Movies like Law of the Land
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Original name: Armoton maa
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Finland, Norway
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A retiring policeman gets caught up in between two younger men trying to kill each other. A modern borderline western taking place on both sides of the northern Finnish-Swedish border.
Style:
clever, realistic
Plot:
bounty hunter, estranged father, parent child relationship, father son relationship, revenge, police, past, policewoman, manhunt, ex convict, prejudice, wilderness, brother brother relationship, illegitimate son, manslaughter, half brother half brother relationship, father son estrangement, suspense, winter, nature, police officer, hunting, hunter, death, border ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
finland
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, suspenseful and captivating films with plots about murder, police, revenge, suspense, death, family relations and violence mostly in Drama, Crime and Thriller genres. Some movies like Law of the Land: Jai Gangaajal (2016), Snow (2015), Infidus (2015), Brothers (2011), The Worthless (1982). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 149 min.
Story:
The film features SP Abha Mathur who is appointed the first female SP of Bankipur district, Bihar. She then goes against the Local MLA of Bankipur and henchmen of Lakhisarai district.
Style:
captivating, exciting, contemplative
Plot:
gang, police, female protagonist, organized crime, police officer, policewoman, murder, tough girl, corrupt cop, sexism, fistfight, suspense ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Bulgaria, Ukraine
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
"Snow" is a film for the choice, betrayal and forgiveness between brothers and sons, narrated on the background of the harsh reality in an abandoned place.
Plot:
snow, winter, family relations, sibling relationship, parent child relationship, father son relationship, brother brother relationship
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
In the suburbs of Rome, two disparate lives with only desire for vengeance and redemption in common find their destinies intertwined. Massimo's mind is plagued with images of his wife's violent death at the hands of a criminal gang ...
Style:
brutal, bloody, suspenseful, psychological, tense
Plot:
suspense, revenge, prisoner, killer, murderer, brother brother relationship, ex convict, convict, brother, prison, pain, hunter ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
italy, rome italy
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73%
182
Genre: Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The script of this film was very loose and most of the dialog was improvised by the cast
Style:
psychological, captivating, sincere, contemplative
Plot:
brother brother relationship, father son relationship, father son reunion, family relations, death, troubled past, jealousy, dark past, father son estrangement, brother, birthday party, haunted by the past ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A criminal, his friend and his former girlfriend find their lives intertwining with each other.
Style:
road movie
Plot:
outsider, drifter, ex-lover, on the run, road trip, wanted, stolen painting, revenge, spring, crime boss, winter, bullet wound ...
Time:
80s
Place:
helsinki finland, finland, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
An adaptation of Dostoyevsky's novel, updated to present-day Helsinki. Slaughterhouse worker Rahikainen murders a man, and is forced to live with the consequences of his actions...
Style:
realistic, serious, neo noir, suspenseful, bleak
Plot:
crime and punishment, murder, guilty conscience, law enforcement, life is a bitch, down on your luck, guilt, police, friend, friendship, loneliness, morality ...
Time:
80s
Place:
europe, finland, helsinki finland
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
True story of a young woman's abduction by a deranged loner that led to the largest manhunt in the history of Pennsylvania.
Plot:
manhunt, stockholm syndrome, kidnapping, abduction, child abuse, nature, missing child, murder, ex convict, loneliness, held captive, wilderness ...
Time:
60s
Place:
pennsylvania
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58%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Jessie is an aging career criminal who has been in more jails, fights, schemes, and lineups than just about anyone else. His son Vito, while currently on the straight and narrow, has had a fairly shady past and is indeed no stranger to illegal ...
Style:
intense, clever, funny, talky, tense ...
Plot:
heist, dysfunctional family, father son relationship, caper, grandfather grandson relationship, gangsters, robbery, death of father, father son estrangement, ex convict, career criminal, death of grandfather ...
Time:
80s
Place:
new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Ricky spent years behind bars after taking the rap for his brother Rafael and his buddy Latif after a failed robbery. Now, Latif wants to express gratitude by letting Ricky in on a coup that will bring lots of money. After some hesitation, Ricky ...
