Movies like Holy Rollers
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Holy Rollers (2010)
5K
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Inspired by actual events in the late nineties when Hasidic Jews were recruited as mules to smuggle ecstasy from Europe into the United States.
Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful, factual, scary, sad, disturbing
Plot:
rabbi, drug dealing, lifestyle, orthodox jew, society, partners, unlikely criminals, religions or cults, jewish, drug traffic, brother sister relationship, father son relationship, greed, drug smuggling, brother brother relationship, gambling, loser, mother son relationship, gangsters, gang, coming of age, hipster, friends, juvenile delinquency, innocence lost ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, 1990s
Place:
usa, new york, brooklyn new york city, amsterdam, manhattan new york city
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Most similar movies to Holy Rollers
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, suspenseful and rough films with plots about gangsters, gang, drug dealer, murder, friendship, mafia and drugs mostly in Drama, Crime and Biography genres. Some movies like Holy Rollers: Goodfellas (1990), Haven (2004), Blow (2001), Chapter 27 (2007), Once in the Life (2000). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 145 min.
Story:
The true story of Henry Hill, a half-Irish, half-Sicilian Brooklyn kid who is adopted by neighbourhood gangsters at an early age and climbs the ranks of a Mafia family under the guidance of Jimmy Conway.
Style:
rough, realistic, epic, brutal, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
mafia, organized crime, gangsters, rise and fall, criminal heroes, mentor, drugs, suspense, friends, cosa nostra, drug traffic, gang ...
Time:
70s, 50s, year 1970, 80s, year 1963 ...
Place:
new york, brooklyn new york city, italy, florida, usa ...
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7K
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK, Germany, USA, Spain
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
During a weekend, two shady businessmen flee to the Cayman Islands to avoid federal prosecution. But their escape ignites a chain reaction that leads a British native to commit a crime that changes the nation.
Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful, stylized, emotional
Plot:
island, prison, interracial relations, family relations, drug dealing, parents and children, investigation, brother sister relationship, jail, business, robbery, tax evasion ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
florida, miami, usa, caribbean
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100%
265K
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
A boy named George Jung grows up in a struggling family in the 1950's. His mother nags at her husband as he is trying to make a living for the family. It is finally revealed that George's father cannot make a living and the family goes ...
Style:
touching, thought provoking, depressing, emotional, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
drugs, drug addiction, gangsters, drug lord, rise and fall, drug abuse, friendship, drug cartel, drug dealing, cocaine, drug use, addiction ...
Time:
70s, 80s, 50s, 60s, 90s ...
Place:
california, colombia, latin america, boston, mexico ...
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50%
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
The movie takes place in the three days leading up to Lennon's murder and is intended to be an exploration of Chapman's psyche, without putting substantial emphasis on the murder. The title "Chapter 27" suggests a continuation of ...
Style:
serious, realistic, psychological, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Plot:
murder, obsession, social misfits, losing-it hero, mentally unstable, mental illness, lifestyle, serial killer, alone, rock, loser, mental disorder ...
Time:
80s
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Once in the life (of drug dealing and organized crime), can anyone get out? During a brief jail stay, two half-brothers, who have rarely seen each other while growing up, connect. One of them, called 20/20 Mike because he can sense people nearby, ...
Style:
realistic, disturbing, suspenseful, serious, rough ...
Plot:
prison, gangsters, heist, friendship, crime gone awry, law enforcement, gang, addiction, siblings relations, life is a bitch, best friends, unlikely criminals ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
John Gotti rises to the top of the New York underworld to become the boss of the Gambino crime family. His life takes a tumultuous turn as he faces tragedy, multiple trials and a prison sentence.
Style:
suspenseful, serious, rough, realistic, sad ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gangsters, betrayal, cosa nostra, federal bureau of investigation, father son relationship, mafia, godfather, brutality, organized crime, parents and children, family relations, ambition ...
Time:
70s, 80s, 20th century, year 1997, year 2002 ...
Place:
usa, new york
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47%
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 157 min.
Story:
Following the death of his employer and mentor, Bumpy Johnson, Frank Lucas establishes himself as the number one importer of heroin in the Harlem district of Manhattan. He does so by buying heroin directly from the source in South East Asia and he ...
Style:
serious, tense, realistic, harsh, clever ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
mafia, organized crime, gangsters, heroin, mob boss, drug lord, police, drugs, gang, crime boss, drug traffic, criminal ...
Time:
60s, 70s, 20th century, year 1968, year 1970 ...
Place:
new york, new jersey, bronx new york city, harlem, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
314K
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
An FBI undercover agent infilitrates the mob and finds himself identifying more with the mafia life at the expense of his regular one.
Style:
tense, realistic, neo noir, clever, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
mafia, gangsters, undercover, organized crime, fbi, mentor, investigation, working undercover, suspense, undercover agent, gang, law enforcement ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1978
Place:
new york, new jersey, florida, usa, miami ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
The true-life story of a crazy-in-love Queens couple who robbed a series of mafia social clubs and got away with it… for a while… until they stumble upon a score bigger than they ever planned and become targets of both the mob and the FBI.
