Movies like Three 2002

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Three (2002)
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Three (2002)
Original name: Après la vie
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 124 min.
Story: The final installment in director Lucas Belvaux's trilogy follows Pascal, a cop who sees a return to credibility in the capture of escaped convict Bruno--who in turn is harbored by Pascal's morphine-addicted wife Agnes. Pascal's already precarious ties to Agnes are strained further when he meets and falls for her fellow schoolteacher friend Cecile. With Pascal focused on Bruno and Cecile, Agnes is forced to find a fix on her own.
Style: psychological, serious, realistic, contemplative, bleak, art house, thought provoking
Plot: drug dealing, police corruption, introspection, moral dilemma, haunted by the past, downfall, addiction, life is a bitch, fugitives, vengeance, on the run, drug abuse, destructive relationship, manhunt, drug addiction, prison, terrorism, law enforcement, prison escape, revenge, terrorist, junkie, drug addict, police officer, police ...
Time: contemporary

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, rough and bleak films with plots about life is a bitch, murder, drug abuse, addiction, drug dealing, deadly and law enforcement mostly in Drama, Crime and Thriller genres. Some movies like Three: Illtown (1996), Red Letters (2000), One (2002), So Long, Stooge (1983), Cement (2000). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Illtown (1996)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Dante and his girlfrend Micky run a very profitable drug operation in a seaside town, aided and abetted by a host of teens who sell the smack at discos around town, as well as by Lucas, a corrupt cop who's on the take. Their downfall comes when ...
Style: independent film, serious, realistic, surreal, gloomy ...
Plot: deaf, profanity, religions or cults, urban ghetto, tough heroes, vengeance, criminal's revenge, dishonesty, social misfits, gays and lesbians, law enforcement, going straight ...
Time: year 1996, 20th century, 1920s
Place: miami, florida, new jersey
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Red Letters (2000)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A college professor reluctantly hides an escaped female convict who tries to get him to help prove her innocent of a murder.
Style: realistic, rough, suspenseful, serious, tense ...
Plot: college, prison, law enforcement, dishonesty, obsession, destructive relationship, amateur detective, murder, escaped prisoner, nudity, life is a bitch, chases and races ...
Time: 90s
Place: california, usa, mojave desert
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One (2002)
Genre: Thriller, Crime, Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Après quinze ans passés derrière les barreaux, Bruno, qui prône la révolution prolétarienne, s'évade. Ce dernier veut continuer la lutte, faire sortir ses camarades de prison, libérer les masses du joug capitaliste. Tous ses anciens ...
Style: realistic, serious, rough, suspenseful, art house ...
Plot: betrayal, drug dealing, police investigation, on the run, terrorism, confined, manhunt, imprisonment, crime boss, prison, anti fascism, capitalism ...
Time: year 2002
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So Long, Stooge (1983)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Lambert, a burned-out case, works the night shift at a gas station, rarely speaking, living alone, drinking. Bensoussan, raised in foster homes, now a small-time pusher for a bar owner named Rashid, comes to the station needing a spark plug for a ...
Style: neo noir, noir, serious, realistic, psychological ...
Plot: drug addiction, female nudity, anarchist, revenge, motorcycle, drug dealing, haunted by the past, punk rock, law enforcement, police investigation, life is a bitch, vengeance ...
Time: 80s
Place: france, paris france
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Cement (2000)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: What's the bond between partners, between brothers, and between spouses? In L.A., Bill Holt handcuffs Sean Rickhart inside a rebar frame for a freeway pillar at a construction site; Bill's going to bury Sean in quick-drying cement. Guided ...
Style: neo noir, serious, rough, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: police corruption, gangster, criminal's revenge, life is a bitch, rivalry, criminal heroes, law enforcement, dishonesty, police investigation, drug dealing, addiction, showbiz ...
Time: 90s
Place: los angeles
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Iowa (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A cautionary tale of love, crime, fantasy and addiction that follows two young Iowan lovers who decide to go into the "batch" business - cooking their own methamphetamine - only to watch it burn a searing hole in their lives.
