Movies like The Flight of the Innocent

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The Flight of the Innocent (1992)
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The Flight of the Innocent (1992)
Original name: La corsa dell'innocente
Genre: Adventure, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The boy Vito is a portrait of beauty and wide-eyed innocence spawned from a violent family of kidnapers and murderers in the South of Italy. When his entire family is murdered by a rival clan of kidnapers, Vito must flee for his own life and in the end attempts to make atonement for some of his family's sins.
Style: art house, serious, realistic, crying
Plot: coming of age, boy, children, youth, gang, hostage, kidnapping, murder, family relations, chase, on the run, parents and children, fugitives, chases and races, danger, redemption, confined, innocence lost, child in peril, crime gone awry, criminal heroes, kids in trouble, gangster, love, dog ...
Time: year 1992, 90s
Place: italy, europe, rome italy, southern italy
Keyword: gangsters

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Most similar movies to The Flight of the Innocent

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, suspenseful and tense films with plots about murder, gun, chase, blood, police, death and violence mostly in Drama, Crime and Thriller genres. Some movies like The Flight of the Innocent: Angel of Evil (2010), The Grissom Gang (1971), I'm Not Scared (2003), London to Brighton (2006), Cavite (2005). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Angel of Evil (2010)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy, France, Romania
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Set in Italy in the 1970s, VALLANZASCA is the true story of the Italian underworld’s most infamous outlaw. A criminal by age 9, Renato Vallanzasca grew up to become the country’s most notorious mobster before the age of 27. Vallanzasca and his ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, realistic, bleak, sincere ...
Plot: criminal, murder, kidnapping, gangster, romancing a criminal, gang, confined, master criminal, prison, controversy, mafia, robbery ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, 80s
Place: italy, europe, milan italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Grissom Gang (1971)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story: The Grissom Gang is a remake of the notorious 1949 British melodrama No Orchids For Miss Blandish. Kim Darby plays a 1920s-era debutante who is kidnapped and held for ransom. Her captors are the Grissoms, a family comprised of sadists and morons, ...
Style: neo noir, independent film, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot: hostage, gangster, stockholm syndrome, woman with a gun, private investigator, organized crime, nightclub singer, criminal gang, family relations, kidnapping, gang, survival ...
Time: year 1971, 1930s, 1920s, year 1931
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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I'm Not Scared (2003)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, Spain, UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story: While playing outside one day, nine-year-old Michele discovers Filippo, who is chained to the ground at the bottom of a hole. Michele witnesses town baddie Felice nearby and suspects something bad is happening. Michele is unsure whom he should tell ...
Style: suspense, psychological, suspenseful, disturbing, tense ...
Plot: childhood, boy, kidnapping, coming of age, rescue, friendship, father son relationship, uncover truth, captivity, children, life is a bitch, bullying ...
Time: year 2003, year 1978, 70s, 21st century
Place: italy, southern italy, europe, venice, milan italy ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
London to Brighton (2006)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min.
Story: It's 3:07am and two girls burst into a run down London toilet. Joanne is crying her eyes out and her clothing is ripped. Kelly's face is bruised and starting to swell. Duncan Allen lies in his bathroom bleeding to death. Duncan's son ...
Style: exciting, suspenseful, rough, suspense, emotional ...
Plot: sexual abuse, gangster, pimp, prostitute, chase, murder, violence, lifestyle, life is a bitch, going straight, false accusation, teenage runaway ...
Place: london, united kingdom, england, europe, britain ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
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Cavite (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Philippines, USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Adam, a security guard, travels from California to the Philippines, his native land, for his father's funeral. He arrives in Manila. As he waits, a phone rings in his backpack; he answers it, and a male voice tells him that his mother and ...
Style: psychological, suspenseful, rough, tense, realistic ...
Plot: hostage, terrorism, heroes, leadership, danger, confined, chases and races, politics, homecoming, extremist, ransom, death of father ...
Place: the philippines, asia, manila philippines, san diego california
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
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Marseille (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Alex, the son of a gang boss from Marseilles, joins the French Foreign Legion to avoid a hit put out on him by the Corsican Mafia. Four years later, Alex deserts and returns to Marseilles to get back together with Katia, his former girlfriend. But ...
