Movies like Who'll Stop the Rain

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Who'll Stop the Rain (1978)
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Who'll Stop the Rain (1978)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story: John, a disillusioned Vietnam War journalist, turns to heroin smuggling. He cons Ray, an equally burnt out veteran into delivering the drugs stateside to his wife. Everything soon falls apart and Ray ends up on the run with John's wife trying to evade crooked narcotics agents.
Style: suspenseful, tense, serious, neo noir, exciting, suspense, psychological, rough, realistic, detective ...
Plot: vietnam war, chase, heroin, on the run, drug trade, greed, police corruption, homecoming, journalism, couples, law enforcement, addiction, desert, corruption, drug, gang, politics, political intrigue, vietnam veteran, hidden treasure, soldier, life is a bitch, society, drug dealing, innocence lost ...
Time: 20th century, year 1978, 60s, 70s
Place: vietnam, asia, san francisco, saigon, los angeles, california
Keyword: twilight, gangsters

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Most similar movies to Who'll Stop the Rain

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, suspenseful and rough films with plots about murder, law enforcement, deadly, dishonesty, gang, gangster and life is a bitch mostly in Drama, Thriller and Action genres. Some movies like Who'll Stop the Rain: Off Limits (1988), Q & A (1990), Dead Presidents (1995), Report to the Commissioner (1975), Mulholland Falls (1996). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Off Limits (1988)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: McGriff and Albaby are probably doing the worst law enforcement job in the world - they are plain clothes U.S. military policemen on duty in war-time Saigon. However, their job becomes even harder when they start investigating the serial killings of ...
Style: suspenseful, detective, neo noir, retro, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: vietnam war, serial killer, military, war, murder, police investigation, investigation, undercover, violence, black, buddy, killer ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: vietnam, saigon, asia
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95%
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Q & A (1990)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story: A young district attorney seeking to prove a case against a corrupt police detective encounters a former lover and her new protector, a crime boss who refuse to help him.
Style: talky, intense, neo noir, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: police corruption, corruption, murder, investigation, police brutality, lawyer, fighting the system, life is a bitch, dishonesty, protagonist as suspect, legal, dedicated lawyer ...
Time: 80s
Place: usa, new york, puerto rico
⇓ similarity ⇓
92%
Dead Presidents (1995)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: realistic, suspense, disturbing, intense, neo noir ...
Audience: teens
Plot: vietnam war, heist, robbery, african american, violence, ghetto, redemption, gangster, caper, blaxploitation, black, brutality ...
Time: 60s, 20th century, 70s
Place: new york, bronx new york city, vietnam, usa, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
90%
Report to the Commissioner (1975)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Police officer Patty Butler, alias "Chicklet," is the live-in girlfriend of Thomas 'Stick' Henderson to gather evidence. Detective Bo Lockley is instructed to try to find her, not knowing she's also a cop.
Style: neo noir, detective, grim, realistic, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: big city, explosions, undercover, police investigation, workplace, fighting crime, society, dishonesty, law enforcement, working undercover, police corruption, workplace situations ...
Time: year 1975, 70s, 20th century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
81%
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Mulholland Falls (1996)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: In 1950s Los Angeles, a special crime squad of the LAPD investigates the murder of a young woman.
Style: neo noir, suspense, tense, detective, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: political corruption, murder, investigation, police, police investigation, conspiracy, revenge, betrayal, gangster, dishonesty, partners against crime, mafia ...
Time: 20th century, 1950s, year 1996, 50s
Place: los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
81%
8 Million Ways to Die (1986)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Scudder is a detective with the Sheriff's Department who is forced to shoot a violent suspect during a narcotics raid. The ensuing psychological aftermath of this shooting worsens his drinking problem and this alcoholism causes him to lose his ...
Style: neo noir, tense, serious, realistic, cult classic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: alcoholic, investigation, private detective, murder, police corruption, rehabilitation, going straight, downfall, redemption, police officer, warehouse, private investigator ...
Time: 80s
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
All in the Game (2011)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story: When East Baltimore drug King Pin, Ontario Banks (Nelson Irizarry) decides he wants total control of the entire city-wide drug trade, he enlists the help of his closest friends, Lucky (Micaiah Jones), Vince (Chris Clanton) and Littles (Kelvin Page), ...
Style: exciting, captivating, realistic, serious, crime drama ...
Plot: gangster, prostitution, drug dealing, gang, life is a bitch, mafia, murder, urban setting, black, war, game, heroin ...
Time: 21st century
Place: baltimore
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
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Thief (1981)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: Frank is an expert professional safecracker, specialized in high-profile diamond heists. He plans to use his ill-gotten income to retire from crime and build a nice life for himself complete with a home, wife and kids. To accelerate the process, he ...
Style: neo noir, cerebral, cult classic, retro, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: robbery, safecracker, mafia, organized crime, heist, character study, criminal, bank robber, great ending, betrayal, bank, hustler ...
Time: 80s, year 1981, 20th century
Place: chicago, usa, illinois, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
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Rockaway (2007)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story: Trane is a decorated war hero just shipped home to the States from Afghanistan after the brutal murder of his wife and child back in Rockaway, Queens. Upon his return, Trane encounters his old friend Dave, who describes the new forces of crime and ...
