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The Ruthless (2019)
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Original name: Lo spietato
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Milan, Italy, 1967. Santo Russo, a boy of Calabrian origin, arrives north with his parents and younger brother to find better living conditions. Due to an absurd misunderstanding and his father's contempt, Santo ends up in prison, where he gets a “true education.” In 1978, he and his friends Slim and Mario embark on a 15-year criminal career, a successful and ruthless spiral of robberies, kidnappings, murders and heroin smuggling.
Style:
erotic, suspense, realistic, harsh, tense, serious, captivating, suspenseful, intense, poliziottesco
Plot:
drug lord, mafia, italian mafia, gangster, bank robbery, gunfight, robbery, tough guy, organized crime, life philosophy, mobster, mob boss, society, ambition, rise and fall, dishonesty, violence, female nudity, sex scene, male full rear nudity, carabinieri, strip club, police shootout, villain played by lead actor, shootout ...
Time:
80s, 90s, 60s, 2000s, 70s, 1960s, 1990s
Place:
italy, milan italy
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, realistic, serious and rough films with plots about gangster, mafia, organized crime, gang, violence, murder and criminal heroes mostly in Drama, Crime and Biography genres. Some movies like The Ruthless: Angel of Evil (2010), Romanzo Criminale (2005), Scarface (1983), The Infiltrator (2016), Black Souls (2014). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy, France, Romania
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Set in Italy in the 1970s, VALLANZASCA is the true story of the Italian underworld’s most infamous outlaw. A criminal by age 9, Renato Vallanzasca grew up to become the country’s most notorious mobster before the age of 27. Vallanzasca and his ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, realistic, bleak, sincere ...
Plot:
bank robber, criminal, kidnapping, murder, gangster, romancing a criminal, confined, gang, master criminal, prison, bandit, mafia ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, 80s
Place:
italy, europe, milan italy
Similarity:
100%
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, making love, gang, police investigation, criminal heroes, partner, law enforcement, rivalry, leadership, ransom, drug dealing, sex scene ...
Time:
80s, year 2005, 90s, 70s, 20th century ...
Place:
rome italy, italy
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 170 min.
Story:
After getting a green card in exchange for assassinating a Cuban government official, Tony Montana stakes a claim on the drug trade in Miami. Viciously murdering anyone who stands in his way, Tony eventually becomes the biggest drug lord in the ...
Style:
exciting, serious, cult classic, breathtaking, rough ...
Audience:
date night, boys' night, manly, adult
Plot:
gangster, mafia, organized crime, drug lord, gunfight, mob boss, drug cartel, drug dealing, cocaine, drug abuse, violence, badass ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1983, year 1980
Place:
miami, miami beach, bolivia, cuba, florida ...
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
A U.S Customs official uncovers a massive money laundering scheme involving Pablo Escobar.
Style:
suspense, realistic, factual, novela, clever ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
drug lord, drug cartel, money laundering, money, addiction, drug, federal agent, investigation, undercover agent, drug addiction, biopic, organized crime ...
Time:
year 2016, 80s, year 1985, 20th century, 70s
Place:
colombia, florida, middle east, usa, latin america
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100%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
A former narcotics trafficker now living peaceably in the Calabrian hills is drawn back into his family’s drug-trade dynasty by his impetuous teenage son, in this darkly elegant gangster drama.
Style:
serious, captivating, rough, emotional, breathtaking ...
Plot:
drug dealing, italian mafia, mafia, crime boss, gangster, family relations, betrayal, family business, haunted by the past, homecoming, parents and children, brother brother relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
italy, milan italy
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Denmark, Netherlands, Sweden
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A love triangle featuring the trophy girlfriend of a petty drug lord, caught up in a web of luxury and violence in a modern dark gangster tale set in the beautiful port city of Bodrum on the Turkish Riviera.
Style:
melancholic, serious, captivating, scenic, disturbing ...
Audience:
chick flick, boys' night
Plot:
beach, sexual assault, male female relationship, erection, drug lord, forced sex, gangster, murder, wealth, lovers, physical abuse, love triangle ...
Time:
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Place:
turkey
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100%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 171 min.
Story:
Vaguely inspired to the real story of boss of the Camorra's bosses Raffaele Cutolo, this is the story of the criminal career of "Il professore" (the professor). He is in prison, and by there he is able to build, step by step, an ...
Style:
poliziottesco, serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
cosa nostra, mafia, camorra, italian mafia, italian gangster, crime family, female nudity, police, gulag, mobster, nazi, nude girl ...
Time:
year 1986, 20th century, 80s
Place:
italy, naples italy, new york, napoli italy
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Action, Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Brutal and celebrated Mafia gangster John Gotti (Danny Nucci) schemes, shoves and murders his way to the top of that world in this gritty biography told from the perspective of Salvatore Polisi (Jason Gedrick), who owns the Sinatra Club, where ...
