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Plot Summary:
The story of a group of friends in turn of the century New York, from their early days as street hoods to their rise in the world of organized crime.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: suspense, talky, intense, realistic, suspenseful, rough, serious, stylized, hood, exciting
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Knockaround Guys (2001)
Plot Summary:
Four sons of well-known New York mobsters must retrieve a bag of cash from a small Montana town ruled by a corrupt sheriff.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 25000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: suspense, stylized, intense, realistic, semi serious, rough, talky, surprise ending, dark comedy, cult classic
Similar in 88%
Honor Thy Father (1973)
Plot Summary:
Joseph Bologna stars as Bill Bonanno in this made-for-television adaptation of the controversial bestseller from Gay Talese, chronicling the rise of New York's infamous Bonanno organized crime family. When his father disappears in 1964 and Bill is compelled to take over the "empire," other mafiosi attempt to take what's theirs. Brenda Vaccaro and Richard S. Castellano fill out the impressive cast of this gripping crime tale.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 181
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, cynical, semi documentary
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The St. Valentine's Day Massacre (1967)
Plot Summary:
Chicago February 14th 1929. Al Capone finally establishes himself as the city's boss of organised crime. In a north-side garage his hoods, dressed as policemen, surprise and mow down with machine-guns the key members of Bugs Moran's rival gang. The film traces the history of the incident, and the lives affected and in some cases ended by it.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Crime, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough, suspense, grindhouse, semi documentary, period piece, cult classic, neo noir
Similar in 83%
Brooklyn Rules (2007)
Plot Summary:
Brooklyn, 1985. With the mob world as a backdrop, three life-long friends struggle with questions of love, loss and loyalty.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: realistic, captivating, psychological, atmospheric, rough, touching, serious, suspenseful
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Men of Respect (1990)
Plot Summary:
In this modern day version of Shakespeare's Macbeth, a hitman heeds a spiritualist's prophesies that he will rise to the head of his family. He starts his ascension by clandestinely executing the heads of the family and casting the blame on others. However, with power comes consequences that are also predicted by the seer.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 935
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, exciting, suspense, independent film, rough, suspenseful, stylized
Similar in 78%
Boss of Bosses (2001)
Plot Summary:
The story of the rise and fall of the powerful New York City organized crime boss, Paul Castellano.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, serious, suspenseful, realistic
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Suicide Kings (1997)
Plot Summary:
Christopher Walken shines in this cult-favorite dark comedy as Charlie, a former mobster who is abducted by five privileged young men (Sean Patrick Flanery, Johnny Galecki, Jay Mohr, Jeremy Sisto, Henry Thomas) desperate to raise a $2 million ransom to save the sister of a friend. As Charlie plays mind games, however, his captors splinter -- each wondering whether one of their own had a hand in the crime.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 29000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, tense, suspenseful, suspense, neo noir, black comedy, rough, twisted, surprise ending, dark
Similar in 75%
Empire (2002)
Plot Summary:
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 been double crossed and his last option is to get revenge.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: intense, suspense, melancholic, stylized, rough, serious, suspenseful, hood, tense, realistic
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Sinatra Club (2010)
Plot Summary:
Brutal and celebrated Mafia gangster John Gotti (Danny Nucci) schemes, shoves and murders his way to the top of that world in this gritty biography told from the perspective of Salvatore Polisi (Jason Gedrick), who owns the Sinatra Club, where Gotti's crew hangs out. Determined to make his name, the young Gotti plans a daring armored-car robbery that he expects to get him noticed by the bosses of each of New York's five major crime families.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 877
Genere: Action, Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, serious, suspenseful, realistic
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The Funeral (1996)
Plot Summary:
