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The Ardennes (2015)
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The Ardennes (2015)
Original name: D'Ardennen
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Belgium
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A brutal home-jacking goes hopelessly wrong. Dave, one of the two robbers, manages to run off, leaving his brother Kenneth behind. Four years later, Kenneth is released from prison and much has changed. Dave has his life back on track and is trying to help Kenneth however possible, but is witnessing how the highly strung Kenneth tries to win back his ex-girlfriend Sylvie.
Style: captivating, realistic, psychological, tense, twist ending, hood, crime thriller, twisted, surprise ending, weird
Plot: murder, brother vs brother, police, cell mate, love triangle, brother brother relationship, violence, disposing of a dead body, prison, ghetto, gang, snow, fire, nightclub, techno music, ostrich, car wash, gangster, violence against women, christmas, dog, gambling, fight, murderer, pregnancy ...
Time: year 2015, 2010s, 21st century
Place: belgium, antwerp
Keyword: gangsters, dutch, belgian

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out tense, suspenseful, suspense and realistic films with plots about murder, violence, gangster, death, police, gang and blood mostly in Drama, Crime and Thriller genres. Some movies like The Ardennes: Viva Riva! (2010), Code 37 (2011), Saturn Bowling (2022), Shot Caller (2017), Godforsaken! (2003). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Viva Riva! (2010)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Riva is an operator, a man with charm and ambition in equal measure. Kinshasa is an inviting place. With petrol in short supply in DRC's capital, he and his sidekick pursue a plot to get hold of a secret cache - barrels of fuel they can sell ...
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Time: 21st century
Place: africa
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Code 37 (2011)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A famous writer is violated in a sex-movie-theatre. He had a date with Roos, a young student who works also as a prostitute. Quickly it becomes clear that more students are active in the prostitution. Enough reason for Hannah and her team to go ...
Style: tense, captivating, atmospheric, psychological, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: police investigation, murder, law enforcement, parents and children, gain trust, haunted by the past, college, prostitution, rivalry, danger, urban, strong female presence ...
Time: 21st century
Place: belgium, ghent, europe
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Saturn Bowling (2022)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 114 min.
Story: When their father dies, the ambitious police officer Guillaume offers the management of the bowling alley he inherited to his outcast half-brother Armand. The inheritance is cursed, and the two men wind up in a world of violence.
Plot: bowling, serial killer, female nudity, cigarette smoking, rain, hunter, police investigation, rape and murder, brother vs brother, police inspector, estranged brother, investigation ...
Time: 2020s
Place: france
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 7.3
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Shot Caller (2017)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story: A newly-released prison gangster is forced by the leaders of his gang to orchestrate a major crime with a brutal rival gang on the streets of Southern California.
Style: clever, suspense, harsh, twist ending, crime thriller ...
Plot: prison, prison gang, prisoner, gang, criminal, organized crime, estranged father, prison life, skinhead, criminal heroes, arrest, aryan brotherhood ...
Time: year 2017, 21st century
Place: california, usa
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Godforsaken! (2003)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Two small town Dutch boys whose socially unnatural friendship is so close, they care nothing for human or divine rules and lose all grip on reality, sliding into violent crime.
Style: captivating, suspenseful, rough, confusing, realistic ...
Plot: organized crime, hitman, gang, friendship, pregnancy, criminal heroes, gangster, love, love triangle, serial killer, adolescence, bad father ...
Time: 90s
Place: germany
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The Crew (2015)
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, psychological, captivating, tense, exciting ...
Plot: heist, bank robbery, brother brother relationship, bank robber, robbery, armed robbery, gang of thieves, violence, murder, death, criminal heroes, mafia ...
Time: year 2015, 21st century
Place: paris france, france
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76%
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Infidus (2015)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 80 min.
Story: In the suburbs of Rome, two disparate lives with only desire for vengeance and redemption in common find their destinies intertwined. Massimo's mind is plagued with images of his wife's violent death at the hands of a criminal gang ...
Style: suspense, bloody, brutal, psychological, tense ...
Plot: revenge, prisoner, murderer, killer, pain, henchman, death, prison, hunter, released from prison, convict, brother brother relationship ...
Time: 2010s
Place: italy, rome italy
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Bullhead (2011)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Belgium, Netherlands
Duration: 129 min.
Story: Young Limburg cattle farmer, Jacky Vanmarsenille, is approached by an unscrupulous veterinarian to make a shady deal with a notorious West-Flemish beef trader. But the assassination of a federal policeman, and an unexpected confrontation with a ...
Style: disturbing, bleak, emotional, surreal, tense ...
Plot: mafia, friendship, violence, farm, character study, haunted by the past, life is a bitch, revenge, tragic event, notoriety, murder, organized crime ...
Time: year 2011, 2010s, 21st century
Place: belgium, france, flanders
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72%
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Empire (2002)
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, melancholic, suspense, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
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Time: year 2002
Place: usa, new york, miami, bronx new york city, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
 7.1
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Blue Ruin (2013)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The quiet life of a beach bum is upended by dreadful news. He sets off for his childhood home to carry out an act of vengeance but proves an inept assassin and finds himself in a brutal fight to protect his estranged family.
