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Shank (2010)
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Mo Ali’s futuristic knife-crime drama brings the dystopian environment of CHILDREN OF MEN and DISTRICT 13 to London’s East 17. SHANK delivers a ruthless vision of forthcoming urban life, where guns have been superseded by knives and are fiercely wielded by aimless youths. Amidst the chaos is the Paper Chazers gang, a rare morally conscious group who trade scavenged food for money. After Chazers gang member, Junior (Kedar Williams-Stirling), witnesses his brother, murder he must decide whether to get revenge of stick to the gangs moral code... In this superbly paced and artistic film, present-day social issues, and murky city streets, provide a perfect canvas for imagination and action.
Style:
captivating, tense, rough, independent film, exciting, bleak, serious, realistic, controversial, fast ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gang, social decay, gay, profanity, society, youth, life is a bitch, urban, uninhibited rivalry, dystopian future, revenge, ghetto, male nudity, teenage boy, rastafarian, bare chested male, male pubic hair, hip hop, hip hop culture, discrimination, black, post apocalyptic, bad boy, vengeance, sexual content ...
Time:
future, near future, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
england, britain, london, europe
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Most similar movies to Shank
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, rough and suspenseful films with plots about gangster, violence, gang, gun, revenge, murder and pistol mostly in Crime, Thriller and Action genres. Some movies like Shank: Kidulthood (2006), Offender (2012), Montana (2014), Juice (1992), The Veteran (2011). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A day in the life of a group of troubled 15-year-olds growing up in west London.
Style:
serious, tense, rough, hood, teen ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
bullying, gang, urban ghetto life, ghetto, juvenile delinquency, coming of age, urban, teenage life, social decay, gangster, friendship, teenage love ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
london, england, united kingdom, britain, europe
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Justice needs to be served at Britain's most notorious young offenders institute.
Style:
serious, tense, realistic, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot:
male nudity, robbery, prison life, confined, vigilantism, vengeance, life is a bitch, juvenile delinquency, chase, urban, prison, bare chested male ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england
Similarity:
85%
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:
83%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Four Harlem friends -- Bishop, Q, Steel and Raheem -- dabble in petty crime, but they decide to go big by knocking off a convenience store. Bishop, the magnetic leader of the group, has the gun. But Q has different aspirations. He wants to be a DJ ...
Style:
hood, cult classic, sexual, tense, social ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
coming of age, ghetto, hip hop, gang, african american, friendship, black, teenager, urban, urban ghetto life, rapper, blaxploitation ...
Time:
year 1992, 90s, 80s
Place:
new york, harlem, usa, manhattan new york city, africa ...
Similarity:
77%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Soldier Robert Miller returns home from Afghanistan unable to fit back into society. Living on a violent council estate and finding work in undercover surveillance, he becomes obsessed with taking down a group of local gangsters who are ...
Style:
serious, tense, exciting, realistic, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
ex soldier, terrorism, undercover, ex military, gang, conspiracy, gang war, life is a bitch, uncover truth, violence spree, vigilantism, society ...
Time:
year 2011, 21st century
Place:
afghanistan, london, england, europe
Similarity:
76%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
An elderly ex-serviceman and widower looks to avenge his best friend's murder by doling out his own form of justice.
Style:
suspense, realistic, bleak, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night, manly
Plot:
vengeance, vigilantism, vigilante, violence, vigilante justice, murder, gang, revenge, investigation, juvenile delinquency, gangster, violent ...
Time:
year 2009, 2000s, 20th century, y2k, 21st century
Place:
england, london, britain, persia, europe ...
Similarity:
75%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Japan, Germany, USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A dark, hip, urban story of a barren and anonymous city where the underclass' sport of choice is ram-raiding. An exciting game in which stolen cars are driven through shop windows to aid large-scale looting before the police arrive. For Tommy, ...
Style:
harsh, serious, realistic, exciting, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
gang, rivalry, criminal, violence, nihilism, vandalism, life is a bitch, teenage life, criminal heroes, heist, prison, gangster ...
Time:
future, year 1994, 90s
Place:
england, europe, london, new jersey
Similarity:
74%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A gangster, Nino, is in the Cash Money Brothers, making a million dollars every week selling crack. A cop, Scotty, discovers that the only way to infiltrate the gang is to become a dealer himself.
Style:
hood, stylized, suspense, intense, harsh ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gangster, gang, gang war, organized crime, ghetto, blaxploitation, mafia, drug, hip hop, chase, urban, drug lord ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, 90s, year 1986
Place:
harlem, new york, usa, america, manhattan new york city ...
