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The Padre (2018)
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The Padre (2018)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 98 min.
Story: American retired Judge Randall Nemes and his hired gun, Gaspar, track down a con man posing as a priest in a small Colombian town only to be thrown off-course by a scrappy 16-year-old girl intent on reuniting with her sister in the United States.
Style: tense, captivating
Plot: girl, heist, embezzler, criminal, escapades, teenager, thief, caper, teenage girl, teamwork, robbery, adventuress, partner, cover up, heist gone wrong, attempted robbery, hidden, burglar, con woman, crimes
Keyword: partners

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Most similar movies to The Padre

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, tense, suspense and psychological films with plots about robbery, heist, criminal, burglar, escapades, thief and heist gone wrong mostly in Crime, Drama and Comedy genres. Some movies like The Padre: Drive (2002), 8 of Diamonds (2006), Playing God (2021), The Big Heist (2001), Finding Steve McQueen (2019). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Drive (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Kenichi Asakura is an uptight, hyper-square salesman. One day, three bank robbers commandeer his van. They are in hot pursuit of their fellow robber who has snatched the money. Unfortunately for the bank robbers, Asakura never drives over 40 km/h ...
Style: exciting, captivating
Plot: chase, caper, burglar, thief, robbery, heist gone wrong, bandit, money, stolen money, heist, car chase, bank robbery ...
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95%
 4.0
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8 of Diamonds (2006)
Genre: Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A diamond heist goes wrong when one of the thieves gets shot during the escape after swallowing a priceless diamond. Deception, blackmail, and murder schemes overshadow the lives of the eight people left chasing the diamond.
Style: disturbing, captivating, independent film
Plot: thief, murder, criminal, diamond, jewel robbery, heist, heist gone wrong, jewel theft, teamwork, problem, diamond theft, robbery ...
Place: chicago
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Playing God (2021)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A brother and sister con-artist duo find themselves scamming a grieving billionaire by convincing him they can introduce him to God, face-to-face.
Style: semi serious, captivating, tense
Plot: caper, cons and scams, heist, robbery, fraud, stealing money, teamwork, theft, embezzler, criminal, organized crime, stolen money ...
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94%
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The Big Heist (2001)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Based on the 1986 book "The Heist: How a Gang Stole $8,000,000 at Kennedy Airport and Lived to Regret It", by Ernest Volkman and John Cummings, this TV movie tells the story about the 1978 Lufthansa Heist at JFK Airport in New York - the ...
Style: disturbing, suspense, tense, captivating, dark ...
Plot: robbery, mafia, organized crime, gangster, heist, criminal gang, problem, bandit, burglar, one last chance, gang, outlaw gang ...
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
93%
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Finding Steve McQueen (2019)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: In 1972, a gang of close-knit thieves from Youngstown, Ohio attempt to steal $30 million in illegal contributions. Based on the true story of the biggest bank heist in US history.
Style: captivating, atmospheric, tense, suspense
Plot: heist, police arrest, fbi, investigator, escapades, investigation, uncover truth, love, stolen money, president, couples, chase ...
Time: 70s, year 1980
Place: usa, california, ohio
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92%
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Bank Attack (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Desperate for money to save his sick daughter's life, a father decides to rob a bank.
Style: psychological, semi serious, thrilling, captivating, satirical
Plot: bank robbery, heist, heist gone wrong, burglar, attempted robbery, robbery, social problems, money, bandit, needing money, bank robber, problem ...
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91%
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One-Line (2017)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 131 min.
Story: A group of professional con artists scam poor, unsuspecting citizens with fraudulent bank loans. The scams go well for a while, but then they begin to distrust each other.
Style: disturbing, tense, captivating
Plot: bank, deception, credit card fraud, criminal, con artists, heist, bandit, money, burglar, robbery, stolen money, criminal gang ...
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91%
In This Gray Place (2018)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: After a robbery gone wrong, Aaron - barricaded in a rest stop bathroom - faces down the police, hallucinations, and a grim secret.
Style: suspenseful, thrilling, captivating, psychological, tense
Plot: robbery, heist gone wrong, thief, armed robbery, undercover, attempted robbery, burglar, bandit, criminal, heist, pawnshop, petty criminal ...
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91%
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Stealing Raden Saleh (2022)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Indonesia, Malaysia
Duration: 154 min.
Story: To save his father, a master forger sets out to steal an invaluable painting with the help of a motley crew of specialists.
Style: suspenseful, captivating, thrilling, tense, indonesian
Audience: teen drama
Plot: caper, heist, robbery, fight, painting, criminal, burglar, mission, parkour, thief, escapades, forgery ...
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90%
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Ice (2016)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: A diamond dealer navigates the culturally diverse and treacherous world of the diamond business.
