Movies like Flashback 1990

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Flashback (1990)
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Flashback (1990)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A hippie radical, Huey Walker has been a fugitive for decades, accused of a crime that he may not have committed. Finally apprehended, Walker is escorted to trial by uptight 20-something FBI agent John Buckner. While the two seem to be polar opposites, it turns out that Buckner may have more in common with Walker than is initially apparent, a point that is driven home when the pair faces off against a sinister small-town sheriff.
Style: entertaining, light, emotional, humorous, witty, realistic, road movie, uplifting, action comedy, cult classic ...
Audience: kids
Plot: lsd, friendship, train, chase, on the road, fbi, hippie, unlikely friendships, prison, partner, criminal heroes, nothing goes right, mistaken identity, fish out of water, dishonesty, aging, writers, vigilante, resistance, witness, buddy cop, travelogue, drug, mind game, satire ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, 60s, 80s, 1960s, 1990s
Place: oregon, usa, san francisco
Keyword: partners, gangsters

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Most similar movies to Flashback

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, humorous, semi serious and witty films with plots about partner, friendship, buddies, friends, disorder, chase and dishonesty mostly in Comedy, Crime and Action genres. Some movies like Flashback: Nothing to Lose (1997), Quick Change (1990), Blues Brothers 2000 (1998), Crime Busters (1977), Amos & Andrew (1993). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Nothing to Lose (1997)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Advertising executive Nick Beame learns that his wife is sleeping with his employer. In a state of despair, he encounters a bumbling thief whose attempted carjacking goes awry when Nick takes him on an involuntary joyride. Soon the betrayed ...
Style: funny, humorous, action comedy, hilarious, absurd ...
Plot: on the road, revenge, friendship, robbery, husband wife relationship, desert, mistaken identity, culture clash, reckless driving, advertising executive, profanity, infidelity ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, year 1997
Place: arizona, los angeles, usa, new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Quick Change (1990)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: With the aid of his girlfriend, Phyllis Potter, and best friend, Loomis, Grimm enters a Manhattan bank dressed as a clown, creates a hostage situation and executes a flawless robbery. The only thing left for the trio to do is make their getaway out ...
Style: humorous, feel good, light, absurd, cult classic ...
Plot: heist, bank robbery, robbery, buddies, friendship, partner, friends, disorder, cons and scams, runaway, love and romance, bank robber ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Blues Brothers 2000 (1998)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Music, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: Elwood, the now lone "Blues Brother" finally released from prison, is once again enlisted by Sister Mary Stigmata in her latest crusade to raise funds for a children's hospital. Once again hitting the road to re-unite the band and win ...
Style: humorous, feel good, cult classic, captivating, entertaining ...
Audience: teens
Plot: blues, car chase, chase, music, dancing, buddy, prison, on the road, starting over, rivalry, orphan, buddies ...
Time: 90s
Place: louisiana, usa, chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.1
 13K
Crime Busters (1977)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: An attempted robbery turns to be an unexpected recruitment when two unemployed men mistakenly break into a police office instead of a store.
Style: not serious, exciting, humorous, entertaining, buddy comedy ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: law enforcement, cons and scams, police, criminal heroes, police investigation, chases and races, odd couple, partners against crime, buddies, misfit, gang, heroes ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Amos & Andrew (1993)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: When Andrew Sterling (Samuel L. Jackson), a successful black urbanite writer, buys a vacation home on a resort in New England the police mistake him for a burglar. After surrounding his home with armed men, Chief Tolliver (Dabney Coleman) realizes ...
Style: clever, funny, light, realistic, humorous ...
Plot: island, bad cop, mistaken identity, police investigation, brutality, racism, interracial relations, buddies, nothing goes right, criminal heroes, social differences, resort ...
Time: 90s
Place: usa, new england
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Cowboy Way (1994)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Two championship rodeo partners travel to New York to find their missing friend, Nacho Salazar who went missing there.
