Movies like The Good and the Bad

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The Good and the Bad (1976)
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The Good and the Bad (1976)
Original name: Le Bon et les Méchants
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, War
Country: France
Duration: 120 min.
Story: From 1935 to 1945, the happiness of a couple turns to sadness when their Traction Avant auto is used by the gang des Tractions Avant.
Style: serious, realistic
Plot: police officer, resistance, world war two, nazism, occupied france, hooligan, heist, politics, on the run, wartime life, dishonesty, obsessive quest, criminal heroes, prison, boxing, thief, strong female lead, prostitute, nazi, cheating wife, train, wedding, police, gang, boxer ...
Time: 1940s, year 1945, 1930s, year 1944, year 1940, 20th century, year 1935
Place: paris france
Keyword: movie theatre, bruise, knock out, gangsters

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, neo noir and suspenseful films with plots about cigarette smoking, murder, telephone call, death, photograph, police officer and gun mostly in Drama, Crime and Romance genres. Some movies like The Good and the Bad: Happy New Year (1973), Flic Story (1975), Head in the Clouds (2004), Farewell, Friend (1968), Lacombe, Lucien (1974). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Happy New Year (1973)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Gangster (Lino Ventura) with his accomplice (Charles Gérard), prepares to take part in the "first psychological hold-up in the history of crime". Next door to the jewellers of Van Cleef & Arpels, on the Croisette, in Cannes, the ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, stylized, clever ...
Plot: caper, robbery, new year, jewel theft, couples, unlikely couple, love and romance, crime gone awry, unlikely criminals, criminal heroes, on the run, dishonesty ...
Time: 70s, 60s, year 1973, year 1968, year 1972 ...
Place: france, europe, paris france, marseille
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
 6.9
 3K
Flic Story (1975)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 112 min.
Story: The film story depicts Emile Buisson, following the death of his wife and child, escaping from a psychiatric institution in 1947 and returning to Paris. Buisson, who three years later would become France's public enemy number one, begins a ...
Style: serious, rough, suspenseful, neo noir, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: serial killer, murder, police detective, gangster, robbery, prison, law enforcement, police investigation, investigation, police corruption, psychopath, police station ...
Time: 1940s, year 1947, 1950s
Place: paris france, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
Head in the Clouds (2004)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 132 min.
Story: A romantic drama set in 1930's England, Paris, and Spain. Gilda Bessé shares her Paris apartment with an Irish schoolteacher, Guy Malyon, and Mia, a refugee from Spain. As the world drifts toward war, Gilda defiantly pursues her hedonistic ...
Style: sexy, romantic, sentimental, captivating, stylized ...
Plot: world war two, lesbian, spanish civil war, lesbianism, bisexual woman, sexual relations, love triangle, group sex, war, love, orgy, betrayal ...
Time: 1930s, 1920s, 1940s, year 1944, year 2004 ...
Place: paris france, england, france, germany, spain ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
And Now... Ladies and Gentlemen... (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: France, UK
Duration: 133 min.
Story: A jazz singer and a British jewel thief are brought together by their mutual desire to forget the past.
Style: melancholic, touching, tricky, light, lyrical ...
Plot: amnesia, memory loss, love story, justice, master criminal, police, fall in love, couple relations, couples, love affair, love and romance, dangerous attraction ...
Time: year 2002
Place: france, paris france, morocco, england, london ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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Farewell, Friend (1968)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 115 min.
Story: After serving together in the French Foreign Legion, a mercenary and a doctor leave the service and go their separate ways. Later, they are reunited and become involved with a caper involving millions in a high-security safe. The two men become ...
Style: retro, manga, realistic, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: chess, female nudity, robbery, trapped, heist, friendship between men, safecracker, friendship, chase, soldier, rivalry, femme fatale ...
Time: 60s
Place: algeria, france, europe, paris france, congo ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
Lacombe, Lucien (1974)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: France, Italy, West Germany
Duration: 138 min.
Story: In 1944 Lucien Lacombe, a young peasant in the Lot region is refused permission to join the French Resistance. Instead, the opposing "French Gestapo" obtain from him information about an underground leader and recruit him into their ...
Style: anthology, art house, postmodern, visual, controversial ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: world war two, french resistance, occupation, collaborator, children in wartime, gestapo, nazi occupation, resistance, nazi, wartime life, resistance movement, world war ...
