Movies Similar to Rififi in Tokyo

Damn Citizen(1958)

Louisiana's governor asks war hero Francis C. Grevemberg to lead the state police against corruption.

Women in Prison(1938)

The superintendent of a women's prison is pressured to pardon a member of a criminal gang. When she refuses, her daughter is framed on a manslaughter charge and sent to prison.

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London Belongs to Me(1948)

Classic British drama about the residents of a large terrace house in London between Christmas 1938 and September 1939. Percy Boon lives with his mother in a shared rented house with an assortment of characters in central London. Although well intentioned, he becomes mixed up with gangsters and murder. The story focuses on the effects this has on Percy and the other residents.

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Broadway(1929)

A naive young dancer in a Broadway show innocently gets involved in backstage bootlegging and murder.

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Gangster's Law(1969)

A con man pulls a double-cross on a gang of vicious bank robbers.

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Monster(2019)

After losing his innocence, his best friend, and the love of his adolescence, this coming-of-age gangster drama follows Harman in an hour of his night within a new life of violence.

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She Knew No Other Way(1973)

Two vagabond friends become lovers of the same beautiful girl, but when their third friend and leader comes out of prison, he has other plans for all of them.

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Broken Contract(2018)

When Max, a down on his luck strip club owner, has his life and livelihood threatened by local gangsters, he turns to his wife's connections for help and hires a hitman to solve the problem once and for all. But before long, Max is blinded by his newfound power and his family finds him spinning off the rails as the body count piles up.

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Shanghai Heroic Story(1992)

Through much blood, sweat and tears, a young man rises to the top of Shanghai's secret society, but his moment of glory is brief compared to what he has endured.

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Big Brother(1990)

Lee Wai is just been released from prison and is trying to start a new life. He has been imprisoned for commiting a robbery. He visits a gangster, Wong, who had been his partner in the robbery, to ask for his share, which Wong had actually already spent. Wong humiliates him. Later he gathers together a gang and smashes Wais taxi, which Wai relies on to make a living. Now, all hell breaks loose.

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Under-Cover Man(1932)

When his father is murdered, erstwhile conman Nick Darrow asks the cops if he can go undercover to find the killers, and maybe even stop a crime ring that has been plaguing the police. The sister of another innocent victim joins him as they infiltrate the syndicate. Any wrong move could lead to instant death.

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Citadel of Crime(1941)

A gang of mobsters try to take over the various moonshine operations in the hills of West Virginia.

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Bugs and Thugs(1954)

When Bugs calls a cab, he doesn't know it's the getaway car for a couple of bankrobbers (however, he does know the capital of Nevada).

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Gangsters '70(1968)

An elderly gangster just released from prison plans one last job, and gathers a small crew to do the job, but the plan goes sour when one of the crew betrays the details of the operation to a rival gangster.

7.0

They Gave Him a Gun(1937)

With no other prospects, a World War I veteran puts the skills they taught him in the War to use.

6.2

ZAPPER!(2023)

In a surreal universe where bananas fire laser beams and soup cans are used as grenades, a wacky cast of gangsters are thrown into a deadly game to battle it out over a mystical longboard in this trippy take on the Tarantino crime genre.

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Ferry(2021)

Before he built a drug empire, Ferry Bouman returns to his hometown on a revenge mission that finds his loyalty tested — and a love that alters his life.

6.8

Dr. Broadway(1942)

A New York doctor saves a chorus girl from a window ledge, twice, and rounds up racketeers.

5.7

Far from Heaven(1952)

Pedro Gonzalez first gets into trouble as part of a criminal gang and then works honourably to become rich. Money is his undoing allowing him to become a womanizer and drinker, almost losing his wife. Finally he rejoins her, they have a son and he pays for his mistakes.

7.6

Tokyo Playboy Club(2011)

Katsutoshi is forced to flee his hometown and ends up at a rundown nightclub called "Tokyo Playboy Club." His hot-headedness gets him into further trouble, and the club's waiter Takahiro and his girlfriend Eriko also get caught up in it as their underworld predicament worsens to the point of no return.

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