Movies like Suburra

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Suburra (2015)
 7.4
 22K
Suburra (2015)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 130 min.
Story: A gangster known as "Samurai" wants to turn the waterfront of Rome into a new Las Vegas. All the local mob bosses have agreed to work for this common goal. But peace is not to last long.
Style: suspense, tense, neo noir, suspenseful, disturbing, hood, poliziottesco, aesthetic, twisted, factual ...
Plot: mafia, corruption, politics, revenge, prostitute, female nudity, drug overdose, church, murder, threesome, political corruption, sex scene, sea, drug addict, heroin, rain, shooting, funeral, blackmail, death of father, villa, seaside, female pubic hair, escort, underage sex ...
Time: 2010s, year 2015, year 2011, 21st century
Place: rome italy, italy
Keyword: gangsters, challenge

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Most similar movies to Suburra

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, serious, realistic and rough films with plots about gangster, murder, mafia, violence, organized crime, police and shot to death mostly in Crime, Thriller and Drama genres. Some movies like Suburra: Dogman (2018), Suburra: Blood on Rome (2017), The Traitor (2019), Excellent Cadavers (1999), Lucifer (2019). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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 7.2
 29K
Dogman (2018)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Marcello, a small and gentle dog groomer, finds himself involved in a dangerous relationship of subjugation with Simone, a former violent boxer who terrorizes the entire neighborhood.
Style: suspense, disturbing, captivating, tense, emotional ...
Plot: dog, revenge, father daughter relationship, cocaine, humiliation, robbery, prison, violence, drug dealing, abuse, fear, drug use ...
Time: 90s, 2010s
Place: italy, sarajevo, rome italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Suburra: Blood on Rome (2017)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 50 min.
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Story: In 2008, a fight over land in a seaside town near Rome spirals into a deadly battle between organized crime, corrupt politicians and the Vatican.
Style: tense, captivating, disturbing, exciting, suspense ...
Plot: gay, mafia, organized crime, gangster, corruption, rivalry, gang, murder, female nudity, dishonesty, death, betrayal ...
Time: 2000s, year 2008, 21st century
Place: rome italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
A.C.A.B. - All Cops Are Bastards (2012)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 112 min.
Story: A look at the controversial riot cops unit, told through the stories of three veteran cops and a young recruit.
Style: tense, serious, rough, suspenseful, hood ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: police brutality, police, fighting crime, teaching the ways of the world, law enforcement, society, demonstration, hooligan, police officer, vigilantism, dirty cop, group of friends ...
Time: 21st century
Place: italy, rome italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.1
 13K
The Traitor (2019)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, France, Germany, Brazil
Duration: 153 min.
Story: Palermo, Sicily, 1980. Mafia member Tommaso Buscetta decides to move to Brazil with his family fleeing the constant war between the different clans of the criminal organization. But when, after living several misfortunes, he is forced to return to ...
Style: realistic, intense, suspense, captivating, factual
Plot: mafia, cosa nostra, gangster, trial, italian mafia, mob boss, organized crime, assassination attempt, judge, assassination, murder, death threat ...
Time: 20th century, 2000s, 80s, 90s, year 1980 ...
Place: sicily, italy, rome italy, rio de janeiro, miami ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Excellent Cadavers (1999)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Fact based story about the political battle that was waged against the Mafia in Sicily during the late 1980's and early 1990's. Chazz Palminteri plays Giovanni Falcone, a crusading prosecutor who tried to use money trails as a way to ...
Style: suspense, independent film, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Plot: cosa nostra, mafia, italian mafia, law, organized crime, sicilian mafia, italian history, historical figure, society, idealism, law enforcement, politics ...
Time: 80s, 90s
Place: sicily, italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.5
 12K
Lucifer (2019)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 175 min.
Story: In God's own country, the supreme leader of the ruling party dies, leaving a huge vacuum, not only in the electoral and leadership sphere of the party but also that of the state. In the inevitable succession squabble and the power struggle that ...
Style: serious, exciting, suspenseful, tense, political ...
