Movies and TV shows like Mob City
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Mob City (2013)
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
The true story of a decades-long conflict between the Los Angeles Police Department, under the determined leadership of Police Chief William Parker, and ruthless criminal elements led by Mickey Cohen, a one-time boxer who rose to the top of L.A.'s criminal world. The series is a fast-paced crime drama set in Los Angeles during the 1940s and '50s. It's a world of glamorous movie stars, powerful studio heads, returning war heroes, a powerful and corrupt police force and an even more dangerous criminal network determined to make L.A. its West Coast base.
Style:
neo noir, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, stylized, detective, anime, crime drama, dark drama ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
organized crime, police, mobster, mob boss, gangster, power struggle, fighting crime, tough law enforcer, actress, corruption, rivalry, conflict, law enforcement, chief of police, mafia, crime family, hot and sexy, city, black, jewish mob, criminal, actor, veteran, law enforcer criminal relations, lawyer ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, 50s, 1950s, 40s
Place:
los angeles, usa
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Most similar movies to Mob City
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, suspenseful and detective films and TV series with plots about law enforcement, investigation, fighting crime, police, gangster, mafia and police detective mostly in Crime, Drama and Thriller genres. Some movies like Mob City: Boomtown (2002), Gangster Squad (2013), Mulholland Falls (1996), Magic City (2012), Boardwalk Empire (2010). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
Each episode of this series, set in contemporary Los Angeles, examines one crime from many different viewpoints - uniformed cops, detectives, witnesses, the media, the fire department and rescue squad, even the criminals themselves.
Style:
realistic, serious, suspenseful, detective, crime drama ...
Plot:
police investigation, murder, law enforcement, workplace, partners against crime, dishonesty, media, district attorney, infidelity, black, relationships, cop ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
los angeles, california, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Los Angeles, 1949. Ruthless, Brooklyn-born mob king Mickey Cohen runs the show in this town, reaping the ill-gotten gains from the drugs, the guns, the prostitutes and — if he has his way — every wire bet placed west of Chicago. And he does it ...
Style:
exciting, serious, suspenseful, intense, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night, manly, chick flick, teens
Plot:
mafia, organized crime, gangster, mob boss, squad, tough law enforcer, undercover cop, partners against crime, law enforcement, revenge, corruption, violent ...
Time:
1940s, year 2013, 2010s, 20th century, year 1949 ...
Place:
los angeles, california, israel, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
In 1950s Los Angeles, a special crime squad of the LAPD investigates the murder of a young woman.
Style:
neo noir, tense, suspense, serious, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
murder, political corruption, police, police investigation, conspiracy, revenge, betrayal, gangster, dishonesty, partners against crime, mafia, law enforcement ...
Time:
20th century, 1950s, year 1996, 50s
Place:
los angeles, california, usa, mulholland drive
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Set in 1959 Miami, Florida shortly after the Cuban Revolution, Magic City tells the story of Ike Evans, the owner of Miami's most glamorous hotel, the Miramar Playa. Evans is forced to make an ill-fated deal with Miami mob boss Ben Diamond to ...
Style:
sexy, erotic, atmospheric, tense, stylized ...
Plot:
hotshot, organized crime, businessman, mafia, intrigue, hotel, gangster, mob boss, cheating wife, lifestyle, power struggle, cover up ...
Time:
20th century, 60s, 50s, year 1959, 1950s
Place:
miami, usa, miami beach
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Boardwalk Empire is a period drama focusing on Enoch "Nucky" Thompson (based on the historical Enoch L. Johnson), a political figure who rose to prominence and controlled Atlantic City, New Jersey, during the Prohibition period of the ...
Style:
costume drama, serious, period piece, erotic, captivating ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
mafia, smuggling, mob boss, businessman, prohibition, criminal heroes, organized crime, gangster, federal agent, female nudity, corruption, crime boss ...
Time:
1920s, 20th century, 2000s, 2010s, year 2010 ...