Style: suspense, psychological, captivating, tense
Plot: heist, business, escapades, criminal heroes, group of criminals, plan gone wrong, society, robbery, hacking, violence, human nature, chase ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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90%
We Still Steal the Old Way (2016)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The explosive follow-up to We Still Kill The Old Way (2014). Regarded as the best in the business, The Archer Gang is an aging criminal outfit who carry out a daring robbery, but are caught mid-heist. They are sentenced to do time in Britain's ...
Style: unusual plot structure, tense, captivating, contemplative, suspense
Plot: heist, gang, prison, criminal heroes, partner, friendship, hacking, violence, heroes, revenge, chase, vengeance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: london, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
89%
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'Orrible (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: 'Orrible is a British television sitcom produced by the BBC. Broadcast in 2001, it was written by and starred Johnny Vaughan. Vaughan appears as a taxi-cab driver and wannabe small time criminal in Acton. Despite the BBC having high hopes and ...
Style: captivating, entertaining, thrilling, funny, semi serious ...
Plot: friendship, burglar, robbery, teamwork, heist, satire, friends, escapades, heist gone wrong, criminal
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88%
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Body of Sin (2018)
Genre: Adventure, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Two women use seduction to steal from straying men. But when they discover one of their victims hiding millions in diamonds, the score of their lives becomes a run for their lives.
Style: captivating, tense
Plot: seduction, femme fatale, seductive woman, robbery, wealth, heist gone wrong, heist, burglar, attempted seduction, seductress, female protagonist, escapades ...
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88%
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Cold Deck (2015)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 80 min.
Story: When a poker player hits rock bottom he enlists his best friend to pull off a high-stakes heist.
Style: captivating, cynical, suspense, psychological, tense
Plot: gambling, escapades, race against time, rivalry, casino, friendship, gambling debt, addiction, caper, poker, friend
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88%
 4.1
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Bastards (2000)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: Russia
Duration: 80 min.
Story: The protagonist in "Bastards" is a young resident of some Russian city. He unsuccessfully tries to adapt to the modern Russian savage life. The world around him lives by rules dictated by the black market and Chechen wars. It is a cruel ...
Style: tense, captivating, suspense
Plot: robbery, theft, attempted robbery, money, stolen money, criminal, thief, heist, drunkenness, violence, prostitute, rape ...
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86%
Big Nunu's Little Heist (2023)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: South Africa
Duration: 91 min.
Story: An ex-soldier turned deliveryman is dragged into a local kingpin's bumbling gang to pull off a daring heist in an infamous South African township.
Style: tense, satirical, captivating, thrilling
Plot: gang, heist, soldier, criminal, burglar, theft, bandit, escapades, robbery, satire, thief
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86%
In the Line of Duty: Blaze of Glory (1997)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Former marine and cop Jeff Erickson starts a new life after meeting his dream girl, Jill, running a bookshop, until they decide to become the modern Bonnie and Clyde. Learning on the job the hard way, Jeff becomes famous through media-coverage, ...
Style: rough, suspenseful, tense, captivating, serious ...
Plot: bank robber, ex cop, partner, heist, romancing a criminal, couples, on the run, couple relations, criminal heroes, true crime, burglar, marriage ...
Place: chicago, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
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Four Hours (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Unhinged gangster Capone (Paul Bibb) walks into a bar with accomplice Tung (Peter Peralta,) with the plan of stealing the contents of the safe. The situation gets complicated when they have to wait four hours to get the code to the safe. For Capone ...
Style: suspense, psychological, tense, touching, captivating ...
Plot: heist, chase, society, rivalry, robbery, hacking, youth, escapades, violence, hostage situation, heist gone wrong, burglar ...
Time: year 2011
Place: london
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
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Pinching Penny (2011)
Genre: Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A British hypochondriac turns to crime after becoming addicted to consumerism. As his obsession worsens, his life falls quickly into the absurd and he continues to spend himself deeper and deeper into depravity.
Style: captivating, suspenseful, psychological, humorous, tense ...
Plot: burglar, robbery, criminal gang, addiction, dumb criminal, hypochondriac, drug dealer, consumerism, planning, heist, strategy, group of criminals ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, north dakota
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
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Out of Exile (2022)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Recently paroled thief Gabriel Russell tries to balance his life and mend a troubled family as an FBI agent hunts him down, along with his crew after a botched armored car robbery.
Style: captivating, psychological, tense, suspenseful, thrilling
Plot: agent, manhunt, burglar, ex convict, armed robbery, hunting, life is a bitch, heist, criminal, organized crime, fbi agent, cat versus mouse ...
