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Heroic Losers (2019)
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Original name: La odisea de los giles
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Argentina, Spain
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
In a town in the Northwest of the province of Buenos Aires, a group of neighbors is organized to recover the economy of the area, but when the Corralito is implemented in the country and they suffer a fraud, their hopes disappear. Now, they will unite to recover the lost money and give the blow of their lives to their greatest enemy.
Style:
light, feel good, captivating, semi serious, action comedy, crying
Plot:
economic crisis, businesswoman, deception, crisis, greed, greedy man, bank clerk, whistleblower, lawyer, mishap, escapades, business, corrupt lawyer, capitalism, religious, train, wedding, caper, fishing, death, excavation, restaurant, hospital, fisherman, family relations ...
Time:
2000s, year 2001, year 2002
Place:
argentina
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Most similar movies to Heroic Losers
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, suspense, dark comedy and humorous films with plots about telephone call, money, death, photograph, murder, cigarette smoking and police officer mostly in Crime, Drama and Comedy genres. Some movies like Heroic Losers: Common Wealth (2000), Argentina, 1985 (2022), At the End of the Tunnel (2016), Koblic (2016), Nine Queens (2000). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Julia finds 300 million pesetas hidden in a dead man's house while selling an apartment. She's a 40-ish real estate agent now forced to face the wrath of a very peculiar community (of neighbors), headed by an unscrupulous administrator. ...
Style:
black comedy, humorous, dark comedy, disturbing, bleak ...
Plot:
dark humor, real estate agent, greed, neighbor, murder, fish out of water, dishonesty, conflict, conspiracy, female protagonist, violence, money ...
Time:
90s
Place:
spain, madrid, iberian peninsula, europe, latin america ...
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100%
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History
Country: Argentina, UK, USA
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
In a David-vs-Goliath battle and under constant threat, Julio Strassera, Luis Moreno Ocampo and their young legal team of unlikely heroes dared to prosecute Argentina’s bloodiest military dictatorship against all odds and in a race against time to ...
Style:
suspenseful, captivating, psychological, intellectual, social ...
Plot:
military dictatorship, lawyer, court, boy, politics, trial, attorney, courtroom, murder, investigation, courtroom drama, lawyers and clients ...
Time:
year 1985, year 1984, 80s
Place:
argentina, venezuela, brazil, italy, germany ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Argentina, Spain
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A paraplegic computer engineer that moves in a wheelchair and works in his basement starts hearing noises and voices of bank-robbers.
Style:
suspenseful, suspense, entertaining, captivating, twisted ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
introvert, tunnel, vengeance, rain, criminal, brother brother relationship, robbery, investigation, trap, police detective, gang, gang of outlaws ...
Time:
year 2016
Place:
buenos aires argentina
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41%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Argentina, Spain
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Tomás Kóblic, a former pilot and captain of the Argentinian Navy, disobeys an order and becomes a fugitive in order to survive. He chooses to hide in a small town in the south of the country, where his presence will catch the attention of the ...
Style:
suspense, captivating, disturbing, social, intellectual ...
Plot:
military dictatorship, forced incest, haunted by the past, sex scene, military, guilty conscience, murder, colonel, dog, airplane, pilot, uncle ...
Time:
year 1977, year 2016, 70s
Place:
argentina, italy, south america, europe, spain ...
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39%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Argentina
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
An Argentinian crime drama revolving around a sheet of rare stamps (the Nine Queens).
Style:
tense, clever, cerebral, mindfuck, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
twists and turns, plot twist, partner, counterfeiter, manipulation, forgery, crime gone awry, justice, con man, con men, robbery, partners in crime ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
argentina, buenos aires argentina, south america, venezuela, latin america ...
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
An elderly woman decides to act on her own with a rifle as she gets fed up with injustice.
Style:
tragicomedy, allegory, psychotronic, dark comedy, black comedy ...
Plot:
businessman, mobster, cycling, vigilante justice, immigrant, woods, murderer, rural setting, sex, old man, hairy chested man, single parent ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
central europe, europe
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Argentina, Spain
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A comedy that chronicles a chance encounter between Robert and a Chinese named Jun who wanders lost through the city of Buenos Aires in search of his uncle after being assaulted by a taxi driver and his henchmen.
Style:
semi serious, touching, humorous, realistic, social ...
Plot:
collector, friendship, odd couple, communication problem, immigrant, society, loner, language barrier, cow, falklands war, melancholy, dark humor ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
argentina, latin america
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Leyre lives a quiet and comfortable life which ends abruptly when an act of rage of her teenage son leads her to protect him by any means necessary.
Style:
humorous, captivating, entertaining, light, dark comedy ...
Plot:
teenager, police brutality, murder, business, family relations, mother, cover up, corruption, lawyer, police, money, love ...
Place:
basque country, spain
Similarity:
30%
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Ireland
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Two teenage boys cycle 160 km on stolen bikes pursued by police to find a missing bale of cocaine worth 7 million euro. Set around the real event of Ireland's biggest cocaine seizure in 2007 of 440 million euro.