Place:
new jersey, atlantic city new jersey, cuba, atlantic city, chicago ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Young Treasury Agent Elliot Ness arrives in Chicago and is determined to take down Al Capone, but it's not going to be easy because Capone has the police in his pocket. Ness meets Jimmy Malone, a veteran patrolman and probably the most ...
Style:
clever, suspenseful, period piece, inspirational, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night, manly, adult
Plot:
mafia, gangster, organized crime, corruption, prohibition era, mentor, shootout, smuggling, prohibition, police, tax evasion, gunfight ...
Time:
1930s, 1920s, 20th century, year 1987
Place:
chicago, america, usa
Similarity:
100%
543
Genre: Thriller
Country: Colombia
TV show
Story:
El Capo, the most wanted drug dealer in Mexico, has been intercepted while hiding with his trusted men, his wife and his lover. During his escape, he declares war on the government and his own past.
Style:
brutal, realistic, stylized, serious, rough ...
Plot:
ambition, power struggle, drug traffic, drug dealing, organized crime, master criminal, drug lord, criminal heroes, political corruption, smuggling, notoriety, rise to the top ...
Place:
colombia
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
A gangster family epic set in 1919 Birmingham, England and centered on a gang who sew razor blades in the peaks of their caps, and their fierce boss Tommy Shelby, who means to move up in the world.
Style:
serious, atmospheric, tense, captivating, stylized ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
organized crime, gang, mafia, gang war, gangster, determination, cruelty, crime boss, power struggle, mob boss, rivalry, shooting ...
Time:
1920s, 20th century, ancient times, 1910s, victorian era
Place:
england, britain, ireland, birmingham alabama, europe ...
Similarity:
50%
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8K
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story:
Ralph Lamb wants to be left in peace to run his ranch, but Las Vegas is now swelling with outsiders and corruption which are intruding on his simple life. Recalling Lamb's command as a military police officer during World War II, the Mayor ...
Style:
serious, stylized, suspenseful, rough, tense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
sheriff, organized crime, corruption, greed, police investigation, mafia, power struggle, rivalry, father son relationship, cowboy, mobster, rancher ...
Time:
year 1960, 20th century, year 1961, 60s
Place:
las vegas, usa
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 48 min.
TV show
Story:
Crime Story is an American TV drama, created by Gustave Reininger and Chuck Adamson, that premiered in 1986 and ran for two seasons on NBC. The executive producer was Michael Mann, who had left his other series Miami Vice to oversee Crime Story and ...
Style:
suspenseful, suspense, disturbing, detective, captivating ...
Plot:
police detective, gangster, law enforcement, tough law enforcer, tough heroes, mafia, mobster, danger, cop, escapades, betrayal, friends ...
Time:
20th century, 60s, year 1963
Place:
chicago, usa, las vegas, illinois
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Vinnie Terranova does time in a New Jersey penitentiary to set up his undercover role as an agent for the OCB (Organized Crime Bureau) of the United States. His roots in a traditional Italian city neighborhood form the underlying dramatic base ...
Style:
realistic, suspenseful, serious, atmospheric, detective ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
undercover, working undercover, mafia, undercover agent, organized crime, gangster, fbi, investigation, special agent, tough law enforcer, law enforcement, dishonesty ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
new jersey, usa, miami, atlantic city new jersey
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 240 min.
TV show
Story:
As the elder don dies, his young heir moves into the position. He quickly proves to be as ruthless as he tries to discover who has launched a plot to overthrow his rule and may be infiltrating other families. In a left over plot line, his aunt ...
Style:
saga, serious, realistic, stylized, bleak ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
mafia, gangster, mobster, organized crime, mob boss, godfather, undercover, dysfunctional family, widower, brother sister relationship, catholic, autism ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
las vegas, usa
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Homicide: Life on the Street is an American police procedural television series chronicling the work of a fictional version of the Baltimore Police Department's Homicide Unit. It ran for seven seasons on NBC from 1993 to 1999, and was succeeded ...
Style:
realistic, tense, detective, serious, talky ...
