Movies like The Getaway 1972

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The Getaway (1972)
 7.3
 35K
The Getaway (1972)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: A recently released ex-con and his loyal wife go on the run after a heist goes awry.
Style: neo noir, exciting, suspenseful, suspense, road movie, cynical, stylized, crime drama, mind blowing, freeze frame ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: heist, on the run, prison, betrayal, car chase, murder, bank robbery, robbery, caper, shootout, gunfight, infidelity, lovers on the run, chase, violence, tough guy, hotel, modern western, crime gone awry, organized crime, hitman, bank, twists and turns, couples, disorder ...
Time: 70s, year 1972, 20th century
Place: texas, el paso texas, persia, austin texas, san antonio texas, mexico, usa ...
Keyword: gangsters, partners, oldies

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Most similar movies to The Getaway

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, suspenseful and neo noir films with plots about murder, gangster, pistol, shot in the chest, shot to death, violence and held at gunpoint mostly in Action, Crime and Thriller genres. Some movies like The Getaway: Bonnie and Clyde (1967), Bullitt (1968), The Anderson Tapes (1971), Ronin (1998), Headhunters (2011). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Getaway (1994)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Doc McCoy is put in prison because his partners chickened out and flew off without him after exchanging a prisoner with a lot of money. Doc knows Jack Benyon, a rich "business"-man, is up to something big, so he tells his wife (Carol ...
Style: neo noir, sexy, suspense, erotic, road movie ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: lovers on the run, heist, sex scene, love, prison, betrayal, hitman, car chase, murder, lust, sexual favor, ex convict ...
Time: year 1994, 90s
Place: el paso texas, texas, latin america, phoenix arizona, tucson arizona ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
Genre: Action, Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Bonnie and Clyde is based on the true stories of the gangster pair Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow who in the 1930s began robbing banks in U.S. cities until they were eventually killed. The film is a major landmark in the aesthetic movement known as ...
Style: road movie, controversial, suspenseful, suspense, disturbing ...
Audience: boys' night, chick flick
Plot: lovers on the run, bank robbery, heist, fugitives, on the run, bank robber, on the road, gang, true crime, murderous pair, great depression, chase ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century, year 1967
Place: texas, oklahoma, missouri, midwest, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.4
 75K
Bullitt (1968)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Senator Walter Chalmers is aiming to take down mob boss Pete Ross with the help of testimony from the criminal's hothead brother Johnny, who is in protective custody in San Francisco under the watch of police lieutenant Frank Bullitt. When a ...
Style: suspense, exciting, suspenseful, detective, intense ...
Audience: boys' night, manly
Plot: car chase, ford mustang, chase, burglary, investigation, police, organized crime, police investigation, violence, murder, police procedural, gangster ...
Time: year 1968, 60s, 20th century
Place: san francisco, bay area, usa, chicago, illinois ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Anderson Tapes (1971)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A thief (Duke Anderson) just released from ten years in jail, takes up with his old girlfriend (Ingrid) in her posh apartment. He makes plans to rob the entire building. What he doesn't know is that his every move is recorded on audio and video ...
Style: neo noir, realistic, serious, suspense, captivating ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: surveillance, caper, robbery, home invasion, police, surveillance camera, heist, voyeur, safe, gang, wiretap, released from prison ...
Time: year 1971, 20th century, 70s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Ronin (1998)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: A briefcase with undisclosed contents – sought by Irish terrorists and the Russian mob – makes its way into criminals' hands. An Irish liaison assembles a squad of mercenaries, or 'ronin', and gives them the thorny task of ...
Style: exciting, suspense, suspenseful, neo noir, clever ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: espionage, car chase, mafia, cia, mercenary, car, undercover, caper, chase, shootout, ira, secret agent ...
Time: 90s
Place: paris france, france, europe, nice france, french riviera
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.5
 107K
Headhunters (2011)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Germany
Duration: 100 min.
Story: An accomplished headhunter risks everything to obtain a valuable painting owned by a former mercenary..
Style: stylized, captivating, dark comedy, suspense, tense ...
