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Anjaan (2014)
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Anjaan (2014)
Original name: அஞ்சான்
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 166 min.
Story: Krishna (Suriya) comes to Mumbai in search of his brother Raju Bhai (Suriya), an underworld don. Through Raju Bhai's gangster friends, his past life is revealed. What happened to Raju Bhai? Will Krishna find him?
Style: serious, suspenseful, exciting, realistic
Plot: gangster, vengeance, criminal's revenge, criminal heroes, uncover truth, revenge, friendship, murder, urban, violent content, fight, businessman, kidnapping, betrayal, handicapped, vacation, helicopter, taxi driver, traitor, chase, disappearance, anger, tattoo, brother, assassination attempt ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: india, asia, mumbai india
Keyword: gangsters, attack

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, exciting, serious and realistic films with plots about gangster, rivalry, murder, revenge, vengeance, deadly and violent content mostly in Action, Crime and Thriller genres. Some movies like Anjaan: Bullett Raja (2013), Kaakha Kaakha (2003), Billa (2007), Panjaa (2011), Singam (2010). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Bullett Raja (2013)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 138 min.
Story: A common man who transforms into a gangster revolts against the very system he once obediently followed by declaring war on the police, the government, and the industrialists.
Style: serious, suspenseful, realistic, exciting, captivating ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: vengeance, master criminal, chase, rise to the top, ambition, criminal's revenge, rivalry, criminal heroes, gangster, police officer, government official, disorder ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india, asia
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Kaakha Kaakha (2003)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 153 min.
Story: Kaakha Kaakha is a 2003 Tamil crime thriller film written and directed by Gautham Menon. The film released to highly positive reviews in August 2003 and went on to become the first Biggest Blockbuster in Suriya's career, and was considered a ...
Style: realistic, suspenseful, serious, rough, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: police, vengeance, criminal's revenge, law enforcement, corrupt law enforcer, organized crime, danger, criminal heroes, murder, police officer, betrayal, criminal ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india
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Billa (2007)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 130 min.
Story: The intertwined stories of an international Don in Malaysia, David Billa, chased by the cops, an Indian police officer, a woman who wants to avenge the death of her brother, and a lowly thief, Velu who shares with Billa, an unusual connection.
Style: exciting, realistic, serious, suspenseful
Plot: law enforcement, rivalry, working undercover, twists and turns, danger, disorder, hidden identity, criminal heroes, master criminal, chases and races, gangster, switching roles ...
Time: 21st century
Place: asia, malaysia
⇓ similarity ⇓
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 6.5
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Panjaa (2011)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 156 min.
Story: The story begins in Kolkata and here the mafia don Bhagawan (Jackie shroff) is ruling the roost. He has a loyal aide in the form of Jai who keeps protecting him from many dangers.. Kulakarni (Atul Kulakarni) is the rival of Bhagavan. Jai has a ...
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Audience: boys' night
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Time: 21st century
Place: india, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Singam (2010)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 160 min.
Story: The story, set in the backdrop of Nallore, a small town in Thoothukudi District, revolves around Sub-Inspector Durai Singam (Surya), a brave and just policeman who serves in his hometown primarily to fulfill his father’s (Radha Ravi) wish. Durai ...
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Time: 21st century
Place: india
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25%
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Mumbai Mirror (2013)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 136 min.
Story: Mumbai Mirror revolves around Abhijeet Patil, a hardcore action packed cop, who can neither tolerate violence against women nor crime in his area. He comes across a drug racket led by Shetty, who runs several bars in the city. One of the dancers, ...
Style: brutal, disturbing, suspense, exciting, suspenseful
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Players (2012)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: India, Russia
Duration: 163 min.
Story: Learning of a fortune in gold being secretly shipped to Romania, master thieves Charlie and Riya assemble a crack team to steal it.
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Plot: vengeance, gang, betrayal, partner, cons and scams, rivalry, safecracker, caper, heist, chases and races, dishonesty, criminal's revenge ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
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 5.5
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Bachelor Party (2012)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Bachelor Party is a 2012 Malayalam–language Indian action film directed, co-produced and filmed by Amal Neerad. The film stars Asif Ali, Indrajith, Rahman, Kalabhavan Mani, Vinayakan and Nithya Menen in the lead roles while Prithviraj makes a ...
Style: unusual plot structure, contemplative, exciting, suspenseful, suspense ...
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Time: 21st century
Place: india
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Ghajini (2005)
Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
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Duration: 175 min.
Story: The film's story is around a rich business entrepreneur falling in love with an ad film actress. The entrepreneur and the actress fall in love, though she does not know that he is an entrepreneur. When she successfully saves a bunch of children ...
Style: tense, realistic, psychological, suspenseful, rough ...
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Place: asia, india
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Johan Falk: De 107 patrioterna (2012)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Germany
Duration: 92 min.
Story: It's a beautiful day in Slottsskogen, Gothenburg idyllic city park, when suddenly the unthinkable happens - gunfire amidst all people. Two gangsters shooting game against each other and a large police operation starts. The conflict grows ...
Style: exciting, suspenseful, serious, tense, captivating ...
