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Rififi in Tokyo (1963)
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Original name: Rififi à Tokyo
Genre: Adventure, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Van Hekken, an old gangster, arrives in Tokyo to direct a bank hold-up in order to get a very valuable diamond.
Style:
crime drama, noir, suspense, tension, cynical
Plot:
heist, bank robbery, gangster, heist gone wrong, revenge, betrayal, diamond, violence, tragedy, loyalty, urban, moral ambiguity, criminal syndicate, underworld, escape, friendship, honor, nightlife, ruse, fatalism, organized crime, murder, hi-tech, planning, jewel theft ...
Time:
60s, 1960s
Place:
tokyo, japan
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Most similar movies to Rififi in Tokyo
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out crime drama, noir, suspense and tense films with plots about betrayal, moral ambiguity, revenge, organized crime, urban, gangster and violence mostly in Crime, Drama and Action genres. Some movies like Rififi in Tokyo: Contacto chicano (1981), Gangster's Law (1969), The Promise (2008), And Hope to Die (1972), The Brotherhood (1976). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Adventure, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
American and Mexican police operatives team up to catch gem-smugglers operating on the gulf coast in Texas.
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
80s
Place:
argentina
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A con man pulls a double-cross on a gang of vicious bank robbers.
Style:
suspense, crime drama, tense, poliziottesco, dark ...
Plot:
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Time:
60s
Place:
italy
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94%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Egypt
Story:
First production of Mahmoud Baraka through his company's pool of technical and production of film revolves around human error and why faulting Is motivated to error and also speaks of man you have the ability to tolerance for errors that ...
Style:
suspense, dark, tense, crime thriller, emotional ...
Plot:
revenge, hitman, betrayal, gangster, mafia, organized crime, underworld, loyalty, crime boss, violence, moral ambiguity, love story ...
Place:
middle east, morocco
Similarity:
90%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France, Italy, Canada
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A crook on the run hooks up with a criminal gang to commit a kidnapping. However, things don't go quite as planned.
Style:
tension, crime drama, suspense, noir, euro western ...
Plot:
heist, criminal, kidnapping, gang, escape, chase, hostage, pursuit, anti hero, fugitives, underworld, revenge ...
Time:
year 1972
Place:
montreal
Similarity:
81%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Liao Jiang is the lowest ranking member of a gang that holds up a jewelery store. Subsequently the three other gang members die, and their gold haul goes missing. Liao Jiang and his new gang member Huge Eyes are then forced to turn to a triad gang ...
Style:
crime drama, crime thriller, action drama, dark, suspenseful ...
Plot:
triad, gangster, martial arts, organized crime, loyalty, brotherhood, underworld, betrayal, revenge, violent, heist, street life ...
Time:
70s
Place:
hong kong
Similarity:
76%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
Adapted from the manga Hell Dogs by Fukamachi Akio.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, captivating, serious, dark ...
Plot:
japanese mafia, gangster, ex cop, criminal underworld, police, gang, undercover cop, revenge, ex-cop, mafia, criminal gang, criminal ...
Place:
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Similarity:
74%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
In Boston, the four Naldoff brothers make a comfortable living running money scams. But the youngest brother, Lee, is dangerously attracted to the excitement of the underworld lifestyle. When Lee puts a hit on a wealthy businessman, he unknowingly ...
Style:
crime drama, crime thriller, dark, suspense, tense ...
Plot:
gangster, brothers, scam, organized crime, mafia, underworld, criminal underworld, crime family, brotherhood, violence, moral ambiguity, hitman ...
Time:
turn of the century
Place:
boston, new england
Similarity:
71%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Kanno (Ken Takakura) is a Yakuza. He had to kill Matsuoka who betrayed their boss. Kanno knew Matsuoka had a 3-year-old daughter named Youko. Before he gave himself to the police, he asked his trusted man to take care of her. While in prison, Kanno ...
Style:
crime drama, crime thriller, emotional, suspense, noir ...
Plot:
yakuza, betrayal, revenge, prison, organized crime, underworld, violence, father daughter relationship, crime family, moral ambiguity, honor, family drama ...
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tokyo, brazil
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
crime drama, tense, melancholic, noir, atmospheric ...
Plot:
hitman, organized crime, mafia, gangster, betrayal, violence, loneliness, tragic romance, character study, italian immigrant, urban, moral ambiguity ...
Time:
90s
Place:
paris france
Similarity:
69%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
.Ex-boxer Paul Choquino decides to finance his upcoming wedding by robbing reputed drug lord Benito Mussolini Bonacci. But everything that can go wrong in the burn does and Paul is left running from the law, the mob and one of the members of his own ...
Style:
crime drama, tense, suspenseful, dark comedy, noir ...
Plot:
betrayal, heist, heist gone wrong, robbery, ex boxer, organized crime, drug lord, criminal underworld, anti hero, pursuit, chase, fugitive ...
Place:
south america
Similarity:
69%
Genre: Adventure, Crime, Drama
Country: France, Italy, West Germany
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Spy accidentally gets an ancient treasure. Several corrupt groups try to steal it from him.
Style:
suspense, tense, crime thriller, period piece, crime drama ...
Plot:
torture, espionage, spy, exotic locale, corruption, moral ambiguity, intrigue, greed, treasure hunt, betrayal, organized crime, underworld ...
Time:
60s, year 1967
Place:
macau
Similarity:
69%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Shampagne borrowed £100 Million from the London mob but a crook stole it. Things get worse for the mob boss of Gatwick after robberies and bank heists go bad. And there's a bomb, too...
Style:
crime drama, suspense, tense, fast paced, noir ...
Plot:
espionage, heist, organized crime, gangster, criminal underworld, greed, bank robbery, mob boss, betrayal, heist gone wrong, robbery, hacker ...