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84%
The Girl with a Bracelet (2019)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Lise (16 years old) is accused of murdering her best friend. As the trial starts, her parents stand right by her side. But once her secret life is revealed in court, the truth becomes indistinguishable.
Style: suspense, disturbing, tense, captivating, social
Plot: teenage girl, trial, murder, teenager, lawyer, parent child relationship, murder trial, murderer, coming of age, judge, courtroom, female protagonist ...
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84%
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Gangoose (2018)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Saike, Kazuki, and Takeo were abused by their respective parents and did not go to school. They stayed together at a youth detention center. To survive, these three young men commit robbery and burglary against criminal groups. (AsianWiki)
Style: suspense, disturbing, captivating, tense
Plot: robbery, gang, criminal gang, juvenile delinquency, friends, gang war, bandit, teenage life, organized crime, theft, family problems, teenager ...
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84%
Hatton Garden: The Heist (2016)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Following the lead up to one of the biggest robberies of the century, Hatton Garden The Heist watches the journey of Brian Reader, John Collins, Terry Perkins, Daniel Jones and the mysterious Basil throughout the audacious heist.
Style: captivating, suspense, unusual plot structure, exciting, tense ...
Plot: heist, robbery, questioned by police, police arrest, criminal gang, true crime, british, police interrogation, jewel theft, criminal heroes, partner, hostage ...
Time: year 2012, 21st century
Place: london
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84%
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A New Wave (2006)
Genre: Action, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A frustrated artist is convinced by his eccentric roommate to rob a bank. Having planned the crime by watching bank-robber films, the amateur heist is doomed from the beginning.
Style: psychological, thrilling, captivating, semi serious
Plot: money, bank robber, heist, money problems, robbery, burglar, criminal, organized crime, attempted robbery, theft, escapades, artist
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
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Crazy Stone (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Three thieves try to steal a valuable jade that is tightly guarded by a security chief. But the security guards are not the only obstacle these thieves are facing. An extremely unlucky internationally known master thief is also trying to get a hand ...
Style: exciting, humorous, captivating, light, realistic ...
Plot: rivalry, heist, bankruptcy, caper, jewel robbery, escapades, thief, perfect crime, secret agenda, con artists, partner, twists and turns ...
Time: 21st century
Place: china
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
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Payroll (1961)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 117 min.
Story: A vicious gang of crooks plan to steal the wages of a local factory, but their carefully laid plans go wrong, when the factory employs an armoured van to carry the cash. The gang still go ahead with the robbery, but when the driver of the armoured ...
Style: noir, offbeat, independent film, neo noir, poliziottesco ...
Plot: heist, caper, kitchen sink realism, armored car robbery, criminal, armored truck, female nudity, nudity, deception, factory, robbery, ambush ...
Time: year 1961
Place: northern england
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
The Confidence Man JP – Episode of the Princess – (2020)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: Japan
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Set in Langkawi, Malaysia, professional scammers Dako (Masami Nagasawa), Boku-chan (Masahiro Higashide), and Richard (Fumiyo Kohinata) target the Fuu Family for their next heist. Raymond Fuu, who was the head of the Fuu Family, passed away and he ...
Style: captivating, satirical, humorous, entertaining, semi serious
Plot: con woman, embezzler, caper, cons and scams, con artists, inheritance, satire, theft, money, organized crime, teamwork, robbery ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
The Driftless Area (2015)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Pierre Hunter, a bartender with unyielding optimism, returns to his tiny hometown after his parents' death. When he falls for the enigmatic Stella, Pierre is unknowingly pulled into a cat-and-mouse game that involves a duffel bag full of cash, ...
Style: disturbing, tense, enigmatic, captivating, suspense ...
Plot: hometown, criminal, money, bag of money, cat versus mouse, mysterious girl, bandit, escapades, relationships, fall in love, getting home, in love ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
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Bandit (2022)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 126 min.
Story: After escaping a Michigan prison, a charming career criminal assumes a new identity in Canada and goes on to rob a record 59 banks and jewellery stores while being hunted by a rogue task force. Based on the story of The Flying Bandit.
Style: thrilling, captivating, realistic, tense, crime drama ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: bank robber, jewel theft, bank robbery, heist, criminal, robbery, crime boss, burglar, investigation, stealing money, theft, personality change ...
Time: 80s, year 1988, year 1985
Place: canada, vancouver, detroit, ontario canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
Deidra & Laney Rob a Train (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: After their mother ends up in jail, two sisters turn to train robbery in order to support their family.
Style: disturbing, psychological, tense, humorous, sincere ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: teenager, theft, partner, coming of age, life is a bitch, escapades, friendship, youth, adaptation, love, danger, family relations ...
Place: indiana, idaho
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
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