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Power Book III: Raising Kanan (2021)
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Power Book III: Raising Kanan (2021)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Set in South Jamaica, Queens, in 1991, this prequel to "Power" revolves around the coming of age of Kanan Stark.
Style: psychological, captivating
Plot: bandit, gang, criminal, crime boss, life is a bitch, grownups, gang war, adulthood, gang leader, gang member, outlaw gang, criminal gang, adolescence vs adulthood, partners in crime, apocalypse, black cast, black ops, lesbian, female nudity, organized crime, drug crime, domestic drama, anti hero, street gang, warrior ...
Time: 90s, 1990s

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, tense, disturbing and suspense films and TV series with plots about gang, bandit, criminal, criminal gang, organized crime, gang member and crime boss mostly in Crime, Drama and Action genres. Some movies like Power Book III: Raising Kanan: Godfather of Harlem (2019), BMF (2021), Kin (2021), Impure (2018), Power (2014). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Godfather of Harlem (2019)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 55 min.
TV show
Story: Loosely based on infamous crime boss Bumpy Johnson, who in the early 1960s returned from ten years in prison to find the neighborhood he once ruled in shambles. With the streets controlled by the Italian mob, Bumpy attempts to regain his piece of ...
Style: suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing ...
Plot: gang leader, black cast, mobster, gang war, gang, violence, danger, crime boss, organized crime, power struggle, showdown, criminal gang ...
Time: 60s, 2020s, 2010s
Place: harlem, new york, harlem, new york city
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BMF (2021)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: The drug trafficking drama is inspired by the true story of two brothers who rose from the decaying streets of southwest Detroit in the late 1980s and gave birth to one of the most influential crime families in the country. It revolves around ...
Style: disturbing, suspense, tense, captivating
Plot: drug lord, gang war, mafioso, bandit, partners in crime, criminal underworld, gang, organized crime, criminal syndicate, criminal organization, crime family, black cast ...
Time: 80s
Place: detroit
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Kin (2021)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Ireland, Canada, UK
TV show
Story: The lives of a Dublin family embroiled in a gangland war and the consequences of their choices.
Style: tense, disturbing, captivating
Plot: family relations, organized crime, life is a bitch, gang war, gang member, criminal gang, criminal, gang, bandit, dysfunctional family, corruption, spy ...
Place: dublin ireland, ireland
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Impure (2018)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Rio de Janeiro, during the 90's. Evandro dreams about becoming a great businessman, but ends up entering the world of crime and making an empire out of his criminal organization. His business skills and leadership abilities draw the attention ...
Style: captivating, tense, exciting, psychological, disturbing
Plot: favela, police investigation, organized crime, drug, criminal gang, uninhibited rivalry, drug dealer, drug lord, fighting crime, criminal, criminal underworld, police officer ...
Time: 90s
Place: rio de janeiro, bolivia, latin america, paraguay
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Power (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: James “Ghost” St. Patrick has it all: a beautiful wife, a gorgeous Manhattan penthouse, and the hottest, up-and-coming new nightclub in New York. His club, Truth, caters to the elite: the famous and infamous boldface names that run the city that ...
Style: serious, tense, realistic, captivating, erotic ...
Plot: nightclub, nightlife, drug dealing, ambition, nightclub owner, businessman, organized crime, money laundering, sexual activity, drug lord, double life, criminal ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
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Dom (2021)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: A father who never stopped fighting against drugs. A son who never stopped using them. Two sides of the same coin. Victor is a cop who has fought all his life to curb cocaine trafficking. His son is a drug addict who has become one of the most ...
Style: suspense, disturbing, thought provoking, captivating, tense ...
Plot: war on drugs, sex, drug cartel, favela, criminal, drug traffic, drug, father son relationship, cocaine, father son estrangement, relationship problems, estranged father ...
Time: 70s, 90s
Place: rio de janeiro, northeast brazil, brazil
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Power Book IV: Force (2022)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Tommy Egan leaves New York behind and plans to take on Chicago, using his outsider status to break all the local rules and rewrite them on his quest to become the biggest drug dealer in the city.
Style: disturbing, captivating, tense, psychological, suspense
Plot: crime boss, organized crime, criminal underworld, gang, life is a bitch, criminal gang, male protagonist, criminal, irish mob, black ops, drug, male nudity ...
Place: chicago
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Next 2 (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Russia
TV show
Style: disturbing, captivating
Plot: gang war, criminal gang, bandit, street gang, crime boss, partners in crime, gang member, gang leader, gang, outlaw gang, organized crime, criminal ...
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Gang Wars. Princes (2020)
Genre: Crime
Country: Lithuania
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Story: Based on real-life events that took place in Lithuania at the end of the 20th century. At a time when criminal groups prevailed and corruption was rampant in the authorities, the biggest source of income for Lithuanian gangs was smuggling ...
Style: captivating, tense
Plot: smuggling, gang war, street gang, everyday life, criminal gang, gang, criminal, lifestyle, crime boss, bandit, outlaw gang, life ...
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Desperate Measures (2022)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 42 min.
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Story: Rowan's life spirals when Finn is coerced into a botched drug deal by a local gang. With Finn's life on the line and a violent gang leader encroaching on her life, Rowan is faced with recouping the money that Finn lost.
Style: tense, captivating, suspenseful, thrilling, psychological
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
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Story: Complex, urgent, and intensely engaging, Money and Violence is an immersive and revealing glimpse inside a brutal and little-understood subculture. Drugs, petty larceny, and casual violence.
