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One Way Out (2002)
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Harry Woltz is a homicide cop with a gambling problem; a problem that leaves him owing a great deal of money to the Russell brothers. To clear the debt they ask him to train John Farrow to murder his wife, Evans, without leaving the usual clues or making the usual mistakes. However when Harry's ex-partner is put on the case, she begins to get closer than Harry had thought before the case takes some unexpected twists.
Style:
suspense, serious, realistic, tense, detective, tension, crime thriller, dark, twisted, psychological ...
Plot:
murder, gambling, addiction, police corruption, police investigation, investigation, law enforcement, dishonesty, sex, winter, homicide, hitman, betrayal, deception, organized crime, moral dilemma, cat and mouse, suspicion, moral ambiguity, mistrust, female detective, corruption, mature, urban, cover up ...
Time:
contemporary
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, tense and suspenseful films with plots about law enforcement, murder, investigation, dishonesty, deadly, police investigation and police corruption mostly in Crime, Thriller and Drama genres. Some movies like One Way Out: Double Bang (2001), Mister Dissolute (2009), The Thief & the Stripper (2000), The Badge (2015), Out of Annie's Past (1995). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
An honest cop enters the dark world of murder and corruption.
Style:
suspenseful, serious, realistic, independent film
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
undercover, murder, investigation, hidden identity, law enforcement, working undercover, fighting crime, master criminal, dishonesty, tough law enforcer, vengeance, rivalry ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
When a criminal imprisoned by detectives Ron Fugate and Morris Brinson is released and puts a hit out on them, both their partnership and their very existence quickly begins to decay... Who will survive, and at what cost?
Style:
detective, dark, noir, psychological, crime thriller ...
Plot:
moral ambiguity, law enforcement, revenge, murder, violence, corruption, investigation, criminal underworld, cat and mouse, partnership, hitman, vengeance ...
Time:
70s
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100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Jack just lost his P.I. license and his life is on a downward spiral. He decides to steal a cash briefcase from the local gangsters. He hides in a strip joint owned by a local mob legend Jimmie D and pays a stripper to help him escape. The gangsters ...
Style:
tense, serious, realistic, rough, crime drama ...
Plot:
gangster, stripper, law enforcement, criminal heroes, murder, henchman, deception, strip club, mobster, organized crime, heist, private investigator ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
california
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
The only difference between a cop and a criminal is The Badge. Detective Vince McKinley and his partner Martin Goulet have to solve the biggest case of their careers: a series of evidence have been stolen from their own precinct. Through out the ...
Style:
tense, realistic, suspenseful, serious, crime drama ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
partner, tough law enforcer, police investigation, dishonesty, police corruption, law enforcement, corruption, police station, trust, investigation, betrayal, moral ambiguity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Annie's got a secret past she's eager to hide from her husband and her family. An iconclastic bounty hunter blackmails her to keep that past a secret. As the stakes increase, though, so do the ruthless and brutal actions of all those ...
Style:
suspense, tense, tension, noir, dark ...
Plot:
blackmail, bounty hunter, secrets, murder, deception, family secret, danger, betrayal, death, moral ambiguity, cat and mouse, corruption ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Criminal detective Roland Hassel and his colleague Bolinder is investigating a criminal gang involved in the meat packing business. Bolinder is murdered in front of Hassel and the criminals are out to kill Hassel, the only witness.
Style:
detective, suspense, dark, noir, crime drama ...
Plot:
murder, police procedural, investigation, gang, organized crime, danger, violence, witness, revenge, conspiracy, law enforcement, undercover ...
Place:
stockholm sweden
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Police procedural: tracking a ruthless Chicago hitman who's found a gig in Mexico City.
Style:
crime thriller, tense, tension, suspense, dark ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
investigation, kidnapping, law enforcement, assassin, contract killing, hitman, police procedural, crime boss, violence, underworld, cat and mouse, urban ...
