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Bonded by Blood (2010)
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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 criminals in the south of England, maintaining the hold on their empire with fear and violence until their untimely death.
Style:
tense, rough, serious, suspenseful, realistic
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gang, rivalry, rise and fall, betrayal, vengeance, drug dealing, ambition, partner, dishonesty, criminal heroes, gangster, violence, violent, woman urinating, woman peeing, murder, criminal, organized crime, crime family, mobster, gangsta, football hooligan, british gangster, profanity, unfulfillment ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
england, britain, europe
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, suspenseful and rough films with plots about gangster, criminal heroes, rivalry, gang, murder, dishonesty and deadly mostly in Crime, Drama and Thriller genres. Some movies like Bonded by Blood: Essex Boys (2000), The Crew (2008), The Fall of the Essex Boys (2013), Excellent Cadavers (1999), The Big I Am (2010). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Billy has just scored an entry-level position with the local crime cartel. His first job is to mind Jason, a newly released thug with a vicious temper. Jason thinks it's his job to teach Billy about crime, drugs and women. Little does he know ...
Style:
suspenseful, rough, exciting, serious, psychological ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
drug dealing, murder, female pubic hair, police, ambition, criminal's revenge, gang, criminal heroes, rise and fall, rivalry, vengeance, british gangster ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
england, britain, europe
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
Hoping to raise enough capital to finance a legitimate business and leave behind his life of crime, Liverpool underworld boss Ged Brennan sends his brother Ratter and a crew to pull a daring final heist. But when Ratter kills a drug kingpin during ...
Style:
realistic, rough, serious, suspenseful, crime drama
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
betrayal, gangster, gang, criminal heroes, crime gone awry, dishonesty, brother brother relationship, organized crime, lesbian, british gangster, mafia, crime family ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, europe
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100%
Genre: Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
The rise and fall of the Essex Boys gang - the drugs, the violence and, of course, the murders. The real story is the most shocking of all.
Style:
realistic, suspenseful, rough, serious, tense
Plot:
murder, drug dealing, gangster, gang, fighting crime, rise and fall, police investigation, who done it, law enforcement, police, violence, informant ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1993, year 1995, 21st century
Place:
england, netherlands, amsterdam, united kingdom
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100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Fact based story about the political battle that was waged against the Mafia in Sicily during the late 1980's and early 1990's. Chazz Palminteri plays Giovanni Falcone, a crusading prosecutor who tried to use money trails as a way to ...
Style:
suspense, independent film, realistic, serious, suspenseful
Plot:
mafia, cosa nostra, italian mafia, italian gangster, crime family, organized crime, law, historical figure, italian history, law enforcement, fighting crime, dishonesty ...
Time:
80s, 90s, 20th century
Place:
sicily, europe, italy
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Action, Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A cruel twist of fate catapults small time crook Mickey Skinner into the big league, as head of a brutal London gang poised on the brink of a lucrative human-trafficking deal.
Style:
tense, rough, serious, suspenseful, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gang, gangster, dishonesty, rivalry, criminal heroes, criminal, organized crime, nudity, profanity, strong violent content, ambition, unfulfillment ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, europe, london
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Hooligan boss Billy Evans has it all - a successful business, a beautiful family and respect on the terraces. But when he clashes with gangster Mickey over a backstreet proetection racket, Billy soon finds himself out of his depth as they look to ...
Style:
rough, tense, realistic, serious, suspenseful
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
downfall, rivalry, ambition, blind ambition, gang, criminal heroes, unfulfillment, football hooligan, hooligan, criminal, football, nationalism ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, london
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
The Guvnors is a violent thriller set amongst the clans and firms of South East London, bringing two generations together in brutal conflict.
Style:
suspense, tense, realistic, serious, captivating ...
Plot:
gang, gangster, rivalry, ego clash, criminal's revenge, violent content, youth, hooligan, british gangster, urban, danger, society ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
london, england
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama, Crime
Country: Italy, UK
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
A powerful dynasty, headed by a charismatic, manipulative father, falls when he decides to hand over his criminal empire to his three corrupt and power-hungry daughters. Kath runs a brothel down by the docks, Tracy owns a soccer team and Jo, a ...
Style:
tense, rough, suspenseful, serious, realistic
Plot:
rivalry, dishonesty, vengeance, betrayal, drug dealing, family relations, murder, parents and children, prostitute, shakespeare, tragic love, gangster ...
Place:
europe, england
Similarity:
25%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Turkey
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A group of young high society friends, aged between 18 and 25, are gathered at a friend's bar that they regularly frequent for the night. But when they finish of their last beer and prepare to head home they find themselves held captive at ...
