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Criminal Activities (2015)
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Four young men make a risky investment together that puts them in trouble with the mob.
Style:
tense, humorous, captivating, suspense, entertaining, suspenseful, neo noir, black humor, f word
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
twists and turns, revenge, debt, death threat, gangster, abduction, intrigue, police investigation, crime gone awry, strained relationship, intelligence agency, investments, human trafficking, mobster, classmate, money problems, trouble, female nudity, kidnapping, sex scene, murder, bully, drug dealer, deception, fbi agent ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
peru, cleveland ohio
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out tense, suspense, suspenseful and serious films with plots about revenge, murder, gangster, violence, betrayal, corruption and organized crime mostly in Thriller, Crime and Drama genres. Some movies like Criminal Activities: Suicide Kings (1997), A Life Not to Follow (2015), Run with the Hunted (2019), Dum Maaro Dum (2011), Mulholland Falls (1996). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Christopher Walken shines in this cult-favorite dark comedy as Charlie, a former mobster who is abducted by five privileged young men (Sean Patrick Flanery, Johnny Galecki, Jay Mohr, Jeremy Sisto, Henry Thomas) desperate to raise a $2 million ransom ...
Style:
dark comedy, suspenseful, black comedy, suspense, neo noir ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
kidnapping, mafia, dark humor, twists and turns, hostage, crime gone awry, manipulation, gangster, organized crime, mobster, profanity, stupidity ...
Time:
90s, year 1997, 20th century, 70s
Place:
usa, atlantic city, atlantic city new jersey, new york
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100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
In the wake of his dramatic escape from captivity, Jesse Pinkman must come to terms with his past in order to forge some kind of future.
Style:
neo noir, suspense, exciting, tense, captivating ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
on the run, drug dealer, criminal, drug, police, revenge, flashback sequence, organized crime, drug traffic, crime scene, gangster, snow ...
Time:
year 2019, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
alaska, new mexico, albuquerque new mexico, north america
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A Neo-Noir film told in three interlacing chapters: Eric is a dead man and he knows it. Death is imminent and he must make amends for his past sins, by killing those who wronged him, no matter the price: A wiseguy willing to do anything to move up ...
Style:
dark, neo noir, suspense, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot:
gangster, criminal, revenge, police, city, mob boss, murder, family relations, stripper, violence, death, mexican standoff ...
Place:
boston
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43%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Oscar, a young boy, commits a noble murder and is forced to runaway from his rural hometown, leaving behind his best friend, Loux. He escapes to the nearest city, where he is inducted into a gang of child street thieves. His innocence slips away as ...
Style:
disturbing, psychological, tense, suspense, captivating ...
Plot:
murder, life is a bitch, secret past, bandit, tragic past, social problems, murderer, female nudity, abusive father, runaway, flashback, pistol ...
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India, USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
ACP Vishnu is sent on a mission to investigate and clean the underbelly of Goa. During his investigation, he uncovers a huge racket and discovers the involvement of various politicians.
Style:
sexy, exciting, tense, entertaining, captivating ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
drug dealing, gangster, twists and turns, murder, drug bust, love, police, corruption, drug lord, rave party, couples, group of strangers ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
india, asia, goa india
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
In 1950s Los Angeles, a special crime squad of the LAPD investigates the murder of a young woman.
Style:
neo noir, tense, suspense, serious, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
murder, political corruption, police, police investigation, conspiracy, revenge, betrayal, gangster, dishonesty, partners against crime, mafia, law enforcement ...
Time:
20th century, 1950s, year 1996, 50s
Place:
los angeles, california, usa, mulholland drive
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Neeyln has always been the loyal enforcer for crime boss Harris back in London, taking care of problems and people that disrupt his illicit business. When Harris strikes a deal with an old friend -- American oilman Preston -- they find themselves in ...
Style:
tense, suspenseful, crime thriller, disturbing, dark ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
revenge, gangster, organized crime, criminal underworld, plan, conflict between friends, feud, gangster boss, money, friendship, death of girlfriend, betrayal by friend ...
Place:
west virginia
Similarity:
40%
16K
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
In order to save his sister, a ride-share driver must infiltrate a dangerous crime syndicate.
Style:
suspenseful, exciting, tense, suspense, disturbing ...
Plot:
revenge, abduction, drug dealer, neighbor neighbor relationship, death of sister, brother sister relationship, debt, friendship, murder, overdose, warehouse, stutterer ...