Style: captivating, psychological, tense, suspense, serious ...
Plot: gang, danger, family relations, parents and children, murder, mafia, father son relationship, lawyer, reprisal, rivalry, black, violent content ...
Time: year 2014, 21st century
Place: marseille, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
Pianese Nunzio, Fourteen in May (1996)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 114 min.
Story: A young priest crusades against organized crime in his Naples neighbourhood but falls in love with a 13-year old boy. It's the chance the gangsters were waiting for to get rid of the thorn in their side. Will they be able to force the boy to ...
Style: realistic, serious, touching, sexual, crying ...
Plot: gay, coming of age, lgbt, youth, religion, sex crime, age difference, glbt, family relations, unemployment, friendship, sex with a priest ...
Time: 90s
Place: italy, europe, naples italy, rome italy, milan italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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Almost Human (1974)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A psychotic small-time criminal realizes that the everyday robberies, rapes and murders he commits aren't profitable enough, so he figures to hit the big time by kidnapping the daughter of a rich man.
Style: poliziottesco, tense, serious, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: serial killer, murder, rape, psychopath, serial rapist, hostage, police, confined, danger, violence, child in peril, robbery ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
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Cyclo (1995)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Vietnam, France, Hong Kong
Duration: 123 min.
Story: Follows a young cyclo (bicycle cab) driver on his poverty-driven descent into criminality in modern-day Ho Chi Minh City. The boy's struggles to scratch out a living for his two sisters and grandfather in the mean streets of the city lead to ...
Style: disturbing, bleak, stylized, neo noir, controversial ...
Plot: poverty, vietnam war, gangster, coming of age, gang, youth, minimal dialogue, drug, corruption, mafia, prostitution, poetry ...
Time: year 1995, 90s
Place: saigon, vietnam, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
Albino Alligator (1996)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, France
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Three petty thieves who the police believe to be major criminals are chased into a basement bar where they take five hostages including all the bar employees. The rest of the movie deals with the cops lurking outside the bar while the trio try to ...
Style: tense, suspenseful, neo noir, captivating, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: hostage, heist, police investigation, chase, crime gone awry, robbery, basement, antisocial personality disorder, confined space, night, worship, killer ...
Time: year 1996, 90s
Place: new orleans, louisiana, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
Blood in the Streets (1973)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy, France, West Germany
Duration: 111 min.
Story: An Italian prison official's wife is kidnapped, and the kidnappers demand that a notorious prisoner be released in order for the man to get his wife back. He gets the man released - but then kidnaps him himself, in order to ensure that the ...
Style: poliziottesco, cult classic, action thriller, retro, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: police, prison, police officer, female nudity, assassination, revenge, vigilante, woman with a gun, blackmail, conspiracy, danger, heroes ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: italy, rome italy, europe, alps, paris france ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
The Night of the Following Day (1969)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Two kidnappers snatch a girl off the streets and imprison her in a remote beach house.
Style: neo noir, serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: kidnapping, rape, ransom, psychopath, airport, criminal, hell, cafe, murder, chase, crime gone awry, flashback ...
Time: year 1969, 60s
Place: paris france, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
The Tesseract (2003)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan, Thailand, UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A psychologist, an Englishman, a bellboy and a wounded female assasin have their fates crossed at a sleazy Bangkok hotel.
Style: tense, psychological, serious, suspenseful, mind blowing ...
Plot: hitman, haunted by the past, criminal heroes, rivalry, danger, crime gone awry, police investigation, death in the family, destiny, dishonesty, death of child, butterfly effect ...
Place: thailand, asia, bangkok thailand
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
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Trash (2014)
Genre: Adventure, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Brazil, Germany
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Set in Brazil, three kids who make a discovery in a garbage dump soon find themselves running from the cops and trying to right a terrible wrong.
Style: captivating, road movie, touching, entertaining, sentimental ...
Audience: kids, teens
Plot: poverty, children, slum, mischievous children, friends, coming of age, young heroes, corruption, favela, teenager, youth, police corruption ...
