Movies like Falling Down
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Falling Down (1993)
194K
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, France, UK
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
On the day of his daughter's birthday, William "D-Fens" Foster is trying to get to the home of his estranged ex-wife to see his daughter. His car breaks down, so he leaves his car in a traffic jam in Los Angeles and decides to walk. He goes to a convenience store and tries to get some change for a phone call, but the Korean owner does not oblige, tipping Foster over the edge. The unstable Foster, so frustrated with the various flaws he sees in society, begins to psychotically and violently lash out against them.
Style:
rough, psychological, disturbing, bleak, cerebral, thought provoking, serious, suspenseful, inspirational, controversial ...
Audience:
date night, manly
Plot:
rage, anger, midlife crisis, violence, obsession, urban decay, police officer, vigilante, alienation, losing-it hero, gang, revenge, insanity, suspense, depression, gangsters, mental illness, vandalism, road rage, dysfunctional family, moral ambiguity, heat wave, vengeance, character study, frustration ...
Time:
90s, 80s, 20th century, 1990s
Place:
los angeles, california, usa, united states of america
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Most similar movies to Falling Down
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out rough, intense, serious and realistic films with plots about violence, brutality, suspense, violent, gun, storytelling and blood mostly in Crime, Drama and Thriller genres. Some movies like Falling Down: Taxi Driver (1976), I Stand Alone (1998), Death Wish (1974), God Bless America (2011), Joker (2019). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
A mentally unstable Vietnam War veteran works as a night-time taxi driver in New York City where the perceived decadence and sleaze feeds his urge for violent action, attempting to save a preadolescent prostitute in the process.
Style:
psychological, bleak, neo noir, disturbing, cerebral ...
Plot:
character study, loner, violence, vigilante, obsession, alienation, loneliness, vigilantism, psychology, lone wolves, taxi, antisocial behavior ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1975
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, usa, vietnam, harlem
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92%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
The Butcher (known from Noe's short film Carne) has done some time in jail after beating up the guy who tried to seduce his teenage mentally-handicapped daughter. Now he wants to start a new life. He leaves his daughter in an institution and ...
Style:
depressing, psychological, disturbing, controversial, bleak ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
incest, alienation, butcher, loneliness, insanity, revenge, nihilism, violent, obsession, existentialism, misfit, character on the edge ...
Time:
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Place:
paris france, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Italy
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
After his wife is murdered by street punks, a pacifistic New York City architect becomes a one-man vigilante squad, prowling the streets for would-be muggers after dark.
Style:
controversial, rough, harsh, disturbing, tense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
vigilante, vigilantism, violence, vengeance, revenge, police, murder, home invasion, rape and revenge, gang, gunfight, one against many ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city, tucson arizona, honolulu hawaii ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Fed up with the cruelty and stupidity of American culture, an unlikely duo goes on a killing spree, killing reality TV stars, bigots and others they find repugnant in this black comedy.
Style:
thought provoking, cynical, talky, funny, intense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
killing spree, female killer, mass murder, serial killer, vigilante, stupidity, dark humor, society, rage, media, partners, life is a bitch ...
Time:
70s, 21st century
Place:
new jersey, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
92%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
During the 1980s, a failed stand-up comedian is driven insane and turns to a life of crime and chaos in Gotham City while becoming an infamous psychopathic crime figure.
Style:
thought provoking, atmospheric, bleak, psychological, cynical ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
mental illness, villain, suspense, mental disorder, social problems, loneliness, psychological trauma, psycho, revenge, character change, insanity, psychopath ...
Time:
80s, 2010s, year 1981, 20th century
Place:
new york, new jersey, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The quiet life of a beach bum is upended by dreadful news. He sets off for his childhood home to carry out an act of vengeance but proves an inept assassin and finds himself in a brutal fight to protect his estranged family.
Style:
dark, neo noir, intense, atmospheric, tense ...
Plot:
vengeance, revenge, death, vigilantism, vigilante, suspense, car, violence, murder, brutality, violent, haunted by the past ...
Time:
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Place:
virginia, usa, delaware
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
An elderly ex-serviceman and widower looks to avenge his best friend's murder by doling out his own form of justice.
Style:
tense, realistic, bleak, serious, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
vigilantism, vengeance, murder, vigilante, revenge, suspense, violence, brutality, investigation, gangsters, widower, gang ...
