Movies like Detroit
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Detroit (2017)
59K
Genre: Crime, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 143 min.
Story:
A police raid in Detroit in 1967 results in one of the largest citizens' uprisings in the history of the United States.
Style:
suspense, social, hood, tense, rough, suspenseful, disturbing, factual, detective, period piece ...
Plot:
racism, police violence, police brutality, racial tension, trial, fear, motel, murder, african american, revenge, racial segregation, racial slur, racist cop, looting, justice, corruption, black, police detective, police, riot, civil rights, true crime, church, friendship, death ...
Time:
year 2017, year 1967, 2010s, year 1943, year 1969, 60s, 1960s
Place:
detroit, michigan
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Most similar movies to Detroit
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspense, serious, f word and tense films with plots about violence, murder, police officer, brutality, gangster, police and gun mostly in Drama, Crime and Thriller genres. Some movies like Detroit: The Hate U Give (2018), Mississippi Burning (1988), Marshall (2017), Good Time (2017), A Time to Kill (1996). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
Raised in a poverty-stricken slum, a 16-year-old girl named Starr now attends a suburban prep school. After she witnesses a police officer shoot her unarmed best friend, she's torn between her two very different worlds as she tries to speak her ...
Style:
hood, captivating, teen, social, sad ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, teen drama
Plot:
racism, ghetto, african american, father son relationship, father daughter relationship, loss of friend, black, coming of age, black lives matter, private school, black history, teenager ...
Time:
2010s
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
Two FBI agents investigating the murder of civil rights workers during the 60s seek to breach the conspiracy of silence in a small Southern town where segregation divides black and white. The younger agent trained in FBI school runs up against the ...
Style:
political thriller, southern gothic, political, suspenseful, suspense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
racism, small town, police, civil rights, african american, ku klux klan, murder, politics, deep south, investigation, racial prejudice, racial segregation ...
Time:
year 1964, 20th century, 60s, year 1988
Place:
mississippi, southern usa, america, usa, canada
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History
Country: USA, China, Hong Kong
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Thurgood Marshall, the first African-American Supreme Court Justice, battles through one of his career-defining cases.
Style:
suspense, captivating, tense, period piece, inspirational ...
Plot:
court, racism, lawyer, courtroom, injustice, african american, racial segregation, african american protagonist, racial discrimination, trial, jury, justice ...
Time:
1940s, year 2017, 2010s, year 1954, year 1967
Place:
new york, connecticut, maryland, philadelphia, manhattan new york city ...
Similarity:
100%
154K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
After a botched bank robbery lands his younger brother in prison, Connie Nikas embarks on a twisted odyssey through the city's underworld in an increasingly desperate—and dangerous—attempt to get his brother Nick out of jail.
Style:
neo noir, independent film, suspense, brutal, retro ...
Plot:
prison, brother brother relationship, on the run, robbery, hospital, violence, mentally challenged person, brother, hoodie, marijuana, stolen money, patient ...
Time:
year 2017, year 2016, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
new york, brooklyn new york city, bronx new york city, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
75%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 149 min.
Story:
A young lawyer defends a black man accused of murdering two men who raped his 10-year-old daughter, sparking a rebirth of the KKK.
Style:
thought provoking, sincere, tense, sexy, realistic ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
racism, courtroom drama, court, justice, trial, courtroom, small town, lawyer, rape, revenge, murder, legal ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
mississippi, usa, southern usa, america, canada
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA, India, UK
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
What was intended to be a peaceful protest at the 1968 Democratic National Convention turned into a violent clash with police and the National Guard. The organizers of the protest — including Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, Tom Hayden and Bobby Seale ...
Style:
political, factual, suspense, period piece, historical drama ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
courtroom drama, activist, political repression, courtroom, hippie, injustice, riot, jury, lawyer, political protest, political persecution, court ...
Time:
year 1969, 60s, 2020s, year 1968, 20th century ...
Place:
chicago, oakland california, washington d.c., mississippi, ohio ...
