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Heroic Losers (2019)
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Heroic Losers (2019)
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, heist, businesswoman, deception, crisis, con men, greed, greedy man, bank clerk, whistleblower, lawyer, escapades, business, capitalism, religious, corrupt lawyer, train, wedding, caper, fishing, death, excavation, restaurant, hospital, fisherman ...
Time: 2000s, year 2001, year 2002
Place: argentina
Keyword: argentine, watching a movie, bruise

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, suspense, crying and captivating films with plots about telephone call, money, cigarette smoking, murder, shooting, husband wife relationship and old man mostly in Crime, Drama and Thriller genres. Some movies like Heroic Losers: Common Wealth (2000), Argentina, 1985 (2022), Nine Queens (2000), At the End of the Tunnel (2016), Koblic (2016). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Common Wealth (2000)
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: humorous, dark comedy, black comedy, disturbing, bleak ...
Plot: real estate agent, greed, neighbor, murder, fish out of water, dishonesty, conflict, dark humor, conspiracy, female protagonist, violence, money ...
Time: 90s
Place: spain, madrid, iberian peninsula, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Argentina, 1985 (2022)
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: captivating, psychological, suspenseful, iconic
Plot: military dictatorship, court, lawyer, courtroom, investigation, trial, politics, murder, attorney, legal action, courtroom drama, advocate ...
Time: 80s, year 1985, year 1984
Place: argentina
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Nine Queens (2000)
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, mindfuck, suspenseful, atmospheric, tricky ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: plot twist, swindle, partner, manipulation, twists and turns, justice, police, robbery, partners in crime, mind game, great ending, con men ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: argentina, buenos aires argentina, venezuela, latin america, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
At the End of the Tunnel (2016)
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: suspense, suspenseful, entertaining, captivating, twisted ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: tunnel, introvert, heist, surveillance, trap, investigation, police investigation, gang of outlaws, criminal, thief, robbery, police detective ...
Time: year 2016
Place: buenos aires argentina
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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Koblic (2016)
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, mindfuck, social
Plot: military dictatorship, haunted by the past, guilty conscience, military, murder, dog, colonel, airplane, sex scene, pilot, state crimes, violence ...
Time: year 1977, year 2016, 70s
Place: argentina
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37%
Chinese Take-Away (2011)
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, society, immigrant, language barrier, cow, falklands war, fast food, refugee, migration ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: argentina, latin america
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35%
Son of the Bride (2001)
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: touching, sentimental, humorous, witty, romantic ...
Plot: midlife crisis, divorce, family relations, heart attack, self discovery, childhood, introspection, fall in love, couple relations, human nature, old friend, family gatherings ...
Time: year 2001
Place: latin america, argentina, spain, buenos aires argentina, italy ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Wave of Crimes (2018)
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, light, entertaining, dark comedy ...
Plot: teenager, murder, business, family relations, police, mother, lawyer, cover up, corruption, money, love, grandmother ...
Place: basque country, spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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Terrorist (2019)
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, black comedy, dark comedy
Plot: rural setting, murderer, woods, mobster, cycling, vigilante justice, immigrant, rich woman, killing a pet, unpunished crime, hunting, forest ranger ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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Loot (1970)
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, realistic, semi serious, cynical, humorous ...
Plot: friendship between men, caper, robbery, loot, gay, farce, heist, hotel, homoerotic friendship, father son relationship, money, male star appears nude ...
Time: 60s
Place: brighton, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
 7.3
 138K
Matchstick Men (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
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: psychological, feel good, entertaining, psychological thriller, twisted ...
Plot: con artists, twists and turns, cons and scams, mental illness, con men, heist, greed, slick, plot twist, psychology, father daughter relationship, obsession ...
Time: year 2003, 21st century
Place: los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
The Young Offenders (2016)
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, road movie ...
Audience: teens
Plot: teenager, friendship, cocaine, juvenile delinquent, police, road trip, drug, drunkenness, escapades, danger, coming of age, poverty ...
Time: year 2007, 2000s
Place: ireland
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
To Steal from a Thief (2016)
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, clever ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: bank, heist, hostage, secret, political corruption, secrets, dishonesty, robbery, bank robber, danger, plan gone awry, escapades ...
Time: year 2016
Place: spain, valencia spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
The Weasel's Tale (2019)
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: sincere, semi serious, psychological, captivating
Plot: husband wife relationship, friendship between men, society, rivalry, escapades, dishonesty, actress, youth, friendship, family relations, writers, family drama ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
The Ice Harvest (2005)
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: christmas, stripper, strip club, femme fatale, robbery, betrayal, murder, gangster, organized crime, mobster, snow, greed ...
Time: year 2005, 21st century
Place: usa, kansas
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
The Secret in Their Eyes (2009)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Argentina, Spain
Duration: 129 min.
Story: A retired legal counselor writes a novel hoping to find closure for one of his past unresolved homicide cases and for his unreciprocated love with his superior - both of which still haunt him decades later.
Style: suspense, touching, suspenseful, intense, detective ...
Audience: adult
Plot: investigation, twists and turns, rape, murder, lawyer, murder mystery, investigator, serial killer, revenge, homicide, vengeance, writers ...
Time: year 2009, 2000s, y2k, 20th century, 90s ...
