Movies like Deadly Weapon

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Deadly Weapon (1989)
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Deadly Weapon (1989)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: An expermintal gun powered by an atomic reactor is misplaced when the transport carrying it crashes into a river. The weapon soon falls into the hands of a bullied teen named Zeke, who uses it to get even with his persecutors. An army team led by the overzealous Lt. Dalton is sent to recover the weapon before it's unstable reactor overloads and causes a meltdown.
Style: psychotronic, tragic ending, independent film
Plot: laser gun, teenager, native american, revenge, military, friendship, murder, soldier, car chase, bully, technology, weapons, bullying, boy, american soldier, teenage girl, runaway, river, father son relationship, manhunt, child protagonist, teenage boy, gay slur, secret weapon, teenage protagonist ...
Place: arizona

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Most similar movies to Deadly Weapon

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, serious, suspense and independent film films with plots about murder, teenager, teenage girl, teenage boy, friendship, youth and death mostly in Drama, Thriller and Sci-Fi genres. Some movies like Deadly Weapon: American Yearbook (2004), Sexting in Suburbia (2012), Armed and Innocent (1994), Songbird (2020), Midnight Special (2016). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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American Yearbook (2004)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Will is the kid-next-door, but is relentlessly terrorized by school bullies. Then the mysterious Chance eventually convinces Will that they should get a gun and take the bullies out: pull a Columbine.
Style: independent film
Plot: bullying, school shooting, high school, killings, school massacre, teen angst, photography, killing, homicide, fury, weapons, school teacher ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
Sexting in Suburbia (2012)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: moody daughters, Rachel and Dina have a close relationship. Dina tells her everything... or so Rachel thinks. When Dina suddenly commits suicide, Rachel is devastated and confused. Her search for answers as to what happened in her daughter's ...
Style: captivating, suspenseful, thrilling, enigmatic
Audience: chick flick, teen drama
Plot: bullying, teenage girl, bully, teenager, teen suicide, death of daughter, high school, female friendship, suicide by hanging, uncover truth, trouble, suicide ...
Time: 2010s
⇓ similarity ⇓
90%
Armed and Innocent (1994)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Based on a true story, an eleven year old boy left home alone, kills two intruders in self defense. He and his family then try to cope with the boy's anguish and the dead intruders' friends who want revenge.
Plot: boy, child in peril, youth, child protagonist, father son relationship, revenge, little boy, child with gun, breaking and entering, self defense, intruder, burglar ...
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89%
 4.8
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Songbird (2020)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: During a pandemic lockdown, Nico, a young man with rare immunity, must overcome martial law, murderous vigilantes and a powerful family to reunite with his love, Sara.
Style: suspense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, black comedy ...
Plot: pandemic, epidemic, post apocalypse, disease, survival, infection, apocalypse, disaster, immunity, isolation, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, chase ...
Time: 2020s, near future
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
89%
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Midnight Special (2016)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Greece
Duration: 112 min.
Story: A father and son go on the run after the dad learns his child possesses special powers.
Style: futuristic, road movie, atmospheric, tricky, stylized ...
Audience: date night
Plot: father son relationship, supernatural, on the run, chase, superhuman powers, parallel universe, kidnapping, supernatural ability, fbi, goggles, existentialism, survival ...
Time: distant future, year 2015, year 2016, 2010s, 21st century
Place: texas, usa, louisiana, atlanta georgia
⇓ similarity ⇓
89%
Rebel Moon - Part Two: The Scargiver (2024)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Story: The rebels gear up for battle against the Motherworld as unbreakable bonds are forged, heroes emerge — and legends are made.
Style: psychotronic, epic fantasy, epic
Plot: space, space opera, space adventure, space wars, alien space craft, odyssey, planet, spaceship, moon, girl, technology, boy ...
Time: future
Place: space western
⇓ similarity ⇓
89%
Sins of Our Youth (2014)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Sins of Our Youth is the story of four teenagers who accidentally murder a younger boy while shooting off assault weapons recreationally and the perilous decisions they make in the wake of the murder.
Style: scary, suspense, suspenseful, intense, tense
Plot: cover-up, murder, crime and punishment, manslaughter, nobody believes, suspicion, storytelling, blackmail, twists and turns, unlikely friendships, hidden truth, disposing of a dead body ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
Dawn of the Crescent Moon (2014)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A group of college students travel to a small Texas town to research the Legend of Blood Lake, an obscure folktale forged by events surrounding the horrible massacre of a Comanche village.
Style: bleak, suspense, tense, psychotronic, suspenseful ...
Plot: small town, supernatural, supernatural power, evil, paranormal investigation, friendship, revenge, curses spells and rituals, escapades, killings, death, hunting ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
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Frozen Heart (1993)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Finland
Duration: 83 min.
Story: In this gloomy scenario about Finland's upcoming membership in the European Union, the country has become a poor peripheral area plagued by energy shortages and civil wars. Escaping the city to his summer cottage with his children and a lady ...
