Movies like American Made

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American Made (2017)
 7.1
 206K
American Made (2017)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA, Japan, Colombia, Canada
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: exciting, black comedy, factual, humorous, captivating, emotional, inspirational, slasher, scenic, stylized ...
Plot: drug cartel, pilot, cia, money laundering, aviation, smuggler, money, cocaine, fbi, trial, drug, sex scene, pablo escobar, bare butt, drug traffic, true crime, spy, illegal drugs, cold war, arms smuggling, death of protagonist, telephone call, cia agent, drug dealer, fbi agent ...
Time: 80s, year 1978, year 2017, 2010s, 70s, year 1985, year 1980 ...
Place: colombia, latin america, usa, panama, nicaragua, central america, south america ...
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Most similar movies to American Made

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, suspense, neo noir and suspenseful films with plots about gangster, violence, police, murder, cop, deception and pistol mostly in Crime, Drama and Thriller genres. Some movies like American Made: Lord of War (2005), Scarface (1983), Blow (2001), The Infiltrator (2016), The Wolf of Wall Street (2013). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Lord of War (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA, Germany, France, Zambia, Italy, Denmark, UK
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, suspense, realistic, thought provoking, dark comedy ...
Audience: kids, manly, boys' night, adult
Plot: business, greed, corruption, arms dealer, cold war, arms dealing, millionaire, gunrunner, rags to riches, smuggling, human nature, rise and fall ...
Time: year 2005, 2000s, 20th century, 80s, year 2001 ...
Place: africa, bolivia, new york, odessa ukraine, sierra leone ...
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95%
 8.3
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Scarface (1983)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 170 min.
Story: After getting a green card in exchange for assassinating a Cuban government official, Tony Montana stakes a claim on the drug trade in Miami. Viciously murdering anyone who stands in his way, Tony eventually becomes the biggest drug lord in the ...
Style: serious, cult classic, exciting, rough, suspense ...
Audience: manly, date night, boys' night, adult
Plot: gangster, mafia, organized crime, gunfight, drug lord, mob boss, drug cartel, drug dealing, cocaine, drug abuse, ambition, violence ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1983, year 1980
Place: miami, cuba, miami beach, florida, bolivia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.5
 274K
Blow (2001)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: A boy named George Jung grows up in a struggling family in the 1950's. His mother nags at her husband as he is trying to make a living for the family. It is finally revealed that George's father cannot make a living and the family goes ...
Style: depressing, touching, emotional, serious, epic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: drug addiction, drug lord, drug abuse, drug dealing, friendship, drug, drug dealer, drug cartel, rise and fall, addiction, gangster, drug use ...
Time: 70s, year 2001, 20th century, 80s, near future ...
Place: latin america, colombia, california, mexico, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
The Infiltrator (2016)
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, dramatic, factual, tense ...
Audience: date night
Plot: drug lord, drug cartel, money laundering, drug, addiction, federal agent, money, investigation, biopic, undercover agent, organized crime, drug addiction ...
Time: year 2016, 80s, year 1985, 20th century
Place: colombia, middle east, florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 180 min.
Story: A New York stockbroker refuses to cooperate in a large securities fraud case involving corruption on Wall Street, corporate banking world and mob infiltration. Based on Jordan Belfort's autobiography.
Style: clever, captivating, motivational, cynical, dramatic ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: money, corruption, business, wall street, rise and fall, greed, stock market, addiction, success, stock broker, wealth, rags to riches ...
Time: 80s, year 2013, 90s, 2010s, 20th century ...
Place: new york, usa, america, geneva switzerland, italy ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
 7.1
 251K
War Dogs (2016)
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Crime, Drama, War
Country: USA, Romania
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Based on the true story of two young men, David Packouz and Efraim Diveroli, who won a $300 million contract from the Pentagon to arm America's allies in Afghanistan.
Style: funny, realistic, humorous, intense, suspense ...
