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PornoStar (1998)
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PornoStar (1998)
Original name: ポルノスター
Genre: Crime
Country: Japan
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A young man decides one day to start killing yakuza. After he kills his first two he gets roped into helping a wannabe gangster and his bumbling underlings to perform a hit. While things work out in the beginning, this young psychopath quickly becomes more trouble than the gang expected. Will they be able to rid themselves of him, or will they be his next victims?
Style: neo noir, disturbing, crime drama, exciting, tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, gothic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: yakuza, samurai, alienation, youth, prostitute, gang, chase, chases and races, teenage life, rivalry, society, drug dealing, law enforcement, juvenile delinquency, police investigation, stash, going straight, criminal's revenge, criminal heroes, lovers on the run, violence spree, gangster, teenager, business, revenge ...
Time: 90s
Place: tokyo, japan, asia
Keyword: gangsters

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, realistic, serious and rough films with plots about gangster, rivalry, gang, criminal heroes, murder, violence and deadly mostly in Crime, Drama and Action genres. Some movies like PornoStar: The Fall of the Essex Boys (2013), The City of Lost Souls (2000), Deadly Outlaw: Rekka (2002), Graveyard of Honor (1975), The Wolves (1971). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Fall of the Essex Boys (2013)
Genre: Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min.
Story: The rise and fall of the Essex Boys gang - the drugs, the violence and, of course, the murders. The real story is the most shocking of all.
Style: realistic, rough, suspenseful, serious, tense
Plot: murder, drug dealing, gangster, gang, fighting crime, rise and fall, police investigation, law enforcement, who done it, police, violence, informant ...
Time: 90s, year 1995, year 1993, 20th century, 21st century
Place: england, netherlands, united kingdom, amsterdam
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The City of Lost Souls (2000)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Brazilian-Japanese gangster Mario rescues his Chinese girlfriend Kei as she's about to be deported from Japan. Desperate to escape, he hides in Tokyo's booming Japanese-Portuguese community and seeks passage from the country from a Russian ...
Style: disturbing, harsh, atmospheric, exciting, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gangster, organized crime, lovers on the run, love triangle, gang, rivalry, master criminal, danger, chase, drug dealing, hitman, martial arts ...
Time: 90s
Place: japan, asia, tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Deadly Outlaw: Rekka (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 96 min.
Story: After Kunisada's Yakuza leader and father figure is brutally murdered, he and his best friend go on a two-man mission to avenge his death, killing other Yakuza leaders leading to a final confrontation by the old man's killers..
Style: rough, suspenseful, stylized, serious, crime drama ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: hitman, yakuza, danger, gangster, murder, betrayal, criminal's revenge, vigilantism, police investigation, chase, master criminal, lone wolves ...
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Graveyard of Honor (1975)
Genre: Action, Crime
Country: Japan
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A look at the life of renegade yakuza, Rikio Ishikawa, particularly the years from 1946 to 1950 when his violent antics get him in trouble with his own clan, Kawada, and then with the clan of his protector, Kozaburo Imai. In these years, he can rely ...
Style: crime drama, stylized, realistic, suspenseful, bleak ...
Plot: yakuza, mafia, organized crime, drug addiction, prison, japanese mafia, city, exploitation, big city, samurai, gangster, cemetery ...
Time: 1940s, year 1975, 20th century, 50s
Place: japan, tokyo, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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The Wolves (1971)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 131 min.
Story: After going to prison for killing the boss of the Kanno gang, Seji Iwahashi (Tatsuya Nakadai) gets released early -- only to find that his former gang has merged with the Kannos. But with bitter resentments lingering on both sides, how long will it ...
Style: crime drama, serious, realistic, suspenseful, stylized ...
Plot: yakuza, samurai, mobster, gangster, gang, conspiracy, violent content, tough heroes, heroes, rivalry, society, dishonesty ...
Time: 1920s, 20th century
Place: japan, asia
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48%
Sons of the Neon Night (2021)
Genre: Crime
Country: Hong Kong
Story: A detective goes against the successor to a drug-trafficking crime syndicate, who aspires for a society free of drugs by orchestrating anarchy in Hong Kong.
Style: tense, suspenseful, psychological, suspense, disturbing ...
Plot: drug crime, chinese mafia, gangster, criminal underworld, danger, drug, criminal heroes, criminal's revenge, friends, battles, vengeance, gang war ...
Time: 21st century
Place: hong kong
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Wrong Turn at Tahoe (2009)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A debt collector for the mob (Academy Award(R)-winner Cuba Gooding, Jr.) finds his fate taking a series of treacherous turns after his powerful boss and mentor (Miguel Ferrer) is caught in a dangerous double cross with the most dangerous drug dealer ...
