Movies like L.A. Vice

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L.A. Vice (1989)
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L.A. Vice (1989)
Genre: Action, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: No overview found.
Style: independent film, erotic, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Plot: kidnapping, murder, ransom, metropolis, female corpse, missing person, chases and races, isolation, danger, law enforcement, confined, partner, police investigation, partners against crime, daring rescue, anti hero, police, deadly, mystery, crime, anti heroes, crimes
Time: 80s
Place: los angeles
Keyword: partners

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, suspenseful, realistic and rough films with plots about law enforcement, deadly, chases and races, rivalry, danger, dishonesty and murder mostly in Action, Crime and Thriller genres. Some movies like L.A. Vice: Chance (1990), L.A. Bounty (1989), Face of Terror (2004), Road of No Return (2009), Border Lost (2008). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Chance (1990)
Genre: Action, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: After a daring robbery of a jewelery store, the thieves accidentally let their loot fall into the unsuspecting hands of repo man and secret alcoholic Zach. When the crime lord behind the heist learns of the whereabouts of his diamonds, he instructs ...
Style: realistic, serious, tense, exciting, suspenseful ...
Plot: robbery, police shootout, police detective, chases and races, rivalry, law enforcement, vengeance, criminal heroes, investigation, dishonesty, gang, alcohol abuse ...
Time: 80s
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95%
 4.7
 433
L.A. Bounty (1989)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Mayor candidate Mike Rhodes is kidnapped in his own home outside of Los Angeles by unknown, masked terrorists. His wife Kelly barely survives the attempted murder on her, and is able to identify one of the kidnappers. She's placed on the ...
Style: independent film, serious, realistic, exciting, suspenseful ...
Plot: bounty hunter, kidnapping, warehouse, superhero, one woman army, ex-cop, chases and races, leadership, dishonesty, law enforcement, drug dealing, confined ...
Time: 80s
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
 4.3
 484
Face of Terror (2004)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A police officer searching for his missing sister in Spain uncovers a terrorist cell.
Style: serious, suspenseful, realistic, exciting, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: terrorism, missing person, confined, police investigation, undercover, drug dealing, secret agent, kidnapping, working undercover, addiction, drug abuse, danger ...
Place: spain, barcelona, los angeles, usa, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
Road of No Return (2009)
Genre: Action, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Road of no Return follows the final nine days in the lives of four atypical hit men who are secretly brought together in a covert operation to fight the drug trafficking epidemic in the country.
Style: tense, suspenseful, serious, rough, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: hitman, undercover, danger, introspection, race against time, politics, law enforcement, anti hero, heroes, rivalry, orphan, moral dilemma ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
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Border Lost (2008)
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Over five thousand people illegally cross the border each day. There are areas where crime is at its highest, where criminals prey upon these defenseless groups. An elite task force is put together with high expectations of solving this problem that ...
Style: suspenseful, rough, serious, realistic, crime drama ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: partners against crime, illegal immigration, partner, danger, escapades, government agency, heroes, desert, daring rescue, immigrant, immigration, special agent ...
Time: 21st century
Place: mexico, latin america
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66%
Donato and Daughter (1993)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Though emotionally estranged, a father and daughter team of Los Angeles police detectives must work together to stop a serial killer. Along the way, the two find themselves forced to deal with a number of painful secrets from their past.
Style: serious, rough, suspenseful, realistic, exciting
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, family life, parents and children, law enforcement, amateur detective, fighting crime, estrangement, who done it, partner, nypd, tango ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
Bullets, Blood & a Fistful of Ca$h (2006)
Genre: Action, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: A hard boiled tale of bloody revenge that interweaves the stories of nine criminals. The story takes place in one day, on the eve of an all out syndicate war. Through a twisted series of events, the interweaving narratives are put on an ...
Style: rough, realistic, serious, suspenseful, action packed ...
Plot: rivalry, partner, vengeance, police detective, police investigation, gang, partners against crime, criminal heroes, dishonesty, law enforcement, drug dealing, gory ...
Time: 21st century
Place: california
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
Tactical Unit - Comrades in Arms (2009)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Two tactical unit leaders are forced to put aside their differences to help catch a group of robbers.
Style: serious, exciting, suspenseful, rough, realistic
Plot: rivalry, on the run, partner, law enforcement, master criminal, tough law enforcer, police investigation, gang, chases and races, stolen money, partners against crime, criminal heroes ...
Time: 21st century
Place: china, hong kong
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
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Behzat Ç.: I Buried You in My Heart (2011)
Genre: Action, Crime, Mystery
Country: Turkey
Duration: 110 min.
Story: An aggressive police officer tries to solve the mystery behind consecutive murders. While doing so, he must fight against his inner demons.
