Movies like Freeway
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Freeway (1996)
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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 notorious I-5 Killer and manages to escape by shooting him several times. Wounded but still very much alive, Bob pursues Lutz across the state in this modern retelling of Little Red Riding Hood.
Style:
disturbing, suspenseful, cynical, bloody, road movie, fairy tale, dark, rough, clever, sexy ...
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, police investigation, disfigurement, prostitute, cheerleading, exploitation, serial murder, crime gone awry, pedophile, child abuse, road trip, perversion, teenage prostitute, teenage murderer ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, contemporary
Place:
los angeles, california, san diego california
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Most similar movies to Freeway
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, disturbing, serious and interesting films with plots about violence, murder, violent, brutality, dialogue, mentor and storytelling mostly in Thriller, Drama and Crime genres. Some movies like Freeway: Kalifornia (1993), Eye for an Eye (1996), Crime + Punishment in Suburbia (2000), Sleepers (1996), Another Day in Paradise (1998). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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
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100%
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:
90s
Place:
los angeles, california
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100%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
After escaping from jail, two teens flee to Tijuana and stay with one's childhood protector, a man masquerading as a nun.
Style:
disturbing, intense, controversial, semi serious, realistic ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
serial killer, lesbian, prostitute, escape, lgbt, monster, violent, woman with a gun, coming of age, prison life, road trip, murder ...
Time:
90s
Place:
mexico, latin america, tijuana mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
This is a contemporary fable loosely based on Fyodor Dostoyevsky's "Crime and Punishment". Roseanne is outwardly a perfect and popular teen. However, her image is hiding the abuse at her stepfather's hands, and she decides to ...
Style:
disturbing, serious, psychological, clever, sexy ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
suburbs, murder, rape, bdsm, dysfunctional family, high school, guilt, obsession, friendship, americana, crime and punishment, court ...
Time:
90s
Place:
usa, los angeles, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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228K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 147 min.
Story:
Two gangsters seek revenge on the state jail worker who during their stay at a youth prison sexually abused them. A sensational court hearing takes place to charge him for the crimes.
Style:
disturbing, sadistic, suspenseful, harsh, serious ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
lawyer, child abuse, childhood, vengeance, rape, courtroom drama, sexual abuse, haunted by the past, pedophilia, friendship, revenge, murder trial ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, 80s
Place:
new york, usa, madison square garden manhattan new york city, new york yankees, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A vending machine robbery by small time thief and drug addict Bobbie (Vincent Kartheiser) goes badly awry, and his friends contact street-wise thief and part-time druggie Mel (James Woods) to patch him up.Recognizing a kindred spirit, Mel befriends ...
Style:
realistic, talky, tense, road movie, sexy ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
drugs, addiction, junkie, drug addiction, murder, heist, drug addict, death, brutality, heroin, violence, sex scene ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
california
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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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. ...
Style:
rough, psychological, disturbing, bleak, cerebral ...
Audience:
date night, manly
Plot:
rage, anger, midlife crisis, violence, obsession, urban decay, police officer, vigilante, alienation, losing-it hero, gang, revenge ...
Time:
90s, 80s, 20th century
Place:
los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A chronicle of the crimes of Ted Bundy, from the perspective of his longtime girlfriend, Elizabeth Kloepfer, who refused to believe the truth about him for years.
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, bleak, rough, dark ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
serial killer, serial murder, maniac, violence, killer as protagonist, murder, suspense, police investigation, serial killer as protagonist, prison, prisoner, psychopath ...
Time:
70s, year 1989, year 1974, year 1975, year 1976 ...
Place:
usa, seattle
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A picture perfect middle class family is shocked when they find out that one of their neighbors is receiving obscene phone calls. The mom takes slights against her family very personally, and it turns out she is indeed the one harassing the ...
Style:
parody, disturbing, dark, campy, talky ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
serial killer, dysfunctional family, dark humor, housewife, murder, suburbs, suburban life, female killer, police investigation, violence, farce, visceral ...
Time:
90s
Place:
usa, baltimore, maryland
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Menace II Society is a coming of age tale detailing the summer after its protagonist Caine (Tyrin Turner) graduates from high school. This is Caine's story, which details real life in today's tough inner city.
