Movies like Mafia 2012

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Mafia (2012)
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Mafia (2012)
Genre: Action, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story: Ving Rhames, Pam Grier, and Robert Patrick headline this throwback action thriller set in 1975, and following a renegade cop who skirts the law in order to capture a ruthless crime boss.
Style: exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, crime drama, realistic, neo noir
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gangster, vengeance, rivalry, criminal heroes, tough heroes, police officer, murder, love, drug dealer, graphic violence, black, profanity, car, sexual content, violent content, mafia, violence, female nudity, sex scene, tough guy, male nudity, gunfight, african american, sexuality, city ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, year 1975
Place: pittsburgh, usa
Keyword: gangsters

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Most similar movies to Mafia

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, suspenseful, serious and rough films with plots about rivalry, gangster, shootout, murder, vengeance, violence and deadly mostly in Action, Crime and Thriller genres. Some movies like Mafia: Jump Out Boys (2008), Madso's War (2010), Force of Execution (2013), Shottas (2002), Sinatra Club (2010). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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
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Madso's War (2010)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A power vacuum develops when the top mob boss flees a federal indictment.
Style: exciting, realistic, serious, suspenseful, erotic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gangster, rivalry, uninhibited rivalry, criminal heroes, betrayal, murder, violence, mafia, gunfight, bandit, gang, mob boss ...
Time: 21st century
Place: boston, usa, massachusetts
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66%
Force of Execution (2013)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Seagal stars as mob kingpin Mr. Alexander, an old-school boss who rules his criminal empire with both nobility and brutality. For a simple prison hit, he sends his best enforcer and protégé Roman Hurst (Foster). When the hit goes wrong, Hurst is ...
Style: serious, exciting, rough, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gangster, drug dealing, going straight, criminal heroes, danger, tough heroes, hitman, prisoner, violence, organized crime, prison, hand to hand combat ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
 6.1
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Shottas (2002)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA, Jamaica
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A raw urban drama about two friends raised on the dangerous streets of Kingston, Jamaica. Biggs and Wayne take on the "Shotta" way of life to survive. As young boys, they begin a life of crime, eventually moving to the US where they begin ...
Style: hood, realistic, serious, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gang violence, gangster, street gang, urban, police chase, criminal heroes, social decay, black, disorder, life is a bitch, crime gone awry, society ...
Place: caribbean, miami, usa, florida, jamaica
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Sinatra Club (2010)
Genre: Action, Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Brutal and celebrated Mafia gangster John Gotti (Danny Nucci) schemes, shoves and murders his way to the top of that world in this gritty biography told from the perspective of Salvatore Polisi (Jason Gedrick), who owns the Sinatra Club, where ...
Style: tense, serious, rough, suspenseful, realistic
Audience: boys' night
Plot: mafia, organized crime, gangster, gang, gang leader, rise to the top, dishonesty, criminal heroes, heist, mobster, tough guy, crime boss ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: new york, usa, brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
Slaughter's Big Rip-Off (1973)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Vigilante Slaughter comes under attack from Duncan, a local money launderer whose hit-man traps Slaughter in a car at a cliff, but Slaughter escapes, arms himself, and goes after Duncan's hideout.
Style: independent film, exciting, serious, realistic, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: blaxploitation, black man white woman relationship, exploitation, black, woman with a gun, robbery, vigilante, hitman, nudity, gangster, vigilantism, heroes ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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On the Edge (2002)
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Dakota Smith is an ex-cop and former private eye with a proclivity for community service. When a young basketball player entangles himself with drug dealers, he turns to Dak for help. Eventually goons are sent to kill the hoopster, but they hit the ...
Style: serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful, crime drama ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: hitman, tough heroes, vigilantism, rivalry, law enforcement, drug dealing, partners against crime, vengeance, urban ghetto, drug dealer, black, crime fighter ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Coffy (1973)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: After her younger sister gets involved in drugs and is severely injured by contaminated heroin, a nurse sets out on a mission of vengeance and vigilante justice, killing drug dealers, pimps, and mobsters who cross her path.
Style: grindhouse, hood, sexy, neo noir, grim ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: blaxploitation, vigilante, revenge, gangster, female exploitation, tough girl, violence, vigilantism, exploitation, addiction, black, murder ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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Kill Speed (2010)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: KILL SPEED is a high-octane, youth oriented, TOP GUN meets FAST & FURIOUS tale about best friends who fly home-built, high-tech planes to deliver Mexican manufactured crystal meth throughout rural California in order to fund their Hollywood, ...
