20 best movies like Savages (2012)


List of the best movies like Savages (2012): The Counselor, Cheap Thrills, Legend, Switchback, The Crimson Kimono, Blind Detective, Lethal Weapon, Dead Presidents, Our Kind of Traitor, Gridlock'd.

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Markimdb: 5.3
Genrethriller, drama, crime
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
Duration01:57

A lawyer finds himself in far over his head when he attempts to get involved in drug trafficking.

Markimdb: 6.7
Genrehorror, thriller, comedy, drama, crime
CountryUSA
Duration01:27

    Recently fired and facing eviction, a new dad has his life turned upside down when he meets a wealthy couple who offer a path to financial security... but at a price.

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountryUnited Kingdom, France, USA
    Duration02:29

    Suave, charming and volatile, Reggie Kray and his unstable twin brother Ronnie start to leave their mark on the London underworld in the 1960s. Using violence to get what they want, the siblings orchestrate robberies and murders while running nightclubs and protection rackets. With police Detective Leonard "Nipper" Read hot on their heels, the brothers continue their rapid rise to power and achieve tabloid notoriety.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genrethriller, crime, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:58

    FBI agent Dennis Quaid tries to catch a serial killer who kidnapped his son.

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:22

    A Los Angeles detective and his Japanese partner woo an artist while solving a stripper's murder.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genreaction, thriller, comedy, drama, crime
    CountryHong Kong, China
    Duration02:09

    A blind detective, former cop, teams up with a policewoman who admires him to solve the disappearance of a girl friend of hers, years ago. Besides, he helps her to improve her skills as an investigator.

    Markimdb: 7.9
    Genreaction, thriller, comedy, drama, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration03:10

    A slightly unhinged former Navy SEAL lands a job as a police officer in Los Angeles where he's partnered with a veteran detective trying to keep maintain a low stress level in his life.

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime, military
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:59

    Depicts a heist of old bills, retired from circulation and destined by the government to be "money to burn". However, more broadly, it addresses the issues of Black Americans' involvement in the Vietnam War and their subsequent disillusionment with progress in social issues and civil rights back home in the United States, during the 1960s.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountryUnited Kingdom, France, USA
    Duration02:16

    A young Oxford academic and his attorney girlfriend holiday on Antigua. They bump into a Russian millionaire who owns a peninsula and a diamond watch. He wants a game of tennis. What else he wants propels the lovers on a tortuous journey to the City of London and its unholy alliance with Britain's intelligence establishment, to Paris and the Alps.

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genrecomedy, drama, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:31

    After a friend overdoses, Spoon and Stretch decide to kick their drug habits and attempt to enroll in a government detox program. Their efforts are hampered by seemingly endless red tape, as they are shuffled from one office to another while being chased by drug dealers and the police.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genreaction, thriller, comedy, drama, crime
    CountryUSA, Canada
    Duration01:58

    Skillfully framed by an unknown enemy for the murder of a priest, wanted vigilante MacManus brothers Murphy and Connor must come out of hiding on a sheep farm in Ireland to fight for justice in Boston.

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:42

    A rookie cop goes undercover to infiltrate a gang of car thieves led by smooth and charming Ted. The rookie becomes too involved and starts to enjoy the thrill and lifestyle of the game, and becomes romanticly involved with the leaders sister.

    Markimdb: 6
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, adventure, crime
    CountryUSA, Germany, Uruguay, Paraguay
    Duration02:14

    Miami Vice is a feature film based on the 1980s action drama TV series. The film tells the story of vice detectives Crockett and Tubbs and how their personal and professional lives are dangerously getting mixed.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:52

    A small-time hood must choose from among love, friendship and the chance to rise within the mob.

    Markimdb: 5.7
    Genreaction, thriller, crime
    CountryUSA, India, Luxembourg
    Duration01:32

    After watching their respective partners die, a cop and a hitman form an alliance in order to bring down their common enemy.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
    CountryUSA, Germany
    Duration01:53

    When a mafia accountant is taken hostage on his beat, a police officer – wracked by guilt from a prior stint as a negotiator – must negotiate the standoff, even as his own family is held captive by the mob.

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:57

    Terrence McDonagh, a New Orleans Police sergeant, who starts out as a good cop, receiving a medal and a promotion to lieutenant for heroism during Hurricane Katrina. During his heroic act, McDonagh injures his back and later becomes addicted to prescription pain medication. McDonagh finds himself involved with a drug dealer who is suspected of murdering a family of African immigrants.

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genreaction, thriller, crime
    CountryFrance, Belgium, USA
    Duration01:30

    Franck and Simon are both good cops. They work as partners. But their lives take a tailspin when Simon, driving drunk, causes a tragic car wreck. A few years later, out of the police, he is forced to take matters into his own hands when his family is in danger.

    Markimdb: 6
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:41

    Two veteran New York City detectives work to identify the possible connection between a recent murder and a case they believe they solved years ago; is there a serial killer on the loose, and did they perhaps put the wrong person behind bars?

    Markimdb: 5.8
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:13

    Lila, a grief-stricken mother reeling from her son’s murder, attends a support group where she meets Eve, who urges her to take matters into her own hands to track down her son’s killers.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective, military
    CountryUSA, Germany
    Duration01:56

    When the body of Army Capt. Elizabeth Campbell is found on a Georgia military base, two investigators, Warrant Officers Paul Brenner and Sara Sunhill, are ordered to solve her murder. What they uncover is anything but clear-cut. Unseemly details emerge about Campbell's life, leading to allegations of a possible military coverup of her death and the involvement of her father, Lt. Gen. Joseph Campbell.

