Movies like A Brother's Badge

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A Brother's Badge (2023)
A Brother's Badge (2023)
Original name: The Blue Line
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Story: Detective Michael Glade, with the San Antonio police department, has wandered onto the dark side and has run afoul of the Mexican Mafia. He battles his family and feelings while riding his collision course to its ultimate outcome.
Plot: mafia, police, gang, betrayal, murder, drug, drugs
Place: texas, san antonio texas

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out tense, independent film, captivating and suspenseful films with plots about murder, police, drug, betrayal, gang, mafia and female nudity mostly in Thriller, Crime and Drama genres. Some movies like A Brother's Badge: Newman's Law (1974), Rainbow Drive (1990), The Assassin (2007), The Line (2017), American Dreamer (2018). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Newman's Law (1974)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: LAPD Officer Newman has not gotten the reputation of a straight arrow by avoiding conflict when fighting for right. In this police drama, his honesty is put to the test when he and his partner discover a international drug ring involving some of the ...
Style: detective
Plot: murder, police, lapd, shootout, mafia, robbery, corruption, politician, false accusation, police shootout, drug, gunfight ...
Time: 70s
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Rainbow Drive (1990)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A Hollywood multiple murder is investigated by a homicide cop, despite high-placed efforts to cover up the crime.
Plot: drug, police, corruption, murder
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The Assassin (2007)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Assassin John Brown, a heroin-addicted, recent war veteran, is hired to take out a local nightclub owner. When Brown slips, he finds himself on the run from both police and the shadowy corporation that hired him.
Style: neo noir, detective, independent film
Plot: drug, junkie, mercenary, murder, criminal, police, african american, pistol, handgun, drug addict, assassin, police captain ...
Place: new york
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The Line (2017)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Slovakia, Ukraine
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Criminal thriller about traffickers and smugglers from Ukrainian border. The feature film about the borders and the life on their edge.
Style: suspense, tense, suspenseful, captivating
Plot: border, drug dealer, corruption, drug, betrayal, organized crime, crime boss, criminal, drug abuse, male pubic hair, drowning, cigarette smoking ...
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American Dreamer (2018)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A down on his luck driver making extra cash chauffeuring a low level drug dealer around town, finds himself in a serious financial bind and decides to kidnap the dealer's child.
Style: suspense, brutal, non-linear, dark, neo noir ...
Plot: drug, taxi driver, nothing goes right, murder, weapons, kidnapping, money, depression, gang
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Real Time (2002)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A band of robbers steal money from a winery. The passion for a woman, makes them begin to covet another part of the booty that they deserve. First film shot in a single take in the history of cinema. Certified by Guinness World Records
Plot: murder, betrayal, criminal gang, armored car robbery, heist, caper
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Hunters of the Night (1984)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Finland
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A small gang of criminals is planning to commit a gold heist not knowing that the new member of their gang is actually a police detective. But when his true identity is revealed to the gang they act like they wouldn't know about it and decide ...
Plot: male nudity, blood, police, gangster, drunkenness, gold, female nudity, criminal gang, sex, factory, gold bar, undercover cop ...
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Lock 'n' Load (1990)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A Vietnam vet has nightmares about murder and zombies, and then discovers that he and other vets have been programmed to commit crimes and then kill themselves afterwards so they can't be traced. He investigates to try to find out who is ...
Style: splatter, surprise ending, independent film
Plot: vietnam veteran, shootout, police, betrayal, hospital, robbery, violence, murder, assassin, brainwashing, explosion
Place: colorado
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Mission Park (2013)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Four friends from the rough side of town grow apart when two are consumed by a life of crime, and the other two become FBI agents sent deep undercover - to bring down those childhood friends.
Style: suspenseful, realistic, captivating, tense, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: working undercover, special agent, drug dealing, police officer, undercover, ambition, danger, friendship, gang, law enforcement, urban, right hand man ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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Friends (2000)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 100 min.
Plot: gay, drug, betrayal, police
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 4.7
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Moving Targets (1999)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A pair of cops are following a lawyer who has information on a mobster. He's killed and his wife has to help the cops catch the bad guy.
Plot: wife, mobster, strong female lead, bus, police, car chase, murder, handgun, violence, tough girl, gun, knife ...
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Caught in the Crossfire (2010)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Two detectives investigating a gang-related find themselves targeted by both gang members and crooked cops.
Style: suspenseful, exciting, serious, hood, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: partners against crime, partner, gang, police detective, police investigation, law enforcement, police corruption, friendship, rivalry, danger, mafia, cop ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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The Chosen (2005)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A couple of brutal and mysterious murders point to Uppsala University. Johan, a last year student at the police academy, gets involved in the investigation. He enrolls a course at the University in order to, under cover, track down the killer.
