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The Fall of the American Empire (2018)
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Original name: La chute de l'empire américain
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
A man's life is turned upside down in the aftermath of a robbery.
Style:
exciting, humorous, captivating, tense, funny, crime drama, sex comedy
Plot:
money laundering, stolen money, prostitute, homeless, sex with prostitute, bag of money, loot, police, investigation, doctor, police arrest, money, delivery man, heist gone wrong, chase, danger, nothing goes right, pursuit, rivalry, police officer, finance, female nudity, idealist, tax evasion, homeless man ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century, contemporary
Place:
montreal, montreal quebec, montreal quebec canada
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Most similar movies to The Fall of the American Empire
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, humorous, tense and realistic films with plots about heist, police, chase, robbery, money, female nudity and rivalry mostly in Crime, Drama and Comedy genres. Some movies like The Fall of the American Empire: Public Friends (2016), Drive (2002), The Barbarian Invasions (2003), Money for Nothing (1993), Purusha Pretham (2023). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
In order to make his little sick brother's dream come true, Leo and his best mates organize a fake score...but on the d day, they make a mistake and the fake score becomes a real hold up.Here starts the extraordinary adventure of PUBLIC Amis.
Plot:
child cancer, cancer, money, siblings, nudity, hospital, prison, impersonating a police officer, poker, taxi driver, loss of daughter, soccer ...
Place:
lyon, argentina
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100%
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Kenichi Asakura is an uptight, hyper-square salesman. One day, three bank robbers commandeer his van. They are in hot pursuit of their fellow robber who has snatched the money. Unfortunately for the bank robbers, Asakura never drives over 40 km/h ...
Style:
exciting, captivating, absurd, dark comedy, road movie
Audience:
adult
Plot:
car chase, heist, stolen money, burglar, caper, chase, thief, pursuit, robbery, heist gone wrong, money, bandit ...
Time:
2000s
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: Canada, France
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
In this belated sequel to 'The Decline of the American Empire', 50-something Montreal college professor, Remy, learns that he is dying of liver cancer. He decides to make amends meet to his friends and family before he dies. He first tries ...
Style:
philosophical, sentimental, emotional, touching, clever ...
Plot:
friendship, illness, philosophy, culture clash, medical, cancer, drug addiction, terminal illness, life, existentialism, loneliness, dysfunctional family ...
Time:
year 2003, 90s, september 11 2001, future, middle ages ...
Place:
quebec, canada, sydney australia, vermont, china ...
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
When unemployed dockworker Joey Coyle finds $1.2 million that fell off of an armored car, he decides to do the logical thing: take the money and run. After all, he says, finders keepers. He turns to his ex-girlfriend Monica, who works in an ...
Style:
light, intense, humorous, realistic, detective ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
money, corruption, stolen money, chase, runaway, heist, friends, disorder, nothing goes right, dishonesty, criminal, gangster ...
Time:
year 1993, 90s, 80s
Place:
philadelphia, new jersey, california
Similarity:
30%
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: India
Duration: 153 min.
Story:
Purusha Pretham, focuses on Inspector Sebastian as he handles an unidentified male body and becomes entangled in a procedural, personal and emotional maze. Somewhere between his personal troubles and procedural flaws, all hell breaks loose when he ...
Style:
tense, exciting, suspenseful, funny, captivating ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
investigation, police, discrimination, police procedural, police investigation, police officer, criminal, society, crime investigation, law enforcement, legal investigation, police station ...
Time:
2020s
Similarity:
22%
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:
hilarious, realistic, semi serious, cynical, clever ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
security system, video surveillance, robbery, caper, bank, deception, strip club, drug dealer, murder of a prostitute, surveillance camera, killer, arson ...
Time:
year 1971, 20th century, 70s
Place:
hamburg germany, europe, northern germany, copenhagen, germany ...
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Mistakenly believing that he will be let go from the company, Philippe decides to sabotage the production at Saucibec. Upon learning that he is not the one who will be laid off, he will go to great lengths to right his wrongs ... but it's ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, realistic, tense, feel good ...
Plot:
revenge, rivalry, vengeance, dishonesty, mistaken identity, disorder, gangster, crime boss, lawsuit, kidnapping, hot dog, factory worker ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, quebec
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: China
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A portrait of contemporary Chinese society based on the ubiquitous illegal trade in pirated DVDs.
Style:
humorous, parody, light, suspense, captivating ...
Plot:
smuggler, chase, obstacle, police officer, terminal illness, love, hardship, robbery, police, adultery, social issues, prostitute ...
Similarity:
21%
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Patience Portefeux is a French-Arabic police translator, specialized in phone tappings for the anti-narcotics unit. The job is tough and low-paid, but the commander is charming... One day, whilst listening to wanted drug dealers, she discovers one ...
