Movies like Mr. Nice

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Mr. Nice (2010)
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Mr. Nice (2010)
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: UK, Spain
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Biopic about 1970s Welsh marijuana trafficker Howard Marks, whose inventive smuggling schemes made him a huge success in the drug trade, as well as leading to dealings with both the IRA and British Intelligence. Based on Marks' biography with the same title.
Style: realistic, semi serious, stylized, absurd, art house, indie film, offbeat, cult film
Plot: terrorism, drug dealing, drug use, plan gone awry, conspiracy, partners in crime, smuggler, smuggling, biopic, elite, sex scene, mafia, cia, art, stoner, gangsta, british gangster, prison, ira, criminal heroes, university, profanity, sexual content, partner, pregnancy ...
Time: 70s, 60s, 20th century
Place: england, wales, europe
Keyword: alias, gangsters, partners

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Most similar movies to Mr. Nice

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, captivating and stylized films with plots about gangster, female nudity, drug, criminal heroes, biopic, drug dealing and profanity mostly in Drama, Crime and Biography genres. Some movies like Mr. Nice: Kid Cannabis (2014), The Preacher (2004), Blow (2001), Twin Town (1997), Rise of the Footsoldier (2007). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Kid Cannabis (2014)
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: An eighteen year old high school drop out and his twenty-seven year old friend start trafficking marijuana across the border of Canada in order to make money and their lives are changed forever.
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, touching, captivating ...
Plot: drug smuggling, weed, marijuana, drug dealing, life is a bitch, buddies, youth, teenage life, male nudity, partner, disorder, ambition ...
Time: year 2015, year 2006, year 2005, 21st century
Place: usa, idaho, canada
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88%
 6.7
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The Preacher (2004)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Different solution new movie ;-) The Preacher tells the story about the rise and fall off a dutch mafiaboss. The movie is based on the story of Klaas Bruinsma.
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, rough, controversial ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gangster, dishonesty, assassination, betrayal, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, murder, hitman, gunfight, true crime, organized crime, serial killer, mob boss ...
Time: 80s, 70s, 20th century, 90s
Place: holland, amsterdam
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.5
 274K
Blow (2001)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: A boy named George Jung grows up in a struggling family in the 1950's. His mother nags at her husband as he is trying to make a living for the family. It is finally revealed that George's father cannot make a living and the family goes ...
Style: depressing, touching, emotional, serious, epic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: drug addiction, drug lord, drug abuse, drug dealing, friendship, drug, drug dealer, drug cartel, rise and fall, addiction, gangster, drug use ...
Time: 70s, year 2001, 20th century, 80s, near future ...
Place: latin america, colombia, california, mexico, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
 6.7
 6K
Twin Town (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Jeremy and Julian Lewis, the "Lewis Twins", are two unruly brothers who terrorise the city of Swansea from the caravan park where they live with their family. When their father, Fatty, is injured while working on a roof for local kingpin ...
Style: dark comedy, black comedy, independent film, tense, realistic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: brother brother relationship, dog, gangster, twins, stoner, violence, corruption, revenge, drug, angry, caper, skinhead ...
Time: year 1997, 90s
Place: wales, england, britain, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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Rise of the Footsoldier (2007)
Genre: Action, Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Rise of the Footsoldier follows the inexorable rise of Carlton Leach from one of the most feared generals of the football terraces to becoming a member of a notorious gang of criminals who rampaged their way through London and Essex in the late ...
Style: serious, captivating, realistic, tense, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gang, hooligan, drug abuse, murder, criminal, betrayal, police investigation, partners in crime, criminal heroes, rivalry, vicious, dishonor among criminals ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, 90s
Place: england, united kingdom, britain, europe, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
 7.0
 36K
Find Me Guilty (2006)
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Based on the true story of Jack DiNorscio, a mobster who defended himself in court for what would be the longest mafia trial in U.S. history.
Style: tense, suspense, stylized, realistic, captivating ...
Plot: courtroom drama, mafia, courtroom, lawyer, jury, gangster, court, lone hero, mobster, legal, justice, outsmarting ...
