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The Wild Card (2004)
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Original name: El ComodÃn
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A young, beautiful wife cheating on her rich, older husband amidst the neon lights of Las Vegas. Four men hired to do a job, but there is a traitor in their midst. Adultery, betrayal, kidnapping and murder lead to the ultimate double cross and no one is innocent in the end. Who will live and who will die... and who is The Wild Card?
Style:
tense, rough, serious, suspenseful, realistic
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
hostage, gambling, betrayal, danger, law enforcement, confined, woman in danger, dishonesty, tough heroes, gangster, disorder, crumbling marriage, murder, abduction, kidnapping, criminal heroes, violent content, stepdaughter, cheating wife, graphic violence, bound and gagged, tied to a chair, tape over mouth, crime, hostages ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
las vegas, nevada
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, suspenseful and tense films with plots about danger, law enforcement, gangster, dishonesty, chases and races, murder and deadly mostly in Thriller, Crime and Action genres. Some movies like The Wild Card: Surveillance (2006), Cold Blooded (2012), The Box (2007), Assassins Run (2013), Murder Rap (1988). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
psychological, tense, serious, captivating, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
danger, psychopath, murder, manipulation, rivalry, dishonesty, security guard, police, obsession, xmas, surveillance, serial killer ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, oklahoma city
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100%
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A female police officer has to keep a prisoner from escaping a nearly abandoned hospital unit at the same time his violent partners come looking for him.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, serious, rough, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
canada
Similarity:
100%
519
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A disgraced former LAPD detective leads a home invasion in search of millions in stolen money. The plan goes awry and homicide detectives seeking answers interrogate the only survivors; a thief and a victim.
Style:
realistic, serious, suspenseful, rough, neo noir ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
murder, mind game, crime gone awry, criminal heroes, police investigation, master criminal, dishonesty, vengeance, betrayal, law enforcement, confined, survival ...
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100%
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, Russia
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Maya becomes the target of the Russian mafia after her husband, a successful American businessman, is killed.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, captivating, tense, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
danger, prison life, rescue, ballet, kidnapping, frame up, twists and turns, woman in danger, betrayal, murder, gangster, on the run ...
Time:
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Place:
russia, st. petersburg russia
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
When a young audio fanatic accidentally records a brutal murder, his pursuit of the killer lures him into a sinister plot of revenge and deceit, Texas style.
Style:
independent film, sexy, mind bending, tense, serious ...
Plot:
murder, femme fatale, couples, righting the wronged, power relations, family problems, hip hop, love affair, crumbling marriage, dishonesty, dangerous attraction, danger ...
Time:
80s
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Norway
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
An unfortunate bank robber takes an escaped mental patient, wanted for murder, as hostage.
Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough, exciting ...
Plot:
mental illness, investigation, crime gone awry, disorder, dishonesty, law enforcement, confined, murder, heist, robbery, hostage, chases and races ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Four young con artists start a top-secret money laundering scheme - and are slowly torn apart by their own greed and corruption.
Style:
tense, serious, suspenseful, realistic, independent film
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
cons and scams, gangster, rise and fall, dishonesty, criminal heroes, crime gone awry, ambition, disorder, scheme, graphic violence, violent content, unfulfillment ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A mobster moves to a new town as a protected witness and tries to start over, only to find he can't escape his old ways
Style:
tense, suspenseful, serious, realistic, independent film
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
starting over, going straight, hidden identity, criminal heroes, special agent, gangster, vengeance, crime gone awry, tough heroes, danger, criminal's revenge, hitman ...
Place:
usa
Similarity:
22%
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Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A week in the life of Woody; a Soho pimp, as seen through the eyes of concealed documentary cameras: A week which spirals brutally out of control.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
pimp, found footage, gangster, danger, nothing goes right, disorder, fetish, sexuality, nudity, violent content, profanity, sexual content ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, britain, london
Similarity:
22%
498
Genre: Thriller, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Richard Avery, whose young son is kidnapped while they travel in India. Embarking on a desperate quest to rescue him, and with a beeper providing his only lead, Avery seeks help from unlikely sources, including a drug lord and a beautiful but ...