Time: year 1944, 1940s, year 1974, 20th century
Place: france, vichy, israel, europe, germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
 6.3
 496
Us Two (1979)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Françoise has gone into business seducing men whose wives want to divorce them, and who need incriminating evidence against them. In addition, she has a little blackmail operation going on on the side with politicians who can't afford a ...
Style: neo noir, realistic, serious, stylized, suspenseful
Plot: on the run, prostitute, gangster, couples, dishonesty, love and romance, criminal heroes, chases and races, frame up, cons and scams, heist, cello ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: marseille, quebec
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
The French Detective (1975)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 91 min.
Story: When political thugs murder an opponent's volunteer and also kill a cop, chief inspector Verjeat believes the politician who hired them is as guilty as the murderous goon. Verjeat's pursuit of the councilman, Lardatte, gets him a warning ...
Style: crime drama, realistic, serious, bleak, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: politics, police officer, judiciary, hostage, murder, manslaughter, prostitute, partner, price of justice, police corruption, political corruption, police investigation ...
Time: year 1975, 70s
Place: france, europe, paris france, normandy
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
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The Aftermath (2019)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: United Arab Emirates, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: In the aftermath of World War II, a British colonel and his wife are assigned to live in Hamburg during the post-war reconstruction, but tensions arise with the German widower who lives with them.
Style: realistic, melancholic, serious, philosophical, psychological ...
Audience: chick flick, boys' night
Plot: post war germany, unfaithful wife, cheating wife, adultery, husband wife relationship, love hate relationship, infidelity, horny wife, love triangle, extramarital affair, world war two, cheating on husband ...
Time: post world war two, 1940s, year 2019, year 1945, year 1943 ...
Place: hamburg germany, alps, london, northern germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Thieves Like Us (1974)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: Bowie, a youthful convicted murderer, and bank robbers Chicamaw and T-Dub escape from a Mississippi chain gang in the 1930s. They hole up with a gas station attendant and continue robbing banks. Bowie, who is injured in an auto accident, takes ...
Style: neo noir, road movie, realistic, serious, sincere ...
Plot: on the run, heist, lovers on the run, bank, murder, great depression, criminal, robbery, prison, crime spree, female nudity, thief ...
Time: 1930s, year 1974, 20th century
Place: mississippi, usa, southern usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
 7.0
 2K
Fast, Fast (1981)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Angela begins to hang around with Pablo and his gang of young robbers.
Style: hood, realistic, serious, bleak, suspenseful ...
Plot: gang, juvenile delinquent, bank robbery, robbery, coming of age, gangster, ghetto, juvenile delinquency, kids in trouble, disorder, love and romance, danger ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: iberian peninsula, madrid, spain, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
 6.6
 1K
Free Men (2011)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: France
Duration: 99 min.
Story: In Paris during WWII, an Algerian immigrant is inspired to join the resistance by his unexpected friendship with a Jewish man. Based on not very known facts about the Muslim community in Paris during WWII, when the Paris Mosque and its dynamic ...
Style: serious, realistic, sincere, touching
Plot: german occupation, world war two, resistance, friendship, human spirit, idealism, rebellion, moral dilemma, fighting the system, anti semitism, wartime life, life is a bitch ...
Time: 1940s, year 1942, year 1944, 20th century
Place: paris france, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Breaking and Entering (2006)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Set in a blighted, inner-city neighbourhood of London, Breaking and Entering examines an affair which unfolds between a successful British landscape architect and Amira, a Bosnian woman – the mother of a troubled teen son – who was widowed by ...
Style: sincere, heartbreaking, compassionate, psychological, stylized ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: immigrant, infidelity, architect, autism, destiny, society, blackmail, working class, social differences, depression, single parent, breaking and entering ...
Time: year 2006, 20th century, 21st century
Place: london, england, europe, sarajevo, bosnia
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Max and the Junkmen (1971)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Max is a Paris detective, aloof, independently wealthy, and frustrated by gangs of robbers whom he cannot catch. To re-establish his stature and save face, he decides to inveigle a group of petty thieves (led by an old acquaintance) to rob a bank. A ...
Style: neo noir, detective, noir, realistic, serious ...
Plot: heist, prostitute, manipulation, thief, outlaw, fall in love, disguise, criminal gang, fencing, trap, bank robbery, entrapment ...
Time: year 1971, 70s, 20th century
Place: paris france, europe, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
The Valachi Papers (1972)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 110 min.