Plot: politics, fight, revenge, murder, betrayal, police officer, husband wife relationship, violence, family relations, fire, father daughter relationship, father son relationship ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.5
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Savage (2009)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Ireland
Duration: 88 min.
Story: An exploration of masculinity and violence. A story of obsession and revenge, as a man tries to come to terms with a brutal, random attack and it's consequences.
Style: disturbing, tense, suspenseful, bleak
Plot: revenge, hate, anger, fear, violence, brutality, post traumatic stress disorder, danger, psychotherapy, mentally unstable, retribution, vengeance ...
Place: ireland
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Romanzo Criminale (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, France, UK
Duration: 152 min.
Story: The Lebanese has a dream: to conquer the underworld of Rome. To carry out this feat without precedent he puts together a ruthless and highly organized gang. Their progress and changes in leadership take place over 25 years, from the 1970s into the ...
Style: serious, stylized, realistic, captivating, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gangster, gang, police investigation, criminal heroes, partner, law enforcement, leadership, rivalry, ransom, drug dealing, organized crime, inspector ...
Time: 80s, year 2005, 70s, 90s, 60s ...
Place: italy, rome italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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 7.2
 25K
State of Grace (1990)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story: Terry Noonan returns home to New York's Hells Kitchen after a ten year absence. He soon hooks up with childhood pal Jackie who is involved in the Irish mob run by his brother Frankie. Terry also rekindles an old flame with Jackie's sister ...
Style: neo noir, suspense, tense, intense, atmospheric ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: mafia, organized crime, gangster, gang, irish gangster, homecoming, undercover, friendship, gunfight, st. patrick's day, irish mob, profanity ...
Time: 80s, 90s, 20th century
Place: new york, ireland, manhattan new york city, usa, grand central station manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 6.6
 36K
22 Bullets (2010)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Charly Matteï has turned his back on his life as an outlaw. For the last three years, he's led a peaceful life devoting himself to his wife and two children. Then, one winter morning, he's left for dead in the parking garage in ...
Style: tense, serious, suspense, exciting, unusual plot structure ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: vengeance, mafia, criminal's revenge, mobster, violence, police investigation, revenge, murder, revenge plot, shooting, organized crime, betrayal ...
Time: year 2010, 21st century
Place: france, marseille, provence, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 6.6
 950
The Bodyguards (1993)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 96 min.
Story: The film shows the difficulties of an honest, imperiled judge and his bodyguard of four men, trying to clean up a Sicilian town. Corrupt local politicians, working hand-in-hand with the Mafia, will stop at nothing to prevent exposure of their ...
Style: realistic, serious, rough, suspenseful, tension
Audience: boys' night
Plot: italian mafia, italian politics, mafia, organized crime, assassination, politics, society, rebellion, legal, assassination attempt, dedicated lawyer, rivalry ...
Time: 90s
Place: sicily, europe, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 7.3
 37K
Get Carter (1971)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Michael Caine is Jack Carter, a small-time hood working in London. When word reaches him of his brothers death, he travels to Newcastle to attend the funeral. Refusing to accept the police report of suicide, Carter seeks out his brother’s friends ...
Style: neo noir, grindhouse, tense, cult classic, grim ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: revenge, hitman, organized crime, investigation, mafia, murder, assassin, gangster, british gangster, gangsta, violent, vigilante ...
Time: 70s, year 1971, 20th century
Place: england, britain, northern england, europe, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 6.7
 2K
No Way Out (1973)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A mob hitman wants to retire, but his bosses don't think that's a good idea. Complications--and many bloody shootouts-ensue.
Style: poliziottesco, neo noir, noir, perverse
Plot: mafia, police, hitman, car chase, mobster, italian mafia, police officer, vigilante, lgbt, revenge, killer, birthday party ...
Time: 70s
Place: italy, copenhagen, sicily, milan italy, hamburg germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
American Night (2021)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 123 min.
Story: A neo-noir set in the New York City's corrupt contemporary art world where the art dealer John Kaplan and the ruthless head of New York's mafia, Michael Rubino, fight for money, art, power and love.
