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The Laws of the Border (2021)
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Original name: Las leyes de la frontera
Genre: Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
Introverted Girona student Nacho meets two delinquents from the city's Chinatown and gets caught up in a summer onslaught of burglaries and hold ups that will change his life.
Style:
tense, captivating, disturbing, suspense, hood
Plot:
gang, juvenile delinquency, teenager, heist, criminal, changing lives, escapades, lifestyle change, gang member, partners in crime, ghetto, friends, girl, friend, gangster, robbery, dancing, poker, police, student, death, summer, car chase, beach, brothel ...
Time:
70s
Place:
iberian peninsula, spain
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Most similar movies to The Laws of the Border
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspense, captivating, tense and disturbing films with plots about criminal, gang, murder, bandit, danger, police and robbery mostly in Thriller, Action and Crime genres. Some movies like The Laws of the Border: Casablanca (2019), The King's Surrender (2014), Dying for a Good Grade (2021), Junction (2012), Rocambola (2020). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: Egypt
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Three friends form a gang of pirates, “Sea Burglars”, get assigned to a mission against the Mob, after a large cargo of diamonds was heisted. Things turn into a web of rivalries and paybacks, when one one of them decides to do the mission on his ...
Style:
disturbing, captivating, suspense, tense
Plot:
pirate, jewel theft, robbery, criminal, bandit, group of friends, outlaw gang, abduction, gang, heist, gang member, intrigue ...
Place:
egypt
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95%
Genre: Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Violent youth gangs and a police force way out of its depth. When a police operation goes awry and two policemen die, the powder keg threatens to ignite as the SWAT team knows only one goal: revenge - irrespective of the law.
Style:
disturbing, tense, captivating, suspense, neo noir
Plot:
revenge, rebellious youth, troubled youth, youth gang, murderer, criminal gang, fight, bandit, fighting crime, law enforcement, outlaw gang, murder ...
Similarity:
86%
Genre: Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
INSPIRED BY TRUE EVENTS - Wanting to ensure she gets in to a great college, a student becomes involved in an admission scandal. When the police start snooping around and begin to close in on the ring leader, things turn deadly.
Style:
disturbing, captivating, realistic, suspense
Plot:
police investigation, criminal, mother daughter relationship, scandal, problem, intrigue, gang member, threat, police, family in danger, college student, female protagonist ...
Place:
portland oregon
Similarity:
85%
529
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Junction follows four strung-out meth-addicts who discover a dark secret about a homeowner during a burglary, pitting them not only against the police but against each other.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, disturbing, dark, suspense ...
Plot:
burglary, nightmare, criminal gang, moral ambiguity, drug abuse, addiction, methamphetamine, heist gone wrong, junkie, escapades, robbery, attempted robbery ...
Similarity:
84%
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Genre: Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Dante is a professional thief who makes ends meet through carefully selected, small jobs. His new target is a secluded big house which he thinks is unoccupied. But he's not alone, he will meet a strange couple whose reaction to his intrusion is ...
Style:
suspense, tension, disturbing, captivating, tense ...
Plot:
thief, heist, cat burglar, criminal, heist gone wrong, robbery, problem, burglar, family problems, attempted robbery, moral ambiguity, deception ...
Similarity:
76%
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
When a home invasion turns into a bloody shoot-out, a pair of ragtag fugitives take refuge in the house of a single mother as they wait on their fiery (and very pregnant) getaway driver to hatch an escape plan in time for a major payday.
Style:
disturbing, captivating, suspense, tense, f word
Plot:
single mother, pregnant woman, escapades, bandit, robbery, problem, heist gone wrong, criminal, driver, heist, theft, criminal gang ...
Similarity:
72%
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Armed robber and career criminal Jack Cregan seeks to discover the truth behind his father's murder and his stolen heist money and in doing so puts his life in danger. The devastation that Jack soon discovers puts his very own existence into ...
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, tense, disturbing, captivating ...
Plot:
criminal, revenge, gangster, police shootout, bandit, burglar, detective inspector, murder, money, fight, theft, stolen money ...
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64%
Genre: Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A hit man receives the assignment to kill a woman. But what seems as another job complicates when he is about to execute her, but does not. He will have to go after those who gave him the contract, for, in his profession, those who do not comply ...
