Movies like Death Race
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Death Race (2008)
227K
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, Germany, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Terminal Island, New York: 2020. Overcrowding in the US penal system has reached a breaking point. Prisons have been turned over to a monolithic Weyland Corporation, which sees jails full of thugs as an opportunity for televised sport. Adrenalized inmates, a global audience hungry for violence and a spectacular, enclosed arena come together to form the 'Death Race', the biggest, most brutal event.
Style:
exciting, fast, visually appealing, serious, futuristic, dark comedy, action packed, suspenseful, rough, grindhouse ...
Audience:
boys' night, manly
Plot:
prison, car chase, racing, revenge, violence, car race, betrayal, murder, survival, tough guy, rivalry, ex convict, prison life, tough heroes, dystopia, contests and competitions, car racing, race, corruption, chases and races, obstacle, violent, car, prison fight, island prison ...
Time:
year 2008, future, 2010s, year 2012, 2020s
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Most similar movies to Death Race
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, exciting, serious and suspense films with plots about chase, murder, fight, violence, gun, brutality and explosion mostly in Action, Thriller and Sci-Fi genres. Some movies like Death Race: Death Race: Inferno (2013), Mad Max: Fury Road (2015), Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (1981), Upgrade (2018), District B13 (2004). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Action, Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: South Africa, Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
In the world's most dangerous prison, a new game is born: Death Race. The rules of this adrenaline-fueled blood sport are simple, drive or die. When repentant convict Carl Lucas discovers there's a price on his head, his only hope is to ...
Style:
bloody, serious, rough, suspenseful, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens, adult
Plot:
car chase, contests and competitions, speed, car race, racing, brutality, street racing, contract killer, car, warden, tough heroes, rivalry ...
Time:
year 2011, future
Place:
south africa, iran
Similarity:
88%
Genre: Action, Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, South Africa
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Carl Lucas / Frankenstein has won four of his races and needs to win one more to win his freedom. Before his final race, Lucas and his team, car and all, are transferred to another prison where they will compete in a Death Race in the desert. Also, ...
Style:
bloody, brutal, suspense, futuristic, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
car chase, desert, street racing, prison, chase, racing, female prisoner, runaway, car, confined, survival, chases and races ...
Time:
year 2013, year 2012, future
Place:
south africa, africa
Similarity:
83%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
An apocalyptic story set in the furthest reaches of our planet, in a stark desert landscape where humanity is broken, and most everyone is crazed fighting for the necessities of life. Within this world exist two rebels on the run who just might be ...
Style:
visually appealing, visually stunning, road movie, apocalyptic, breathtaking ...
Audience:
boys' night, girls' night, family friendly, teens, adult
Plot:
post apocalypse, car, desert, apocalypse, survival, post apocalyptic, chase, on the run, dystopia, car chase, distopia, tough guy ...
Time:
future, year 2015, year 2016, near future, distant future ...
Place:
australia, los angeles
Similarity:
83%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Max Rockatansky returns as the heroic loner who drives the dusty roads of a postapocalyptic Australian Outback in an unending search for gasoline. Arrayed against him and the other scraggly defendants of a fuel-depot encampment are the bizarre ...
Style:
apocalyptic, road movie, perverse, futuristic, action packed ...
Audience:
boys' night, date night
Plot:
dystopia, post apocalypse, apocalypse, truck, desert, loner, car chase, planet, chase, post apocalyptic, post-apocalyptic future, oil ...
Time:
future, 20th century, distant future, year 1982, near future ...
Place:
australia, oceania, middle east
Similarity:
100%
231K
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A brutal mugging leaves Grey Trace paralyzed in the hospital and his beloved wife dead. A billionaire inventor soon offers Trace a cure — an artificial intelligence implant called STEM that will enhance his body. Now able to walk, Grey finds that ...
Style:
futuristic, thought provoking, surprise ending, neo noir, experimental ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
cyberpunk, artificial intelligence, revenge, murder, surgery, microchip, dystopia, nanotechnology, technology, super soldier, cyborgs, super computer ...
Time:
near future, future, 2010s
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Set in the ghettos of Paris in 2010, an undercover cop and ex-thug try to infiltrate a gang in order to defuse a neutron bomb.