Time: year 2014, 21st century
Place: rio de janeiro, latin america, brazil
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
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Oxygen (1999)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A masochistic cop, who hides her predilection from her cop husband, gets involved in pursuing a kidnapper nicknamed Harry for Harry Houdini
Style: suspenseful, scary, psychological, surprise ending, rough ...
Plot: masochist, chase, serial killer, police investigation, murder, ransom, fbi, police station, psychopath, police detective, danger, race against time ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york, miami, usa, san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
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Sin Nombre (2009)
Genre: Adventure, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Set on the border, where Mexico becomes the crucible and the fearsome gangs of today’s Mexican countryside, the gauntlet, to freedom. The stories of a girl living in Honduras and hungering for a brighter future, and two teen gang members, for whom ...
Style: road movie, serious, bleak, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: gang, immigrant, juvenile delinquency, rape, street gang, social problems, family reunited, train, gang member, u.s. mexico border, hopes, illegal immigrant ...
Time: year 2009, 21st century
Place: mexico, latin america, central america, guatemala
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
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Gloria (1999)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Sharon Stone plays a street-wise, middle-aged moll standing up against the mobs, all of which is complicated by a 6 year old urchin with a will of his own who she reluctantly takes under her wing after his family has been gunned down.
Style: suspense, serious, suspenseful, touching, erotic ...
Plot: asthma, murder, gangster, justice, mafia, introspection, down on your luck, woman in danger, orphan, twists and turns, prison, betrayal ...
Time: year 1999, 20th century, 90s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
Criminal Lovers (1999)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 96 min.
Story: After a perverted impulse drives them to kill, Alice and her boyfriend, Luc, drag the body into the woods, only to find themselves hopelessly lost – much like the fairy-tale plight of Hansel and Gretel. Starving and with no hope of being found, ...
Style: disturbing, psychological, serious, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot: lovers on the run, couples, murder, lgbt, youth, confined, mind game, psychopath, hostage, sexual manipulation, teenage life, violence ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
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Heaven (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, France, Italy, Germany, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A woman takes the law into her own hands after police ignore her pleas to arrest the man responsible for her husband's death, and finds herself not only under arrest for murder but falling in love with an officer.
Style: atmospheric, sentimental, sincere, cerebral, romantic ...
Plot: redemption, on the run, police, terrorism, murder, bomb, terrorist, translator, criminal heroes, crime gone awry, vengeance, vigilantism ...
Time: year 2002, 2000s, 21st century
Place: italy, europe, turin italy, tuscany
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
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Hit Me (1996)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Sonny lives with his retarded older brother, and works as a bellhop at a second-rate hotel. This changes when Monique a beautiful, suicidal nut-case checks in.
Style: erotic, independent film, neo noir, realistic, serious ...
Plot: crime gone awry, femme fatale, heist, hotel, profanity, chance, sexual content, gangster, violent content, disorder, eating disorder, danger ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: washington d.c., montreal, paris france, iceland
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
We Own the Night (2007)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: A New York nightclub manager tries to save his brother and father from Russian mafia hitmen.
Style: suspense, harsh, stylized, captivating, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: organized crime, mafia, gangster, police, nightclub, gang, cop, brothers, hitman, multiple storylines, law enforcement, heroin ...
Time: year 2007, 20th century, year 1988, 80s
Place: new york, brooklyn new york city, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
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Godforsaken! (2003)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Two small town Dutch boys whose socially unnatural friendship is so close, they care nothing for human or divine rules and lose all grip on reality, sliding into violent crime.
Style: captivating, suspenseful, rough, confusing, realistic ...
Plot: organized crime, hitman, gang, friendship, pregnancy, criminal heroes, gangster, love, love triangle, serial killer, adolescence, bad father ...
Time: 90s
Place: germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
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Five Corners (1987)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A psychotic young man returns to his old neighborhood after release from prison. He seeks out the woman he previously tried to rape and the man who protected her, with twisted ideas of love for her and hate for him.
Style: disturbing, talky, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot: prison, violence, stalking, psychopath, visceral, character study, hitman, police investigation, friendship, police detective, ex convict, rape ...
