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Smuggler (2011)
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Original name: スマグラー おまえの未来を運べ
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
To pay off his loan shark, failed actor Ryōsuke Kinuta is forced to smuggle dead bodies – and one live elite assassin – in the middle of the night.
Style:
serious, tense, psychological, captivating, heavy, exciting, rough, humorous, realistic, suspenseful
Plot:
gang, smuggler, rivalry, yakuza, life is a bitch, down on your luck, society, danger, gay, disorder, gangster, dangerous animal, deadly, live action, crimes
Time:
21st century, contemporary
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, captivating and psychological films with plots about rivalry, society, life is a bitch, danger, gang, gangster and criminal heroes mostly in Drama, Action and Crime genres. Some movies like Smuggler: Stretch (2011), The Street King (2002), Blood and Rain (2009), Kaiji: The Ultimate Gambler (2009), 1 Day (2009). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Thailand, Hong Kong
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Christophe, a young horse racing jockey from Paris, is filled with hope and ambition. Yet after a race, he tests positive for illegal substances and is subsequently suspended from racing. He decides to move to Macau, in Asia. There his circumstances ...
Style:
realistic, serious, psychological, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot:
rivalry, contests and competitions, rise to the top, dishonesty, power relations, lifestyle, gambling, ambition, society, chases and races, athlete and trainer, gangster ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
china, asia
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
In life, there's silver, and there's lead, says Rikki Ortega, as he moves to be king of the street in "Ánglio," L.A.'s east side. Older brothers and a brother-in-law are in his way. While they think they are driving out the ...
Style:
exciting, serious, rough, realistic, suspenseful
Plot:
gang, drug dealing, rivalry, juvenile delinquency, law enforcement, life is a bitch, siblings relations, urban ghetto, destiny, blind ambition, police detective, shakespeare ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Colombia, Argentina
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Taxi driver Jose begins his night shift bent on revenge after his brother's murder at the hands pf a violent gang. But when an accident brings him unexpectedly closer to his party-girl fare Angela, the damaged pair must struggle against forces ...
Style:
suspenseful, neo noir, bleak, rough, tense ...
Plot:
murder, partner, danger, gang, vengeance, life is a bitch, chases and races, city life, revenge, doom, reluctant partners, urban ...
Place:
colombia
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
Itou Kaiji is a bum who steals car emblems and slashes tires on what seems to be a regular basis. This routine changes one day when he is paid a visit by a man in a trench-coat. Once the two get talking, it seems that the visitor (Calling himself ...
Style:
tense, anime, captivating, psychological, atmospheric ...
Plot:
survival, social decay, contests and competitions, rivalry, risk, danger, rich and poor, society, lifestyle, job seeking, deathtrap, escapades ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan, tokyo, asia
Similarity:
40%
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
This searing British thriller follows Flash (Dylan Duffus), who's safeguarding his buddy Angel's (Yohance Watson) cash until his release from prison. Now Angel is out -- and Flash is 100 pounds short. He turns to a lowlife named Evil ...
Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough, hood ...
Plot:
gang, criminal heroes, danger, on the run, society, disorder, urban ghetto, race against time, rivalry, chases and races, urban, angry ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, england, birmingham alabama
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Tough comedy drama set in Glasgow. Former enforcer Jimmy exits jail a changed man, but both his criminal boss and a corrupt copper think he's bluffing.
Style:
realistic, serious, captivating, psychological, rough ...
Plot:
jail, estate, going straight, gangster, gang, clergy, drug abuse, brother brother relationship, tragic event, rivalry, corruption, released from prison ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, ireland
Similarity:
35%
187
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Mac and his high school gangster buddies try to take over the world of sports betting in a city filled with crime, prostitution and gambling. When the Mafia gets involved, they do whatever it takes to keep these tough young-bloods off their turf.
Style:
captivating, psychological, suspense, tense, exciting ...
Plot:
gambling, casino, high school, gangster, ambition, sport team, buddies, football, rivalry, friendship, danger, mafia ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Rayne Johnson is a shrewd investment company assistant who turns a mob slaying into a golden opportunity for a new improved lifestyle, managing to outsmart the crooked cops who are very eager to see her disappear.
Style:
suspenseful, exciting, serious, rough, realistic
Plot:
criminal's revenge, fighting crime, vigilantism, hitman, gang, danger, betrayal, car chase, dishonesty, rivalry, law enforcement, police corruption ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada
Similarity:
33%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
16 years after the fateful "revenge of the Forty-seven Ronin," involving samurais from the Ako domain who avenged their leader and then commited seppuku (ritual suicide), the sole survivor of that incident, Kichiemon Terasaka (Koichi Sato) ...
Style:
tense, serious, realistic, captivating, exciting ...