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100%
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
The story of Daniel Jones, lead investigator for the US Senate’s sweeping study into the CIA's Detention and Interrogation Program, which was found to be brutal, immoral and ineffective. With the truth at stake, Jones battled tirelessly to ...
Style:
political, political thriller, uplifting, ambiguous ending, psychological ...
Plot:
politics, cia, torture, investigation, corruption, justice, truth, u.s. government, whistleblower, war crime, government corruption, humiliation ...
Time:
2010s, september 11 2001, 2000s, year 2019
Place:
washington d.c., san francisco
Similarity:
100%
4K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium, China, USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A foster family in South Central a few weeks before the city erupts in violence following the verdict of the Rodney King trial in 1992.
Style:
social, bleak, suspense, serious, teen ...
Plot:
death, racism, sex scene, neighbor, erotic dream, african american, chaos and mayhem, children, protest, absent mother, riot, foster child ...
Time:
90s, year 1991, year 1992
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Germany, USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Set during the Rodney King riots, a robbery homicide investigation triggers a series of events that will cause a corrupt LAPD officer to question his tactics.
Style:
tense, neo noir, detective, intense, harsh ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
police corruption, police officer, police investigation, police brutality, cop, corruption, investigation, profanity, rookie, robbery, partner, fighting the system ...
Time:
20th century, year 1992, y2k, 90s
Place:
los angeles, california, usa, southern california, new jersey
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
Bill O'Neal infiltrates the Black Panthers per FBI Agent Mitchell and J. Edgar Hoover. As Black Panther Chairman Fred Hampton ascends, falling for a fellow revolutionary en route, a battle wages for O’Neal’s soul.
Style:
political, philosophical, suspenseful, disturbing, social ...
Audience:
date night, adult
Plot:
violence, politics, civil rights, betrayal, prison, murder, black history, racism, black, justice, african american, betrayal by friend ...
Time:
2020s, year 1968, 60s
Place:
chicago, nebraska, columbus ohio, hawaii, new haven connecticut
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A gangster, Nino, is in the Cash Money Brothers, making a million dollars every week selling crack. A cop, Scotty, discovers that the only way to infiltrate the gang is to become a dealer himself.
Style:
hood, stylized, suspense, intense, harsh ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gangster, gang, gang war, organized crime, ghetto, blaxploitation, mafia, drug, hip hop, chase, urban, drug lord ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, 90s, year 1986
Place:
harlem, new york, usa, america, manhattan new york city ...
Similarity:
24%
109K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
Set in contemporary Chicago, amidst a time of turmoil, four women with nothing in common except a debt left behind by their dead husbands' criminal activities take fate into their own hands and conspire to forge a future on their own terms.
Style:
tense, neo noir, suspense, bleak, exciting ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
heist, girl gang, politics, female criminal, harlot, premarital sex, female nudity, murder, widow, grief, black, criminal ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
chicago, xian
Similarity:
24%
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
A group of disillusioned outsiders abandon modern society in search of a new beginning. Settling on a remote, uninhabited island, their utopian dream quickly unravels as they discover that the greatest threat isn’t the brutal climate or deadly ...
Style:
psychological thriller, suspenseful, dark, tense, bleak ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
male pubic hair, male nudity, island, sex scene, public nudity, female nudity, violence, isolation, power struggle, remote island, wilderness, betrayal ...
Time:
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Place:
ecuador, pacific ocean
Similarity:
100%
461K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Los Angeles citizens with vastly separate lives collide in interweaving stories of race, loss and redemption.
Style:
touching, inspirational, sincere, sexy, gloomy ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
racism, police, redemption, prejudice, plot twist, racial tension, racist, multiple storylines, sexual harassment, social injustice, class differences, interracial relations ...
Time:
year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, usa, california, persia, puerto rico ...
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Menace II Society is a coming of age tale detailing the summer after its protagonist Caine (Tyrin Turner) graduates from high school. This is Caine's story, which details real life in today's tough inner city.