Style: humorous, entertaining, light, buddy comedy, semi serious ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: cowboy, friendship, chase, gunfight, missing person, happy ending, outlaw gang, buddy, odd couple, fish out of water, horse, rivalry ...
Time: 90s, year 1994
Place: new york, new mexico, usa, cuba, latin america ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
 5.8
 40K
Bulletproof (1996)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: An undercover police officer named Rock Keats befriends a drug dealer and car thief named Archie Moses in a bid to catch the villainous drug lord Frank Coltan. But the only problem is that Keats is a cop, his real name is Jack Carter, and he is ...
Style: funny, entertaining, semi serious, humorous, buddy comedy ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: friendship, buddy, drug lord, betrayal, buddy cop, justice, police, unlikely friendships, adaptation, criminal heroes, working undercover, hidden identity ...
Time: 90s
Place: arizona, usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Truth or Consequences, N.M. (1997)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Raymond Lembecke (Vincent Gallo) is a con just out of prison after serving time for selling drugs for his mob boss Tony Vago (Rod Steiger). (Lembecke was innocent and took the rap for Vago.) Lembecke thinks Vago owes him big time so, when his former ...
Style: intense, talky, serious, suspenseful, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: robbery, gangster, on the road, crime gone awry, hitman, on the run, prison, hostage, organized crime, police corruption, chase, ex convict ...
Time: year 1997, 90s
Place: new mexico, las vegas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Screwed (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: A chauffeur kidnaps his rich boss's dog to hold it for ransom, but when she accidentally gets the dog back, she thinks that it's the chauffeur who's been kidnapped.
Style: funny, humorous, intense, feel good, witty ...
Plot: mistaken identity, crime gone awry, fish out of water, comedy of errors, friendship, nothing goes right, partner, hostage, cons and scams, disorder, goofy hero, misfit ...
Time: 90s
Place: pennsylvania
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Roadside Prophets (1992)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Sid and Nancy screenplay author Abbe Wool makes her directorial debut with this tale of a factory worker name Joe (X front man John Doe) who hits the road on his Harley to scatter the ashes of a co-worker. Joined by wannabe biker Sam (Adam Horovitz ...
Style: road movie, light, talky, humorous, semi serious ...
Plot: motorcycle, desert, on the road, biker, hotel, road trip, life philosophy, friendship, bike, obsession, journey, loner ...
Time: year 1992, 90s
Place: nevada, usa, seattle, los angeles, las vegas
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Easy Rider (1969)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A cross-country trip to sell drugs puts two hippie bikers on a collision course with small-town prejudices.
Style: road movie, psychedelic, avant garde, offbeat, cult classic ...
Plot: road trip, hippie, on the road, motorcycle, friendship, biker, marijuana, existentialism, freedom, rock music, rebelliousness, hallucination ...
Time: year 1969, 60s, 20th century
Place: new orleans, california, los angeles, usa, southern usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Trouble Bound (1993)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Upon getting out of prison, a man who took the rap for some thief buddies gets together with them again, and tells them he's not interested in doing things with them any more. They stick a dead body in his trunk, unbeknownst to him, and he ...
Style: realistic, suspenseful, cynical, serious, humorous ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: mafia, criminal heroes, unlikely partners, gangster, disorder, obsessive quest, crime gone awry, nothing goes right, on the road, ex convict, lovers on the run, erotica ...
Time: year 1993, 90s
Place: nevada
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Things Are Tough All Over (1982)
Genre: Action, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Cheech and Chong are hired to drive a limo from Chicago to Las Vegas by two shady Arabs - Mr. Slyman and Prince Habib. Unbeknownst to them, five million dollars of dirty money has been stuffed throught the car.
Style: humorous, grindhouse, road movie, hispanic, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: stoner, lust, weed, drug, road trip, desert, chase, satire, hippie, marijuana, narcotics, crossdresser ...