Time: y2k, year 2006, 20th century, 80s
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Sex, Drugs & Taxation (2013)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Maybe the best thing to come out of Scandinavia during the hippie years was, in fact, the story of a radical libertarian and a hedonist capitalist. Their friendship, forged by being outsiders in a conformist country, took them through years of ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, captivating, humorous, offbeat
Plot: womanizer, friendship, rebelliousness, society, fighting the system, workplace, odd couple, sexual relations, biopic, hippie, politics, male pubic hair ...
Time: 20th century, 60s
Place: denmark, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Elvis Meets Nixon (1997)
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A "mockumentary" about Elvis's real-life trip to the White House to become a federal marshal under the DEA
Style: mockumentary, biting, realistic, semi serious, humorous ...
Plot: elvis presley, special agent, drug dealing, politics, performer's life, artists and showbiz, head of state, ambition, state affairs, media, government agency, fighting crime ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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 6.7
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McVicar (1980)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 112 min.
Story: John McVicar was a London Bad Boy. he graduated to armed bank robbery and was Britain's "Public Enemy No. 1". He was captured and put into a high security prison. Will even the highest security prison be able to hold him? This is the ...
Style: serious, realistic, rough, independent film
Plot: prison, prison escape, jail, prison life, angry, football hooligan, skinhead, shipwreck, gang, imprisonment, criminal, gay interest ...
Time: year 1980, 60s
Place: england, london, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Romanzo Criminale (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, France, UK
Duration: 152 min.
Story: The Lebanese has a dream: to conquer the underworld of Rome. To carry out this feat without precedent he puts together a ruthless and highly organized gang. Their progress and changes in leadership take place over 25 years, from the 1970s into the ...
Style: serious, stylized, realistic, captivating, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gangster, gang, police investigation, criminal heroes, partner, law enforcement, leadership, rivalry, ransom, drug dealing, organized crime, inspector ...
Time: 80s, year 2005, 70s, 90s, 60s ...
Place: italy, rome italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Bonded by Blood (2010)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story: In 1995, drug suppliers and career criminals Tony Tucker, Patrick Tate and Craig Rolfe were blasted to death by a shot gun whilst waiting in a Range Rover in Rettendon, Essex. The film charts their rise to become the most prolific dealers and feared ...
Style: tense, serious, rough, suspenseful, realistic
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gang, rise and fall, rivalry, partner, gangster, dishonesty, betrayal, criminal heroes, vengeance, drug dealing, ambition, violence ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: england, britain, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 6.2
 18K
Casino Jack (2010)
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Based on a true story, a hot shot Washington DC lobbyist and his protégé go down hard as their schemes to peddle influence lead to corruption and murder.
Style: political, factual, satirical, visually appealing, stylized ...
Audience: adult
Plot: native american, politics, manipulation, gambling, conspiracy, profanity, cons and scams, corruption, ambition, lifestyle, dishonesty, investigation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 6.1
 28K
Dom Hemingway (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: After spending 12 years in prison for keeping his mouth shut, notorious safe-cracker Dom Hemingway is back on the streets of London looking to collect what he's owed.
Style: talky, stylized, witty, bad ending, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: redemption, dark humor, safecracker, crime gone awry, dysfunctional family, bank robbery, sex scene, temperamental, criminal heroes, hopes, caper, money ...
Time: y2k, year 2013, 21st century
Place: england, france, europe, french riviera, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
The Look of Love (2013)
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Paul Raymond builds a porn, entertainment and real estate empire that makes him the wealthiest man in Britain, but drugs doom his beloved daughter, Debbie.
Style: captivating, realistic, sexy, stylized, sexual ...
Audience: teens
Plot: strip club, showbiz, nudity, lifestyle, ambition, rise to the top, family problems, starlet, dancer, stripper, divorce, couples ...
Time: 70s, 60s, 20th century, 50s, 80s ...
Place: somalia, london, england, britain, united kingdom
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 7.1
 41K
Chopper (2000)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 94 min.
