Movies like Deadbeat at Dawn

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Deadbeat at Dawn (1988)
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Deadbeat at Dawn (1988)
Genre: Action, Crime, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Goose leaves the gang life behind after pleas from his girlfriend. But it isn't long before he's pulled back into the world of violence.
Style: independent film, bloody, disturbing, controversial, art house, hood, cult classic, cult horror, action adventure, indie film ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: exploitation, street gang, gang war, martial arts, gang, gory, violence, gangster, rivalry, erotica, ghetto, pandemic, extreme, heist, murder, revenge, fight, brutality, death of protagonist, blood, train station, brawl, fistfight, death of girlfriend, hitman ...
Time: 80s
Place: ohio, midwest
Keyword: gangsters

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Most similar movies to Deadbeat at Dawn

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out rough, serious, suspenseful and realistic films with plots about gangster, rivalry, murder, revenge, violence, deadly and blood mostly in Action, Crime and Thriller genres. Some movies like Deadbeat at Dawn: Savage Dawn (1985), Adam Chaplin: Violent Avenger (2011), Tenement (1985), Sugar Hill (1974), Urban Justice (2007). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Savage Dawn (1985)
Genre: Drama, Action
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A motorcycle gang take over a small city in Arizona.
Style: hood, action adventure, independent film, serious, realistic ...
Plot: biker, gang, biker gang, gangster, bike, exploitation, ghetto, outlaw, gang leader, vietnam veteran, heroes, small town ...
Time: 80s
Place: vietnam, arizona
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Adam Chaplin: Violent Avenger (2011)
Genre: Action, Crime, Horror
Country: Italy, USA, UK
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Set in the fictional country of Heaven Valley, the film is the story of a man, Adam, who following the suspicious death of his wife begins to investigate her murder and in doing so, discovers the involvement of local mafia boss: Denny Richards. ...
Style: disturbing, bleak, suspenseful, serious, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gory, demon, murder, gangster, deal with the devil, curses spells and rituals, danger, superhuman powers, life is a bitch, heroes, anti hero, violence ...
Time: 21st century
Place: italy
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Tenement (1985)
Genre: Action, Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A drug-dealing band of violent street thugs terrorize the tenants of a South Bronx apartment building
Style: disturbing, terrifying, hood, controversial, independent film ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gang, exploitation, revenge, urban decay, apartment building, rape, home invasion, ghetto, street gang, violence, city, gangster ...
Time: 80s
Place: new york, usa
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66%
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Sugar Hill (1974)
Genre: Action, Crime, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: When her boyfriend is brutally murdered, after refusing to be shaken down by the local gangsters running their protection racket, Sugar Hill, decides not to get mad, but BAD! Calling upon the help of aged voodoo queen Mama Maitresse, Sugar entreats ...
Style: scary, suspenseful, rough, suspense, independent film ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: zombie, blaxploitation, vengeance, murder, black american, gory, racial slur, voodoo, frame up, wizards and magicians, danger, supernatural ability ...
Time: 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Urban Justice (2007)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Seagal plays a man with a dark and violent past, who seeks revenge for the murder of his son.
Style: suspenseful, rough, exciting, serious, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: revenge, martial arts, gang, investigation, chase, murder, gangster, danger, law enforcement, dishonesty, death in the family, husband wife relationship ...
Place: los angeles
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Hot Boyz (2000)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Injustice begets a criminal. Kool is an artist without prospects, a black belt in karate, and in love with LaShawna, poised and college bound. One night she witnesses a stabbing and discovers the victim is a cop as he dies in her arms. She's ...
Style: hood, realistic, suspenseful, serious, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gangster, gang, urban, frame up, racism, life is a bitch, police investigation, murder, social decay, police corruption, false accusation, law enforcement ...
Time: 90s
Place: usa, los angeles
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37%
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Run and Kill (1993)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A man (Fatty) returns home to find his wife with another man. He goes to a bar and begins to drink, waking up the next day to find that he owes a mafioso money for killing his wife. Not wanting to pay the money, he enlists a malitia organization ...
Style: controversial, serious, realistic, exciting, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: heroic bloodshed, extreme, big city, hitman, murder, brutality, child killed, violence spree, chases and races, criminal's revenge, vengeance, one man army ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: hong kong, vietnam
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 3.9
 386
Tha Eastsidaz (2000)
Genre: Action, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Snap, Crackle, and Pop are top dogs in the Eastsidaz gang in Long Beach. Pop, also known as Killa, is the alpha dog. He has Crackle and Snap set up a big drug deal that's going to put him on easy street. But Crackle and Snap have their own ...
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, hood, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gangster, criminal's revenge, gang, vengeance, criminal heroes, partner, frame up, heist, prison, undercover, law enforcement, drug dealing ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Shottas (2002)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA, Jamaica
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A raw urban drama about two friends raised on the dangerous streets of Kingston, Jamaica. Biggs and Wayne take on the "Shotta" way of life to survive. As young boys, they begin a life of crime, eventually moving to the US where they begin ...