Story: When Joe Valachi (Charles Bronson) has a price put on his head by Don Vito Genovese (Lino Ventura), he must take desperate steps to protect himself while in prison. An unsuccessful attempt to slit his throat puts him over the edge to break the ...
Style: tense, serious, realistic, bleak, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: prison, italian mafia, mafia, cosa nostra, mobster, hitman, organized crime, criminal, bad guy, spy, gangster, murder ...
Time: 1940s, year 1972, 1920s, 1930s, 1950s ...
Place: europe, italy, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
 6.5
 1K
The Nark (1982)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A Paris police detective (Richard Berry) plays rough with a prostitute (Nathalie Baye) and her pimp/lover (Philippe Léotard), whom he wants as an informant.
Style: neo noir, anthology, detective, realistic, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: sex, undercover police officer, undercover agent, prostitution, spy, gangster, nudity, hooker, french algerian war, vice squad, love triangle, male nudity ...
Time: 80s
Place: paris france, new york, france, brazil
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
 7.2
 54K
Anthropoid (2016)
Genre: Action, Biography, Drama, History, Romance, Thriller, War
Country: UK, France, USA, Czech Republic
Duration: 120 min.
Story: In December 1941, Czech soldier Jozef Gabčík and Jan Kubiš parachute into their occupied homeland to assassinate Nazi officer Reinhard Heydrich
Style: factual, realistic, emotional, clever, social ...
Plot: nazi, world war two, assassination, gestapo, nazi occupation, conspiracy, torture, friendship between men, suspicion, holocaust, ss, third reich ...
Time: 1940s, year 2016, y2k, 90s, 2010s ...
Place: germany, prague, central europe, munich germany, czechoslovakia
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Edges of the Lord (2001)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA, Poland
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A 12-year-old Jewish boy hides with a family of Catholic peasant farmers to escape the Nazis.
Style: touching, sentimental, emotional, realistic, contemplative ...
Audience: date night, family outing
Plot: holocaust, world war two, wartime life, catholic, nazi, coming of age, human spirit, survival, hidden identity, fish out of water, anti semitism, lifesaver ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century
Place: poland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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 6.1
 8K
Good (2008)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 92 min.
Story: The rise of national socialism in Germany should not be regarded as a conspiracy of madmen. Millions of "good" people found themselves in a society spiralling into terrible chaos. A film about then, which illuminates the terrors of now.
Style: serious, realistic, disturbing, captivating, romantic drama ...
Plot: nazi, writers, politics, moral dilemma, state affairs, wartime life, political unrest, society, nazi germany, third reich, holocaust, mother son relationship ...
Time: 1930s, year 2008, 20th century, year 1937, year 1933 ...
Place: germany, europe, paris france, berlin germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
 6.5
 3K
Cop or Hood (1979)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 107 min.
Story: When the local police inspector was found dead in a prostitute's house, police division commissioner Stan Borowitz is sent to investigate the situation. Posing as the prostitute's long-lost brother "Antonio Cerruti," he discovers ...
Style: suspense, disturbing, tense, suspenseful, neo noir ...
Plot: corruption, organized crime, police, assassination, police brutality, chase, murder investigation, police operation, employer employee relationship, violence, attempted murder, bad cop ...
Place: south of france, france, cote d'azur, nice france, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
 5.7
 1K
Deadfall (1968)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Cat burglar Henry Clarke and his accomplices the Moreaus attempt to steal diamonds from the chateau of millionaire Salinas.
Style: neo noir, realistic, serious, freeze frame, british noir
Plot: heist, love triangle, caper, gay, affair, mansion, jewel thief, burglar, diamond theft, partner, dishonesty, rehabilitation ...
Time: 60s
Place: madrid
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Dark Blue World (2001)
Genre: War, Drama, Action, Romance
Country: Czech Republic, UK, Germany, Denmark, Italy, France, USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Lt. Franta Slama is a top pilot in the Czech Air Force who is assigned to train a promising young flier, Karel Vojtisek, and they soon become friends. When Nazi Germany invades Czechoslovakia in 1939, they both reject the authority of their new ...
Style: sentimental, intense, sincere, captivating, non-linear ...
Plot: aviation, world war two, war, friendship, culture clash, air battle, love triangle, wartime life, battle zone, world war, wartime, prison ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 2001, post world war two, year 1939 ...