Audience: boys' night, pre-teens
Plot: twists and turns, surveillance, art thief, chase, art theft, revenge, reputation, male star appears nude, mind game, sex, infidelity, police investigation ...
Time: year 2011, 2010s, y2k, 21st century
Place: scandinavia, europe, oslo norway
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.4
 38K
Thief (1981)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: Frank is an expert professional safecracker, specialized in high-profile diamond heists. He plans to use his ill-gotten income to retire from crime and build a nice life for himself complete with a home, wife and kids. To accelerate the process, he ...
Style: neo noir, cerebral, cult classic, retro, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: robbery, safecracker, mafia, organized crime, heist, character study, criminal, bank robber, great ending, betrayal, bank, hustler ...
Time: 80s, year 1981, 20th century
Place: chicago, usa, illinois, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
 6.0
 7K
Shining Moon (1975)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: Mike Locken is one of the principle members of a group of freelance spies. A significant portion of their work is for the C.I.A. and while on a case for them one of his friends turns on him and shoots him in the elbow and knee. His assignment, to ...
Style: realistic, serious, rough, suspenseful, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: spy, betrayal, assassination, espionage, chase, danger, car crash, sword fight, tough guy, fight, kung fu, one last job ...
Time: 20th century, year 1975, 70s
Place: usa, san francisco, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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 5.5
 46K
Stolen (2012)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Master thief Will Montgomery is just released from the State penitentiary after serving a 10 year sentence, is contacted by Vincent, his ex comrade in crime, who is holding Will’s teenage daughter ransom in a hijacked taxi cab. Vincent will only ...
Style: exciting, intense, serious, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: kidnapping, heist, father daughter relationship, chase, hostage, fbi, car chase, violence, taxi, rescue, greed, ex convict ...
Time: year 2012, 21st century
Place: new orleans, usa, louisiana
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
 6.2
 66K
Takers (2010)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A seasoned team of bank robbers, including Gordon Jennings (Idris Elba), John Rahway (Paul Walker), A.J. (Hayden Christensen), and brothers Jake (Michael Ealy) and Jesse Attica (Chris Brown) successfully complete their latest heist and lead a life ...
Style: suspense, intense, realistic, suspenseful, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: bank robbery, heist, armored car robbery, chase, robbery, one last job, gangster, caper, investigation, bank robber, undercover cop, fbi ...
Time: year 2010, 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Boiling Point (1993)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Red is an aging scam-artist who's just been released from prison together with Ronnie, a young and not-so-bright hoodlum who is easily manipulated. Their new business is to organize fake-money sales and then kill the buyer to take his money; ...
Style: suspense, exciting, neo noir, suspenseful, tense ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: undercover cop, murder, organized crime, prison, redemption, revenge, vengeance, investigation, undercover, tough heroes, working undercover, master criminal ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: california, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Gone in Sixty Seconds (2000)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Upon learning that he has to come out of retirement to steal 50 cars in one night to save his brother Kip's life, former car thief Randall "Memphis" Raines enlists help from a few "boost happy" pals to accomplish a seemingly ...
Style: exciting, intense, entertaining, stylized, suspense ...
Audience: teens, manly, boys' night
Plot: heist, car chase, chase, car, race against time, car thief, car theft, caper, master criminal, danger, racing, theft ...
Time: year 2000, y2k, 2000s, 21st century
Place: los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 6.5
 39K
Heist (2001)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Joe Moore has a job he loves. He's a thief. His job goes sour when he gets caught on security camera tape. His fence, Bergman reneges on the money he's owed, and his wife may be betraying him with the fence's young lieutenant. Moore ...
Style: suspenseful, suspense, clever, tricky, neo noir ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: heist, robbery, twists and turns, blackmail, gunfight, surveillance, gold, bank robber, stolen gold, bank robbery, organized crime, violence ...
Time: year 2001, 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, boston
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
The Way of the Gun (2000)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Two criminal drifters without sympathy get more than they bargained for after kidnapping and holding for ransom the surrogate mother of a powerful and shady man.