Place:
mexico city
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
For burned-out Seattle cop Daniel Pruitt, a camping trip turns hellish when his wife, Jessica, is savagely attacked in the forest. En route to the hospital, the Pruitts collide with a semi, and Jessica identifies the driver as her assailant. ...
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, serious, realistic, crime drama ...
Plot:
small town, vengeance, law enforcement, police investigation, rivalry, murder, dishonesty, life is a bitch, mistaken identity, moral ambiguity, sexual assault, investigation ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa, seattle
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 180 min.
Story:
After Elaine Hopkin is found dead, apparent an OD suicide, her firstborn Mark wouldn't even inform his dad James Hopkin, who was locked up for murder. Kid sister Justine, a cocky uniformed cop, goes visit him, only to learn he was just ...
Style:
tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot:
investigation, murder, law enforcement, intrigue, dishonesty, danger, rivalry, righting the wronged, parents and children, police, female protagonist, family secret ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: South Africa
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Investigating the gruesome murder of a cabinet minister's daughter, a special investigator and a local police detective find themselves knee-deep in political corruption and conspiracy, in this sizzling noir thriller set in post-apartheid South ...
Style:
tense, suspenseful, serious, crime drama, political thriller ...
Plot:
political corruption, uncover truth, police investigation, political conspiracy, dishonesty, murder, danger, murder mystery, investigation, cover up, conspiracy, moral ambiguity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
south africa, africa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
There is no honor without truth. When gang wars spin out of control in downtown Washington D.C., one man steps onto the battlefirld to hunt down a ruthless killer. A young man has been released from prison and is determined to build a new life for ...
Style:
realistic, suspenseful, rough, serious, crime drama ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gang, drug dealing, redemption, investigation, police corruption, friendship, tough law enforcer, police investigation, criminal heroes, law enforcement, partner, going straight ...
Place:
usa, washington d.c., los angeles
Similarity:
100%
343
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Four Hardcore party posers are suddenly facing an unknown killer when one of them disappears.
Style:
suspenseful, serious, tense, suspense, bleak ...
Plot:
murder, investigation, friendship, femme fatale, dishonesty, betrayal, female killer, suspicion, power relations, twentysomething life, crime gone awry, female criminal ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Fact based story about the political battle that was waged against the Mafia in Sicily during the late 1980's and early 1990's. Chazz Palminteri plays Giovanni Falcone, a crusading prosecutor who tried to use money trails as a way to ...
Style:
suspense, independent film, realistic, serious, suspenseful
Plot:
mafia, cosa nostra, italian mafia, italian gangster, crime family, organized crime, law, historical figure, italian history, law enforcement, fighting crime, dishonesty ...
Time:
80s, 90s, 20th century
Place:
sicily, europe, italy
Similarity:
100%
565
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
An elderly woman turns the tables on her kidnapper.
Style:
rough, psychological, serious, tense, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
police investigation, police detective, frame up, dishonesty, undercover, love affair, mysterious character, dangerous attraction, city life, unlikely criminals, witnessing a crime, working undercover ...
Time:
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Similarity:
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983
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Rembrandt Macy (Tom Berenger) is a maverick cop assigned to a case where the primary evidence is a woman's hand found in a pond. Investigators identify the dead, and Macy is lead into a young woman's past. Macy's primary path to ...
Style:
suspenseful, tense, intense, suspense, neo noir ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
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904
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
The morphine-addicted detective Charlie Daines is on the trail of a sophisticated psychopath who is setting up murders and broadcasting them live on the internet. As he closes in on the killer, he realizes that it has become personal and that he is ...
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, serious, tense, detective ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany, Romania, UK, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
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Style:
tense, realistic, serious, suspenseful
Plot:
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Genre: Thriller, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A pair of romantically entangled cops become suspects in the brutal murder of one of their mates.
Style:
tense, mind bending, realistic, serious, rough ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Set against the backdrop of the true story of the largest cash robbery in the history of the USA.
