new york, usa, puerto rico
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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