Style: neo noir, suspense, intense, cynical, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: kidnapping, gunfight, twists and turns, gangster, hostage, pregnancy, car chase, rags to riches, confined, disorder, mafia, heist ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, 2000s
Place: bolivia, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 (2009)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Armed men hijack a New York City subway train, holding the passengers hostage in return for a ransom, and turning an ordinary day's work for dispatcher Walter Garber into a face-off with the mastermind behind the crime.
Style: tense, suspense, exciting, suspenseful, stylized ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: train, hostage, caper, heist, hijacking, terrorism, kidnapping, chase, passenger, brutality, police investigation, fbi ...
Time: year 2009, 2000s, 21st century
Place: new york, coney island brooklyn new york city, usa, manhattan new york city, brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
 7.0
 387K
The Italian Job (2003)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, France, Italy, UK, Germany
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Charlie Croker pulled off the crime of a lifetime. The one thing that he didn't plan on was being double-crossed. Along with a drop-dead gorgeous safecracker, Croker and his team take off to re-steal the loot and end up in a pulse-pounding, ...
Style: suspense, clever, exciting, action packed, funny ...
Audience: boys' night, teens, chick flick, date night, family friendly
Plot: heist, caper, robbery, car chase, vengeance, mentor, bank robbery, chase, perfect crime, gold, revenge, conspiracy ...
Time: year 2003, 90s, 21st century
Place: italy, venice, philadelphia, los angeles, california ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
 6.4
 25K
The Gauntlet (1977)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Phoenix cop Ben Shockley is well on his way to becoming a derelict when he is assigned to transport a witness named Gus Mally from Vegas. Mally turns out to be a belligerent prostitute with mob ties and incriminating information regarding a ...
Style: exciting, road movie, suspense, entertaining, neo noir ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: chase, motorcycle, biker, police corruption, organized crime, hitman, on the road, bus, attempted rape, police officer, tough cop, corrupt official ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: phoenix arizona, arizona, las vegas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
 7.0
 123K
Den of Thieves (2018)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 140 min.
Story: A gritty crime saga which follows the lives of an elite unit of the LA County Sheriff's Dept. and the state's most successful bank robbery crew as the outlaws plan a seemingly impossible heist on the Federal Reserve Bank.
Style: suspense, captivating, tense, suspenseful, enigmatic ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: heist, bank robbery, police brutality, tough guy, strip club, shootout, armored truck, police, criminal, investigation, fbi, divorce ...
Time: 2010s
Place: los angeles, california, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Triple 9 (2016)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: A gang of criminals and corrupt cops plan the murder of a police officer in order to pull off their biggest heist yet across town.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, tense, stylized, intense ...
Plot: heist, police corruption, murder, bank robbery, dirty cop, corrupt cop, mafia, violence, corruption, betrayal, strip club, gangster ...
Time: year 2015, year 2016, 2010s, 21st century
Place: atlanta georgia, usa, tel aviv israel
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Payback: Straight Up (2006)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: With friends like these, who needs enemies? That's the question bad guy Porter is left asking after his wife and partner steal his heist money and leave him for dead -- or so they think. Five months and an endless reservoir of bitterness later, ...
Style: neo noir, ambiguous ending, realistic, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: revenge, betrayal, vengeance, criminal, prostitute, tough heroes, organized crime, criminal's revenge, crime boss, corrupt cop, husband wife relationship, gangster ...
Time: 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
 6.9
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Truck Turner (1974)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Ex-football star turned skip-tracer, Turner specializes in bringing in the criminals police are too scared to chase, and when he's hired to capture sociopathic pimp Gator, he finds himself confronted by the most vicious killers in the ...
Style: grindhouse, neo noir, cult classic, independent film, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: bounty hunter, blaxploitation, bare breasts, exploitation, car chase, african american, tough guy, organized crime, truck, cowboy, hip hop, black ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, year 1973
Place: los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
 6.6
 113K
U.S. Marshals (1998)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 131 min.
Story: U.S. Marshal Sam Gerard is accompanying a plane load of convicts from Chicago to New York. The plane crashes spectacularly, and Mark Sheridan escapes. But when Diplomatic Security Agent John Royce is assigned to help Gerard recapture Sheridan, it ...
Style: exciting, suspense, suspenseful, serious, entertaining ...