Story: The true and intense story of Mark 'Chopper' Read, a legendary criminal who wrote his autobiography while serving a jail sentence in prison.
Style: disturbing, dark comedy, cynical, rough, cult classic ...
Audience: manly
Plot: prison, brutality, jail, gangster, character study, murder, eccentricity, judge, self destructing, criminal heroes, prison life, notoriety ...
Time: year 2000, 80s, 70s, 20th century, year 1986 ...
Place: australia, melbourne, oceania
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
24 Hour Party People (2002)
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: UK
Duration: 117 min.
Story: In 1976, Tony Wilson sets up Factory Records and brings Manchester's music to the world.
Style: witty, psychedelic, atmospheric, humorous, sincere ...
Plot: clubbing, punk, rock and roll, party, music, biopic, rave, drug addiction, rock, music business, nightclub, suicide ...
Time: 70s, 80s, year 2002, 20th century, 90s ...
Place: england, manchester, europe, northern england, united kingdom
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
In the Name of the Father (1993)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 133 min.
Story: A small time thief from Belfast, Gerry Conlon, is falsely implicated in the IRA bombing of a pub that kills several people while he is in London. He and his four friends are coerced by British police into confessing their guilt. Gerry's father ...
Style: political, sentimental, inspirational, dramatic, factual ...
Plot: prison, terrorist, lawyer, father son relationship, courtroom, terrorism, trial, biopic, legal, justice, politics, courtroom drama ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, year 1993, 80s, 70s
Place: ireland, northern ireland, england, britain, nepal ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 6.4
 7K
Cass (2008)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story: The incredible true story of how an orphaned Jamaican baby, adopted by an elderly white couple and brought up in an all white area of London, became one of the most feared and respected men in Britain.
Style: psychological, serious, realistic, rough, powerful ...
Plot: racism, adoption, interracial relations, bullying, lifestyle, going straight, self discovery, rise to the top, parents and children, rebellion, human spirit, rivalry ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: england, britain, london, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Rancid Aluminum (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Pete Thompson thinks he has it all. However, following the death of his father his close friend and accountant reveals the company he has been left is bust and the only way out is to do business with the Russian mafia. His life and heart are on the ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, tense, sad, realistic ...
Plot: gangster, family business, going straight, hitman, down on your luck, cons and scams, love affair, drug abuse, dishonesty, betrayal, buddies, life is a bitch ...
Time: 90s
Place: europe, england, london, germany, russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
My Name Ain't Johnny (2008)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 124 min.
Story: In the 90's, In Rio de Janeiro, the middle-class João Guilherme Estrella is introduced to the world of drugs consuming maconha and cocaine first and later becoming a drug-dealer with many connections inclusive in Europe. However, he spends all ...
Style: stylized, realistic, serious, captivating, rough ...
Plot: prison, drug lord, drug dealing, life is a bitch, couple relations, buddies, ambition, addiction, partner, rehabilitation, starting over, hopes ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, 90s, 70s
Place: rio de janeiro, venice, latin america, brazil
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
American Gangster (2007)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 157 min.
Story: Following the death of his employer and mentor, Bumpy Johnson, Frank Lucas establishes himself as the number one importer of heroin in the Harlem district of Manhattan. He does so by buying heroin directly from the source in South East Asia and he ...
Style: serious, tense, realistic, suspense, harsh ...
Audience: manly, boys' night, adult
Plot: organized crime, mafia, gangster, mob boss, heroin, drug lord, mobster, police, violence, crime boss, drug traffic, gang ...
Time: 60s, 70s, year 2007, 20th century, year 1970 ...
Place: new york, new jersey, vietnam, china, cuba ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 6.6
 9K
The Krays (1990)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 115 min.
Story: The Krays is a film based on the lives and crimes of the British gangsters Ronald and Reginald Kray, twins who are often referred to as The Krays and were active in London in the 1960s.
Style: neo noir, realistic, serious, tense, rough ...
Plot: gangster, twins, mafia, organized crime, mental illness, violent, murder, male nudity, brutality, british gangster, gang, mobster ...