Style:
disturbing, suspenseful, tense
Plot:
policewoman, theft, brother brother relationship, murder, jail, revenge, drugs, strong female character, heist gone wrong, friends, uncover truth, heroes ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
frankfurt germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A shocking crime forces a man to re-evaluate his life, only to find that going straight is more complicated than he imagined in this acclaimed drama from Finland. Ali (Jorma Tommila) is a low-level criminal who spends much of his spare time working ...
Style:
realistic, thought provoking, disturbing, serious, gloomy
Plot:
down on your luck, haunted by the past, family problems, starting over, going straight, society, male female relationship, ex convict, jail, violence, fatherhood, parent child relationship ...
Time:
90s
Place:
europe, finland
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
In order to avenge the murder of an old friend, a recently suspended female police officer goes undercover at an illegal gambling den where the winning prize is a night with one of the female staff.
Style:
tense, captivating, sexploitation film
Plot:
undercover cop, undercover, murder investigation, prostitution, illegal gambling, policewoman, police officer, prostitute, police, investigation, seductive woman, seductress ...
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49%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
8-Ball tells the story of single mother Pike who, having just been released from prison, is trying to start her life anew. When her former boyfriend Lalli comes back from abroad, it opens a window into a past that Pike wants to put behind her.
Style:
realistic, serious, suspenseful, sincere, bleak ...
Plot:
hopes, one more chance, starting over, going straight, haunted by the past, family relations, single parent, parents and children, domestic violence, past, motherhood, jail ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
finland
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Viktor spends his free time trawling bars with ladies of questionable repute, from where he is picked up by a wife he doesn’t love, the mother of a child they never planned. Viktor himself was abandoned by his own father, his mother then committed ...
Style:
emotional, captivating, realistic, road movie, surprise ending
Plot:
life is a bitch, family relations, greed, father son relationship, suspense, brutality, complex characters, criminal heroes, runaway, disability, father son estrangement, relationships ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
In this French crime thriller, you can leave the mob, but the mob won't leave you. Louis (Jean Yanne) has retired to a Thailand plantation with an Asian wife and child. Back in Marseilles, however, because a no-holds-barred gang war has broken ...
Plot:
killer, revenge, vigilantism, mafia, mafia don, plantation, hitman, widow, police, brother brother relationship, murder, politician ...
Place:
marseille, bangkok thailand
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41%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 70 min.
Story:
Two men, Nieminen and Varjola, commit a mail van robbery. Varjola betrays his friend: shoots him and takes the loot. Nieminen is arrested, but he refuses to reveal his accomplice's name. On his first leave on prison Nieminen finds Varjola in a ...
Plot:
election, revenge, murder, disguise, politician, wound, murderer, robbery, payback, hostel, autumn, past ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A journey into the lives of Middle-Eastern Australians in Sydney's outer-west.
Style:
realistic, captivating, psychological, tense, serious
Plot:
friendship, heist, immigrants, buddies, social differences, partners, fall in love, drugs, murder, suspense, gang, racism ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
australia
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40%
907
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
The final installment in director Lucas Belvaux's trilogy follows Pascal, a cop who sees a return to credibility in the capture of escaped convict Bruno--who in turn is harbored by Pascal's morphine-addicted wife Agnes. Pascal's ...
Style:
serious, realistic, psychological, bleak, art house ...
Plot:
drug dealing, police corruption, moral dilemma, downfall, introspection, haunted by the past, vengeance, on the run, fugitives, life is a bitch, destructive relationship, drug abuse ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Accusations of guilt turns a father into a fugitive, leaving his son to find and bring him home after struggling to put the pieces together.
Style:
captivating, suspenseful, realistic, serious
Plot:
small town, runaway, family relations, family crisis, teen angst, father son relationship, brother brother relationship, amateur detective, search for father, dysfunctional family, gunfight, suspense ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Bad Family (Finnish: Paha perhe) is a 2010 Finnish drama/black comedy film written and directed by Aleksi Salmenperä and produced by Aki Kaurismäki. The film tells the story of an overly protective and controlling father who suspects incest is ...
Style:
sincere, touching, witty, disturbing, realistic ...