Style:
exciting, stylized, breathtaking, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
martial arts, ghetto, bomb, parkour, gang, undercover cop, fight, urban ghetto, tough guy, danger, heroes, escapades ...
Time:
future, near future, year 2004, 2000s, 2010s ...
Place:
france, paris france, europe, hong kong
Similarity:
100%
144K
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Mind-control technology has taken society by a storm, a multiplayer on-line game called "Slayers" allows players to control human prisoners in mass-scale. Simon controls Kable, the online champion of the game. Kable's ultimate ...
Style:
futuristic, action packed, stylized, cyber, apocalyptic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
distopia, mind control, virtual reality, cyberpunk, cyberspace, hacker, profanity, dystopian future, computer game, death, danger, contests and competitions ...
Time:
2030s, year 2009, near future, 2000s, future ...
Similarity:
75%
124K
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
After a former elite agent rescues a 12-year-old Chinese girl who's been abducted, they find themselves in the middle of a standoff between Triads, the Russian Mafia and high-level corrupt New York City politicians and police.
Style:
exciting, serious, stylized, action packed, fast paced ...
Audience:
boys' night, girls' night
Plot:
chase, gunfight, protector, lone hero, on the run, triad, child in peril, martial arts, bodyguard, tough heroes, outsmarting, ex military ...
Time:
year 2012, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa, iran, new york, brooklyn new york city, north america ...
Similarity:
100%
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243K
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
In a self-destructing world, a vengeful Australian policeman sets out to stop a violent motorcycle gang.
Style:
grindhouse, retro, futuristic, apocalyptic, perverse ...
Audience:
manly, boys' night
Plot:
apocalypse, dystopia, chase, post apocalypse, vengeance, revenge, biker, car chase, car, dystopic future, chaos, criminal ...
Time:
future, 20th century, year 1979, near future, distant future ...
Place:
australia, oceania
Similarity:
100%
10K
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A male prison escapee heads for his hidden loot electronically attached to a female prisoner.
Style:
dark comedy, black comedy, suspense, fast, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
prison, escape, chase, on the run, betrayal, diamond, fistfight, left for dead, prison fight, femme fatale, prison guard, murder ...
Time:
future, near future
Place:
california, los angeles
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Japan, Taiwan, Germany, Canada, USA, UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
The King of Fighters movie will introduce a new science fiction spin into the setting established in the games universe by following the surviving members of three legendary fighting clans who are continually whisked away to other dimensions by an ...
Style:
serious, exciting, tense, suspense, captivating ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
portal, prophecy, martial arts, female martial artist, mind control, undercover, teleportation, woman fights a man, female warrior, chase, good versus evil, uninhibited rivalry ...
Place:
seattle, boston
Similarity:
100%
103K
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Set in the near future, Lockout follows a falsely convicted ex-government agent , whose one chance at obtaining freedom lies in the dangerous mission of rescuing the President's daughter from rioting convicts at an outer space maximum security ...
Style:
futuristic, suspense, rough, suspenseful, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
prison, space station, hotshot hero, secret service, hostage, rescue mission, outer space, lone hero, heroic mission, convict, prison fight, tough guy ...
Time:
future, year 2012, near future, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
washington d.c., usa, new york, seattle
Similarity:
80%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, India
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
The film revolves around a local street-racer who partners with a rich and arrogant business associate, only to find himself framed by his colleague and sent to prison. After he gets out, he joins a New York-to-Los Angeles race to get revenge. But ...
Style:
exciting, realistic, serious, suspenseful, road movie ...
Audience:
boys' night, girls' night
Plot:
car, car chase, street racing, car race, race, ford mustang, race against time, frame up, cross country, justice, racing, driver ...
Time:
2010s, year 2014, 21st century
Place:
manhattan new york city, usa, san francisco, new york, detroit ...
Similarity:
67%
225K
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: France, Germany, USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Professional driver Frank Martin is living in Miami, where he is temporarily filling in for a friend as the chauffeur for a government narcotics control policymaker and his family. The young boy in the family is targeted for kidnapping, and Frank ...
Style:
sexy, fast paced, action packed, exciting, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
lone hero, martial arts, car chase, car, fight scenes, kidnapping, driver, driving, assassin, mentor, explosions, weapons ...
