Movies like Fear 1988
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Fear (1988)
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Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A family living in an isolated cabin in the woods are terrorized by a gang of escaped convicts. Their leader, a serial killer, is a disturbed Vietnam veteran. What the gang doesn't know is that the family's father is also a Vietnam veteran, and he has no intention of letting his family come to any harm.
Style:
scary, psychological, exciting, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Plot:
hostage, gang, escape, kidnapping, crimes, missing person, on the road, confined, family in danger, criminal heroes, violence spree, vietnam war, escaped prisoner, vietnam vet, vietnam veteran, gory, chases and races, danger, deadly, tied up, cabin, hostages, vietnam war veteran, escaped convict
Place:
vietnam, asia
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Duration: 91 min.
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Style:
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Duration: 72 min.
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Country: USA
Duration: 83 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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Place:
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Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
87%
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790
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Style:
exciting, serious, suspenseful, rough, realistic
Audience:
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Plot:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Captain Rick Jeffries is the head of a group of elite soldiers who swim into action, doing the dirty jobs no else can or wants to do. They are in pursuit of a world traveling terrorist known only as Casper, and have the difficult job of bringing him ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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78%
Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
exciting, realistic, serious, psychological, suspenseful
Audience:
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Plot:
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Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
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Duration: 94 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
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Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Harry Walker, a former military pilot, works as a helicopter pilot and traffic reporter for a Salt Lake City radio station. One day while working he observes a bank robbery in progress and the kidnapping of a young woman who worked at the bank. ...
Style:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
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Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
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Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Action, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Story:
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Genre: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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