Movies like Eastern Promises
If Eastern Promises's mix of chauffeur, prostitute and jealousy stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what Eastern Promises's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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Chopper
2000 · Directed by Andrew Dominik · 94 min6.8
Why you'll like itShares: prostitute, tattoo, gangster · Also crime and thriller · From the same decade (2000s)
The true and infamous story of Australia's notorious criminal Mark 'Chopper' Read and his years of crime, interest in violence, drugs and prostitutes.
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We Own the Night
2007 · Directed by James Gray · 118 min6.7
Why you'll like itShares: parent child relationship, bratva (russian mafia), gangster · Also crime and thriller · From the same decade (2000s)
A New York nightclub manager tries to save his brother and father from Russian mafia hitmen.
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Layer Cake
2004 · Directed by Matthew Vaughn · 105 min6.9
Why you'll like itShares: hitman, gangster · Also thriller and crime · From the same decade (2000s)
When a seemingly straight-forward drug deal goes awry, XXXX has to break his die-hard rules and turn up the heat, not only to outwit the old regime and come out on top, but to save his own skin...
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Mona Lisa
1986 · Directed by Neil Jordan · 105 min6.9
Why you'll like itShares: chauffeur, prostitute · Also crime and thriller
George is a small-time crook just out of prison who discovers his tough-guy image is out of date. Reduced to working as a minder/driver for high class call girl Simone, he has to agree when she asks him to find a young…
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John Wick
2014 · Directed by Chad Stahelski · 101 min7.5
Why you'll like itShares: hitman, bratva (russian mafia), gangster
Ex-hitman John Wick comes out of retirement to track down the gangsters that took everything from him.
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American History X
1998 · Directed by Tony Kaye · 119 min8.3
Why you'll like itShares: rape, gangster
Derek Vineyard is paroled after serving 3 years in prison for killing two African-American men. Through his brother, Danny Vineyard's narration, we learn that before going to prison, Derek was a skinhead and the leader…
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Léon: The Professional
1994 · Directed by Luc Besson · 111 min8.3
Why you'll like itShares: hitman, gangster
Léon, the top hit man in New York, has earned a rep as an effective "cleaner". But when his next-door neighbors are wiped out by a loose-cannon DEA agent, he becomes the unwilling custodian of 12-year-old Mathilda.
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Cape Fear
1991 · Directed by Martin Scorsese · 128 min7.3
Why you'll like itShares: rape · Also crime and thriller
Sam Bowden is a small-town corporate attorney. Max Cady is a tattooed, cigar-smoking, Bible-quoting, psychotic rapist. What do they have in common? 14 years ago, Sam was a public defender assigned to Max Cady's rape…
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The Long Good Friday
1980 · Directed by John Mackenzie · 114 min7.2
Why you'll like itShares: gangster · Also crime and thriller
In the late 1970s, Cockney crime boss Harold Shand, a gangster trying to become a legitimate property mogul, has big plans to get the American Mafia to bankroll his transformation of a derelict area of London into the…
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Frenzy
1972 · Directed by Alfred Hitchcock · 116 min7.1
Why you'll like itShares: rape · Also crime and thriller
London is terrorized by a vicious sex killer known as The Necktie Murderer. Following the brutal slaying of his ex-wife, down-on-his-luck Richard Blaney is suspected by the police of being the killer.
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Running Scared
2006 · Directed by Wayne Kramer · 122 min7.0
Why you'll like itShares: bratva (russian mafia) · Also crime and thriller · From the same decade (2000s)
A low-ranking thug is entrusted by his boss to dispose of a gun that killed corrupt cops, but things spiral out of control when the gun ends up in wrong hands.
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Gran Torino
2008 · Directed by Clint Eastwood · 116 min8.0
Why you'll like itShares: rape, gangster · From the same decade (2000s)
Disgruntled Korean War veteran Walt Kowalski sets out to reform his neighbor, Thao Lor, a Hmong teenager who tried to steal Kowalski's prized possession: a 1972 Gran Torino.