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The Infiltrator (2016)
84K
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
A U.S Customs official uncovers a massive money laundering scheme involving Pablo Escobar.
Style:
suspense, realistic, factual, clever, political, detective, novela, action adventure, crime thriller, tense ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
drug lord, drug cartel, money laundering, money, addiction, drug, federal agent, investigation, undercover agent, drug addiction, biopic, organized crime, moral ambiguity, character study, violence, mafia, gunfight, adaptation, gangster, social commentary, great ending, spy, corruption, cartel, secret agent ...
Time:
year 2016, 80s, year 1985, 20th century, 70s
Place:
colombia, middle east, florida, usa, latin america, united states of america
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspense, realistic, serious and tense films with plots about criminal, mafia, gangster, gang, corruption, murder and drug mostly in Drama, Crime and Thriller genres. Some movies like The Infiltrator: American Made (2017), Lord of War (2005), The Iceman (2012), Traffic (2000), Serpico (1973). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
The true story of pilot Barry Seal, who transported contraband for the CIA and the Medellin cartel in the 1980s.
Style:
black comedy, exciting, factual, humorous, emotional ...
Plot:
pilot, drug cartel, money laundering, aviation, cia, money, smuggler, cocaine, fbi, trial, arms smuggling, cia agent ...
Time:
80s, year 2017, 2010s, year 1978, year 1985 ...
Place:
colombia, panama, nicaragua, latin america, usa ...
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100%
357K
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Germany, USA, France
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
Yuri Orlov is a globetrotting arms dealer and, through some of the deadliest war zones, he struggles to stay one step ahead of a relentless Interpol agent, his business rivals and even some of his customers who include many of the world's most ...
Style:
clever, realistic, thought provoking, suspense, cerebral ...
Audience:
manly, kids, boys' night, adult
Plot:
business, corruption, arms dealer, arms dealing, smuggling, success, millionaire, greed, gunrunner, notoriety, cynic, cold war ...
Time:
year 2005, 2000s, 80s, 20th century, year 2001 ...
Place:
bolivia, africa, liberia, sierra leone, new york ...
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
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Style:
suspenseful, brutal, stylized, intense, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
hitman, organized crime, lone hero, serial murder, assassin, biopic, greed, family relations, mafia, hidden identity, merciless, partners in crime ...
Time:
70s, year 2012, 80s, 20th century, 60s ...
Place:
usa, new york, new jersey, lower east side manhattan new york city, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
100%
229K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 147 min.
Story:
An exploration of the United States of America's war on drugs from multiple perspectives. For the new head of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, the war becomes personal when he discovers his well-educated daughter is abusing cocaine ...
Style:
suspense, political, realistic, thought provoking, anthology ...
Plot:
drug traffic, organized crime, drug abuse, drug dealer, drug lord, addiction, drug addiction, drug cartel, drug, war on drugs, politics, corruption ...
Time:
year 2000, y2k, 20th century, 90s, 2000s
Place:
mexico, latin america, california, ohio, los angeles ...
Similarity:
100%
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145K
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
The real-life struggle of an honest New York City cop against a corrupt system.
Style:
suspense, neo noir, political, clever, grim ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
police corruption, police, fighting the system, corruption, whistleblower, undercover cop, police investigation, corrupt cop, hippie, female nudity, cop, mafia ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1973, 60s
Place:
new york, bronx new york city, usa, greenwich village manhattan new york city, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
100%
663K
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
As the Iranian revolution reaches a boiling point, a CIA 'exfiltration' specialist concocts a risky plan to free six Americans who have found shelter at the home of the Canadian ambassador.
Style:
clever, tense, captivating, political thriller, suspenseful ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, adult
Plot:
cia, secret agent, politics, rescue mission, revolution, u.s. embassy, secret mission, propaganda, danger, hostage, undercover, espionage ...
Time:
70s, 80s, year 1979, year 1980, 20th century ...
Place:
middle east, iran, tehran iran, los angeles, istanbul turkey ...
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100%
167K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Earl Stone, a man in his 80s who is broke, alone, and facing foreclosure of his business when he is offered a job that simply requires him to drive. Easy enough, but, unbeknownst to Earl, he’s just signed on as a drug courier for a Mexican cartel. ...
Style:
road movie, crime drama, exciting, serious, historical drama ...
Audience:
boys' night, chick flick, adult
Plot:
old man, drug cartel, drug smuggling, drug, dea, drug crime, pickup truck, mexican drug cartel, police, driver, cartel, mountain ...
Time:
2000s, year 2017, 2010s, year 2005, year 1958
Place:
mexico, texas, chicago, el paso texas, south america ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: Spain, Bulgaria
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
The film chronicles the rise and fall of the world's most feared drug lord Pablo Escobar and his volatile love affair with Colombia's most famous journalist Virginia Vallejo throughout a reign of terror that tore a country apart.
Style:
factual, serious, rough, exciting, brutal ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
drug lord, drug cartel, cocaine, latinx lead, pablo escobar, colombian drug cartel, assassination, lovers, congress, drug traffic, drug dealing, fighting crime ...