Plot: dystopia, international relations, firefight, rural setting, prisoner of war camp, guerilla warfare, european union, family relations, partisan, periphery, weapons, rebel leader ...
Time: near future
Place: finland
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
 4.8
 5K
Radioflash (2019)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: When a nuclear device causes an electromagnetic pulse that kills power to more than 200 million people, a teenage girl must help lead her family to survival in a dark new world.
Style: futuristic, apocalyptic, thought provoking, epic, suspense ...
Plot: survival, father daughter relationship, post apocalypse, apocalypse, teenager, dystopian society, trick, darkness, blackout, female protagonist, doomsday, disaster ...
Time: future
Place: america, idaho, montana, ireland
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
Deadly Friend (1986)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Paul is a new kid in town with a robot named "BB". He befriends Samantha and the three of them have a lot of good times together. That is, until Samantha's abusive father throws her down some stairs and kills her. In an effort to save ...
Style: cult classic, splatter, surprise ending, cult horror, funny ...
Audience: teens
Plot: robot, murder, artificial intelligence, androids and robots, mad scientist, technology, zombie, halloween, teenager, child abuse, cyborgs, terror ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
87%
 5.8
 19K
Kin (2018)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A young boy finds a powerful otherworldly weapon, which he uses to save his older adoptive brother from a crew of thugs. Before long, the two of them are also pursued by federal agents and mysterious mercenaries aiming to reclaim their asset.
Style: suspense, serious, social, ambiguous ending, brutal ...
Audience: teens
Plot: teenage boy, brother brother relationship, abusive parent, murder, brother, motel, teenager, coming of age, shooting, father son relationship, adopted son, released from prison ...
Time: 2010s
Place: nevada, las vegas, detroit, iowa, nebraska
⇓ similarity ⇓
87%
 6.2
 3K
Firstborn (1984)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Because he's the oldest, Jake has been the man of the house, since his parents divorce. When Mom starts seeing Sam, who always seems to be trying some new way to get rich quick, and declares he's the man of the house now, Jake puts up with ...
Style: tension, serious, realistic, psychological, biting ...
Audience: teens
Plot: child abuse, teenager, drug addiction, domestic abuse, domestic violence, little brother, killer, school, dysfunctional family, woman in danger, family in danger, single parent ...
Time: 80s
Place: new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
87%
Before the Storm (2000)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Leo, a guy in the seventh grade gets harassed by a two years older boy in school and seeks revenge. At the same time, Ali, the father of a girl in Leo's class (who Leo has a crush on) is contacted by a opposition group from his home country ...
Style: independent film, suspense, tense, captivating, exciting ...
Audience: teens
Plot: bullying, teenage boy, friendship, murder, manipulation, terrorism, fight, school, humiliation, boy, immigrant, investigation ...
Time: 2000s
Place: middle east, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
87%
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Allegiance (2012)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: After being granted a questionable transfer that will keep him stateside as his National Guard unit deploys for Iraq, Lieutenant Danny Sefton becomes embroiled in a last minute AWOL attempt by one of his soldiers — forcing him to choose between ...
Style: realistic, suspenseful, tense, serious, independent film
Plot: military, soldier, moral dilemma, military life, friendship, on the run, wartime life, military base, family problems, life is a bitch, chases and races, superior officer ...
Time: 21st century
Place: iraq, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
87%
 6.3
 1K
Adoration (2019)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Paul is a 12 year old boy who lives with his mother, a nurse working at a mental institution in the middle of a forest. While visiting his mother at the clinic, Paul crosses paths with Gloria, a schizophrenic teenager, and falls in love with her to ...
Plot: bird, illness, mental illness, medical, disorder, teenager, teenage protagonist, coming of age, teenage girl, teenage boy, nature, schizophrenia ...
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86%
The Darkest Minds (2018)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: After a disease kills 98% of America's children, the surviving 2% develop superpowers and are placed in internment camps. A 16-year-old girl escapes her camp and joins a group of other teens on the run from the government.
Style: exciting, captivating, romantic, suspenseful, suspense ...
Audience: teens, kids, adult
Plot: telekinesis, post apocalypse, teenager, good versus evil, superhuman powers, mind control, runaway teen, danger, friendship, super powers, love and romance, escape ...
Time: near future
Place: virginia
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
U Want Me 2 Kill Him? (2013)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Based on the Vanity Fair article of the same title, a story about a young boy drawn into a web of lies through an online chatroom.
Style: tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, cyber ...
Plot: cyberspace, friendship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, teenage life, cheating girlfriend, youth, murder, social relations, mistaken identity, loner, lie, police investigation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
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On the Ice (2011)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: In Barrow, Alaska, teenagers Qalli and Aivaaq find their bond tested when a seal-hunting trip goes wrong, resulting in the death of their friend.
Style: realistic, atmospheric, psychological, captivating, independent film ...
Plot: native american, friendship, grief, death, family relations, buddies, youth, parents and children, society, village, accidental death, coming of age ...
