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Mr. Socrates (2005)
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Mr. Socrates (2005)
Original name: 미스터 소크라테스
Genre: Action, Crime
Country: South Korea
Duration: 109 min.
Story: A low-life scumbag gets kidnapped by a mysterious gang and put through inhumane training to become a mole inside the police force.
Style: tense, rough, serious, suspenseful, exciting, humorous, realistic
Audience: boys' night
Plot: rivalry, working undercover, police detective, gangster, undercover, law enforcement, mole, dishonesty, heroes, kidnapping, misfit, human nature, criminal heroes, anti hero, police officer, police, police officer killed, confined, deadly, eastern, police funeral, police officer stabbed, crime, anti heroes, crimes
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: asia, korea
Keyword: gangsters, korean

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, suspenseful, realistic and rough films with plots about rivalry, law enforcement, dishonesty, gangster, deadly, undercover and police investigation mostly in Action, Crime and Thriller genres. Some movies like Mr. Socrates: Open City (2008), Eye for an Eye (2008), The Divine Move (2014), Road of No Return (2009), The Big I Am (2010). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Open City (2008)
Genre: Action, Crime
Country: South Korea
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Jo Dae-yeong is a police officer investigating a pickpocket ring with ties to the Yakuza. One day he rescues Baek Jang-mi from danger, only to discover that she is the boss of the gang he has been tracking.
Style: exciting, tense, suspenseful, rough, stylized ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gang, police detective, rescue, femme fatale, police investigation, dishonesty, master criminal, heroes, redemption, law enforcement, going straight, criminal heroes ...
Time: 21st century
Place: korea, asia
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Eye for an Eye (2008)
Genre: Action, Crime
Country: South Korea
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Sung-chan is a top detective of the special crime squad. He is notorious for punishing the opponent who hurts his pride. When Hyun-min impersonates as Sung-chan and robs a cash transport car under the daylight, and seizes $10 billion worth of ...
Style: exciting, serious, suspenseful, tense, crime drama ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: police detective, one last case, vengeance, dishonesty, rivalry, frame up, mind game, law enforcement, chases and races, violent content, criminal heroes, uninhibited rivalry ...
Time: 21st century
Place: asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
The Divine Move (2014)
Genre: Action, Crime
Country: South Korea
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Professional baduk (go) player Tae-seok loses a high-stakes game to infamous underground gambler Sal-soo, and ends up framed for the murder of his own brother and locked up in prison. He vows revenge and trains ferociously. After serving his ...
Style: exciting, suspenseful, rough, serious, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gambling, gangster, vengeance, murder, dishonesty, rivalry, prison, violence, casino, monster, asian, revenge ...
Time: 21st century
Place: korea, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
Road of No Return (2009)
Genre: Action, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Road of no Return follows the final nine days in the lives of four atypical hit men who are secretly brought together in a covert operation to fight the drug trafficking epidemic in the country.
Style: tense, suspenseful, serious, rough, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: hitman, undercover, danger, introspection, race against time, politics, law enforcement, anti hero, heroes, rivalry, orphan, moral dilemma ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
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The Big I Am (2010)
Genre: Action, Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A cruel twist of fate catapults small time crook Mickey Skinner into the big league, as head of a brutal London gang poised on the brink of a lucrative human-trafficking deal.
Style: suspenseful, rough, serious, tense, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gang, gangster, dishonesty, rivalry, criminal heroes, organized crime, criminal, nudity, strong violent content, profanity, ambition, unfulfillment ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, london, europe
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Colour of the Truth (2003)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A man becomes a cop in order to take down the police superintendent who may have killed his father, and that of a vengeful Triad boss.
Style: exciting, captivating, suspense, tense, crime drama ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: spy, gangster, danger, rivalry, dishonesty, undercover, police corruption, snitch, law enforcement, police, police shootout, revenge ...
Time: 21st century
Place: hong kong, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
Les Formidables (2006)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Desperate to discover who framed him for murder, criminal Su-hyun escapes from police custody and crosses path with cop Sung-woo. After realizing they have a mutual enemy, the two form an unlikely alliance and together go looking for payback.
Style: atmospheric, exciting, suspense, captivating, tense ...
Plot: false accusation, murder, hostage, frame up, hospital, law enforcement, chase, righting the wronged, rivalry, confined, investigation, police detective ...