Style: captivating, suspenseful, psychological, thrilling
Plot: criminal underworld, violent, gang, criminal gang, bandit, battles, fight, problem, organized crime, violence, criminal
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Strike One (2014)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Juan Garcia is a boy on the threshold of manhood living in a gang-controlled neighborhood. His role models could not be further apart: his older sister Angie, a single mom, struggling to gain a foothold in the white corporate world and his uncle ...
Style: tense, suspense, disturbing, captivating
Plot: coming of age, gang, criminal gang, street gang, adolescence vs adulthood, family problems, gang member, gang war, bandit, life is a bitch, teenage life, grownups ...
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Noem My Skollie: Call Me Thief (2016)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: South Africa
Duration: 140 min.
Story: The story takes place in the 1960’s on the impoverished Cape Flats in South Africa. Four boys form a teenage gang to protect themselves from bullying and rape and almost as soon as their childhood pact is declared do they begin the downward spiral ...
Style: disturbing, captivating, independent film
Plot: jail, criminal, criminal gang, juvenile delinquency, outlaw gang, gang member, gang, crime boss, love affair, life is a bitch, romancing a criminal, tragic love ...
Place: africa
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Vatos Locos (2011)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story: Thriller - Two Chicano brothers, Estaban and Raul grow up hard on the streets of Los Angeles. Their papa gets executed for a drug deal gone bad when only seven years old. Half Irish, half Mexican gangster named Mickey Solis takes the two boys in and ...
Style: captivating, tense, disturbing, independent film
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Genre: Crime
Country: Russia
Duration: 44 min.
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Historia de un clan (2015)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Argentina
Duration: 50 min.
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Story: This drama based on a true story follows the Puccios, a criminal family who kidnaps wealthy people and holds them hostage in their home.
Style: tense, captivating, interesting
Plot: crime family, crime boss, organized crime, gang leader, clan, criminal, gang, master criminal, outlaw gang, large family, eccentric family, criminal gang ...
Place: argentina
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Club Hooligans (2023)
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Country: Argentina, Uruguay
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Style: captivating, tense, thrilling
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Genre: Crime
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Duration: 60 min.
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Style: exciting, tense, captivating
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American Gangster: Trap Queens (2019)
Genre: Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 41 min.
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Style: tense, captivating, thrilling
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The Mobfathers (2016)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 94 min.
Story: The godfather of the triad Jing Hing and his senior bosses need to select a new boss to run the daily operations of the five gangs under their control. Chuck, a lifelong member of the triad, dreams of being the elected one, but his wife wants him to ...
Style: captivating, heroic, banned
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Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 101 min.
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Pudhupettai (2006)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 168 min.
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Style: suspense, captivating, tense, epic, cult classic
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: China
Duration: 45 min.
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Story: Five years ago, Wu Gang was killed by a drug trafficking organization named "K", and his son Wu Zhen Feng was expelled from the police force. Utterly dissipated, Wu Zhen Feng boards the bus to the borders, while his best friend Chen Yu ...
Style: captivating, tense, suspenseful
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 50 min.
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Story: See the rise of the Guadalajara Cartel as an American DEA agent learns the danger of targeting narcos in 1980s Mexico.
Style: suspense, atmospheric, captivating, crime drama, intense ...
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Time: 80s, 90s
Place: mexico, latin america
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Stone Jungle Laws (2015)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 45 min.
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Story: Four guys from the outskirts of Moscow decide to make easy money - to overtake a car with stolen cargo inside. Not really thinking about the consequences, they make one mistake after another, and very soon they have serious problems with the law. ...
Style: realistic, disturbing, captivating, suspenseful, light ...
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: By day, the Duncan's are an upstanding family who run a thriving exotic car dealership in New York. By night, they live a dangerous secret life. When they come under siege the Duncan's will have to stick together or die separately
Style: crime drama, suspense, tense, captivating, disturbing
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21%
King of Kotha (2023)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 174 min.
Story: Kannan is a gangster who rules the crime-infested town of Kotha. After getting humiliated by Kannan and his men, CI Shahul Haasan tactfully plots the return of former gangster named Kotha Rajendran alias "Raju", thus leading to a ...
Style: captivating, psychological, tense, thrilling
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Place: india
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Besa (2018)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Serbia
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: Besa is a strong promise for the Albanians, which must be maintained, even at the cost of living. It is most often used in the form of blood feuds, which is certainly a suitable ground for the action of the series that is in front of us.
Style: captivating, disturbing, suspense, tense, interesting
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⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Informer 3838 (2020)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 163 min.
TV show
Story: The story of criminal barrister-turned police informer Nicola Gobbo and her involvement in the Melbourne gangland killings.
Style: captivating, thrilling, psychological
Plot: lawyer, court, gangster, organized crime, female lawyer, legal action, female protagonist, gang, intrigue, bandit, advocate, criminal gang ...
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20%
Blinded by the Lights (2018)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: An eight-episode story charting seven days from the life of a cocaine dealer whose perfectly organized life begins to sink into chaos while he is forced to make the most important choices in his life.
Style: captivating, anthology, tense, suspense, disturbing ...
Plot: cocaine, spy, danger, criminal, drug lord, drug, murder, drug dealing, disorder, escapades, life is a bitch, rivalry ...
Place: poland
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20%
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