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2000s, 21st century
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england, london, europe, ireland
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Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Canada, Germany
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
The boredom of small town life is eating Bill Williamson alive. Feeling constrained and claustrophobic in the meaningless drudgery of everyday life and helpless against overwhelming global dissolution, Bill begins a descent into madness. His ...
Style:
disturbing, rough, psychological, brutal, intense ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
killing spree, violence spree, bad guy wins, chase, vengeance, psychopath, murder, violence, violent, serial killer, massacre, breaking point ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
Movie in collections
445K
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
On his first day on the job as a narcotics officer, a rookie cop works with a rogue detective who isn't what he appears.
Style:
neo noir, realistic, tense, harsh, cerebral ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
police corruption, gang, gunfight, drug dealer, police, african american, rookie, mentor, ghetto, corrupt cop, gang member, drugs ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A Vietnam veteran, Charles Rane, returns home after years in a POW camp and is treated as a hero. When thugs invade his home to steal the silver coins he received for his service, they mangle his hand and leave him and his family for dead. Rane ...
Style:
bleak, stylized, harsh, neo noir, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
violence, vigilante, vigilantism, murder, revenge, gunfight, vietnam war, exploitation, macabre, complex characters, vietnam veteran, home invasion ...
Time:
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Place:
texas, vietnam, asia, san antonio texas, el paso texas ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
David Sumner, a mild-mannered academic from the United States, marries Amy, an Englishwoman. In order to escape a hectic stateside lifestyle, David and his wife relocate to the small town in rural Cornwall where Amy was raised. There, David is ...
Style:
bleak, disturbing, psychological, controversial, tense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
sexual abuse, home invasion, rape, small town, violent, rape and revenge, revenge, murder, female nudity, sexual desire, brutality, sexual assault ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
england, cornwall, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
A journalist duo go on a tour of serial killer murder sites with two companions, unaware that one of them is a serial killer himself.
Style:
disturbing, bleak, road movie, tense, neo noir ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
serial killer, psychopath, journalism, journalist, lovers on the run, suspense, road trip, writers, obsession, on the road, cross country, violence spree ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
california, los angeles, pittsburgh, texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Gene Watson is a public accountant who arrives on a train at Union Station in Los Angeles, accompanied by his 6-year-old daughter Lynn. Because of his ordinary looks, he is approached by a pair of sinister people named Smith and Jones.
Style:
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Time:
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Place:
los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
A ticking-time-bomb insomniac and a slippery soap salesman channel primal male aggression into a shocking new form of therapy. Their concept catches on, with underground "fight clubs" forming in every town, until an eccentric gets in the ...
Style:
surprise ending, psychological, thought provoking, twist ending, surreal ...
Audience:
boys' night, chick flick, manly, girls' night
Plot:
twists and turns, psychology, plot twist, fight, self destructing, insanity, fighting the system, split personality, schizophrenia, losing-it hero, against the rules, obsession ...
Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
After being double-crossed and left for dead, a mysterious man named Walker single-mindedly tries to retrieve the rather inconsequential sum of money that was stolen from him.
Style:
neo noir, surreal, brutal, tense, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night, manly
Plot:
organized crime, revenge, vengeance, gangsters, betrayal, left for dead, flashback, hitman, left to die, mafia, money, violence ...
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Place:
usa, los angeles, california, san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
It's fire and brimstone time as grieving mother Karen McCann takes justice into her own hands when a kangaroo court in Los Angeles fails to convict Robert Doob, the monster who raped and murdered her 17-year-old daughter.
Style:
psychological, disturbing, tense, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
rape, obsession, revenge, murder, psychopath, vigilante, vigilantism, rape and murder, vengeance, women, haunted by the past, loss of daughter ...
Time:
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Place:
los angeles, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
30K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, France
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Following the arrest of her mother, Ramona, young Vanessa Lutz decides to go in search of her estranged grandmother. On the way, she is given a ride by school counselor Bob Wolverton. During the journey, Lutz begins to realize that Bob is the ...
Style:
disturbing, cynical, suspenseful, bloody, road movie ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
serial killer, life is a bitch, sexual abuse, drug addiction, little red riding hood, psychopath, teenager, brutality, prison, dysfunctional family, hitchhiker, murder ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
los angeles, california, san diego california
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Jim Davis is an ex-Army Ranger who finds himself slipping back into his old life of petty crime after a job offer from the LAPD evaporates. His best friend is pressured by his girlfriend Sylvia to find a job, but Jim is more interested in hanging ...