Place: argentina, latin america, south america, harvard university, buenos aires argentina
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Who Killed Bambi? (2013)
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, captivating, feel good, light, dark comedy ...
Plot: comedy of errors, mistaken identity, crime gone awry, disorder, nothing goes right, buddies, dark humor, profanity, friends, kidnapping, love story, truth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
The Running Man (1963)
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, realistic, serious, mind bending, cynical ...
Plot: false identity, insurance, insurance scam, obsession, aviation, investigator, insurance investigator, on the run, investigation, faking own death, funeral, double life ...
Time: year 1963, 60s, 20th century
Place: spain, england, united kingdom, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Deadfall (1968)
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, mansion, jewel thief, burglar, diamond theft, partner, dishonesty, rehabilitation ...
Time: 60s
Place: madrid
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Black Snow (2017)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Argentina, Spain
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Accused of killing his brother during adolescence, Salvador lives alone in the middle of Patagonia. Several decades later, his brother Marcos and his sister-in-law Laura, come to convince him to sell the lands they share by inheritance.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, tense, captivating, neo noir ...
Plot: hunting, isolation, brother brother relationship, nightmare, anger, mental illness, twists and turns, snow, plot twist, brother sister incest, recluse, excavation ...
Place: patagonia, argentina
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23%
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Cop or Hood (1979)
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: suspense, disturbing, tense, suspenseful, neo noir ...
Plot: corruption, organized crime, police, assassination, police brutality, chase, murder investigation, police operation, employer employee relationship, violence, attempted murder, bad cop ...
Place: south of france, france, cote d'azur, nice france, paris france
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23%
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The Body (2012)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 112 min.
Story: A woman’s body disappears mysteriously from the morgue without a trace. Police inspector Jaime Peña investigates the strange occurrence with the help of Álex Ulloa, the widower of the missing woman.
Style: surprise ending, tense, suspenseful, atmospheric, detective ...
Plot: twists and turns, murder, investigation, uncover truth, missing person, adulterous husband, car accident, mistress, morgue, vengeance, adultery, haunted by the past ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: spain, barcelona
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Modelar (2020)
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: disturbing, captivating, suspense, intense, melancholic ...
Plot: war crime, professor, university, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, terrorism, adultery, election, brother sister relationship, singer, bomb, lecture, journalist ...
Time: 2010s, year 2019, 21st century
Place: central europe, tel aviv israel, prague
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22%
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I Woke Up Early the Day I Died (1998)
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, expressionism, crying, black comedy, slapstick ...
Plot: serial killer, nurse, thief, pyramid, man dressed as a woman, psychiatric hospital, crossdresser, insane asylum, drag queen, list, mental illness, psychiatric patient ...
Time: year 1998
Place: los angeles
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22%
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Rogue Trader (1999)
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, economics, dishonesty, corporate crime, ambition, rise and fall, blind ambition ...
Time: future
Place: asia, singapore, england, europe, bahamas
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22%
Everybody Knows (2018)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain, France, Italy, Argentina, Germany
Duration: 133 min.
Story: Laura, a Spanish woman living in Buenos Aires, returns to her hometown outside Madrid with her Argentinian husband and children. However, the trip is upset by unexpected events that bring secrets into the open.
Style: suspense, independent film, realistic, atmospheric, thought provoking ...
Plot: kidnapping, ransom demand, wedding, family secret, ex-lover, investigation, husband wife relationship, sister sister relationship, lie, mother daughter relationship, deception, expose ...
Place: iran, middle east, barcelona, persia, spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Clash of Egos (2006)
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: realistic, semi serious, humorous, captivating, offbeat
Plot: filmmaking, ego clash, righting the wronged, artists and showbiz, film producer, medication, director, manuscript, film set, cinema, bare chested male, shootout ...
Time: year 2006, 21st century
Place: denmark, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
The Heist of the Century (2020)
Genre: Action, Biography, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Argentina, USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Movie inspired by the assault on the Banco Rio of Acassuso, which occurred in 2006.
Style: captivating, realistic, semi serious, atmospheric, light ...
Plot: heist, bank robbery, father daughter relationship, money, escapades, bank robber, unlikely partners, teamwork, cons and scams, partners in crime, caper, stolen money ...
Time: 20th century, year 2005, 2000s
Place: buenos aires argentina
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Widows (2018)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story: Set in contemporary Chicago, amidst a time of turmoil, four women with nothing in common except a debt left behind by their dead husbands' criminal activities take fate into their own hands and conspire to forge a future on their own terms.
Style: suspense, tense, neo noir, bleak, exciting ...
Audience: adult
Plot: heist, girl gang, murder, widow, harlot, premarital sex, black, grief, criminal, caper, brutality, danger ...
Time: 2010s
Place: chicago, xian
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
An Average Little Man (1977)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 122 min.
Story: Giovanni Vivaldi is an average middle-aged man with a secure job as a government accountant. He wishes nothing more than to set up his only son Mario, his biggest pride in the world, with the same secure government job before he eventually retires. ...
Style: dark comedy, black comedy, controversial, freeze frame, crying ...
Plot: revenge, accountant, police officer, freemason, freemasonry, bureaucracy, vigilante, worker, european, years of lead, justice, kidnapping ...
Time: 70s
Place: rome italy, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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