Style:
stylized, bloody, serious, rough, hood ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama, adult
Plot:
ghetto, hip hop, friendship, african american, urban ghetto life, murder, police brutality, violence, coming of age, gangster, organized crime, street gang ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 70s, year 1993
Place:
los angeles, california, usa, south central los angeles, north america
Similarity:
23%
114K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Freddy Heflin is the sheriff of a place everyone calls “Cop Land” — a small and seemingly peaceful town populated by the big city police officers he’s long admired. Yet something ugly is taking place behind the town’s peaceful facade. And ...
Style:
suspenseful, neo noir, sexy, intense, talky ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
mafia, corruption, nypd, dirty cop, police, police corruption, internal affairs, sheriff, organized crime, justice, investigation, corrupt cop ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
new jersey, new york, usa, manhattan new york city, california ...
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
A story set in the Prohibition Era and centered around a group of individuals and their dealings in the world of organized crime.
Style:
period piece, neo noir, stylized, exciting, captivating ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
organized crime, mafia, prohibition, revenge, gangster, betrayal, chase, criminal, friendship, police, murder, mob boss ...
Time:
1920s, year 2016, 2010s, 1930s
Place:
florida, boston, massachusetts, america, miami ...
Similarity:
22%
468K
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 209 min.
Story:
A mob hit man recalls his possible involvement with the slaying of Jimmy Hoffa.
Style:
captivating, inspirational, tense, exciting, crime drama ...
Audience:
chick flick, adult
Plot:
mafia, organized crime, labor union, italian mafia, gangster, killer as protagonist, high society, old man, mob hit, arrest, prison, hitman ...
Time:
year 2019, 20th century, 1940s, year 1960, 70s ...
Place:
philadelphia, pennsylvania, chicago, ireland, washington d.c. ...
Similarity:
22%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
A New York nightclub manager tries to save his brother and father from Russian mafia hitmen.
Style:
suspense, harsh, stylized, captivating, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
mafia, organized crime, police, gangster, nightclub, gang, cop, brothers, hitman, lone hero, multiple storylines, law enforcement ...
Time:
year 2007, 20th century, year 1988, 80s, 70s
Place:
new york, brooklyn new york city, usa, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Following the death of his mother, J finds himself living with his estranged family, under the watchful eye of his doting grandmother, Smurf, mother to the Cody boys. J quickly comes to believe that he is a player in this world. But, as he soon ...
Style:
tense, disturbing, bleak, visually appealing, neo noir ...
Plot:
violence, organized crime, gangster, mafia, bad mother, investigation, justice, complex characters, vengeance, character study, drug dealer, law enforcement ...
Time:
year 2010, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
australia, peru, melbourne, oceania, new zealand
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Boyz n the Hood is the popular and successful film and social criticism from John Singleton about the conditions in South Central Los Angeles where teenagers are involved in gun fights and drug dealing on a daily basis.
Style:
cult classic, brutal, independent film, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
hip hop, gang, ghetto, african american, poverty, coming of age, urban ghetto life, street gang, juvenile delinquency, rapper, gangster, teenager ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 80s, year 1991, year 1984
Place:
los angeles, south central los angeles, california, america, usa ...
Similarity:
22%
33K
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Four Harlem friends -- Bishop, Q, Steel and Raheem -- dabble in petty crime, but they decide to go big by knocking off a convenience store. Bishop, the magnetic leader of the group, has the gun. But Q has different aspirations. He wants to be a DJ ...
Style:
hood, cult classic, sexual, tense, social ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
coming of age, ghetto, hip hop, gang, african american, friendship, black, teenager, urban, urban ghetto life, rapper, blaxploitation ...
Time:
year 1992, 90s, 80s
Place:
new york, harlem, usa, manhattan new york city, africa ...
Similarity:
22%
229K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 147 min.
Story:
An exploration of the United States of America's war on drugs from multiple perspectives. For the new head of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, the war becomes personal when he discovers his well-educated daughter is abusing cocaine ...
Style:
suspense, political, realistic, thought provoking, anthology ...
Plot:
drug traffic, organized crime, drug abuse, drug dealer, drug lord, addiction, drug addiction, drug cartel, drug, war on drugs, politics, corruption ...