Style: exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, neo western
Audience: teens, boys' night, adult
Plot: airplane, aerial combats, desert, working undercover, drug dealing, danger, partner, buddies, criminal heroes, aviation, violence, drug dealer ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, california, los angeles, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
 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 ⇓
43%
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 ⇓
42%
Street Mobster (1972)
Genre: Action, Crime
Country: Japan
Duration: 88 min.
Story: The Japanese yakuza films certainly have a well-earned reputation of being violent and chaotic. Some are more frenetic than others and Street Mobster is unbelievable high on savagery and energy. It dawned the re-birth of the genre, telling the story ...
Style: bloody, exciting, realistic, serious, stylized ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: yakuza, gang, female nudity, murder, prison, rape, japanese mafia, asian gangster, organized crime, mafia, sex, japanese man ...
Time: 70s
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
The Underground (1997)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A cop must stop the killings of rap stars. But, he gets in too deep after his partner is killed.
Style: crime drama, serious, realistic, exciting, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: black, buddy cop, die hard, cop, murder, chases and races, hotshot hero, hip hop, vengeance, urban ghetto life, investigation, chase ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Shaft's Big Score! (1972)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: John Shaft is back as the lady-loved black detective cop on the search for the murderer of a client.
Style: epic, neo noir, hood, grim, fast ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: blaxploitation, murder, gangster, private detective, chase, exploitation, police investigation, undercover, black, investigation, racism, gunfight ...
Time: year 1972, 70s, 20th century
Place: new york, harlem, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Hit Man (1972)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Bernie Casey portrays Tyrone and Pamela Grier plays a sultry skin-flick star in this first Americanized remake of the iconic Michael Caine action film Get Carter. From Watts to the West Side, from porno parlors to a high-rise, from motel dives to a ...
Style: neo noir, grindhouse, psychotronic, realistic, serious ...
Plot: blaxploitation, lawyer, martial arts, revenge, exploitation, black, tough heroes, hitman, rivalry, criminal's revenge, vengeance, lone wolves ...
Time: year 1972, 20th century, 70s
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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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 ⇓
39%
The Last of the Finest (1990)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: An elite group of vice cops are fired from the L.A.P.D. for being over-zealous in their war against drugs. It is immediately apparent that some of their superiors are involved in the drug ring. Banded together, four of the banned cops (which quickly ...
Style: independent film, serious, realistic, exciting, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: drug, die hard, car chase, police, cop, drug dealer, police shootout, conspiracy, police corruption, illegal drugs, partner, rebellion ...
Time: 80s
Place: los angeles, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Pimp Bullies (2011)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Dominican Republic
Duration: 78 min.
Story: Five suspects holding a piece of the truth behind an unsolved crime.
Style: serious, suspenseful, rough, realistic, crime drama ...
Plot: murder, hitman, police investigation, life is a bitch, gangster, sex scene, revenge, lesbian sex, woman seduces a man, black, erotica, profanity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: caribbean
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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The Black Godfather (1974)
Genre: Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: The heroes in The Black Godfather are members of an African-American criminal organization. Like Brando in The Godfather, they're not averse to robbery and murder, but they do draw the line at narcotics. When the Mafia infiltrates the ...
Style: independent film, serious, realistic, bleak, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: blaxploitation, organized crime, mobster, black history, black, revenge, vigilante, gangster, violent content, working undercover, urban, ghetto ...
Time: 70s
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
The Divine Move (2014)
Genre: Action, Crime
Country: South Korea
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Professional baduk (go) player Tae-seok loses a high-stakes game to infamous underground gambler Sal-soo, and ends up framed for the murder of his own brother and locked up in prison. He vows revenge and trains ferociously. After serving his ...
Style: exciting, suspenseful, rough, serious, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gambling, gangster, vengeance, murder, dishonesty, rivalry, prison, violence, casino, monster, asian, revenge ...
Time: 21st century
Place: korea, asia
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37%
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Blood Out (2011)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When big city detectives refuse to further investigate his kid brother's gang related murder, small town Sheriff Michael Spencer drops the badge and goes undercover to find his brother's killer and avenge his death.
Style: realistic, suspenseful, rough, serious, hood ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gang, murder, vengeance, police investigation, working undercover, gangster, hitman, law enforcement, tough law enforcer, undercover, vigilante, brother brother relationship ...