Style: realistic, suspenseful, rough, serious, exciting
Audience: boys' night
Plot: revenge, drug dealing, gangster, gunfight, tough heroes, rivalry, criminal heroes, chases and races, violence spree, vengeance, gang, hitman ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, cuba
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Young and Dangerous: Reloaded (2013)
Genre: Crime
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 106 min.
Story: On a dark Mongkok night, May, the cousin of Dai Tin-yee (Dominic Ho), was gang-raped to death by Med King (Deep Ng) and his men. The furious Tin-yee, together with his buddies, Ho-Nam(Him Law), Chicken (Oscar Leung), Pou-Pan (Jazz Lam) tracked down ...
Style: disturbing, suspense, psychological, suspenseful, tense
Plot: gang, gangster, triad, revenge, greed, vengeance, murder, gang war, violence, brutality, organized crime, friendship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: hong kong
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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Family (2001)
Genre: Action, Crime
Country: Japan
Duration: 111 min.
Story: When the mobster Iwaida Nishikawi is executed by the hit man Takeshi, his family chases the killer. Takeshi's brothers Takashi and Hideshi Miwa try to find Takeshi, who is hidden with the nurse Rie Ishibashi, to protect him and Hideshi ...
Style: suspenseful, exciting, rough, serious, crime drama ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: yakuza, gang, rivalry, gangster, dishonesty, master criminal, betrayal, organized crime, mafia, rape, assassin, nurse ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
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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
⇓ similarity ⇓
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10 Grams (2015)
Genre: Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 75 min.
Story: Crime Drama starring Brian William Woodward, Richard Douglas, Lloyd James
Style: suspense, disturbing, tense, suspenseful
Plot: murder, drug, corruption, prostitute, death, sin, greed, escort, drug traffic, deception, smuggling, obsession ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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Ley Lines (1999)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 105 min.
Story: The story follows a trio of Japanese youths of Chinese descent who escape their semi-rural upbringing and relocate to Shinjuku, Tokyo, where they befriend a troubled Shanghai prostitute and fall foul of a local crime syndicate. Like many of ...
Style: crime drama, realistic, serious, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: yakuza, prostitute, organized crime, samurai, big city, triad, drug dealer, gang, gangster, friendship, intrigue, juvenile delinquency ...
Time: 90s
Place: japan, tokyo, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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Cement (2000)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: What's the bond between partners, between brothers, and between spouses? In L.A., Bill Holt handcuffs Sean Rickhart inside a rebar frame for a freeway pillar at a construction site; Bill's going to bury Sean in quick-drying cement. Guided ...
Style: neo noir, serious, rough, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: police corruption, gangster, criminal's revenge, life is a bitch, rivalry, criminal heroes, law enforcement, dishonesty, police investigation, drug dealing, addiction, showbiz ...
Time: 90s
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
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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
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Time: 2010s, 21st century
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Graveyard of Honor (2002)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 131 min.
Story: A barkeeper saves a Yakuza boss' life and thus makes his way up in the organization. However, his fear of nothing soon causes problems.
Style: serious, rough, realistic, bleak, crime drama ...
Plot: yakuza, gangster, life is a bitch, criminal's revenge, criminal heroes, rivalry, drug abuse, addiction, psychopath, violence, attempted murder, organized crime ...
Place: japan, asia
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Genre: Action, Crime
Country: Japan
Duration: 88 min.
Story: The Japanese yakuza films certainly have a well-earned reputation of being violent and chaotic. Some are more frenetic than others and Street Mobster is unbelievable high on savagery and energy. It dawned the re-birth of the genre, telling the story ...
Style: bloody, exciting, realistic, serious, stylized ...
Audience: boys' night
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Time: 70s
Place: japan, asia
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43%
Original Gangster (2020)
Genre: Crime
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Duration: 110 min.
Story: The stoic chronicles of Castor, orphaned as a child, forced to survive in the wild and his colorful journey through the criminal underworld of London.
Style: suspenseful, tense, exciting, disturbing, suspense
Plot: criminal, friends, escapades, criminal heroes, gangster, death, gang war, betrayal, mafia, society, organized crime, revenge ...
Time: 2020s, 21st century
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Swallowtail Butterfly (1996)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 148 min.
Story: Swallowtail Butterfly takes place in an alternate Japan, in a ghetto where immigrants from all over the world have come to live and make their fortune. The city is called Yentown, and it is much like Tokyo. Sixteen-year-old Ageha (Ito), a young girl ...
Style: cult classic, independent film, tense, serious, realistic ...
Plot: prostitute, forgery, dysfunctional society, outsider, sex, melancholy, money, money laundering, illegal prostitution, gangster, immigrant, disorder ...