Style:
tense, bleak, realistic, stylized, serious ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
african american, ghetto, urban ghetto life, gangsters, hip hop, murder, police brutality, friendship, coming of age, street gang, organized crime, drugs ...
Time:
90s, year 1993, 20th century, 70s
Place:
california, los angeles, usa, north america
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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Law Abiding Citizen similar movies
50K
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A 16 year old girl takes up with a charming young man who quickly shows his colors when he beats a friend simply for walking with her and then goes totally ballistic after she tries to break up with him.
Style:
suspenseful, sexual, sexy, psychological, serious ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, kids, chick flick, teen drama
Plot:
obsession, psychopath, teenager, stalker, dangerous attraction, obsessive love, fatal attraction, suspense, virginity, borderline personality disorder, rivalry, rapist ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
seattle, san francisco, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Rich, successful Bryce meets beautiful Lissa at a bar one night and invites her back to his house, not suspecting for a moment that Lissa isn't really who she seems. What unfolds next is a dangerous, tangled web of double-crosses and seduction.
Style:
neo noir, suspenseful, surprise ending, tricky, cynical ...
Plot:
heist, crime gone awry, manipulation, twists and turns, small town, betrayal, suspense, murder, cons and scams, disorder, nothing goes right, dishonesty ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
usa, nevada, portland oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, France
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
After four college girls rob a restaurant to fund their spring break in Florida, they get entangled with a weird dude with his own criminal agenda.
Style:
sexy, disturbing, stylized, sexual, surreal ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
party, debauchery, best friends, juvenile delinquency, spring break, sex, drugs, murder, coming of age, summer, female killer, threesome ...
Time:
70s, 21st century
Place:
usa, florida, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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 ...
Time:
20th century, year 1980, 80s
Place:
texas, el paso texas, mexico, austin texas, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A suburban family is torn apart when fourteen-year-old Annie meets her first boyfriend online. After months of communicating via online chat and phone, Annie discovers her friend is not who he originally claimed to be. Shocked into disbelief, her ...
Style:
disturbing, emotional, controversial, realistic, serious ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, teen drama
Plot:
sexual abuse, teenager, investigation, father daughter relationship, bullying, child abuse, rape and revenge, internet, innocence lost, child sexual abuse, teenage girl, teenage life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
chicago illinois, california, usa, cleveland ohio, milwaukee wisconsin ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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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:
21st century
Place:
virginia, usa, delaware
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A group of high school friends discover that they are in the presence of a killer. One of them, Samson, has murdered his girlfriend Jamie. He brags to his friends about killing her, and when they discover he is telling the truth, their reactions ...
Style:
disturbing, dark, controversial, psychological, gloomy ...
Audience:
teens, kids, teen drama
Plot:
high school, coming of age, teenager, murder, gang, serial killer, small town, nude, death, drug abuse, violence, police ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
california, oregon, usa, portland oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
Sam Bowden is a small-town corporate attorney. Max Cady is a tattooed, cigar-smoking, bible-quoting, psychotic rapist. What do they have in common? Fourteen years ago, Sam was a public defender assigned to Max Cady's rape trial, and he made a ...
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, tense, disturbing, neo noir ...
Plot:
rape, family in danger, lawyer, fear, serial killer, dangerous attraction, revenge, psychology, prison, suspense, rapist, torture ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
north carolina, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
On the afternoon of July 1, 1981, Los Angeles police responded to a distress call on Wonderland Avenue and discovered a grisly quadruple homicide. The police investigation that followed uncovered two versions of the events leading up to the brutal ...
Style:
disturbing, suspenseful, dark, tense, rough ...
Plot:
murder, heroin, addiction, junkie, police investigation, drugs, serial killer, violence, drug addiction, true crime, drug addict, life is a bitch ...
Time:
80s, year 1981, 20th century, 70s
Place:
los angeles, california, usa, pasadena california, sacramento california
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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:
70s, 80s
Place:
texas, vietnam, asia, san antonio texas, el paso texas ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
A shy and mute seamstress goes insane after being attacked and raped twice in one day. She wanders the New York streets at night in a sexy black dress with her attacker's gun strapped to her garter belt, blowing away any man who tries to pick ...
Style:
disturbing, neo noir, controversial, bloody, tense ...