Time: 80s, year 1982
Place: chicago, usa, midwest, las vegas
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: With the help of an irreverent young sidekick, a bank robber gets his old gang back together to organise a daring new heist.
Style: road movie, humorous, action thriller, light, captivating ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: friendship, heist, chase, treasure hunt, on the road, car chase, buddy, robbery, bank robbery, rivalry, preacher, homosexual subtext ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, year 1974, year 1972
Place: montana, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Goodbye Pork Pie (1980)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Gerry hires a car in Kaitaia with a stolen licence and travels to Invercargill with John, who's wife has just left him. The ultimate NZ roadtrip adventure.
Style: road movie, cult classic, semi serious, realistic, exciting ...
Plot: car chase, racing, exodus, pop culture, on the road, road trip, partner, nudity, chase, obsessive quest, chases and races, adventurer ...
Time: future, year 1980, 80s, 20th century
Place: new zealand
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
 6.9
 83K
Bottle Rocket (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Upon his release from a mental hospital following a nervous breakdown, the directionless Anthony joins his friend Dignan, who seems far less sane than the former. Dignan has hatched a hair-brained scheme for an as-yet-unspecified crime spree that ...
Style: road movie, witty, humorous, talky, funny ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: robbery, on the run, love, heist, motel, psychiatric hospital, road trip, gangster, bookstore, sibling relationship, disorder, self discovery ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1996
Place: texas, austin texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
 7.7
 55K
Down by Law (1986)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA, West Germany
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A disc jockey, a pimp and an Italian tourist escape from jail in New Orleans.
Style: independent film, road movie, black and white, humorous, atmospheric ...
Plot: prison, friendship, prison escape, on the road, pimp, swamp, misfit, fight, character study, gangster, crime gone awry, escape ...
Time: 20th century, year 1986, 80s
Place: new orleans, louisiana, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
The Flim-Flam Man (1967)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Mordrcai Jones (George C. Scott) is a rural con artist (a 'flim flam man') who takes on a young army deserter Curley (Michael Sarrazin) as his protégé and teaches him the tricks of the trade. Sheriff Slade (Harry Morgan) is in hot ...
Style: cynical, realistic, semi serious, offbeat, humorous
Plot: chase, gambling, desertion, great depression, drifter, stage play, sheriff, con men, friendship, prison, going straight, rural setting ...
Time: year 1967, 60s
Place: southern usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Knockin' on Heaven's Door (1997)
Genre: Action, Crime, Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Two young men, Martin and Rudi, both suffering from terminal cancer, get to know each other in a hospital room. They drown their desperation in tequila and decide to take one last trip to the sea. Drunk and still in pajamas they steal the first ...
Style: road movie, touching, funny, humorous, exciting ...
Plot: friendship, terminal illness, life philosophy, escapades, last wish, odd couple, friends, on the run, gangster, life is a bitch, chase, partner ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: germany, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Search and Destroy (1995)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A satire about desperate hustling, pop philosophy and big money.
Style: humorous, independent film, light, captivating, semi serious ...
Plot: filmmaking, dark humor, showbiz, american dream, satire, danger, rivalry, husband wife relationship, film producer, artists and showbiz, media satire, destiny ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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I Went Down (1997)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Ireland, UK, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Fresh out of prison, Git rescues a former best friend (now living with Git's girlfriend) from a beating at the hands of loan sharks. He's now in trouble with the mob boss, Tom French, who sends Git to Cork with another debtor, Bunny Kelly, ...
Style: dark comedy, independent film, realistic, semi serious, witty ...
Plot: mafia, gangster, friendship, hostage, prison, hotel, released from prison, on the road, infidelity, extramarital affair, hooligan, violent content ...
Time: year 1997, 90s
Place: ireland, dublin ireland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
 6.1
 318
On the Run (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA, Portugal, France
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Albert is an introverted travel agent living a lonely life in New York. When Louie, his best friend from childhood, appears having just escaped from prison, Albert's quiet existence is permanently disrupted. what ensues is one long, crazy night ...
