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Vite perdute (1992)
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 118 min.
Style:
bleak, dark, tense, melancholic, realistic, noir
Plot:
tragedy, revenge, gang, violence, kidnapping, betrayal, murder, criminal underworld, loss, moral ambiguity, violent content, mafia, friendship, organized crime, robbery, street life, fatalism, arson, suspicion, social realism, revenge killing, male camaraderie, car crash, isolation, urban decay ...
Time:
90s, 1990s
Place:
sicily
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out tense, noir, dark and bleak films with plots about moral ambiguity, violence, betrayal, revenge, corruption, organized crime and urban mostly in Drama, Crime and Action genres. Some movies like Vite perdute: Long Live the Bride (2015), Blazing Flowers (1978), Kanak Attack (2000), Crime Boss (1972), White Powder (2016). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France, Belgium
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
In a despairing, fatalistic Rome, Nicola finds himself flirting with the city’s dark side. Drinking too much and living among drifters, petty criminals and anxious immigrants, Nicola becomes entwined in an insurance scam that leads him further ...
Style:
bleak, dark, intense, suspenseful, melancholic ...
Plot:
violence, insurance scam, criminal underworld, urban decay, police investigation, moral ambiguity, corruption, drinking, poverty, isolation, class conflict, anti hero ...
Place:
rome italy, italy
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
No overview found.
Style:
poliziottesco, crime drama, tense, period piece, bleak ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
organized crime, violence, underworld, gang, drug traffic, prostitute, corruption, betrayal, moral ambiguity, informant, street life, urban ...
Time:
year 1978, 70s
Place:
milan italy
Similarity:
67%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
No overview found.
Style:
bleak, emotional, tense, crime thriller, realistic ...
Plot:
identity, immigrant, drug traffic, pimp, loyalty, loss, desperation, street life, organized crime, gang, tragedy, violence ...
Place:
germany, istanbul turkey
Similarity:
67%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Hit man Antonio Mancuso travels to Italy to make the big time. He meets and befriends Mafia boss Don Vincenzo. Mancurso becomes part of the organization and the more he gets to know Vincenzo the more he wants his job but Mancurso will learn that ...
Style:
suspense, crime drama, dark, poliziottesco, tense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
mafia, crime family, hitman, mob boss, ambition, power struggle, organized crime, mafioso, violence, betrayal, gangster, underworld ...
Time:
70s
Place:
italy, sicily, milan italy, cincinnati ohio, rome italy ...
Similarity:
63%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A mobster kills a cop during a robbery and then finds himself pursued by the police, his gang, and the media.
Style:
poliziottesco, crime drama, dark, suspense, detective ...
Plot:
police, violence, mobster, organized crime, pursuit, gang, cop killer, criminal underworld, law enforcement, manhunt, italian police, corruption ...
Time:
70s
Place:
rome italy, italy
Similarity:
58%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
White Powder is an award-winning, riveting micro-budget, independent, British gangsta film. It is set in modern-day, multi-cultural London and features a very diverse cast. It follows the story of 2 young lovers, who try to outwit a bunch of London ...
Style:
independent film, crime drama, crime thriller, realistic, tense ...
Plot:
cocaine, gangster, criminal underworld, street life, power struggle, young lovers, love story, cat and mouse, moral ambiguity, betrayal, suspicion, survival ...
Place:
london
Similarity:
57%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
The story of a drug dealer from Romania and his son in Rome's suburbs.Roman is an immigrant from Romania arrived in Italy 30 years ago. He sells drugs and lives in criminal contexts. His dream is to see his child, Nicu, whom he raised without a ...
Style:
crime drama, emotional, intense, tense, bleak ...
Plot:
fatherhood, drug dealing, immigration, father son relationship, social realism, street life, illegal drugs, moral ambiguity, poverty, urban decay, violence, survival ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
italy
Similarity:
57%
479
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
Moscow, the 90s ... A city without a past and without a future. A city that doesn't forgive mistakes. Showing Moscow bohemia, the criminal business: nightlife, easy money, excitement and confusion form the surface of this life. The main ...
Style:
crime drama, suspenseful, captivating, disturbing, suspense ...
Plot:
organized crime, affair, criminal, money, stolen money, intrigue, crime boss, love triangle, gang, murder, bandit, suspicion of adultery ...
Time:
90s
Place:
moscow russia
Similarity:
56%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
On their way home through an unknown city, Alexander and his father are attacked and seriously injured by some drunken juvenile delinquents. The father dies, and Alexander becomes a dangerous witness, which must be eliminated.
Style:
suspense, tense, disturbing, captivating, dark ...
Plot:
murder, revenge, witness, crime victim, murder witness, witnessing a crime, criminal's revenge, loss of father, victim, hunted, manhunt, murderer ...