Style:
captivating, serious, realistic, suspenseful, interesting
Plot:
mafia, crime gone awry, lovers on the run, wanted, partners, love and romance, couple relations, fbi, gangsters, couples, organized crime, italian mafia ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, year 1991
Place:
new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Ace is an impressionable young man working for a dry cleaning business. His friend, drug dealer Mitch goes to prison. In an unrelated incident, he finds some cocaine in a pants pocket. Soon, Ace finds himself dealing cocaine for Lulu. Via lucky ...
Style:
tense, rough, serious, realistic, disturbing ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
urban ghetto life, gangsters, organized crime, drugs, rise and fall, drug dealing, street life, cocaine, criminal heroes, social decay, friends, buddies ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1986
Place:
harlem, new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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105K
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
Johnny Truelove likes to see himself as tough. He's the son of an underworld figure and a drug dealer. Johnny also likes to get tough when things don't go his way. When Jake Mazursky fails to pay up for Johnny, things get worse for the ...
Style:
disturbing, harsh, serious, rough, bleak ...
Audience:
teens, kids, teen drama
Plot:
kidnapping, gang, sex scene, gangsters, drug dealer, true crime, youth, nude, society, male nudity, crime gone awry, culture clash ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, year 1999, year 2005, year 2003
Place:
los angeles, usa, california, palm springs california, albuquerque new mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
184K
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
The true story of Whitey Bulger, the brother of a state senator and the most infamous violent criminal in the history of South Boston, who became an FBI informant to take down a Mafia family invading his turf.
Style:
factual, brutal, intense, captivating, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gangsters, mafia, organized crime, corruption, fbi, violence, murder, illness, brutality, irish mob, true crime, arms dealing ...
Time:
70s, 80s, 20th century, year 1981, year 1995 ...
Place:
boston, new jersey, usa, massachusetts, miami ...
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43%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
In the Harlem neighborhood of New York City, the Mafia steps in when a drug dealer quits his partner brother to lead a straight life with his girlfriend.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, realistic, tense
Plot:
gangsters, drug dealing, going straight, gang, life is a bitch, juvenile delinquency, urban ghetto, siblings relations, drug abuse, addiction, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, brother brother relationship ...
Time:
90s
Place:
usa, africa, new york, harlem, new york city, harlem ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
At the age of 17, Griselda Blanco, made her way to the U.S. with a fake passport with her first husband Carlos. Living in Queens with her three sons, Griselda became enticed by the money the drug world offered, and quickly became embroiled with ...
Style:
factual, captivating, tense, emotional
Plot:
drug smuggling, gang, woman, smuggler, parent child relationship, cocaine, drugs, mother, murder, kidnapping, arrest, drug dealer ...
Time:
80s, 70s
Place:
colombia
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42%
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
The New York club scene of the 80s and 90s was a world like no other. Into this candy-colored, mirror ball playground stepped Michael Alig, a wannabe from nowhere special. Under the watchful eye of veteran club kid James St. James, Alig quickly rose ...
Style:
stylized, serious, disturbing, talky, surreal ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, kids
Plot:
gay, drug addiction, addiction, gays and lesbians, drugs, celebrity culture, life is a bitch, drug abuse, party, friends, drug addict, social misfits ...
Time:
80s, 90s
Place:
new york, new jersey, california, usa, indiana ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Brooklyn, 1985. With the mob world as a backdrop, three life-long friends struggle with questions of love, loss and loyalty.
Style:
realistic, captivating, atmospheric, psychological, serious ...
Plot:
gangsters, friendship, friends, mafia, love affair, coming of age, youth, murder, revenge, city life, rivalry, organized crime ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, 70s
Place:
brooklyn new york city, new york, usa
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41%
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A drama centered around Patty Montanari, the widowed mother of two who went to work for her lover Frank Russo, a captain in a Brooklyn crime family.
Style:
realistic, serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating ...
Plot:
gangsters, mysterious character, fall in love, dishonesty, criminal heroes, crime family, unlikely criminals, love affair, parents and children, mind game, organized crime, suspense ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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, suspenseful, rough, realistic
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gangsters, mafia, ambition, gang, gang leader, rise to the top, dishonesty, criminal heroes, heist, tough guy, organized crime, crime boss ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
new york, usa, brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 136 min.
Story:
New York gangster Ben 'Bugsy' Siegel takes a brief business trip to Los Angeles. A sharp-dressing womanizer with a foul temper, Siegel doesn't hesitate to kill or maim anyone crossing him. In L.A. the life, the movies, and most of all ...
Style:
realistic, stylized, intense, talky, tense ...
Plot:
mafia, gambling, casino, organized crime, gangsters, hollywood, jewish, suspense, ambition, rise and fall, love affair, bohemian life ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, 1930s, year 1945, 70s
Place:
las vegas, los angeles, usa, new york, california ...
