Movies like Cop Killers

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Cop Killers (1977)
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Cop Killers (1977)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Two hippies on their way to a cocaine deal get stopped by the police at a roadblock, resulting in a shootout where they kill the cops. They then go on a crime spree of robbery and murder.
Style: road movie, grindhouse, poliziottesco, tripping, surprise ending, psychotronic, cult film
Plot: exploitation, murder, violence, hostage, cocaine, drug dealer, nihilism, drug smuggling, cop killer, crime gone awry, cruelty, shootout, anti hero, cop, robbery, police officer killed, survival, money, psychopath, police, desert, kidnapping, criminal, car chase, driver ...
Time: 70s
Place: arizona, tucson arizona
Keyword: western u.s.

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Most similar movies to Cop Killers

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out independent film, neo noir, suspenseful and realistic films with plots about murder, violence, police officer, police, shootout, gunfight and blood mostly in Drama, Action and Crime genres. Some movies like Cop Killers: Convoy (1978), Mr. No Legs (1978), Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974), Five Minutes to Live (1961), The Mad Dog Killer (1977). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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 18K
Convoy (1978)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Truckers form a mile long "convoy" in support of a trucker's vendetta with an abusive sheriff...Based on the country song of same title by C.W. McCall.
Style: road movie, surprise ending, exciting, humorous, feel good ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: truck, car chase, chase, on the road, police, rebellion, carsploitation, road trip, car, trucker, classic car, redneck ...
Time: 70s, year 1978, 20th century
Place: texas, austin texas, albuquerque new mexico, arizona, new mexico
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95%
 4.9
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Mr. No Legs (1978)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Meet Mr. No Legs! Deadly professional hit-man for a drug syndicate... and a limbless cripple! With his cool wheelchair, armed with shotguns and shurikens, and his amazing kung fu skills he means trouble for everyone he confronts, even his own boss! ...
Style: action adventure, grindhouse, experimental, psychotronic, poliziottesco ...
Plot: exploitation, car chase, violence, kung fu, gang, mobster, cop, handicapped, mafia, man in a wheelchair, cripple, martial arts ...
Time: 70s
Place: florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
87%
Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: With the help of an irreverent young sidekick, a bank robber gets his old gang back together to organise a daring new heist.
Style: road movie, humorous, action thriller, light, captivating ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: friendship, heist, chase, treasure hunt, on the road, car chase, buddy, robbery, bank robbery, rivalry, preacher, homosexual subtext ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, year 1974, year 1972
Place: montana, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
Five Minutes to Live (1961)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Music, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: A gang of bank robbers terrorize a small town by knocking on doors and then killing whoever answers.
Style: suspense, neo noir, psychotronic, grindhouse, independent film ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: home invasion, hostage, bank, robbery, extramarital affair, killer, flashback, twins, underground, crime gone awry, gangster, kidnapping ...
Time: 60s
Place: las vegas
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
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The Mad Dog Killer (1977)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Sadistic no-count killer Nanni Vitali and three other equally brutish hoodlums escape from prison. The foul foursome embark on a savage rape, murder, and robbery spree. Vitali even abducts and defiles frightened hapless lass Giuliana Caroli. ...
Style: poliziottesco, grindhouse, cult classic, slasher, fast ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: exploitation, police, police officer, guy, criminal, rape, murder, heist, psychopath, hostage, gang, escape ...
Time: 70s
Place: italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
 7.8
 699K
Drive (2011)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A Hollywood stunt performer who moonlights as a wheelman for criminals discovers that a contract has been put on him after a heist gone wrong.
Style: neo noir, atmospheric, tense, serious, intense ...
Audience: boys' night, date night, adult
Plot: car chase, heist, mechanic, danger, tough heroes, lone wolves, organized crime, loner, revenge, chases and races, robbery, character study ...
Time: year 2011, 2010s, 21st century
Place: los angeles, california, iran, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
 6.7
 678
Bloody Friday (1972)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: West Germany, Italy
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Womansing thug Klett is sprung from the courthouse by two accomplices, then sets about planning the big heist of a local bank, equipped with a cache of high-powered weapons he's acquired from an American army outpost. Together with his faithful ...
Style: action thriller, grindhouse, poliziottesco
Plot: hostage, communism, heist, bank, robbery, murder, masked robber, gang of thieves, bare breasts, stockholm syndrome, exploitation, roadblock ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
American Rampage (1989)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: No overview found.
Style: independent film, gay cinema
Plot: woman with a gun, police officer killed, revenge, tough cop, car chase, policewoman, female nudity, cartel, police officer, drug dealer, lapd, police ...
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
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 282
Thunder II (1987)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Indian sheriff Thunder is transferred to a small town in the desert. He learns that the corrupt deputy is paid by the drug mob. To protect himself, the deputy sets a trap for Thunder and gets him convicted as dealer. Thunder manages to break out of ...
