Tags: movies similar to Sugarhouse (2007) - full list
Mark | imdb: 6.2 |
Genre | thriller, drama, crime |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:52 |
Good policing doesn't necessarily mean doing everything by the book. But as the business of crime in London turns to favour the Albanians and Turks, how does a "good" policeman survive?
Mark | imdb: 5.5 |
Genre | thriller, crime |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:29 |
In London, a drug dealer grows increasingly desperate over the course of a week after a botched deal lands him in the merciless clutches of a ruthless crime lord. The more desperate his behavior, the more isolated he becomes until there is nothing left standing between him and the bullet his debtors intend to fire his way.
Mark | imdb: 6.2 |
Genre | thriller, drama, crime |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:42 |
Justice needs to be served at Britain's most notorious young offenders institute.
Mark | imdb: 5.2 |
Genre | action, thriller, drama, crime |
Country | United Kingdom |
A cruel twist of fate catapults small time crook Mickey Skinner into the big league, as head of a brutal London gang poised on the brink of a lucrative human-trafficking deal.
Mark | imdb: 4.4 |
Genre | action, thriller, drama, crime |
Country | United Kingdom |
A thief is caught up in a deadly game of cat-and-mouse between a maverick cop and London crime boss.
Mark | imdb: 6.6 |
Genre | thriller, drama, crime |
Country | United Kingdom, Spain |
During the '80s, a young man named Frankie dreams of escaping London's South East region, and his mother's thug of a boyfriend gives him just the opportunity. After beating up the abusive beau, Frankie runs off to Spain, where he lands a job delivering a package to the dapper Playboy Charlie, a gangster who takes him under his wing. Working as Charlie's driver, Frankie is immersed in a world of fast cars and pretty women -- but all the excess could be his undoing.
Mark | imdb: 7.2 |
Genre | thriller, drama, crime |
Country | Hong Kong |
Undercover officer Nick had spent the last seven years penetrating into the core of a drug ring working his way up from a street dealer post to the managerial position handling cargo deliveries for Kwan - the biggest player in the local heroin market. When the ailing Kwan makes Nick his protégé, Nick could not but sway before money and power and starts to perform his role like a real drug trafficker. This, together with his affair with heroin-addict Jane, causes Nick to becomes more and more confused about his true identity, and eventually leads to a disastrous end.
Mark | imdb: 6.8 |
Genre | thriller, drama, crime, biography |
Country | Republic of Ireland, United Kingdom, USA |
Duration | 01:38 |
In this true story, Veronica Guerin is an investigative reporter for an Irish newspaper. As the drug trade begins to bleed into the mainstream, Guerin decides to take on and expose those responsible. Beginning at the bottom with addicts, Guerin then gets in touch with John Traynor, a paranoid informant. Not without some prodding, Traynor leads her to John Gilligan, the ruthless head of the operation, who does not take kindly to Guerin's nosing.
Mark | imdb: 6.9 |
Genre | thriller, drama, crime |
Country | United Kingdom, France, USA |
Duration | 02:29 |
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.
Mark | imdb: 6.9 |
Genre | thriller, drama, crime |
Country | United Kingdom, USA |
Duration | 01:53 |
A burned-out British police detective finally snaps while interrogating a suspected child molester.
Mark | imdb: 6.6 |
Genre | thriller, drama, crime |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:45 |
Ray is an aging ex-socialist who has become a bankrobber after seeing the demise of socialism in 1980s Britain. Teaming up with a gang of other has-beenish crims, he commits one bank job too many. The gang dissolves in a murderous flurry of recriminations.
Mark | imdb: 5.5 |
Genre | thriller, drama, crime |
Country | United Kingdom |
In 1995, drug suppliers and career criminals Tony Tucker, Patrick Tate and Craig Rolfe were blasted to death by a shot gun whilst waiting in a Range Rover in Rettendon, Essex. The film charts their rise to become the most prolific dealers and feared criminals in the south of England, maintaining the hold on their empire with fear and violence until their untimely death.
Mark | imdb: 4.7 |
Genre | thriller, drama, crime |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:23 |
When a young woman is cruelly and indiscriminately attacked by a notorious gang led by the violent Trey, her little 16 year old sister Kayla wants revenge and will stop at nothing to get it, even if it means joining a rival girl gang led by the volatile and damaged man-hating Danielle.