Plot:
rape, revenge, murder, sexual abuse, vengeance, vigilante, rape and revenge, serial killer, femme fatale, killing spree, one woman army, violence ...
Time:
80s
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Following the death of his mother, J finds himself living with his estranged family, under the watchful eye of his doting grandmother, Smurf, mother to the Cody boys. J quickly comes to believe that he is a player in this world. But, as he soon ...
Style:
tense, disturbing, bleak, realistic, atmospheric ...
Plot:
gangsters, organized crime, mafia, interrogation, suspense, violence, investigation, complex characters, justice, character study, vengeance, drug dealer ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
australia, melbourne australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Sweden, Canada, USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Deputy Sheriff Lou Ford is a pillar of the community in his small west Texas town, patient and apparently thoughtful. Some people think he is a little slow and maybe boring, but that is the worst they say about him. But then nobody knows about what ...
Style:
disturbing, psychological, neo noir, surreal, rough ...
Plot:
small town, murder, psychopath, killer, sadism, serial killer, violence, revenge, violent, twists and turns, deputy, investigation ...
Time:
50s, 20th century
Place:
texas, usa, austin texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
When Bobby's car breaks down in the desert while on the run from some of the bookies who have already taken two of his fingers, he becomes trapped in the nearby small town where the people are stranger than anyone he's encountered. After ...
Style:
neo noir, disturbing, sexy, road movie, intense ...
Plot:
small town, desert, brutality, on the run, wilderness, suspense, betrayal, murder, femme fatale, mechanic, character study, infidelity ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
arizona, las vegas, usa, phoenix arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
163K
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A mature 14-year old girl meets a charming 32-year old photographer on the Internet. Suspecting that he is a pedophile, she goes to his home in an attempt to expose him.
Style:
disturbing, psychological, twist ending, tense, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
vengeance, torture, manipulation, mind game, age difference, pedophilia, revenge, sexual abuse, child abuse, pedophile, kidnapping, vigilantism ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
california, usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Following a series of drug deals and murders, three criminals -- Fantasia, Ray Malcolm and Pluto -- travel from Los Angeles to Houston, finally arriving in a small Arkansas town to go into hiding. Two detectives from the LAPD, who are already on the ...
Style:
tense, suspenseful, neo noir, atmospheric, disturbing ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
small town, suspense, police investigation, heist, gunfight, gangsters, corruption, justice, law enforcement, criminal heroes, criminal, dishonesty ...
Time:
90s
Place:
los angeles, texas, arkansas, california, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
FBI trainee, Clarice Starling ventures into a maximum-security asylum to pick the diseased brain of Hannibal Lecter, a psychiatrist turned homicidal cannibal. Starling needs clues to help her capture a serial killer. But her Faustian relationship ...
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, scary, tense, dark ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
serial killer, psychopath, investigation, murder, suspense, psychology, cannibalism, kidnapping, murder investigation, mind game, brutality, fbi ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
usa, maryland, chicago illinois, memphis, baltimore ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
While investigating a young nun's rape, a corrupt New York City police detective, with a serious drug and gambling addiction, tries to change his ways and find forgiveness.
Style:
neo noir, disturbing, bleak, sexy, controversial ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
police, gambling, drugs, rape, police corruption, corruption, addiction, drug addiction, gangsters, redemption, violent, character study ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
new york, new jersey, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A psychotic young man returns to his old neighborhood after release from prison. He seeks out the woman he previously tried to rape and the man who protected her, with twisted ideas of love for her and hate for him.
Style:
disturbing, talky, realistic, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot:
prison, violence, stalking, psychopath, hitman, visceral, police investigation, character study, friendship, police detective, ex convict, rape ...
Time:
20th century, 60s, year 1964
Place:
new york, new jersey, california, usa, mississippi ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Henry likes to kill people, in different ways each time. Henry shares an apartment with Otis. When Otis' sister comes to stay, we see both sides of Henry: "the guy next door" and the serial killer.
Style:
disturbing, scary, controversial, realistic, sadistic ...
Plot:
serial killer, psychopath, murder, insanity, rape, extreme violence, psychology, incest, killing spree, violent, violence, merciless ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
california, usa, midwest, chicago illinois
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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