Style:
suspenseful, realistic, serious, tense, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
male nudity, danger, on the run, woman in danger, murder, murder of a nude woman, drug crime, gang, violent content, chases and races, hitman, dead body ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
spain
Similarity:
63%
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Genre: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
After surviving prison, a man has to forge a career in the crime world
Style:
captivating, suspenseful, disturbing, suspense, dark comedy
Plot:
gang, gangster, drug dealing, criminal, released from prison, drug dealer, ex convict, violence, bandit, crime boss, criminal underworld, british gangster ...
Place:
england, britain, liverpool
Similarity:
62%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Cassie works as a teller at the bank where her mother is the branch manager. When the bank is robbed, Cassie is taken hostage. She soon finds out that the bank robbers are teenage girls, one of whom is her best friend, Abbie. In this propulsive real ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, tense, suspense, captivating ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
heist, investigation, danger, confined, race against time, on the run, parents and children, friendship, abduction, woman with a gun, wrestling, teen social issues ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
61%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Despite trying to leave behind his life of crime, Danny reluctantly teams with naïve rich kid Liam and wildcard drug dealer Kit Viper. A botched robbery leaves them in possession of a mysterious supernatural artifact with immense potential.
Style:
suspenseful, mystical, disturbing, tense, captivating ...
Plot:
drug dealer, supernatural, artifact, mysticism, criminal, drug lord, supernatural power, escapades, organized crime, magical object, drug dealing, drug ...
Similarity:
57%
Genre: Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Kirill, a Russian teenager who loves rap music with his best friend, falls in love with a beautiful young dancer, Katia. He also meets 2 new strange friends in a fight. He becomes deep in love with Katia. So he invited them in his apartment for the ...
Style:
exciting, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing, suspense ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
friendship, love triangle, loss of innocence, coming of age, fall in love, death, couples, danger, escape, dialogue, dancing, dishonesty ...
Similarity:
54%
Genre: Thriller
Country: Belgium, France, Luxembourg
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Gabriel Chevalier, 45 years old, is an ex-policeman. Unemployed, lonely and depressed,he lives like a ghost and hardly takes care of his only teenage child Juliette. One day, by pure chance, he finds a suspicious but extremely well paid job: his ...
Style:
tense, realistic, suspenseful, captivating, serious ...
Plot:
danger, gangster, secret, money problems, delivery, mission gone awry, workplace situations, financial problem, delivery man, chase, escapades, rivalry ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Family dynamics take a messy turn when a woman learns she has a half sister at her mother's funeral. As her perfect life starts to unravel, she suspects her new sister is to blame for her Mom's death.
Style:
captivating, tense, disturbing, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot:
sibling rivalry, dysfunctional family, half sister, family secret, murder mystery, murder, uncover truth, relationship problems, female protagonist, family problems, life is a bitch, eccentric family ...
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50%
Genre: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A mother protects her stepdaughter after the teenager witnesses the murder of her best friend, but is soon forced to come to grips with the terrifying possibility that her stepdaughter may be the real killer.
Style:
psychological, suspense, tense, disturbing, captivating
Plot:
murder, suspicion, teenager, murder mystery, murder witness, stepdaughter, witnessing a crime, teenage girl, life is a bitch, murderer, suspect, murder investigation ...
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
All-star soccer player Jenna Sims and her mom Sally are ready for a new start when they move to a new, sunny beach town. Jenna joins her new school’s soccer team in the hopes of making new friends and keeping her college scholarship, but things ...
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, captivating, thrilling, suspense ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
soccer, female protagonist, framed for murder, cover up, changing lives, lifestyle change, women, playing football, football player, family problems, football, teenager ...
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Genre: Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A rural entertainer laced with action, drama.
Style:
captivating, tense, suspenseful, serious, disturbing ...
Plot:
danger, family relations, criminal gang, peril, criminal underworld, gang, bandit, family in danger, family problems, organized crime, family drama, criminal ...
Time:
2020s
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A cannabis farmer and his pregnant lover fight for their lives when ruthless criminals invade their property.
Style:
suspense, tense, captivating, disturbing, intense ...
Plot:
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Similarity:
45%
Genre: Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
A pickpocket, his girlfriend and a cop become the targets of an education racket.
Style:
tense, thrilling, suspenseful, captivating, crime thriller ...
Plot:
robbery, police officer killed, criminal, police, multiple storylines, police officer, heist, police investigation, threat to kill, threat, corrupt politician, political corruption ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
india
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Thriller
Country: Ecuador, Spain, Colombia
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A precarious con artist manipulates the family of a “miracle girl” and creates a business so large and lucrative that it will inevitably get out of hand.