Mark | imdb: 5.4 |
Genre | action, thriller, drama, crime |
Country | United Kingdom |
In the mean streets of London's East End, a former Serbian commando and a fourteen-year old boy plot revenge against a powerful crime lord and his ruthless lieutenants. As our heroes prepare to take on their enemies, the boy is mentored in the dark arts of assassination and learns the true meaning of friendship, honor and respect.
Mark | imdb: 8.4 |
Genre | thriller, drama, crime |
Country | United Kingdom |
A thrilling and raw crime drama following a gang of drug dealers in Hackney, London - an honest and gripping rendition of inner-city drug and gang culture.
Mark | imdb: 5.3 |
Genre | action, thriller, comedy, drama, crime |
Country | USA, Japan |
Duration | 01:44 |
Rita Rizzoli is a narcotics cop with a plethora of disguises. When a drug shipment is hijacked, the thieves don't know that the drug is unusually pure and packs of 'Fatal Beauty' begin turning up next to too many dead bodies. Mike works for the original owner of the drugs and tries to tell himself that since he does not handle the drugs, he is 'clean'. Mike becomes Rita's constant companion.
Mark | imdb: 5.8 |
Genre | thriller, drama, crime, detective |
Country | United Kingdom, USA |
Duration | 01:43 |
Will Graham, a former London crime boss who has left his former life to live as a recluse in the forest. Haunted by the blood of those he has murdered, Will wishes never to return. But when his brother commits suicide, following a sexual assault at the hands of a volatile car dealer, Will returns to London to discover the cause of his brother's death and administer justice to those responsible.
Mark | imdb: 3 |
Genre | thriller, crime |
Country | United Kingdom |
A mild-mannered banker is forced to masquerade as a notorious gangster and pimp.
Mark | imdb: 5.2 |
Genre | action, thriller, crime |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:49 |
Infamous London gangster cousins, Micky Mannock and Ray Collishaw, are at the top of the food chain, when their world is turned upside down as they lose a shipment of the Russian Mafia's cocaine in rough seas. Set in London, Amsterdam and Berlin, the story races across Europe at breakneck speed as Micky and Ray attempt to stay one step ahead of the Police. Can they pull off a daring diamond heist in time to put things right and retire to a "legitimate" way of life.
Mark | imdb: 3.9 |
Genre | fantastic, action, thriller, comedy, drama, crime |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:34 |
Mo Ali’s futuristic knife-crime drama brings the dystopian environment of CHILDREN OF MEN and DISTRICT 13 to London’s East 17. SHANK delivers a ruthless vision of forthcoming urban life, where guns have been superseded by knives and are fiercely wielded by aimless youths. Amidst the chaos is the Paper Chazers gang, a rare morally conscious group who trade scavenged food for money. After Chazers gang member, Junior (Kedar Williams-Stirling), witnesses his brother, murder he must decide whether to get revenge of stick to the gangs moral code... In this superbly paced and artistic film, present-day social issues, and murky city streets, provide a perfect canvas for imagination and action.
Mark | imdb: 5.6 |
Genre | thriller, drama, crime |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:39 |
Set ahead of the 2012 London Olympics, the film follows Liam (Sam Claflin), an ex-con trying to win back the love and trust of his family. He has lost everything at the hands of a local crime syndicate run by Clifford Cullen (Spall), who has high-level connections in politics, finance and the police force. Liam's drive for redemption sees him caught up in a web of conspiracy, crime, and corruption.
Mark | imdb: 6.1 |
Genre | action, thriller, crime |
Country | United Kingdom, USA |
Duration | 01:40 |
When notorious criminal Jacob Sternwood is forced to return to London, it gives detective Max Lewinsky one last chance to take down the man he's always been after.
Mark | imdb: 6.3 |
Genre | thriller, drama, crime |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:47 |
Jack Higgins' straightforward thriller about a guilt-ridden IRA bomber forced into "one last job"
Mark | imdb: 6.7 |
Genre | thriller, drama, crime |
Country | United Kingdom, Germany, Republic of Ireland |
Duration | 01:43 |
An old gangster is advised that Freddie Mays would leave jail after thirty years in prison. His mood changes and he recalls when he was a young punk, who joined Freddie Mays' gang, a man he both envied and ultimately betrayed.