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Time: 21st century
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Zero Tolerance (1999)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Johan is a two-fisted Gothenburg cop who finds himself in a shoot-out with jewel robbers. After the smoke has cleared, one robber, shot by his accomplice, and an innocent bystander, are dead. Three witnesses, including Helen, identify thug ...
Style: detective, serious, realistic, exciting, suspenseful ...
Plot: police officer, chase, murder, nordic, shootout, swedish, european, police, revenge, witness, robbery, threat ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: europe, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 8.4
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Thani Oruvan (2015)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 160 min.
Story: An idealistic cop and an ambitious scientist-businessman indulge in a high-stake battle of wits.
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Plot: good versus evil, police, gangster, society, heroes, death, crime boss, mad scientist, scientist, revenge, violence, crime family ...
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Place: india
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Thoongaavanam (2015)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 128 min.
Story: An undercover cop finds himself in a Catch-22 situation where he has to return the drugs he had stolen from a kingpin in exchange for his son. The bag containing the drug goes missing, and with both gangsters and cops on his tail, can he get out of ...
Style: tense, disturbing, exciting, suspense, suspenseful
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Time: 21st century
Place: india
⇓ similarity ⇓
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 5.8
 8K
Yevadu (2014)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 165 min.
Story: Satya is given a different face after he suffers burn-related injuries. After being released from the hospital, he deals with the murderer of his lover Deepti. But his new face has given him new foes.
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Place: india, asia
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 3.4
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Ten Dead Men (2008)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: You can’t outrun your past. That is the extremely painful lesson that Ryan (Brendan Carr)is learning right now, as spectres of his past life of crime have returned to haunt him, destroying the only person he holds dear, and nearly killing him in ...
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Place: england
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21%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 166 min.
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City War (1988)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Two cops--both partners and best friends--find their friendship and their lives at stake when they try to take down a ruthless drug dealer.
Style: heroic, cult classic, exciting, serious, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
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Place: hong kong, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Naan Mahaan Alla (2010)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 132 min.
Story: A playful young man leads a very happy life, but everything changes when his father witnesses a heinous crime.
Style: suspense, exciting, tense, disturbing, serious ...
Plot: fight, revenge, father son relationship, one against many, gangster, vigilantism, chase, righteous rage, gang rape, murder of father, life turned upside down, witnessing a crime ...
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If You Knew Me (2015)
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Story: Sathyadev, who is on a career break, is forced to put on his cop shoes ones again to save Thenmozhi, a young woman who is the target of a criminal organ harvesting group, led by a ghost from his past.
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Country: India
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Story: The story is on the concept of karma and bad deeds. It follows Viren Sahai (Amitabh Bachchan), underworld don who rules over India. His son Abhir (Sushant Singh) is spoilt and believes he can do anything due to his father's power. When ...
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Black Ransom (2010)
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Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A powerful triad boss has been kidnapped, and the new police superintendent Koo (Fala Chen) decides to recruit the help of Mann (Simon Yam), a former supercop who has since been relegated to back-up duty. Mann has his work cut out for him when he ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, captivating, tense, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
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Wanted (2009)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: India
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Country: India
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Story: An assassin who is fresh from his latest kill becomes stranded in an island, when he inadvertently befriends a female police officer. As the night progresses, the unspoken truth honored by the two sides of the law is broken. After the remains of a ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Shanghai Grand (1996)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Gangsters abound in this lively, romantic crime drama that is set in Shanghai during WW II. The tale of Taiwanese patriot Hsu Wen-Chiang begins as he is washed up on a beach near Shanghai. He is taken in by Ting Lik, a kindly beggar who is ...
Style: heroic, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
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Time: 1930s, 20th century
Place: taiwan, china, asia, shanghai
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Kaththi (2014)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 166 min.
Story: Kathiresan aka Kaththi, a criminal, escapes from the Kolkata prison and comes to Chennai, where he comes across his doppelganger Jeevanandham, fighting for his life after being shot at by unknown men. Kathir decides to pass off as Jeeva and make ...
Style: exciting, captivating, tense, psychological, feel good ...
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Place: asia, india
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 7.3
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Theri (2016)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 157 min.
Story: When an honest cop, Vijay Kumar's family is ruthlessly slaughtered by a politician and his aides, he decides to change his identity and commits his life to bring his daughter up in a serene atmosphere. But some freak events end up compromising ...
Style: disturbing, tense, suspense, captivating, feel good
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⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
The Divine Move (2014)
Genre: Action, Crime
Country: South Korea
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Professional baduk (go) player Tae-seok loses a high-stakes game to infamous underground gambler Sal-soo, and ends up framed for the murder of his own brother and locked up in prison. He vows revenge and trains ferociously. After serving his ...
Style: exciting, suspenseful, rough, serious, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
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Time: 21st century
Place: korea, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 6.1
 11K
Billa II (2012)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 129 min.
Story: David Billa a refugee comes to Rameswaram in Tamil Nadu and his journey begins into crime. Initially he starts as a local diamond smuggler. He eventually meets Abbasi, an underworld don in Goa and helps him out in a deal and wins his favor. For one ...
Style: serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful, exciting
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Time: 21st century
Place: goa india, georgia
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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