Similarity:
55%
Genre: Drama
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A Chinese drama
Style:
crime drama, noir
Plot:
gangster, violence, redemption, criminal underworld, triad, betrayal, street life, tragic romance, urban, moral ambiguity, loyalty, nightlife ...
Time:
80s
Similarity:
54%
159
Genre: Drama
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
A flat broke aging boxer, living on the verge of existence, teams up with the equally desperate people in the city's suburbia to steal, cheat, and even kill for the money.
Style:
black and white, crime drama, bleak, neo noir, noir ...
Plot:
boxing, suburbs, survival, desperation, urban decay, poverty, corruption, violence, heist, moral ambiguity, hopelessness, working class ...
Time:
60s
Place:
eastern europe, belgrade, former yugoslavia
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Drama
Country: Venezuela
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Gilberto, a young man from the countryside, arrives in the city with the aim of carving out a future for himself. Initially he is dazzled by the sparkling image of the city, the spoiler of civilization, which will batter him until his personality ...
Style:
realistic, dark, bleak, intense, melancholic
Plot:
drug addiction, urban decay, moral ambiguity, loss of innocence, social realism, coming of age, poverty, nightlife, character study, violence, corruption, identity crisis ...
Time:
70s
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Tamaki's (Iwashita) husband is the head of the Idei clan, based in southern Osaka. As the film opens, punch-permed lieutenant Ginji (Riki Takeuchi) is killed while pumping iron. Following the hit, rumors and recriminations abound, slowly ...
Style:
crime drama, disturbing, tense, captivating, intense ...
Plot:
yakuza, organized crime, crime family, criminal underworld, mafia, female protagonist, multiple storylines, bandit, criminal gang, criminal syndicate, gang, criminal ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
japan
Similarity:
48%
567
Genre: Drama
Country: Romania, Belgium, Netherlands
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Natalia and Ginel leave their small Romanian Danube village to work abroad in Rotterdam. One evening, when she is assaulted after meeting a local, Natalia asks Ita, a friend from home turned into a crook, to help her.
Style:
realistic, melancholic, tense, suspenseful
Plot:
migrant worker, female protagonist, immigration, urban, small village, survival, moral ambiguity, exploitation, assault, social realism, class struggle, friendship ...
Place:
romania, belgium, flanders
Similarity:
46%
14
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Story:
Forced to navigate dangerous environments to keep her mother alive, Glo gets entangled with a mob boss and finds her life spiraling out of control.
Style:
crime thriller, crime drama, suspense, tense, neo noir ...
Plot:
desperation, survival, mother daughter relationship, mob boss, female protagonist, organized crime, violence, urban, underworld, corruption, crime family, moral ambiguity ...
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
The fast career of a young Neapolitan among contraband, gambling dens, bribes and illegality. He will upgrade its rank till the maximum level of the "Family".
Style:
poliziottesco, crime drama, dark, tense, brutal ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
mafia, smuggling, camorra, organized crime, violence, crime boss, ambition, power struggle, rise to power, criminal underworld, gang war, urban ...
Time:
70s
Place:
naples italy, italy, napoli italy
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 49 min.
Story:
Andrew has been in hiding ever since his mob boss father, killed his mother. Once his father gains word of his whereabouts he must make a decision to run, or finally confront his father.
Style:
suspense, tense, serious, captivating, realistic ...
Plot:
hitman, hiding, mafia, murder, chase, henchman, father son relationship, confronting the past, organized crime, criminal underworld, father son conflict, death of mother ...
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Shivan revolves around a couple who are very much in love but one day the woman is found dead and the man is found guilty and imprisoned. But once he is in jail he recollects certain memories that change everything.
Style:
tense, suspense, intense, psychological, emotional ...
Plot:
love, innocence, flashback, memory, murder, wrongful conviction, investigation, prison, justice, moral ambiguity, guilt, character study ...
Similarity:
44%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A brash group of hoodlums have been doing minor crime jobs in their neighborhood since they were kids until they step on the wrong toes and get caught up in a war with an old-school mafia king pin and their lives soon become hell on earth.
Style:
crime drama, realistic, serious, brutal, rough ...
Plot:
organized crime, mob boss, power struggle, revenge, drug dealing, criminal heroes, partners in crime, group of criminals, fight for supremacy, neighborhood, gang, mafia ...
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Set against the backdrop of Detroit's underworld, 17000 Block tells the story of Buck, a young man trapped in the middle of a street family rivalry - he is coerced, by his unscrupulous Uncle Eddie, to pull a robbery. When the job goes bad Buck ...
Style:
crime drama, dark, realistic, tense, bleak ...