Similarity:
39%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Jack just lost his P.I. license and his life is on a downward spiral. He decides to steal a cash briefcase from the local gangsters. He hides in a strip joint owned by a local mob legend Jimmie D and pays a stripper to help him escape. The gangsters ...
Style:
tense, serious, realistic, rough, crime drama ...
Plot:
gangster, stripper, law enforcement, criminal heroes, murder, henchman, deception, strip club, mobster, organized crime, heist, private investigator ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
california
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Albania
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Elvis Martini is in deep shit. His dilapidated Detroit apartment building is about to be foreclosed on by the bank; most of his tenants are behind on rent; he's in big debt to bookies and his daughter's school. He finds some ill-gotten ...
Style:
harsh, serious, suspense, emotional, twisted ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
kidnapping, gangster, father daughter relationship, debt, lack of money, life is a bitch, mafia, money, violence, male protagonist, graphic violence, torture ...
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A wealthy high powered woman suffers a horrible tragedy after which she descends into substance abuse,turning her back on her family. She later discovers that someone close to her may be behind her subsequent abduction and kidnapping.
Style:
suspenseful, serious, realistic, tense, suspense ...
Plot:
twists and turns, life turned upside down, addiction, home invasion, car accident, faked death, husband wife relationship, abduction, kidnapping, alcohol abuse, life is a bitch, crime gone awry ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
39%
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, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
murder, organized crime, prison, violence, undercover agent, vengeance, revenge, mafia, death of wife, gangster, partners against crime, master criminal ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A philanderer falls victim to an extortion scheme when four masked strangers demand restitution for his sins.
Style:
sexy, intense, tense, psychological thriller, suspense ...
Plot:
extortion, kidnapping, revenge, abduction, infidelity, moral dilemma, claustrophobia, vigilante justice, manipulation, interrogation, punishment, deception ...
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A rising Boston gangster (Ben Barnes) endangers those around him when he starts to make moves without the knowledge of his boss (Harvey Keitel).
Style:
serious, rough, realistic, suspenseful, interesting
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
mafia, gangster, violence, gang, criminal heroes, revenge, father son relationship, brother brother relationship, double life, murder, crime boss, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
boston, usa
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
Enforcing the law within the notoriously rough Brownsville section of the city and especially within the Van Dyke housing projects is the NYPD's sixty-fifth precinct. Three police officers struggle with the sometimes fine line between right and ...
Style:
tense, suspense, realistic, neo noir, hood ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
police, police corruption, corrupt cop, police detective, corruption, rookie, undercover, organized crime, nypd, dirty cop, guilt, robbery ...
Time:
year 2009, year 2010, 70s, 21st century
Place:
new york, brooklyn new york city, usa, los angeles, new jersey
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
In upstate New York, two teenage boys are tasked with cleaning out their father's old mobile home on an abandoned property, but the boys are in for a surprise when they discover three crooks on the run have taken refuge in the trailer.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, captivating, suspense, disturbing ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
murder, con artists, threat, escaped prisoner, death threat, risk, murderer, criminal, suspicion, home invasion, survival, showdown ...
Place:
new york
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
When local heavy and ex-boxer Tom Sheridan (Ian Pirie) agrees to hire his strip club out to lifelong friend and colleague Ian Levine (Michael Mckell) he soon discovers the private party involves child prostitution and trafficking, catering for ...
Style:
suspenseful, tense, serious, crime drama, dark ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
betrayal, gangster, criminal's revenge, rivalry, dishonesty, underworld, violence, human trafficking, mature, danger, murder, retribution ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
london, england
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
After the gangsters who killed his father come to settle a score, a teenage boy and his mother turn the tables on the killers - one Latino family's quest for honor and revenge as the hunted become the hunters.
Style:
exciting, captivating, tense, psychological, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gang, on the run, pregnancy, haunted by the past, rivalry, drug dealing, vigilantism, revenge, murder, death of father, danger, urban ...
Time:
year 2007, 21st century
Place:
puerto rico, usa, south america, latin america, new york ...
Similarity:
38%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
When a short-tempered mobster and his gang of thugs try to shake down a neighborhood bar, they're soon confronted with the wrath of its owner - a mysterious southern mother with a dangerous past.
Style:
neo noir, noir, exciting, unusual plot structure, suspense ...
Plot:
revenge, redneck, mafia, gangster, psychotic, bandit, woman in danger, heroes, female protagonist, violence, crime boss, brutality ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Thriller - Johnny Graham, raised by the Torino crime family after the death of his parents, is repeatedly torn between loyalty to his adoptive family and his conscience. - Edward Furlong, Grace Johnston, Meat Loaf
Style:
tense, realistic, serious, suspenseful, crime drama ...