Time:
80s, year 1984, year 1992, year 1982, year 1993 ...
Place:
colombia, south america, panama, latin america, florida
Similarity:
100%
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1.4M
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 145 min.
Story:
The true story of Henry Hill, a half-Irish, half-Sicilian Brooklyn kid who is adopted by neighbourhood gangsters at an early age and climbs the ranks of a Mafia family under the guidance of Jimmy Conway.
Style:
rough, homoerotic, realistic, epic, inspirational ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
organized crime, mafia, gangster, rise and fall, violence, mentor, mobster, drug traffic, cosa nostra, italian mafia, murder, psychopath ...
Time:
50s, 70s, 90s, year 1990, year 1980 ...
Place:
brooklyn new york city, new york, florida, italy, usa ...
Similarity:
100%
2.5M
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 48 min.
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Story:
When Walter White, a New Mexico chemistry teacher, is diagnosed with Stage III cancer and given a prognosis of only two years left to live, he becomes filled with a sense of fearlessness and an unrelenting desire to secure his family's ...
Style:
serious, captivating, tense, psychological, rough ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
cancer, criminal, peril, drug lord, master criminal, drug dealing, drug, unlikely partners, drug cartel, life turned upside down, meth lab, family problems ...
Time:
y2k, year 2008, 2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
new mexico, albuquerque new mexico, south america, usa, north america
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Mexico, Colombia
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Set in the 1990s, these are the life and times of Amado Carrillo Fuentes, a man who became the head of the Juárez cartel. Nicknamed “El Señor de los Cielos” (Lord of the Skies) because of the large fleet of airplanes he used to transport ...
Style:
captivating, suspenseful, serious, realistic, tense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
drug cartel, cartel, drug lord, master criminal, rise to the top, drug, money, gangster, smuggling, gang war, generosity, drug dealing ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 80s
Place:
latin america, colombia, mexico, new mexico
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
A reporter becomes the target of a vicious smear campaign that drives him to the point of suicide after he exposes the CIA's role in arming Contra rebels in Nicaragua and importing cocaine into California. Based on the true story of journalist ...
Style:
political, clever, suspenseful, captivating, disturbing ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
journalism, reporter, journalist, conspiracy, u.s. government, investigative journalism, politics, drug smuggling, investigative reporter, media manipulation, media, cia ...
Time:
80s, year 2014, 70s, 90s, 20th century ...
Place:
latin america, california, los angeles, nicaragua, usa ...
Similarity:
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33K
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 136 min.
Story:
New York gangster Ben 'Bugsy' Siegel takes a brief business trip to Los Angeles. A sharp-dressing womanizer with a foul temper, Siegel doesn't hesitate to kill or maim anyone crossing him. In L.A. the life, the movies, and most of all ...
Style:
realistic, period piece, stylized, intense, suspense ...
Plot:
mafia, gangster, casino, gambling, biopic, organized crime, hollywood, rise and fall, ambition, love affair, elimination, bohemian life ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, year 1991, year 1945, 1930s ...
Place:
las vegas, los angeles, usa, new york, california ...
Similarity:
100%
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:
100%
22K
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story:
A look at the life of notorious drug kingpin, El Chapo, from his early days in the 1980s working for the Guadalajara Cartel, to his rise to power of during the '90s and his ultimate downfall in 2016.
Style:
realistic, captivating, factual, atmospheric, inspirational ...
Plot:
cartel, drug cartel, drug lord, business, gang, fight for supremacy, criminal, drug dealing, drug, drug trade, crime boss, mafia ...
Time:
80s
Place:
south america
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 157 min.
Story:
Following the death of his employer and mentor, Bumpy Johnson, Frank Lucas establishes himself as the number one importer of heroin in the Harlem district of Manhattan. He does so by buying heroin directly from the source in South East Asia and he ...
Style:
tense, realistic, clever, serious, suspense ...
Audience:
manly, boys' night, adult
Plot:
mafia, organized crime, gangster, drug lord, mob boss, drug traffic, heroin, violence, smuggling, crime boss, ghetto, police ...
Time:
60s, 70s, year 1968, year 1970, year 2007 ...
Place:
new jersey, new york, vietnam, brooklyn new york city, cuba ...
Similarity:
50%
201K
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
The true story of Whitey Bulger, the brother of a state senator and the most infamous violent criminal in the history of South Boston, who became an FBI informant to take down a Mafia family invading his turf.
Style:
factual, suspense, brutal, intense, captivating ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
mafia, violence, corruption, irish mob, organized crime, gangster, fbi, fbi agent, true crime, murder, illness, violent ...
Time:
year 2015, 70s, 80s, 2010s, year 2016 ...
Place:
boston, peru, usa, massachusetts, miami ...
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
At the age of 17, Griselda Blanco, made her way to the U.S. with a fake passport with her first husband Carlos. Living in Queens with her three sons, Griselda became enticed by the money the drug world offered, and quickly became embroiled with ...
Style:
factual, tense, captivating, suspense, emotional ...
Plot:
drug smuggling, colombian drug cartel, woman, gang, drug cartel, mother, smuggler, cocaine, parent child relationship, drug, arrest, drug dealer ...
