Movies like Live by Night
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Live by Night (2016)
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
A story set in the Prohibition Era and centered around a group of individuals and their dealings in the world of organized crime.
Style:
stylized, exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, surprise ending, tragic ending, emotional, melancholic, bloody ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
prohibition, organized crime, betrayal, revenge, gangsters, gangster, love, mafia, chase, friendship, criminal, alcohol, police, neo noir, murder, sheriff, prohibition era, death, vengeance, violence, anti hero, anti heroes, car chase, irish, brutality ...
Time:
1920s, 1930s
Place:
florida, boston, miami, cuba
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspense, surprise ending, tense and serious films with plots about murder, gun, violence, neo noir, gunfight, gangsters and gangster mostly in Thriller, Crime and Action genres. Some movies like Live by Night: Baby Driver (2017), The Accountant (2016), Proud Mary (2018), The Town (2010), The Untouchables (1987). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Music, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
After being coerced into working for a crime boss, a young getaway driver finds himself taking part in a heist doomed to fail.
Style:
twists and turns, stylized, suspense, tense, intense ...
Plot:
getaway driver, car chase, bank robbery, heist, cars, car, sign language, romance, music, car thief, gunfight, twists & turns ...
Time:
year 1998, 2010s, 21st century, 90s, 1990s ...
Place:
atlanta, atlanta georgia, usa
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100%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
As a math savant uncooks the books for a new client, the Treasury Department closes in on his activities and the body count starts to rise.
Style:
surprise ending, tense, suspense, suspenseful, twists and turns ...
Plot:
lone hero, autism, sniper, accountant, gunfight, organized crime, mathematics, justice, hitman, criminal, informant, federal agent ...
Time:
2000s, year 2006, year 1989, 2010s, 21st century ...
Place:
new york, germany, washington d.c., illinois, new hampshire ...
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50%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Mary is a hit woman working for an organized crime family in Boston, whose life is completely turned around when she meets a young boy whose path she crosses when a professional hit goes bad.
Style:
suspense, tense, exciting, captivating, surprise ending
Plot:
female assassin, female killer, gangsters, gangster, brutality, guilt, organized crime, car chase, betrayal, little boy, murder, revenge ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
boston
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
355K
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:
captivating, tense, serious, suspenseful, stylized ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
heist, bank robbery, romancing a criminal, gunfight, group of criminals, robbery, gang, perfect crime, thief, crimes, chases and races, love affair ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
boston, usa, massachusetts, florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Young Treasury Agent Elliot Ness arrives in Chicago and is determined to take down Al Capone, but it's not going to be easy because Capone has the police in his pocket. Ness meets Jimmy Malone, a veteran patrolman and probably the most ...
Style:
stylized, suspenseful, captivating, serious, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
mafia, organized crime, gangsters, smuggling, tough law enforcer, bribery, trial, crimes, tough cop, police investigation, fighting crime, partners against crime ...
Time:
1920s, 1930s, 20s, 20th century
Place:
chicago illinois, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
In New York, racist Capt. Stanley White becomes obsessed with destroying a Chinese-American drug ring run by Joey Tai, an up-and-coming young gangster as ambitious as he is ruthless. While pursuing an unauthorized investigation, White grows ...
Style:
realistic, serious, suspenseful, exciting, intense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
chinese mafia, chinatown, gangsters, police detective, racism, crime, crimes, police corruption, violence spree, lone wolves, tough law enforcer, fighting crime ...
Time:
80s
Place:
new york, vietnam, usa, asia, manhattan new york city ...
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100%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Thailand
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Two American expatriates, Jack and Sam, unwittingly steal a drug lord's money when they rob a series of banks in Southeast Asia and become the target of the gang's vengeance.
Style:
suspense, surprise ending, tense, exciting, touching ...
Plot:
drug lord, bank robber, vengeance, street shootout, murder, car chase, arms dealer, violence, police shootout, accidental killing, attempted murder, foot chase ...
Place:
cambodia, bangkok thailand
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
67K
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
A gang of criminals and corrupt cops plan the murder of a police officer in order to pull off their biggest heist yet across town.
Style:
tense, exciting, suspenseful, suspense, stylized ...
Plot:
heist, bank robbery, murder, police corruption, violence, betrayal, crime, crimes, law enforcement, dirty cop, corruption, organized crime ...
Time:
contemporary, 21st century, 2010s
Place:
usa, tel aviv israel, atlanta georgia, boston, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
132K
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:
twists and turns, exciting, rough, suspenseful, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
vengeance, neo noir, robbery, money, betrayal, violence, mafia, crimes, organized crime, criminal heroes, anti hero, gangsters ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
usa, chicago illinois, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Mason Storm, a 'go it alone' cop, is gunned down at home. The intruders kill his wife, and think they've killed both Mason and his son too. Mason is secretly taken to a hospital where he spends several years in a coma. His son ...