Style:
exciting, disturbing, humorous, captivating, touching
Plot:
drug dealing, police dog, lifestyle, war on drugs, manipulative woman, drug, police, drug lord, double life, master criminal, drug traffic, money laundering ...
Place:
france, paris france
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Mike Sullivan spends his nights kidnapping runaways so his boss, Lamar, can turn them into prostitutes. He is a crack addict and a thief and he is in love with a resentful prostitute, Rhonda, who doesn't love him back. Although he has ...
Style:
captivating, semi serious, tense, psychological, crime drama ...
Plot:
redemption, gangster, drug dealing, social decay, addiction, prostitution, corruption, gang, rivalry, going straight, vengeance, on the run ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
france, europe, paris france, new york
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: India
Story:
here is a bunch of four friends (Varun Sandesh, Sundeep Kishan, Naveen and Rakesh) are desperate for quick money. The only way of making money is to rob a bank. They devise a plan and get into a bank wearing masks and carrying fake guns. They take ...
Style:
humorous, semi serious, tense, exciting, captivating ...
Plot:
bank robbery, criminal heroes, group of criminals, friends, escapades, planning, rivalry, hostage, strategy, hacking, secret plan, friendship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
india
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
.Ex-boxer Paul Choquino decides to finance his upcoming wedding by robbing reputed drug lord Benito Mussolini Bonacci. But everything that can go wrong in the burn does and Paul is left running from the law, the mob and one of the members of his own ...
Style:
crime drama, tense, suspenseful, dark comedy, noir ...
Plot:
betrayal, heist, heist gone wrong, robbery, ex boxer, organized crime, drug lord, criminal underworld, anti hero, pursuit, chase, fugitive ...
Place:
south america
Similarity:
20%
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Set in present day Burbank, California and the surrounding San Fernando Valley area, . BENNY BIG-TIME (The BBT) learns his brother has been arrested on suspicion of a few recent bank robberies. With every bit of the life savings he's socked ...
Style:
humorous, tense, captivating, light, exciting ...
Plot:
bank, crime gone awry, stalking, on the run, caper, underground, danger, friendship, robbery, destiny, disorder, righting the wronged ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
california
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A quick witted young man from the streets of South Central must rush a lily-white USC fraternity to recover a stash of stolen money.
Style:
captivating, feel good, entertaining, humorous, sincere ...
Audience:
teens, date night
Plot:
rivalry, friendship, society, youth, adaptation, escapades, greed, danger, urban, heist, fish out of water, stolen money ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
south central los angeles, los angeles
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: Canada
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
It's 1983, and hopeless junkie Dick gets an unwelcome visit from the past - his seriously sleazy former cellmate, Bug, to be precise. Bug requires a crash course in the 80s: different music, different drugs, and machines in walls that dispense ...
Style:
humorous, feel good, light, captivating, entertaining ...
Plot:
morphine, robbery, buddies, nothing goes right, friends, disorder, heist gone wrong, greed, attempted robbery, gang, danger, rivalry ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1983
Place:
canada
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
American retired Judge Randall Nemes and his hired gun, Gaspar, track down a con man posing as a priest in a small Colombian town only to be thrown off-course by a scrappy 16-year-old girl intent on reuniting with her sister in the United States.
Style:
tense, crime drama, captivating, road movie, suspenseful ...
Plot:
con man, deception, escapades, burglar, criminal, partner, caper, teamwork, robbery, attempted robbery, hidden, adventuress ...
Place:
colombia, latin america
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Canada
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A once-celebrated kid detective, now 31, continues to solve the same trivial mysteries between hangovers and bouts of self-pity. Until a naive client brings him his first 'adult' case, to find out who brutally murdered her boyfriend.
Style:
neo noir, detective, suspenseful, funny, dark ...
Audience:
date night, kids
Plot:
private detective, closeted homosexual, small town, murder mystery, private investigator, missing girl, investigation, kidnapping, murder, evidence, murder investigation, who done it ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Aarno Lamminparras hijacked an airplane with a gun in 1978. A true story.
Style:
disturbing, humorous, exciting, suspenseful, entertaining ...
Plot:
hijacking, abduction, hostage, journalist, ransom, husband wife relationship, reporter, money, airport, passenger, pilot, true crime ...
Time:
year 1978, 70s
Similarity:
19%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
During a shooting in court young prostitute Scarlet manages to flee. In a state of confusion, the black Tracy, who was arrested for a minor delict, follows her. When she decides to leave Scarlett, an accident makes it impossible. So they're ...
Style:
suspense, tense, exciting, captivating, independent film
Plot:
reluctant partners, chase, on the run, running from police, mistaken identity, police officer killed, shootout, pursuit, danger, nothing goes right, gunfight, anti heroine ...