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tense, bleak, intense, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
drugs, corruption, gangsters, gang, violence, transformation, addiction, redemption, depression, culture clash, police corruption, hip hop ...
Time:
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Place:
los angeles, mexico, new jersey, latin america, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
Llewelyn Moss stumbles upon dead bodies, $2 million and a hoard of heroin in a Texas desert, but methodical killer Anton Chigurh comes looking for it, with local sheriff Ed Tom Bell hot on his trail. The roles of prey and predator blur as the ...
Style:
neo noir, serious, suspenseful, atmospheric, tense ...
Plot:
hitman, suspense, psychopath, desert, human nature, serial killer, greed, peril, brutality, sheriff, death, murderer ...
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Place:
texas, el paso texas, mexico, austin texas, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
A frustrated man decides to take justice into his own hands after a plea bargain sets one of his family's killers free. He targets not only the killer but also the district attorney and others involved in the deal.
Style:
twist ending, psychological, surprise ending, clever, tense ...
Plot:
vengeance, prison, justice, investigation, vigilantism, suspense, master criminal, fighting the system, lawyer, murder, mind game, death ...
Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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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:
tense, clever, neo noir, intense, suspenseful ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 147 min.
Story:
An exploration of the United States of America's war on drugs from multiple perspectives. For the new head of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, the war becomes personal when he discovers his well-educated daughter is abusing cocaine ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
20th century, 90s, 2000s
Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
An average family is thrust into the spotlight after the father commits a seemingly self-defense murder at his diner.
Style:
neo noir, harsh, disturbing, tense, realistic ...
Audience:
manly, date night
Plot:
small town, self defense, revenge, sex scene, robbery, attempted robbery, mafia, twists and turns, organized crime, gangsters, nude, violent ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Movie in collections
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Germany
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
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Style:
tense, harsh, intense, stylized, captivating ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
police corruption, police investigation, police brutality, police officer, police, corruption, investigation, rookie, robbery, partners, fighting the system, testimony ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, year 1992
Place:
los angeles, california, new jersey, usa, southern california
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Two New York cops get involved in a gang war between members of the Yakuza, the Japanese Mafia. They arrest one of their killers and are ordered to escort him back to Japan. In Japan, however, he manages to escape. As they try to track him down, ...
Style:
intense, exciting, neo noir, tense, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
organized crime, police, gangsters, suspense, yakuza, culture clash, chase, gunfight, gang war, motorcycle, fish out of water, police investigation ...
Time:
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Place:
japan, new york, osaka japan, los angeles, asia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Brazil, USA, Argentina
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
In 1997, before the visit of the pope to Rio de Janeiro, Captain Nascimento from BOPE (Special Police Operations Battalion) is assigned to eliminate the risks of the drug dealers in a dangerous slum nearby where the pope intends to be lodged.
Style:
disturbing, bleak, serious, intense, realistic ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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33%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
369K
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Switzerland, UK, USA, Mexico
Duration: 146 min.
Story:
Jaded ex-CIA operative John Creasy reluctantly accepts a job as the bodyguard for a 10-year-old girl in Mexico City. They clash at first, but eventually bond, and when she's kidnapped he's consumed by fury and will stop at nothing to save ...
Style:
tense, brutal, exciting, emotional, harsh ...
Audience:
manly, chick flick, boys' night, adult
Plot:
revenge, kidnapping, vengeance, cia, vigilantism, vigilante, mercenary, lone hero, justice, friendship, suspense, deception ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
mexico, mexico city, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A soldier returns home to his small town and exacts a deadly revenge on the thugs who tormented his dimwitted brother while he was away.
Style:
psychological, disturbing, tense, rough, bleak ...
Plot:
revenge, gang, bullying, brutality, vengeance, mental illness, vigilantism, anger, gangsters, twists and turns, cruelty, justice ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
In a daring robbery, some $300,000 is taken from the Italian mob. Several mafiosi are killed, as are two policemen. Lt. Pope and Mattelli are two New York City cops trying to break the case. Three small-time criminals are on the run with the money. ...
Style:
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Audience:
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33%
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