Movies like Emily the Criminal
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Emily the Criminal (2022)
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Emily, who is saddled with student debt and locked out of the job market due to a minor criminal record, gets involved in a credit card scam that pulls her into the criminal underworld of Los Angeles, ultimately leading to deadly consequences.
Style:
thrilling, weird
Plot:
criminal, suspense, bus, credit card fraud, artist, cocaine, office, office worker, robbery, debt, criminal underworld, job interview, swindle, cocktail party, art school, high school friends, internship, left to die, stolen goods, fake identification, organized crime, sex scene, kitchen, profanity, kiss ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
los angeles
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Most similar movies to Emily the Criminal
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out tense, serious, realistic and neo noir films with plots about suspense, murder, criminal, gangsters, gun, violence and money mostly in Crime, Drama and Thriller genres. Some movies like Emily the Criminal: What Doesn't Kill You (2008), Uncut Gems (2019), Nightcrawler (2014), No Sudden Move (2021), Knockaround Guys (2001). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Two childhood friends from South Boston turn to crime as a way to get by, ultimately causing a strain in their personal lives and their friendship.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, realistic, captivating, rough ...
Plot:
friendship, heist, infidelity, buddies, downfall, family problems, haunted by the past, criminal heroes, legal, drug addiction, gangsters, introspection ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, boston
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
Howard Ratner, a charismatic New York City jeweler always on the lookout for the next big score, makes a series of high-stakes bets that could lead to the windfall of a lifetime.
Style:
neo noir, tense, uplifting, tragic ending, psychological ...
Plot:
gambling, bet, infidelity, jeweler, suspense, money, threat, auction, scam, adultery, surprise, murder ...
Time:
future, year 2010, year 2012
Place:
new york, ethiopia, manhattan new york city
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32%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
When Lou Bloom, desperate for work, muscles into the world of L.A. crime journalism, he blurs the line between observer and participant to become the star of his own story. Aiding him in his effort is Nina, a TV-news veteran.
Style:
neo noir, psychological, disturbing, atmospheric, suspenseful ...
Plot:
suspense, character study, journalism, sociopath, cynicism, obsession, journalist, morality, psychopath, ethics, home invasion, graphic violence ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, california, usa, venice beach california
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29%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
A group of criminals are brought together under mysterious circumstances and have to work together to uncover what's really going on when their simple job goes completely sideways.
Style:
tense, captivating, dramatic, anamorphic, mysterious ...
Plot:
criminal, suspense, organized crime, cons and scams, gangsters, gang, mafia, heist gone wrong, secret revealed, puzzle, mysterious villain, crime solving ...
Time:
50s, year 1954
Place:
detroit
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Four sons of well-known New York mobsters must retrieve a bag of cash from a small Montana town ruled by a corrupt sheriff.
Style:
stylized, twist ending, intense, semi serious, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gangsters, mafia, organized crime, gang, violence, father son relationship, small town, suspense, twists and turns, corrupt cop, one last job, money ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
brooklyn new york city, new jersey, new york, usa, montana
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Nightcrawler related movies
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
After a botched bank robbery lands his younger brother in prison, Connie Nikas embarks on a twisted odyssey through the city's underworld in an increasingly desperate—and dangerous—attempt to get his brother Nick out of jail.
Style:
neo noir, brutal, captivating, suspenseful, cynical ...
Plot:
on the run, prison, brother brother relationship, suspense, loneliness, stolen money, hospital, brother, heist, gangsters, promise, game playing ...
Time:
year 2016
Place:
new york, bronx new york city, manhattan new york city, brooklyn new york city
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27%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Doug MacRay is a longtime thief, who, smarter than the rest of his crew, is looking for his chance to exit the game. When a bank job leads to the group kidnapping an attractive branch manager, he takes on the role of monitoring her – but their ...
Style:
exciting, intense, captivating, serious, clever ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
heist, bank robbery, robbery, gunfight, romancing a criminal, group of criminals, thief, gang, gangsters, organized crime, suspense, love affair ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
boston, usa, florida, massachusetts
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A young short-con grifter suffers both injury and the displeasure of reuniting with his criminal mother, all the while dating an unpredictable young lady.
Style:
neo noir, sexy, tense, cynical, intense ...
Plot:
femme fatale, manipulation, betrayal, hidden money, twists and turns, gangsters, con trick, con artists, nude, suspense, swindle, couples ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
los angeles, california, usa, arizona, phoenix arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
When two brothers organize the robbery of their parents' jewelry store, the job goes horribly wrong, triggering a series of events that send them and their family hurtling towards a shattering climax.
Style:
disturbing, psychological, bleak, realistic, neo noir ...