Time: 20th century, year 1987, 60s, year 1964
Place: new york, usa, mississippi, bronx new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
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I Am David (2003)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Based on Anne Holm's acclaimed young adult novel North to Freedom, I Am David chronicles the struggles of a 12-year-old boy (Ben Tibber) who manages to flee a Communist concentration camp on his own -- through sheer will and determination. All ...
Style: emotional, sentimental, touching, uplifting, tense ...
Audience: family outing, family friendly, teen drama
Plot: boy, self discovery, friendship, coming of age, rescue, children, hopes, human spirit, danger, courage, boyhood, holocaust ...
Time: year 2003, 1950s, year 1951, post world war two, year 1952
Place: denmark, switzerland, italy, europe, greece ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
 6.6
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Ripley's Game (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Italy, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Tom Ripley - cool, urbane, wealthy, and murderous - lives in a villa in the Veneto with Luisa, his harpsichord-playing girlfriend. A former business associate from Berlin's underworld pays a call asking Ripley's help in killing a rival. ...
Style: suspense, tense, stylized, suspenseful, neo noir ...
Plot: murder, serial killer, greed, vengeance, redemption, cons and scams, danger, intrigue, rivalry, assassin, villa, murderer ...
Time: year 2002, 21st century
Place: italy, milan italy, berlin germany, europe, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
 6.9
 3K
Flic Story (1975)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 112 min.
Story: The film story depicts Emile Buisson, following the death of his wife and child, escaping from a psychiatric institution in 1947 and returning to Paris. Buisson, who three years later would become France's public enemy number one, begins a ...
Style: serious, rough, suspenseful, neo noir, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: serial killer, murder, police detective, gangster, robbery, prison, law enforcement, police investigation, investigation, police corruption, psychopath, police station ...
Time: 1940s, year 1947, 1950s
Place: paris france, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
The Memory of a Killer (2003)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Belgium, Netherlands
Duration: 123 min.
Story: Vincke and Verstuyft are one of the best detective teams of the Antwerp police force. When they are confronted with the disappearance of a top official and the murder of two prostitutes, the trail leads to the almost retired assassin Angelo Ledda. ...
Style: tense, suspenseful, detective, psychological, rough ...
Plot: hitman, murder, memory loss, assassin, unlikely partners, law enforcement, one last job, mental illness, twists and turns, serial killer, killer, young love ...
Time: 2000s, year 2003, 90s, 20th century
Place: antwerp, belgium, europe, brussels, netherlands ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
Escobar: Paradise Lost (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama, History, Romance, Thriller
Country: France, Spain, Belgium, Panama
Duration: 120 min.
Story: For Pablo Escobar family is everything. When young surfer Nick falls for Escobar's niece, Maria, he finds his life on the line when he's pulled into the dangerous world of the family business.
Style: tense, realistic, suspenseful, captivating, serious ...
Audience: family friendly, teens, date night
Plot: drug cartel, drug dealing, gangster, family relations, murder, forbidden love, young lovers, siblings relations, mafia, uncle niece relationship, husband wife relationship, mother daughter relationship ...
Time: 20th century, year 2014, 80s, 90s, year 1991
Place: colombia
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
Towards Darkness (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Deals with 90 minutes in a kidnapped hostage's life, and the frustration his family, a special ops team, and a man in charge of delivering the ransom money all feel as they rush to save him.
Style: tense, suspenseful, stylized, exciting, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: kidnapping, missing person, crime gone awry, car chase, destiny, missing child, rivalry, race against time, chase, terrorism, danger, father son relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: colombia, new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
Clean, Shaven (1993)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story: Peter Winter is a young schizophrenic who is desperately trying to get his daughter back from her adoptive family. He attempts to function in a world that, for him, is filled with strange voices, electrical noise, disconcerting images, and jarringly ...
Style: disturbing, serious, art house, controversial, psychological thriller ...
Plot: schizophrenia, mental illness, mental disorder, illness, serial killer, insanity, mental health, murder, adoption, investigation, obsession, psychopath ...
Time: year 1993, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
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