Plot: corruption, arms dealer, friendship, rise and fall, smuggling, gunrunner, military, fraud, betrayal, drug, business, heist ...
Time: year 2016, 2010s, 2000s, year 2008, year 2005 ...
Place: iraq, afghanistan, las vegas, israel, baghdad iraq ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
81%
 8.8
 466K
Narcos (2015)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Colombia
Duration: 49 min.
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Story: The true story of Colombia's infamously violent and powerful drug cartels.
Style: serious, realistic, rough, political, bleak ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: drug cartel, drug dealer, cartel, drug dealing, rise to the top, gangster, drug lord, illegal drugs, cia agent, master criminal, dea, hitman ...
Time: 80s, 2010s, 70s, 90s, 20th century
Place: colombia, latin america, south america, mexico, panama ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.0
 151K
The Mule (2018)
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: chick flick, boys' night, adult
Plot: drug cartel, old man, drug, dea, drug smuggling, police officer, pickup truck, driver, police, drug traffic, organized crime, ex husband ex wife relationship ...
Time: 2010s, 2000s, year 2017, year 2005, year 1958
Place: mexico, chicago, el paso texas, texas, illinois ...
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Catch Me If You Can (2002)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 141 min.
Story: A true story about Frank Abagnale Jr. who, before his 19th birthday, successfully conned millions of dollars worth of checks as a Pan Am pilot, doctor, and legal prosecutor. An FBI agent makes it his mission to put him behind bars. But Frank not ...
Style: clever, exciting, captivating, entertaining, suspense ...
Audience: teens, date night, chick flick
Plot: con artists, adaptation, master criminal, prodigy, creativity, fbi, con men, deception, entrepreneur, biopic, chase, race against time ...
Time: 60s, year 2002, 70s, 20th century, 2000s ...
Place: new york, new orleans, los angeles, georgia, america ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
 6.4
 228K
Pain & Gain (2013)
Genre: Action, Biography, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story: Daniel Lugo, manager of the Sun Gym in 1990s Miami, decides that there is only one way to achieve his version of the American dream: extortion. To achieve his goal, he recruits musclemen Paul and Adrian as accomplices. After several failed attempts, ...
Style: stylized, dark comedy, humorous, funny, tense ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: american dream, kidnapping, buddies, athlete's life, money, friends, group of criminals, hot and sexy, stupidity, bodybuilding, dark humor, scam ...
Time: 2010s, year 2013, 20th century, year 1995, year 1994 ...
Place: miami, florida, usa, bahamas, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
 6.9
 191K
Black Mass (2015)
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: suspense, factual, intense, brutal, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: mafia, corruption, gangster, irish mob, violence, murder, mob boss, true crime, mobster, illness, brutality, organized crime ...
Time: year 2015, 70s, 80s, 2010s, year 2016 ...
Place: boston, peru, usa, massachusetts, santa monica california ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 8.7
 1.2M
Goodfellas (1990)
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, suspense, realistic, epic, brutal ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: organized crime, mafia, gangster, rise and fall, mobster, cosa nostra, mentor, criminal, badass, friends, italian mafia, biopic ...
Time: 70s, 50s, 90s, year 1990, year 1970 ...
Place: new york, brooklyn new york city, italy, florida, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
 6.3
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Mama Weed (2020)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Patience Portefeux is a French-Arabic police translator, specialized in phone tappings for the anti-narcotics unit. The job is tough and low-paid, but the commander is charming... One day, whilst listening to wanted drug dealers, she discovers one ...
Style: exciting, humorous, disturbing, captivating, touching
Plot: drug dealing, lifestyle, war on drugs, manipulative woman, police dog, police, drug, master criminal, drug lord, drug traffic, double life, money laundering ...
Place: france, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.7
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Sicario (2015)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Mexico, Hong Kong
Duration: 121 min.