Plot:
robbery, suspense, dysfunctional family, heist, blackmail, crime gone awry, greed, nude, heist gone wrong, adultery, murder, divorce ...
Time:
70s, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, rio de janeiro, brazil, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Hong Kong
Duration: 151 min.
Story:
To take down South Boston's Irish Mafia, the police send in one of their own to infiltrate the underworld, not realizing the syndicate has done likewise. While an undercover cop curries favor with the mob kingpin, a career criminal rises ...
Style:
twist ending, surprise ending, tense, captivating, clever ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
mafia, gangsters, police, suspense, mole, organized crime, undercover cop, gunfight, violence, corruption, undercover, twists and turns ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
boston, massachusetts, usa, china, taiwan ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Pulp Fiction similar movies
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
An ex-felon joins an Israeli crime syndicate in Brooklyn.
Style:
disturbing, captivating, tense, surprise ending
Plot:
gangsters, fight, ex convict, organized crime, criminal gang, gang war, parole, criminal underworld, gang, gang member, mafia, mob hit ...
Place:
brooklyn new york city, new york
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24%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A man breaks into a tech billionaire's empty vacation home, but things go sideways when the arrogant mogul and his wife arrive for a last-minute getaway.
Style:
disturbing, captivating, thrilling, dark, neo noir ...
Plot:
vacation, money, thief, suspense, problem, escapades, privacy invasion, uninvited guest, rich man, marriage, billionaire, criminal ...
Time:
2020s
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24%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
An examination of the malevolent London underworld with it's despicable criminal underground. Ray (Mick Rossi) just finished an eight year prison sentence after getting set up. Now he is back on the streets to settle the score.
Style:
tense, serious, rough, suspenseful, realistic
Plot:
gangsters, murder, prison, criminal underworld, criminal, criminal heroes, dishonesty, crime gone awry, released from prison, police detective, police investigation, corrupt cop ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
london, europe, england, los angeles, britain
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24%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
Set in contemporary Chicago, amidst a time of turmoil, four women with nothing in common except a debt left behind by their dead husbands' criminal activities take fate into their own hands and conspire to forge a future on their own terms.
Style:
tense, bleak, exciting, bloody, neo noir ...
Plot:
heist, suspense, twists and turns, murder, girl gang, widow, premarital sex, criminal, gangsters, brutality, strong female lead, chase ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
xian, chicago illinois
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23%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The quiet life of a beach bum is upended by dreadful news. He sets off for his childhood home to carry out an act of vengeance but proves an inept assassin and finds himself in a brutal fight to protect his estranged family.
Style:
dark, neo noir, intense, atmospheric, tense ...
Plot:
vengeance, revenge, death, vigilantism, vigilante, suspense, car, violence, murder, brutality, violent, haunted by the past ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
virginia, usa, delaware
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A big time drug dealer Victor Rosa is looking to get out of the game and sees his chance with a big deal with a new friend who happens to be a Wall St. stockbroker. Thinking this will be his chance to go out on top Victor soon finds out that he has ...
Style:
intense, stylized, melancholic, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night, girls' night
Plot:
betrayal, organized crime, greed, drugs, twists and turns, gang, suspense, wall street, drug dealing, cons and scams, going straight, criminal heroes ...
Time:
80s
Place:
usa, new york, manhattan new york city, bronx new york city, miami
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 154 min.
Story:
Jackie Brown is a flight attendant who gets caught in the middle of smuggling cash into the country for her gunrunner boss. When the cops try to use Jackie to get to her boss, she hatches a plan—with help from a bail bondsman—to keep the money ...
Style:
stylized, serious, tense, talky, neo noir ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gangsters, stewardess, greed, heist, suspense, drugs, twists and turns, airport, blaxploitation, bail bondsman, multiple perspectives, organized crime ...
Time:
70s, 90s, 20th century
Place:
los angeles, california, africa, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A tech worker with agoraphobia discovers recorded evidence of a violent crime but is met with resistance when she tries to report it. Seeking justice, she must do the thing she fears the most: she must leave her apartment.
Style:
captivating, tense, disturbing, weird
Plot:
suspense, political conspiracy, pandemic, phobia, secret, murder investigation, murder, female protagonist, fear, assassination, agoraphobia, disaster ...
Place:
seattle, romania
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22%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
The shooting of a U.S. senator's wife raises the stakes for kidnappers seeking a hefty ransom for a computer magnate.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, realistic, neo noir, erotic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
blackmail, murder, betrayal, cons and scams, police investigation, state affairs, criminal, protagonist as suspect, politics, dishonesty, crime gone awry, manipulation ...