Style: realistic, serious, disturbing, suspenseful, bleak ...
Plot: drug abuse, addiction, drug addiction, drug addict, drug dealing, pregnancy, rape, love and romance, life is a bitch, society, misfit, love affair ...
Time: 21st century
Place: iowa, usa
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One Night (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 104 min.
Story: In the harbor city of Le Havre, France, a woman is stabbed during the night, just below the windows of her neighborhood. Pierre (Yvan Attal) has witnessed the murder, and heard the wails of the women crying for help. So have the neighbors, ...
Style: psychological, serious, thought provoking, realistic, tense ...
Plot: murder, murder witness, neighbor neighbor relationship, human nature, uncover truth, witnessing a crime, introspection, dishonesty, life is a bitch, moral dilemma, couples, police investigation ...
Time: year 2012, 2010s, 21st century
Place: europe, france, normandy
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Choice of Arms (1981)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 135 min.
Story: Two men break out of prison; a rival gang ambushes them. One is mortally wounded and tells the other, Mickey, to take him to the estate of a retired robber, Noel, who lives in comfort with his lovely and beloved wife, Nicole. The man dies, and ...
Style: neo noir, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: betrayal, gangster, on the run, basement, chase, escape, heist gone wrong, prison escape, violent behavior, prison break, murder, haunted by the past ...
Time: 80s, year 1981
Place: france, paris france, ireland
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Light Sleeper (1992)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A drug dealer with upscale clientele is having moral problems going about his daily deliveries. A reformed addict, he has never gotten over the wife that left him, and the couple that use him for deliveries worry about his mental well-being and his ...
Style: realistic, suspenseful, psychological, serious, neo noir ...
Plot: addiction, drug dealing, drug, drug dealer, obsession, going straight, male nudity, drug abuse, hopes, life is a bitch, junkie, insomnia ...
Time: 90s, year 1992
Place: new york, usa
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Sweet Nothing (1995)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Angel celebrates the birth of his daughter by taking his first hit of crack cocaine. With the hesitant support of his wife, Monika, he joins a friend of his to deal drugs for a short time--enough time to get out of debt and buy some nice things for ...
Style: melancholic, realistic, serious, independent film, crying ...
Plot: drug addiction, drug abuse, loneliness, family problems, family relations, downfall, introspection, crumbling marriage, life is a bitch, misfit, money, addiction ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york, usa, bronx new york city
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Screwed (2011)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 110 min.
Story: The film is a semi-biographical story based on the experiences of former prison guard Ronnie Thompson who spent seven years working in some of the UK's most dangerous prisons. Based on Thompson's book of the same name, the project stars ...
Style: rough, disturbing, serious, tense, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: prison, prison life, violence spree, life is a bitch, downfall, fish out of water, misfit, law enforcement, confined, haunted by the past, corrupt officer, estrangement ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, britain, europe, united kingdom
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Cocaine Angel (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story: A week in the life of a young drug addict.
Style: realistic, serious, psychological, captivating, mumblecore ...
Plot: drug addiction, addiction, life is a bitch, rehabilitation, downfall, drug dealing, hopes, lifestyle, fired from the job, going straight, prostitute, couples ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, florida
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The Law of the Weakest (2006)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 116 min.
Story: In Liège, a group of men gathers every day in a café situated near the steel factory which once reigned supreme. They play cards in a warm atmosphere but that hardly masks their quiet desperation. All unemployed, either because they can't ...
Style: tense, psychological, suspense, captivating, realistic ...
Plot: crime gone awry, life is a bitch, couple relations, friendship, down on your luck, factory, working class, ex convict, desperation, plan, murder, hostage ...
Time: year 2006, 2000s, 21st century
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Sins of the Father (2002)
Genre: Drama, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: In 1965 a bomb was planted in a Church in Alabama, killing four black girls. Thirty years later, Tom Cherry breaks his silence to discredit his father's alibi for the night in question.
Style: realistic, rough, emotional, disturbing, serious ...
Plot: racism, investigation, moral dilemma, introspection, haunted by the past, legal, rebellion, society, injustice, parents and children, hopes, civil rights ...