Style: cult classic
Plot: native american, dirty cop, cop, bare chested male, carnage, prison break, narcotics, gun fu, arizona desert, exploitation, combat, indian chief ...
Place: arizona, new mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
Last Man Standing (1995)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A gang of bank robbers, led by the ultra-violent Snake Underwood, pull off a daring mid-day heist that leaves dozens of burning police cars and scores of innocent victims in its wake. Heading the investigation into the gang is the equally violent ...
Style: independent film, realistic, serious, suspenseful, detective ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: murder, police corruption, martial arts, chase, partner, bank, master criminal, law enforcement, police investigation, vengeance, friendship, tough law enforcer ...
Time: 90s
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
 5.9
 1K
Slaughter (1972)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Slaughter, a former Green Beret, avenges the killing of loved ones by the Mob, and in so doing is coerced by the Feds into traveling to Mexico to finish off surviving mobsters.
Style: neo noir, grindhouse, cult classic, independent film, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: blaxploitation, gangster, vietnam war, organized crime, murder, black, profanity, heroes, vigilantism, mobster, male nudity, black hero ...
Time: year 1972, 70s, 20th century
Place: mexico, latin america, south america
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
 5.0
 748
Bounty Tracker (1993)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Almost the whole staff of a tax consultant office is slayed by a team of professional killers, only Paul Damone can escape. He didn't know that his partner used to wash gangster Louis Sarazin's money and had to testify as chief witness ...
Style: suspense, independent film, serious, realistic, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, police protection, revenge, one man army, vigilante, gangster, murder, master warrior, heroes, bounty hunter, cop, killer ...
Time: 90s
Place: boston, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
The Girls from Thunder Strip (1970)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: A vicious gang of murderous bikers goes up against a trio of beautiful bootlegging sisters.
Style: grindhouse, psychotronic, independent film
Plot: biker, motorcycle, redneck, carsploitation, bike, motorcycle gang, smuggler, photography, police officer, beer, machine gun, car chase ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
 6.1
 849
Hit! (1973)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story: A federal agent whose daughter dies of a heroin overdose is determined to destroy the drug ring that supplied her. He recruits various people whose lives have been torn apart by the drug trade and trains them. Then they all leave for France to track ...
Style: action thriller, serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: blaxploitation, murder, exploitation, black, revenge, daughter, drug dealing, vigilantism, investigation, police detective, bare breasts, special agent ...
Time: 70s
Place: france, europe, marseille, british columbia, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
 7.0
 123K
Den of Thieves (2018)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 140 min.
Story: A gritty crime saga which follows the lives of an elite unit of the LA County Sheriff's Dept. and the state's most successful bank robbery crew as the outlaws plan a seemingly impossible heist on the Federal Reserve Bank.
Style: suspense, captivating, tense, suspenseful, enigmatic ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: heist, bank robbery, police brutality, tough guy, strip club, shootout, armored truck, police, criminal, investigation, fbi, divorce ...
Time: 2010s
Place: los angeles, california, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
Bury Me an Angel (1971)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Biker film told from the woman's point of view. The heroine sets out on the road to avenge her brother's murder, toting a shotgun and meaning business.
Style: grindhouse, psychotronic, road movie, independent film
Plot: biker, exploitation, bike, motorcycle, revenge, murder, iconoclastic, woman with a gun, skinny dipping, nightmare, beer, brawl ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
Live Like a Cop, Die Like a Man (1976)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Fred and Tony are members of an elite 'special squad' of police in Rome, Italy who are licensed-to-kill, undercover cops and who love to live dangerously.
Style: poliziottesco, cult classic, perverse, psychotronic
Plot: police, buddy cop, police brutality, cop, spy, undercover agent, undercover police officer, mafia, violence, rape, corrupt cop, prostitute ...
Place: italy, rome italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
 5.7
 101
Sworn Brothers (1987)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Superstar Andy Lau and Cheung Kwok Keung are heroic bloodshed brothers in the riveting triad saga Sworn Brothers! Lau (Andy Lau) is a fast-rising enforcer with the triads, but beneath his "bad" exterior is the sworn brother of Cheung ...
Style: heroic, poliziottesco
Plot: heroic bloodshed, shootout, gun fu, drug, police officer killed, hostage, police station, brutality, hospital, violence, courtroom, blood ...
Place: hong kong
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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 5.7
 105
The Jesus Trip (1971)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: When the police discover that their motorcycles are concealing heroin, Waco (Robert Porter) and his motorcycle gang hides out in a desert convent. A highway patrolman (Billy 'Green' Bush) hunts down the gang after they kidnap a nun, Sister ...
Style: grindhouse, independent film
Plot: biker, bike, motorcycle, nun, motorcycle gang, drug, arizona desert, male female relationship, beer, kidnapping, pursuit, robbery ...
