18 best movies like Kojak (1973)

List of the best movies like Kojak (1973): The Investigator, Control, 68 Kill, Unknown Origins, Dom Hemingway, Last Minute, Inherent Vice, Killing Love, Happily, Clubhouse.

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Markimdb: 7.4
Genrethriller, comedy, drama, crime, detective
CountryHungary, Sweden, Republic of Ireland

This multi-award winning film tells the story of precise and silent, Tibor Malkáv – your average 37 year-old man, who though not rich, leads a comfortable and uncomplicated life. All this changes when he finds out his mother is dying of cancer and the cost of surgery is well beyond his means. A one-eyed man known as the Cyclops offers Tibor a solution to his financial woes, however, there is a catch and Tibor has to kill someone in return. What follows is a chain reaction that has long lasting and unexpected results.

Markimdb: 7.6
Genrethriller, comedy, melodrama, drama, crime
CountryHungary
Duration01:45

A tale about a strange young man, Bulcsú, his fellow inspectors, who are all without exception likeable characters, a rival ticket inspection team, and racing along the tracks... And a tale about love.

Markimdb: 6
Genrethriller, comedy, melodrama, crime
CountryUSA
Duration01:46

Chip's problem is that he can't say no to beautiful women. This weakness gets him into a world of trouble when he agrees to help his girlfriend steal $68,000.

Markimdb: 6.1
Genreaction, thriller, comedy, drama, adventure, crime, detective
CountrySpain, Argentina

In Madrid, Spain, a mysterious serial killer ruthlessly murders his victims by recreating the first appearance of several comic book superheroes. Cosme, a veteran police inspector who is about to retire, works on the case along with the tormented inspector David Valentín and his own son Jorge Elías, a nerdy young man who owns a comic book store.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genrecomedy, drama, crime
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
Duration01:34

After spending 12 years in prison for keeping his mouth shut, notorious safe-cracker Dom Hemingway is back on the streets of London looking to collect what he's owed.

Markimdb: 5.6
Genrecomedy, drama, crime
CountryFinland
Duration01:29

Career woman finds out that her boyfriend is living a secret double life. She finds a bag of money and decides to make a run for it. She is accompanied by a little girl who is also on a run from her criminal step-father. Together they're trying to make it to her grandmothers house.

Markimdb: 6.7
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, crime, detective
CountryUSA
Duration02:29

    In Los Angeles at the turn of the 1970s, drug-fueled detective Larry "Doc" Sportello investigates the disappearance of an ex-girlfriend.

    Markimdb: 5.3
    Genrecomedy, crime
    CountryPoland

    Casper, movie rental worker becomes an owner of a DVD with a registered murder, which John made ​​for an unfaithful wife.

    Markimdb: 5.3
    Genrethriller, comedy, melodrama, crime
    CountryUSA

    Tom and Janet have been happily married for years. But a visit from a mysterious stranger leads to a dead body, a lot of questions, and a tense couples' trip with friends who may not actually be friends at all.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genrecomedy, drama, crime
    CountryUSA

    The movie is set in a stately old home in Birmingham, Alabama. The story revolves around efforts by assorted sinister characters to seize control of the century-old mansion from the humble owner. —Anonymous

    Markimdb: 5.9
    Genreaction, comedy, drama, crime
    CountryUnited Kingdom
    Duration01:41

    Sam & Fordy run a credit card fraud scheme, but when they steal from the wrong man, they find themselves threatened by sadistic gangster. They need to raise £5m and pull off a daring diamond heist to clear their debt.

    Markimdb: 7.5
    Genrecomedy, drama, crime
    CountryIndia

    Phase Gaye Re Obama is a comedy set against the backdrop of global recession/meltdown that originated in USA. The film traces the journey of OM Shashtri, an American citizen of Indian origin, who loses all his wealth overnight to the global recession & has been asked to vacate his home by the bank unless he pays up $100,000 (mortgaged amount) within 30 days. Seeing no other option Om comes to India to sell a small piece of an ancestral property. But within days of landing in India he is kidnapped by a 'recession-hit' underworld gang those who think that he is still a millionaire. What happens to Om, is he able to save his home, how did the 'poor' gangster cope with their 'poor' catch & what do small town Indian gangsters have to say to President Obama...is largely forms the rest of the story. The film, showcases how global recession/ meltdown impacted lives from an America based businessman to underworld dons in the dusty plains of small town India.

    Markimdb: 2.7
    Genrecomedy, drama, crime
    CountryAustralia
    Duration01:26

    A remake of 'Reservoir Dogs' by Quentin Tarantino, with the noticeable difference that all the male characters have been replaced with female ones.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genreaction, thriller, comedy, drama, crime
    CountryEgypt

    After 3 years have passed since the end of the events of the first part, the four brothers are trying in various ways to preserve the covenant they made to themselves to stay away from a life of theft and crime, but one event in their lives changes all that, and introduces them to new worlds for them, and puts them in very dangerous confrontations with A number of professional criminals.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genrehorror, comedy, drama, crime
    CountryFrance, Belgium, Luxembourg
    Duration01:13

    A man's obsession with owning the designer deerskin jacket of his dreams leads him to turn his back on his humdrum life in the suburbs, blow his life savings, and even turn him to crime.

    Markimdb: 5.3
    Genrecomedy, drama, crime
    CountryDenmark
    Duration02:17

    The two tradesmen Ib and Edward are tired of their lifeless marriages and dream of living the good life from the stash of money they've earned moonlighting for years. After a huge fight with their wives the two men get drunk and hire a Russian contract killer to do a hit on their spouses. But they have badly underestimated their wives, and this becomes the start of an absurd journey where Ib and Edward to their own horror end at the top of a kill list.

    Markimdb: 4.9
    Genreaction, comedy, adventure, crime
    CountryUSA, Dominican Republic
    Duration02:25

    Alejandro Toledo comes out of his retirement from crime to help a community reclaim land stolen from them by a beautiful but ruthless businesswoman and her clan.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genrecomedy, drama, crime
    CountryIran

    A hacker group empty a bank account of a big strong person. The story goes on and now they must pay for that.




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