Style:
tense, psychological, disturbing, captivating, suspense ...
Plot:
con artists, manipulation, religion, deception, manipulative person, organized crime, criminal underworld, problem, escapades, threat, criminal, life is a bitch ...
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Thriller
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Every summer, Luce, an eccentric 50-something painter, spends her time in a small and isolated township, which lies in ruins in southern France, surrounded by guests. This summer, these guests are Max Bernier (an old flame, author and alcoholic), ...
Style:
bloody, surreal, suspense, art house, hood ...
Plot:
lactation, fight, gang, hunting, organized crime, survival, patrolman, gangster, ghetto, surrealism, isolation, gold ...
Place:
corsica, sarajevo, mediterranean sea
Similarity:
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Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
A New York City money launderer desperately searches for answers after waking up with no memory, millions in stolen cash and drugs, and an insane crew of dirty cops violently hunting him down.
Style:
exciting, captivating, tense, disturbing, neo noir ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
amnesia, gang, survival, money laundering, profanity, con artists, memory lapse, danger, disorder, corruption, police, murder ...
Place:
new york
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Bangladesh
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
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Style:
captivating, realistic, disturbing, psychological, suspense ...
Plot:
murder, gangster, danger, criminal, bandit, family relations, rivalry, youth, friends, society, gang, vengeance ...
Place:
bangladesh
Similarity:
40%
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Genre: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
When an emotionally-fragile young woman takes a job as nanny to two troubled children at a remote summer cottage, she falls in love with the children's father, while becoming enmeshed in the mystery of their estranged mother - with whom, it ...
Style:
suspense, psychological, captivating, disturbing, tense
Plot:
musician, family secret, nanny, female protagonist, employer employee relationship, marital problem, student, husband wife relationship, relationship problems, star crossed lovers, male female relationship, family problems ...
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Chloe (Karynn Moore) is a nanny who desperately wants to adopt but needs to get her life together first. She finds the perfect live-in nanny position with the Brown family - Emily (Austin Highsmith), Michael (Michael Aaron Milligan) and their son - ...
Style:
suspense, psychological, suspenseful, disturbing, tense ...
Plot:
locked in, hostage, wanting a baby, husband wife relationship, family problems, marital problem, female protagonist, relationship problems, relationships, social problems, family relations, life is a bitch ...
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Nico Albert is a very peculiar character teenager, with exceptional intelligence and a single obsession: chess. His parents, concerned about the anomalous attitude of his son, child psychologist hired Julio Beltran. Through therapy and common hobby ...
Style:
psychological, serious, suspenseful, realistic, suspense ...
Plot:
chess, emotional manipulation, parents and children, murder, family relations, psychologist, teenager, teenage life, family in crisis, mind game, dishonesty, danger ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
spain
Similarity:
39%
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Genre: Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Dr. Rohini Pranab (Shobana), a doctor who runs an NGO and a shelter home for destitute girls, is targeted by human-traffickers. Her shelter home is attacked and all the children are taken. Naveen (Dhyan Sreenivasan) finds her sister kidnapped right ...
Style:
suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense, exciting
Plot:
kidnapping, human trafficking, mafia, showdown, violence, bandit, disappearance, police, vengeance, revenge, rivalry, death ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
india
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
After 10 years, Eddie Franks is out of prison and trying to stay on the straight and narrow, but his drug-mule brother, Sean has other ideas. Rival gangster brothers demand Sean repay his debt to them, causing Eddie to get tangled in the crossfire, ...
Style:
suspenseful, suspense, tense, disturbing, captivating ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
rivalry, danger, violence, society, police, debt, murder, family relations, escapades, gangster, ghetto, gang ...
Place:
london
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
High school friends Emily and Max make extra cash by hot-wiring cars but when their shop teacher discovers what they're up to and gets involved, things get a lot more dangerous.
Style:
disturbing, tense, captivating, tension, suspense ...
Plot:
mother daughter relationship, car theft, escape, family relations, bandit, widow, stealing a car, burglar, mother and daughter, criminal, teamwork, theft ...
Time:
2020s
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Two thieves attempt to steal 80 million dollars of hidden Texas drug money from the famed ranch belonging to a dead member of the Cowboy Mafia.
Style:
unusual plot structure, suspense, contemplative, tense, captivating ...
Plot:
old west, ranch, cowboy, robbery, gunslinger, drug cartel, bondage, poker, murder, thief, one last job, criminal gang ...
Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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