    Markimdb: 5.8
    Genreaction, thriller, crime
    CountryUSA, Germany
    Duration01:32

    A DEA agent provides former Marine Tim Kearney with a way out of his prison sentence: impersonate Bobby Z, a recently deceased drug dealer, in a hostage switch with a crime lord. When the negotiations go awry, Kearney flees, with Z's son in tow.

    Markimdb: 5.6
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:41

    Reynolds plays an ex-soldier-of-fortunish character in Vegas, taking "Chaperone" jobs, fighting with the mob, and trying to get enough money together to move to Venice, Italy.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genreaction, thriller, melodrama, drama, crime
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
    Duration02:09

    Terry Noonan returns home to New York's Hells Kitchen after a ten year absence. He soon hooks up with childhood pal Jackie who is involved in the Irish mob run by his brother Frankie. Terry also rekindles an old flame with Jackie's sister Kathleen. Soon, however, Terry is torn between his loyalty to his friends and his loyalties to others.

    Markimdb: 7.5
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:34

    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. Based on Elmore Leonard's novel “Rum Punch”.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUSA, United Kingdom, France
    Duration02:07

    Handsome, unflappable U.S. Congressman Stephen Collins is the future of his political party: an honorable appointee who serves as the chairman of a committee overseeing defense spending. All eyes are upon the rising star to be his party's contender for the upcoming presidential race. Until his research assistant/mistress is brutally murdered and buried secrets come tumbling out.

    Markimdb: 7.5
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountryUSA, France
    Duration01:54

    Michael is a 12-year-old drug pusher who lives in a crowded house with his cousins and aunt. His father has become a street bum, but still meets with Fresh on occasion to play chess. Fresh is rather quiet in a crazy world. Fresh's sister is a junkie who sleeps with the dealers that Fresh sells for. As the story progresses Fresh realizes that he doesn't want to sell drugs anymore, he wants revenge.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUSA, Germany, Canada
    Duration01:45

    A woman framed for her husband's murder suspects he is still alive; as she has already been tried for the crime, she can't be re-prosecuted if she finds and kills him.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:28

    A group of Chicago mob ruthless enforcers are sent to Kansas City to settle things with the owner of a slaughterhouse who has taken money that is not his to keep.

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:47

    Millionaire industrialist Steven Taylor is a man who has everything but what he craves most: the love and fidelity of his wife. A hugely successful player in the New York financial world, he considers her to be his most treasured acquisition. But she needs more than simply the role of dazzling accessory.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
    CountryJapan, USA

    Harry Kilmer returns to Japan after several years in order to rescue his friend George's kidnapped daughter - and ends up on the wrong side of the Yakuza, the notorious Japanese mafia...

    Markimdb: 5.9
    Genrethriller, drama, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:24

    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.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:53

      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.

      Markimdb: 6.4
      Genreaction, thriller, comedy, crime
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:40

      Ray Tango and Gabriel Cash are narcotics detectives who, while both being extremely successful, can't stand each other. Crime Lord Yves Perret, furious at the loss of income that Tango and Cash have caused him, frames the two for murder. Caught with the murder weapon on the scene of the crime, the two have no alibi. Thrown into prison with most of the criminals they helped convict, it appears that they are going to have to trust each other if they are to clear their names and catch the evil Perret.

      Markimdb: 5.2
      Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUSA, France
      Duration01:41

        After Washington DC detective Alex Cross is told that a family member has been murdered, he vows to track down the killer. He soon discovers that she was not his first victim and that things are not what they seem.

        Markimdb: 6.2
        Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
        CountryIndia
        Duration02:05

        ACP Vishnu is sent on a mission to investigate and clean the underbelly of Goa. During his investigation, he uncovers a huge racket and discovers the involvement of various politicians.

        Markimdb: 6.9
        Genrethriller, comedy, drama, crime, detective
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:42

        Charlie, a former mobster, is abducted by five privileged young men 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.

        Markimdb: 5.5
        Genrethriller, drama, crime
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:31

        Three teenage friends get in way over their head when they cross a down-home crime syndicate. They hope to make a break for it and escape their dead-end existence in a cotton-mill town but get sucked into the seedy underbelly of organized crime when one of them steals from the wrong man.

        Markimdb: 4.8
        Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
        CountryUSA
        Duration01:26

        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 members are being systematically murdered one by one. To solve the brutal killings, Kingston joins forces with a cocky, young homicide detective. But neither of them is prepared for the shocking corruption their investigation will uncover — stunning secrets that will set both men on a violent collision course with betrayal and vengeance.

        Markimdb: 6.4
        Genrethriller, drama, crime
        CountryUSA, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom
        Duration01:52

        Construction company owner John Matthews learns that his estranged son, Jason, has been arrested for drug trafficking. Facing an unjust prison sentence for a first time offender courtesy of mandatory minimum sentence laws, Jason has nothing to offer for leniency in good conscience. Desperately, John convinces the DEA and the opportunistic DA Joanne Keeghan to let him go undercover to help make arrests big enough to free his son in return. With the unwitting help of an ex-con employee, John enters the narcotics underworld where every move could be his last in an operation that will demand all his resources, wits and courage to survive.

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