Time: 21st century
Place: alaska, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
State's Evidence (2004)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: When 16 year old Scott Byers decided to bring a camcorder to school, none of his schoolmates ever imagined what was to come. Only Scott's five closest friends and followers have the insight on his master plan. He is on a quest for the ultimate ...
Style: disturbing, serious, realistic, suspenseful, surreal ...
Plot: introspection, life is a bitch, youth, destructive relationship, buddies, voyeurism, teenage life, bullying, sociopath, suicide, loss of control, killings ...
Time: 2000s, year 2004
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
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Chronicle (2012)
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Three high school students make an incredible discovery, leading to their developing uncanny powers beyond their understanding. As they learn to control their abilities and use them to their advantage, their lives start to spin out of control, and ...
Style: bad ending, suspense, stylized, intense, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens
Plot: high school, superhero, telekinesis, supernatural, adolescence, found footage, levitation, outcast, supernatural ability, bullying, friendship, teenage life ...
Time: 2010s, year 2012, future, year 2000, 21st century
Place: seattle, washington d.c., usa, tibet
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
Trapped in Space (1994)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: After an accident during a routine trip to Venus, a spaceship has only enough oxygen left for three people... out of five on board.
Style: suspense, exciting, tense, captivating, space horror ...
Plot: asteroid, survival, spacecraft, space travel, astronaut, space, rescue, survivor, space opera, oxygen, disaster, venus the planet ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
The Liars' Club (1994)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: The loyalty of a tight group of friends is put to the test when there's a date rape within the circle.
Style: independent film
Plot: american football, exploitation, cover up, rape, murder, loyalty, friendship, teenager, teenage boy, high school, accidental killing, intimidation ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
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Don't Tell a Soul (2020)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Two thieving teenage brothers, stealing money to help their sick mom, match wits with a troubled security guard stuck at the bottom of a forgotten well.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, intense, realistic, dark ...
Plot: moral dilemma, robbery, teenage boy, brothers, money, sick mother, heist gone wrong, cover up, hidden truth, attempted robbery, youth, heist ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
The Manhattan Project (1986)
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Named after the World War II-era program, the plot revolves around a gifted high school student who decides to construct a nuclear bomb for a national science fair. The film's underlying theme involves the Cold War of the 1980s when government ...
Style: tense, suspenseful, suspense, feel good, action adventure ...
Audience: teens, kids
Plot: cold war, nuclear, teenager, military, atomic bomb, whistleblower, heist, nuclear holocaust, scientist, plutonium, laboratory, chase ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: new york state, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
Road to Paloma (2014)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: After a brutal injustice occurs on a Native American reservation, a son must find redemption for the actions of his past. Road to Paloma is the beautiful journey of two bikers traveling across America's vast west. While Native American Wolf ...
Style: road movie, serious, realistic, retro, independent film
Audience: boys' night
Plot: biker, on the run, vigilantism, friendship, nothing to lose, motorcycle, vengeance, on the road, family relations, chases and races, bike, revenge ...
Time: future, 21st century
Place: usa, arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
 4.9
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Mother/Android (2021)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Georgia and her boyfriend Sam go on a treacherous journey to escape their country, which is caught in an unexpected war with artificial intelligence. Days away from the arrival of their first child, the couple must face No Man’s Land—a ...
Style: dramatic, suspense, thought provoking, disturbing, tragic ending ...
Plot: robot, pregnant woman, apocalypse, couple relations, couples, female protagonist, survival, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, runaway, youth, family relations, pregnancy ...
Time: near future, future
Place: korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
 6.3
 5K
Mean Dreams (2016)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 108 min.
Story: When two youngsters meet and fall for each other, they must go on the run from the girl's corrupt father, who is also the sheriff of the town.
Style: suspense, tense, serious, suspenseful, psychological thriller ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, young love, sheriff, murder, police corruption, abusive father, dirty cop, parent child relationship, illegal drugs, small town, runaway, teenage boy ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
 6.0
 69K
The Signal (2014)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Three college students on a road trip across the Southwest experience a detour – the tracking of a computer genius who has already hacked into MIT and exposed security faults. When the trio find themselves drawn to an eerily isolated area, ...
Style: futuristic, surreal, mindfuck, suspense, suspenseful ...
Audience: family friendly, teens
Plot: hacker, road trip, twists and turns, alien invasion, alien, computer hacker, alien contact, secret laboratory, cyborgs, space, alien abduction, danger ...
Time: future, 2010s, 21st century
Place: nevada, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
The Rage: Carrie 2 (1999)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: After the suicide of her only friend, Rachel has never felt more on the outside. The one person who reached out to her, Jessie, also happens to be part of the popular crowd that lives to torment outsiders like her. But Rachel has something else that ...
Style: slasher, scary, teen, cult classic, splatter ...
Audience: teens
Plot: bullying, telekinesis, high school, stephen king, revenge, supernatural, american football, female nudity, loss of virginity, teenager, suicide, fire ...
Time: 90s
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
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