Time: 21st century
Place: south korea, korea, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
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Special ID (2013)
Genre: Action, Crime
Country: China
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A cop and his team of comrades go undercover in one of China's most ruthless underworld organizations to stop a gang leader, only to put themselves in great danger after being exposed one by one.
Style: exciting, serious, suspenseful, rough, crime drama ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, police investigation, law enforcement, undercover, gang, rivalry, sniper, fight, kung fu, hardcore, triad, shaolin ...
Time: 21st century
Place: china, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
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Bullets, Blood & a Fistful of Ca$h (2006)
Genre: Action, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: A hard boiled tale of bloody revenge that interweaves the stories of nine criminals. The story takes place in one day, on the eve of an all out syndicate war. Through a twisted series of events, the interweaving narratives are put on an ...
Style: rough, realistic, serious, suspenseful, action packed ...
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Billa (2007)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 130 min.
Story: The intertwined stories of an international Don in Malaysia, David Billa, chased by the cops, an Indian police officer, a woman who wants to avenge the death of her brother, and a lowly thief, Velu who shares with Billa, an unusual connection.
Style: exciting, realistic, serious, suspenseful
Plot: law enforcement, rivalry, working undercover, twists and turns, danger, disorder, hidden identity, criminal heroes, master criminal, chases and races, gangster, switching roles ...
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55%
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Bloody Tie (2006)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 117 min.
Story: In this uncompromising vision of the gritty Korean underworld, a crystal meth dealer with a tragic past is forced to team up with a renegade cop to take down a powerful crime lord. Reminiscent of the Hong Kong action films of the 80’s but full of ...
Style: rough, exciting, serious, suspenseful, bloody ...
Audience: boys' night
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Time: 21st century
Place: busan, asia, korea, south korea
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Assassins' Code (2011)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A corporate assassination forces opportunistic double agents from three nations to fight to retrieve a high-tech computer disk containing schematics for a deadly weapon.
Style: exciting, serious, suspenseful, tense, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: espionage, working undercover, hitman, rivalry, undercover, danger, dishonesty, vengeance, woman with a gun, spy, haunted by the past, uninhibited rivalry ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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Silent Partner (2005)
Genre: Action, Crime
Country: Russia, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Gordon Patrick, a young CIA analyst is assigned to investigate the mysterious death of a major Russian political figure.
Style: serious, rough, suspenseful, tense, exciting ...
Plot: politics, cia, investigation, undercover, law enforcement, state affairs, political corruption, dishonesty, spy, criminal heroes, chases and races, violent content ...
Time: 21st century
Place: russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Chance (1990)
Genre: Action, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: After a daring robbery of a jewelery store, the thieves accidentally let their loot fall into the unsuspecting hands of repo man and secret alcoholic Zach. When the crime lord behind the heist learns of the whereabouts of his diamonds, he instructs ...
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Tha Eastsidaz (2000)
Genre: Action, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Snap, Crackle, and Pop are top dogs in the Eastsidaz gang in Long Beach. Pop, also known as Killa, is the alpha dog. He has Crackle and Snap set up a big drug deal that's going to put him on easy street. But Crackle and Snap have their own ...
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Genre: Action, Crime
Country: Japan
Duration: 111 min.
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Audience: boys' night
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Century of the Dragon (1999)
Genre: Action, Crime
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Rookie policeman Shing (Louis Koo) grapples with right and wrong in this action-packed story about Hong Kong gangsters. Assigned to go undercover, Shing is so successful in playing the part of a gang member that he becomes right-hand man to gang ...
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Audience: boys' night
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44%
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Audience: boys' night
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⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
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38%
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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The Kill Reflex (1989)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
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Audience: boys' night
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⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 2.1
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Snitch'd (2003)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: When the South Side Gang and the Cut Throat Mafia start a drug war at a local high school in Santa Ana, CA, detective McClure goes undercover to investigate the brutal murder of a young Latina student. The gang members are the key suspects but ...
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Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Black Ransom (2010)
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Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 93 min.
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⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Divergence (2005)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 101 min.
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Audience: boys' night
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⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
The Killers Edge (1991)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
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Style: independent film, serious, realistic, exciting, suspenseful ...
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Time: 90s
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⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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