Place: england, london, czech republic, europe, czechoslovakia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 5.9
 4K
B. Monkey (1998)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: When wistful introvert Alan Furnace meets quick-witted bombshell Beatrice, he has no idea of her secret life as "B. Monkey" -- the top thief-for-hire in London's criminal underworld. Charmed by Furnace's innocent and chivalrous ...
Style: neo noir, black comedy, cult classic, serious, realistic ...
Plot: teacher, sex, nudity, love, violence, gangster, hospital, storytelling, drinking, addiction, betrayal, british ...
Time: year 1998, 90s
Place: london, paris france, england, united kingdom, france ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Love the Hard Way (2001)
Genre: Drama, Crime, Romance
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Claire, a brilliant student, seeks answers to the meaning of life in the calm of her biology laboratory. One day, she meets a mysterious young man, Jack, at the cinema, and is intrigued by his style, assurance and audacity. Apart from his artistic ...
Style: neo noir, realistic, serious, bleak, romantic drama ...
Plot: couples, love and romance, student life, cons and scams, destructive relationship, college, lie, dancing, police, friendship, friend, secret ...
Time: year 2001
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Chicago Joe and the Showgirl (1990)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller, War
Country: UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story: During World War II, an American serviceman in London decides to impress his English girlfriend by acting as an American gangster, which soon turns deadly.
Style: serious, suspenseful, tense, realistic, atmospheric ...
Plot: world war two, gangster, investigation, soldier, heist, crime spree, dishonesty, criminal heroes, frame up, cons and scams, wartime life, serial killer ...
Time: 1940s
Place: england, london, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Earthly Possessions (1999)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A bored wife, who is planning to run away from her minister husband, is taken hostage in a bank robbery. However, she sees the thrill in being involved in the chase and becomes an accomplice to helping the younger robber escape his pursuers. As ...
Style: disturbing, captivating, suspense, sincere, talky ...
Plot: older woman younger man relationship, hostage, escape, on the road, heist, pregnancy, love and romance, money, bank, kidnapping, kidnapped, age-gap relationship ...
Time: 90s
Place: mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
The Last Butterfly (1991)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Czechoslovakia, France, UK
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Stage mime Antoine Moreau is compelled by the Gestapo to put on a performance for the children of Terezin, a "model" concentration camp, to convince the Red Cross observers that the camp is truly what it seems. Reluctant at first, Moreau ...
Style: fairy tale, crying
Plot: world war two, mime, french resistance, gestapo, children, orchestra, concentration camp, red cross, girl, world war, ashes, village ...
Time: 1940s, year 1991
Place: czechoslovakia, berlin germany, europe, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Outside the Law (2010)
Genre: Crime, Drama, War
Country: France, Algeria, Belgium, Tunisia, Italy
Duration: 138 min.
Story: After losing their family home in Algeria in the 1920s, three brothers and their mother are scattered across the globe. Messaoud joins the French army fighting in Indochina; Abdelkader becomes a leader of the Algerian independence movement in France ...
Style: realistic, atmospheric, political, captivating, tense ...
Plot: french algerian war, algerian war, politics, police brutality, resistance, revenge, war crime, political unrest, family relations, society, military, world war two ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, 60s, 50s, post world war two ...
Place: algeria, france, africa, europe, north africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
The Grissom Gang (1971)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story: The Grissom Gang is a remake of the notorious 1949 British melodrama No Orchids For Miss Blandish. Kim Darby plays a 1920s-era debutante who is kidnapped and held for ransom. Her captors are the Grissoms, a family comprised of sadists and morons, ...
Style: neo noir, independent film, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot: hostage, gangster, stockholm syndrome, woman with a gun, private investigator, organized crime, nightclub singer, criminal gang, family relations, kidnapping, gang, survival ...
Time: year 1971, 1930s, 1920s, year 1931
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Angry Harvest (1985)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: West Germany
Duration: 105 min.
Story: In the winter of 1942-43, a Jewish family leaps from a train going through Silesia. They are separated in the woods, and Leon, a local peasant who's now a farmer of some wealth, discovers the woman, Rosa, and hides her in his cellar. ...
Style: political, insightful, sincere, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot: holocaust, world war two, captivity, female nudity, nazi, israeli, renaissance, world war, anti semitism, train, survival, older man younger woman relationship ...
Time: 1940s, year 1985
Place: eastern europe, israel, poland, europe, holland ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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