Movies like Catchfire

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Catchfire (1990)
 5.3
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Catchfire (1990)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: A witness to a mob assassination flees for her life from town to town, switching identities, but cannot seem to elude Milo, the chief killer out to get her.
Style: serious, suspenseful, realistic, tense, sentimental, cult classic, independent film, psychotronic, alternative comedy, cult film
Audience: boys' night
Plot: lovers on the run, fall in love, love affair, woman in danger, mafia, hidden identity, rescue, on the run, criminal heroes, manhunt, fugitives, kidnapper kidnapped relationship, hitman, gang, rocky mountains, heist, love triangle, on the road, love and romance, chases and races, assassination attempt, danger, law enforcement, disorder, witnessing a crime ...
Time: 80s
Keyword: gangsters

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, suspenseful, serious and independent film films with plots about chases and races, dishonesty, murder, rivalry, gangster, deadly and on the run mostly in Thriller, Action and Crime genres. Some movies like Catchfire: Heaven's Burning (1997), Into the Night (1985), The Piano Player (2002), Federal Protection (2002), Man with a Gun (1995). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Heaven's Burning (1997)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 99 min.
Story: In Sydney, the newly married Midori is honeymooning with her husband, Yukio. She does not love him and fakes her own kidnapping to escape the marriage. Her lover is supposed to meet her, but fails to appear. She goes to a bank to get some cash, only ...
Style: neo noir, cult classic, road movie, detective, semi serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: lovers on the run, hostage, on the run, obsession, revenge, bank robbery, love, yakuza, kidnapping, interracial romance, car chase, father son relationship ...
Time: 90s
Place: australia, sydney australia
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Into the Night (1985)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Ed Okin used to have a boring life. He used to have trouble getting to sleep. Then one night, he met Diana. Now, Ed's having trouble staying alive.
Style: sexy, cult classic, humorous, suspenseful, neo noir ...
Audience: adult
Plot: airport, chase, cuckold, adultery, hunting, gangster, assassin, on the run, infidelity, teenager, terror, gang ...
Time: 80s, year 1985, 20th century
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Piano Player (2002)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller, Crime
Country: UK, Germany, Spain
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A tale about the relationship between a businessman who launders money for a Mafia figure and his gangster bodyguard.
Style: serious, suspenseful, rough, realistic, bleak ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: piano, master criminal, danger, criminal heroes, confined, mission of murder, chase, undercover, manhunt, law enforcement, hidden identity, frame up ...
Place: africa, south africa, cape town south africa
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100%
Federal Protection (2002)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story: "Chop Chop" Frankie Carbone has made a career out of stealing cars for the mob in Chicago. An attempted assassination by a mob boss goes badly and Frankie retaliates, only to wind up in the hands of the Feds. Frankie agrees to testify ...
Style: suspenseful, realistic, serious, touching, exciting
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gangster, rivalry, dishonesty, hidden identity, social decay, master criminal, betrayal, crime gone awry, criminal heroes, assassination attempt, disorder, fish out of water ...
Place: usa, chicago, arkansas
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 677
Man with a Gun (1995)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Madsen plays an assassin who's hired to kill the woman he loves.
Style: suspense, independent film, noir, serious, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: twins, professional, killer, assassin, woman with a gun, mafia, hitman, shootout, mobster, gangster, crime gone awry, opposites attract ...
Time: 90s
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100%
 4.3
 1K
Betrayal (2003)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When one of her hits goes wrong, a professional assassin ends up with a suitcase full of a million dollars belonging to a mob boss ...
Style: suspenseful, realistic, rough, serious, spoof
Audience: boys' night
Plot: tough heroes, on the run, chase, dishonesty, police investigation, female assassin, master criminal, criminal heroes, single parent, femme fatale, danger, law enforcement ...
Place: usa, texas, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.4
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Body Count (1998)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A group of thieves attempt to rob an art gallery, but when plans backfire and one of the men winds up dead, the group head down south, running afoul of the law. Along the way, they meet up with a seductive con artist with ideas of her own.
Style: neo noir, hood, cult classic, independent film, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: art theft, heist, murder, urban, highway, on the road, police detective, friends, disorder, on the run, crime gone awry, dishonesty ...
Time: year 1998, 90s
Place: boston, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.9
 2K
Made Men (1999)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A man and a woman are on the run from gangsters whom he has stolen $12.5 million. When the gangsters show up, he takes them supposedly to where the money is hidden but instead leads them into a trap at a backwoods crystal-meth factory. The gangsters ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, suspenseful, independent film
Audience: boys' night
Plot: on the run, 007, meme, manhunt, gangster, disorder, master criminal, crime gone awry, dishonesty, law enforcement, police investigation, danger ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Montana (1998)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A seasoned enforcer is given the seemingly routine task of finding the Boss's runaway mistress, Kitty. However Kitty is involved in plans to overthrow the Boss and this routine task gets very complicated.