Time:
80s, 70s
Place:
colombia
Similarity:
100%
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222K
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
Suave, charming and volatile, Reggie Kray and his unstable twin brother Ronnie start to leave their mark on the London underworld in the 1960s. Using violence to get what they want, the siblings orchestrate robberies and murders while running ...
Style:
realistic, brutal, period piece, intense, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gang, mafia, gangster, violent, psychopath, gay interest, organized crime, abusive husband, rise and fall, brother brother relationship, homosexual, relationships ...
Time:
60s, year 2015, year 1957, 90s, 2010s ...
Place:
england, london, east end london, europe, west end london ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
See the rise of the Guadalajara Cartel as an American DEA agent learns the danger of targeting narcos in 1980s Mexico.
Style:
suspense, atmospheric, sensual, erotic, captivating ...
Plot:
drug cartel, organized crime, marijuana, undercover agent, corruption, drug lord, mexican drug cartel, drug, gang, criminal, drug dealing, cocaine ...
Time:
80s, 90s
Place:
mexico, latin america, south america, north america, new mexico
Similarity:
67%
172K
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, France
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
CIA employee Edward Snowden leaks thousands of classified documents to the press.
Style:
realistic, political thriller, thought provoking, factual, inspirational ...
Audience:
chick flick, family friendly
Plot:
espionage, journalism, whistleblower, hacking, fighting the system, moral dilemma, internet, spying, cia, technology, cryptography, ethics ...
Time:
year 2016, 20th century, year 2015, year 2009, year 2011 ...
Place:
japan, russia, hawaii, america, pakistan ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
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Style:
erotic, realistic, harsh, suspense, intense ...
Plot:
drug lord, mafia, italian mafia, gangster, bank robbery, gunfight, robbery, tough guy, mobster, life philosophy, organized crime, mob boss ...
Time:
80s, 90s, 60s, 2000s, 70s
Place:
italy, milan italy
Similarity:
100%
354K
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
An FBI undercover agent infilitrates the mob and finds himself identifying more with the mafia life at the expense of his regular one.
Style:
neo noir, clever, suspense, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
mafia, undercover, organized crime, mobster, mentor, fbi, working undercover, italian mafia, fbi agent, undercover agent, law enforcement, friends ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1997, 90s, year 1978
Place:
new york, new jersey, miami, florida, usa ...
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Movie in collections
246K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 144 min.
Story:
A Puerto-Rican ex-con, just released from prison, pledges to stay away from drugs and violence despite the pressure around him and lead on to a better life outside of NYC.
Style:
suspense, neo noir, tense, suspenseful, clever ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gangster, organized crime, mafia, nightclub, tragic hero, drug dealing, voyeurism, violence, drug, gunfight, drug lord, prison ...
Time:
90s, 70s, 20th century, year 1975, year 1993
Place:
new york, usa, grand central station manhattan new york city, south america, harlem ...
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24%
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
The story of Elizabeth Smart's kidnapping and captivity, as told from her perspective.
Style:
thought provoking, serious, factual, dark, realistic ...
Plot:
kidnapped, abduction, captivity, rape, teenager, captive, violence, brutality, running for your life, abused child, kidnapping, investigation ...
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100%
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Ireland, UK, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
In this true story, Veronica Guerin is an investigative reporter for an Irish newspaper. As the drug trade begins to bleed into the mainstream, Guerin decides to take on and expose those responsible. Beginning at the bottom with addicts, Guerin then ...
Style:
suspense, intense, tense, realistic, rough ...
Plot:
journalism, strong female character, gangster, justice, corruption, drug lord, police, drug dealing, heroin, uncover truth, media, tragic hero ...
Time:
90s, year 2003, 20th century
Place:
ireland, dublin ireland, europe, amsterdam, california ...
Similarity:
23%
262K
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Set in the Depression-era Franklin County, Virginia, a bootlegging gang is threatened by authorities who want a cut of their profits.
Style:
intense, suspense, sexy, period piece, neo noir ...
Plot:
mafia, smuggling, gang, gangster, bootlegging, violence, vigilante, greed, corruption, prohibition era, prohibition, robbery ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century, year 2012, 2010s, year 1931 ...
Place:
virginia, usa, appalachia, america, north america ...
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA, Mexico
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
The true story of a disillusioned military contractor employee and his drug pusher childhood friend who became walk-in spies for the Soviet Union.
Style:
tense, realistic, psychological, captivating, serious ...
Plot:
espionage, cold war, undercover, treason, cold war era, double agent, drug, political conspiracy, dishonesty, buddies, society, hitman ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, year 1985, year 1974, 80s
Place:
usa, california, soviet union, mexico city, mexico ...
Similarity:
21%
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:
clever, suspenseful, period piece, inspirational, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night, manly, adult
Plot:
mafia, gangster, organized crime, corruption, prohibition era, mentor, shootout, smuggling, prohibition, police, tax evasion, gunfight ...
Time:
1930s, 1920s, 20th century, year 1987
Place:
chicago, america, usa
Similarity:
21%
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:
21%
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