Movies like Hangup
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Hangup (1974)
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A rookie cop on the undercover narcotic squad falls for the junkie who can help him nab a ruthless pusher/killer.
Style:
dark, detective, tense, suspense, psychological, noir, realistic, grindhouse, neo noir, period piece ...
Plot:
narcotics, rookie, undercover, drug addiction, drug trade, law enforcement, urban, police procedural, sting operation, moral ambiguity, street crime, betrayal, murder, underworld, violence, corruption, nightlife, surveillance, star crossed lovers, junkie, prostitution, drug dealer, overdose, gangster, drug ...
Time:
70s
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Most similar movies to Hangup
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out noir, tense, dark and detective films with plots about moral ambiguity, corruption, urban, revenge, violence, betrayal and investigation mostly in Crime, Drama and Action genres. Some movies like Hangup: Dog and Cat (1977), Narc (2021), Confidential Informant (2023), Kill! Kill! Kill! Kill! (1971), The Deal (2012). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
Dog and Cat is an American television series that aired on ABC on Saturday night at 10:00 p.m Eastern time in 1977.
Lou Antonio played Sgt. Jack Ramsey, an undercover detective with the Los Angeles Police Department, who found himself teamed with a ...
Style:
crime drama, suspense, tense, dark, period piece ...
Plot:
shooting, gangster, investigation, murder, violence, gunfight, police procedural, urban, organized crime, trauma, police station, corruption ...
Time:
70s
Similarity:
95%
73
Genre: Crime
Country: USA
Story:
Officer Tracy Smith deals with family, the reoccurring nightmare of the brutal murder of his parents and his Secret Internal Investigation of a Special Narcotics Unit. Tracy quickly learns that being a Detroit Narcotics Officer nothing is what it ...
Style:
dark, tense, suspenseful, intense, noir ...
Plot:
corruption, investigation, law enforcement, police procedural, narcotics, moral ambiguity, conspiracy, internal affairs, urban, undercover, betrayal, violence ...
Place:
detroit
Similarity:
75%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
During a crack epidemic two narcotics agents hunting for a cop killer. Hoping for leads, Moran and Thorton pay off a junkie informant. To provide for his wife and son, Moran involves the stool pigeon in a deadly scheme. This causes the partners to ...
Style:
tense, detective, crime drama, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot:
terminal illness, police, junkie, female nudity, spy thriller, addiction, informant, law enforcement, narcotics, law, save the day, cancer ...
Similarity:
66%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Italy, West Germany, Spain
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Interpol investigates the freelance killings of drug and porn peddlers.
Style:
crime drama, neo noir, detective, dark, tense ...
Plot:
murder, interpol, drug traffic, law enforcement, investigation, urban, underworld, police procedural, violent, revenge, exploitation, nightlife ...
Time:
year 1971
Similarity:
66%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Egypt
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Police officer Hamza requests his transfer to the Anti-Narcotics Administration, following the killing of his brother by Suleiman Al-Muslimi. He monitors his brother Salem, the big drug dealer, who smuggled Suleiman and fabricated a charge for ...
Style:
crime drama, tense, detective, serious, action drama ...
Plot:
police, organized crime, drug lord, narcotics, drug traffic, law enforcement, investigation, revenge, smuggling, justice, violence, corruption ...
Place:
egypt
Similarity:
66%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Story:
Shin, a good family friend and business partner of the DeLeon family, assumes his role as head of the Coast Mafia.
Style:
suspenseful, exciting, serious, realistic, crime thriller ...
Plot:
gangster, criminal heroes, family business, murder, money, mafia, organized crime, crime family, underworld, family drama, power struggle, betrayal ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
66%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Crowder is a an unethical private detective in pursuit of a gangster who's after embezzled money.
Style:
crime drama, crime thriller, noir, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot:
blaxploitation, private detective, gangster, embezzlement, betrayal, corruption, underworld, anti hero, investigation, moral ambiguity, violence, missing husband ...