Time:
year 1985
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Miles Cullen is a bored teller at a bank in a Toronto mall who accidentally learns that his place of business is about to be robbed. Instead of informing his bosses or contacting the police, Miles cleverly devises a way of keeping the cash.
Style:
neo noir, offbeat, christmas horror, realistic, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
bank robbery, female nudity, bank, chess, robbery, caper, shopping mall, bank teller, xmas, criminal, bank robber, psychopath ...
Time:
year 1978, 70s, 20th century
Place:
toronto ontario canada, canada
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Life is the buzz.
Style:
suspenseful, serious, psychological, tense, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
desert, hitman, chase, crime gone awry, murder, criminal heroes, dishonesty, danger, nothing goes right, couples, kidnapping, missing person ...
Place:
las vegas, usa, los angeles, nevada
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Poland
Duration: 28 min.
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Story:
A group of people sharing a ride accidentally switches cars with a bank robber, who then pursues them to retrieve the stolen money he left in the trunk.
Style:
tense, crime thriller, tension, road movie, suspense ...
Plot:
money, bank robber, stolen money, thief, heist, robbery, criminal, pursuit, chase, loot, danger, bank robbery ...
Similarity:
19%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Six months before his retirement from the criminal police, inspector Joss finds his colleague Gouvion dead, in a poorly faked suicide attempt. Joss loses his temper, and investigates on his own, which leads him through the bas-fond of Paris...
Style:
crime drama, detective, realistic, serious, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
heist, rivalry, vengeance, tough law enforcer, investigation, law enforcement, dishonesty, police detective, tough heroes, loss of partner, armored car, urban ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
paris france, france, europe
Similarity:
18%
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A pair of slackers get in way over their heads when they try to dump the body of a dead girlfriend in the basement of a drive-in movie theater where a satanic cult performs ritual sacrifices.
Style:
humorous, semi serious, dark comedy, black comedy, offbeat ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
satanic ritual, partner, buddies, dark humor, marijuana, disorder, life is a bitch, drug abuse, addiction, curses spells and rituals, friendship, heist ...
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A young girl is plucked from small-town obscurity and thrust into the spotlight of the glamorous world of super-models.
Style:
clever, stylized, realistic, captivating, cynical ...
Plot:
fashion, obsession, model, rise and fall, rags to riches, lifestyle, rising to stardom, rise to the top, desire for fame, showbiz, celebrity culture, fame ...
Time:
90s
Place:
paris france, canada, europe, france, montreal ...
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Hours after his release from prison, Jesus Quintana pairs up with fellow misfits Petey and Marie for a freewheeling joyride of petty crime and romance.
Style:
funny, humorous, disturbing, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
bowling, danger, friendship, adaptation, escapades, couples, violence, society, rivalry, youth, love, hopes ...
Time:
2010s
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Canada
TV show
Story:
A fun and honest portrayal of two radically different female detectives in their early 40s following Guns and Gangs detective Sam and Narcotics detective Kelly, who by day are true action heroes in their own particular way: skilled, tough, ...
Style:
captivating, tense, psychological, unusual plot structure, suspenseful ...
Plot:
who done it, police investigation, uncover truth, single mother, police, police detective, woman with a gun, partner, murder, investigation, chase, family relations ...
Place:
toronto ontario canada
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A brilliant crossword puzzle editor (Chabert) finds her life turned upside-down when she is pulled into a police investigation after several of the clues in her recent puzzles are linked to unsolved crimes. Proving her innocence means leaving the ...
Style:
captivating, tense, exciting, humorous, psychological ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
puzzle, partners against crime, female nudity, police, disorder, dishonesty, murder, danger, friendship, rivalry, investigation, escapades ...
Place:
usa, new york
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Two broke buddies feel lucky when they come upon a truckload of cellular phones and begin selling them out of the back of their van. Trouble arises though, when the phones develop faults. The two friends then not only have to deal with unsatisfied ...
Style:
funny, humorous, light, hood, semi serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
hip hop, gangster, ghetto, justice, dishonesty, disorder, stoner, unlikely criminals, odd couple, nothing goes right, buddies, misfit ...
Time:
90s, year 1998
Place:
los angeles, north america, south central los angeles, hawaii, new orleans
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
With the help of an irreverent young sidekick, a bank robber gets his old gang back together to organise a daring new heist.
Style:
road movie, humorous, action thriller, captivating, light ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
friendship, heist, chase, on the road, treasure hunt, buddies, car chase, friendship between men, robbery, bank robbery, preacher, hidden money ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, year 1974, year 1972
Place:
montana, usa
Similarity:
18%
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