Style:
serious, exciting, suspenseful, suspense, intense ...
Audience:
boys' night, girls' night
Plot:
coma, vengeance, martial arts, murder, danger, hospital, corrupt official, against the odds, intrigue, crime, law enforcement, crimes ...
Time:
80s, year 1983, 1990s, year 1990, 90s
Place:
los angeles, chicago illinois, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A gangster, Nino, is in the Cash Money Brothers, making a million dollars every week selling crack. A cop, Scotty, discovers that the only way to infiltrate the gang is to become a dealer himself.
Style:
serious, captivating, tense, suspense, intense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gang war, gangsters, gang, chase, friendship, drug dealing, betrayal, crimes, crime, addiction, urban ghetto, rise and fall ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, 90s, 1990s
Place:
harlem, new york, usa, harlem manhattan new york city, turkey ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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:
suspenseful, rough, tense, brutal, bleak ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
robbery, crime gone awry, neo noir, hitman, gambling, mafia, criminal heroes, criminal, murder, gangsters, poker, profanity ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary, year 2008, 2000s, 70s
Place:
new orleans, usa, louisiana, orlando florida, florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Three renegade cops team up to take on the corrupt chief of police and a crime lords hatchet-man.
Style:
exciting, realistic, serious, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gangsters, undercover, chase, prostitute, police detective, renegade, police officer, computer cracker, crime, partners, dishonesty, good versus evil ...
Time:
90s, 1990s
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Buster McHenry (Sutherland) is as an undercover agent for the police. His mission involves him in a robbery. Buster gets shot but Hank Storm (Phillips), an Indian, helps Buster. Since Hank wants a spear in the possession of the criminals that Buster ...
Style:
serious, rough, suspense, intense, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
police corruption, heist, gangsters, undercover, law enforcement, vengeance, reluctant partners, partners against crime, crime, crimes, chases and races, working undercover ...
Time:
80s
Place:
philadelphia, canada, san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
A gritty crime saga which follows the lives of an elite unit of the LA County Sheriff's Dept. and the state's most successful bank robbery crew as the outlaws plan a seemingly impossible heist on the Federal Reserve Bank.
Style:
surprise ending, suspense, captivating, tense, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
heist, bank robbery, police brutality, car chase, divorce, fbi, tough guy, chase, police, police officer, deception, interrogation ...
Time:
contemporary, 2010s
Place:
los angeles, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
The black policeman Russell Stevens applies for a special anti-drug squad which targets the highest boss of cocaine delivery to LA: the Colombian foreign minister's nephew. Russell works his way up from the bottom undercover, until he reaches ...
Style:
suspenseful, tense, enigmatic, suspense, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
neo noir, murder, undercover, police investigation, gangsters, brutality, deadly, betrayal, drug traffic, organized crime, drug trafficking, racial slur ...
Time:
90s, year 1972, 70s, year 1992, 1990s
Place:
ohio, cleveland ohio, los angeles, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
John Smith is a mysterious stranger who is drawn into a vicious war between two Prohibition-era gangs. In a dangerous game, he switches allegiances from one to another, offering his services to the highest bidder. As the death toll mounts, Smith ...
Style:
serious, exciting, suspenseful, stylized, captivating ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
mafia, small town, gangsters, betrayal, gang war, rivalry, duel, tommy gun, hitman, lone wolves, danger, crimes ...
Time:
20th century, 1920s, 20s, 1930s, year 1932
Place:
texas, usa, mexico, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Jack Davis is a tough, outspoken cop who finds himself wrongly accused for the death of a fellow agent by the depraved and power hungry chief of Miami Customs, Martin Cullen. Disgraced and dismissed, Jack swears revenge and goes to work for Roberto ...
Style:
serious, realistic, rough, surprise ending, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
danger, loss of partner, extramarital affair, revenge, death, cuban, bodyguard, criminal heroes, rivalry, partners, police investigation, obsessive quest ...
Time:
90s, 1990s
Place:
miami, cuba, florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A Chicago cop is caught in a middle of a gang war while his own comrades shun him because he wants to take an irresponsible cop down.
Style:
exciting, rough, suspenseful, realistic, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
chase, gangsters, danger, heroes, rescue, martial arts, hitman, police investigation, crimes, partners, lone wolves, deadly ...