Time:
year 2005, 2000s, 20th century, 21st century
Place:
miami, florida, usa, france
Similarity:
100%
185K
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: France, USA, UK, Ukraine
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Frank Martin puts the driving gloves on to deliver Valentina, the kidnapped daughter of a Ukranian government official, from Marseilles to Odessa on the Black Sea. En route, he has to contend with thugs who want to intercept Valentina's safe ...
Style:
exciting, road movie, entertaining, serious, action packed ...
Audience:
boys' night, girls' night, teens
Plot:
car chase, one man army, car, chase, martial arts, tough guy, driving, tough heroes, mercenary, assassin, murder, fistfight ...
Time:
year 2008, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
europe, odessa ukraine, france, budapest, ukraine
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Former Special Forces officer, Frank Martin will deliver anything to anyone for the right price, and his no-questions-asked policy puts him in high demand. But when he realizes his latest cargo is alive, it sets in motion a dangerous chain of ...
Style:
action thriller, sexy, stylized, entertaining, action packed ...
Audience:
manly, boys' night, girls' night, adult
Plot:
car chase, chase, tough guy, one man army, lone hero, tough heroes, escapades, car, transportation, martial arts, fight scenes, revenge ...
Time:
2000s, 20th century, year 2002, 21st century
Place:
france, nice france, saint tropez, cannes, europe ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
It’s been 20 years since the corporations took over the world’s governments. Their thirst for power and profits led to the Corporate Wars, a fierce global battle that laid waste to society as we know it. Born from the ash, the Council of Nine ...
Style:
exciting, futuristic, grindhouse, apocalyptic, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
post apocalypse, bounty hunter, vigilante, hitman, female warrior, female assassin, female killer, dystopian future, danger, society, desert, shaolin ...
Time:
near future
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
By 2017, the global economy has collapsed and American society has become a totalitarian police state, censoring all cultural activity. The government pacifies the populace by broadcasting a number of game shows in which convicted criminals fight ...
Style:
rough, futuristic, cult classic, exciting, tech noir ...
Audience:
boys' night, manly
Plot:
dystopian future, cyberpunk, distopia, chase, chases and races, dystopic future, prison, danger, dishonesty, rivalry, tough heroes, social commentary ...
Time:
future, near future, 80s, 20th century, year 2019 ...
Place:
los angeles, california
Similarity:
67%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
In order to avoid a jail sentence, Sean Boswell heads to Tokyo to live with his military father. In a low-rent section of the city, Shaun gets caught up in the underground world of drift racing
Style:
exciting, action packed, serious, suspense, entertaining ...
Audience:
teens, manly, girls' night, boys' night
Plot:
car, car chase, street racing, car race, high school, foreigner in japan, race, racing, auto racing, yakuza, vigilante, car racing ...
Time:
year 2006, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
japan, tokyo, asia
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Two years after choosing not to kill the man who killed his son, former police sergeant Leo Barnes has become head of security for Senator Charlene Roan, the front runner in the next Presidential election due to her vow to eliminate the Purge. On ...
Style:
brutal, suspense, intense, psychological, bloody ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
politics, vigilante, revenge, gunfight, election, death, murder, violence, distopia, survival, brutality, vengeance ...
Time:
near future, year 2016, 2010s
Place:
washington d.c., florida
Similarity:
100%
24K
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Netherlands
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
In the year 2022, a ruthless prison warden has created the ultimate solution for his most troublesome and violent inmates: Absolom, a secret jungle island where prisoners are abandoned and left to die. But Marine Captain John Robbins, convicted of ...
Style:
suspense, exciting, grindhouse, bleak, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night, manly
Plot:
prison, jungle, island, dystopia, prison guard, survival, escape, all male cast, island prison, chase, male male relationship, prisoner ...
Time:
future, near future, year 1994
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
When a crime brings them back to L.A., fugitive ex-con Dom Toretto reignites his feud with agent Brian O'Conner. But as they are forced to confront a shared enemy, Dom and Brian must give in to an uncertain new trust if they hope to outmaneuver ...
Style:
fast, entertaining, saga, action packed, suspense ...
Audience:
teens, manly, girls' night, boys' night
Plot:
car, chase, car chase, chases and races, car race, street racing, friendship, racing, cop, brutality, friends, vengeance ...
