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Breaking Point (2009)
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
"Breaking Point" is a dramatic tale of corruption and self-realization, in which one man has to overcome a deep seeded conspiracy and his own lingering past in order to gain the redemption he desires.
Style:
rough, serious, suspenseful, realistic, hood, detective, crime drama, independent film, extraordinary
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
murder, conspiracy, law enforcement, dishonesty, uncover truth, legal, legal investigation, redemption, strong violent content, partner, unlikely partners, gang leader, corruption, black, cop, die hard, profanity, rivalry, urban, haunted by the past, once promising, female lawyer, gang member, defense attorney, gangster ...
Time:
contemporary
Place:
usa, new york
Keyword:
partners, gangsters
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, serious, realistic and rough films with plots about dishonesty, murder, rivalry, law enforcement, deadly, gangster and gang mostly in Crime, Drama and Thriller genres. Some movies like Breaking Point: True Blue (2001), Freelancers (2012), Guilty by Association (2003), Ready 2 Die (2014), Slow Burn (2000). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Rembrandt Macy (Tom Berenger) is a maverick cop assigned to a case where the primary evidence is a woman's hand found in a pond. Investigators identify the dead, and Macy is lead into a young woman's past. Macy's primary path to ...
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usa, new york
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
The son of a slain NYPD officer joins the force, where he falls in with his father's former partner and a team of rogue cops. His new boss, Sarcone, will see if he has what it takes to be rogue through many trials and tribulations of loyalty, ...
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Place:
new york, usa
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
There is no honor without truth. When gang wars spin out of control in downtown Washington D.C., one man steps onto the battlefirld to hunt down a ruthless killer. A young man has been released from prison and is determined to build a new life for ...
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suspenseful, realistic, rough, serious
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boys' night
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police corruption, police investigation, law enforcement, criminal heroes, friendship, partner, drug dealing, investigation, redemption, battles, reluctant partners, gang ...
Place:
usa, washington d.c., los angeles
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83%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
After a violent bank robbery, the trio of hoods make their way across East L.A. carrying a blood-soaked bag of money. When word gets out, they must fend off gangs and crooked cops alike as they strive to keep the loot and stay alive.
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california, los angeles, usa
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79%
557
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The murder of the ex-wife of Doctor Sam Charney (Rutger Hauer) leads Detective Della Wilder (Pam Grier) to uncover a series of women's murders somehow linked to a big pharmaceutical company.
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78%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
The seemingly random killings of an assassin puzzle her former lover, a wealthy Greek crime boss whose organization is jeopardized by his love for her, and the detective following her rising body count
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usa
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
A young district attorney seeking to prove a case against a corrupt police detective encounters a former lover and her new protector, a crime boss who refuse to help him.
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police corruption, corruption, murder, investigation, police brutality, lawyer, fighting the system, life is a bitch, dishonesty, protagonist as suspect, legal, dedicated lawyer ...
Time:
80s
Place:
usa, new york, puerto rico
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
"Chop Chop" Frankie Carbone has made a career out of stealing cars for the mob in Chicago. An attempted assassination by a mob boss goes badly and Frankie retaliates, only to wind up in the hands of the Feds. Frankie agrees to testify ...
Style:
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Plot:
gangster, rivalry, dishonesty, hidden identity, social decay, master criminal, betrayal, crime gone awry, criminal heroes, assassination attempt, disorder, fish out of water ...
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usa, chicago, arkansas
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70%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
Two brothers, on either side of the law, face off over organized crime in Brooklyn during the 1970s.
Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Injustice begets a criminal. Kool is an artist without prospects, a black belt in karate, and in love with LaShawna, poised and college bound. One night she witnesses a stabbing and discovers the victim is a cop as he dies in her arms. She's ...
Style:
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Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gangster, gang, urban, frame up, racism, life is a bitch, police investigation, murder, social decay, police corruption, false accusation, law enforcement ...
Time:
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Place:
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61%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Ten years after their casino heist, four escaped convicts trace their former partner to a desert town, where he is now a lawman with no memory of his criminal past.
Style:
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Time:
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Place:
usa, nevada
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61%
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Two detectives investigating a gang-related find themselves targeted by both gang members and crooked cops.
Style:
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Time:
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Place:
usa
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952
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
When a cop-killer goes free, a detective's search for personal justice veers dangerously out of control. Declaring a mistrial, he takes the accused, the judge and the jury hostage...and begins a trial of his own.
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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59%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Time:
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58%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A group of thieves attempt to rob an art gallery, but when plans backfire and one of the men winds up dead, the group head down south, running afoul of the law. Along the way, they meet up with a seductive con artist with ideas of her own.
Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Quinn Forte had it all: power, money, a brother who idolized him, and a woman who loved him. He also had enemies. In the course of one night, he loses everything. Betrayed by someone in his inner circle, Quinn is set up and arrested. His father, the ...
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Plot:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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204
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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boys' night
Plot:
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Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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53%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
A high-level government hit squad is sent into the streets in order to complete a deadly mission.
Style:
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Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
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Place:
usa, detroit
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51%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Police detective Jack Flinder is already in trouble with the rest of his force for imprisoning a corrupt partner, but now he has a new problem to deal with. Another officer has been murdered in a hotel room, where he was with a prostitute named ...
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
los angeles
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50%
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Ray Liotta (Goodfellas) delivers an intense, electrifying performance in this explosive follow-up to the gritty urban crime thriller Street Kings. Liotta plays Detroit detective Marty Kingston, the leader of an undercover narcotics team, whose ...
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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50%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
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Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
When a local drug dealer shoots a dishonest cop in self-defense, lawyer and renegade undercover cop join forces to clear him. But when their investigation leads them into a maze of greed and corruption, they learn that in a town where everything is ...
Style:
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47%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
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Time:
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
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Duration: 102 min.
Story:
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Style:
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