Style:
tense, serious, suspenseful, rough, realistic
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
mafia, organized crime, gangster, gang, gang leader, criminal heroes, rise to the top, dishonesty, heist, mobster, tough guy, crime boss ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
new york, usa, brooklyn new york city
Similarity:
51%
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477
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, France, Belgium
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A failed porn actor, working as an enforcer for a mafia kingpin, finds himself confronted with an all-out turf war after an errand goes drastically wrong. Going on the run is his only option.
Style:
psychological, exciting, tense, touching, suspenseful ...
Plot:
mafia, brutality, heroes, mercilessness, criminal heroes, crime boss, mob boss, violence, chase, murder, rivalry, death ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
The story of the rise and fall of the infamous Chicago gangster Al Capone and the control he exhibited over the city during the prohibition years.
Style:
realistic, suspenseful, rough, serious, psychotronic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gangster, prohibition, brutality, gunfight, rise and fall, mafia, murder, police investigation, hitman, gang war, violence, bare breasts ...
Time:
1930s, 1920s, year 1975
Place:
chicago, usa, north america
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Egocentric bandit Salvatore Guiliano fights the Church, the Mafia, and the landed gentry while leading a populist movement for Sicilian independence.
Style:
intense, serious, realistic, suspense, spiritual ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
mafia, betrayal, gunfight, sicilian, leadership, politics, society, dishonesty, political unrest, gangster, class differences, italian gangster ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, year 1987
Place:
sicily, italy, europe
Similarity:
49%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, Belgium
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
An inside look at Italy's modern-day crime families, the Camorra in Naples and Caserta. Based on a book by Roberto Saviano. Power, money and blood: these are the "values" that the residents of the Province of Naples and Caserta have ...
Style:
tense, harsh, realistic, serious, depressing ...
Plot:
juvenile delinquency, gang war, mafia, camorra, gangster, death, danger, organized crime, italian mafia, gang, power, character study ...
Time:
year 2008, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
italy, napoli italy, europe, venice, miami ...
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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:
poliziottesco, detective, neo noir, non-linear, exciting ...
Plot:
italian police, police, robbery, police officer, politics, car chase, social commentary, anarchist, theft, tough heroes, heist, chases and races ...
Time:
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Place:
italy, milan italy
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902
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
grim, serious, realistic, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot:
mafia, mobster, blaxploitation, criminal, italian police, crime family, prison, gangster, restaurant, jail, heist, murder ...
Time:
year 1960, 70s, 60s
Place:
new york, italy
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49%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 155 min.
Story:
Sentenced to six years in prison, Malik El Djebena (Tahar Rahim) is alone in the world and can neither read nor write. On his arrival at the prison, he seems younger and more brittle than the others detained there. At once he falls under the sway of ...
Style:
tense, harsh, rough, breathtaking, atmospheric ...
Audience:
manly, boys' night
Plot:
prison, mafia, prison life, gangster, cruelty, male nudity, organized crime, male objectification, convict, prison gang, prison escape, coming of age ...
Time:
year 2009, 2000s, 90s, year 2010, 21st century
Place:
france, marseille, europe, paris france, california
Similarity:
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Ma Barker (Theresa Russell) and her sons rob banks, shoot people and wind up at the top of the FBI's "most wanted" list in the 1930s.
Style:
rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot:
gangster, missing person, dishonesty, criminal, confined, law enforcement, criminal heroes, special agent, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, robbery, violence, murder ...
Time:
1930s
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Confessions of a Police Captain (Italian: Confessione di un commissario di polizia al procuratore della repubblica, also known as Confessions of a Police Commissioner to the District Attorney) is an Italian crime-drama film about a cop starring ...
Style:
poliziottesco, grindhouse, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
female nudity, police, mafia, police officer, italian police, corruption, gang violence, corrupt, italian mafia, woman with a gun, nude girl, italian gangster ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
italy
Similarity:
48%
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 ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
The 1990s. Empty shelves in the shops, an economic abyss and criminal dramas that unfold literally at every corner. The young leader of a criminal gang Anton Bykov, with the nickname “Bull”, must make money in whatever way to provide for his ...
Style:
realistic, tense, serious, bleak, harsh ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
life is a bitch, violence, danger, life philosophy, dishonesty, criminal heroes, corruption, police corruption, society, tough heroes, injustice, brutality ...
Time:
90s
Place:
russia
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
In the large industrial port of an Italian city - sailors, women, black market traffickers, sleazy nightclubs, and dingy narrow alleys make up a world of danger, where a young American girl vanishes without a trace while an Italian man tries to ...