Style: hood, realistic, serious, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gang violence, gangster, street gang, urban, police chase, criminal heroes, social decay, black, disorder, life is a bitch, crime gone awry, society ...
Place: caribbean, miami, usa, florida, jamaica
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Bullets, Blood & a Fistful of Ca$h (2006)
Genre: Action, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: A hard boiled tale of bloody revenge that interweaves the stories of nine criminals. The story takes place in one day, on the eve of an all out syndicate war. Through a twisted series of events, the interweaving narratives are put on an ...
Style: rough, realistic, serious, suspenseful, action packed ...
Plot: rivalry, partner, vengeance, police detective, police investigation, gang, partners against crime, criminal heroes, dishonesty, law enforcement, drug dealing, gory ...
Time: 21st century
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⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
The Manson Family (1997)
Genre: Crime, Drama, History, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Jim Van Bebber's "The Manson Family" is an extremely violent and bloody horror film that reconstructs the early activities of the Family and their descent into the Tate-LaBianca killings.Van Bebber mixes this with a contemporary sub ...
Style: disturbing, terrifying, art house, psychological, bloody ...
Plot: serial killer, charles manson, true crime, exploitation, gory, hippie, killer, biopic, erotica, criminal, misfit, freak ...
Time: year 2003, 20th century, 60s, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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Antikiller (2002)
Genre: Action, Crime
Country: Russia
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Former criminal investigator, Major Korenev, nicknamed Fox is released from prison. He has been detained there as a result of planted incriminating evidence of unlawful investigation techniques. Setting accounts with Shaman - a big criminal boss, ...
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, exciting, rough ...
Plot: fighting crime, gang, criminal heroes, rivalry, brutality, murder, danger, criminal, criminal gang, law and order, bandit, smuggler ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: russia, moscow russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Born to Raise Hell (2010)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A hard core Interpol Agent is assigned to an Eastern European task force to target gun trafficking and dope running throughout the Balkans. While investigating a Russian gun dealer, his team is caught in a bloody street war between a Gypsy gang and ...
Style: serious, rough, suspense, tense, hood ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gang, gangster, loss of partner, law enforcement, chases and races, danger, revenge, brutality, martial arts, violence, murder, ghetto ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, bucharest, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
 6.9
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Crank (2006)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Professional assassin Chev Chelios learns his rival has injected him with a poison that will kill him if his heart rate drops.
Style: intense, exciting, dark comedy, cult classic, action thriller ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: hitman, revenge, vengeance, dark humor, tough heroes, assassin, one man army, lone hero, gory, car chase, cell phone, poison ...
Time: year 2006, 2000s, 21st century
Place: los angeles, iran, usa, north america
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Force of Execution (2013)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Seagal stars as mob kingpin Mr. Alexander, an old-school boss who rules his criminal empire with both nobility and brutality. For a simple prison hit, he sends his best enforcer and protégé Roman Hurst (Foster). When the hit goes wrong, Hurst is ...
Style: serious, exciting, rough, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
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Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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30%
Black Moon Rising (1986)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: An FBI free-lancer stashes a stolen Las Vegas-crime tape in a high-tech car stolen by someone else.
Style: exciting, serious, rough, suspenseful, cult classic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: car chase, chase, fbi, revenge, law enforcement, vengeance, brutality, twists and turns, murder, on the run, crime gone awry, rivalry ...
Time: 80s
Place: las vegas, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
 6.0
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Maniac Cop (1988)
Genre: Action, Crime, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: In New York, people are slain and strangled to death brutally on the open street. All witnesses agree that the murderer was in a cop's uniform. Soon the police searches and finds a suspect in its own ranks: Jack Forrest, turned in by his own ...
Style: slasher, scary, serious, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: serial killer, murder, police investigation, police, violence, false accusation, police corruption, vengeance, unlikely criminals, danger, couple relations, stalking ...
Time: 80s, year 1988, 20th century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Driven to Kill (2009)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, Russia
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A former Russian mobster named Ruslan, who is now a crime novelist, returns home and discovers his daughter is marrying his arch nemesis. His past also comes back to haunt him when his family is threatened. Hungry for justice, Ruslan returns to the ...
Style: serious, captivating, tense, psychological, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gangster, vengeance, haunted by the past, danger, vigilantism, rivalry, family relations, revenge, save the day, getting home, going straight, erotica ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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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
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28%
Ichi the Killer (2001)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 129 min.
Story: As sadomasochistic yakuza enforcer Kakihara searches for his missing boss he comes across Ichi, a repressed and psychotic killer who may be able to inflict levels of pain that Kakihara has only dreamed of.
Style: disturbing, controversial, dark comedy, bloody, splatter ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gory, violence, psychopath, organized crime, gangster, yakuza, massacre, mob boss, danger, rage, insanity, sadism ...