Place:
london
Similarity:
62%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Angels of the Street or The Angel of St. Pauli is a 1969 West German crime film directed by Jürgen Roland and starring Horst Frank, Herbert Fux and Werner Pochath. It is set in the St. Pauli red light district of the port of Hamburg.
Style:
suspense, dark, tension, period piece, noir ...
Plot:
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Time:
60s
Place:
hamburg germany, northern germany
Similarity:
60%
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 157 min.
Story:
Kannan, with a past comes to Malaysia to turn over a new leaf. But when he realises that the girl he loves needs money to get out of a difficult situation, he commits a robbery that makes him the target of a fearsome gangster and the girl’s ...
Style:
crime thriller, suspenseful, tense, suspense, emotional ...
Plot:
corrupt cop, heist, redemption, heist gone wrong, underworld, moral ambiguity, second chance, corruption, anti hero, organized crime, gangster, desperation ...
Place:
malaysia
Similarity:
57%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Akın's life, who lived with a father he didn't like and a sick mother, changed after he lost his mother. He plans to start a new life with the money he steals from the carpentry workshop where he works. When his girlfriend Deniz dismisses ...
Style:
crime drama, dark, neo noir, bleak, suspenseful ...
Plot:
urban, desperation, violence, gangster, moral ambiguity, organized crime, male protagonist, working class, poverty, underworld, escape, realism ...
Place:
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Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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Style:
crime drama, crime thriller, detective, tension, suspense ...
Plot:
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Place:
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131
Genre: Crime, Drama
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Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Four young criminals are planning a heist against a racecourse and in order to obtain a seed capital they rob a gambling den. They celebrate the successful heist by throwing a party but it turns out to be a lot of disagreement within the group.
Style:
crime drama, dramatic, suspenseful, tense, period piece ...
Plot:
heist, robbery, escape, criminal, illegal gambling, prison escape, criminal underworld, gang, betrayal, planning, moral ambiguity, conspiracy ...
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Place:
eastern europe
Similarity:
57%
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Country: Canada
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
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Style:
tense, suspense, psychological, cynical, captivating ...
Plot:
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Genre: Crime, Drama
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Duration: 106 min.
Story:
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Plot:
revenge, ex convict, redemption, homecoming, desperation, brothers, male protagonist, second chance, farm, danger, retribution, violence ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
53%
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Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Angstel trades in forged paintings, under the guidance of his mother, Milady. Their network extends into other murky affairs, provoking the wrath of a rival gang. Angstel falls in love with Ancetta, a prostitute, and flees with her to the north of ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
90s
Place:
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Similarity:
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Duration: 87 min.
Story:
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Style:
crime thriller, suspense, crime drama, tension, retro ...
Plot:
airport, fugitive, drug smuggling, man on the run, gangster, organized crime, escape, pursuit, cat and mouse, narcotics, betrayal, survival ...
Time:
70s
Place:
barcelona, italy
Similarity:
52%
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Story:
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Style:
tense, crime thriller, suspense, tension, dark ...
Plot:
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Similarity:
51%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A yakuza gang gets driven out of Yokohama by a big gang from Tokyo. They relocate to Okinawa to violently start over.
Style:
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Plot:
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Country: China
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Shanghai gangsters grapple with lust and loyalty on the eve of war with Japan as they try to navigate an alliance with the enemy's army.
Style:
suspense, disturbing, captivating, noir, atmospheric ...
Plot:
violence, betrayal, organized crime, japanese occupation of china, criminal, gangster, japanese army, army, deal, loyalty, corruption, power struggle ...
Time:
1930s, 1940s
Place:
shanghai, japan, china
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Al is caught between his loyalty to the police force and his love for his brother in a tense setting. It seems that his brother, Rudy, was involved in a mob hit that could potentially start a gang war. Tony C., a local mob boss and childhood ...
Style:
crime drama, tense, crime thriller, dramatic, tension ...
Plot:
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Similarity:
49%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
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Story:
The film deals with four men who rob a bank to pay tens of millions of debts one of them to Iceland's most dangerous man, Gulla's car dealership. To help Arnari out of the pinch, his three friends decide to help him rob robbery, gripped ...
Style:
crime drama, tension, suspense, dark comedy, realistic ...
Plot:
heist, bank robbery, debt, desperation, heist gone wrong, friends, risk, organized crime, financial ruin, confrontation, plan, criminal underworld ...
Time:
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Place:
iceland
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Country: UK, West Germany
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
A businessman organises a caper to steal the Crown Jewels from the Tower of London.
Style:
suspense, crime drama, tense, suspenseful, tension ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
heist, caper, stealing, british, escape, mastermind, planning, ruse, intrigue, betrayal, conspiracy, loot ...
Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Story:
A young tearaway wins the lottery, but risks losing it all when he becomes embroiled in a toxic love triangle with a pair of recovering scam artists.
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling, suspense, tension ...
Plot:
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Genre: Crime
Country: USA
Story:
A young man visits a bar and falls for the waitress whose family turns out to be tied to Italian mob. The head henchman doesn't like him, so things heat up, even though the don likes him. Then stolen diamonds enter the picture.
Style:
crime drama, crime thriller, tension, suspense, suspenseful ...
Plot:
italian mafia, waitress, underworld, confrontation, gangster, forbidden love, jealousy, moral ambiguity, violence, henchman, urban, betrayal ...
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Genre: Action, Drama, Romance
Country: Philippines
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Paolo Guerrero is a former criminal who is trying to live a peaceful life in Mindanao. He gets entangled again in a web of crime when he comes back to Manila.
Style:
tense, crime drama, captivating, thrilling, suspense ...
Plot:
gang, ex convict, criminal, crime boss, bandit, underworld, trust, redemption, moral ambiguity, confrontation, urban, realism ...
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