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Rise of the Footsoldier: Part II (2015)
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
On the 6th December 1995, three Essex gang members were brutally murdered in cold blood. It’s now early 1997 and whoever killed the three men have yet to be brought to justice. An associate of the men, still mourning the loss of his friends, is convinced that it’s only a matter of time before he’s next. For him, the only way out is to go back in and work his way back up the criminal ladder. The higher he gets, the more violent the jobs become, his quest for power turning into an obsession. With life and family on the line can he hold his nerve together one last time in order to get out alive?
Style:
tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, grindhouse
Plot:
criminal, crime boss, gang leader, criminal gang, bandit, fight, gang, militant, street gang, organized crime, street fighter, gang war, outlaw gang, drug, football, murder, violent, mobster, gangsta, football hooligan, british gangster, gangster, biopic, drugs, crimes
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out tense, captivating, suspense and disturbing films with plots about organized crime, gang, criminal, gangster, bandit, criminal gang and crime boss mostly in Crime, Drama and Action genres. Some movies like Rise of the Footsoldier: Part II: Cocaine Godmother (2017), The Rise of the Krays (2015), Al's Lads (2002), Malik (2021), Rise of the Footsoldier (2007). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Duration: 99 min.
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Genre: Drama, Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Three Englishmen working as waiters on a cruise ship in 1927 are given a chance to work for the Al Capone gang.
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Time:
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Genre: Action, Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India, USA
Duration: 162 min.
Story:
A past ridden with crime, death and pain is recounted to Freddy, a juvenile criminal, who has been assigned to eliminate his estranged uncle Sulaiman, an aging patriarch, while behind bars.
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
2020s
Place:
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Genre: Action, Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Rise of the Footsoldier follows the inexorable rise of Carlton Leach from one of the most feared generals of the football terraces to becoming a member of a notorious gang of criminals who rampaged their way through London and Essex in the late ...
Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Duration: 91 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
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Style:
suspense, tense, disturbing, captivating
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Place:
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Duration: 152 min.
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Country: USA
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Time:
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Place:
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100%
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Country: UK
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Place:
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Genre: Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Duration: 55 min.
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Genre: Crime, Drama
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Story:
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Style:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Plot:
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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:
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Story:
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Story:
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Plot:
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Duration: 101 min.
Story:
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