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The Drug King (2018)
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The Drug King (2018)
Original name: 마약왕
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 139 min.
Story: Busan, South Korea, 1970s. Lee Doo-sam is a small-time smuggler. After helping a drug gang to smuggle meth, he falls into the dark crime world. Quick-witted and full of ambition, he eventually takes over the drug underworld and starts to lead a double life: a good community leader during the day but an infamous drug lord during the night.
Style: captivating, psychological, tense, suspense
Plot: drug dealer, drug lord, political corruption, drug traffic, police corruption, drug crime, drug, political intrigue, danger, murder, rivalry, mafia, gang, organized crime, drug abuse, methamphetamine, gangster, yakuza, crime, crimes, drugs
Time: 70s, 80s
Place: south korea, busan, osaka japan
Keyword: gangsters, korean

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out tense, captivating, suspense and serious films with plots about gang, organized crime, drug, gangster, drug dealer, criminal and murder mostly in Crime, Drama and Action genres. Some movies like The Drug King: Skinning (2010), The Man from Nowhere (2010), Women of Mafia (2018), Inside Men (2015), Narco Soldiers (2019). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Skinning (2010)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Serbia
Duration: 102 min.
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The Man from Nowhere (2010)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 119 min.
Story: His only friend called him 'the man from nowhere'... Taesik, a former special agent becomes a loner after losing his wife in a miserable accident and lives a bitter life running a pawnshop. He only has a few customers and a friend named ...
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Audience: boys' night, manly
Plot: revenge, one man army, martial arts, kidnapping, lone hero, assassin, master warrior, organized crime, drug lord, fight scenes, gang, fight ...
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Women of Mafia (2018)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 138 min.
Story: A former police officer goes under cover in the mafia.
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Duration: 107 min.
Story: A brutal account of how real-life, hard-as-nails Falklands War veteran Tony Tucker came to be involved in one of the most notorious gangland murders in British history.
Style: tense, suspense, captivating, disturbing, dark
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Inside Men (2015)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
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Duration: 130 min.
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Style: neo noir, psychological, captivating, realistic, suspenseful ...
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Time: 21st century
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Narco Soldiers (2019)
Genre: Action, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
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Style: suspense, tense, captivating
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Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
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Style: captivating, suspense, tense
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
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Duration: 127 min.
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Duration: 104 min.
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Style: disturbing, tense, captivating, suspense
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Style: detective, serious, captivating, tense, bleak ...
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Style: atmospheric, exciting, suspense, captivating, tense ...
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Country: South Korea
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: South Korea
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