Similarity:
73%
Movie in collections
2K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
When a young woman is cruelly and indiscriminately attacked by a notorious gang led by the violent Trey, her little 16 year old sister Kayla wants revenge and will stop at nothing to get it, even if it means joining a rival girl gang led by the ...
Style:
rough, suspenseful, serious, realistic, bleak
Plot:
vengeance, gang, girl gang, juvenile delinquency, teenage life, social decay, gang leader, life is a bitch, criminal heroes, rivalry, society, youth ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, britain, london
Similarity:
67%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A drug kingpin's return home touches off a turf war.
Style:
hood, tense, serious, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gangster, manhunt, ghetto, addiction, redemption, murder, interracial relations, rise and fall, criminal heroes, journalism, society, drug dealing ...
Time:
year 2004, 2000s
Place:
detroit, usa, los angeles, new york
Similarity:
67%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A violent street gang, the Rebels, rule the streets of Gary, Indiana. The Rebels shoot Marvin Bookman, a store-keeper, for giving the police information about a drive-by shooting they committed. Marvin's son, former NFL star John who created ...
Style:
hood, cult classic, independent film, realistic, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
blaxploitation, vigilante, female warrior, urban, vigilantism, gang, murder, black, ghetto, vengeance, tough heroes, culture clash ...
Time:
year 2016, year 1996, 90s, 70s
Place:
indiana, usa
Similarity:
67%
880
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A Russian gang operating in Leeds with no respect for the laws of England, traffic Eastern Europeans in containers then enslave them, the women to sex, the men to illegal fights. They cross local businessman Gabe Taylor and a war escalates, but when ...
Style:
suspenseful, emotional, realistic, serious, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
brother brother relationship, gang, kidnapping, cell phone, father daughter relationship, crime boss, strip club, fistfight, prostitute, vengeance, danger, life is a bitch ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england
Similarity:
66%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Two worlds collide when a wealthy hedge fund trader returns home to find squatters have occupied his country house.
Style:
absurd, surprise ending, psychotronic, exciting, suspense ...
Plot:
on the run, exploitation, organized crime, murder, gangster, crime boss, criminal, conspiracy, urban setting, violence, money, chase ...
Place:
london, big ben london, tower bridge london
Similarity:
65%
7K
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: South Africa, Mexico
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Based on the groundbreaking, cult classic anime, KITE tells the story of Sawa, a young woman living in a corrupt society where crime and gangs terrorize the streets. When Sawa's mother and policeman father are found victims of a grisly double ...
Style:
exciting, serious, rough, suspenseful, bleak ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
violence, woman kills a man, female killer, vengeance, female vigilante, female warrior, woman fights a man, one woman army, young heroes, vigilantism, martial arts, revenge ...
Time:
near future, 21st century
Similarity:
65%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Kenneth (who likes to call himself Kay) begins to realise he's just another wannabe bad boy... even less than a loser in fact. After quitting his job at Laimsbury's, Kay vows to become a respected gangster... or cry trying. A ...
Style:
humorous, captivating, light, entertaining, hood ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
urban, coming of age, white trash, city life, youth, society, ambition, lifestyle, misfit, ghetto, hip hop, black ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, britain, europe
Similarity:
64%
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
New York City factory worker Eddie Marino (Robert Forster, Oscar nominee for JACKIE BROWN) is a solid citizen and regular guy, until the day a sadistic street gang brutally assaults his wife and murders his child. But when a corrupt judge sets the ...
Style:
cult classic, grindhouse, action adventure, psychotronic, hood ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
vigilante, gang, revenge, rape victim, vigilantism, jail, home invasion, gangster, vigilante justice, rape, underground, rape and revenge ...
Time:
80s, year 1983
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
63%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Menace II Society is a coming of age tale detailing the summer after its protagonist Caine (Tyrin Turner) graduates from high school. This is Caine's story, which details real life in today's tough inner city.
Style:
stylized, bloody, serious, rough, hood ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama, adult
Plot:
ghetto, hip hop, friendship, african american, urban ghetto life, murder, police brutality, violence, coming of age, gangster, organized crime, street gang ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 70s, year 1993
Place:
los angeles, california, usa, south central los angeles, north america
Similarity:
63%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Two years after the murder of his son and father, a retired hitman sets in motion a carefully crafted revenge plan against the killer: his own brother.
Style:
tense, captivating, suspense, hood, thrilling ...
