20 best movies like Skin (2015)


List of the best movies like Skin (2015): Gunday, True Romance, Escobar: Paradise Lost, Legend, Hindsight, Kilometer Zero, Comes a Bright Day, David, The Last Saint, Miss Lovely.

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Markimdb: 2.6
Genreaction, melodrama, drama, musical
CountryIndia

Based in Calcutta during its most unsettled times in the 1970s, the film deals with the inseparable life of Bikram and Bala. The story of 2 boys, boys who became refugees. Refugees who became gun couriers. Gun Couriers who became coal bandits, coal bandits who became Calcutta's Most Loved, Most Celebrated, Most Reckless, Most Fearless, Most Powerful! A story of two happy-go-lucky renegades who came to be known as...GUNDAY!

Markimdb: 7.9
Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, crime
CountryUSA, France
Duration02:01

Clarence marries hooker Alabama, steals cocaine from her pimp, and tries to sell it in Hollywood, while the owners of the coke try to reclaim it.

Markimdb: 6.5
Genrethriller, drama, crime
CountryFrance, Spain, Belgium, Panama
Duration01:59

For Pablo Escobar family is everything. When young surfer Nick falls for Escobar's niece, Maria, he finds his life on the line when he's pulled into the dangerous world of the family business.

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: 6.3
Genreaction, drama, crime
CountrySouth Korea

A young assassin is sent to kill a retired mob boss. But things get complicated when she begins to like him.

Markimdb: 6
Genrethriller, melodrama, drama
CountryRussia
Duration01:27

A young music video director, a ballet dancer and a dolce vita seeker - they come to Moscow to conquer the city, but each of them goes their own way. Sooner or later the three of them realize: to get what you are striving for you might risk many things, but friendship and love.

Markimdb: 6
Genrethriller, melodrama, drama
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration01:31

A romantic thriller set during the armed robbery of one of London’s most exclusive jewellers. Sometimes funny, often dark, always captivating and never what you expect.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genreaction, thriller, melodrama, drama, crime
CountryIndia
Duration02:35

The story is about two Davids living in different parts of India whose lives eventually come together in a twist of events., who are about to take a step which is going to change their lives forever.

Markimdb: 5.4
Genreaction, drama, crime
CountryNew Zealand
Duration01:51

Minka is a teenage Polynesian boy living in the heart of the city. With his P-addicted mother well on the way to going completely off the rails, three people enter his life - each with a promise - each with the power to destroy.

Markimdb: 7.2
Genremelodrama, drama, crime
CountryIndia

A Hindi feature film set in the lower depths of Bombay's "C" grade film industry. Miss Lovely follows the devastating story of two brothers who produce sleazy horror films in the mid-1980s.

Markimdb: 6.5
Genredrama, crime
CountryRussia
Duration01:49

1990s. Gangster Kiev. A team of four men is assigned to deliver a girl from Prague, nicknamed "The Stranger." As the sister of a recently arrested criminal called Babai, her testimony could damage some important people.

Markimdb: 7
Genredrama, military
CountryAfghanistan, France, Germany, United Kingdom
Duration01:42

In a war ridden country a woman watches over the husband reduced to a vegetable state by a bullet in the neck, abandoned by Jihad companions and brothers. One day, the woman decides to say things to him she could never have done before.

Markimdb: 5.6
Genremelodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration02:29

A story about a seemingly unlikely couple who cross paths under life-threatening circumstances as though they are destined not only to meet but to save each other's lives. Not once, but twice.

Markimdb: 5.9
Genredrama, crime
CountryUSA
Duration01:44

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...

Markimdb: 3.8
Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
CountryFrance, Russia
Duration01:34

After spending seven years in jail for an art heist, Frenchman Victor Lambert returns to Moscow to uncover the circumstances behind his son Jeremy's brutal murder. He is backed by his lover Alexandra, and by his ex-partner-in-crime, choreographer Souliman.

Markimdb: 7
Genredrama, crime, film noir
CountryUSA
Duration01:37

Bootleggers on the lamb Frankie and Noll split up to evade capture by the police. Frankie is caught and jailed, but Noll manages to escape and open a posh New York City nightclub. 14 years later, Frankie is released from the clink and visits Noll with the intention of collecting his half of the nightclub's profits. But Noll, who has no intention of being so equitable, uses his ex-girlfriend Kay to divert Frankie from his intended goal.

Markimdb: 6.4
Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime, detective
CountryUnited Kingdom, France
Duration01:51

Hotshot gambler Jake Green (Jason Statham) is long on bravado and seriously short of common sense. Rarely is he allowed in any casino because he's a bona fide winner and, in fact, has taken so much money over the years that he's the sole client of his accountant elder brother, Billy. Invited to a private game, Jake is in fear of losing his life.