Time: year 2011, 21st century
Place: usa, louisiana, baltimore
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 4.5
 710
High Voltage (1998)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: After unknowingly robbing a money laundering operation the heist crew must avoid mobsters.
Style: exciting, realistic, serious, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: bank robbery, criminal heroes, disorder, danger, chases and races, gangster, shootout, crime gone awry, rivalry, law enforcement, good versus evil, bank ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
The Kill Reflex (1989)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Williamson plays a cop called 'Soda Cracker', whose partner was killed in a mysterious assassination. He is convinced that the murder was committed by his old enemy, Ivan Moss, played by Bo Svenson. Despite threats from the mob and from ...
Style: independent film, realistic, serious, exciting, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: blaxploitation, woman with a gun, gangster, battle zone, murder, police corruption, law enforcement, assassination, rivalry, vengeance, dishonesty, investigation ...
Time: 80s
Place: chicago, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Friday Foster (1975)
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Friday Foster, an ex-model magazine photographer, goes to Los Angeles International airport to photograph the arrival of Blake Tarr, the richest black man in America. Three men attempt to assassinate Tarr. Foster photographs the melee and is plunged ...
Style: neo noir, grindhouse, crime drama, hood, independent film ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: blaxploitation, exploitation, murder, conspiracy, black, woman with a gun, photograph, photography, african american, fight, strong female lead, black cast ...
Time: year 1975, 20th century, 70s
Place: usa, los angeles, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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The Keeper (2009)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Roland Sallinger is an LA cop who after nearly being killed by his greedy partner, and eventually being forced to retire for medical reasons, flees to San Antonio, Texas, after being asked to work as a bodyguard for the daughter of a wealthy ...
Style: exciting, suspenseful, serious, rough, bloody ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: kidnapping, gangster, daring rescue, ex-cop, law enforcement, vengeance, race against time, rivalry, ransom, gunfight, nightclub, violent content ...
Time: 21st century
Place: texas, new mexico, san antonio texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Once Upon a Time in Brooklyn (2013)
Genre: Action, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: After being released from prison, Bobby goes back to the mob connected streets. When forced to make a life altering decision the truth is revealed that he was too blind to see.
Style: serious, suspenseful, captivating, exciting, tense ...
Plot: gangster, starting over, vengeance, gang, twists and turns, rivalry, betrayal, parents and children, cons and scams, nudity, mafia, voyeur ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Big Bad Mama II (1987)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: It's 1934, and the evil local land baron forecloses on Angie's place, and she and her two daughters must leave and continue their life of crime. A reporter witnesses their heist of a bank, and helps them become folk legends by writing a ...
Style: sex comedy, grindhouse, cult classic, independent film, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: bare chested male, on the run, exploitation, woman with a gun, crime spree, blaxploitation, chases and races, vengeance, journalism, criminal heroes, dishonesty, rivalry ...
Time: year 1987, 1930s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Driven to Kill (2009)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, Russia
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A former Russian mobster named Ruslan, who is now a crime novelist, returns home and discovers his daughter is marrying his arch nemesis. His past also comes back to haunt him when his family is threatened. Hungry for justice, Ruslan returns to the ...
Style: serious, captivating, tense, psychological, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gangster, vengeance, haunted by the past, danger, vigilantism, rivalry, family relations, revenge, save the day, getting home, going straight, erotica ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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 2K
Bucktown (1975)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Duke Johnson visits a small Southern town, intent on burying his brother. After the funeral, he learns that he must stay for 60 days, for the estate to be processed. A few locals convince Duke to reopen his late brother's nightclub, and soon ...
Style: grindhouse, serious, realistic, tense, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: blaxploitation, exploitation, black, african american, martial arts, redneck, brother, betrayal, prostitute, racism, nightclub, small town ...
Time: year 1975, 70s
Place: usa, southern usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
 5.5
 2K
Antikiller (2002)
Genre: Action, Crime
Country: Russia
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Former criminal investigator, Major Korenev, nicknamed Fox is released from prison. He has been detained there as a result of planted incriminating evidence of unlawful investigation techniques. Setting accounts with Shaman - a big criminal boss, ...
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, exciting, rough ...
Plot: fighting crime, gang, criminal heroes, rivalry, brutality, murder, danger, criminal, criminal gang, law and order, bandit, smuggler ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: russia, moscow russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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