Mark | imdb: 6.6 |
Genre | thriller, drama, adventure, crime, detective |
Country | United Kingdom, USA |
Duration | 01:53 |
Concerned about his friend's cocaine use, Dr. Watson tricks Sherlock Holmes into travelling to Vienna, where Holmes enters the care of Sigmund Freud. Freud attemts to solve the mysteries of Holmes' subconscious, while Holmes devotes himself to solving a mystery involving the kidnapping of Lola Deveraux.
Mark | imdb: 6.1 |
Genre | thriller, crime |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 02:10 |
Billy has just scored an entry-level position with the local crime cartel. His first job is to mind Jason, a newly released thug with a vicious temper. Jason thinks it's his job to teach Billy about crime, drugs and women. Little does he know that Billy has his eyes on Jason's own wife, Lisa. When an ecstasy deal goes bad, Jason vows revenge on the boss, while Billy looks to take out Jason. Before long, bodies start turning up
Mark | imdb: 5.7 |
Genre | thriller, drama, crime |
Country | United Kingdom, France |
Charts the headlong fall of Pinkie, a razor-wielding disadvantaged teenager with a religious death wish.
Mark | imdb: 7.1 |
Genre | drama, crime, music |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 02:01 |
Ensemble film revolving around characters living in Forest Gate, London. Over the course of a few days, six inter-linking stories explore issues of drug use, prostitution and urban poverty.
Mark | imdb: 7.4 |
Genre | action, thriller, crime |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:47 |
Jack Carter is a small-time hood working in London. When word reaches him of his brothers death, he travels to Newcastle to attend the funeral. Refusing to accept the police report of suicide, Carter seeks out his brother’s friends and acquaintances to learn who murdered his sibling and why.
Mark | imdb: 6.2 |
Genre | thriller, crime |
Country | USA, United Kingdom, France |
Duration | 01:37 |
A tough, renegade cop is dispatched to take down a serial killer who has been targeting police officers.
Mark | imdb: 6.4 |
Genre | horror, action, thriller, crime, detective |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:35 |
Nearly a year after a botched job, a hitman takes a new assignment with the promise of a big payoff for three killings. What starts off as an easy task soon unravels, sending the killer into the heart of darkness.
Mark | imdb: 6.9 |
Genre | horror, thriller, drama, crime |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:30 |
A BBC adaptation of the Victorian "penny dreadful" tale of 18th century "demon barber" Sweeney Todd, of Fleet Street, who cuts the throats of unsuspecting clients in his London shop.
Mark | imdb: 6.7 |
Genre | thriller, drama, crime |
Country | United Kingdom, Republic of Ireland |
Duration | 01:42 |
Frank Perry is an institutionalized convict twelve years into a life sentence without parole. When his estranged daughter falls ill, he is determined to make peace with her before it's too late. He develops an ingenious escape plan, and recruits a dysfunctional band of escapists - misfits with a mutual dislike for one other but united by their desire to escape their hell hole of an existence.
Mark | imdb: 7.3 |
Genre | thriller, drama, crime |
Country | USA |
Duration | 02:15 |
Cosmo Vittelli, the proprietor of a sleazy, low-rent Hollywood cabaret, has a real affection for the women who strip in his peepshows and the staff who keep up his dingy establishment. He also has a major gambling problem that has gotten him in trouble before. When Cosmo loses big-time at an underground casino run by mobster Mort, he isn't able to pay up. Mort then offers Cosmo the chance to pay back his debt by knocking off a pesky, Mafia-protected bookie.
Mark | imdb: 5.7 |
Genre | action, thriller, drama, crime |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:41 |
A group of people who feel betrayed by their government and let down by their police force form a modern-day outlaw posse in order to right what they see as the wrongs of society.
Mark | imdb: 7.3 |
Genre | action, thriller, drama, crime |
Country | South Korea |
Duration | 02:37 |
The region where the borders of North Korea, China, and Russia come together, forms a sort of modern day wild west, where more than half of the population relies on illegal activity in order to survive. In Yanbian, on the Chinese side of the border, Gu-nam wiles away his days driving a cab and spends his nights getting drunk and gambling. His wife went to Seoul to work and send back money, but it’s been months since he has heard from her. When local crime lord Myun offers to erase Gu-nam’s debts in exchange for a contract killing in Seoul, Gu-nam reluctantly accepts.
Mark | imdb: 6.2 |
Genre | action, thriller, crime |
Country | United Kingdom |
Duration | 01:34 |
Mike Fallon, the Accident Man, is a stone cold killer. When a loved one is murdered by his own crew, Fallon is forced to avenge the one person who actually meant something to him.