Plot:
police detective, police, police station, homicide detective, murder, justice, cop, police protagonist, team, police investigation, fighting crime, workplace ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
baltimore, usa
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 46 min.
TV show
Story:
Every villain has a noble cause, and every hero has a dark side.
Detective Ryan Lopez is a rising star in Los Angeles' elite Gang Task Force. What the world doesn't know is that long before Ryan became a cop, he pledged allegiance to a ...
Style:
serious, rough, exciting, suspenseful, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gang, undercover, working undercover, law enforcement, police detective, outlaw, boss, power struggle, fighting crime, criminal, crooked cop, black history ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
los angeles, south america, california, usa
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
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Story:
Ironside is an upcoming American drama television series that is scheduled to premiere in the 2013–14 television season on NBC. It will air on Wednesdays at 10 p.m. Eastern/9 p.m. Central, after Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. It is a ...
Style:
exciting, realistic, serious, captivating, tense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
police detective, fighting crime, law enforcement, wheelchair bound, police, black cast, investigation, disabled, disability, power relations, tough law enforcer, urban ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa, new york
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Set in the early 1960's in New York City's Public Morals Division, where cops walk the line between morality and criminality as the temptations that come from dealing with all kinds of vice can get the better of them.
Style:
rough, serious, tense, suspenseful, detective ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
temptation, moral dilemma, partner, law enforcement, partners against crime, gangster, post war, nypd, investigation, mafia, crime family, courtroom drama ...
Time:
20th century, 60s
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
An adrenalized drama with darkly comedic undertones that explores a notorious outlaw motorcycle club’s (MC) desire to protect its livelihood while ensuring that their simple, sheltered town of Charming, California remains exactly that, charming. ...
Style:
serious, exciting, sexy, tense, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
biker, motorcycle gang, motorcycle, prison, organized crime, gang, group of criminals, power struggle, friends, young man, arms dealing, police corruption ...
Time:
2010s, y2k, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa, california, northern california
Similarity:
35%
491
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Crime drama based on the UK TV series about Gerry "Fitz" Fitzgerald, a brilliant but troubled criminal psychologist working alongside the Los Angeles police department.
Style:
detective, tense, cynical, realistic, gloomy ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
nypd, die hard, fighting crime, couple relations, police investigation, who done it, law enforcement, criminal psychologist, profiler, police detective, anti hero, psychologist
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
los angeles, california, usa
Similarity:
35%
Movie in collections
156
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Big Apple is an American television drama series that was originally broadcast in the United States on CBS in 2001. The story centers on two New York City Police Department detectives Mooney and Trout working with the FBI to solve a murder with ties ...
Style:
tense, detective, crime drama, serious, suspense ...
Plot:
organized crime, fbi, nypd, police detective, police, justice, criminal, law enforcement, legal, police procedural, murder investigation, investigation ...
Place:
new york
Similarity:
34%
492
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
A bald police detective with a righteous attitude battles crime on his hometurf.
Style:
serious, stylized, detective, suspense, captivating ...
Plot:
police detective, serial killer, police investigation, hotshot hero, tough law enforcer, law enforcement, fighting crime, cop witness relations, nypd, gang, murder investigation, police ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
TV show
Story:
A seven-hours-plus adaptation of Francis Ford Coppola's "The Godfather" and "The Godfather, Part II" - with new scenes added and some old ones lengthened. Originally broadcast on the NBC television network in November of ...
Style:
epic, serious, captivating, rough, bleak ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
mafia, crime boss, gang war, mobster, parent child relationship, police corruption, lawyer, corrupt politician, melancholy, suburbs, criminal, murder ...
Time:
1940s, 1930s, 1920s, 1950s, 20th century ...
Place:
italy, cuba, europe, new york
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
In the Heat of the Night is an American television series based on the motion picture and novel of the same name starring Carroll O'Connor as the white police chief William Gillespie, and Howard Rollins as the African-American police detective ...
Style:
detective, retro, serious, realistic, tense ...