Time:
70s
Similarity:
64%
2K
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A narcotics officer engages in a cat-and-mouse chase to capture a powerful criminal kingpin.
Style:
suspense, intense, crime drama, tense, detective ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
drug traffic, narcotics, chase, law enforcement, underworld, police procedural, crime boss, cat and mouse, investigation, urban, city, revenge ...
Similarity:
63%
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178
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Two undercover police officer investigating a heroin ring find their covers blown.
Style:
crime thriller, dark, suspenseful, tense, intense ...
Plot:
maverick cop, kidnapping, drug lord, revenge, brother sister relationship, violence, police procedural, covert operation, urban, rescue mission, moral ambiguity, law enforcement ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
60%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Police officers from the Warsaw Homicide Department are trying to arrest a dangerous Armenian criminal.
Style:
tense, intense, brutal, suspense, detective ...
Plot:
law enforcement, urban, police, crime investigation, homicide, violent, city life, gang violence, gangster, moral ambiguity, organized crime, underworld ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
poland, warsaw poland, eastern europe
Similarity:
55%
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:
53%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Point Blank
Style:
tense, detective, suspense, psychological, twist ending ...
Plot:
murder, evidence, serial killer, investigation, police procedural, law enforcement, violence, obsession, cat and mouse, forensics, interrogation, urban ...
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Luxembourg, France
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
A police officer attempts to shut down an illegal girls-for-drugs operation (American version).
Style:
detective, suspense, dark, tension, noir ...
Plot:
nudity, white slavery, murder investigation, underworld, human trafficking, police procedural, drug trade, investigation, kidnapping, organized crime, drug addiction, master criminal ...
Time:
60s
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
An L.A. cop and a reporter team up to find a masked serial killer.
Style:
grindhouse, crime thriller, detective, dark, tense ...
Plot:
vigilante, revenge, serial killer, vigilante justice, masked killer, masked vigilante, police procedural, vietnam veteran, manhunt, investigation, criminal underworld, exploitation ...
Time:
80s
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Austria
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A crime-drama directed by Rolf Olsen.
Style:
dark, detective, tense, suspenseful, retro ...
Plot:
prostitution, investigation, murder investigation, nightlife, police procedural, urban, organized crime, violence, corruption, sexploitation, underworld, promiscuity ...
Time:
60s
Place:
west germany, frankfurt germany
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
LAPD Officer Newman has not gotten the reputation of a straight arrow by avoiding conflict when fighting for right. In this police drama, his honesty is put to the test when he and his partner discover a international drug ring involving some of the ...
Style:
crime thriller, detective, suspense, tense, neo noir ...
Plot:
lapd, corruption, drug cartel, investigation, law enforcement, moral dilemma, justice, moral ambiguity, police procedural, internal affairs, betrayal, conspiracy ...
Time:
70s
Place:
los angeles, california
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
After retiring from the police force, a relentless detective haunted by the tragic loss of his closest friend sets out on a perilous quest for vengeance, seeking redemption and fighting to restore justice to the streets he once swore to protect.
Style:
crime drama, dark, suspenseful, tense, noir ...
Plot:
revenge, moral ambiguity, urban, mature, betrayal, underworld, corruption, slow burn, urban decay, cat and mouse, justice, mission
Similarity:
49%
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:
moral dilemma, gang war, mob boss, organized crime, moral ambiguity, brotherhood, crime investigation, police corruption, betrayal, investigation, urban, mistrust ...
Similarity:
48%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A gorgeous girl named Katie inherits her deceased uncle's business and decides that she too can be a businesswoman and hire two hot girlfriends. Katie doesn't like the brothel part so she gets rid of that and is soon giving legit massages. ...
Style:
erotic drama, grindhouse, crime drama, suspense, period piece ...
Plot:
massage parlor, brothel, revenge, exploitation, nudity, gangster, sexploitation, sexual content, female protagonist, organized crime, corruption, prostitution ...
Time:
70s
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Action, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
When a young man new in town, the impressionable Chris Donds (Esteban Powell), is drawn into the super wealthy scene of Los Angeles after dark, he confuses his morals and beliefs for absolution and opportunity... the life that dreams as fast as it ...
