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The World in My Pocket (1961)
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Original name: An einem Freitag um halb zwölf
Genre: Crime, Thriller, Drama
Country: West Germany, France, Italy
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
An enigmatic woman recruits a gang of specialised criminals to rob a US Army payroll armoured truck bound for Marseilles. However, things don't go exactly as planned.
Plot:
heist, security guard, armed robbery, scheming, criminal gang, motorcycle cop, one last job, woman with a gun, armored truck, machine gun, crime fighter, motorcycle, tough guy, criminal, beach, safecracker, card playing, smoking, woman, military police, ends with death, seaside, red herring, u.s. military, shootout ...
Place:
south of france, southern france
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Most similar movies to The World in My Pocket
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, suspenseful, realistic and suspense films with plots about robbery, violence, heist, criminal, gang, murder and police mostly in Crime, Drama and Thriller genres. Some movies like The World in My Pocket: Charley Varrick (1973), Once a Thief (1965), The Goodbye Kiss (2006), Slayground (1983), The Mad Dog Killer (1977). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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, action thriller ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
bank robbery, heist, mafia, chase, small town, hitman, organized crime, caper, robbery, car chase, crime gone awry, desert ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1973
Place:
new mexico, usa, albuquerque new mexico
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A young ex-con trying to go straight gets caught up in another criminal scheme.
Style:
neo noir, retro, noir, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
heist, jazz, bare chested male, homosexual subtext, robbery, woman with a gun, music and dance, explosions, family relations, siblings relations, false arrest, hopes ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
california, san francisco, usa
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93%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Giorgio Pellegrini, a former left-wing activist turned terrorist has fled to Central America and fought with a guerrilla movement. Fifteen years later he is fed up with living in the jungle and decides to return to Italy. What he wants is to lead a ...
Style:
captivating, neo noir, political, poliziottesco
Plot:
terrorist, police officer, jungle, robbery, life, burglar, lifestyle, criminal, life is a bitch, shoplifting, drug traffic, serial killer ...
Time:
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Place:
italy
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80%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Stone (Peter Coyote) hits an armored truck without his usual driver. The ensuing getaway leads to the death of an innocent. The payback is swift and brutal. The wronged father hires a twisted, sociopathic assassin to avenge his loss. One by one the ...
Style:
perverse, independent film, eighties
Plot:
robbery, dead child, car accident, murder, machine gun, revenge, manslaughter, assassination, thief, cat, death of child, hitman ...
Time:
future, year 1983, 80s
Place:
england, london, united kingdom, britain
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77%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Sadistic no-count killer Nanni Vitali and three other equally brutish hoodlums escape from prison. The foul foursome embark on a savage rape, murder, and robbery spree. Vitali even abducts and defiles frightened hapless lass Giuliana Caroli. ...
Style:
poliziottesco, grindhouse, slasher, cult classic, fast ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
italian police, exploitation, police, police officer, female pubic hair, female nudity, criminal, guy, rape, heist, murder, psychopath ...
Time:
70s
Place:
italy
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76%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A group of crooks plan a heist to steal twenty million dollars from a Security Firm counting house.
Style:
neo noir, independent film, fast, realistic, serious ...
Audience:
manly, boys' night
Plot:
armored car, armored car robbery, shootout, lie detector, street crime, trucker, bank, armed robbery, disorder, chase, criminal's revenge, on the run ...
Time:
70s
Place:
australia, south australia, adelaide south australia
Similarity:
75%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
Master thief Corey is fresh out of prison. But instead of toeing the line of law-abiding freedom, he finds his steps leading back to the shadowy world of crime, crossing those of a notorious escapee and alcoholic ex-cop. As the unlikely trio plots a ...
Style:
neo noir, noir, tense, stylized, suspense ...
Plot:
heist, gangster, robbery, nightclub, caper, organized crime, alcoholic, corruption, mafia, great ending, thief, existentialism ...
Time:
year 1970, 60s, 20th century, 70s
Place:
paris france, europe, marseille, france
Similarity:
69%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Also known as 'Dirty Money' as well as 'Sewers of Gold'. A group of fervent nationalists plan to finance a government coup and smash communists by pulling off a daring bank robbery.
Style:
independent film
Plot:
heist, robbery, security guard, released from prison, group, right wing, bank, photographer, police, gangster, escape attempt, money ...
Time:
70s
Place:
france, nice france
Similarity:
66%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
Set in contemporary Chicago, amidst a time of turmoil, four women with nothing in common except a debt left behind by their dead husbands' criminal activities take fate into their own hands and conspire to forge a future on their own terms.