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41%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Action, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Trying to bootstrap his way out of Brooklyn's mean streets is Diamond, a rap musician. With his long-time pal Gage acting as his manager, he's trying to lay down a demo tape with cut-rate studio time. To pay the bills, he and Gage run ...
Style:
disturbing, realistic, serious, rough
Plot:
hip hop, rap, gang, friendship, musician's life, lifestyle, social decay, addiction, down on your luck, artists and showbiz, juvenile delinquency, going straight ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Movies similar to American Gangster
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A Special Jury Award winner at the Sundance Film Festival, this drama stars a then-19-year-old Matty Rich (who also wrote and directed it). Rich plays Larry, a troubled teen living in the rough Red Hook section of Brooklyn who decides he wants out ...
Style:
realistic, serious, bleak, suspenseful, rough
Audience:
teens
Plot:
gang, african american, gangsters, blaxploitation, downbeat ending, hip hop culture, villain, hip hop, african american gangster, racism, drug dealing, social decay ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new york, usa, brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
337
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Ty, Hector, and Bao are close friends in a tough section of Boston, where they're called "the PG-13 crew." They're 14, decent kids with few skills who've bailed out of school. A small gang of older tough guys, led by Marcus ...
Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough
Plot:
gang, gangsters, gas station, realism, kids in trouble, optimism, friends, urban ghetto, youth, drug dealing, criminal heroes, dealing with death ...
Time:
90s
Place:
massachusetts, boston
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40%
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Film adaptation of street tough Jim Carroll's epistle about his kaleidoscopic free fall into the harrowing world of drug addiction.
Style:
emotional, rough, realistic, serious, harsh ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
addiction, heroin, drug abuse, basketball, downfall, life is a bitch, teenage life, drug overdose, drug addiction, drugs, teenager, sport ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 60s, 70s
Place:
new york, new jersey, california, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A promising college athlete takes a turn for the worse when he hooks up with old highschool friends during his summer break.
Style:
serious, surreal, realistic, captivating, suspenseful
Plot:
drug dealing, white trash, prostitute, juvenile delinquency, friendship, student athlete, baseball, teen drinking, high school friends, lifestyle, buddies, gang ...
Place:
california, usa
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40%
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Rise of Jackie Presser to President of the Teamster Union.
Style:
realistic, serious, suspenseful, rough, sincere
Plot:
gangsters, business, labor union, workplace situations, political intrigue, political corruption, leadership, life is a bitch, ambition, politics, society, blind ambition ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Films like The Basketball Diaries
24K
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
Jack Nicholson's portrait of union leader James R. Hoffa, as seen through the eyes of his friend, Bobby Ciaro (Danny DeVito). The film follows Hoffa through his countless battles with the RTA and President Roosevelt all the way to a conclusion ...
Style:
tense, factual, intense, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot:
gangsters, mafia, labor union, organized crime, politics, conspiracy, working class, suspense, prison, social activist, corruption, rise and fall ...
Time:
70s, 1940s, 1930s, 60s, 50s ...
Place:
detroit, new jersey, michigan, new york, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
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Story:
A look at the life of notorious drug kingpin, El Chapo, from his early days in the 1980s working for the Guadalajara Cartel, to his rise to power of during the '90s and his ultimate downfall in 2016.
Style:
realistic, captivating, atmospheric, factual
Plot:
cartel, drug lord, business, drug cartel, fight for supremacy, drug dealing, drugs, gang, gangsters, drug crime, crime boss, mafia ...
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39%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Rick (Diesel) is frustrated by the repetitious grind of one-night stands and aimless hustling. Whilst looking for more to his life he meets Heather (Lanza), a neighbour. Rick takes the opportunity to escape his boring life style with her, but soon ...
Style:
tense, realistic, serious
Plot:
drug dealer, hunting, gang, redemption, introspection, misfit, coming of age, opposites attract, juvenile delinquency, social misfits, going straight, society ...
Time:
future, 90s
Place:
new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
On a fall night in 2003, Harvard undergrad and computer programming genius Mark Zuckerberg sits down at his computer and heatedly begins working on a new idea. In a fury of blogging and programming, what begins in his dorm room as a small site among ...
Style:
clever, intellectual, realistic, entertaining, witty ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick
Plot:
entrepreneur, computer genius, facebook, geek, computer, programmer, computers and web, inventions and discoveries, rise to the top, social relations, hacker, ambition ...
Time:
2000s, year 2003, 21st century
Place:
harvard university, california, usa, san francisco, los angeles ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
The story of the five-day interview between Rolling Stone reporter David Lipsky and acclaimed novelist David Foster Wallace, which took place right after the 1996 publication of Wallace's groundbreaking epic novel, 'Infinite Jest.'
Style:
philosophical, meditative, psychological, serious, sincere ...
Plot:
loneliness, writers, friendship, journalism, suicide, death, depression, writer's life, mentor, honest, media, writer's block ...
Time:
90s, 80s, 70s, 20th century, year 1996
Place:
usa, minnesota, illinois, new york, minneapolis minnesota
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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