Style:
neo noir, crime drama, suspense, dark, psychological ...
Plot:
russian mafia, moral ambiguity, violence, organized crime, corruption, urban, nightlife, retribution, danger, wealth, betrayal, ambition ...
Time:
90s
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Action, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
When a young soldier, newly returned from war, gets caught up in a drug bust, he is recruited by the authorities to go undercover in a notoriously dangerous prison in order to figure out what is really going on.
Style:
captivating, suspenseful, thrilling, tense, suspense ...
Plot:
prison, drug, investigation, organized crime, undercover, working undercover, battles, soldier, drug dealer, undercover agent, drug lord, fight ...
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
When a criminal imprisoned by detectives Ron Fugate and Morris Brinson is released and puts a hit out on them, both their partnership and their very existence quickly begins to decay... Who will survive, and at what cost?
Style:
detective, dark, noir, psychological, crime thriller ...
Plot:
moral ambiguity, law enforcement, revenge, murder, violence, corruption, investigation, criminal underworld, cat and mouse, partnership, hitman, vengeance ...
Time:
70s
Similarity:
40%
692
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA, South Korea
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
A sequel to Kwak Kyeong-taek's "Friend" in 2001, "Friends 2" is about three men who are gangsters based in the background of the year 1963 and 2010.
Style:
crime drama, suspense, captivating, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot:
friendship, betrayal, east asian lead, gang war, violence, prison, gangster, buddies, youth, ambition, adulthood, rise to the top ...
Place:
korea, busan
Similarity:
40%
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673
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
The Baseline is the centre of the East London grime club scene and the queue regularly stretches around the block. Danny works on the door - breaking up fights and managing drunk kids. However, when he rescues Terry, the club owner and local gang ...
Style:
tense, suspenseful, serious, realistic, captivating ...
Plot:
gangster, gang, moral dilemma, breakup, nightclub, rivalry, danger, love and romance, murder, sacrifice, loyalty, underworld ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
england, london
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A by the book female police officer is assigned to the most corrupt precinct in Pittsburgh and told to get it cleaned up.
Style:
suspenseful, neo noir, noir, tense
Plot:
corruption, police corruption, female protagonist, investigation, law enforcement, urban decay, scandal, murder investigation, tough cop, police procedural, violence, conspiracy ...
Time:
80s
Place:
pittsburgh
Similarity:
38%
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:
37%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Assigned to go undercover to take down an impenetrable crime ring, a detective finds himself falling under the sway of it's enigmatic leader.
Style:
tense, hood, crime drama, disturbing, captivating ...
Plot:
organized crime, urban, black, undercover, covert operation, working undercover, criminal gang, criminal, gang, intrigue, undercover agent, master criminal ...
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Dakota Smith is an experienced policeman with a problem: his partner was shot dead, and corrupt cops are responsible. Dak's investigation leads him to widespread corruption in the department, as well as a corrupt district attorney. Smith finds ...
Style:
crime drama, detective, tense, noir, suspenseful ...
Plot:
police corruption, corruption, investigation, murder investigation, revenge, moral ambiguity, male protagonist, violence, conspiracy, betrayal, urban, divorced father ...
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, Spain, USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Two Vietnam deserters go their separate ways, become criminals and are eventually reunited.
Style:
grindhouse, dark, crime thriller, independent film, period piece ...
Plot:
blaxploitation, organized crime, violence, fugitive, desperation, male friendship, frustration, moral ambiguity, betrayal, corruption, escape plan, identity crisis ...
Time:
70s
Place:
rome italy, vietnam
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
An undercover detective uses a restaurant targeted for harassment by a criminal gang to infiltrate the gang and arrest its members.
Style:
detective, suspense, tense, fast paced, cliffhanger ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
infiltration, undercover, gang, martial arts, justice, organized crime, danger, restaurant, corruption, violence, betrayal, police procedural ...
Time:
70s, year 1978
Similarity:
35%
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