Style:
rough, serious, suspenseful, exciting, independent film ...
Plot:
missing child, drug dealing, rescue, hostage, parents and children, child in peril, confined, manipulation, danger, doctors and patients, unlikely criminals, drug abuse ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
india
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A young smalltown reporter, Jessie St. Claire, begins investigating a killer stalking his victims making video tapes. This might just be the career opportunity, which she has hoped for. When she herself becomes a target and suddenly disappears, the ...
Style:
serious, scary, suspenseful, rough, realistic ...
Plot:
serial killer, amateur detective, murder, psychopath, stalking, mind game, investigation, uncover truth, who done it, boss and employee, protagonist as suspect, police investigation ...
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
Andy Griffith plays a philandering apartment house manager who picks up a pretty young girl (Suzanne Hildur) in a bar. He takes her home, whereupon the girl's male cronies show up armed with guns. Griffith and his wife (Ida Lupino) are held ...
Style:
tense, serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful
Plot:
hostage, gangster, disorder, confined, unlikely criminals, criminal heroes, stalking, couple relations, dishonesty, crime gone awry, danger, chases and races ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
new york
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A powerful triad boss has been kidnapped, and the new police superintendent Koo (Fala Chen) decides to recruit the help of Mann (Simon Yam), a former supercop who has since been relegated to back-up duty. Mann has his work cut out for him when he ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, tense, captivating, psychological ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gangster, police investigation, law enforcement, rivalry, danger, vengeance, confined, murder, blackmail, hostage, police brutality, abduction ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
hong kong, china, asia
Similarity:
21%
8K
Genre: Action, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A petty robbery spirals into a tense hostage situation after three gunmen hold up a diner that's a front for the mob.
Style:
tense, serious, suspenseful, rough, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
hostage, hostage situation, tough heroes, hostage negotiator, danger, gangster, diner, crime gone awry, kidnapped, robbery, criminal gang, criminal ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
In Las Vegas for a quicky divorce, a just-paroled ex-cop and his wife wander into the Top of the World Casino, run by the shady Charles Atlas. They win big, right as the casino is being robbed. The police believe their big win was a staged ...
Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful, tense, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gambling, casino, false accusation, police investigation, criminal heroes, tough law enforcer, law enforcement, dishonesty, chases and races, crime gone awry, partner, die hard ...
Time:
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Place:
las vegas, nevada, usa
Similarity:
21%
313
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Five strangers, each with his own special talents, are recruited by the mysterious 'X'. They do not know why they are brought together, but nonetheless agree to a series of potentially lucrative schemes. A planned bank robbery goes awry ...
Style:
serious, rough, suspenseful, suspense, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
hostage, crime gone awry, suspicion, master criminal, undercover, confined, unlikely criminals, race against time, dishonesty, law enforcement, rivalry, danger ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
korea, asia
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
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Style:
tense, suspenseful, serious, realistic
Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Similarity:
20%
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Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, serious, stylized, suspenseful, non-linear ...
Plot:
femme fatale, on the run, frame up, gangster, heroes, law enforcement, danger, protagonist as suspect, dishonesty, cons and scams, chases and races, twists and turns ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, arizona
Similarity:
20%
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Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Norway, Denmark
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
After extricating 17-year-old Lisa Halle from a life of prostitution in Copenhagen, private investigator Varg Veum becomes ensnared in a tangle of parental neglect and bad love when he is hired to locate Lisa's boyfriend, Peter Werner.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, tense, realistic, detective ...
Plot:
private investigator, woman in danger, life is a bitch, gangster, murder, who done it, danger, private detective, investigation, law enforcement, nordic, missing child ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
copenhagen
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Four desperate bank robbers are forced to abandon their lucrative heist plans and become the reluctant heroes when two of their hostages turn out to be psychotic killers who won't stop until everyone in the bank has been ruthlessly slaughtered. ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, bleak, rough, realistic
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
anal rape, kidnapping, hitman, tough heroes, crime gone awry, disorder, unlikely criminals, master criminal, danger, law enforcement, criminal heroes, on the run ...