Time: 90s
Place: tokyo, japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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Fudoh: The New Generation (1996)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 98 min.
Story: In order to settle a business dispute, a mob leader murders one of his own teenage sons. The surviving son vows to avenge his brother's death, and organizes his own gang of teenage killers to destroy his father's organization.
Style: controversial, neo noir, action thriller, crime drama, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
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Time: 90s
Place: japan, asia
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Our Town (2007)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Kyung-ju is a struggling novelist who writes violent and gory murder mysteries. When a fierce argument with his landlady ends in her death, he stages the killing so that it looks like the act of the serial killer that has been terrorizing his ...
Style: psychological, tense, suspense, captivating, twisted ...
Plot: serial killer, police investigation, murder, psychopath, rivalry, danger, twists and turns, wannabe, law enforcement, who done it, chase, escapades ...
Time: 21st century
Place: south korea, asia, korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
If You Were Young: Rage (1970)
Genre: Action, Crime
Country: Japan
Duration: 89 min.
Story: If You Were Young: Rage highlights the other side of post-war Japanese prosperity, focusing on the throngs of young people who missed out on the boom. We follow a group of young men that can't seem to get ahead, despite their willingness to ...
Style: serious, realistic, disturbing, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot: family relations, unemployment, life is a bitch, kids in trouble, social differences, youth, society, hopes, gang, city life, innocence lost, friendship ...
Time: 60s
Place: japan, tokyo, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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Rainy Dog (1997)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A Japanese assassin stranded in Taiwan must take work from a local crime boss to make ends meet when suddenly a woman from his past delivers a son to him.
Style: crime drama, bloody, mind blowing, perverse, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: yakuza, hitman, gang, organized crime, triad, big city, contract killer, japanese mafia, assassin, samurai, killer, prostitute ...
Time: 90s
Place: taiwan, asia, taipei
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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Crows Zero (2007)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: Japan
Duration: 130 min.
Story: The students of Suzuran High compete for the King of School title. An ex-graduate yakuza is sent to kill the son of a criminal group, but he can't make himself to do it as he reminds him of his youth.
Style: exciting, suspenseful, captivating, semi serious, manga ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: gang, gang war, teenage life, youth, high school, yakuza, teenage gang, high school life, friendship, street fight, juvenile delinquent, rivalry ...
Place: japan, asia, tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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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
⇓ similarity ⇓
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The Five (1995)
Genre: Action, Drama, Crime
Country: Japan
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Five men plot to steal a large sum of money from the local yakuza, but everything does not go as planned and the men find themselves hunted down by contract killers
Style: neo noir, serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: hitman, yakuza, organized crime, triad, big city, violence, gangster, murder, gang, robbery, debt, partner ...
Time: 90s
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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Genre: Action, Crime
Country: Japan
Duration: 84 min.
Story: One of Japanese cinema’s supreme emulations of American noir, Takashi Nomura’s A Colt Is My Passport is a down-and-dirty but gorgeously photographed yakuza film starring Joe Shishido as a hard-boiled hit man caught between rival gangs.
Style: neo noir, grindhouse, realistic, serious, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: yakuza, hitman, killer, rivalry, mob boss, mafia, samurai, assassin, criminal, professional, explosions, japanese mafia ...
Time: 60s
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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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 ⇓
42%
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Outrage (2010)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 109 min.
Story: The story begins with Sekiuchi, boss of the Sannokai, a huge organized crime syndicate controlling the entire Kanto region, issuing a stern warning to his lieutenant Kato and right-hand man Ikemoto, head of the Ikemoto-gumi. Kato orders Ikemoto to ...
Style: serious, tense, cynical, realistic, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: yakuza, gang member, organized crime, gangster, hanging, gang war, danger, rivalry, gory, merciless, criminal's revenge, violence spree ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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Jamaican Mafia (2015)
Genre: Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 146 min.
Story: Jamaican Gangsters
Style: suspense, tense, captivating, psychological, exciting ...
Plot: jamaican, mafia, gangster, criminal heroes, family tradition, mob boss, betrayal, rivalry, society, gang war, parents and children, heroes ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
One Nite in Mongkok (2004)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Hong Kong nihilism. December 22, a street quarrel leads to the death of a gang leader's son. Next day, he seeks revenge on his brother, a rival boss. He calls on Liu, a fixer, to import a hit man from the mainland. Lai Fu, a tough and youthful ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, realistic, atmospheric, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: hitman, organized crime, murder, gang war, gangster, vengeance, rivalry, gang, law enforcement, revenge, manhunt, police brutality ...
Place: china, hong kong
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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