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Melvin Purvis G-MAN (1974)
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Original name: Melvin Purvis G-Man
Genre: Action, Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
Agent Melvin Purvis is placed in charge of running down notorious killer Machine Gun Kelly, and sets out to do just that.
Style:
sincere, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, neo noir, neo western
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
biopic, mobster, gangster, heroes, gang, chase, chases and races, rivalry, law enforcement, fighting crime, folk hero, dishonesty, obsessive quest, special agent, bank robbery, police officer, fbi, murder, tough guy, car chase, bank robber, villain, hotel, gunfight, great depression ...
Time:
1930s, 30s
Place:
kansas
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, serious, realistic and rough films with plots about murder, gunfight, shootout, law enforcement, gangster, violence and rivalry mostly in Crime, Drama and Action genres. Some movies like Melvin Purvis G-MAN: Dillinger (1973), A Bullet for Pretty Boy (1970), Capone (1975), Dillinger and Capone (1995), Public Enemies (1996). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Action, Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
The life of American public enemy number one who was shot by the police in 1934. After a shoot-out kills five FBI agents in Kansas City the Bureau target John Dillinger as one of the men to hunt down. Waiting for him to break Federal law they sort ...
Style:
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boys' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
chicago, indiana, oklahoma city, usa, kansas ...
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Genre: Action, Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
oklahoma, kansas
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, suspenseful, rough, serious, psychotronic ...
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Plot:
gangster, prohibition, brutality, gunfight, rise and fall, mafia, murder, police investigation, hitman, gang war, violence, bare breasts ...
Time:
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Place:
chicago, usa, north america
Similarity:
84%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
In 1934, J. Edgar Hoover and the boys made headlines for mowing down John Dillinger in a hail of bullets outside Chicago's Biograph theater. But in fact, according to this Jon Purdy gangster thriller, the Feds iced Dillinger's brother. ...
Style:
realistic, rough, serious, exciting, suspenseful ...
Plot:
gangster, master criminal, fighting crime, missing person, kidnapping, criminal's revenge, criminal heroes, law enforcement, crime gone awry, dishonesty, uninhibited rivalry, rivalry ...
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Place:
chicago
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80%
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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:
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Time:
1930s
Similarity:
75%
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:
74%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Police Inspector Paul Fein (Bronson) copes with family troubles while also dealing with the possibility of advancement to police chief. Meanwhile, his son (Joe Penny)) is investigating the murder of a banker.
Style:
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Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
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Time:
90s, 20th century
Similarity:
74%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
An elite group of vice cops are fired from the L.A.P.D. for being over-zealous in their war against drugs. It is immediately apparent that some of their superiors are involved in the drug ring. Banded together, four of the banned cops (which quickly ...
Style:
independent film, serious, realistic, exciting, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
drug dealer, drug, machine gun, police, die hard, car chase, cop, police shootout, conspiracy, police corruption, illegal drugs, partner ...
Time:
80s
Place:
los angeles, usa, california
Similarity:
74%
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Maverick Cop John Bloodstone is taken off suspension to ferry a Mob Boss into custody. But all is not what it seems.....
Style:
independent film, realistic, serious, exciting, suspenseful ...
Plot:
fbi, mobster, special agent, gangster, chases and races, law enforcement, criminal heroes, dishonesty, police detective, small town life, small town, prison ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
73%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Gangsters free one of their colleagues being escorted to prison and kill several FBI agents and local police officers in the attempt. FBI agent Melvin Purvis puts together a special squad to track down and capture the men responsible.
Style:
brutal, suspenseful, tense, grim, dark ...
Plot:
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Time:
1930s
Place:
kansas city, midwest
Similarity:
73%
Genre: Action, Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Bonnie and Clyde is based on the true stories of the gangster pair Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow who in the 1930s began robbing banks in U.S. cities until they were eventually killed. The film is a major landmark in the aesthetic movement known as ...
Style:
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Audience:
boys' night, chick flick
Plot:
lovers on the run, on the run, heist, bank robbery, fugitives, gang, true crime, bank robber, shootout, great depression, love and romance, crime spree ...
Time:
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Place:
texas, oklahoma, missouri, midwest, usa ...
Similarity:
73%
Genre: Action, Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Sheriff Buford Pusser continues his one-man war against moonshiners and a ruthless crime syndicate after the murder of his wife in late 1960's Tennessee.
Style:
grindhouse, hood, independent film, realistic, serious ...
Audience:
manly, boys' night
Plot:
vigilante, vigilantism, murder, revenge, gangster, female nudity, gang, volunteer, ghetto, redneck, cowboy, heroes ...
Time:
year 1975, 20th century, 70s, 60s
Place:
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Similarity:
73%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
In Dallas, witnesses against a drug-lord are murdered in a safe-house.The testimony of FBI agents becomes the only chance to keep him in prison. They are lodged in another safe-house, but the place is invaded and the agents are executed. However, ...
Style:
suspenseful, rough, serious, realistic, neo western
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
vigilantism, gangster, police investigation, fighting crime, partners against crime, special agent, retiring, small town, tough law enforcer, starting over, vengeance, law enforcement ...
Time:
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Place:
dallas texas, texas
Similarity:
73%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
71%
722
Genre: Action, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
70%
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
70%
568
Genre: Action, Biography, Crime, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Crime drama based on the real-life story of US gangster John Dillinger, who was hunted by the FBI after a string of armed bank robberies during the Great Depression. When Dillinger's attacks on banks threaten to make him a dangerous folk hero, ...
Style:
crime drama, period piece, tense, suspenseful
Plot:
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Time:
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Similarity:
70%
Genre: Action, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, rough, serious, suspenseful, independent film ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
usa, louisiana, new orleans
Similarity:
69%
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Style:
serious, tense, rough, suspenseful, realistic
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
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Place:
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Similarity:
69%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Style:
serious, realistic, exciting, rough, suspenseful
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: USA, Germany
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
usa, los angeles
Similarity:
69%
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Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, serious, exciting, suspenseful, erotic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
usa, boston, massachusetts
Similarity:
68%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
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Style:
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boys' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: South Africa
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
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exciting, realistic, serious, suspenseful, rough
Plot:
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Time:
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Style:
tense, rough, suspenseful, realistic, serious
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
usa, florida, miami
Similarity:
67%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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Style:
independent film, serious, realistic, talky, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
smuggling, undocumented immigrant, society, dishonesty, rivalry, chases and races, heroes, witnessing a crime, law enforcement, murder, small town, police corruption ...
Time:
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Place:
mexico, arizona, usa
Similarity:
67%
Genre: Action, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A former mob hitman, now in witness protection, is forced to come out of retirement when his family is threatened by his cohorts. He teams up with a skateboarding kid, who has a computer disk that the mob wants to get their hands on that has a list ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Similarity:
66%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
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Style:
rough, suspenseful, serious, realistic, independent film
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
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