Markimdb: 6.6
Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
CountryFrance

Francois always despised the textile barons who ruled his local town. But he fell in love with the family heiress Gilberte. Ten years ago, he would have married her. Now only hatred holds them together. Francois is accused of murder. A hooker and a football star lie slaughtered. He thinks he has been framed by the mob. Going underground, he finds that the trail leads all the way to the top - to Gilberte's family. He needs friends. And friends are hard to come by in his town.

Markimdb: 7.1
Genrethriller, drama, crime
CountryRussia
Duration01:12

Early autumn, godforsaken Russian countryside. A local hunter Michail witnesses a skirmish in the middle of the forest - three men want to kill the forth, Andrey. Kind-hearted Michail helps Andrey escape and together they run from the villains who chase them. Thus, two totally different men start a long and dangerous journey together, constantly arguing with each other regarding their ideology, morals and opinions about life. But life will put everything on its place and make the men understand who they really are.

Markimdb: 6.1
Genrehorror, thriller, melodrama, drama, crime, detective
CountryUSA

Crystal and her boyfriend Leo embark on a tense and mysterious road trip through the desolate yet hauntingly beautiful landscape of central Florida.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genremelodrama, drama, crime
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
Duration01:33

When a corrupt American businessman tries to strong arm his way into businesses in Newcastle, England, he is thwarted by a club attendant and his waitress girlfriend.

Markimdb: 7.8
Genrethriller, drama, crime, film noir
CountryUSA
Duration01:52

Recently paroled from prison, legendary burglar "Doc" Riedenschneider, with funding from Alonzo Emmerich, a crooked lawyer, gathers a small group of veteran criminals together in the Midwest for a big jewel heist.

Markimdb: 5.4
Genrethriller, drama, crime
CountryUSA
Duration01:47

Valerie is a juror in the trail of a mob boss. When her young son's life is threatened, she has no option other than to see that justice isn't done.

Markimdb: 8.3
Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
CountryIndia

A budding director endeavors to research a merciless gangster for making a film on gangsterism. But his secret attempts to conduct the research fail when he gets caught for snooping.

Markimdb: 4.8
Genrethriller, drama, crime
CountryUSA
Duration01:23

A Jewel thief named Frank Stone is a very deeply disturbed, anti social, milquetoast who finds no joy or humor in anything - until he awakens from a deep coma.

Markimdb: 6.4
Genreaction, drama, crime
CountryColombia, USA

The real life story of Andres Lopez Lopez aka "Frecita" during his years involved with the Colombian Cartel aka "Cartel Norte del Valle"

Markimdb: 4.1
Genredrama, crime
CountryUSA
Duration01:41

The story of William Vincent as he recounts the eccentric and curious path that has brought him, at mortal risk, to New York City, after four years in exile, to rescue a woman he scarcely knows, Ann, from the vague crime syndicate that first brought them together.

Markimdb: 8
Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, crime, film noir
CountryUSA
Duration01:37

Jeff Bailey seems to be a mundane gas station owner in remote Bridgeport, CA. He is dating local girl Ann Miller and lives a quiet life. But Jeff has a secret past, and when a mysterious stranger arrives in town, Jeff is forced to return to the dark world he had tried to escape.

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Genredrama
CountryRussia

Savely, the owner of the Kotel computer club, was pleased with his life in the area until the suspicious death of a friend. Impressed by this tragedy, Savely decided to break with his surroundings and get away from the area. But old friends and numerous, sometimes absurd circumstances do not want to let go of the hero.

Markimdb: 4.9
Genredrama, crime, music
CountryUSA
Duration01:38

Rich Bower is an up-and-coming star in the hip-hop world. Everyone wants to be around him, including Raven and her fellow upper-class white high school friends. The growing appeal of black culture among white teens fascinates documentary filmmaker Sam Donager, who sets out to chronicle it with her husband, Terry. But before Bower was a rapper, he was a gangster, and his criminal past comes back to haunt him and all those around him.

Markimdb: 6.8
Genredrama, crime
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration01:45

Young gangster Chas Devlin seeks refuge from the mob in a basement belonging to a reclusive, fading rock star Turner.

Markimdb: 7.1
Genredrama, crime
CountryUSA
Duration01:51

New York City English professor Axel Freed outwardly seems like an upstanding citizen. But privately Freed is in the clutches of a severe gambling addiction that threatens to destroy him.

Markimdb: 6.6
Genreaction, drama, crime
CountryUSA
Duration02:33

    Brooklyn mobster and prolific hit man Jimmy Conlon has seen better days. Longtime best friend of a mob boss, Jimmy is haunted by the sins of his past—as well as a dogged police detective who’s been one step behind Jimmy for 30 years. But when Jimmy’s estranged son becomes a target, Jimmy must make a choice between the crime family he chose and the real family he abandoned long ago. Now, with nowhere safe to turn, Jimmy has just one night to figure out exactly where his loyalties lie and to see if he can finally make things right.