Plot:
brother sister incest, dysfunctional family, family relations, family problems, parents and children, teenage love, disorder, family in crisis, siblings relations, nothing goes right, brother sister relationship, adolescence vs adulthood ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
finland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
In the 1930s, a farmer's wife in a small town is murdered. Suspicion falls on a Polish labourer and a posse is formed to catch him.
Plot:
police, on the run, death, murder, small town, hotel, husband wife relationship, police officer, hunting, city, runaway, lynch mob ...
Time:
1930s
Place:
adelaide south australia, australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Czech Republic
Style:
suspenseful, captivating, psychological, tense
Plot:
psychopath as protagonist, revenge, violence, police, murder, ex convict, racist, juvenile delinquency, racism, teenage boy, juvenile delinquent, robbery ...
Time:
20th century
Place:
czech republic
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Genre: Drama
Country: Finland, Norway
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Vaarala, a reserved romantic photographer, has an odd artistic vision of loneliness: he takes serial photos of an empty park bench in remote spaces of nature. When he meets and falls in love with the spirited, unruly Ansa, his ‘bench’ is ...
Style:
tense, disturbing, captivating, suspenseful
Plot:
love, photographer, brother brother relationship, love triangle, jealousy, robbery, strict father, manslaughter, love affair, ex husband ex wife relationship, single mother, single parent ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
norway, finland
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 141 min.
Story:
A successful lawyer returns to his hometown for his mother's funeral only to discover that his estranged father, the town's judge, is suspected of murder.
Style:
touching, serious, suspenseful, sentimental, semi serious ...
Audience:
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Plot:
lawyer, small town, court, courtroom, jury, murder trial, parent child relationship, judge, homecoming, courtroom drama, legal, hotshot lawyer ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
After a boy kills his father he must turn to his frinds to cover his tracks with tests their loyality and friendship.
Style:
tense, realistic, serious
Plot:
student athlete, murder, friendship, high school, american football, social relations, kids in trouble, friends, small town life, teenage life, small town, high school life ...
Time:
90s
Place:
north carolina, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Young Anthony Soprano is growing up in one of the most tumultuous eras in Newark, N.J., history, becoming a man just as rival gangsters start to rise up and challenge the all-powerful DiMeo crime family. Caught up in the changing times is the uncle ...
Style:
captivating, tense, disturbing, dramatic, anamorphic ...
Plot:
mafia, gangsters, gang, criminal, gang war, mob boss, mafioso, bandit, cosa nostra, criminal underworld, organized crime, crime boss ...
Time:
60s, year 1967, 70s, year 1972, year 1971
Place:
new york, new jersey, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Nepal
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
Goldie, a small time smuggler of Barhabise who is in need of a profiting consignment to recover from his current bankruptcy. He gets an emergency call from a local smuggler and businessman of the area to rescue a Tibetan girl and her transporter ...
Plot:
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Ash Wednesday is set in the Manhattan of the early 1980's and is about a pair of Irish-American brothers who become embroiled in a conflict with the Irish Mob.
Style:
intense, rough, suspenseful, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
gangsters, organized crime, betrayal, vengeance, violence, love triangle, murder, haunted by the past, couple relations, siblings relations, love and romance, dishonesty ...
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80s, year 1980, year 1983
Place:
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Hong Kong nihilism. December 22, a street quarrel leads to the death of a gang leader's son. Next day, he seeks revenge on his brother, a rival boss. He calls on Liu, a fixer, to import a hit man from the mainland. Lai Fu, a tough and youthful ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A detective is assigned to head a manhunt for four violent bank robbers.
Style:
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Plot:
police, gangsters, police officer, robbery, politics, car chase, theft, anarchist, dishonesty, rivalry, gang, law enforcement ...
Time:
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Place:
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32%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A World War II vet sets out in 1948 to avenge the death of his wife at the hands of Nazis. His targets are four Germans, a Sicilian, and a Hungarian who committed the atrocities. He is aided by a CIA operative, who has another agenda. One of the ...
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revenge, spy, manhunt, world war two, female nudity, flashback, husband wife relationship, murder, terror, war criminal, torture, past ...
Time:
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Place:
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