Style: suspense, disturbing, suspenseful, tense, exciting ...
Plot: mafia, gangster, car chase, fight, art, criminal heroes, betrayal, violence, revenge, brutality, death, crime boss ...
Time: 2020s, 21st century
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Live Like a Cop, Die Like a Man (1976)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Fred and Tony are members of an elite 'special squad' of police in Rome, Italy who are licensed-to-kill, undercover cops and who love to live dangerously.
Style: poliziottesco, cult classic, perverse, psychotronic
Plot: police, buddy cop, police brutality, cop, spy, undercover agent, undercover police officer, mafia, violence, rape, corrupt cop, prostitute ...
Place: italy, rome italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 7.1
 12K
The Connection (2014)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 135 min.
Story: Newly transferred to the bustling port city of Marseille to assist with a crackdown on organized crime, energetic young magistrate Pierre Michel is given a rapid-fire tutorial on the ins and outs of an out-of-control drug trade. Pierre's wildly ...
Style: exciting, serious, suspenseful, rough, powerful ...
Plot: mafia, organized crime, judge, drug dealing, gang, violence, corruption, husband wife relationship, justice, spy, gangster, ghetto ...
Time: 70s, 80s, year 2014, 20th century, year 1975 ...
Place: marseille, france, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
The Italian Connection (1972)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Italy, West Germany
Duration: 95 min.
Story: When a shipment of heroin disappears between Italy and New York, a small-time pimp in Milan is framed for the theft. Two professional hitmen are dispatched from New York to find him, but the real thieves want to get rid of him before the New York ...
Style: poliziottesco, grindhouse, erotic, cult classic, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: mafia, organized crime, hitman, police, police officer, manhunt, revenge, female nudity, mobster, drug, explosions, italian mafia ...
Time: year 1972, 20th century, 70s
Place: italy, europe, new york, milan italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
We Own the Night (2007)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: A New York nightclub manager tries to save his brother and father from Russian mafia hitmen.
Style: suspense, harsh, stylized, captivating, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: organized crime, mafia, gangster, police, nightclub, gang, cop, brothers, hitman, multiple storylines, law enforcement, heroin ...
Time: year 2007, 20th century, year 1988, 80s
Place: new york, brooklyn new york city, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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Elite Squad 2: The Enemy Within (2010)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Brazil
Duration: 115 min.
Story: After a bloody invasion of the BOPE in the High-Security Penitentiary Bangu 1 in Rio de Janeiro to control a rebellion of interns, the Lieutenant-Colonel Roberto Nascimento and the second in command Captain André Matias are accused by the Human ...
Style: political, realistic, unusual plot structure, stylized, brutal ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: corruption, politics, gangster, police corruption, favela, political corruption, gunfight, poverty, swat team, police investigation, justice, criminal ...
Time: year 2010, 2010s, y2k, 21st century
Place: brazil, rio de janeiro, latin america, south america
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 7.3
 194K
Layer Cake (2004)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story: When a seemingly straight-forward drug deal goes awry, XXXX has to break his die-hard rules and turn up the heat, not only to outwit the old regime and come out on top, but to save his own skin...
Style: neo noir, intense, clever, tense, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gangster, heist, murder, chase, sex, drug, drug lord, caper, plot twist, violence, drug addiction, organized crime ...
Time: year 2004, 60s, 90s, 70s, 20th century
Place: england, london, britain, amsterdam, netherlands ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
The Don Is Dead (1973)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: After his mistress is murdered a Mafia leader goes after the killer with a bloody vengeance. Soon after the hunt begins, a gang war ensues.
Style: exciting, realistic, serious, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: mafia, gangster, mob boss, mobster, explosions, hitman, murder, betrayal, female nudity, tough heroes, siblings relations, love triangle ...
Time: 70s
Place: florida, usa, las vegas, nevada
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 7.4
 5K
Caliber 9 (1972)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Just out of prison, ex-con Ugo Piazza meets his former employer, a psychopathic gangster Rocco who enjoys sick violence and torture. Both the gangsters and the police believe Ugo has hidden $300,000 that should have gone to an American drug ...