Time: 70s
Place: arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
The Way of the Gun (2000)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Two criminal drifters without sympathy get more than they bargained for after kidnapping and holding for ransom the surrogate mother of a powerful and shady man.
Style: neo noir, suspense, intense, cynical, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: kidnapping, gunfight, twists and turns, gangster, hostage, pregnancy, car chase, rags to riches, confined, disorder, mafia, heist ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, 2000s
Place: bolivia, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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 43K
The Marksman (2021)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Jim Hanson’s quiet life is suddenly disturbed by two people crossing the US/Mexico border – a woman and her young son – desperate to flee a Mexican cartel. After a shootout leaves the mother dead, Jim becomes the boy’s reluctant defender. He ...
Style: suspense, road movie, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological ...
Plot: life is a bitch, u.s. mexico border, murder, mafia, boy, drug cartel, sheriff, desert, pistol, border, ranch, old man ...
Time: 2020s, future, 21st century
Place: usa, chicago, mexico, arizona, iowa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
 4.2
 2K
Point Blank (1998)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Convicted corporate criminal Howard engineers a prison break as he and a number of fellow inmates are being transferred to a new facility. The escapees storm a shopping mall and take a group of shoppers hostage (after killing many more of them) ...
Style: serious, realistic, rough, tense, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: hostage, rescue, danger, race against time, one man army, brother brother relationship, criminal heroes, tough law enforcer, confined, daring rescue, fugitives, escaped prisoner ...
Time: 90s
Place: texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
 7.5
 431K
Collateral (2004)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Cab driver Max picks up a man who offers him $600 to drive him around. But the promise of easy money sours when Max realizes his fare is an assassin.
Style: neo noir, clever, tense, suspense, suspenseful ...
Audience: manly, date night, boys' night
Plot: hitman, hostage, taxi driver, taxi, killer, twists and turns, killings, sociopath, assassin, merciless, murderer, nihilism ...
Time: year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
Place: california, los angeles, persia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Shaft's Big Score! (1972)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: John Shaft is back as the lady-loved black detective cop on the search for the murderer of a client.
Style: epic, neo noir, hood, grim, fast ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: blaxploitation, murder, gangster, private detective, chase, exploitation, police investigation, undercover, black, investigation, racism, gunfight ...
Time: year 1972, 70s, 20th century
Place: new york, harlem, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 7.1
 13K
Violent Cop (1989)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Detective Azuma is a Dirty-Harry style rogue cop who often uses violence and unethical methods to get results.
Style: neo noir, bloody, detective, bleak, witty ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: police, police corruption, violence, yakuza, drug dealer, police officer, mafia, gangster, vigilante, drug, corrupt cop, criminal ...
Time: year 1989, 80s
Place: japan, east asia, tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 5.0
 180
Clay Pigeon (1971)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: An ex-soldier is recruited by the FBI to go undercover in L.A. and find other ex-soldiers who are part of a drug-dealing gang.
Style: neo noir, independent film
Plot: vietnam war, buddy cop, mercenary, self discovery, female nudity, ex soldier, fbi, two man army, gunfight, drug dealer, heroin addict, hippie ...
Time: year 1971, 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 5.8
 17K
Death Wish 3 (1985)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Paul Kersey returns to New York to visit his friend Charley, who lives in one of the worst parts of New York City. But when Paul arrives at Charley's apartment, he finds Charley dying after a vicious beating by a gang led by Manny Fraker, and ...
Style: grindhouse, cult classic, neo noir, hood, perverse ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: violence, vigilante, revenge, vigilantism, gang, gangster, shootout, woman in jeopardy, gang rape, rape victim, sniper, cannon ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: new york, los angeles, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 5.1
 427
Delta Heat (1992)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: An L.A. cop investigates the death of his partner in the swamps of Louisiana. Enlisting the help of an ex-cop who lost his hand to an alligator many years before.
Style: suspense, neo noir, independent film
Plot: buddy cop, police, serial killer, swamp, car, sexy woman, pretty woman, boat, crocodile, river, female nudity, naked woman ...
Place: new orleans
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 5.5
 220
Brute Corps (1971)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A hippy couple travelling cross country run foul of a band of mercenaries.
Style: independent film
Plot: desert, mercenary, machine gun, monster, marine, biker, handgun, judo, captive, sheriff, hippie, female nudity ...
Time: 70s
Place: mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 7.1
 145K
Payback (1999)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: With friends like these, who needs enemies? That's the question bad guy Porter is left asking after his wife and partner steal his heist money and leave him for dead -- or so they think. Five months and an endless reservoir of bitterness later, ...
Style: neo noir, suspense, black comedy, exciting, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: vengeance, money, organized crime, revenge, betrayal, anti hero, mafia, heist, greed, robbery, prostitute, violence ...
Time: future, 70s, 20th century
Place: chicago, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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