Style:
tense, neo noir, suspense, bleak, exciting ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
heist, girl gang, politics, female criminal, harlot, premarital sex, female nudity, murder, widow, grief, black, criminal ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
chicago, xian
Similarity:
63%
444K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
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, neo noir, rough, stylized, captivating ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
heist, bank robbery, robbery, gunfight, romancing a criminal, group of criminals, thief, gang, organized crime, criminal gang, love affair, masked robber ...
Time:
2010s, year 2010, 21st century
Place:
boston, usa, florida, massachusetts
Similarity:
61%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy, France, West Germany
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
An Italian prison official's wife is kidnapped, and the kidnappers demand that a notorious prisoner be released in order for the man to get his wife back. He gets the man released - but then kidnaps him himself, in order to ensure that the ...
Style:
poliziottesco, retro, action thriller, cult classic, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
police, italian police, prison, police officer, female nudity, nude girl, kidnapped girl, revenge, woman with a gun, vigilante, assassination, blackmail ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
italy, rome italy, europe, milan italy, paris france ...
Similarity:
61%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
With his customary restraint and ruthless attention to detail, director Jean-Pierre Melville follows the parallel tracks of French underworld criminal Gu (the inimitable Lino Ventura), escaped from prison and roped into one last robbery, and the ...
Style:
neo noir, crime drama, noir, black and white, serious ...
Audience:
manly
Plot:
police officer killed, betrayal, heist, robbery, forced confession, criminal, fugitive, jazz, caper, shootout, loss of brother, brother sister relationship ...
Time:
year 1966, 60s
Place:
paris france, france, marseille, europe, south of france
Similarity:
60%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
It’s bad men versus worse men as thieves face off against dealers in this super slick French heist thriller from the director of Chrysalis and The Assault.
Style:
suspense, perverse, captivating, psychological, tense ...
Plot:
heist, brother brother relationship, bank robbery, armed robbery, bank robber, robbery, gang of thieves, murder, violence, death, criminal heroes, mafia ...
Time:
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Place:
paris france, france
Similarity:
57%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy, Spain, France
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
An Italian police inspector matches wits with a powerful European drug ring. As he comes closer to the top of the underworld organization, his odds of survival decrease.
Style:
poliziottesco
Plot:
police, car chase, italian police, police officer, shootout, organized crime, italian gangster, italian mafia, dirty harry, car crash, gun fu, drug ...
Place:
italy
Similarity:
56%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
In the middle of the night, deputy Philippe Dubaye wakes up his old friend Xavier Maréchal with disturbing news: he has just killed Serrano, a racketeer with extant political connections. Serrano kept proofs of Dubaye's involvement in corrupt ...
Style:
suspense, disclosure, political, political thriller
Plot:
murder, disco, diary, mistress, chase, fear, car chase, machine gun, police, corruption, photograph, evil ...
Time:
70s
Place:
france, paris france
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
After a bank job goes badly wrong, three desperate criminals take a young woman and a father and child hostage - it's the beginning of a frantic and violent road trip that not all of them will survive.
Style:
suspense, tense, exciting, captivating, surprise ending ...
Plot:
criminal, murder, robbery, on the road, road trip, father daughter relationship, car chase, hostage, police, bank, heist, kidnapper ...
Place:
france
Similarity:
50%
Genre: 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, neo noir ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
heist, casino, on the run, crime gone awry, politics, gang, prison, betrayal, criminal heroes, rivalry, gambling, love affair ...
Time:
year 1969, 60s
Place:
las vegas, long beach california, san francisco
Similarity:
49%
68K
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A seasoned team of bank robbers, including Gordon Jennings (Idris Elba), John Rahway (Paul Walker), A.J. (Hayden Christensen), and brothers Jake (Michael Ealy) and Jesse Attica (Chris Brown) successfully complete their latest heist and lead a life ...
Style:
suspense, intense, realistic, suspenseful, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
heist, bank robbery, robbery, tough guy, swat team, armored car robbery, chase, one last job, gangster, caper, armored car, investigation ...
Time:
year 2010, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, usa
Similarity:
47%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A psychotic small-time criminal realizes that the everyday robberies, rapes and murders he commits aren't profitable enough, so he figures to hit the big time by kidnapping the daughter of a rich man.
Style:
poliziottesco, tense, serious, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
psychopath, rape, murder, serial rapist, hostage, police, serial killer, danger, confined, robbery, child in peril, violence ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
italy, europe
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Zed (Eric Stoltz) is an American vault-cracker who travels to Paris to meet up with his old friend Eric (Jean-Hugues Anglade). Eric and his gang have planned to raid the only bank in the city which is open on Bastille day. After offering his ...