Time: 21st century
Place: alabama, usa, birmingham alabama
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Most High (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: When Julius (Marty Sader) loses his girlfriend, his job and the life of his pseudo father, Jack, his itch for a "quick fix" suffocates his ambitions and takes him on a trip through the disturbing addiction of crystal meth. Julius confides ...
Style: psychological, serious, realistic, rough, bleak ...
Plot: losing-it hero, rehabilitation, downfall, addiction, family problems, under the surface, couples, destructive relationship, life is a bitch, drug abuse, drug, drug addiction ...
Time: 21st century
Place: hawaii
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The Overeater (2003)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Séléna is chief of the Marseille police. Respected and feared by his men, his sole enemy seems to be himself, along with his 300 pounds. Strangled by the bursting straight-jacket of his body, tortured by his past, he leads a solitary life in a ...
Style: psychological, serious, realistic, captivating, gloomy ...
Plot: murder, police detective, haunted by the past, fall in love, physical appearance, love and romance, law enforcement, obsession, murder investigation, childhood trauma, obese, overweight ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, marseille
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The Escapist (2002)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Denis Hopkins, a pilot, lives with his pregnant wife Valerie and has a comfortable lifestyle. When a gang of criminals led by the sadistic Ricky Barnes breaks into his home, he offers whatever the criminals want to protect his wife and unborn child, ...
Style: suspenseful, realistic, serious, tense, rough
Audience: boys' night
Plot: manhunt, prison, tough heroes, violence spree, heroes, murder, criminal heroes, haunted by the past, gang, revenge, escape, fugitives ...
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Orphans and Angels (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The needy and traumatized Theresa, who was raped when she was fourteen year-old, meets the handsome John on the street after an accident during a performance on the stage of her friend Kim asking for a low-budget hotel. She offers a ride to a nearby ...
Style: serious, realistic, psychological, suspense, sexual
Plot: drug abuse, obsession, haunted by the past, friendship, love affair, couples, mentally unstable, drug dealing, life is a bitch, youth, fall in love, addiction ...
Place: new zealand
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Heaven Knows What (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A young heroin addict roams the streets of New York to panhandle and get her next fix, while her unstable boyfriend drifts in and out of her life at random.
Style: suspenseful, thrilling, psychological, captivating, independent film ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: heroin addict, addiction, love story, drug addict, drug addiction, drug, love, mental disorder, cocaine, suicide, life is a bitch, male female relationship ...
Time: year 2014
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Normal Life (1996)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Chris Anderson and his wife Pam live a fairly normal life until Chris loses his job on the police force and secretly turns to robbing banks to make his wife's dreams come true. Upon discovering his secret, she joins his deadly crime wave and ...
Style: realistic, serious, tense, suspenseful, independent film
Plot: love, lovers on the run, relationships, bank, robbery, destructive relationship, bookstore, women, woman with a gun, good girl gone bad, book, husband wife relationship ...
Time: year 1996, 90s
Place: chicago, usa
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El padrino: The Latin Godfather (2004)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story: In the streets of East Los Angeles, Manny is a formidable drug dealer. Impressed by his extravagant lifestyle and prowess, his young son, Kilo, yearns to follow in his footsteps. Kilo resolves to learn how to prosper in the drug world, and his new ...
Style: rough, realistic, serious, suspenseful, exciting
Audience: boys' night
Plot: crime boss, gangster, prison gang, prison, criminal heroes, juvenile delinquency, prison life, life is a bitch, gang, dishonesty, drug dealing, urban ghetto ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles, california, usa, mexico
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The Young Lieutenant (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A rookie policeman from provincial Le Havre volunteers for the high pressure Parisian homicide bureau and is assigned to a middle-aged woman detective.
Style: serious, realistic, bleak, neo noir, captivating ...
Plot: alcohol abuse, policewoman, murder investigation, female boss, job, workplace situations, police officer, police academy, homicide, recovering alcoholic, law enforcement, investigation ...