Time:
year 2000, y2k, 20th century, 90s, 2000s
Place:
mexico, latin america, california, ohio, los angeles ...
Similarity:
22%
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
The true story of Oscar, a 22-year-old Bay Area resident, who crosses paths with friends, enemies, family, and strangers on the last day of 2008.
Style:
hood, independent film, thought provoking, sad, sincere ...
Audience:
preschool
Plot:
racism, african american, police brutality, black, marijuana, murder, black history, prison visit, introspection, black lives matter, civil rights, character study ...
Time:
year 2013, 2000s, year 2008, year 2009, 2010s ...
Place:
california, new york, usa, oakland california, san francisco ...
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Depicts a heist of old bills, retired from circulation and destined by the government to be "money to burn". However, more broadly, it addresses the issues of Black Americans' involvement in the Vietnam War and their subsequent ...
Style:
sexy, realistic, cult classic, neo noir, suspense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
violence, vietnam war, african american, heist, robbery, redemption, gangster, violent, blaxploitation, profanity, black, urban ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, 70s, year 1974, year 1970 ...
Place:
new york, bronx new york city, usa, asia, vietnam ...
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Mason Storm, a 'go it alone' cop, is gunned down at home. The intruders kill his wife, and think they've killed both Mason and his son too. Mason is secretly taken to a hospital where he spends several years in a coma. His son ...
Style:
exciting, serious, suspenseful, suspense, detective ...
Audience:
boys' night, girls' night
Plot:
hospital, revenge, vigilante, martial arts, vengeance, violence, hitman, one man army, coma, conspiracy, mixed martial arts, police corruption ...
Time:
year 1990, year 1983, 90s, 80s
Place:
los angeles, chicago, california
Similarity:
22%
45K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany, Canada, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
An undercover narc dies, the investigation stalls, so the Detroit P.D. brings back Nick Tellis, fired 18-months ago when a stray bullet hits a pregnant woman. Tellis teams with Henry Oak, a friend of the dead narc and an aggressive cop constantly ...
Style:
bleak, cynical, realistic, suspenseful, neo noir ...
Audience:
manly, boys' night
Plot:
police corruption, drug addiction, dark humor, police investigation, working undercover, police brutality, drug, addiction, drug addict, brutality, violence, foul language ...
Time:
2000s, year 2002, 21st century
Place:
detroit, usa
Similarity:
22%
167K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Earl Stone, a man in his 80s who is broke, alone, and facing foreclosure of his business when he is offered a job that simply requires him to drive. Easy enough, but, unbeknownst to Earl, he’s just signed on as a drug courier for a Mexican cartel. ...
Style:
road movie, crime drama, exciting, serious, historical drama ...
Audience:
boys' night, chick flick, adult
Plot:
old man, drug cartel, drug smuggling, drug, dea, drug crime, pickup truck, mexican drug cartel, police, driver, cartel, mountain ...
Time:
2000s, year 2017, 2010s, year 2005, year 1958
Place:
mexico, texas, chicago, el paso texas, south america ...
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Keen young Raymold Avila joins the Internal Affairs Department of the Los Angeles police. He and partner Amy Wallace are soon looking closely at the activities of cop Dennis Peck whose financial holdings start to suggest something shady. Indeed Peck ...
Style:
neo noir, clever, detective, erotic, suspenseful ...
Plot:
police corruption, internal affairs, corrupt cop, investigation, corruption, police officer, police investigation, abusive husband, sociopath, betrayal, murder, obsession ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, 90s, 70s
Place:
los angeles, usa
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
Enforcing the law within the notoriously rough Brownsville section of the city and especially within the Van Dyke housing projects is the NYPD's sixty-fifth precinct. Three police officers struggle with the sometimes fine line between right and ...
Style:
tense, suspense, realistic, neo noir, hood ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
police, police corruption, corrupt cop, police detective, corruption, rookie, undercover, organized crime, nypd, dirty cop, guilt, robbery ...
Time:
year 2009, year 2010, 70s, 21st century
Place:
new york, brooklyn new york city, usa, los angeles, new jersey
Similarity:
21%
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