Style: poliziottesco, grindhouse, slasher, action thriller, cult classic ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: police, mafia, organized crime, female nudity, mobster, italian mafia, circus, gunfight, blackmail, brutality, nudity, betrayal ...
Time: year 1972, 20th century, 70s
Place: italy, europe, milan italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 6.7
 222K
Gangster Squad (2013)
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, exciting, stylized, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night, chick flick, manly, teens
Plot: mob boss, organized crime, mafia, gangster, partners against crime, law enforcement, corruption, revenge, police brutality, squad, power struggle, love triangle ...
Time: 1940s, year 2013, 2010s, 20th century, year 1949 ...
Place: los angeles, california, israel, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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 6.4
 4K
Black Caesar (1973)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Tommy Gibbs is a tough kid, raised in the ghetto, who aspires to be a kingpin criminal. As a young boy, his leg is broken by a bad cop on the take, during a payoff gone bad. Nursing his vengeance, he rises to power in Harlem, New York. Angry at the ...
Style: grindhouse, cult classic, hood, crime drama, grim ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: blaxploitation, gangster, black, mafia, tough guy, mobster, exploitation, organized crime, gang, ghetto, blues, african american gangster ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, 1950s, year 1965, year 1972 ...
Place: new york, harlem, usa, california, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
 6.5
 2K
Contraband (1980)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Cigarette smugglers in Naples run into problems with cocaine operations being set up by a rival smuggler. Full of violence, including a women's face being burned off with a blow torch and a graphic rape scene.
Style: poliziottesco, realistic, suspenseful, serious, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: rape, rape and revenge, mafia, gangster, chase, law enforcement, gang, rivalry, drug dealing, tough heroes, couple relations, life is a bitch ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: italy, europe, napoli italy, naples italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
 5.9
 3K
Toro (2016)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Toro (Spanish for "Bull") is a young con man and the right hand of Romano, a powerful mob boss in Torremolinos, Málaga (Andalusia, south to Spain). After Toro decides to leave Romano to get a life free of crime, his last sting fails, ...
Style: neo noir, captivating, exciting, psychological, suspense ...
Plot: mafia, gangster, fight, police, mob boss, niece, chase, heroes, crime family, society, criminal heroes, youth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
Boiling Point (1993)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Red is an aging scam-artist who's just been released from prison together with Ronnie, a young and not-so-bright hoodlum who is easily manipulated. Their new business is to organize fake-money sales and then kill the buyer to take his money; ...
Style: suspense, exciting, neo noir, suspenseful, tense ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: undercover cop, murder, organized crime, prison, redemption, revenge, vengeance, investigation, undercover, tough heroes, working undercover, master criminal ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: california, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
 6.3
 77K
Triple 9 (2016)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, 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: suspense, suspenseful, tense, stylized, intense ...
Plot: heist, police corruption, murder, bank robbery, dirty cop, corrupt cop, mafia, violence, corruption, betrayal, strip club, gangster ...
Time: year 2015, year 2016, 2010s, 21st century
Place: atlanta georgia, usa, tel aviv israel
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
A History of Violence (2005)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, UK, Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story: An average family is thrust into the spotlight after the father commits a seemingly self-defense murder at his diner.
Style: neo noir, harsh, disturbing, tense, psychological ...
Audience: date night, manly
Plot: gangster, self defense, revenge, sex scene, violent, small town, mobster, mafia, attempted robbery, organized crime, redemption, twists and turns ...
Time: year 2005, 2000s, 21st century
Place: indiana, philadelphia, usa, pennsylvania
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
 6.7
 6K
Prime Cut (1972)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A Chicago mob enforcer is sent to Kansas City to settle a debt with a cattle rancher who not only grinds his enemies into sausage, but sells women as sex slaves.
Style: tense, independent film, exciting, serious, grindhouse ...
Plot: murder, organized crime, gangster, chase, slaughterhouse, hotel, revenge, violence, vengeance, mafia, rape victim, small community ...
Time: 20th century, year 1972, 70s
Place: chicago, kansas, usa, kansas city
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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