Time: year 2005, 2000s
Place: france, paris france, europe, nice france
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Beneath the Surface (1997)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 103 min.
Story: 23-year old Sandra has been doing drugs for many years and has realized that she is in need of some kind of treatment. At the clinic she is told that her pimp / boyfriend Roffe has turned his attention to Sandra's younger and well-behaving ...
Style: realistic, serious, rough, emotional
Plot: drug addiction, drug, redemption, hopes, prostitute, life is a bitch, rehabilitation, going straight, alcohol abuse, drug abuse, addiction, battles ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
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New Jersey Drive (1995)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: New Jersey Drive is a 1995 film about black youths in Newark, New Jersey, the unofficial "car theft capital of the world". Their favorite pastime is that of everybody in their neighborhood: stealing cars and joyriding. The trouble starts ...
Style: realistic, hood, melancholic, brutal, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gang, brutality, police, police investigation, urban, vengeance, hip hop, ghetto, murder, lone hero, black, teenage life ...
Time: 90s
Place: new jersey, new york, usa
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Protégé (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Undercover officer Nick had spent the last seven years penetrating into the core of a drug ring working his way up from a street dealer post to the managerial position handling cargo deliveries for Kwan - the biggest player in the local heroin ...
Style: serious, bleak, rough, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot: drug dealing, mole, undercover, working undercover, drug abuse, life is a bitch, dishonesty, law enforcement, tragic hero, moral dilemma, organized crime, triad ...
Time: 21st century
Place: hong kong, china, east asia, asia
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Street Days (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: Georgia
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A middle-aged, unemployed heroin-addict, Checkie, loiters on the Tbilisi street outside his son’s school, where he himself was once a promising student. His wife, meanwhile, struggles to pay the tuition and understand her husband’s lack of ...
Style: realistic, atmospheric, captivating, psychological, bleak ...
Plot: addiction, drug, moral dilemma, street life, betrayal, friendship, society, down on your luck, drug abuse, realism, dishonesty, blackmail ...
Time: 21st century
Place: georgia, tbilisi
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Fort Apache the Bronx (1981)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story: From the sight of a police officer this movie depicts the life in New York's infamous South Bronx. In the center is "Fort Apache", as the officers call their police station, which really seems like an outpost in enemy's country. ...
Style: detective, realistic, bleak, grim, perverse ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: police, drug addiction, prostitute, murder, police brutality, cop killer, police station, violence, corrupt cop, hospital, cop, nypd ...
Time: 80s, year 1981
Place: new york, bronx new york city, usa
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L.627 (1992)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 145 min.
Story: Lulu is a tough streetwise narcotics cop who, like a Frank Serpico or a Dirty Harry Callahan, doesn't play by the rules or kowtow to his weak and/or corrupt superiors. Lulu thrives in this violent world, where sheer guts can overcome his ...
Style: anthology, tense, serious, realistic, bleak ...
Plot: police officer, drug abuse, aids, racism, organized crime, time travel, cop, prostitute, police surveillance, tough heroes, addiction, police corruption ...
Time: year 1992, 90s, 20th century
Place: france, paris france, europe
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Midnight Cabaret (2012)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story: Meet Adam, a geeky college senior who only wants to feel accepted. An encounter with Jason, his bully from high school, triggers a painful and disturbing past: an abusive, alcoholic father; his mother who committed suicide; and Todd, his older ...
Style: realistic, serious, bleak, gothic, independent film ...
Plot: introspection, haunted by the past, dysfunctional family, bullying, family relations, life is a bitch, drug abuse, student life, homosexual, murder, gay, gender ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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The Pursuit of Happiness (1971)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: William Popper is the son of a stockbroker and is thoroughly disenchanted with "the system." So much so that even though he can prove that he ran over a woman in his car entirely by accident, he accepts a sentence for manslaughter.
Style: realistic, serious, psychological, thought provoking, bleak
Plot: prison, escape, college, car accident, manslaughter, courtroom, on the run, fugitive, girlfriend, injustice, stock broker, estrangement ...
Time: year 1971, 70s
Place: new york, canada
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