Style: independent film, semi serious, realistic, biting, cynical ...
Plot: escape, vampire, friendship, on the run, fugitives, chases and races, nothing goes right, city life, prison, urban, dark humor, friends ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
 5.7
 43K
Money Train (1995)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A vengeful New York transit cop decides to steal a trainload of subway fares; his foster brother, a fellow cop, tries to protect him.
Style: melancholic, suspense, intense, semi serious, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: train, train robbery, subway, buddy cop, perfect crime, new year's eve, arson, bank robbery, happy ending, robbery, caper, siblings relations ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: new york, harlem, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Going in Style (1979)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Three senior citizens in their 70s who live together are slowly decaying in endless days with nothing to do but feed the birds. One of them comes up with an idea - rob a bank. They certainly could use the money if they get away with it and if they ...
Style: light, realistic, touching, humorous, entertaining ...
Plot: heist, senior citizen, robbery, caper, aging, elderly, bank, bittersweet, bank robber, thief, twin towers, hidden treasure ...
Time: year 1979, 70s, 20th century
Place: las vegas, usa, new york, new york state
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
 6.1
 2K
Montana (1998)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A seasoned enforcer is given the seemingly routine task of finding the Boss's runaway mistress, Kitty. However Kitty is involved in plans to overthrow the Boss and this routine task gets very complicated.
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, witty, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: hitman, female assassin, boss, fugitives, murder, cancer, female fight, killer, strong female lead, shootout, on the run, attempted rape ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 7.5
 94K
Midnight Run (1988)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story: An accountant embezzles $15 million of mob money, jumps bail and is chased by bounty hunters, the FBI, and the Mafia.
Style: road movie, funny, talky, humorous, witty ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: road trip, on the road, buddy, organized crime, hitman, gangster, chase, bounty hunter, train, car chase, race against time, police surveillance ...
Time: 80s, year 1988, 20th century
Place: las vegas, usa, new york, arizona, manhattan new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 4.6
 402
The Hustle (2008)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Disenchanted pest worker and single dad Freddie Manning unintentionally steals and then loses mob money and now he really is in trouble. So when a run-down Baptist church mistakes him and his best friend Junior for replacement ministers, he grabs at ...
Style: not serious, humorous, realistic, light, entertaining ...
Plot: gangster, partner, chases and races, crime gone awry, silly humor, friends, cons and scams, dishonesty, society, friendship, nothing goes right, buddies ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 6.1
 2K
Breaking In (1989)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Professional thief Ernie takes Mike on as an apprentice, but while Mike clearly has "larceny in his heart", it will take him a long time to get as good as Ernie.
Style: clever, humorous, witty, independent film, semi serious ...
Plot: safecracker, crime gone awry, thief, mentor, interracial, prostitute, heist, partner, disorder, friends, odd couple, dishonesty ...
Time: 80s, year 1989
Place: oregon, portland oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 5.5
 3K
Best Men (1997)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Four tuxedo clad men showing up at a penitentiary to meet a friend who has just been released after three years in prison and is going straight from the jail to marry his girlfriend. En route to the wedding, one of the men asks to stop by a bank to ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, witty, humorous, independent film
Audience: boys' night
Plot: wedding, heist, crime gone awry, friendship, bank robbery, chase, tragedy, swat team, spy, marriage, explosions, on the run ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
The Fugitives (1986)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Coming out from jail, Lucas has decided to change his life and behave like a good citizen. But when he is taken hostage in a bank by a hare-brained robber, no cops can believe he is not part of the action.
Style: feel good, exciting, witty, sentimental, humorous ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: chase, comedy of errors, reluctant partners, fugitives, bank robbery, goofy hero, odd couple, disorder, nothing goes right, chases and races, unlikely criminals, nobody believes ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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