Style:
suspenseful, realistic, serious, tense
Plot:
murder, white supremacy, religion, robbery, hostage, working undercover, down on your luck, interracial relations, police corruption, injustice, terrorism, investigation ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Impulse is a 1990 thriller film about a female police officer who works undercover as a prostitute on the streets of Los Angeles
Style:
neo noir, erotic, serious, psychological, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
vice squad, prostitution, drug dealer, drug abuse, gangster, district attorney, investigation, money, police, policewoman, female police officer, killer ...
Time:
80s, 90s
Place:
los angeles, california, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Nelson Crowe is a CIA operative under the thumb of the Company for a disputed delivery of $50,000 in gold. They blackmail him into working for the Grimes Organization, which is set up as a private company for hire, to blackmail prominent ...
Style:
suspenseful, clever, psychological, neo noir, stylized ...
Plot:
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Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A young smalltown reporter, Jessie St. Claire, begins investigating a killer stalking his victims making video tapes. This might just be the career opportunity, which she has hoped for. When she herself becomes a target and suddenly disappears, the ...
Style:
serious, scary, suspenseful, rough, realistic ...
Plot:
serial killer, amateur detective, murder, psychopath, stalking, mind game, investigation, uncover truth, who done it, boss and employee, protagonist as suspect, police investigation ...
Similarity:
100%
4K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Good policing doesn't necessarily mean doing everything by the book. But as the business of crime in London turns to favour the Albanians and Turks, how does a "good" policeman survive?
Style:
tense, serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
london, england
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Poland
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
The story takes place in two parallel time planes. The first plot follows the events of one autumn night in 1978. Edward Srodon, a zootechnician, makes an accidental stopover in a farmhouse of Dziabas family in the remote area of Bieszczady ...
Style:
captivating, serious, action thriller, tense, suspense ...
Plot:
martial law, murder, who done it, law enforcement, crime scene, winter, multiple storylines, gay, alcoholism, haunted, snow, countryside ...
Time:
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Place:
poland, europe
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Mysteries keep revolving around Tam’s life.
Style:
realistic, stylized, serious, atmospheric, suspenseful ...
Plot:
police detective, investigation, law enforcement, police investigation, private detective, murder, riddles and clues, danger, killer, serial killer, violent content, urban ...
Time:
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Place:
asia, china, thailand
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Thriller, Drama, Crime
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Insurance investigators track a serial killer who seduces women with access to big bucks, convinces them to embezzle, then kills them.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, rough, cynical, realistic
Plot:
murder, serial killer, insurance fraud, insurance investigator, danger, psychopath, dangerous attraction, police investigation, female nudity, voyeurism, male nudity, false identity ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
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609
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The murder of the ex-wife of Doctor Sam Charney (Rutger Hauer) leads Detective Della Wilder (Pam Grier) to uncover a series of women's murders somehow linked to a big pharmaceutical company.
Style:
serious, rough, realistic, suspenseful, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
heroes, murder, psychopath, female detective, who done it, law enforcement, police investigation, reluctant partners, partner, serial killer, protagonist as suspect, partners against crime ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
tense, realistic, serious, suspenseful, detective ...
Plot:
serial killer, photographer, murder, uncover truth, police investigation, dangerous attraction, reluctant partners, bodyguard, dishonesty, life is a bitch, betrayal, manipulation ...
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100%
754
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
When someone is murdered on New Year's Eve, the prime suspect is Valerie Maas, a church-going home-maker whose life unravels when she discovers that her husband of many years has been leading a double life. Her strength of character and faith ...
Style:
serious, psychological, tense, suspense, realistic ...
Plot:
gay, closeted homosexual, murder, church, infidelity, investigation, couples, family problems, dishonesty, law enforcement, crumbling marriage, addiction ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
atlanta georgia
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A street-smart pool player falls in with a pack of hustlers. As he rises in the underground circuit, he lands in the middle of a match between his boss and a crooked cop.
Style:
serious, realistic, tense, captivating, neo noir
Plot:
billiards, gambling, oral sex, police corruption, rivalry, dishonesty, law enforcement, danger, game, gambler, street kid, kids in trouble ...
Time:
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Similarity:
100%
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