Story: A young female FBI agent joins a secret CIA operation to take down a Mexican cartel boss, a job that ends up pushing her ethical and moral values to the limit.
Style: suspense, realistic, serious, tense, neo noir ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: cia, hitman, drug cartel, revenge, swat team, fbi, black ops, fbi agent, drug smuggling, crime boss, organized crime, cia agent ...
Time: 2010s, year 2015, year 2016, 21st century
Place: mexico, usa, texas, el paso texas, tucson arizona ...
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80%
 7.0
 123K
Den of Thieves (2018)
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: suspense, captivating, tense, suspenseful, enigmatic ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: heist, bank robbery, police brutality, tough guy, strip club, shootout, armored truck, police, criminal, investigation, fbi, divorce ...
Time: 2010s
Place: los angeles, california, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.5
 42K
White Boy Rick (2018)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: The story of teenager, Richard Wershe Jr., who became an undercover informant for the police during the 1980s and was ultimately arrested for drug-trafficking and sentenced to life in prison.
Style: suspense, hood, disturbing, retro, rough ...
Audience: adult
Plot: fbi, informant, drug traffic, father son relationship, buddies, culture clash, teenager, gangsta, mobster, biopic, drug, urban ...
Time: 80s, 90s, year 2014, year 2017, year 1988 ...
Place: las vegas, ohio, michigan, detroit
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
 7.0
 14K
Paid in Full (2002)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Ace is an impressionable young man working for a dry cleaning business. His friend, drug dealer Mitch goes to prison. In an unrelated incident, he finds some cocaine in a pants pocket. Soon, Ace finds himself dealing cocaine for Lulu. Via lucky ...
Style: hood, tense, rough, realistic, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: urban ghetto life, rapper, organized crime, ghetto, urban, drug dealing, drug, gangster, drug lord, black, rise and fall, street life ...
Time: 80s, year 2002, 20th century, year 1986
Place: harlem, new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
 6.0
 49K
A Man Apart (2003)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 109 min.
Story: When Vetter's wife is killed in a botched hit organized by Diablo, he seeks revenge against those responsible. But in the process, Vetter and Hicks have to fight their way up the chain to get to Diablo but it's easier said than done when ...
Style: suspense, harsh, emotional, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: vengeance, vigilantism, drug cartel, vigilante, drug, lone hero, justice, gang, gangster, violence, corruption, brutality ...
Time: year 2003, 21st century
Place: mexico, los angeles, usa, california, latin america ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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Empire State (2013)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: After failing to get into the police academy, Chris Potamitis (Hemsworth), settles for a security guard job with the EMPIRE STATE Armored Truck Company. He makes the mistake of mentioning the company's lax security to his best friend, Eddie ...
Style: exciting, suspenseful, serious, realistic, surprise ending ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: armored car robbery, robbery, armored truck, unlikely criminals, heist, chases and races, chase, embezzlement, police officer, police academy, employee employee relationship, money ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: usa, new orleans, bronx new york city, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.6
 39K
New Jack City (1991)
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: hood, stylized, suspense, intense, harsh ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: organized crime, gang war, ghetto, gangster, drug, hip hop, mafia, gang, chase, betrayal, urban, addiction ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, 90s
Place: harlem, new york, usa, america, turkey ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Sicario: Day of the Soldado (2018)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 122 min.
Story: FBI agent Matt Graver teams up with operative Alejandro Gillick to prevent Mexican drug cartels from smuggling terrorists across the U.S. border.
Style: neo noir, suspense, bleak, disturbing, captivating ...
Audience: adult
Plot: cartel, black ops, terrorist, drug cartel, cia, u.s. mexico border, cia agent, organized crime, mission, kidnapping, military, brutality ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: somalia, sonora, kansas city, mexico, texas ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 7.6
 219K
Traffic (2000)
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, bleak, political, realistic, dramatic ...