Plot:
samurai, vengeance, injustice, haunted by the past, rivalry, society, danger, murder, ronin, edo period, dealer, estate ...
Time:
18th century
Place:
japan, asia
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
It was love at first sight for beautiful young lawyer Sandra "Sunday" O'Brien-Parker (Rachel Blanchard) and Henry Parker (Cameron Mathison), retiring White House Secretary of State, when Sunday's dad Danny (Jack Wagner), ...
Style:
serious, captivating, tense, psychological, emotional ...
Plot:
investigation, rescue, danger, rivalry, fighting crime, uncover truth, murder, confined, hitman, couple relations, race against time, blackmail ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 152 min.
Story:
The bittersweet events in the lives of people in Hakodate, a regional city connected by a streetcar network. A laid-off man and his younger sister go up a mountain to see the first sunrise of the year. Meanwhile, Haruo has inherited his ...
Style:
realistic, atmospheric, psychological, captivating, sincere ...
Plot:
working class, society, life is a bitch, family relations, small town, unemployment, rivalry, social relations, parents and children, down on your luck, siblings relations, small town life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan, asia, hokkaido
Similarity:
33%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
After John’s absent father is struck by a stray bullet, Primo takes it upon himself to verse the young boy in the code of the streets—one founded on respect and upheld by fear. A member of the Bloods since the age of twelve—both in the film ...
Style:
realistic, serious, captivating, psychological, sexy ...
Plot:
gang, juvenile delinquency, urban ghetto life, haunted by the past, adolescence vs adulthood, society, coming of age, teaching the ways of the world, ghetto, gangster, violent content, drug dealing ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Drama
Country: Egypt
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
Hossam returns home to Cairo for New Year's Eve after a year's separation from his wife. At the airport, his plans for a romantic night (and to conceive a child) are thwarted by several events, including a terrorist plot.
Style:
realistic, psychological, captivating, tense, sad ...
Plot:
terrorism, danger, airport, political unrest, terrorist bombing, conspiracy, society, homecoming, satire, disorder, vengeance, nothing goes right ...
Time:
september 11 2001, 21st century
Place:
egypt, iraq, new york, usa, africa ...
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Inspired by true events, the Lifetime Original Movie, Baby Sellers, exposes the shocking international criminal enterprise of infant trafficking. Stars Emmy winner Jennifer Finnigan and Emmy and Golden Globe winner Kirstie Alley.
Style:
realistic, serious, rough, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
orphanage, working undercover, immigrant, legal action, society, life is a bitch, kidnapping, spy, fraud, undercover agent, abduction, tough heroes ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Andrew Luster, the heir to the Max factor fortune, is convicted of rape on 86 counts. This Lifetime original movie recounts the rapes committed by the infamous Andrew Luster and the women who brought him to justice.
Style:
serious, rough, disturbing, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot:
courtroom drama, investigation, injustice, life is a bitch, society, dishonesty, legal, nightclub, sexual abuse, rape, bounty hunter, rivalry ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
california
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
People always told Santos he was something special. His Uncle told him to get a skill, so he became a hustler and with his three,they became "The Stick Up Kids" Harlem would never be the same. They thought they had it all... Money, cars, ...
Style:
realistic, serious, captivating, psychological, independent film ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gang, rivalry, friends, buddies, criminal's revenge, urban ghetto life, society, dishonesty, cons and scams, black, african american, sexual content ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
harlem, new york, usa, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
32%
2K
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A bag full of money lands in front of you. Is it luck? The answer to your prayers? Part of a predetermined plan? Or all of the above? Set in the chaotic streets of Istanbul, 40 is a story of three strangers making their way in a city of 12 million, ...
Style:
realistic, atmospheric, psychological, captivating, serious ...
Plot:
human nature, bag of money, society, change of luck, immigrant, culture clash, chase, down on your luck, rivalry, destiny, greed, death ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
turkey, nigeria, istanbul turkey
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Allie moves to Texas and embraces the slower pace of life and gun culture. She tries to maintain healthy relationships as the weapons she uses to protect herself lead her to a paranoid withdrawal from life.
Style:
serious, tense, realistic, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
starting over, haunted by the past, hopes, danger, life is a bitch, unfulfillment, weapons, coming of age, life turned upside down, on the road, down on your luck, woman in danger ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
texas, usa
Similarity:
32%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
Not available
Style:
psychological, tense, serious, suspenseful, realistic ...
Plot:
friendship, terrorism, partner, rivalry, buddies, danger, confined, dishonesty, mind game, betrayal, disorder, isolation ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
italy, europe, sicily
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
After 5 years in Tokyo, 5 part-time jobs, 5 boyfriends, Sawako's life is going nowhere. When her father gets seriously ill, she has to take over his struggling factory. Gradually she becomes the decider of her own life.