Style: suspenseful, rough, realistic, exciting, serious
Audience: boys' night
Plot: law enforcement, police investigation, murder, who done it, fighting crime, serial killer, turk, police officer, violent content, police, tough law enforcer, deadly
Time: 21st century
Place: turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
 4.4
 553
Fatal Instinct (2014)
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A police detective follows a trail of evidence that eventually seems to lead to his trusted partner's ex-con brother who he helped put in prison years ago.
Style: rough, serious, suspenseful, exciting, realistic
Plot: false accusation, protagonist as suspect, police investigation, law enforcement, danger, serial killer, femme fatale, dishonesty, dangerous attraction, who done it, murder, tough law enforcer ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
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 181
Safehouse (2008)
Genre: Action, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Ex-FBI agent Cooper O'Neil thinks the dangerous times in his life are in the past; that is, until his former partner shows up dead at his marina home. O'Neil's old partner had a coveted thumb drive in his possession when he died, and ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, rough, tense, independent film ...
Plot: rescue, special agent, law enforcement, intrigue, danger, chases and races, dishonesty, vengeance, mafia, revenge, kidnapping, violent content ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
 2.5
 292
Urgency (2011)
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Returning home after difficult negotiations with potential customers, an employee of the Los Angeles-based pharmaceutical company, Tony West realizes that his wife is captured, while its unit and return home unscathed criminals require $ 50,000 in ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, captivating, exciting, suspense ...
Plot: danger, rescue, confined, ultimatum, abduction, uncover truth, rivalry, kidnapping, sexual content, chases and races, profanity, nudity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles
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48%
 5.8
 2K
Johan Falk 5 (2009)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Johan Falk and his colleagues at the GSI go after sex traffickers importing young women from the East and forcing them into prostitution.
Style: serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful, exciting
Plot: police, murder, trafficking, law enforcement, danger, tough law enforcer, nordic, graphic violence, swedish, urban, violent content, hotel room ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
 4.5
 404
Flashfire (1994)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Police detective Jack Flinder is already in trouble with the rest of his force for imprisoning a corrupt partner, but now he has a new problem to deal with. Another officer has been murdered in a hotel room, where he was with a prostitute named ...
Style: independent film, detective, realistic, serious, exciting ...
Plot: prostitute, murder, police corruption, arson, cop, police, corruption, escape, hostage, conspiracy, tough law enforcer, amateur detective ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
The Killers Edge (1991)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A cop teams up with an FBI agent to track down a counterfeiter.
Style: independent film, serious, realistic, exciting, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: police officer, vietnam veteran, fbi, counterfeiter, cop, special agent, rivalry, betrayal, confined, forgery, undercover, chases and races ...
Time: 90s
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
 6.2
 495
Mr. Socrates (2005)
Genre: Action, Crime
Country: South Korea
Duration: 109 min.
Story: A low-life scumbag gets kidnapped by a mysterious gang and put through inhumane training to become a mole inside the police force.
Style: suspenseful, tense, rough, serious, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gangster, rivalry, police detective, working undercover, law enforcement, undercover, dishonesty, mole, human nature, criminal heroes, kidnapping, anti hero ...
Time: 21st century
Place: asia, korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
L.A.P.D.: To Protect and to Serve (2001)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Action
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: LA's finest have crossed the line between Cop and Criminal...
Style: suspenseful, rough, serious, realistic, fast
Audience: boys' night
Plot: police corruption, undercover, gang, fighting crime, heist, dishonesty, master criminal, tough law enforcer, police investigation, partners against crime, law enforcement, working undercover ...
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Simple Justice (1989)
Genre: Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: When an unknown assailant viciously murders the participants in a bank robbery and murder case, it could be a case of vigilante justice - that is, if the two cases are connected. That's for the police to decide - and it's a puzzle that ...
Style: independent film, serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful
Plot: law, vigilantism, vigilante, rivalry, chases and races, danger, dishonesty, law enforcement, vengeance, bank, riddles and clues, heist ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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 5.5
 135
Brass (1985)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: The Chief of Detectives of the New York Police Department, is a tough cop who has worked his way up the ladder from being on a beat.
Style: serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful, detective
Audience: boys' night
Plot: kidnapping, partner, police detective, society, fighting crime, police investigation, partners against crime, amateur detective, dishonesty, law enforcement, murder, police station ...
Time: 80s
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Johan Falk: Organizatsija Karayan (2012)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Germany
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Johan Falk's stepdaughter Nina has gotten in contact with her biological father, Orjan, discovering that he is in debt to an Estonian construction company in Gothenburg, leading to Nina's kidnapping.
Style: rough, realistic, exciting, suspenseful, serious
Plot: police investigation, tough law enforcer, danger, law enforcement, chase, gangster, police procedural, organized crime, nordic, swedish, criminal, urban ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
 5.0
 768
Armed Response (1986)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: One of Tanaka's underlings has stolen a rare statuette that he had planned to use as a peace offering between the local Yakusa and Chinese Tong. He hires two private investigators to exchange ransom money to recover the statuette, but the trade ...