Plot:
hitman, sword fight, murder, female warrior, vengeance, revenge, gang, criminal gang, showdown, criminal, killer, bandit ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
spain, barcelona
Similarity:
63%
Movie in collections
299K
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Japan, USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
After Kick-Ass’ insane bravery inspires a new wave of self-made masked crusaders, he joins a patrol led by the Colonel Stars and Stripes. When these amateur superheroes are hunted down by Red Mist — reborn as The Mother Fucker — only the ...
Style:
stylized, teen, brutal, entertaining, humorous ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, boys' night, teens, adult
Plot:
superhero, double life, vigilante, revenge, vigilantism, female bodybuilder, masked vigilante, violent, high school, death, comic book, youth ...
Time:
year 2013, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
63%
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:
62%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A former cop returns to challenge a plot to escalate gang violence in the streets of Los Angeles.
Style:
grindhouse, independent film, exciting, serious, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
martial arts, cannon, vigilantism, kung fu, gang warfare, police detective, teenage life, gang, hostage, gangster, against the odds, urban ...
Time:
90s
Place:
los angeles, california, usa
Similarity:
61%
452K
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A drug lord tries to sell off his highly profitable empire.
Style:
dark comedy, realistic, stylized, black comedy, neo noir ...
Audience:
boys' night, family friendly
Plot:
organized crime, gangster, marijuana, money, gang, criminal underworld, british, crime boss, tough guy, gang war, sarcasm, swearing ...
Time:
2020s, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
london, england, europe, britain, united kingdom
Similarity:
60%
21K
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Wanted by the mafia, a New York City bike messenger escapes into the world of parkour after meeting a beautiful stranger.
Style:
exciting, teen, sexy, intense, romantic ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
parkour, chase, bodyguard, twists and turns, gang, brutality, chases and races, robbery, adaptation, disorder, debt, organized crime ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, brooklyn new york city, manhattan new york city, california
Similarity:
59%
Movie in collections
13K
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
After serving six years for killing his schoolmate, a young man learns that someone is out for revenge.
Style:
hood, rough, realistic, serious, cult classic ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
urban ghetto life, gang, vengeance, society, drug addict, juvenile delinquency, teenage life, criminal's revenge, youth, life is a bitch, ghetto, urban ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, london, united kingdom, britain, europe
Similarity:
58%
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Seagal plays a man with a dark and violent past, who seeks revenge for the murder of his son.
Style:
suspenseful, exciting, serious, realistic, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
revenge, martial arts, gang, chase, investigation, murder, gangster, danger, law enforcement, dishonesty, death in the family, husband wife relationship ...
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
56%
13K
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A group of people who feel betrayed by their government and let down by their police force form a modern-day outlaw posse in order to right what they see as the wrongs of society.
Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough, grindhouse ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
police, gang, vengeance, gangster, vigilante, revenge, security guard, soldier, betrayal, rivalry, dishonesty, murder of wife ...
Place:
england, britain, london, big ben london, united kingdom
Similarity:
55%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
The flamethrower-wielding vigilante John Eastland returns to rid New York of a drug lord and his gang.
Style:
cult classic, slasher, grim, independent film, fast ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gang, exploitation, vigilante, revenge, cannon, drug, trucker, automobile, truck, vietnam war, superhero, erotica ...
Time:
80s
Place:
new york, usa, brooklyn new york city
Similarity:
54%
119K
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Prominent gang leader Cyrus calls a meeting of New York's gangs to set aside their turf wars and take over the city. At the meeting, a rival leader kills Cyrus, but a Coney Island gang called the Warriors is wrongly blamed for Cyrus' ...
Style:
cult classic, neo noir, retro, grindhouse, grim ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, teen drama, adult
Plot:
survival, street gang, gang, gang war, gang member, subway, violence, warrior, gangster, chase, murder, graffiti ...
Time:
future, 70s, year 1979, near future, 80s
Place:
new york, coney island brooklyn new york city, bronx new york city, usa, north america ...
Similarity:
53%
64K
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
When a Las Vegas bodyguard with lethal skills and a gambling problem gets in trouble with the mob, he has one last play… and it's all or nothing.
Style:
suspenseful, stylized, brutal, intense, tense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
revenge, gangster, betrayal, martial arts, redemption, tough heroes, dishonesty, gambling, profanity, lawyer, mafia, criminal ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
las vegas, usa, nevada, new orleans
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
On Christmas Eve a group of ruthless masked terrorists kidnap the Prime Ministers daughter, fortifying themselves in an underground car park rigged with explosives. Crack SAS operative Chris Lowe and his team are sent in and must take the building ...
Style:
exciting, serious, captivating, tense, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
terrorism, terrorist, military, soldier, danger, daring rescue, confined, law enforcement, escapades, chase, money, fear ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, london, scotland yard
Similarity:
52%
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