Time:
year 2009, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, california, usa, mexico, dominican republic ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Jack Conrad is awaiting the death penalty in a corrupt Central American prison. He is "purchased" by a wealthy television producer and taken to a desolate island where he must fight to the death against nine other condemned killers from ...
Style:
exciting, action packed, intense, harsh, stylized ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
death row, last man standing, island, brutality, website, jungle, vengeance, chase, battles, criminal heroes, prison, revenge ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Similarity:
100%
Movie in collections
430K
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, Brazil, Japan
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
Former cop Brian O'Conner partners with ex-con Dom Toretto on the opposite side of the law. Since Brian and Mia Toretto broke Dom out of custody, they've blown across many borders to elude authorities. Now backed into a corner in Rio de ...
Style:
exciting, saga, action packed, fast, suspense ...
Audience:
teens, manly, chick flick, girls' night, boys' night
Plot:
heist, car chase, chase, car, organized crime, car race, fast car, on the run, racing, street racing, tough heroes, violence ...
Time:
year 2011, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
brazil, south america, iran, latin america, monaco ...
Similarity:
100%
269K
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Ray Breslin is the world's foremost authority on structural security. After analyzing every high security prison and learning a vast array of survival skills so he can design escape-proof prisons, his skills are put to the test. He's ...
Style:
suspenseful, suspense, clever, twist ending, entertaining ...
Audience:
boys' night, manly, chick flick
Plot:
prison, prison escape, revenge, outsmarting, escape plan, betrayal, resourceful, escape, prisoner, maximum security prison, prison break, lone hero ...
Time:
year 2013, 2010s, future, 80s, 21st century
Place:
morocco, usa, miami, new orleans, colorado ...
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: UK, USA, Bahrain
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Every ten or seven years in an unsuspecting town, The Tournament takes place. A battle royale between 30 of the world's deadliest assassins. The last man standing receiving the $10,000,000 cash prize and the title of Worlds No 1, which itself ...
Style:
exciting, suspenseful, rough, intense, stylized ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
chase, survival, hitman, martial arts, tournament, assassin, game of death, killer, competition, female killer, contract killer, fight ...
Time:
year 2009, 21st century
Place:
england, britain, miami, united kingdom, brazil
Similarity:
83%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
This time, a cataclysmic temblor hits Los Angeles, turning it into an island. The president views the quake as a sign from above, expels Los Angeles from the country and makes it a penal colony for those found guilty of moral crimes. When his ...
Style:
cult classic, apocalyptic, suspense, exciting, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
post apocalyptic, dystopia, race against time, post apocalypse, heroic mission, escape, dystopian future, one man army, earthquake, apocalypse, catastrophe, lone wolves ...
Time:
future, 2010s, 2000s, year 2013, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, california, usa, beverly hills, latin america ...
Similarity:
100%
114K
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada, Japan, USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
In the future, medical technology has advanced to the point where people can buy artificial organs to extend their lives. But if they default on payments, an organization known as the Union sends agents to repossess the organs. Remy is one of the ...
Style:
futuristic, suspense, absurd, visually appealing, cyber ...
Plot:
cyberpunk, distopia, dystopia, dystopian future, evil corporation, dystopic future, rebel, fight scenes, virtual reality, biopunk, chase, hitman ...
Time:
future, near future, year 2010, 2010s
Place:
usa
Similarity:
75%
23K
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A man must survive a prison where hardened criminals battle to the death for the warden's entertainment.
Style:
harsh, stylized, brutal, intense, emotional ...
Plot:
revenge, martial arts, prison, prison escape, prison violence, fight to the death, warden, fight, fighter, brutality, murder, prison rape ...
Time:
year 2003
Place:
russia, california, ireland, latin america, new jersey ...
Similarity:
100%
19K
Genre: Action, Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Time-traveling bounty hunters find a doomed race-car driver in the past and bring him to 2009 New York, where his mind will be replaced with that of a terminally ill billionaire.
Style:
futuristic, cyber, entertaining, tech noir, disgusting ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
time travel, cyberpunk, dystopia, bounty hunter, on the run, dystopian future, chase, racing, apocalypse, time traveler, time loop, car ...
Time:
future, year 1992, 90s, year 2009, year 1991 ...
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
100%
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