Style:
light, tense, humorous, absurd, dark comedy ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
teenager, friendship, cocaine, juvenile delinquent, road trip, drug, drunkenness, escapades, danger, coming of age, bicycle, chicken ...
Time:
year 2007, 2000s
Place:
ireland
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Argentina, Spain
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
At age 42, Rafael Belvedere is having a crisis. He lives in the shadow of his father, he feels guilty about rarely visiting his aging mother, his ex-wife says he doesn't spend enough time with their daughter and he has yet to make a commitment ...
Style:
humorous, touching, sentimental, witty, romantic ...
Plot:
midlife crisis, divorce, childhood, family relations, heart attack, self discovery, introspection, fall in love, amor, human nature, couple relations, old friend ...
Time:
year 2001
Place:
latin america, spain, argentina, buenos aires argentina, italy ...
Similarity:
29%
694
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Based on the play by 'Joe Orton' this film follows the adventures of two pals who have pulled off a bank robbery and have to hide the loot. Fortunately (?) one of them works in a funeral parlour and they have a coffin to spare.
Style:
lgbt cinema, semi serious, realistic, cynical, offbeat ...
Plot:
friendship between men, male star appears nude, homoerotic friendship, money, homoeroticism, father son relationship, male friendship, nudity, bare chested male, male pubic hair, male nudity, caper ...
Time:
60s
Place:
brighton, london
Similarity:
28%
104
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
This is not just a game. It is an escape from everyday life, an escape which is impossible to give up. Loaded Eels is a black comedy about a group of men who decided to escape from their everyday lives through role-playing. They pretend to be ...
Style:
crying, dark comedy
Plot:
coworker relationship, caught having sex, masked man, homophobic slur, dark humor, kidnapping, bee, beekeeper, teamwork, musician, pregnancy, man in a wheelchair ...
Place:
central europe
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A rather dull minded bank robber suddenly suffers from a change of heart and decides to give the money back. However, he then learns that getting the money back into the bank is much more difficult than taking it out.
Style:
independent film, semi serious, realistic, humorous, offbeat ...
Plot:
bank, partner, wedding, escape, cons and scams, unlikely criminals, criminal heroes, curses spells and rituals, babies and infants, dishonesty, fall in love, disorder ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
texas
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
Attorney Horic is a specialist for cases connected with motoring. He approaches to his work unconventionally, he does not hesitate to search for evidence right in the terrain and he is willing to take various risks.
Plot:
legal, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, doctor, judge, courtroom, car accident, photographer, lawyer, secretary, father son relationship, restaurant, stuntman ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
prague, central europe, europe
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Carlos, a bank executive, begins his morning routine by taking his kids to school. As he starts the car he receives an anonymous phone call informing him that there's a bomb under his seat. A stranger's voice tells him that he only has a ...
Style:
suspense, tense, captivating, suspenseful, social ...
Plot:
money, retribution, danger, bomb, police, blackmail, escapades, threatening telephone call, teenager, car bomb, family problems, problem ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
spain
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A shady lawyer attempts a Christmas Eve crime, hoping to swindle the local mob out of some money. But his partner, a strip club owner, might have different plans for the cash.
Style:
dark comedy, neo noir, black comedy, suspenseful, intense ...
Plot:
stripper, christmas, strip club, femme fatale, robbery, murder, gangster, mobster, dark humor, organized crime, voyeur, crooked lawyer ...
Time:
year 2005, 21st century
Place:
usa, kansas
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: Spain
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
It tells the story of two young friends who must find a way for the president of the company in which they work (and father of one of them) safe return home, and that is enclosed strange circumstances naked in the trunk of his car.
Style:
humorous, feel good, captivating, light, dark comedy ...
Plot:
comedy of errors, mistaken identity, crime gone awry, nothing goes right, disorder, dark humor, buddies, friends, profanity, kidnapping, truth, love story ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
spain
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
When the local police inspector was found dead in a prostitute's house, police division commissioner Stan Borowitz is sent to investigate the situation. Posing as the prostitute's long-lost brother "Antonio Cerruti," he discovers ...
Style:
disturbing, suspense, suspenseful, tense, neo noir ...
Plot:
corruption, organized crime, police, assassination, violence, undercover cop, police brutality, attempted murder, murder investigation, chase, police operation, employer employee relationship ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
south of france, europe, france, nice france, cote d'azur ...
Similarity:
24%
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Genre: Adventure, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain, Argentina, France
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
On a rainy morning six armed men in disguise rob a bank in Valencia .But what seemed like an easy heist quickly goes wrong with nothing unfolding as planned, and mistrust quickly builds between the two leaders of the gang.
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, captivating, tense, surprise ending ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
bank, hostage, heist, secret, political corruption, secrets, dishonesty, hostage negotiator, gang of thieves, safecracker, robbery, bank robber ...