Plot: drug abuse, organized crime, addiction, drug dealer, drug lord, drug addiction, drug traffic, drug cartel, drug, corruption, war on drugs, heroin ...
Time: year 2000, y2k, 90s, 20th century, 2000s
Place: mexico, latin america, california, ohio, los angeles ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 6.8
 38K
Middle Men (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Chronicles Jack Harris, one of the pioneers of internet commerce, as he wrestles with his morals and struggles not to drown in a sea of conmen, mobsters, drug addicts, and pornstars.
Style: entertaining, erotic, humorous, stylized, semi serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: mafia, internet, success, bare breasts, porn industry, business, stripper, nudity, female nudity, porn star, strip club, entrepreneur ...
Time: year 2009, 90s, 20th century, year 1997, year 1990 ...
Place: usa, texas, los angeles, las vegas, houston texas ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Narco Sub (2021)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A man will become a criminal to save his family. Director: Shawn Welling Writer: Derek H. Potts Stars: Tom Vera, Tom Sizemore, Lee Majors |
Style: tense, suspenseful, exciting, suspense, disturbing
Plot: drug cartel, dea, criminal, cartel, criminal heroes, drug dealer, cia agent, sex trafficking, armed forces, kidnapping, drug, cia ...
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 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 ⇓
34%
The French Connection (1971)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Tough narcotics detective 'Popeye' Doyle is in hot pursuit of a suave French drug dealer who may be the key to a huge heroin-smuggling operation.
Style: detective, neo noir, atmospheric, tense, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: heroin, gangster, drug dealer, organized crime, car chase, investigation, chase, smuggling, drug lord, drug smuggling, police, drug ...
Time: 70s, year 1971, 20th century
Place: new york, new jersey, israel, brooklyn new york city, washington d.c. ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Company Business (1991)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: An aging agent is called back by "the Company" to run a hostage trade of a Soviet spy for an American agent.
Style: independent film, serious, realistic, suspenseful, surprise ending ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: spy, espionage, cold war, secret mission, conspiracy, cia, hostage, exodus, race against time, assassination attempt, danger, politics ...
Time: year 1991, 90s
Place: germany, europe, france, paris france, east berlin ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 7.0
 317K
Public Enemies (2009)
Genre: Action, Biography, Crime, Drama, History
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 140 min.
Story: Depression-era bank robber John Dillinger's charm and audacity endear him to much of America's downtrodden public, but he's also a thorn in the side of J. Edgar Hoover and the fledgling FBI. Desperate to capture the elusive outlaw, ...
Style: suspense, stylized, factual, exciting, intense ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: bank robbery, bank robber, gunfight, mobster, group of criminals, heist, manhunt, criminal heroes, organized crime, gangster, fbi, mafia ...
Time: 1930s, year 2009, 20th century, 2000s, year 1933
Place: chicago, indiana, usa, tucson arizona, illinois ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 6.7
 224K
2 Guns (2013)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: A DEA agent and an undercover Naval Intelligence officer who have been tasked with investigating one another find they have been set up by the mob -- the very organization the two men believe they have been stealing money from.
Style: buddy comedy, exciting, action comedy, entertaining, funny ...
Audience: chick flick, manly, boys' night
Plot: undercover, heist, organized crime, cia, money, working undercover, corruption, foe turned friend, conspiracy, robbery, mafia, investigation ...
Time: year 2013, 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 6.6
 152K
Smokin' Aces (2006)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: When a Las Vegas performer-turned-snitch named Buddy Israel decides to turn state's evidence and testify against the mob, it seems that a whole lot of people would like to make sure he's no longer breathing.
Style: dark comedy, action packed, clever, bloody, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night, manly
Plot: hitman, assassin, gunfight, gangster, sniper, violent, multiple storylines, disguise, killer, violence, violence spree, twists and turns ...
Time: year 2006, 2000s, 50s, 20th century, 1950s
Place: usa, nevada, los angeles, las vegas
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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