Style:
cult classic, brutal, neo noir, controversial, crime thriller ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
robbery, safecracker, bank robber, bank robbery, bank, masked man, drug abuse, caper, drug, sex, murder, prostitute ...
Time:
year 1993, 20th century, 90s
Place:
paris france, france, europe
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: West Germany, Italy
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Womansing thug Klett is sprung from the courthouse by two accomplices, then sets about planning the big heist of a local bank, equipped with a cache of high-powered weapons he's acquired from an American army outpost. Together with his faithful ...
Style:
action thriller, grindhouse, poliziottesco
Plot:
masked robber, hostage, heist, pregnant girlfriend, vulgar language, dying young, foul language, escape from custody, stress, brother sister relationship, hiding place, caper ...
Place:
munich germany
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A french police unit that try to stop a group of criminals.
Style:
perverse, tense, rough, suspense, captivating
Plot:
police, drug dealer, bank robbery, shooting, partnership, robbery, fighting crime, partners against crime, criminal, organized crime, police officer, heist ...
Time:
future
Place:
europe, france
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A mobster kills a cop during a robbery and then finds himself pursued by the police, his gang, and the media.
Style:
poliziottesco, crime drama, dark, suspense, detective ...
Plot:
police, violence, mobster, organized crime, pursuit, gang, cop killer, criminal underworld, law enforcement, manhunt, italian police, corruption ...
Time:
70s
Place:
rome italy, italy
Similarity:
42%
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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, brutal, suspenseful, intense, tense ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, adult
Plot:
robbery, violence, mafia, organized crime, gangster, hitman, poker, brutality, crime gone awry, assassin, murder, sex ...
Time:
year 2012, 2010s, year 2008, 2000s, 70s ...
Place:
louisiana, usa, florida, orlando florida, new orleans
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Spain, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
The idyllic life of retired safecracker Gal is put at risk when a psychotic gangster from his past arrives at his villa in southern Spain, intent on bringing him out of retirement for one last job.
Style:
cult classic, dark comedy, black comedy, neo noir, cerebral ...
Audience:
date night, boys' night
Plot:
heist, gangster, robbery, retired, abuse, mafia, safecracker, one last job, organized crime, british gangster, violent, bank robbery ...
Time:
year 2000, year 2001, 20th century, 90s
Place:
spain, england, mediterranean sea, europe, london ...
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Dris is an ex-con, living in the borderline between a decent and a criminal life. He has a regular and simple work and lives a simple life with his wife Lise and loves his family. However, his childhood friends from his Arab community, including his ...
Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful, tense
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gangster, heist, criminal heroes, gang, criminal's revenge, going straight, tough heroes, betrayal, crime gone awry, dishonesty, drug dealing, prison ...
Time:
year 2002
Place:
paris france, france, europe
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Following a bungled robbery, three violent criminals take a young woman, a middle-aged man, and a child hostage and force them to drive them outside Rome to help them make a clean getaway.
Style:
grindhouse, slasher, action thriller, twisted, disturbing ...
Plot:
kidnapping, sex in car, humiliation, psycho killer, sexual abuse, italian police, exploitation, hostage, gang, heist, police, sexual assault ...
Time:
year 1974, 70s
Place:
italy, rome italy, europe, southern italy
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
The Malakian clan, a family of ruthless gangsters, controls the underworld of Southern France. At its head, the violent godfather Milo Malakian rules his world with an iron fist. His son and heir, Anton, dreams of breaking free and making his own ...
Style:
exciting, serious, suspenseful, rough, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
car theft, gangster, robbery, family relations, mafia, revenge, starting over, hopes, gang, rivalry, dishonesty, criminal heroes ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, riviera, south of france, europe
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A girl from an asylum is engaged as nurse to a small, spoiled orphan boy, whose uncle has evil designs on him, and who hopes to kill him and cast the blame on the girl.
Style:
realistic, serious, tense, suspenseful, poliziottesco ...
Plot:
kidnapping, danger, law enforcement, confined, dishonesty, nanny, woman in danger, frame up, family relations, child in peril, male protagonist, isolated house ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Ex-con turned "scrapper" Jake leads a quiet life caring for his family until he is pursued by violent Punjabi and Mexican criminals following a botched robbery.
Plot:
underworld, migration, illegal immigrant, human trafficking, secrets, cash, money laundering, border crossing, safecracker, tattoo, secret, sikh ...
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37%
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