Time:
80s
Place:
chicago illinois, usa, texas, new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Career criminal Youngblood Priest wants out of the Atlanta drug scene, but as he ramps up sales, one little slip up threatens to bring the whole operation down before he can make his exit.
Style:
captivating, disturbing, suspense, exciting, tense ...
Plot:
money, nightclub, driving, police, arrest, corruption, cocaine, car chase, escape, fight, party, jewelry ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
montenegro, mexico, hong kong, texas, atlanta georgia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
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Films like The Departed
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Bulgaria, Germany, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Van Damme plays a dirty cop who is hooked on heroin, and everyone dislikes him. Because of an accident he is put into a coma, and comes out of it a better person. He wakes up wanting to put things right.
Style:
rough, serious, suspense, suspenseful, realistic ...
Plot:
vengeance, addiction, life is a bitch, crimes, police, brutality, violence, redemption, pregnancy, kidnapping, coma, heroin ...
Time:
contemporary, year 2006, 2000s
Place:
new orleans
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62%
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Exposure follows a rookie Detroit African-American female cop who stumbles upon corrupt officers who are murdering a drug dealer, an incident captured by her body cam. They pursue her through the night in an attempt to destroy the footage, but to ...
Style:
suspense, tense, bleak, slang, surprise ending
Plot:
drug lord, rookie, police, police corruption, danger, criminal gang, organized crime, policewoman, police chase, mercilessness, corrupt cop, crime boss ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
new orleans, louisiana, detroit, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A man is out for justice after a group of corrupt police officers are unable to catch his wife's killer.
Style:
tense, exciting, suspense, bleak, surprise ending
Plot:
revenge, violence, murder, police corruption, danger, brutality, dark hero, sociopath, street shootout, paranoia, hairdresser, corrupt politician ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
Frank is an expert professional safecracker, specialized in high-profile diamond heists. He plans to use his ill-gotten income to retire from crime and build a nice life for himself complete with a home, wife and kids. To accelerate the process, he ...
Style:
stylized, tense, atmospheric, realistic, captivating ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
neo noir, safecracker, heist, betrayal, one last job, storage unit, car dealer, thief, convict, car salesman, safe, crime ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, 70s
Place:
chicago illinois, illinois, usa, los angeles, new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Los Angeles, 1949. Ruthless, Brooklyn-born mob king Mickey Cohen runs the show in this town, reaping the ill-gotten gains from the drugs, the guns, the prostitutes and — if he has his way — every wire bet placed west of Chicago. And he does it ...
Style:
rough, serious, tense, suspenseful, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
mob boss, gangsters, organized crime, tough law enforcer, crimes, corruption, police detective, mafia, police brutality, fighting crime, partners against crime, partners ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, 40s, 50s, year 1949 ...
Place:
los angeles, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 148 min.
Story:
In the not-too-distant future, as a final response to crime and terrorism, the U.S. government plans to broadcast a signal that will make it impossible for anyone to knowingly break the law.
Style:
twists and turns, unusual plot structure, twist ending, confusing, moody ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
criminal, burglar, mafia, fighting crime, father son relationship, violence, brutality, gunfight, bank robber, money, distant future, crime boss ...
Time:
near future
Place:
detroit, canada, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
An ex-con reunites with his estranged wayward 16-year old daughter to protect her from drug dealers who are trying to kill her.
Style:
harsh, suspense, stylized, tense, road movie ...
Plot:
revenge, gunfight, protector, father daughter relationship, ex convict, drug dealer, parent child relationship, redemption, rescue, teenage girl, gangsters, survival ...
Time:
2010s, 80s
Place:
california, new mexico, santa monica california, los angeles
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61%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Two criminal drifters without sympathy get more than they bargained for after kidnapping and holding for ransom the surrogate mother of a powerful and shady man.
Style:
twists and turns, cynical, rough, suspense, intense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
ransom, kidnapping, gangsters, gunfight, crime gone awry, criminal, crime, crimes, money, surrogate mother, disorder, confined ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 2000s
Place:
mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Caught in the crosshairs of police corruption and Marseille’s warring gangs, a loyal cop must protect his squad by taking matters into his own hands.
Style:
suspense, tragic ending, tense, serious, exciting ...
Plot:
police corruption, french police, police detective, corrupt cop, mafia, police officer killed, betrayal, police shootout, police investigation, violence, police brutality, gang war ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
marseille, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Set in 1929, a political boss and his advisor have a parting of the ways when they both fall for the same woman.
Style:
atmospheric, stylized, tense, cynical, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
neo noir, gangsters, corruption, organized crime, mafia, betrayal, violence, love triangle, blackmail, jewish, mayor, gang war ...
Time:
1920s, 20s, 20th century, 1930s
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
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