Similarity:
20%
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Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A witness to a mob killing has second thoughts about testifying when he realizes his family might become a target.
Style:
tense, psychological, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
courtroom, witness, law, kidnapping, organized crime, murder, prison, power relations, injustice, restaurant, confined, danger ...
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Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Style:
suspense, independent film, fast, serious, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
die hard, vigilantism, murder, drug abuse, hostage, law enforcement, rivalry, vengeance, fighting crime, master criminal, heroes, confined ...
Time:
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Place:
las vegas, usa, nevada, mexico
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
After a violent bank robbery, the trio of hoods make their way across East L.A. carrying a blood-soaked bag of money. When word gets out, they must fend off gangs and crooked cops alike as they strive to keep the loot and stay alive.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, rough, exciting, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
profanity, gang, chase, murder, dishonesty, heist, gangster, disorder, crime gone awry, on the run, criminal heroes, law enforcement ...
Time:
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Place:
california, south america, usa, los angeles
Similarity:
19%
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Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Without the security of the job he wants or the future he dreamed of, Paul Dynan plans the perfect crime to help his struggling family – abduct the socialite children of three wealthy men and collect a ransom of $3-million dollars. Over the course ...
Style:
realistic, tense, suspenseful, serious, psychological ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
kidnapping, crime gone awry, confined, partner, breaking point, disorder, danger, unlikely criminals, blood, cell phone, forest, unemployed ...
Time:
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Place:
usa
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Between 11:50 and 12:00 noon, a crime is commited. In the same ten minute period, we follow the lives of the ten people, all connected to this crime. As we see each person's point of view, we are propelled closer and closer to the truth of what ...
Style:
realistic, tense, suspenseful, rough, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
hitman, kinky sex, female assassin, vengeance, crime gone awry, couples, disorder, rivalry, dishonesty, betrayal, danger, twists and turns ...
Time:
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Place:
usa
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Style:
rough, tense, serious, suspenseful, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
spy, gangster, danger, on the run, daring rescue, heroes, woman in danger, mistaken identity, save the lady, police officer, law enforcement, terrorism ...
Time:
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Place:
europe, balkan, bulgaria
Similarity:
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Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Bad City is the tangled story of three men's lives: Manning, a dirty, disillusioned cop; Julian, king of drugs, thugs and prostitution; and Frank, a ruthless politician who destroys everything in the way of his ambition.
Style:
rough, suspenseful, serious, tense, realistic ...
Plot:
police detective, murder, police investigation, prostitute, gangster, reluctant partners, law enforcement, gambling, serial killer, danger, tough heroes, dangerous attraction ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
texas, chicago
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Eighteen-year-old Amy is having a bad day. Not only has she been kidnapped by a deranged gunman, but as a diabetic without her insulin, her chances of survival are diminishing with each tick of the clock. FBI agent Megan Saunders isn't walking ...
Style:
suspenseful, exciting, serious, disturbing, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
hostage, diabetic, police investigation, danger, woman in danger, chase, kidnapped, terminal illness, kidnapping, salvation, captivity, hostage situation ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, illinois
Similarity:
18%
788
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A young criminal defense attorney struggles with a homicide case that is not as cut and dry as it appears while battling a drinking habit. The story goes beyond the lives of those directly related to the case and shines a much needed spotlight on ...
Style:
serious, captivating, psychological, tense, action adventure ...
Plot:
murder, rivalry, legal action, law enforcement, legal investigation, courtroom drama, hotshot lawyer, dedicated lawyer, legal, criminal, defense attorney, death sentence ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Netherlands, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Gilly comes out of prison after serving a six year stretch and decides that he will now turn his life around and go straight. But when he returns to his South London home and visits his old colleague J, in hope of obtaining his share of the proceeds ...
Style:
rough, suspenseful, tense, serious, realistic
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
cons and scams, going straight, life is a bitch, drug dealing, criminal heroes, criminal's revenge, addiction, law enforcement, gangster, drug abuse, dishonesty, rivalry ...
Place:
england, london
Similarity:
18%
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