Plot:
street life, moral ambiguity, urban decay, on the run, robbery, survival, tragedy, coercion, crime family, poverty, violent, coming of age ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
detroit, midwest
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Drama
Country: Bangladesh
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Just as Moses was found in the river Nile, an infant is rescued from a river, and adopted by Miraj, Karim and Sajib in turns over the years, only to be abandoned at the various stages of his life. From innocence to becoming a gangster, the ...
Style:
crime drama, realistic, emotional, bleak, melancholic ...
Plot:
river, male protagonist, orphan, adoption, identity, coming of age, abandonment, loss of innocence, street life, moral ambiguity, gangster, survival ...
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Drama
Country: Ireland
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
After being imprisoned for dangerous driving, causing the death of a child and possession of illegal substances, Jason Buckley is finding it difficult to adjust to life outside prison.
Style:
dark, bleak, psychological, atmospheric, intense ...
Plot:
trauma, social realism, loss, grief, guilt, haunting, character study, remorse, reckless driving, accident, isolation, moral ambiguity ...
Similarity:
40%
165
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Italian filmmaker Antonio Capuano writes and directs the grueling gangster drama Luna Rossa (Red Moon). Aging Tony Cammarano (Italo Celoro) is the patriarch of an organized crime family, but his son Amerigo (Toni Servillo) runs most of his ...
Style:
family saga, crime drama, bleak, dark, crime thriller ...
Plot:
mafia, crime family, confession, tragedy, organized crime, betrayal, moral ambiguity, fatalism, revenge, corruption, guilt, power struggle ...
Time:
70s, 80s, 90s
Place:
southern italy, naples italy
Similarity:
40%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Spain, Italy, Dominican Republic
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
The story concerns a mob family, headed by gambling czar Jose Ferrer. When one of family's hit men (Helmut Berger) fails to come up to expectations, Ferrer orders the man's execution.
Style:
action drama, dark, crime thriller, bleak, poliziottesco ...
Plot:
assassin, organized crime, crime family, mob boss, mafia, moral dilemma, betrayal of trust, moral ambiguity, violence, betrayal, power struggle, sadism ...
Time:
70s
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
This is the story of three sensitive teens who are forced to deal with violence at home, violence at school. It is a story of friendship, of love and hate, where the adolescents world is revealed as cruel and beautiful, a world where the desire to ...
Style:
realistic, touching, serious, suspenseful, emotional ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
friendship, teenage love, teenage life, love and romance, coming of age, buddies, youth, family relations, violence, bullying, graphic violence, trauma ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
israel, palestine
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Known for his brutally violent policing tactics, suspended police officer Michael Clarke is sent undercover to infiltrate the notorious London criminal enterprise of Terance Turner, with the task of bringing the gang boss to justice.
Style:
detective, intense, brutal, dark, suspense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
undercover, undercover cop, police, gang, law enforcement, organized crime, violence, corruption, investigation, hooligan, urban, confrontation ...
Place:
london
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A young police officer "makes a mess" of a police operation, shoots a man in self-defense, and ends up in prison. There he learns that the world isn't black and white, but has many shades of gray, and makes new friends and enemies.
Style:
crime drama, dark, bleak, realistic, tense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
prison, moral ambiguity, police corruption, survival, violence, law enforcement, gang, character study, betrayal, friendship, redemption, brotherhood ...
Time:
90s
Place:
hong kong
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Denise, a botanist, is working in the swamps in a part of Turkey, planting and researching local flora. In her evenings she sometimes meets with her lover Hamit, a simple man at first glance. But he is making his living with human trafficking which ...
Style:
melancholic, atmospheric, tense, crime drama, bleak ...
Plot:
human trafficking, secrets, moral ambiguity, exploitation, desperation, smuggling, poverty, betrayal, social realism, survival, isolation, character study ...
Place:
istanbul turkey, turkey, black sea
Similarity:
36%
299
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Dives into the often ignored seedy underbelly of Maine and it follows Emma Maddox as she returns to her hometown years following the mysterious death of her brother, Mikey. As she reconnects with his best friend Tommy, the two rekindle their flame ...
Style:
suspenseful, tense, captivating, psychological, thrilling ...
Plot:
redemption, revenge, small town, problem, bereavement, life is a bitch, lie, getting home, investigation, betrayal, friendship, coastal town ...
Place:
maine
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
An innocent American engineer is blackmailed by gangsters into a plot to assassinate his cousin, who is a judge in Sicily fighting the Mafia.
Style:
serious, tense, crime thriller, suspense, dark ...
Plot:
mafia, danger, organized crime, blackmail, corruption, betrayal, justice, criminal conspiracy, threat, family conflict, underworld, assassination ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
sicily, italy
Similarity:
35%
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