Style: suspenseful, realistic, rough, tense, serious ...
Plot: vigilantism, soldier, vengeance, police corruption, downfall, gangster, criminal heroes, life is a bitch, gang, police investigation, criminal's revenge, murder ...
Time: 21st century
Place: afghanistan, middle east
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
Never Die Alone (2004)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A drug kingpin's return home touches off a turf war.
Style: hood, tense, serious, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gangster, manhunt, addiction, ghetto, redemption, murder, interracial relations, journalism, criminal heroes, rise and fall, dishonesty, life is a bitch ...
Time: year 2004, 2000s
Place: usa, detroit, los angeles, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
Flight of the Intruder (1991)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: U.S. Navy pilot Lt. Jake Grafton and his bombardier buddy, Lt. Cmdr. Virgil Cole, are two soldiers embedded in the Vietnam War growing frustrated by the military's constraints on their missions. Despite the best efforts of their commanding ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, rough, serious, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: vietnam war, military, war, bomber, pilot, fighter pilot, combat, bombing, aviation, fighter jet, fighter plane, evil ...
Time: year 1991, 70s
Place: vietnam, europe, china, asia, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
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Steele Justice (1987)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Steele is ex-cop and Vietnam vet who is determined to bring down Kwan, former South Vietnamese general and now rich and powerful drug lord.
Style: mockbuster, realistic, serious, exciting, rough ...
Plot: vietnam war, woman with a gun, machine gun, vietnam veteran, martial arts, cocaine, alcohol abuse, against the odds, life is a bitch, law enforcement, rivalry, vengeance ...
Time: year 1987, 80s
Place: vietnam, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
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Playing God (1997)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Stripped of his medical license after performing an operation while high on amphetamines, famed LA surgeon Dr Eugene Sands abandons his former life only to find himself crossing paths with Raymond Blossom, an infamous counterfeiter. Employed as a ...
Style: psychological, intense, tense, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: fbi, gangster, drug addiction, murder, betrayal, undercover, haunted by the past, heist, mind game, dishonesty, drug dealing, working undercover ...
Time: 90s, year 1997
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
The Walking Dead (1995)
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Five young marines on a suicide mission in Vietnam, struggle for survival in a jungle minefield. The mean streets of home did not prepare them for this.
Style: action adventure, independent film, serious, realistic, biting ...
Plot: vietnam war, jungle, black, interracial, violent content, military life, interracial relations, danger, escapades, soldier, military, war ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: vietnam, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
Truth or Consequences, N.M. (1997)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Raymond Lembecke (Vincent Gallo) is a con just out of prison after serving time for selling drugs for his mob boss Tony Vago (Rod Steiger). (Lembecke was innocent and took the rap for Vago.) Lembecke thinks Vago owes him big time so, when his former ...
Style: intense, talky, serious, suspenseful, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: robbery, gangster, on the road, crime gone awry, hitman, on the run, prison, hostage, organized crime, police corruption, chase, ex convict ...
Time: year 1997, 90s
Place: new mexico, las vegas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
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Flashpoint (1984)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Two Texas border guards find a jeep buried for 20 years in the desert, with a skeleton, a scoped rifle, and a box with $800,000 in cash. They decide to keep the money, but quietly check up on the info they find. Soon the Feds are running all over ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, realistic, suspense, disturbing ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: conspiracy, police investigation, police detective, danger, witnessing a crime, partners against crime, political conspiracy, kennedy assassination, reluctant partners, government agency, politics, assassination ...
Time: 20th century, 60s, 80s, year 1963
Place: texas, austin texas, usa, san antonio texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
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Cutter's Way (1981)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Richard spots a man dumping a body, and decides to expose the man he thinks is the culprit with his friend Alex Cutter.
Style: noir, neo noir, atmospheric, psychological, suspense ...
Audience: manly
Plot: murder, murder mystery, revenge, investigation, existentialism, conspiracy, false accusation, veteran, vietnam war, dishonesty, alcohol abuse, twists and turns ...
Time: year 1981, 80s
Place: california, vietnam, los angeles, asia, southern california ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
A Lonely Place for Dying (2009)
Genre: Action, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: In 1972, the conflict in Vietnam continues. The creeping threat of communism grips the nation in fear. In an abandoned prison on the US/Mexican border, KGB mole Nikolai Dzerzhinsky waits for his contact from the Washington Post. He holds explosive ...
Style: tense, serious, rough, suspenseful, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: espionage, kgb, law enforcement, confined, danger, undercover, chase, escapades, spy, cold war, vietnam war, politics ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: vietnam, soviet union
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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An Innocent Man (1989)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Jimmie Rainwood was minding his own business when two corrupt police officers (getting an address wrong) burst into his house, expecting to find a major drug dealer. Rainwood is shot, and the officers frame him as a drug dealer. Rainwood is ...
Style: tense, suspense, intense, psychological, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: prison, police corruption, gang, frame up, gunfight, mistaken identity, drug dealing, law enforcement, criminal heroes, tough law enforcer, prison life, prison escape ...