Audience: boys' night, date night
Plot: manhunt, cia, on the run, conspiracy, frame up, agent, fugitive, tough cop, corruption, car chase, murder, u.s. marshal ...
Time: 90s, year 1998, 20th century
Place: new york, chicago, kentucky, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
To Live and Die in L.A. (1985)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: A fearless Secret Service agent will stop at nothing to bring down the counterfeiter who killed his partner.
Style: neo noir, suspense, tense, suspenseful, cult classic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: car chase, revenge, investigation, murder, vengeance, police investigation, law enforcement, cop, male pubic hair, chase, hitman, organized crime ...
Time: 80s, year 1985, 20th century
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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Once Upon a Time in Mexico (2003)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Hitman "El Mariachi" becomes involved in international espionage involving a psychotic CIA agent and a corrupt Mexican general.
Style: stylized, grindhouse, exciting, realistic, serious ...
Audience: boys' night, manly
Plot: drug lord, gangster, violent, revenge, assassination attempt, hitman, dark hero, vengeance, murder, assassin, gunfighter, spy ...
Time: year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place: mexico, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
 6.8
 71K
El Mariachi (1992)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: El Mariachi just wants to play his guitar and carry on the family tradition. Unfortunately, the town he tries to find work in has another visitor...a killer who carries his guns in a guitar case. The drug lord and his henchmen mistake El Mariachi ...
Style: grindhouse, action packed, cult classic, stylized, hood ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: mistaken identity, gangster, revenge, vigilante, violence, gunfight, guitarist, modern western, assassin, hitman, small town, machine gun ...
Time: future, 90s
Place: mexico, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Black Moon Rising (1986)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: An FBI free-lancer stashes a stolen Las Vegas-crime tape in a high-tech car stolen by someone else.
Style: exciting, serious, rough, suspenseful, cult classic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: car chase, chase, fbi, revenge, law enforcement, vengeance, brutality, twists and turns, murder, on the run, crime gone awry, rivalry ...
Time: 80s
Place: las vegas, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
 4.4
 405
Mask of Death (1996)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: While attempting to flee from the FBI, the criminal Frank Dallio kills Detective McKenna's wife, Rachel. McKenna himself is shot in the face by the professional killer Lyle Mason, who dies in a car crash shortly thereafter. The FBI persuades ...
Style: suspense, independent film, serious, realistic, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gunfight, fugitives, fistfight, fbi, timebomb, tattoo, plastic surgery, shootout, betrayal, undercover, assassination attempt, hitman ...
Time: 90s
Place: seattle
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 4.4
 22K
Setup (2011)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A group of friends plan out a detailed heist that turns deadly when one betrays the other by taking off with the goods. Taking matters into his own hands, Sonny seeks out his revenge teaming up with the most dangerous mob boss in town to get back ...
Style: realistic, exciting, serious, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: danger, chases and races, crime gone awry, dishonesty, heist, gangster, partner, prisoner, criminal, disorder, revenge, bank robber ...
Time: 21st century
Place: detroit, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 6.5
 196K
Swordfish (2001)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Rogue agent Gabriel Shear is determined to get his mitts on $9 billion stashed in a secret Drug Enforcement Administration account. He wants the cash to fight terrorism, but lacks the computer skills necessary to hack into the government mainframe. ...
Style: suspense, surprise ending, exciting, sexy, entertaining ...
Audience: boys' night, chick flick
Plot: heist, computer hacker, hacker, hostage, bank robbery, spy, terrorism, computer, surveillance, father daughter relationship, hot and sexy, ex convict ...
Time: year 2001, 2000s, future, 21st century
Place: los angeles, monte carlo, usa, malibu california, california ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 5.8
 42K
Reindeer Games (2000)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: After assuming his dead cellmate's identity to get with his girlfriend, an ex-con finds himself the reluctant participant in a casino heist.
Style: suspenseful, sexy, intense, suspense, serious ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: heist, christmas, gambling, twists and turns, casino, robbery, mistaken identity, woman kills a man, car thief, female nudity, gangster, christmas season ...
Time: year 2000, 90s, 2000s
Place: usa, michigan
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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