Style:
disturbing, serious, suspenseful, rough, art house ...
Plot:
gang, captivity, vigilantism, sexual abuse, vengeance, life is a bitch, injustice, confined, murder, rivalry, gory, escape attempt ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
turkey
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Germany, Ireland
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
An old gangster is advised that Freddie Mays would leave jail after thirty years in prison. His mood changes and he recalls when he was a young punk, who joined Freddie Mays' gang, a man he both envied and ultimately betrayed.
Style:
intense, tense, rough, suspenseful, bleak ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
rise and fall, gangster, violence, organized crime, gang, torture, revenge, psychopath, mafia, betrayal, violent, brutality ...
Time:
year 2000, future, 60s, 20th century, 80s ...
Place:
london, england, europe
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Casual football hooligan Mike Jacobs is going nowhere in life when he meets old friend Eddie Hill at a football match that turns nasty off the pitch. Under Eddie’s tutelage he soon finds himself inducted into the world of credit card fraud, where ...
Style:
realistic, serious, rough
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
hooligan, ambition, rise and fall, gang, cons and scams, buddies, dishonesty, lifestyle, football hooligan, british gangster, credit card fraud, violent ...
Time:
year 2012, 21st century
Place:
england, britain
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Charts the headlong fall of Pinkie, a razor-wielding disadvantaged teenager with a religious death wish.
Style:
psychological, serious, tense, realistic, rough ...
Plot:
gangster, gang war, revenge, waitress, witnessing a crime, dishonesty, criminal heroes, danger, couples, woman in danger, murder, gang ...
Time:
20th century, 60s
Place:
brighton, england, britain, europe
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Spain
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
During the '80s, a young man named Frankie dreams of escaping London's South East region, and his mother's thug of a boyfriend gives him just the opportunity. After beating up the abusive beau, Frankie runs off to Spain, where he ...
Style:
captivating, serious, suspenseful, rough, dark ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
rise and fall, gang, drug dealing, drug dealer, organized crime, femme fatale, on the run, gangster, drug abuse, murder, british gangster, ambition ...
Time:
80s, year 2005, 20th century
Place:
colombia, britain, england, spain, london
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
The true life story of the rise to power of Glasgow gangster Paul Ferris.
Style:
tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, captivating ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gangster, rise and fall, rise to the top, vengeance, society, life is a bitch, ambition, rivalry, criminal's revenge, dishonesty, frame up, british gangster ...
Time:
70s, 90s, 20th century, 80s
Place:
scotland
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Real Gangsters tells the story of the Lo Giacamo family, one of the most successful crime syndicates in New York City. Run by cousins Vincent Lo Giacamo and Jack Lo Giacamo, Real Gangsters shows how these two men maintain control of their dangerous ...
Style:
tense, realistic, suspenseful, serious, cynical ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gangster, rivalry, rise and fall, family business, family relations, unfulfillment, ambition, danger, organized crime, mafia, society, outlaw ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york
Similarity:
22%
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, murder, criminal, drug abuse, violent, police investigation, betrayal, partners in crime, rivalry, criminal heroes, vicious ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, 90s, year 1975, year 1995 ...
Place:
england, london, united kingdom, britain, europe
Similarity:
21%
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:
serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough, controversial ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gangster, betrayal, assassination, dishonesty, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, murder, hitman, gunfight, true crime, crime family, killing spree, organized crime ...
Time:
80s, 70s, 90s, 20th century
Place:
holland, amsterdam
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
The past catches up with a ruthlessly ambitious boxing promoter.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, realistic, neo noir, serious ...
Plot:
boxing, gang, athlete's life, vengeance, dishonesty, rivalry, down on your luck, gangster, boxer, promoter, male pubic hair, male nudity ...
Time:
90s
Place:
london, europe, england
Similarity:
21%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Bobby O'Grady a low level member of a Boston Irish gang run by Jackie O'Hara. Jackie demands absolute, total loyalty to him. When Jackie kills one of Bobby's buddies, Teddy, Bobby and others have to keep it an absolute secret, even ...
Style:
atmospheric, suspenseful, tense, serious, independent film ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gangster, murder, vengeance, police investigation, criminal's revenge, investigation, best friend, police corruption, juvenile delinquency, drug dealing, dishonesty, witnessing a crime ...
Time:
year 1998, 90s
Place:
boston, ireland, massachusetts, connecticut, usa ...
