Movies Like

Cast

Pam Grier

Samuel L. Jackson

Robert De Niro

Bridget Fonda

Jackie Brown (1997)

7.4 7.0K votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 154 min.

Audience: R

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 for herself.

Plot: airport, based on novel or book, police, arms deal, stewardess, heist, money, los angeles, ...

Cast

Johnny Depp

Penu00e9lope Cruz

Franka Potente

Rachel Griffiths

Blow (2001)

7.4 4.6K votes

Genre: Crime, Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 124 min.

Audience: R

Story: The story of how George Jung, together with the Medellín Cartel led by Pablo Escobar, established the billion-dollar cocaine empire in the United States in the 1970s.

Style: suspenseful, intense

Plot: drug smuggling, war on drugs, drug trafficking, drug addiction, biography, based on true story, rise and fall, docudrama, ...

Time: 1970s

Cast

Trevante Rhodes

Andru00e9 Holland

Janelle Monu00e1e

Ashton Sanders

Moonlight (2016)

7.4 7.6K votes

Genre: Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 111 min.

Audience: R

Story: The tender, heartbreaking story of a young man’s struggle to find himself, told across three defining chapters in his life as he experiences the ecstasy, pain, and beauty of falling in love, while grappling with his own sexuality.

Plot: drug dealer, high school, drug abuse, miami, florida, parent child relationship, fight, homophobia, ...

Place: florida

Cast

Tom Cruise

Colin Farrell

Samantha Morton

Max von Sydow

Minority Report (2002)

7.4 9.7K votes

Genre: Action, Science Fiction, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 145 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: John Anderton is a top 'Precrime' cop in the late-21st century, when technology can predict crimes before they're committed. But Anderton becomes the quarry when another investigator targets him for a murder charge.

Style: suspenseful, intense

Plot: washington dc, usa, dystopia, police chief, precognition, hologram, futuristic, murder, ...

Time: 2050s

Cast

Bradley Cooper

Ed Helms

Zach Galifianakis

Justin Bartha

The Hangover (2009)

7.3 18.2K votes

Genre: Comedy

Country: United States of America

Duration: 100 min.

Audience: R

Story: When three friends finally come to after a raucous night of bachelor-party revelry, they find a baby in the closet and a tiger in the bathroom. But they can't seem to locate their best friend, Doug – who's supposed to be tying the knot. Launching a frantic search for Doug, the trio perseveres through a nasty hangover to try to make it to the church on time.

Style: absurd

Plot: amnesia, blackjack, stag night, lost weekend, chapel, hit with tire iron, memory loss, drugs, ...

Place: las vegas

Limitless (2015) TV Show

7.3 948 votes

Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 22

Audience: TV-14

Story: Brian Finch's life takes an extraordinary turn when he uses NZT-48, a neuroenhancing drug whose mystery and chaos lead him to working for the FBI and a senator who is not what he seems.

Plot: fbi, mental control, drugs, based on movie, nootropics, mind booster

Cast

Nicky Jam

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Darkiel

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Osvaldo Friger

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Josu00e9 Arroyo

Nicky Jam: El Ganador (2018) TV Show

7.3 547 votes

Genre: Drama

Country: Mexico

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 13

Audience: TV-MA

Story: Follow Reggaeton artist Nicky Jam's struggles to overcome drug addiction and rise to international success in this dramatization of his life story.

Plot: alcohol, drugs, cowgirl, latin music, caídas, levantarse, ganador

Gone Baby Gone (2007)

7.3 4.2K votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery

Country: United States of America

Duration: 113 min.

Audience: R

Story: When 4 year old Amanda McCready disappears from her home and the police make little headway in solving the case, the girl's aunt, Beatrice McCready hires two private detectives, Patrick Kenzie and Angie Gennaro. The detectives freely admit that they have little experience with this type of case, but the family wants them for two reasons—they're not cops and they know the tough neighborhood in which they all live.

Plot: robbery, corruption, based on novel or book, police, kidnapping, boston, massachusetts, blackmail, ...

Cast

Kamil Nou017cyu0144ski

Jan Frycz

Robert Wiu0119ckiewicz

Marzena Pokrzywinska

Blinded by the Lights (2018) TV Show

7.3 51 votes

Genre: Crime, Drama

Country: Poland

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 8

Story: An eight-episode story charting seven days from the life of a cocaine dealer whose perfectly organized life begins to sink into chaos while he is forced to make the most important choices in his life.

Plot: based on novel or book, rap music, cocaine, drug dealer, friendship, politics, mafia, drugs, ...

Place: poland

Cast

David Hemmings

Vanessa Redgrave

Sarah Miles

John Castle

Blow-Up (1966)

7.3 1.4K votes

Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Duration: 111 min.

Audience: NR

Story: A successful mod photographer in London whose world is bounded by fashion, pop music, marijuana, and easy sex, feels his life is boring and despairing. But in the course of a single day he unknowingly captures a death on film.

Style: surreal, avant-garde

Plot: london, england, loss of sense of reality, photographer, burglar, photography, suspicion of murder, municipal park, ...

Cast

Chris Hemsworth

Rudhraksh Jaiswal

Randeep Hooda

Golshifteh Farahani

Extraction (2020)

7.3 6.7K votes

Genre: Action, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 116 min.

Audience: R

Story: A hardened gun-for-hire's latest mission becomes a soul-searching race to survive when he's sent into Bangladesh to rescue a drug lord's kidnapped son.