Style: neo noir, independent film, atmospheric, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot: vengeance, revenge, vigilante, violence, vigilantism, murder, brutality, violent, storytelling, haunted by the past, car, disorder ...
Time: year 2013, 2010s, 90s, 21st century
Place: virginia, ethiopia, usa, delaware
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
 7.0
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The Drop (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Bob Saginowski finds himself at the center of a robbery gone awry and entwined in an investigation that digs deep into the neighborhood's past where friends, families, and foes all work together to make a living - no matter the cost.
Style: serious, realistic, tense, suspense, cerebral ...
Audience: girls' night, teens, boys' night
Plot: twists and turns, robbery, fall in love, organized crime, danger, criminal heroes, crime boss, catholic, gangster, mafia, church, criminal's revenge ...
Time: year 2014, 90s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: new york, boston, brooklyn new york city, massachusetts, usa
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62%
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Oh Mercy! (2019)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 119 min.
Story: A police chief in northern France tries to solve a case where an old woman was brutally murdered.
Style: disturbing, captivating, psychological, tense
Plot: french police, murder, police, investigation, police station, crime scene, police officer, corpse, police detective, danger, brutality, violence ...
Time: 2000s
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
A Life Not to Follow (2015)
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: neo noir, dark, suspense, suspenseful, tense ...
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Romper Stomper (1992)
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Duration: 94 min.
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 116 min.
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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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
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52%
Menace II Society (1993)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Menace II Society is a coming of age tale detailing the summer after its protagonist Caine (Tyrin Turner) graduates from high school. This is Caine's story, which details real life in today's tough inner city.
Style: bleak, realistic, stylized, tense, hood ...
Audience: teens, teen drama, adult
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Duration: 102 min.
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Style: neo noir, disturbing, dark comedy, suspense, surreal ...
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49%
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Dogman (2018)
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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 ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
 7.2
 60K
Animal Kingdom (2010)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Following the death of his mother, J finds himself living with his estranged family, under the watchful eye of his doting grandmother, Smurf, mother to the Cody boys. J quickly comes to believe that he is a player in this world. But, as he soon ...
Style: tense, disturbing, bleak, realistic, atmospheric ...
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The Last Deadly Mission (2008)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
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Duration: 125 min.
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Style: psychological, suspenseful, tense, rough, bleak ...
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Style: serious, realistic, tense, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
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Eastern Promises (2007)
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Duration: 100 min.
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Style: neo noir, disturbing, serious, tense, suspenseful ...
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
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Duration: 105 min.
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Style: neo noir, captivating, exciting, psychological, suspense ...
Plot: mafia, gangster, fight, police, mob boss, niece, chase, heroes, crime family, society, criminal heroes, youth ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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 7.2
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Wild at Heart (1990)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Young lovers Sailor and Lula run from the variety of weirdos that Lula's mom has hired to kill Sailor.
Style: surreal, road movie, black comedy, avant garde, dark comedy ...
Audience: chick flick, adult
Plot: on the road, murder, surrealism, forbidden love, on the run, road trip, violence, sex scene, domineering mother, rape, haunted by the past, dark humor ...
Time: 90s, year 1990, 20th century, 80s
Place: new orleans, texas, austin texas, usa, california ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
 5.4
 11K
Bullet Head (2017)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Bulgaria, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A group of career criminals finds itself trapped in a warehouse with the law – and an Attack Dog named DeNiro closing in.
Style: suspense, tense, captivating, psychological, hood ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Beauty and the Dogs (2017)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Tunisia, France, Sweden, Norway, Lebanon, Qatar, Switzerland
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Mariam just wanted to enjoy the night, when a tragic event occurs. Despite the trauma, the pretty tunisian student is determined to go to the police. But what can be done when your persecutor is your only chance?
Style: suspense, tense, exciting, suspenseful, touching ...
Plot: student, party, female protagonist, police station, police, police brutality, policewoman, cycling, muslim, women, violence against women, woman ...
Time: year 2017
Place: tunisia, middle east, maghreb
⇓ similarity ⇓
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The Verdict (2013)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration: 111 min.
Story: When his wife's murderer is released due to a procedural error, Luc will do everything in his power to stop it from happening... He is going to take justice into his own hands and will then compete with the constitutional state which let him ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, tense, emotional, realistic ...
Plot: justice, courtroom, courtroom drama, trial, injustice, legal action, legal, lawyers and clients, life is a bitch, lawyer, cruelty, murder ...
Time: year 2013, 21st century
Place: belgium
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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The Departed (2006)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Hong Kong
Duration: 151 min.
Story: To take down South Boston's Irish Mafia, the police send in one of their own to infiltrate the underworld, not realizing the syndicate has done likewise. While an undercover cop curries favor with the mob kingpin, a career criminal rises ...
Style: twist ending, suspense, surprise ending, clever, tense ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: mafia, police, organized crime, mole, mobster, undercover cop, twists and turns, undercover, gunfight, corruption, working undercover, gangster ...
Time: 2000s, year 2006, 21st century
Place: boston, america, persia, massachusetts, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
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