    Markimdb: 4.4
    Genreaction, melodrama, drama, crime
    CountryIndia

    Once Upon A Time In Mumbai Dobaara is a sequel of Once Upon A Time In Mumbai

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genreaction, thriller, comedy, melodrama, drama, crime
    CountryUSA, Romania
    Duration01:43

    While traveling abroad, a guy falls for a Romanian beauty whose unreachable heart has its origins in her violent, charismatic ex.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genremelodrama, drama, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:09

    A professional hit man and hit woman fall in love, only to discover that they have each been hired to kill the other.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genredrama, crime
    CountryItaly, France, United Kingdom

    The Lebanese has a dream: to conquer the underworld of Rome. To carry out this feat without precedent he puts together a ruthless and highly organized gang. Their progress and changes in leadership take place over 25 years, from the 1970s into the 90s, and are inseparably intertwined with the dark history of modern Italy: terrorism, kidnappings and corruption at the highest levels of government.

    Markimdb: 7.4
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, film noir
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:38

    An ex-con trying to go straight must face a crazed criminal out for revenge.

    Markimdb: 7.7
    Genremelodrama, drama, crime
    CountryTurkey, Hungary, France

    The film is set in a rundown, crime ridden neighborhood of Istanbul dubbed "Cholera Street" (Kolera Sokağı). Salih is a mechanic and son of a respected barber Ali. A woman Tina arrives at Cholera street where she takes up residence and works as a prostitute. Deniz is a ganster who gives himself the nickname "Reiss" ("Chief"), tries to take control of the neighbourhood through intidimation.

    Markimdb: 6.9
    Genredrama, crime, biography
    CountryUSA, United Kingdom
    Duration02:09

      The true story of Whitey Bulger, the brother of a state senator and the most infamous violent criminal in the history of South Boston, who became an FBI informant to take down a Mafia family invading his turf.

      Markimdb: 7
      Genremelodrama, drama
      CountryTaiwan, France
      Duration01:59

      Taipei. A voice off-camera looks back ten years to 2000, when Vicky was in an on-again off-again relationship with Hao-Hao...

      Markimdb: 4
      Genremelodrama, drama
      CountryRussia, USA
      Duration02:14

      Him and her. A husband and a wife staying in a cozy hotel where you can come for just a couple of days with a risk to get stuck forever. It is so easy to get trapped in the daily routine. Indeed, nothing is more permanent than the temporary. Their time is like a flat circle. He has his phone calls and business meetings. She is wrapped in her dreams and doubts. All reactions are predictable, all conversations are learnt by heart. An endless LP record of life keeps playing again and again repeating itself. But a few things can break this tune, like a scratch on the record, a crack on a wine glass, a sudden glance or a meeting with a stranger. And then you know: tomorrow will come soon. Any moment something can go wrong, throw you off course, and force you to make a choice.

      Markimdb: 4.7
      Genredrama, crime
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:27

      The story of Barry Minkow, a young and charismatic figure in business who reaches CEO status by lying and scheming his way to the top.

      Markimdb: 7.4
      Genrethriller, drama, crime
      CountryIndia

      Arun who has seen his lover in other man's arms cant forget her beauty and is always distracted by it. And wants to help her in any sought of situation even save her love from kidnappers.

      Markimdb: 5.9
      Genrethriller, drama, crime
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:46

      In the year 1935, a teen named Billy Bathgate finds first love while becoming the protégé of fledgling gangster Dutch Schultz.

      Markimdb: 5.7
      Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, crime
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:46

      An unconventional undercover Chicago cop and his partner are recruited to commit the murder of a New Orleans criminal kingpin.

      Markimdb: 7.5
      Genremelodrama, drama, crime
      CountryChina, Hong Kong

      Nian is trying to get into shape for the state Gaokao exam. Her chances of getting a spot at university depend on her score and the constant bullying of her classmates is not helping much. Bei’s world is the street, with all its dark corners. A night-time encounter brings the shy schoolgirl together with the street-savvy trickster, Bei. When Nian’s school nemesis turns up dead, the new allies come under suspicion.

      Markimdb: 5.8
      Genreaction, thriller, melodrama, drama, adventure
      CountrySpain, Romania, Russia, France
      Duration01:57

      Carlos is the most prestigious tailor in Granada, but he's also a murderer in the shadows. He feels no remorse, no guilt, until Nina appears in his life and love awakens.

      Markimdb: 7.1
      Genreaction, thriller, drama, military, history
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:17

      Based on a true story, during World War II, four Jewish brothers escape their Nazi-occupied homeland of West Belarus in Poland and join the Soviet partisans to combat the Nazis. The brothers begin the rescue of roughly 1,200 Jews still trapped in the ghettos of Poland.

      Markimdb: 7.2
      Genrethriller, drama, crime, film noir
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:19

      A revenge-seeking gangster is sent to prison after being framed for a crime he didn't commit. After seducing a beautiful young woman, he uses her to help him carry out his plot for vengeance, leading him to the crazy pyromaniac who set him up.




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