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, witty, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: hitman, female assassin, boss, fugitives, murder, cancer, female fight, killer, strong female lead, shootout, on the run, attempted rape ...
Time: 90s
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100%
Kill Me Again (1989)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: After Faye and her psychotic boyfriend, Vince, successfully rob a mob courier, Faye decides to abscond with the loot. She heads to Reno, where she hires feckless private investigator Jack Andrews to help fake her death. He pulls the scheme off and ...
Style: neo noir, suspenseful, detective, surprise ending, offbeat ...
Plot: private detective, lovers on the run, femme fatale, chase, casino, desert, organized crime, murder, cop, caper, private investigator, serial killer ...
Time: year 1989, 20th century, 80s
Place: las vegas, usa, nevada, arizona, reno nevada
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100%
 4.3
 792
Out of Season (2004)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany, Romania, UK, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: When a young drifter is forced to stay the winter in a small seaside town, he inadvertently becomes the catalyst for deceit, double crossings and murder amongst the locals.
Style: tense, realistic, serious, suspenseful
Plot: murder, manipulation, hitman, femme fatale, crime gone awry, dangerous attraction, hidden identity, couples, law enforcement, danger, dishonesty, police investigation ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.3
 730
Backflash (2001)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A woman is released from prison and heads home to help outwit a local mob boss and pull off the scam of a lifetime.
Style: serious, suspenseful, suspense, action packed, realistic
Audience: boys' night
Plot: femme fatale, crime gone awry, cons and scams, on the run, odd couple, danger, gangster, partner, rivalry, on the road, criminal heroes, disorder ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Road Killers (1994)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: After a young boy is almost runover by a maniac on a highway, a re-encounter and confrontation by the boy's father with the driver sets off conflicts with a carful of maniacs.
Style: road movie, serious, realistic, suspenseful, cult classic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: witnessing a crime, gang, psychopath, kidnapping, woman in danger, serial killer, missing person, danger, rescue, family in danger, hostage, father son relationship ...
Time: 90s, year 1994
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.1
 473
Quick (1993)
Genre: Action, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A female assassin named "Quick" is hired to bring in a Mafia accountant, who is under police protection. Double crossed by the mafia, she takes her hostage to California to retrieve $3M that he took before running. The mafia and ...
Style: realistic, rough, suspenseful, exciting, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: femme fatale, hitman, bodyguard, betrayal, chase, mafia, on the run, accountant, murder, corruption, manhunt, danger ...
Time: 90s
Place: california, los angeles, beverly hills
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Top of the World (1997)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: In Las Vegas for a quicky divorce, a just-paroled ex-cop and his wife wander into the Top of the World Casino, run by the shady Charles Atlas. They win big, right as the casino is being robbed. The police believe their big win was a staged ...
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, tense, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gambling, casino, false accusation, criminal heroes, police investigation, crime gone awry, tough law enforcer, law enforcement, chases and races, dishonesty, partner, die hard ...
Time: 90s
Place: las vegas, nevada, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Living & Dying (2007)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Four desperate bank robbers are forced to abandon their lucrative heist plans and become the reluctant heroes when two of their hostages turn out to be psychotic killers who won't stop until everyone in the bank has been ruthlessly slaughtered. ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, realistic, bleak, rough
Audience: boys' night
Plot: kidnapping, tough heroes, crime gone awry, heist, hitman, disorder, danger, master criminal, criminal heroes, unlikely criminals, on the run, law enforcement ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.9
 241K
True Romance (1993)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA, France
Duration: 119 min.
Story: 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.
Style: stylized, neo noir, dark comedy, intense, suspense ...
Audience: chick flick, manly, boys' night
Plot: lovers on the run, cocaine, gunfight, mafia, organized crime, drug dealing, husband wife relationship, hotel, pimp, love, mobster, gangster ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1993
Place: los angeles, usa, detroit, california, michigan ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Hollywood Flies (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Life is the buzz.
Style: psychological, serious, suspenseful, realistic, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: desert, chase, crime gone awry, murder, heist, couples, hitman, danger, dishonesty, criminal heroes, nothing goes right, missing person ...
Place: las vegas, usa, los angeles, nevada
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Boiling Point (1993)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Red is an aging scam-artist who's just been released from prison together with Ronnie, a young and not-so-bright hoodlum who is easily manipulated. Their new business is to organize fake-money sales and then kill the buyer to take his money; ...
Style: suspense, exciting, neo noir, suspenseful, tense ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: undercover cop, murder, organized crime, prison, redemption, revenge, vengeance, investigation, undercover, tough heroes, working undercover, master criminal ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: california, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Black Moon Rising (1986)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: An FBI free-lancer stashes a stolen Las Vegas-crime tape in a high-tech car stolen by someone else.
Style: exciting, serious, rough, suspenseful, cult classic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: car chase, chase, fbi, revenge, law enforcement, vengeance, brutality, twists and turns, murder, on the run, crime gone awry, rivalry ...