Time:
90s
Place:
louisiana, new orleans, los angeles, usa, venezuela
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A drama based on an ancient Chinese proverb that breaks life down into four emotional cornerstones: happiness, pleasure, sorrow and love. A businessman bets his life on a horse race; a gangster sees the future; a pop star (Gellar) falls prey to a ...
Style:
emotional, touching, non-linear, stylized, intense ...
Plot:
gangsters, doctors and patients, supernatural ability, dishonesty, power relations, hitman, philosophy, nude, justice, true love, snake, thief ...
Time:
future, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Movies like Blood In, Blood Out
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
A small-time hood must choose from among love, friendship and the chance to rise within the mob.
Style:
tense, realistic, atmospheric, bleak, neo noir ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gangsters, mafia, organized crime, friendship, character study, gang, money, urban ghetto life, life philosophy, friends, street gang, exotic dancer ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
new york, new jersey, usa
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22%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A college dropout gets a job as a broker for a suburban investment firm, which puts him on the fast track to success, but the job might not be as legitimate as it sounds.
Style:
psychological, clever, intense, talky, tense ...
Plot:
stock broker, suspense, money, finance, business, wall street, crime gone awry, greed, plot twist, twists and turns, office, mentor ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, future
Place:
new york, new jersey, long island, usa, manhattan new york city ...
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22%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A retired thief swears revenge on the lunatic who murdered his brother and partner, while going on the run with the loot they stole.
Style:
neo noir, suspenseful, sexy, talky, visually appealing ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gangsters, gang, betrayal, heist, murder, kidnapping, violence, money, death, twists and turns, criminal, nude ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
los angeles, california, florida, usa, palm springs california
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Colombia, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A leader of a drug cartel sends his two toughest henchmen to investigate why a shipment was botched.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, exciting, social, surprise ending
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
uncover truth, friends, criminal, drug trade, investigation, fbi, dishonesty, human trafficking, organized crime, beautiful scenery, drug smuggling, plot twist ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
usa, seattle
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21%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A vending machine robbery by small time thief and drug addict Bobbie (Vincent Kartheiser) goes badly awry, and his friends contact street-wise thief and part-time druggie Mel (James Woods) to patch him up.Recognizing a kindred spirit, Mel befriends ...
Style:
realistic, talky, tense, road movie, sexy ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
drugs, addiction, junkie, drug addiction, murder, heist, drug addict, death, brutality, heroin, violence, sex scene ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
california
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Films like Den of Thieves
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Sonny lives with his retarded older brother, and works as a bellhop at a second-rate hotel. This changes when Monique a beautiful, suicidal nut-case checks in.
Style:
erotic, neo noir, sexy, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
crime gone awry, femme fatale, hotel, heist, chance, sexual content, graphic violence, nothing to lose, disorder, mentally unstable, workplace, gangsters ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
washington d.c., paris france, iceland, montreal
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21%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
A newly-released prison gangster is forced by the leaders of his gang to orchestrate a major crime with a brutal rival gang on the streets of Southern California.
Style:
clever, harsh, twist ending, tense, sincere ...
Plot:
prison, prison gang, prisoner, criminal, skinhead, gang, suspense, tattoo, organized crime, estranged father, prison life, criminal heroes ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
california, usa
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21%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
Bill Baker, an American oil-rig roughneck from Oklahoma, travels to Marseille to visit his estranged daughter, Allison, who is in prison for a murder she claims she did not commit. Confronted with language barriers, cultural differences, and a ...
Style:
inspirational, dramatic, tense, captivating, disturbing ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
father daughter relationship, suspense, father, prisoner, american football, murder, investigation, father daughter estrangement, hopes, framed for murder, accused of murder, parents and children ...
Place:
france, marseille
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21%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Trapped in their New York brownstone's panic room, a hidden chamber built as a sanctuary in the event of break-ins, newly divorced Meg Altman and her young daughter Sarah play a deadly game of cat-and-mouse with three intruders - Burnham, Raoul ...
Style:
tense, neo noir, suspenseful, dark, stylized ...
Audience:
kids, teens, boys' night
Plot:
suspense, home invasion, trapped, thief, surveillance, confinement indoors, cat and mouse, hostage, disorder, millionaire, security system, claustrophobia ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, manhattan new york city, new york
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21%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Jackie Cogan is an enforcer hired to restore order after three dumb guys rob a Mob protected card game, causing the local criminal economy to collapse.
Style:
neo noir, suspenseful, brutal, tense, intense ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
gangsters, robbery, gambling, mafia, organized crime, hitman, heist, murder, brutality, crime gone awry, gang, violence ...
Time:
2000s, year 2008, 70s, 21st century
Place:
new orleans, louisiana, usa, florida, orlando florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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