Time: year 2001, 2000s, 21st century
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28%
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Tiger Cage (1988)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Something fishy is going on in the anti-Drug Trafficking Unit of the HK Police, and only a few honest cops know that the corruption goes all the way to the top. However, they must prove their case quickly, and by unconventional means, after they are ...
Style: bloody, cult classic, heroic, fast, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, heroic bloodshed, kung fu, police officer, fight club, police, gangster, betrayal, police corruption, frame up, partner, police detective ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: hong kong
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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 9K
Bullet (1996)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A tough, Jewish ex-con just released from prison crosses a powerful drug dealer and former prison rival in his return to a life of crime.
Style: realistic, rough, hood, disturbing, harsh ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: addiction, drug abuse, life philosophy, ghetto, revenge killing, violence, gangster, character study, life, hip hop, urban, drug dealer ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: usa, new york, brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
 6.9
 2K
The Boss (1973)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 109 min.
Story: A bomb attack in a cinema in Palermo kills all the fellows of Attardi's clan a part from Cocchi. He immediately understands that the author of the bomb attack is Daniello from Don Corrasco's clan. Cocchi is determined to revenge. His ...
Style: grindhouse, poliziottesco, perverse, cult classic, action thriller ...
Plot: mafia, exploitation, police, italian mafia, organized crime, police officer, explosions, mobster, martial arts, gangster, hitman, kidnapping ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: italy, sicily, europe, palermo italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Dragonwolf (2013)
Genre: Action
Country: Thailand
Duration: 120 min.
Story: The Devil's Cauldron, a city where depravity and violence has forged a society in which only the lethal and callous can survive, two young men who possess the intellect and ferocity to flourish, carve a name for themselves as the most efficient ...
Style: serious, realistic, exciting, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
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Time: 21st century
Place: thailand
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
 6.2
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Parker (2013)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: A thief with a unique code of professional ethics is double-crossed by his crew and left for dead. Assuming a new disguise and forming an unlikely alliance with a woman on the inside, he looks to hijack the score of the crew's latest heist.
Style: serious, exciting, rough, realistic, neo noir ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: heist, robbery, thief, tough heroes, fight scenes, betrayal, mafia, revenge, assassin, romancing a criminal, car chase, happy ending ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
 6.7
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Death Sentence (2007)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Nick Hume is a mild-mannered executive with a perfect life, until one gruesome night he witnesses something that changes him forever. Transformed by grief, Hume eventually comes to the disturbing conclusion that no length is too great when ...
Style: suspenseful, psychological, tense, suspense, harsh ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: vengeance, murder, violence, vigilante, gangster, vigilantism, revenge, tragic event, violent, character change, blood, loss of son ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: bolivia
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Chicago Overcoat (2009)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: The fates of an aging hitman and a washed up detective become entwined when one last job leads to one last chance to settle an old score.
Style: serious, suspenseful, rough, realistic, independent film ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gangster, hitman, rivalry, aging, elderly, dishonesty, law enforcement, criminal heroes, one last chance, mafia, investigation, revenge ...
Time: 21st century
Place: chicago, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
 7.5
 110K
The Warriors (1979)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Prominent gang leader Cyrus calls a meeting of New York's gangs to set aside their turf wars and take over the city. At the meeting, a rival leader kills Cyrus, but a Coney Island gang called the Warriors is wrongly blamed for Cyrus' ...
Style: neo noir, grindhouse, futuristic, stylized, suspense ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, teen drama, adult
Plot: survival, street gang, gang, violence, gang war, subway, gang member, gangster, chase, murder, graffiti, assassination ...
Time: future, year 1979, 70s, near future
Place: new york, coney island brooklyn new york city, bronx new york city, usa, brooklyn new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
 5.8
 17K
Death Wish 3 (1985)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Paul Kersey returns to New York to visit his friend Charley, who lives in one of the worst parts of New York City. But when Paul arrives at Charley's apartment, he finds Charley dying after a vicious beating by a gang led by Manny Fraker, and ...
Style: grindhouse, cult classic, neo noir, hood, perverse ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: violence, vigilante, revenge, vigilantism, gang, gangster, shootout, woman in jeopardy, gang rape, rape victim, sniper, cannon ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: new york, los angeles, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Blind Woman's Curse (1970)
Genre: Action, Crime, Horror
Country: Japan
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Akemi is a dragon tattooed leader of the Tachibana Yakuza clan. In a duel with a rival gang Akemi slashes the eyes of an opponent and a black cat appears, to lap the blood from the gushing wound. The cat along with the eye-victim go on to pursue ...
Style: grindhouse, disturbing, slasher, cult classic, psychological ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, yakuza, revenge, female yakuza, sword fight, exploitation, torture, opium, strong female lead, kung fu, sexploitation, female fight ...
Time: 20th century
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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