Time: 1940s, 60s, 20th century, 1950s
Place: england, london, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Filth: The Mary Whitehouse Story (2008)
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The story of the rise of morals crusader Mary Whitehouse in the UK in the 1960's,
Style: semi serious, humorous, realistic, biting, thought provoking
Plot: media, couple relations, private vs public, couples, ignorance, television, conservatism, husband wife relationship, campaigning, morality, christian, campaign ...
Time: 20th century, 60s
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Lawless (2012)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Set in the Depression-era Franklin County, Virginia, a bootlegging gang is threatened by authorities who want a cut of their profits.
Style: intense, suspense, harsh, stylized, entertaining ...
Plot: mafia, gangster, bootlegging, smuggling, corruption, greed, gang, vigilante, prohibition, great depression, violence, robbery ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century, year 2012, 2010s, year 1940 ...
Place: virginia, usa, america, appalachia
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 5.7
 5K
Homegrown (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Three laborers on a Northern California marijuana plantation become increasingly paranoid when they learn that their boss has been murdered. They know enough to run, taking with them enough of the crop to pay them for services rendered. Hooking up ...
Style: suspenseful, stylized, realistic, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: weed, marijuana, drug abuse, murder, mafia, gunfight, greed, drug dealing, police investigation, crime gone awry, drug addiction, corruption ...
Time: 90s
Place: california, usa, northern california, san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 6.3
 3K
Dollars (1971)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story: A bank security expert plots with a call girl to rob the safety deposit boxes of three very different criminals from a high-tech bank in Hamburg.
Style: semi serious, realistic, cynical, humorous, clever ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: lovers on the run, robbery, caper, minimal dialogue, bank, heist, partner, hostage, disorder, chase, law enforcement, on the run ...
Time: year 1971, 20th century, 70s
Place: germany, europe, hamburg germany, copenhagen, san diego california
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 6.9
 191K
Black Mass (2015)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 123 min.
Story: The true story of Whitey Bulger, the brother of a state senator and the most infamous violent criminal in the history of South Boston, who became an FBI informant to take down a Mafia family invading his turf.
Style: suspense, factual, intense, brutal, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: mafia, corruption, gangster, irish mob, violence, murder, mob boss, true crime, mobster, illness, brutality, organized crime ...
Time: year 2015, 70s, 80s, 2010s, year 2016 ...
Place: boston, peru, usa, massachusetts, santa monica california ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 6.9
 19K
Saving Grace (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Unexpectedly widowed, prim and proper housewife Grace Trevethyn finds herself in dire financial straits when she inherits massive debts her late husband had been accruing for years. Faced with losing her house, she decides to use her talent for ...
Style: feel good, funny, humorous, entertaining, talky ...
Audience: date night
Plot: marijuana, drug dealer, small town, weed, drug dealing, family problems, farce, police investigation, twists and turns, female protagonist, drug, cannabis ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: england, cornwall, london, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 8.7
 1.2M
Goodfellas (1990)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 145 min.
Story: The true story of Henry Hill, a half-Irish, half-Sicilian Brooklyn kid who is adopted by neighbourhood gangsters at an early age and climbs the ranks of a Mafia family under the guidance of Jimmy Conway.
Style: rough, suspense, realistic, epic, brutal ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: organized crime, mafia, gangster, rise and fall, mobster, cosa nostra, mentor, criminal, badass, friends, italian mafia, biopic ...
Time: 70s, 50s, 90s, year 1990, year 1970 ...
Place: new york, brooklyn new york city, italy, florida, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 180 min.
Story: A New York stockbroker refuses to cooperate in a large securities fraud case involving corruption on Wall Street, corporate banking world and mob infiltration. Based on Jordan Belfort's autobiography.
Style: clever, captivating, motivational, cynical, dramatic ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: money, corruption, business, wall street, rise and fall, greed, stock market, addiction, success, stock broker, wealth, rags to riches ...
Time: 80s, year 2013, 90s, 2010s, 20th century ...
Place: new york, usa, america, geneva switzerland, italy ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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