Plot:
police, small town, police detective, legal, team, american south, african american, mafia, social justice, deep south, terrorism, police officer ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 80s
Place:
mississippi, usa, southern usa
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Hawaii Five-O is an American police procedural drama series produced by CBS Productions and Leonard Freeman. Set in Hawaii, the show originally aired for 12 seasons from 1968 to 1980, and continues in reruns. Jack Lord portrayed Detective Lieutenant ...
Style:
captivating, tense, stylized, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
police detective, police protagonist, law enforcement, fighting crime, partners against crime, multiple suspects, workplace, investigation, police officer, honor, suspect, cop ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, 80s, 60s
Place:
hawaii, usa, honolulu hawaii, oceania
Similarity:
34%
Movie in collections
425K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Told from the points of view of both the Baltimore homicide and narcotics detectives and their targets, the series captures a universe in which the national war on drugs has become a permanent, self-sustaining bureaucracy, and distinctions between ...
Style:
clever, tense, detective, cynical, dramatic ...
Plot:
corruption, organized crime, police detective, working undercover, urban ghetto life, gang, drug dealing, police, fighting crime, police investigation, urban decay, shooting ...
Time:
2000s, future, year 2002, 20th century, 1950s ...
Place:
baltimore, maryland, usa
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
The story of an inner-city Los Angeles police precinct where some of the cops aren't above breaking the rules or working against their associates to both keep the streets safe and their self-interests intact.
Style:
tense, rough, crime drama, exciting, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
police corruption, law enforcement, police detective, cruelty, cop, dirty cop, police brutality, dishonesty, tough law enforcer, police protagonist, murder, corrupt cop ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, south america, usa, california
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Nash Bridges is an American television police drama created by Carlton Cuse. The show starred Don Johnson and Cheech Marin as two Inspectors with the San Francisco Police Department's Special Investigations Unit. The show ran for six seasons on ...
Style:
detective, exciting, suspenseful, stylized, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
police detective, partner, police investigation, law enforcement, fighting crime, parents and children, family problems, rivalry, single parent, workplace, investigation, best friend ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa, san francisco, south america, california
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Hill Street Blues is an American serial police drama that was first aired on NBC in 1981 and ran for 146 episodes on primetime into 1987. Chronicling the lives of the staff of a single police precinct in an unnamed American city, the show received ...
Style:
realistic, suspenseful, serious, detective, atmospheric ...
Plot:
police, law enforcement, cop, police protagonist, partner, fighting crime, workplace, police detective, partners against crime, workplace situations, police officer, urban ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
usa, chicago, new york
Similarity:
33%
10K
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Kojak is an American television series starring Telly Savalas as the title character, bald New York City Police Department Detective Lieutenant Theo Kojak. It aired from October 24, 1973, to March 18, 1978, on CBS. It took the time slot of the ...
Style:
rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, witty ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
police, who done it, investigation, danger, fighting crime, police investigation, rivalry, law enforcement, honest law enforcer, murder investigation, police detective, cop ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
33%
4K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK, Italy, Germany
Duration: 90 min.
TV show
Story:
Zen is a British television mini series produced by Left Bank Pictures for the BBC, co-produced with WGBH Boston for its Masterpiece anthology series, Mediaset and ZDF. It stars Rufus Sewell and Caterina Murino and is based on the Aurelio Zen ...
Style:
sexy, atmospheric, detective, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot:
police detective, murder, police investigation, fighting crime, workplace, law enforcement, suspicion, corruption, british police, hot and sexy, transcendence, investigation ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
italy, rome italy, europe
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story:
The Inside is an American crime drama television series created by Tim Minear and Howard Gordon and produced by Imagine Television. The Inside follows the work of the FBI's Los Angeles Violent Crimes Unit, a division dedicated to investigating ...
Style:
exciting, realistic, serious, suspenseful, detective ...
Plot:
investigation, fighting crime, law enforcement, haunted by the past, profiler, female agent, fbi, special agent, rookie, dark past, nypd, police ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
los angeles, usa
Similarity:
32%
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