Plot: serial killer, murder, university, criminal, murder investigation, police, student, couples
Place: eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
From Corleone to Brooklyn (1979)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Maurizio Merli takes up a familiar role as Commissioner Berni; a cop who puts his life on the line to transport a witness from Corleone to New York City in order to testify against a mob boss on trial for murder. Along the way, Berni and his ...
Style: poliziottesco
Plot: mafia, police officer, italian mafia, police, explosions, secret police, mob boss, organized crime, police lineup, police officer kicked, police officer shot
Place: italy, new york
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Monument Ave. (1998)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Bobby O'Grady a low level member of a Boston Irish gang run by Jackie O'Hara. Jackie demands absolute, total loyalty to him. When Jackie kills one of Bobby's buddies, Teddy, Bobby and others have to keep it an absolute secret, even ...
Style: atmospheric, suspenseful, tense, serious, independent film ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gangster, murder, police investigation, investigation, police corruption, drug dealing, criminal heroes, witnessing a crime, dishonesty, juvenile delinquency, gang, life is a bitch ...
Time: year 1998, 90s
Place: boston, ireland, massachusetts, connecticut, europe ...
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The Brave (2019)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: In an Albanian town known for drug production and trafficking an elite group of cops set out to end the war waged against the local police.
Style: suspense, disturbing, suspenseful, captivating, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
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Place: albania, europe
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Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: An up and coming lawyer gets turned over for a case he'd been working on for a long while. The D.A.'s niece then decides to help the young lawyer by first blackmailing, then eventually plotting the murder of the D.A., all the while ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
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Story: Mario, an exemplary man, lives in a village on the Galician coast. In the old people’s home, where he works as a nurse, everyone appreciates him. When the best known narco in the area, Antonio Padín, recently released from prison, enters the ...
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Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
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Story: An ambitious reporter gets in their way of two cops assigned to investigate a serial killer who became active around Christmas time..
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Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A former drug lord returns from prison determined to wipe out all his competition and distribute the profits of his operations to New York's poor and lower classes in this stylish and ultra violent modern twist on Robin Hood.
Style: neo noir, atmospheric, hood, intense, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
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Time: year 1990, 20th century, 80s, 90s
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Flat 211 (2017)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: United Arab Emirates, India
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Flat 211 is Latest Bollywood Crime Mystery Thriller Film directed By Sunil Sanjan,The star cast of the Film Jayesh Raj, Samonica Shrivastava, Digvijay Singh
Plot: newspaper, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, photographer, investigation, flashback, party, betrayal, police, murder, swimming pool, interrogation, bollywood
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Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
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Style: captivating, suspense, tense, suspenseful, disturbing ...
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Catharsis (2009)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Greece
Duration: 74 min.
Story: An ex cop arrives in Athens after the murder of his wife. Approached by the chief of police, he reluctantly agrees to help take down a mafia ring. Thus begins a circle of blood that becomes more and more violent as the hero goes deeper into the ...
Plot: cathartic, cop, police officer, revenge, police, blood, drug, pimp, group of criminals, motor, mob
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Checkmate (2016)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: In the streets of New York City, a drug war is brewing between bikers and the local drug dealers. A group of corrupt cops have taken the lead on the investigation while trying to set up an honest detective to take the heat. In this dangerous game ...
Style: psychological, captivating, tense
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Thriller
Country: Romania
Duration: 76 min.
Story: In 1975 two Romanian kids go about their daily routine in their native fishing village on the Danube Delta when a mysterious stranger asks them for a ride in their fishing boat to an island located deep inside the river delta.
Plot: boat, yacht, teenager, drug, helicopter, murder, river, swamp, fishing boat, gang, police, boy ...
Time: 70s
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Deadbeat (1976)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: When four degenerate thugs rape and murder a young waitress in part of their rape and murder spree, they are arrested, but get away with though a legal technicality. The brother of one of the rape/murder victims decides to become vigilante and kill ...
Style: independent film
Plot: rape, revenge, murder, brother, rape and revenge, vigilante, waitress, sister, arrested, thug, violence, female nudity ...
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Massacre for an Orgy (1966)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Luxembourg, France
Duration: 83 min.
Story: A police officer attempts to shut down an illegal girls-for-drugs operation (American version).
Plot: white slavery, gang, sex, nudity, playing footsie, prostitute, lesbianism, murder, lesbian, female nudity, police, drug
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Amongst Men (2021)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Argentina
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Story: It is the golden age of gangs, and one of the darkest times for the police, who are controlled by a group of millionaire commissioners sharing in the illicit businesses of Buenos Aires.
Style: detective, thrilling, captivating, tense, hood ...
Plot: gangster, ghetto, gang, mafia, secret, drug, party, murder, criminal, destroying evidence, forensic evidence, police ...
Time: 90s, year 1996
⇓ similarity ⇓
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