Time: 80s, year 1989
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
Eddie Macon's Run (1983)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Eddie Macon is running from a nightmare... running to a dream... running for his life and his time is running out. He's escaped a Texas prison for the second time (risking life imprisonment if caught) to make it back to his wife and son. ...
Style: neo noir, realistic, serious, exciting, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: on the run, wrongful conviction, chase, manhunt, injustice, family relations, gang, prison, cattle, rodeo, snake, skinny dipping ...
Time: year 1983, 80s
Place: texas, usa, mexico, latin america, alabama
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Desperate Hours (1990)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A criminal holds a wealthy family hostage.
Style: neo noir, suspenseful, tense, psychological, suspense ...
Plot: home invasion, father son relationship, hostage, dysfunctional family, mind game, justice, fbi, police investigation, moral ambiguity, family relations, manhunt, father daughter relationship ...
Time: 80s
Place: utah, latin america, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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The Veteran (2006)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Sidney J. Furie's The Veteran is a respectable straight-to-DVD movie that was headed for the "pleasant surprise" category before self-destructing with a terrible, out-of-the-blue ending.
Style: psychological, serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot: vietnam war, vietnam veteran, soldier, confined, vengeance, war, friendship, politics, haunted by the past, military, state affairs, innocence lost ...
Place: asia, vietnam
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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Snitch'd (2003)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: When the South Side Gang and the Cut Throat Mafia start a drug war at a local high school in Santa Ana, CA, detective McClure goes undercover to investigate the brutal murder of a young Latina student. The gang members are the key suspects but ...
Style: serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful, independent film ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: undercover, gangster, police detective, juvenile delinquency, criminal heroes, gang, police investigation, police corruption, urban ghetto life, working undercover, law enforcement, drug dealing ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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Carlito's Way: Rise to Power (2005)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Jay Hernandez (Friday Night Lights), Mario Van Peebles (Ali), Luis Guzmán (Carlito's Way) and Sean Combs (Monster's Ball) star in the gripping tale of the early years of gangster legend Carlito Brigante. Seduced by the power of the brutal ...
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, stylized, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: puerto rican, gangster, mafia, gang, drug dealing, police corruption, master criminal, betrayal, vengeance, best friend, rise to the top, tragic hero ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: new york, usa, new york state
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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 39K
New Jack City (1991)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A gangster, Nino, is in the Cash Money Brothers, making a million dollars every week selling crack. A cop, Scotty, discovers that the only way to infiltrate the gang is to become a dealer himself.
Style: hood, stylized, suspense, intense, harsh ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: organized crime, gang war, ghetto, gangster, drug, hip hop, mafia, gang, chase, betrayal, urban, addiction ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, 90s
Place: harlem, new york, usa, america, turkey ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Code of Silence (1985)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A Chicago cop is caught in a middle of a gang war while his own comrades shun him because he wants to take an irresponsible cop down.
Style: exciting, cult classic, suspense, detective, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, police officer, one man army, revenge, explosions, police, mafia, gangster, chase, hitman, police investigation, police corruption ...
Time: 80s, year 1985
Place: chicago, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Year of the Dragon (1985)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story: In New York, racist Capt. Stanley White becomes obsessed with destroying a Chinese-American drug ring run by Joey Tai, an up-and-coming young gangster as ambitious as he is ruthless. While pursuing an unauthorized investigation, White grows ...
Style: neo noir, controversial, intense, brutal, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night, manly
Plot: chinese mafia, triad, organized crime, culture clash, racism, gangster, sexually frustrated woman, murder, violence, police detective, police corruption, vigilante ...
Time: 80s, year 1985
Place: new york, china, vietnam, thailand, bangkok thailand ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
The Exterminator (1980)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A man's best friend is killed on the streets of New York. The man (Robert Ginty) then transforms into a violent killer, turning New York into a great war zone and Christopher George is the only one to stop him.
Style: disturbing, suspense, stylized, brutal, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gory, violence, chase, murder, vigilante, gunfight, death, brutality, vietnam war, revenge, visceral, police investigation ...
Time: 70s, 80s, year 1980
Place: new york, vietnam, new jersey, usa, asia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Extreme Prejudice (1987)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, History, Thriller, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A Texas Ranger and a ruthless narcotics kingpin - they were childhood friends, now they are adversaries.
Style: cult classic, neo noir, gothic, action adventure, hood ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gangster, gunfight, shootout, texas ranger, vietnam war, gang, cop, gun fu, bank, machine gun, bank robbery, blood ...
Time: 80s, year 1987, 20th century
Place: texas, latin america, mexico, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Night of the Running Man (1995)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A Las Vegas cab driver finds a million dollars of stolen money in his cab after his fare is murdered. Soon after, a ruthless hitman is in persuit; he will stop at nothing to recover the money and dispose of all witnesses.
Style: serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful, exciting ...
Plot: hitman, on the run, gangster, chase, heist, tough heroes, danger, dishonesty, law enforcement, pursuit, murder, crime boss ...
Time: 90s
Place: las vegas, usa, salt lake city utah, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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