Time: 80s
Place: las vegas, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 4.5
 710
High Voltage (1998)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: After unknowingly robbing a money laundering operation the heist crew must avoid mobsters.
Style: exciting, realistic, serious, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: bank robbery, criminal heroes, disorder, danger, chases and races, gangster, shootout, crime gone awry, rivalry, law enforcement, good versus evil, bank ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.3
 88K
Assassins (1995)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story: Assassin Robert Rath arrives at a funeral to kill a prominent mobster, only to witness a rival hired gun complete the job for him -- with grisly results. Horrified by the murder of innocent bystanders, Rath decides to take one last job and then ...
Style: suspense, exciting, tense, serious, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: hitman, assassin, assassination, sniper, professional, spy, gangster, rescue, danger, criminal heroes, uninhibited rivalry, foe turned friend ...
Time: 90s
Place: usa, seattle, detroit, puerto rico, caribbean ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Avenging Angelo (2002)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Romance
Country: USA, France, Switzerland
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A woman who has recently discovered that she is the daughter of Angelo, a major mafia boss, decides to wreak vengeance when he is killed by a hitman. She's aided by his faithful bodyguard, with whom she soon falls in love.
Style: semi serious, feel good, realistic, humorous, action comedy ...
Audience: date night
Plot: mafia, hitman, organized crime, one man army, gangster, vengeance, hidden identity, dangerous attraction, love and romance, unlikely partners, parents and children, assassination attempt ...
Time: year 2002
Place: sicily
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Trouble Bound (1993)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Upon getting out of prison, a man who took the rap for some thief buddies gets together with them again, and tells them he's not interested in doing things with them any more. They stick a dead body in his trunk, unbeknownst to him, and he ...
Style: realistic, suspenseful, cynical, serious, humorous ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: mafia, criminal heroes, unlikely partners, gangster, disorder, obsessive quest, crime gone awry, nothing goes right, on the road, ex convict, lovers on the run, erotica ...
Time: year 1993, 90s
Place: nevada
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.2
 7K
Chasers (1994)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Military men Rock Reilly and Eddie Devane are tasked with taking a prisoner, blonde bombshell Toni Johnson, on what becomes an unforgettable road trip. Toni, an enlistee who's in trouble for deserting her unit, soon proves that she's ...
Style: sexy, intense, light, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: military, prison, women in prison, road trip, public nudity, betrayal, justice, waitress, happy ending, escapades, military life, escape attempt ...
Time: 90s, year 1994
Place: charleston south carolina
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.5
 1K
Soundless (2004)
Genre: Action, Crime, Romance, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 94 min.
Story: No overview found.
Style: suspenseful, serious, stylized, realistic, psychological
Audience: boys' night
Plot: hitman, criminal's revenge, dishonesty, police investigation, on the run, hidden identity, law enforcement, danger, murder, killer, fall in love, assassin ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.6
 10K
Narrow Margin (1990)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A Los Angeles District Attorney (Gene Hackman) is attempting to take an unwilling murder witness (Anne Archer) back to the United States from Canada to testify against a top-level mob boss. Frantically attempting to escape two deadly hit men sent to ...
Style: neo noir, suspenseful, realistic, rough, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: train, hitman, witness protection, mafia, testimony, police investigation, chase, district attorney, organized crime, gangster, uncover truth, train travel ...
Time: 80s
Place: usa, canada, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 4.5
 488
Sunset Heat (1992)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A former drug-dealer photojournalist (Michael Paré) returns to Los Angeles and helps friends terrorized by his ex-partner (Dennis Hopper).
Style: erotic, independent film, neo noir, serious, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: motorcycle, beach, hitman, female nudity, photojournalism, stolen money, drug overdose, rivalry, witnessing a crime, criminal heroes, drug dealing, life is a bitch ...
Time: 90s
Place: los angeles, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
In the Shadows (2001)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: When a stunt man dies in Miami, his uncle, a New York mob boss, sends a hit man to tail the stunt coordinator, whom the boss wants dead. The hit man, Eric O'Bryne, gets close to his mark's daughter, and through her he asks her dad to teach ...
Style: tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film
Audience: boys' night
Plot: hitman, witnessing a crime, undercover, gangster, criminal heroes, rivalry, danger, working undercover, introspection, crime gone awry, dishonesty, assassin ...
Place: usa, cuba, miami, new york, florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
W.B., Blue and the Bean (1989)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Three modern-day L.A. bounty hunters, known only by their code names -- White Bread, Bean and Blue -- are hired by their bail bondsman boss to look after a wealthy heiress, Nettie Ridgeway, who witnessed the murder of a one-time boyfriend connected ...
Style: suspense, independent film, fast, serious, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: reluctant partners, collision, chase, rescue, kidnapping, bail bondsman, bare breasts, female pubic hair, rivalry, witnessing a crime, danger, criminal's revenge ...
Time: 80s
Place: latin america, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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