Style:
semi serious, realistic, sentimental, psychological, contemplative ...
Plot:
family business, self discovery, family relations, parents and children, homecoming, workplace, fish out of water, society, rivalry, strong female presence, unfulfillment, workplace situations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan, tokyo, asia
Similarity:
31%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
Kohei Kuryu returns to Tokyo, reunites with his former colleagues, and goes up against one of the most famous lawyers in Tokyo to solve a new case and team up with his best partner, Maiko Amemiya.
Style:
tense, captivating, suspense, psychological, suspenseful ...
Plot:
rivalry, legal action, master warrior, investigation, partner, uncover truth, murder, friendship, love, danger, prosecutor, heroes ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan, busan, asia, korea
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Two Brothers; Tom and Felipe, have moved up the ranks of the street gangs because they have no greater devotion than the protection of each other. Luis, former gang member, is now a cop, his life having been turned around by Angelica, a female cop. ...
Style:
realistic, serious, rough, suspenseful
Plot:
juvenile delinquency, going straight, gang, society, redemption, law enforcement, youth, urban ghetto, murder, brother brother relationship, family relations, hopes ...
Time:
future
Similarity:
31%
245
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
The story of Exodus is relocated to the seaside town Margate. Moses lives in the Promised Lands with his adoptive parents, until he finds his mother in the shanty town, Dreamland, where she’s been ghettoised with other ‘undesirables’. He takes ...
Style:
bleak, realistic, psychological, tense, spiritual ...
Plot:
rebellion, ghetto, rebelliousness, society, confined, against humanity, rescue, dystopia, distopia, rivalry, life is a bitch, dystopian future ...
Time:
future
Place:
england
Similarity:
31%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
While serving life in prison, a young man looks back at the people, the circumstances and the system that set him on the path toward his crime.
Style:
hood, serious, realistic, tense, rough
Plot:
gang, profanity, prison, danger, rivalry, crime boss, gang leader, criminal's revenge, evidence, police, merciless, corpse ...
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
The true life story of the rise to power of Glasgow gangster Paul Ferris.
Style:
tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, captivating ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gangster, rise and fall, rise to the top, vengeance, society, life is a bitch, ambition, rivalry, criminal's revenge, dishonesty, frame up, british gangster ...
Time:
70s, 90s, 20th century, 80s
Place:
scotland
Similarity:
31%
532
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Chérif, struggling to pass the entrance exam for nursing school, takes on a side job as a security guard. On duty there, he faces off with a group of hostile teenagers who constantly harass him, and gradually ends up an accomplice to a robbery gone ...
Style:
realistic, captivating, psychological, sentimental, tense ...
Plot:
couples, society, working class, fall in love, immigrant, life is a bitch, misfit, security guard, gang, pursuit, danger, youth ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
france
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
In this fresh take on Alfred Hitchcock’s “The Wrong Man,” Ellen Plainview, a sweet, caring, working wife and mother, answers the door one afternoon to learn that she is under arrest for attempted murder.
Style:
serious, realistic, psychological, tense, captivating ...
Plot:
murder, legal action, law enforcement, love affair, couples, couple relations, court case, society, female protagonist, prostitute, woman, laptop ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Japan, South Korea
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Former Yakuza underling Kiryu Kazuma, who has recently been released from prison after a lengthy incarceration, and is trying to piece his life together and distance himself from his Yakuza past. Unfortunately Kiryu's problems slowly escalate ...
Style:
exciting, suspense, tense, captivating, crime drama ...
Plot:
yakuza, gang, gangster, danger, vengeance, hitman, bank, rivalry, japanese mafia, triad, heroic bloodshed, video game ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan, tokyo, asia
Similarity:
31%
164
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
After studying in Paris, the young doctor François moves to Beauval, where single-family houses are lined up monotonously. He quickly becomes the focus of a group of young people, led by the charismatic Cédric and Matthieu, his assistant. The gang ...
Style:
serious, psychological, tense, realistic, atmospheric ...
Plot:
mind game, mysterious character, teenage life, danger, gang, youth, juvenile delinquency, social relations, life is a bitch, woman, teenager, power relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Returning to a "home" they hardly know after being deported from their adopted countries for minor criminal offenses, three people from very different backgrounds try to make a new life for themselves, in Jamaica in this gutsy drama from ...
Style:
thought provoking, realistic, captivating, serious, psychological ...
Plot:
deportation, culture clash, homecoming, immigrant, life is a bitch, hopes, society, starting over, injustice, rivalry, self discovery, blaxploitation ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
jamaica, africa, england, canada, usa
Similarity:
30%
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