Style:
neo noir
Plot:
lesbianism, woman with a gun, mobster, drug, shootout, nudity, bare breasts, family relations, gang violence, gunfight, sex scene, blood ...
Place:
italy
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Based on the 1986 book "The Heist: How a Gang Stole $8,000,000 at Kennedy Airport and Lived to Regret It", by Ernest Volkman and John Cummings, this TV movie tells the story about the 1978 Lufthansa Heist at JFK Airport in New York - the ...
Style:
suspense, crime drama, captivating, tense, disturbing ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
robbery, heist, organized crime, gangster, mafia, gang, outlaw gang, criminal, one last chance, burglar, problem, bandit ...
Time:
year 1978, 70s
Place:
new york
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Hit man Antonio Mancuso travels to Italy to make the big time. He meets and befriends Mafia boss Don Vincenzo. Mancurso becomes part of the organization and the more he gets to know Vincenzo the more he wants his job but Mancurso will learn that ...
Style:
suspense, crime drama, dark, poliziottesco, tense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
mafia, crime family, hitman, mob boss, ambition, power struggle, organized crime, mafioso, violence, betrayal, gangster, underworld ...
Time:
70s
Place:
italy, sicily, milan italy, cincinnati ohio, rome italy ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
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Style:
tension, suspenseful, dark, suspense, intense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
police, organized crime, crime boss, mafia, corruption, betrayal, mistrust, ethical dilemma, surveillance, rookie, power struggle, moral ambiguity ...
Time:
90s
Place:
rome italy
Similarity:
47%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA, Jamaica
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A raw urban drama about two friends raised on the dangerous streets of Kingston, Jamaica. Biggs and Wayne take on the "Shotta" way of life to survive. As young boys, they begin a life of crime, eventually moving to the US where they begin ...
Style:
hood, realistic, serious, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gang violence, gangster, street gang, urban, police chase, criminal heroes, social decay, black, immigrant, partner, disorder, drug dealing ...
Place:
caribbean, miami, usa, florida, jamaica
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 185 min.
Story:
A mysterious woman recounts the rise and fall of Nikodem "Nikoś" Skotarczak, one of the biggest gangsters in Poland's history. Inspired by a true story.
Style:
crime drama, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing ...
Plot:
mafia, gangster, organized crime, crime boss, mob boss, mafioso, gang, criminal, outlaw gang, criminal gang, mysterious girl, corruption ...
Time:
70s, 80s, 90s
Place:
poland, eastern europe
Similarity:
23%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Tommy Brown and Sincere are best friends as well as infamous and ruthless criminals and shot-callers in the hood. Respected by many but feared by all. As the police are closing in on them and new players are looking for a come up, will their reign ...
Style:
hood, independent film, stylized, crime drama, realistic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
gangster, hip hop, african american, urban, urban ghetto life, ghetto, drug dealer, black, drug, violence, gangsta, gang ...
Time:
year 1998, 90s
Place:
jamaica, new york, usa, new jersey
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A story set in the 90s and in the outskirts of Rome to Ostia. A world where money, luxury cars, night clubs, cocaine and synthetic drugs are easy to run. A world in which Vittorio and Cesare, in their early twenties, act in search of their success.
Style:
psychological, tense, realistic, captivating, hood
Plot:
robbery, friendship, drug, danger, murder, rivalry, society, corruption, sicilian mafia, lgbt, italian mafia, gang ...
Time:
90s, year 2015
Place:
italy, rome italy
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Six boys race on their scooters through the narrow streets of their Sanità neighbourhood in Naples. They are fearless daredevils, desperate to make money like their role models, and wear designer clothes and the latest sneakers. These 15-year-olds ...
Style:
rough, suspense, bleak, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Plot:
mafia, coming of age, camorra, gang, criminal, teen angst, boyhood, hooliganism, rivalry, self discovery, gangster, fistfight ...
Time:
year 2019, 21st century
Place:
naples italy
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Based on the true story of the notorious 1957 ‘mob summit’ in upstate New York. Spearheaded by Vito Genovese, more than 50 leaders of the organized crime syndicates from around the country converged on the sleepy town to discuss upcoming ...
Style:
captivating, suspenseful, exciting, suspense, tense
Plot:
mafia, cosa nostra, mob hit, crime boss, organized crime, gangster, social climbing, conspiracy, family relations, friendship, friendship between men, violence ...
Time:
1950s
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Don Roberto Luciano turns informer for the biggest Mafia trial in history, but his family pays a terrible price.
Style:
captivating, serious, political thriller, tense, realistic ...
Plot:
mafia, incestuous relationship, betrayal, illicit affair, italian mafia, filicide, gangster, organized crime, rivalry, family life, accidental incest, monastery ...
Time:
90s
Place:
italy, europe
Similarity:
46%
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