Plot: drug dealer, self sacrifice, mercenary, crime boss, mumbai (bombay), india, rescue mission, based on comic, ...

Cast

Paz de la Huerta

Nathaniel Brown

Cyril Roy

Olly Alexander

Enter the Void (2010)

7.3 2.0K votes

Genre: Drama, Fantasy

Country: France, Germany

Duration: 161 min.

Audience: NR

Story: This psychedelic tour of life after death is seen entirely from the point of view of Oscar, a young American drug dealer and addict living in Tokyo with his prostitute sister, Linda. When Oscar is killed by police during a bust gone bad, his spirit journeys from the past -- where he sees his parents before their deaths -- to the present -- where he witnesses his own autopsy -- and then to the future, where he looks out for his sister from beyond the grave.

Plot: prostitute, afterlife, hallucination, surrealism, reincarnation, stripper, strip club, drug trip, ...

Place: japan

Cast

Mu00f3glau00ed Bap

Mo Chara

DJ Pru00f3vau00ed

Josie Walker

Kneecap (2024)

7.3 289 votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music

Country: Ireland, United Kingdom

Duration: 105 min.

Audience: R

Story: When fate brings Belfast teacher JJ into the orbit of self-confessed "low life scum" Naoise and Liam Óg, the needle drops on a hip-hop act like no other. Rapping in their native Irish, they lead a movement to save their mother tongue.

Plot: hip-hop, based on true story, northern ireland, drug use, drugs, belfast, north ireland, irish music, ...

Cast

Charlotte Fich

Mads Mikkelsen

Lars Brygmann

Waage Sandu00f8

Unit One (2000) TV Show

7.3 36 votes

Genre: Crime, Drama

Country: Denmark, Sweden

Seasons: 4

Episodes: 32

Story: Rejseholdet is a Danish television crime series starring Charlotte Fich, Mads Mikkelsen and Lars Brygmann. Produced by Danmarks Radio, the program aired 32 episodes spanning four seasons from 2000 to 2004. Each episode revolved around an elite mobile police task force called "Unit One" that travels around Denmark helping local police solve crimes. Cases portrayed in the show were loosely based upon actual incidents of sensational crimes such as murders, kidnappings, cross-border sex traffic and child pornography. Rejseholdet won the 2002 International Emmy Award for best drama series.

Plot: police, murder, drugs

Place: denmark

Cast

Jonah Hill

Michael Cera

Christopher Mintz-Plasse

Bill Hader

Superbad (2007)

7.3 8.2K votes

Genre: Comedy

Country: United States of America

Duration: 113 min.

Audience: R

Story: Two co-dependent high school seniors are forced to deal with separation anxiety after their plan to stage a booze-soaked party goes awry.

Plot: high school, police, alcohol, chaos, nerd, coming of age, school, los angeles, ...

Cast

Richard E. Grant

Paul McGann

Richard Griffiths

Ralph Brown

Withnail & I (1987)

7.2 631 votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Country: United Kingdom, Canada

Duration: 108 min.

Audience: R

Story: Two out-of-work actors -- the anxious, luckless Marwood and his acerbic, alcoholic friend, Withnail -- spend their days drifting between their squalid flat, the unemployment office and the pub. When they take a holiday "by mistake" at the country house of Withnail's flamboyantly gay uncle, Monty, they encounter the unpleasant side of the English countryside: tedium, terrifying locals and torrential rain.

Plot: drug dealer, london, england, northern england, countryside, alcohol, darkness, flat, ...

Time: 1960s

The Town (2010)

7.2 5.7K votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 125 min.

Audience: R

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 burgeoning relationship threatens to unveil the identities of Doug and his crew to the FBI Agent who is on their case.

Plot: drug dealer, based on novel or book, ambulance, boston, massachusetts, money laundering, irish-american, bank manager, ...

Good Time (2017)

7.2 3.2K votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller

Country: United States of America, Luxembourg

Duration: 102 min.

Audience: R

Story: After a botched bank robbery lands his younger brother in prison, Connie Nikas embarks on a twisted odyssey through New York City's underworld to get his brother Nick out of jail.

Style: intimate, intense

Plot: prison, mentally disabled, new york city, brother, bank robber, wheelchair, on the run, hospital, ...

Cast

Johnny Depp

Benicio del Toro

Tobey Maguire

Michael Lee Gogin

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998)

7.2 5.1K votes

Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 118 min.

Audience: R

Story: Raoul Duke and his attorney Dr. Gonzo drive a red convertible across the Mojave desert to Las Vegas with a suitcase full of drugs to cover a motorcycle race. As their consumption of drugs increases at an alarming rate, the stoned duo trash their hotel room and fear legal repercussions. Duke begins to drive back to L.A., but after an odd run-in with a cop, he returns to Sin City and continues his wild drug binge.

Style: absurd

Plot: journalist, casino, based on novel or book, paranoia, cocaine, dark comedy, lsd, hallucination, ...

Time: 1970s

Place: las vegas

Cast

Bradley Cooper

Robert De Niro

Abbie Cornish

Andrew Howard

Limitless (2011)

7.2 11.6K votes

Genre: Mystery, Science Fiction, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 106 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: The life of an unsuccessful writer is transformed by a top-secret 'smart drug' that allows him to use 100% of his brain and become a perfect version of himself. His enhanced abilities soon attract shadowy forces that threaten his new life.

Plot: new york city, medicine, politician, iq, pill, stalking, superhuman, transhumanism, ...

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