Time:
year 2016
Place:
spain, valencia spain
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
An insurance man (Alan Bates) gets chummy in Spain with a couple (Laurence Harvey, Lee Remick) who have collected on a fake death.
Style:
noir, mind bending, tense, cynical, serious ...
Plot:
insurance scam, insurance, faking own death, funeral, insurance company, false identity, obsession, aviation, insurance investigator, insurance fraud, on the run, investigation ...
Time:
year 1963, 20th century, 60s
Place:
spain, england, united kingdom, paris france
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
A phobic con artist and his protege are on the verge of pulling off a lucrative swindle when the con artist's teenage daughter arrives unexpectedly.
Style:
dramatic, entertaining, emotional, psychological thriller, twisted ...
Plot:
twists and turns, con artists, mental illness, heist, cons and scams, plot twist, greed, partner, con men, life philosophy, slick, psychology ...
Time:
year 2003, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, california, usa
Similarity:
23%
314
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Czech Republic, Slovakia, Slovenia
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Droneman is about Chemist and Fly Navigator Pavel and his friend Bussinessman and free time Rapper Plech. Pavel has strong sense of justice and wishes to fix wrongs with the World while Plech dreams about Big money and secure life. Their common ...
Style:
intense, suspense, disturbing, captivating, exciting ...
Plot:
war crime, terrorist, professor, university, terrorism, journalist, lawyer, breakup, assassination attempt, betrayal, brother sister relationship, fired from the job ...
Time:
2010s, year 2019, 21st century
Place:
central europe, tel aviv israel, prague
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Argentina, Spain
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
A group of old actors and filmmakers tries to resist the efforts of a young couple to kick them out of their mansion.
Style:
dark comedy, black comedy, semi serious, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
husband wife relationship, friendship between men, satire, dark humor, rivalry, society, actress, dishonesty, escapades, writers, friendship, family relations ...
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Tony has recently been released from a sentence for violent behaviour. He promises to improve his ways and is finally granted a few hours alone with his two children. They celebrate the reunion by going to the movies to see a new film by the famous, ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous, captivating, offbeat ...
Plot:
filmmaking, ego clash, righting the wronged, artists and showbiz, film producer, director, medication, film set, cinema, man in a wheelchair, television reporter, reading a newspaper aloud ...
Time:
year 2006, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
denmark, europe
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Recently fired and facing eviction, a new dad has his life turned upside down when he meets a wealthy couple who offer a path to financial security... but at a price.
Style:
dark comedy, independent film, cynical, black comedy, horror comedy ...
Plot:
dark humor, manipulation, extramarital affair, violent, friendship, greed, adultery, gambling, cocaine, bet, life turned upside down, twists and turns ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, san francisco, california
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Crime, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Rogue Trader tells the true story of Nick Leeson, an employee of Barings Bank who--after a successful trading run--ends up accumulating $1.4 billion in losses hidden in account #88888.
Style:
suspenseful, tense, realistic, serious, suspense ...
Plot:
stock market, greed, finance, business, wall street, trading, money, dishonesty, corporate crime, ambition, rise and fall, workplace ...
Time:
future
Place:
asia, england, europe, singapore, bahamas
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Ferdinand, a young photographer, meets Claire, a supposed cover girl, in a cafe. Although he is instantly attracted towards her, Ferdinand soon learns that she is a professional thief, working for a thug named Brady.
Style:
romantic comedy, neo noir, crying, detective, freeze frame ...
Plot:
female thief, ambitious man, police investigator, lack of privacy, seductive woman, new job, lifestyle change, female murderer, cabaret singer, roommate roommate relationship, pickpocket, casting ...
Time:
20th century, year 1967, year 1968, 60s
Place:
europe, paris france
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A mental patient escapes from the looney bin in drag, robs a bank, and goes on the lam!
Style:
neo noir, crying, expressionism, independent film, black comedy ...
Plot:
serial killer, serial killer as protagonist, characters murdered one by one, gay club, pyramid, satanic cult, woman fights a man, man dressed as woman, caught stealing, silent man, deaf woman, mute character ...
Time:
year 1998
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
He wanted adventure...She craved revenge...Emeralds held the answer.
Style:
independent film, realistic, semi serious, suspenseful, freeze frame ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
jewel theft, emerald, bank robber, caper, bank, robbery, chase, partner, battles, revolution, chaos and mayhem, social differences ...
Time:
year 1981, 80s, 20th century
Place:
colombia, latin america, south america, mexico, brooklyn new york city
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Cat burglar Henry Clarke and his accomplices the Moreaus attempt to steal diamonds from the chateau of millionaire Salinas.
Style:
neo noir, realistic, serious, freeze frame, british noir
Plot:
heist, love triangle, caper, gay, affair, romantic triangle, illicit affair, mansion, burglar, jewel thief, diamond theft, partner ...
Time:
60s
Place:
madrid
Similarity:
22%
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