Plot:
witness protection, gangster, redemption, on the run, chases and races, danger, murder, violence, crime family, organized crime, loyalty, moral dilemma ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
38%
4K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Good policing doesn't necessarily mean doing everything by the book. But as the business of crime in London turns to favour the Albanians and Turks, how does a "good" policeman survive?
Style:
tense, serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
police corruption, murder, gang, gangster, drug dealing, danger, dishonesty, law enforcement, police investigation, human trafficking, drug, corruption ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
london, england
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Private investigator Matthew Scudder is hired by a drug kingpin to find out who kidnapped and murdered his wife.
Style:
neo noir, suspense, psychological, bleak, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
private detective, murder, serial killer, kidnapping, revenge, drug dealer, murder of wife, sniper, flashback, hostage, mafia, violent ...
Time:
year 2014, 2010s, 20th century, year 1991, year 1999 ...
Place:
brooklyn new york city, new york, usa
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
Two brothers from opposite sides of the tracks are reunited as adults. Desperate circumstances force them into a deal with an organized crime syndicate in Boston, and a young woman gets caught in the middle.
Style:
suspenseful, psychological, thrilling, captivating, crime thriller ...
Plot:
gangster, male nudity, criminal, brother, fishing, problem, financial problem, money problems, threat, organized crime, brothers, criminal syndicate ...
Place:
boston, massachusetts
Similarity:
38%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A big time drug dealer Victor Rosa is looking to get out of the game and sees his chance with a big deal with a new friend who happens to be a Wall St. stockbroker. Thinking this will be his chance to go out on top Victor soon finds out that he has ...
Style:
intense, stylized, suspense, melancholic, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night, girls' night
Plot:
organized crime, twists and turns, gangster, greed, lone hero, ghetto, drug dealing, wall street, criminal heroes, going straight, cons and scams, mafia ...
Time:
year 2002, 80s
Place:
usa, new york, south america, miami, bronx new york city ...
Similarity:
38%
79K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
When two married business executives having an affair are blackmailed by a violent criminal, they are forced to turn the tables on him to save their families.
Style:
suspenseful, surprise ending, serious, tense, twist ending ...
Plot:
twists and turns, infidelity, blackmail, dangerous attraction, couples, disorder, police investigation, danger, adultery, rape, violence, betrayal ...
Time:
year 2005, 21st century
Place:
chicago, usa
Similarity:
38%
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, vengeance, police investigation, criminal's revenge, investigation, best friend, police corruption, juvenile delinquency, drug dealing, dishonesty, witnessing a crime ...
Time:
year 1998, 90s
Place:
boston, ireland, massachusetts, connecticut, usa ...
Similarity:
37%
35K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A sociopathic kidnapper methodically pushes a desperate pair of parents to their absolute breaking point.
Style:
twist ending, surprise ending, disturbing, psychological, tense ...
Plot:
kidnapping, twists and turns, infidelity, husband wife relationship, cheating wife, revenge, justice, blackmail, police investigation, mind game, manipulation, unfaithful husband ...
Time:
year 2007, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
chicago, usa, san francisco
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Germany, Canada, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Slevin is mistakenly put in the middle of a personal war between the city’s biggest criminal bosses. Under constant watch, Slevin must try not to get killed by an infamous assassin and come up with an idea of how to get out of his current dilemma. ...
Style:
surprise ending, suspense, neo noir, clever, dark comedy ...
Audience:
boys' night, girls' night
Plot:
twists and turns, hitman, assassin, revenge, plot twist, mistaken identity, organized crime, disorder, secrets, mysterious character, mafia, master criminal ...
Time:
2000s, year 1979, year 2006, 21st century
Place:
usa, new york, manhattan new york city, seattle
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A former mob enforcer who is released from prison after serving 22 years for a crime he didn't commit sets out on a path for revenge against the people who wronged him.
Style:
suspense, brutal, tense, exciting, psychological ...
Plot:
brutality, insomnia, revenge, injustice, life is a bitch, twists and turns, violence, danger, murder, corruption, justice, death ...
Place:
usa
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A fearless cop is taking on a ruthless crimelord. He knew the risks. He just didn't know how far he would have to go.
Style:
hood, entertaining, exciting, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
gang, undercover, gangster, ghetto, police detective, hip hop, adaptation, friendship, brutality, betrayal, mentor, transformation ...
Time:
year 1999, 90s, 70s
Similarity:
37%
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