The story concerns the funeral of one of three brothers in a family of gangsters that lived in New York in 1930s. Details of the past of the brothers and their families are shown through a series of flashbacks.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: neo noir, surprise ending, independent film, philosophical, hood, tense, rough, clever, serious, captivating
Similar in 85%
Witness to the Mob (1998)
Plot Summary:
Sammy 'The Bull' Gravano was mafiosi. He started out as a soldier, but his talent for murder, including the slayings of his best friends, his wife's brother and his own boss, Paul Castellano, saw him rise to under-boss in the Gambino crime family. However, betrayals within the family saw him break the code of silence and became the highest ranking member of the mob to turn into a rat - 'a rat in a suit,- assisting the government to finally put away the Teflon Don, John Gotti.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: cult classic, tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Similar in 82%
Ash Wednesday (2002)
Plot Summary:
Ash Wednesday is set in the Manhattan of the early 1980's and is about a pair of Irish-American brothers who become embroiled in a conflict with the Irish Mob.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: intense, rough, suspenseful, serious, realistic, talky, crying, independent film, exciting, surprise ending
Similar in 86%
This Thing of Ours (2002)
Plot Summary:
Using the Internet and global satellites, a group of gangsters pull off the biggest bank heist in the Mafia's history.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 817
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, exciting, realistic, independent film
Similar in 79%
Capone (1975)
Plot Summary:
The story of the rise and fall of the infamous Chicago gangster Al Capone and the control he exhibited over the city during the prohibition years.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: rough, realistic, suspenseful, serious, psychotronic, cult classic, captivating, poliziottesco
Similar in 80%
Mob Town (2019)
Plot Summary:
Based on the true story of the notorious 1957 ‘mob summit’ in upstate New York. Spearheaded by Vito Genovese, more than 50 leaders of the organized crime syndicates from around the country converged on the sleepy town to discuss upcoming expansion plans. Their plans are foiled when local police trooper Ed Croswell discovers their activities and, consequently, exposes the mob to the American public. Croswell’s actions shed light on the massive web of corruption and changed the face of law enforcement forever.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 970
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful
Similar in 84%
Last Man Standing (1996)
Plot Summary:
John Smith is a mysterious stranger who is drawn into a vicious war between two Prohibition-era gangs. In a dangerous game, he switches allegiances from one to another, offering his services to the highest bidder. As the death toll mounts, Smith takes the law into his own hands in a deadly race to stay alive.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 60000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: neo noir, stylized, exciting, serious, suspenseful, action packed, tense, captivating, retro, epic
Similar in 78%
Gotti (1996)
Plot Summary:
John Gotti, the head of a small New York mafia crew breaks a few of the old family rules. He rises to become the head of the Gambino family and the most well-known mafia boss in America. Life is good, but suspicion creeps in, and greed, rule-breaking and his high public profile all threaten to topple him.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic
Similar in 83%
Bugsy (1991)
Plot Summary:
New York gangster Ben 'Bugsy' Siegel takes a brief business trip to Los Angeles. A sharp-dressing womanizer with a foul temper, Siegel doesn't hesitate to kill or maim anyone crossing him. In L.A. the life, the movies, and most of all strong-willed Virginia Hill detain him while his family wait back home. Then a trip to a run-down gambling joint at a spot in the desert known as Las Vegas gives him his big idea.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 31000
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 136 min
Plot tags: realistic, stylized, intense, suspense, talky, tense, serious, captivating, period piece, neo noir
Similar in 78%
Middle Men (2009)
Plot Summary:
Chronicles Jack Harris, one of the pioneers of internet commerce, as he wrestles with his morals and struggles not to drown in a sea of conmen, mobsters, drug addicts, and pornstars.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 38000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: entertaining, erotic, humorous, stylized, semi serious, light, social, dark comedy, crime drama, realistic
Similar in 87%
Miller's Crossing (1990)
Plot Summary:
Set in 1929, a political boss and his advisor have a parting of the ways when they both fall for the same woman.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 140000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: neo noir, atmospheric, tense, stylized, serious, realistic, suspense, dark, cult classic, clever
Similar in 76%
The Untouchables (1987)
Plot Summary:
Young Treasury Agent Elliot Ness arrives in Chicago and is determined to take down Al Capone, but it's not going to be easy because Capone has the police in his pocket. Ness meets Jimmy Malone, a veteran patrolman and probably the most honorable one on the force. He asks Malone to help him get Capone, but Malone warns him that if he goes after Capone, he is going to war.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 326000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, stylized, clever, exciting, tense, serious, captivating, rough, neo noir
Similar in 75%
Kill the Irishman (2011)
Plot Summary:
Over the summer of 1976, thirty-six bombs detonate in the heart of Cleveland while a turf war raged between Irish mobster Danny Greene and the Italian mafia. Based on a true story, kill the Irishman chronicles Greene's heroic rise from a tough Cleveland neighborhood to become an enforcer in the local mob.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 51000
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: tense, brutal, suspense, talky, intense, rough, suspenseful, serious, realistic, thought provoking
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Gangster Squad (2013)
Plot Summary:
Los Angeles, 1949. Ruthless, Brooklyn-born mob king Mickey Cohen runs the show in this town, reaping the ill-gotten gains from the drugs, the guns, the prostitutes and — if he has his way — every wire bet placed west of Chicago. And he does it all with the protection of not only his own paid goons, but also the police and the politicians who are under his control. It’s enough to intimidate even the bravest, street-hardened cop… except, perhaps, for the small, secret crew of LAPD outsiders led by Sgt. John O’Mara and Jerry Wooters who come together to try to tear Cohen’s world apart.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 221000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: rough, tense, exciting, stylized, serious, suspenseful, suspense, intense, realistic, neo noir
Similar in 86%
Hoodlum (1997)
Plot Summary:
In 1934, the second most lucrative business in New York City was running "the numbers". When, Madam Queen, the powerful woman who runs the scam in Harlem, is arrested. Ellsworth "Bumpy" Johnson takes over the business and must resist against the invasion from merciless mobster Dutch Shultz.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: hood, stylized, neo noir, black and white, crime drama, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, clever
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Once Upon a Time in America (1984)
Plot Summary:
A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over thirty years later, where he once again must confront the ghosts and regrets of his old life.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 371000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 229 min
Plot tags: epic, ambiguous ending, atmospheric, melancholic, breathtaking, captivating, rough, visually appealing, realistic, talky
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Gotti (2018)
Plot Summary:
John Gotti rises to the top of the New York underworld to become the boss of the Gambino crime family. His life takes a tumultuous turn as he faces tragedy, multiple trials and a prison sentence.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, realistic, inspirational, sad, disgusting, independent film
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Bella Mafia (1997)
Plot Summary:
Don Roberto Luciano turns informer for the biggest Mafia trial in history, but his family pays a terrible price.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, political thriller, tense, rough, realistic, suspenseful, vintage
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The Godfather Part III (1990)
Plot Summary:
In the midst of trying to legitimize his business dealings in 1979 New York and Italy, aging mafia don, Michael Corleone seeks forgiveness for his sins while taking a young protege under his wing.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 418000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 162 min
Plot tags: epic, saga, bad ending, suspense, visually appealing, serious, stylized, sad, cult classic, inspirational
Similar in 78%
Casino (1995)
Plot Summary:
The life of the gambling paradise – Las Vegas – and its dark mafia underbelly.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 552000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA, France
Duration: 178 min
Plot tags: realistic, clever, rough, suspense, neo noir, captivating, brutal, stylized, intense, tense
Similar in 89%
The Godfather (1972)
Plot Summary:
Spanning the years 1945 to 1955, a chronicle of the fictional Italian-American Corleone crime family. When organized crime family patriarch, Vito Corleone barely survives an attempt on his life, his youngest son, Michael steps in to take care of the would-be killers, launching a campaign of bloody revenge.
IMDB Rating: 9.2
IMDB Votes: 20000000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 175 min
Plot tags: serious, epic, atmospheric, dramatic, captivating, rough, realistic, family saga, entertaining, breathtaking