Style: cult classic, independent film, fast, exciting, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: yakuza, vietnam war, car crash, private investigator, triad, murder, torture, revenge, partner, gangster, vengeance, betrayal ...
Time: 80s
Place: los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
 2.5
 655
Jump Out Boys (2008)
Genre: Action, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Set in post hurricane New Orleans. A brutal Mexican drug lord (Armando LeDuc) busts out of jail to retrieve the $15 million that his girlfriend is hiding. But detective Raymond (Kris Kristofferson) and McCoy (Sheldon Robbins) will try their best to ...
Style: realistic, rough, serious, suspenseful, fast ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: rivalry, hitman, chaos, law enforcement, manhunt, danger, vengeance, drug dealing, drug dealer, police shootout, gang violence, murder ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, louisiana, new orleans
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
 5.0
 256
The Real Thing (1996)
Genre: Action, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Their plan was simple...Get the Cash. As Rupert, an ex-con, tries to go straight, his younger brother James pursues a life of delinquency. Days after being released from jail, James is gunned down and lies waiting in a hospital for a liver ...
Style: realistic, rough, suspenseful, serious, suspense ...
Plot: heist, gang, new year's eve, dishonesty, partner, best friend, friends, confined, criminal heroes, law enforcement, unlikely criminals, crime gone awry ...
Time: 90s
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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Birds of Prey (1973)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Harry Walker, a former military pilot, works as a helicopter pilot and traffic reporter for a Salt Lake City radio station. One day while working he observes a bank robbery in progress and the kidnapping of a young woman who worked at the bank. ...
Style: serious, realistic, exciting, suspenseful, rough
Plot: bank robbery, chase, hostage, kidnapping, armored car, heist, missing person, danger, buddies, heroes, chases and races, race against time ...
Time: 70s
Place: utah, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
 6.3
 139
Hawaii (2004)
Genre: Action, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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Story: Hawaii is a United States television series produced and distributed by NBC Universal Television for the NBC television network. Originally titled Pearl City, this police drama was produced with the series Hawaii Five-O in mind, and debuted on ...
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough
Plot: police detective, police, partners against crime, partner, law enforcement, police officer, island, female police officer, policewoman
Time: 21st century
Place: hawaii, usa, honolulu hawaii
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
 2.3
 516
Death Toll (2008)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: New Orleans has the No. 1 per capita murder rating in the nation. A decade earlier the city was dubbed the "Murder Capital of the Country." Drugs and violence controlled the streets, taking a toll on the city's law enforcement, ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, realistic, exciting, captivating ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: murder, undercover, partner, police corruption, fighting crime, police investigation, partners against crime, danger, law enforcement, master criminal, dishonesty, tough guy ...
Place: usa, louisiana, new orleans
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
 4.9
 890
Yesterday (2002)
Genre: Action, Crime, Sci-Fi
Country: South Korea
Duration: 121 min.
Story: In 1990, number of children suddenly disappear. Meanwhile, the Ministry of Defense selects an elite group of scientists for a top-secret mission. Then, 30 years later ... The year is 2020 on a reunified Korean Peninsula. A string of murders is ...
Style: stylized, rough, suspenseful, futuristic, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: serial killer, kidnapping, murder, police investigation, mind game, missing person, psychopath, law enforcement, danger, on the run, riddles and clues, heroic mission ...
Time: future, year 1990, 20th century, 90s, 2020s ...
Place: korea, asia, east asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
 5.0
 820
Firetrap (2001)
Genre: Action, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Master burglar Max Hopper is released early after three years and soon gets an exceptional job: stealing an advanced computer-chip from the IQ Industries headquarters. His first attempt fails; when he enters in cop uniform during an emergency board ...
Style: suspenseful, realistic, exciting, captivating, cliffhanger ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: murder, heist, burned alive, undercover, crime gone awry, cons and scams, frame up, dishonesty, race against time, danger, rivalry, law enforcement ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
 4.2
 3K
Hitman's Run (1999)
Genre: Action, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A former mob hitman, now in witness protection, is forced to come out of retirement when his family is threatened by his cohorts. He teams up with a skateboarding kid, who has a computer disk that the mob wants to get their hands on that has a list ...
Style: suspense, exciting, serious, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot: fbi, witness protection, witnessing a crime, danger, criminal heroes, woman in danger, crime boss, husband wife relationship, one man army, buddy, die hard, assassin ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 4.2
 775
Jailbait (1993)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Action - 17 year old Kyle comes to the big city in search of her half-sister Merci. Merci is on the run after being used to set up a murder. The police and the killers both want her. - C. Thomas Howell, Renée Humphrey, Krista Errickson
Style: erotic, independent film, exciting, serious, realistic ...
Audience: adult
Plot: oral sex, prostitute, die hard, woman seduces a man, gangster, bare breasts, underage sex, teenage girl, female nudity, city life, kidnapping, murder ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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