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
JW now lives in exile and is more than ever determined to find out what happened to his missing sister Camilla. Every trace leads him to the world of organized crime in Stockholm. Jorge is about to do his last score - the largest robbery in Swedish ...
Style:
tense, serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
undercover, mafia, revenge, murder, gang, working undercover, danger, missing person, criminal heroes, nordic, organized crime, bandit ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
eastern europe, scandinavia, stockholm sweden
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
When local heavy and ex-boxer Tom Sheridan (Ian Pirie) agrees to hire his strip club out to lifelong friend and colleague Ian Levine (Michael Mckell) he soon discovers the private party involves child prostitution and trafficking, catering for ...
Style:
suspenseful, tense, serious, crime drama, dark ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
betrayal, gangster, criminal's revenge, rivalry, dishonesty, underworld, violence, human trafficking, mature, danger, murder, retribution ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
london, england
Similarity:
20%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Good policing doesn't necessarily mean doing everything by the book. But as the business of crime in London turns to favour the Albanians and Turks, how does a "good" policeman survive?
Style:
tense, serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
police corruption, murder, gang, gangster, drug dealing, danger, dishonesty, law enforcement, police investigation, human trafficking, drug, corruption ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
london, england
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Netherlands, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Gilly comes out of prison after serving a six year stretch and decides that he will now turn his life around and go straight. But when he returns to his South London home and visits his old colleague J, in hope of obtaining his share of the proceeds ...
Style:
rough, suspenseful, tense, serious, realistic
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
cons and scams, going straight, life is a bitch, drug dealing, criminal heroes, criminal's revenge, addiction, law enforcement, gangster, drug abuse, dishonesty, rivalry ...
Place:
england, london
Similarity:
20%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Sammy 'The Bull' Gravano was mafiosi. He started out as a soldier, but his talent for murder, including the slayings of his best friends, his wife's brother and his own boss, Paul Castellano, saw him rise to under-boss in the Gambino ...
Style:
cult classic, tense, suspenseful, serious, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
mafia, gangster, hitman, crime family, gang, courtroom drama, gangsta, italian mafia, organized crime, cosa nostra, professional killer, italian gangster ...
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Jacques Darnay has served 8 years for robbing a jeweller. Now he is out of prison and looking for his loot worth 6 million francs.
Style:
neo noir, serious, realistic, tense, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gangster, ex convict, female pubic hair, diamond, murder, crime and punishment, coldhearted, vengeance, criminal's revenge, law enforcement, chases and races, on the run ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A group of aging London gangsters go on a vigilante killing spree when one of their number is murdered by a street gang.
Style:
semi serious, exciting, realistic, humorous, dark comedy
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
vengeance, criminal heroes, investigation, vigilantism, gangster, rivalry, buddies, aging, violence spree, revenge, mobster, british gangster ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
london, england
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Ex Boxer Tom is on the ropes, when a chance encounter at the gym leads to the offer of work as a doorman at a run down nightclub. The volatile head doorman Paul, is a battle hardened veteran from the old school. Recognising Tom for the fighter that ...
Style:
captivating, tense, exciting, suspense, suspenseful ...
Plot:
nightclub, going straight, rivalry, gangster, drug dealing, ambition, boss and employee, boxer, danger, murder, athlete's life, couple relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england
Similarity:
19%
465
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Three childhood friends join the Hong Kong Triads only to discover that fame and fortune will ultimately break them apart as only one can become the leader of the gang.
Style:
realistic, suspenseful, serious, rough
Plot:
triad, gangster, ambition, gang, rivalry, buddies, criminal heroes, friends, bandit, gang leader, criminal underworld, criminal gang ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
hong kong, asia
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
In the mean streets of London's East End, a former Serbian commando and a fourteen-year old boy plot revenge against a powerful crime lord and his ruthless lieutenants. As our heroes prepare to take on their enemies, the boy is mentored in the ...
Style:
exciting, serious, captivating, tense, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
hitman, vengeance, assassin, coming of age, haunted by the past, teaching the ways of the world, gangster, master criminal, urban, black, mafia, revenge plot ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
london, england
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Infamous London gangster cousins, Micky Mannock and Ray Collishaw, are at the top of the food chain, when their world is turned upside down as they lose a shipment of the Russian Mafia's cocaine in rough seas. Set in London, Amsterdam and ...
Style:
exciting, serious, suspenseful, realistic, tense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gangster, disorder, diamonds, football hooligan, smuggling, drug, race against time, crime family, football, gangsta, hooligan, violent ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, amsterdam, europe, berlin germany, los angeles ...
Similarity:
19%
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